Scientific Papers

Adams, C.L., J.O. McInerneny and M. Kelly. 1999. Indications of relationships between poriferan classes using full-length 18S rRNA gene sequences. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 33-44.

Alderslade, P.  2002.  A new soft coral genus (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Palau.  The Beagle  18:1-8.

Alderslade, P. (in prep).  A new genus and species of Anthothelidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Sulawesi.

Alderslade, P. (in prep).  A new species of Sinularia, with an unusual growth form, from Papua New Guinea.

Alvarez, B., M. Krishnan and K. Gibb.  2007.  Analysis of intragenomic variation of the rDNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS) in Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae).  J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87:1599-1605.

Alvarez, B., Hooper, J.N.A. and Van Soest, R.W. M. 2008. Pipestela, a new genus of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Halichondrida) and description of three new species. Memoirs of Queensland Museum 52 (2): 11-24.

Arellano, S.M. and D.G. Fautin.  2001.  Redescription and range extension of the sea anemone Exocoelactis actinostoloides (Wassilieff, 1908), with revision of genus Exocoelactis (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actinaria).  Zoosystema  23(4):645-657.

Banta, W.C. and S. Santagata.  1996.  Annotated species list of the Bryozoa of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia.  Micronesica 29(2): 305-312.

Benayahu, Y., L.P. van Ofwegen and P. Alderslade.  A case study of variation in two nominal species of Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), S. brassica May, 1898, and S. dura (Pratt, 1903), with a proposal for their synonymy.  Zool. Verh. Leiden 323:277-309.

Bergquist, P.R. and M. Kelly.  2004.  Taxonomy of some Halisarcida and Homoscleromorphida (Porifera:Demospongiae) from the Indo-Pacific.  N.Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 38:51-66.

Bruno, J.F., C.E. Siddon, J.D. Witman, P.L. Colin and M.A Toscano.  2001.  El Nino related coral bleaching in Palau, Western Caroline Islands.  Coral Reefs 20:127-136.

Colin, P.L. 1998.  Marine pharmaceuticals from the reef: A view from the field. :76-78, in Coral Reefs: challenges and opportunities for sustainable management.  Proc. Assoc. Event 5th World Bank Conf. Environ. Social. Sustainable Devel. 224 pp.

Colin, P.L.  1998.  The Reefs and Islands of Chuuk Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia (CD-ROM).

Colin, P.L. and A.C. Arneson 1995. Tropical Pacific Invertebrates, Coral Reef Press, 304 pp.

Colin, P.L., Y.J. Sadovy and M.L. Domeier.  2003.  Manual for the Study and Conservation of Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations.  Soc. Conserv. Reef Fish Aggregations Special Publication 1, 98 pp.

Davies-Coleman, M.T., C.L. Cantrell, K.R. Gustafson, J.A. Beutler, L.K. Pannell and M.R. Boyd.  2000.  Stolonic Acids A and B, new cytotoxic cyclic peroxides from an Indian Ocean ascidian Stolonica species.  J. Nat. Prod.  63:1411-1413.

Dawson, M.N. 2000. Variegated mesocosms as alternatives to shore-based planktonkreisels: notes on the husbandry of jellyfish from marine lakes. J. Plankton Res. 22:1673-1682.

Dawson, M. N. 2003. Macro-morphological variation among cryptic species of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Mar. Biol. 143:369-379.

Dawson, M.N  2005a.  Morphological variation and systematics in the Scyphozoa: Mastigias (Rhizostomeae, Mastigiidae) – a golden unstandard?  Hydrobiologia 537:185-206.

Dawson, M.N  2005b.  Five new subspecies of Mastigias (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Mastigiidae) from marine lakes, Palau, Micronesia.  J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K.  85:679-694.

Dawson, M.N, & W.M. Hamner. 2003. Geographic variation and behavioral evolution in marine plankton: the case of Mastigias (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae). Mar. Biol. 143:1161-1174.

Dawson, M.N & W.M. Hamner.  2005.  Rapid evolutionary radiation of marine zooplankton in peripheral environments.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.  102:9235-9240.

Dawson, M.N. and D.K. Jacobs.  2001.  Molecular evidence for cryptic species of Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa).  Biol. Bull. 200:92-96.

Dawson, M.N. and L.E. Martin.  2001.  Geographic variation and ecological adaptation in Aurelia (Scyphozoa, Semaeostomeae): some implications from molecular phylogenetics.  Hydrobiologia 451:259-273.

Dawson, M.N., L.E. Martin and L.K. Penland.  2001.  Jellyfish swarms, tourists, and the Christ-child.  2001.  Hydrobiologia 451:131-144.

Eder, C., P. Schupp, P. Proksch, V. Wray, K. Steube, C.E. Muller, W. Frobenius, M. Herderich and R. van Soest. 1998.  Bioactive pyridoacridine alkaloids from the Micronesian sponge Oceanapia sp.  J. Nat. Prod. 61:301-305.

Fabricius, K.E., J.C. Mieog, P.L. Colin, D. Idip and M.J.H. Van Oppen.  2004.  Identity and diversity of coral endosymbionts (zooxanthellae) from three Palauan reefs with contrasting bleaching, temperature and shading histories.  Mol. Ecol. 13:2445-2458.

Faulkner, D. J., D.J. Newman and G.M. Cragg.  2004.  Investigations of the marine flora and fauna of the Islands of Palau. Nat. Prod. Rep., 21:50-76.

Fautin, D.G. and J.C. den Hartog.  2003.  An unusual sea anemone from slope depths of the tropical west Pacific: range extension and redescription of Isactinernus quadrilobatus Carlgren, 1918 (Cnidaria: Actiniaria: Actinernidae).  Zool. Verh. Leiden 345:103-116.

Gosliner, T.M., D.W. Behrens and G.C. Williams. 1996. Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific.  Sea Challengers, Monterey, 314 pp.

Hooper, J.N.A.  2002.  Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917.  In:  Hooper, J.N.A. and Soest, R.W.M. van (eds.) Systema Porifera:  A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.  Plenum, New York, 755-772 pp.

Hooper, J.N.A., J.A. Kennedy and R.J. Quinn.  2002.  Biodiversity ‘hotspots’, patterns of richness and endemism, and taxonomic affinities of tropical Australian sponges (Porifera).  Biodiversity and Conservation 11:851-885.

Kelly, M. 2007.  The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera: “Lithistidâ”, Demospongiae (Rock sponges). NIWA Biodiversity, Memoir 121: 100 pp.

Kelly, M. 2000. Description of a new lithistid sponge from northeastern New Zealand, and consideration of the phylogenetic affinities of families Corralistidae and Neopeltidae.  Zoosystema 22(2):1-19.

Kelly, M. (in prep)  A revision of the Indo-west Pacific Theonella (Demospongiae: Astrophorida: Theonellidae). 

Kelly, M., L.J. Bell and J. S Buckeridge. 1999. Treasures from the deep: “Living fossil” sponge finds in northern New Zealand are a key to the evolution of the demosponges. Water & Atmosphere 7(2):11-12.

Kelly-Borges, M., L.J. Bell and S.L. Sharron. 1994.  Sponges of the Palau marine lakes: Issues in biodiversity and conservation.  in: Marine Biodiversity: Causes and Consequences, Univ. of York, UK (abstract)

Kelly, M. and T. Samaai.  2002.  Family Podospongiidae De Laubenfels, 1936.  In:  Hooper, J.N.A. and Soest, R.W.M. van (eds.) Systema Porifera:  A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.  Plenum, New York, 694-702 pp.

Kelly, M., J. Hooper, V. Paul, G. Paulay, R. van Soest & R. de Weerdt. Taxonomic inventory of the sponges (Porifera) of the Mariana Islands. 35-36: 100-120.       

Kelly-Borges, M. and J. Vacelet.  1995.  A revision of Diacarnus and Negombata (Demospongiae:Latruncullidae) from the west central Pacific and Red Sea.  Mem. Qld. Museum 38(2):477-503.

Kelly-Borges, M. and C. Valentine. 1995. The sponges of the tropical island region of Oceania: A taxonomic status review :83-120. in:  Maragos, J.E., M.N.A. Peterson, L.G. Eldredge, J.E.Bardack and H.F. Takeuchi (eds.)  Marine and Coastal Biodiversity in the Tropical Island Pacific Region: Vol. 1.  Species Systematics and Information Management     Priorities.  East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kwak, J.H., F.J. Schmitz and G.C. Williams.  2001.  Milolides, new Briarane Diterpenoids from the western Pacific octocoral Briareum stechei.  J. Nat. Prod.  64:754-760.

Mah, C.L. 2003.  Astrosarkus idipi, a new Indo-Pacific genus and species of Oreasteridae (Valvatida:Asteroidea) displaying extreme endoskeletal reduction.  Bull. Mar. Sci. 73(3):685-698.

Mah, C.  2005.  A phylogeny of Iconaster and Glyphodiscus (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Valvatida, Goniasteridae) with descriptions of four new species.  Zoosystema 27(1):137-161.

Martin, L. E.  1999.  Population Biology and Ecology Aurelia sp.(Scyphozoa: Semaeostomeae) in a Tropical Meromictic Marine Lake in Palau, Micronesia, PhD disssertation, UCLA.

Martin, L.E.  2001.  Limitations on the use of impermeable mesocosms for ecological experiments involving Aurelia sp. (Scyphozoa: Seamaeostomeae).  J. Plankton Res. 23:1-10.

Martin, L.E., M.N Dawson, L.J. Bell and P.L. Colin.  2005.  Marine lake ecosystem dynamics illustrate ENSO variation in the tropical western Pacific.  Biol. Lett. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0382.

McInerney, J. O.,  Adams, C. L., and M. Kelly. 1999. Phylogenetic Resolution Potential of 18S and 28S rRNA genes within the lithistid Astrophorida. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Sponges, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44:343-352.

McPhail, K.L., M.T. Davies-Coleman and J. Starmer.  2001. Sequestered chemistry of the arminacean nudibranch Leminda millecra in Algoa Bay, South Africa.  J. Nat. Prod. 64: 1183-1190

Messing, C.G. 1998.  A revision of the recent Indo-west Pacific comatulid genus Comaster Agassiz.  Part. 1: The type species of Comaster and Phanogenia Loven (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae).  Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 191-209.

Messing, C.G. 1998.  An initial re-assessment of the distribution and diversity of the East Indian shallow-water crinoid fauna: 187-192. in: Mooi, R. and M. Telford (eds). Echinoderms. Balkema, San Francisco, Rotterdam. 

Messing, C.G.  1995.  Alloeocomatella, a new genus of reef-dwelling feather star from the Tropical Indo-West Pacific (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae).  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.  108(3):436-450.

Messing, C.G.  2007.  The crinoid fauna (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) of Palau.  Pac. Sci. 61:91-111.

Monniot, C.  2002: Stolidobranch ascidians from the tropical western Indian Ocean.  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135:65-120.

Monniot, C. and F. Monniot. 1997. Records of ascidians from Bahrain, Arabian Gulf with three new species.  J. Nat. Hist. 31: 1623-1643.

Monniot, F. 1998. An engimatic filiform organism in the epicardium cavity of a new polycitorid asicidian.  Zoosytema 20(3): 429-438. 

Monniot, F. and C. Monniot.  2004.  A new species of Plurellidae (Ascideacea: Phlebobranchia) from Papua New Guinea.  Zootaxa 423:1-8.

Monniot, F. and C. Monniot.  2001.  Ascidians from the tropical western Pacific.  Zoosystema 23(2):201-383.

Monniot, F. and C. Monniot.  2000.  Ascidiacea:  Plurellidae collected in the Pacific Ocean by the cruises MUSORSTOM, KARUBAR and the “Coral Reef Research Foundation.”  In:  A. Crosnier (ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol 21.  Memoires du Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, 184:703-721.

Monniot, F. and C. Monniot.  1997.  Ascidians collected in Tanzania.  Journal of East African Natural History 86:1-35.

Monniot, F. and C. Monniot. 1996.  New collections of ascidians from the eastern Pacific and southeastern Asia.  Micronesica 9(2): 133-279.

Newman, L.  1997.  Nine new species of Pseudobiceros (Platyhelminthes:Polycladida) from the Indo-Pacific.  Raffles Bull. Zoo.  45(2):341-368.

Newman, L.J.  and P.  Schupp.  2002.  A new  species  of pseudocerotid flatworm (Platyhelminthes:  Polycladida)  from the  Indo-Pacific.  Micronesica 34(2):177-184.

Ofwegen, L.P. van.  2005.  A new genus of nephtheid soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae) from the Indo-Pacific.  Zool. Med. Leiden 79:1-236.

Opresko, D.M.  2004.  Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa).  Part IV.  Establishment of a new family, Aphanipathidae.  Zool. Med. Leiden 78:209-240.

Qureshi, A., P. Colin and J.D. Faulkner. 2000.  Microsclerodermins F-I, antitumor and antifungal cyclic peptides from the lithistid sponge Microscleroderma sp.  Tetrahedron 56: 3679-3685.

Samaai, T., Gibbons, M. J., and Kelly, M. 1999. Morphological phylogenetic considerations on the relationships of Isodictya Bowerbank 1864. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44:517-524.

Samaai, T., M.J. Gibbons, M. Kelly and M. Davies-Coleman.  2003.  South African Latrunculiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida): descriptions of new species of Latrunculia du Bocage, Strongylodesma Levi, and Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly.  Zootaxa 371:1-26.

Samaai, T. and M. Kelly.  2002.  Family Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922.  In:  Hooper, J.N.A. and Soest, R.W.M. van (eds.) Systema Porifera:  A Guide to the Classification of Sponges.  Plenum, New York, 708-719 pp.

Santagata, S.  1994.  Structure and function of the embryonic brood chamber in Scrupocellaria ferox (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata).  MS Thesis, Dept of Biology, American University, Wash. D.C.

Santagata, S. and W.C. Banta.  (submitted)  Origin of brooding and ovicells in cheilostome bryozoa:  Interpretive morphology of Scrupocellaria ferox.  Marine Biology.

Sadovy, Y., M. Rassoto and G. Mitcheson. (submitted)  Larval development of the mandarinfish, Synchiropus splendidus. 

Sadovy, Y., M. Rassoto and G. Mitcheson.  (submitted)  Toxic slime of the mandarinfish, Synchiropus splendidus. 

Schupp, P, C. Eder, V. Paul and P. Proksch. 1999.  Distribution of secondary metabolites in the sponge Oceanapia sp. and its ecological implications.  Mar. Biol. 135: 573-580.

Schupp, P., C. Eder, R. Proksch, V. Wray, B. Schneider, M. Herderich and V. Paul. 1999. Staurosporine derivatives from the ascidian Eudistoma toealensis and its predatory flatworm Pseudoceros sp.  J. Nat. Prod. 62:959-962.

Schupp, P., T. Poehner, R. Edrada, R.  Ebel, A. Berg,V.  Wray and P. Proksch.  2003.  Eudistomins  W  and  X.  Two  new B-Carbolines from the Micronesian tunicate  Eudistoma sp.   J. Nat.  Prod.  66:272-275.

Smith, V.G.  and T.M. Gosliner.  2005.  A new species of Marionia (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) from the Caroline Islands.  Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 56(6): 66-75.

Tilbrook K.J. (2001) Indo-west Pacific species of the genus Stylopoma Levinsen, 1909 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 131: 1-34.

Trono, G.C., Jr. 1997. Field Guide and Atlas of the Seaweed Resources of the Philippines. Bookmark, Inc. Manila. 306 pp.

Williams, G.C.  2003.  Capitate taxa of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Palau and South Africa; a new species and a new combination.  Zool. Verh. Leiden 345:419-436.

Williams, G.C.  2000.  Two new genera of soft corals (Anthozoa:Alcyoniidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of diversity and endemism in the southern African Octocorallian fauna.  Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 52(6):65-75.

Williams, G.C.  2000.  A new species of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia Putter, 1900 (Coelenterata: Alcyoniidae) from the Tonga Islands.  Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 52(13):159-169.

Willams, G.C. (in prep). A review of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia, with descriptions of new taxa from the tropical western Pacific Ocean.  Zool J. Linnean Soc.

Williams, G.C. and P. Alderslade. 1999.  Revisionary systematics of the western Pacific soft coral genus Minabea (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae), with descriptions of a related new genus and species from the Indo-Pacific.  Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci 51(7):337-364.

Williams, G.C. and E. Ganahl. (in prep). A comparison of the pennatulacean genera Cavernularia and Cavernulina (Anthozoa: Veretillidae), with a proposal for synonomy.  Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci.

Williams, G.C. and J. Starmer.  2000.  A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia:Alcyoniidae) from south Africa.  Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 52(8): 87-96.

Wolanski, E., P. Colin, J. Naithani, E. Deleersnijder and Y. Golbuu, Y.  2004. Large amplitude, leaky, island-generated, internal waves around Palau, Micronesia.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 60, 705-716.

Worheide, G., J. N.A. Hooper and B.M. Begnan.  2002.  Phyleogeography of western Pacific Leucetta ‘chagosensis’ (Porifera:Calcarea) from ribosomal DNA sequences:  implication for population history and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia).  Molecular Ecology  11:1753-1768.

Technical Reports

Colin, P.L. 2001. Water temperatures on the Palauan reef tract: year 2000. CRRF Technical Report No. 1. Pp. 17. Coral Reef Research Foundation, Koror, Palau.     PDF (5.4 MB)     PDF (468 KB)

Martin, L.E., L.J. Bell and M.N Dawson. 2002. Marine lake monitoring project: biological and physical properties of three marine lakes in Palau 2001. CRRF Technical Report No. 2. Pp. 12. Coral Reef Research Foundation, Koror, Palau.     PDF (301 KB)

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