OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine Biodiversity is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) from the Northeastern Brazilian coast: integrative taxonomy and support for the creation of a marine park	26
Epipelagic cnidarian fauna in the Western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean off the Amazon River Delta	26
Insights into the trophic interactions of the endemic shark Cephalurus cephalus: diet composition and first infection records of Anisakis and other nematodes	26
Opportunistic feeding behaviour of Trachurus mediterraneus	23
A new species of Fissidentalium (Scaphopoda: Dentaliidae) in association with an actinostolid anemone from the abyssal Labrador Sea	14
Exploring abyssal solenogastres (Mollusca, Aplacophora) diversity with the study of a collection from the Brazil Basin and the description of three new species	12
Biodiversity and distribution of corals in Chile	12
Genetic structure and historical demography of the Pacific rudderfish Psenopsis anomala in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean	11
A corallimorpharian barren in southwestern Kochi, Japan	11
Spatial occurrence and abundance of marine zooplankton in Northeast Greenland	11
Benthos meets plankton: isopods sampled in the Japan Trench by means of plankton nets fixed to large bottom trawls	10
Integrative taxonomy of Anoplogaster cornuta (Trachichthyiformes, Anoplogastridae) from western North Atlantic: new insights	10
Unveiling the diversity of thaliaceans (Chordata, thaliacea) from the South Brazilian Bight and Southern Subtropical Shelf (22°-33°S)	10
Confirming the occurrence of two fish (Family: Hemiramphidae) species, Euleptorhamphus viridis (van Hasselt, 1823) and Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes, 1847) by morpho-meristic and molecular c	10
A new species of Lagis Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida; Pectinariidae) and revision of the type material of Lagis koreni	10
Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change	10
Back after 43 years: a new species of Actinarctus (Heterotardigrada, Tanarctidae) from the northeast coast of India	9
Records of Primnoidae (Octocorallia, Scleralcyonacea) from Costa Rican Pacific seamounts	9
A new species of Coronarctus (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada) in the deep sea from the Gulf of Mexico revealed by geometric morphometrics and an updated genus key	9
Geometric pattern of burrow openings produced by Acanthocepola limbata	9
Characterization of the plastic encountered in the South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) regurgitate	8
Aurelia profunda (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa): a new species from the Gulf of Mexico	8
On dwarf males in the deep-sea acorn barnacle Bathylasma hirsutum (Thoracica: Bathylasmatidae)	8
The 15th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium—the challenge of talking about real nature in a virtual environment	8
Correction to: Fluke-less pygmy killer whale spotted on the central Atlantic	8

Resurrection of the parasitic isopod genus Cryptione Hansen, 1897 (Epicaridea: Bopyridae) and description of a new species of parasitic isopod (Epicaridea: Bopyridae) from the deep-sea shrimp Notostom	8
Functional arrangement and temporal analyses of the coastal fish community of the southern Gulf of Mexico	8
Exploring the diversity and distribution of Mozambique’s soft corals (Octocorallia) through an integrative approach	8
Shallow water octocoral associated with a distinctive coral garden in the Argentine Sea	8
On Synagoga mira Norman, 1888 (Crustacea, Ascothoracida), associated with the black coral Parantipathes larix (Esper, 1788)	8
Morphological and molecular clue resolves confusion in Pisodonophis boro complex with re-description of Pisodonophis boro (Hamilton 1822) from type locality and description of a new species from India	8
Comparisons of genetic population structures of copepods Pseudocalanus spp. in the Okhotsk Sea: the first record of P. acuspes in coastal waters off Japan	8
Forty years of a salt marsh formation in the Wadden Sea: surface elevation, sediments, vegetation and bottom fauna	7
DNA barcoding for different egyptian and qatari common snappers reveals unexpected cryptic lineages in the blackspot snapper Lutjanus ehrenbergii	7
A morphological assessment of Paracyathus and Polycyathus corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the Gulf of Thailand	7
Comparison of DNA metabarcoding and microscopy in analysing planktonic protists from the European Arctic	7
First record of multi-species synchronized sea cucumber spawning in the Mariana Islands	7
Thresholds and tipping points are tempting but not necessarily suitable concepts to address anthropogenic biodiversity change—an intervention	7
Unexpected recovery of Laminaria ochroleuca in the Strait of Messina	7
Competitive overgrowth of the zoantharian Savalia savaglia by the sponge Crambe crambe in the Mediterranean Sea	7
Unraveling the two unknown storm-petrels of South America: a review about the white-vented storm-petrel (oceanites gracilis) and pincoya storm-petrel (Oceanites pincoyae)	7
Does land reclamation affect small-scale benthic communities? Micro-quadrats on coral reefs around Okinawa Island, southern Japan	6
Opercular dimorphism in Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Annelida: Serpulidae): cytochrome b genotype, sex, or size do not explain opercular spine arrangement	6
Appreciation to reviewers	6
A new species of Eudactylina van Beneden, 1853 (Siphonostomatoida: Eudactylinidae) parasitic on the Longnose stingray, Hypanus guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from	6
Habitat shift of a basket star during a coral bleaching event	6
New iEcology records and range extension for the clown wedgefish Rhynchobatus cooki	6
DNA barcoding reveals overlooked species diversity in rays and sharks of Côte d’Ivoire	6
Platyhelminth fauna of the Island of Sylt: a meta-analysis of distributional patterns and description of 19 new species	6
Fluke-less pygmy killer whale spotted on the central Atlantic	6
Status and occurrence of the non-indigenous dwarf surf clam Mulinia lateralis (Say, 1822) in the central Wadden Sea (southern North Sea)—a systematic survey	5
Collection of stomatopod larvae unveiled the existence of an undescribed genus in Lysiosquillidae around Japanese waters	5
Jellyfish diversity and niche partitioning during a scyphozoan swarm in the coastal Bay of Bengal: interactions and environmental factors associated with coexistence	5
Molecular reassessment of the phylogeny of Coelogynoporidae (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata), with the description of two new genera and three new species from Cuba and the Pacific coast of Panama	5
Climate and de-eutrophication affect abundance of benthos-feeding waterbirds in the Wadden Sea during stop-over	5
Location of sea turtle nesting sites in the Madagascar northeastern coast: case of Loky-Manambato protected area	5
Deep-sea ecosystems in the north-eastern Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean): quantifying assemblages and anthropogenic activity in the Seco de los Olivos Bank	5
As little as we know: current understanding and future outlook of benthic tanaid diversity and distribution in the Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ)	5
Antholoba fabiani sp. nov. (Actiniaria, Metridioidea, Antholobidae fam. nov.), a new species and family of sea anemone of the southwestern Atlantic, Brazil	5
Effects of environmental and climatic drivers on abyssal macrobenthic infaunal communities from the NE Pacific nodule province	5
Morphology and occurrence of early stages of icefishes from the largest estuary of northern Vietnam	5
Pelagic tunicates (Chordata) in two seasons in the Santos Basin, tropical Southwestern Atlantic: horizontal and vertical distributions	5
Anvil use by the bird wrasse, Gomphosus varius, on an Okinawan coral reef	5
Systematic revision of the speciose sea slug genus Doto (Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) − from the Mediterranean to South America	5
Occurrences of the elusive Hippopus porcellanus in Malaysian waters	4
A novel feeding association between blackeye thicklip wrasse (Hemigymnus melapterus) and lyretail hogfish (Bodianus anthioides)	4
A comprehensive record of fishes and crustaceans in a poorly known tropical estuary-Kavvayi from the west coast of India	4
Temporal change in phytoplankton diversity and functional group composition	4
The molluscan assemblage of a pristine Posidonia oceanica meadow in the eastern Mediterranean	4
High levels of genetic connectivity in the corallivorous gastropod Drupella cornus (Rӧding, 1798) in an expanding latitudinal range along Western Australia	4
Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) in Russia with note on Xenobalanus globicipitis	4
First record of chafing behavior by silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) on oceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) at Malpelo Island, Colombia	4
Diet of the Cortez damselfish Stegastes rectifraenum (Gill, 1862) in the Gulf of California assessed by stomach content analysis	4
From physics to fish: 50 Years of research at Great Meteor Seamount, NE Atlantic	4
Mollusc shell detritus affects benthic subtidal community dynamics in the Northern Wadden Sea	4

Rapid shift in benthic assemblages following coral bleaching at an upper mesophotic habitat in Taiwan	4
Endemism or synonymy in genus Belone (Belonidae)? An integrative analysis on North-Eastern Mediterranean populations	4
Intense bioturbation by the irregular sea urchin Spatangus purpureus in a Mediterranean maërl bed	4
The meso- and bathypelagic cephalopod fauna of the Gully submarine canyon	4
The first report of adult blue shark surviving severe head impalement by a swordfish, with an overview of similar incidents	4
Euphausiid species spatial distribution in the Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank Marine-protected area: impacts of oceanographic variability in autumn	4
Hyperdiversity of the genus Halgerda Bergh, 1880 (Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) with descriptions of fourteen new species	4
X′ morphology, morphometry, and molecular identification of lobsters (Panulirus spp.) in the Southern Java Sea and Buton Island	4
Ophiothela mirabilis associating with a scleractinian coral (Madracis decactis) at the edge of its invasive range	4
Trophic ecology and seasonal occurrence of two Red List fish species in the Western Baltic Sea—two of a kind?	4
Into the abyss: novel behavioural observation in the white suckerfish	4
Holocene deep-sea ostracods of the São Paulo Ridge, São Paulo Plateau, and Rio Grande Rise, southwestern Atlantic Ocean	3
Appreciation to reviewers	3
Morphological and genetic differentiation of the native crab Nasima dotilliformis in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman	3
Deep-sea anglerfish (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) diversity from the western North Atlantic throughout morphology and DNA barcoding	3
Hydrothermal vent fauna of the Galápagos Rift: updated species list with new records	3
Diversity of heterotrophic picoeukaryotes in the ice of the Kandalaksha Gulf (White Sea, Russia) based on rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing	3
First record of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula in a special area of conservation, UK	3
Feeding ecology of the common horse mackerel Trachurus trachurus L., 1758 (Teleostei: Carangiformes: Carangidae) off the Moroccan Atlantic coastal waters: spatial and seasonal variations	3
Attachment of juvenile calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) to an adult’s spicules	3
Spatio-temporal patterns in the distribution of juvenile elasmobranchs in a tropical Indian Ocean estuary, Zuari- India	3
eDNA metabarcoding warms up a hotspot of marine biodiversity: revealing underrepresented taxa in visual surveys and historical records from the Gulf of California	3
New insights into the population structure of the stone flounder, Platichthys bicoloratus (Pisces, Pleuronectidae), in the northwestern Pacific using morphological and molecular methods	3
Novel species discrimination method elucidates colony growth form variation between the New Zealand soft corals Kotatea aurantiaca and Kotatea lobata	3
The impact of super typhoon Rai (Odette) on shallow-water (<20 m) black corals in Mactan Island, Philippines	3
Evidence of two species within the corallivore gastropod Drupella cornus and new Drupella records in the Indo-Pacific	3
Doliopsis duoseparata sp. nov: the first species of thaliacean described from Brazilian waters (22°-33°S)	3
New findings and two new species of the genus Colossendeis Jarzynsky, 1870 (Pycnogonida, Colossendeidae), with a morphometric analysis for species from the Southern Ocean	3
Two new species of Xouthous Thomson, 1883 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) from the Caribbean	3
First observation of a leucistic false catshark Pseudotriakis microdon	3
Occurrence of Carybdea xaymacana Conant, 1897 off the Mexican coasts	3
Boom and bust in starfish populations in a semi-enclosed Irish sea lough	3
A review of megafauna diversity and abundance in an exploration area for polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (North East Pacific), and implications for pot	3
Biogeographic patterns in sea pens (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea)	3
Intertidal and shallow subtidal marine tardigrades from the British Virgin Islands with a description of a new Batillipes (Heterotardigrada: Batillipedidae)	3
First report of interspecific cleaning in a Pseudochromid, the dusky dottyback (Pseudochromis fuscus)	3
Copula lucentia sp. nov., a new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from Western Mediterranean Sea	3
Chafing behavior by scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), including an unusual scratching of claspers	3
Chafing behavior by Galapagos sharks on oceanic manta rays in North America’s largest marine protected area	3
Prevalence of parasitic copepods (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) from the bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix (Teleostei: Pomatomidae) and first records in the southern Gulf of Mexico	3
A literature review of the marine annelids of the Ryukyu Islands: still at the “early-bird” stage	3
Aggregations of free-living corals facilitate reef expansion at upper mesophotic depth off Poivre Island, Seychelles	3
Effects and perception of marine introduced species by stakeholders in the Wadden Sea—an exploratory approach	3
Appreciation to reviewers	3
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and requirements for trilateral monitoring	3