Recent Publications

In press

  • Valdés, A., Blanchard, L. & Marti, W. In press. Caught naked: First report a nudibranch sea slug attacked by a cone snail. American Malacological Bulletin.
  • Churchill, C., Alejandrino, A., Valdés, A., & Ó Foighil, D. In press. Parallel changes in genital morphology delineate cryptic diversification in planktonic nudibranchs. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences.

2013

  • Hanson, D., Hirano, Y. & Valdés, A. 2013. Population genetics of Haminoea (Haloa) japonica Pilsbry, 1895, a widespread non-native sea slug (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) in North America and Europe. Biological Invasions 15: 395-406. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0294-x
  • Goddard, J.H.R., Schaefer, M.C., Hoover, C. & Valdés, A. 2013. The regional extinction of a conspicuous dorid nudibranch (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in California. Marine Biology 160: 1497-1510. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2204-x
  • Crocetta, F., Macali, A., Furfaro, G., Cooke, S., Villani, G. & Valdés, A. 2013. Alien molluscan species established along the Italian shores: an update, with discussions on some Mediterranean “alien species” categories. ZooKeys 277: 91-108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.277.4362
  • Alexander, J. & Valdés, A. 2013. The ring doesn’t mean a thing: Molecular data suggests a new taxonomy for two Pacific species of sea hares (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia, Aplysiidae). Pacific Science 67: 283-294. DOI:10.2984/67.2.10
  • Goodheart, J. & Valdés, A. 2013. Re-evaluation of the Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880 (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) subspecies complex in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and its relationship to South African Doriopsilla miniata (Alder & Hancock, 1864) based on molecular data. Marine Biodiversity 43: 113-120. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-012-0136-1
  • Gonzalez, L., Hanson, D. & Valdés, A. 2013. Molecular divergence between two sympatric species of Dondice (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) with distinct feeding specializations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315413000465
  • Valdés, A., Ornelas-Gatdula, E. & DuPont, A. 2013. Color pattern variation in a shallow water species of opisthobranch mollusk. Biological Bulletin 224: 35-46. http://www.biolbull.org/content/224/1/35.abstract

2012

  • Ornelas-Gatdula, E. & Valdés, A. 2012. Two cryptic and sympatric species of Philinopsis (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia, Cephalaspidea) in the Bahamas distinguished using molecular and anatomical data. Journal of Molluscan Studies 78: 313-320. DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eys022
  • Ortigosa, D. & Valdés, A. 2012. A new species of Felimare (formerly Mexichromis) (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Chromodorididae) from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The Nautilus 126: 98-104.
  • Ornelas-Gatdula, E., Camacho-García, Y., Schrödl, M., Padula, V., Hooker, Y., Gosliner, T.M., & Valdés, A. 2012. Molecular systematics of the “Navanax aenigmaticus” species complex (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia): Coming full circle. Zoologica Scripta 41: 374-385. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00538.x
  • Valdés, A., Moran, A.L., & Woods, H.A. 2012. Revision of several poorly known Antarctic aeolid nudibranch species (Mollusca, Gastropoda) with the description of a new species. Journal of the Marine Biology Association of the United Kingdom 92: 1161-1174. DOI:10.1017/S0025315411000348
  • Padula, V. & Valdés, A. 2012. Phylogeny and biogeography of Paradoris (Nudibranchia, Discodorididae), with the description of a new species from the Caribbean Sea. The Veliger 51: 165-176.

2011

  • Valdés, A., Gatdula, U., Sheridan, N., & Herrera, J. 2011. Multi-dataset revision of two uncommon species of Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) from the Gulf of Mexico with the description of a new taxon. American Malacological Bulletin 29: 51-62. DOI: 10.4003/006.029.0218
  • Báez, D.P., Ardila, N., Valdés, A. & Acero, A.P. 2011. Taxonomy and phylogeny of Armina (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Arminidae) from the Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.DOI:10.1017/S0025315410002109
  • Price, R.M., Gosliner, T.M., & Valdés, A. 2011. Systematics and phylogeny of Philine (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), with emphasis on the Philine aperta species complex. The Veliger 51: 1-58.
  • Stout, C.C., Wilson, N.G., & Valdés, A. 2011. A new species of deep-sea Dendronotus Alder & Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) from California, with an expanded phylogeny of the genus. Invertebrate Systematics 25: 60-69. DOI: 10.1071/IS10027
  • Ornelas-Gatdula, E., DuPont, A., & Valdés, A. 2011. The tail tells the tale: Taxonomy and biogeography of some Atlantic Chelidonura (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea: Aglajidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1077-1095 DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00749.x

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