Michelle Kelly

Michelle Kelly (1961–), New Zealand spongiologist. Also known as Michelle Kelly-Borges.

• National Centre Coasts and Oceans, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 99940, Newmarket, Auckland 1149, New Zealand.

Taxon names authored

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• 240 taxon names authored by Michelle Kelly

Eponyms

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• 2 eponyms of Michelle Kelly

Publications

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2000

• Kelly, M. 2000. Description of a new lithistid sponge from northeastern New Zealand, and consideration of the phylogenetic affinities of families Corallistidae and Neopeltidae. Zoosystema 22(2): 265–283. PDF. Reference page. 

2003

• Kelly, M. 2003. Revision of the sponge genus Pleroma Sollas (Lithistida: Megamorina: Pleromidae) from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and description of a new species. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37(1): 113–127. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2003.9517151 Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Gibbons, M.J., Kelly, M. & Davies-Coleman, M. 2003. South African Latrunculiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerid): descriptions of new species of Latrunculia du Bocage, Strongylodesma Lévi, and Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly. Zootaxa 371(1): 1–26. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.371.1.1 Reference page. 

2004

• Bergquist, P.R. & Kelly, M. 2004. Taxonomy of some Halisarcida and Homosclerophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Indo-Pacific. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38(1): 51–66. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2004.9517217 . Reference page. 

2007

• Kelly, M. 2007. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera: lithistid Demospongiae (rock sponges). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 121: 1–100. ISBN 978-0-478-23277-6 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Ellwood, M., Tubbs, L. & Buckeridge, J. 2007. The ‘Lithistid’ Demospongiae in New Zealand waters: species composition and distribution. Pp. 393–404 In Custódio, M.R., Lôbo-Hajdu, G., Hajdu, E. & Muricy, G. (eds.) Porifera Research. Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability. Série Livros 28. Museu Nacional: Rio de Janeiro. ISBN 978-85-7427-023-4. Full chapter (PDF). Reference page. 

2009

• Vacelet, J., Kelly, M. & Schlacher-Hoenlinger, M. 2009. Two new species of Chondrocladia (Demospongiae: Cladorhizidae) with a new spicule type from the deep south Pacific, and a discussion of the genus Meliiderma. Zootaxa 2073(1): 57–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2073.1.5 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M. et al. 2009. Porifera: sponges. pp. 23–46 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8

2011

• Reiswig, H.M. & Kelly, M. 2011. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Hexasterophoran Glass Sponges of New Zealand (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Hexasterophora): Orders Hexactinosida, Aulocalycoida and Lychniscosida. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 124: 1–146. ISBN 978-0-478-23292-9 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M. & Vacelet, J. 2011. Three new remarkable carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from deep New Zealand and Australian (Macquarie Island) waters. Zootaxa 2976(1): 55–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2976.1.4 Reference page. 
• Sim-Smith, C. & Kelly, M. 2011. Two new genera in the family Podospongiidae (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) with eight new Western Pacific species. Zootaxa 2976: 32–54. Preview Reference page. 

2012

• Kelly, M. & Sim-Smith, C. 2012. A review of Ancorina, Stryphnus, and Ecionemia (Demospongiae, Astrophorida, Ancorinidae), with descriptions of new species from New Zealand waters. Zootaxa 3480: 1–47. Preview Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Janson, L. & Kelly, M. 2012. New species of Latrunculia from the Agulhas shelf, South Africa, with designation of a type species for subgenus Biannulata (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Latrunculiidae). Zootaxa 3395(1): 33–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3395.1.3 Reference page. 

2013

• Buckeridge, J.S., Kelly, M., Janussen, D. & Reiswig, H.M. 2013. New Paleogene sponges from the Red Bluff tuff, Chatham Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 56(3): 171–185. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2013.808235 Reference page. 

2015

• Kelly, M., Erpenbeck, D., Morrow, C. & van Soest, R. 2015. First record of a living species of the genus Janulum (Class Demospongiae) in the Southern Hemisphere. Zootaxa 3980(2): 255–266. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.2.6 Reference page. 
• Sim-Smith, C. & Kelly, M. 2015. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Sponges in the family Geodiidae (Demospongiae: Astrophorina). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 128: 102 pp. PDF Reference page. 

2016

• Kelly, M. & Cárdenas, P. 2016. An unprecedented new genus and family of Tetractinellida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from New Zealand's Colville Ridge, with a new type of mitochondrial group I intron. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177(2): 335–352. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12365 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Sim-Smith, C., Stone, R., Samaai, T., Reiswig, H.M. & Austin, W.C. 2016. New taxa and arrangements within the family Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida). Zootaxa 4121(1): 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.1.1 Reference page. 
• Hestetun, J.T., Vacelet, J., Boury-Esnault, N., Borchiellini, C., Kelly, M., Ríos, P., Cristobo, J. & Rapp, H.T. 2016. The systematics of carnivorous sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94(Part A): 327–345. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.022 Reference page. 

2017

• Fernandez, J.C.C., Kelly, M. & Bell, L.J. 2017. Cinachyrella anatriaenilla sp. nov., a new tetillid sponge with microacanthoxeas from American Samoa in the South Pacific. Zootaxa 4258(1): 81–90. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.1.6. Reference page. 
• Dohrmann, M., Kelley, C., Kelly, M., Pisera, A., Hooper, J.N.A. & Reiswig, H.M. 2017. An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Frontiers in Zoology 14: 18. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-017-0191-3 Reference page. 

2019

• Sim-Smith, C. & Kelly, M. 2019. Review of the sponge genus Penares (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida, Astrophorina) in the New Zealand EEZ, with descriptions of new species. Zootaxa 4638(1): 1–56. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.1.1 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Cárdenas, P., Rush, N., Sim-Smith, C., Macpherson, D., Page, M. & Bell, L.J. 2019. Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 506: 1–25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.506 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Rowden, A.A. 2019. New sponge species from hydrothermal vent and cold seep sites off New Zealand. Zootaxa. 4576(3): 401-438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.3.1 Reference page. 
• Peart, R.A., Spong, K. , Sutherland, J. & Kelly, M. 2019. A new species of sponge-dwelling amphipod, Polycheria spongoteras sp. nov., from Spirits Bay, Northland, New Zealand. Zootaxa 4674(1): 127–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4674.1.7 Reference page. 

2020

• Samaai, T., Kelly, M., Ngwakum, B., Payne, R., Teske, P.R., Janson, L., Kerwath, S., Parker, D. & Gibbons, M.J. 2020. New Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the Agulhas ecoregion of temperate southern Africa. Zootaxa 4896(3): 409–442. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.3.4 Reference page. 

2021

• Reiswig, H.M., Dohrmann, M., Kelly, M., Mills, S., Schupp, P.J. & Wörheide, G. 2021. Rossellid glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from New Zealand waters, with description of one new genus and six new species. ZooKeys 1060: 33–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1060.63307 Reference page. 
• Sim-Smith, C., Hickman Jr., C. & Kelly, M. 2021. New shallow-water sponges (Porifera) from the Galápagos Islands. Zootaxa 5012(1): 1–71. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5012.1.1 Reference page. 
• Schuster, A., Pomponi, S.A., Pisera, A., Cárdenas, P., Kelly, M., Wörheide, G. & Erpenbeck, D. 2021. Systematics of ‘lithistid’ tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic – implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution. PeerJ 9:e10775. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10775 Reference page. 

2023

• Erpenbeck, D., van Soest, R., Wörheide, G. & Kelly, M. 2023. Genetic data confirms the enigmatic demosponge Janulum as haplosclerid. Zootaxa 5254(1): 147–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.1.10 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Vacelet, J., Hestetun, J. & Mills, S. 2023. New species of Abyssocladia and two new cladorhizid genera (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from New Zealand and Australia. Zootaxa 5270(1): 1–47. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.1.1 Reference page.