Ángel Valdés

Ángel Valdés, malacologist.

Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, California 91768, USA.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Valdés, A. & Gosliner, T.M. 1999. Phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and a new family. Zoologica scripta 28(3–4): 315–360. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.1999.00014.x . Reference page.

Valdés, A.; Lozouet, P. 2000: Opisthobranch molluscs from the Tertiary of the Aquitaine Basin (south-western France), with descriptions of seven new species and a new genus. Palaeontology 43(3): 457-479. DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2000.00135.x . Reference page.

Valdés, Á. 2001. Deep-sea cryptobranch dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from the tropical West Pacific, with descriptions of two new genera and eighteen new species. Malacologia 43(1–2): 237–311. BHL Reference page.
Valdés, Á. 2001: On the publication date, authorship and type species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea). Nautilus 115(1): 29-34. BHL Reference page.
Valdés, Á & Gosliner, T.M. 2001. Systematics and phylogeny of the caryophyllidia-bearing dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and four new species from Indo-Pacific deep waters. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 133(2): 103–198. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00689.x . Reference page.
Johnson, R.F.; Valdés, Á. 2001: The Hypselodoris infucata, H. obscura and H. saintvincentius species complex (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae), with remarks on the genus Brachychlanis Ehrenberg, 1831. Journal of natural history 35(9): 1371–1398. DOI: 10.1080/002229301750384310 . Reference page.

Valdés, Á. 2002. A phylogenetic analysis and systematic revision of the cryptobranch dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Anthobranchia). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 136(4): 535–636. DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00039.x . Reference page.
Valdés, Á. 2002: Review of the genus Actinocyclus Ehrenberg, 1831 (Opisthobranchia: Doridoidea). Veliger 45(3): 193–202. abstract Reference page.

Valdés, A. 2003. Preliminary molecular phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia), based on 16S mtDNA sequence data. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(1): 75–80. DOI: 10.1093/mollus/69.1.75 . Reference page.

Fahey, S.J. & Valdés, Á 2005. Review of Acanthodoris Gray, 1850 with a phylogenetic analysis of Onchidorididae Alder and Hancock, 1845 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4), 56(20): 213–273. PDF Reference page.

Valdés, Á. & Hamann, J. 2008. Two new species of Doriopsilla from the tropical Western Atlantic with remarks on Cariopsillidae Ortea & Espinosa, 2005. Veliger 50(3): 210–218. BHL Reference page.

Valdés, Á. 2009: A new species of Trapania Pruvot-Fol, 1931 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Nudibranchia) from the Caribbean Sea with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. Caribbean journal of science 45(1): 8-14. PDF Reference page.

Valdés, Á.; Bertsch, H. 2010: Two new species of dorid nudibranchs from the Gulf of California (Mar de Cortés), Baja California, Mexico (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia). Spixiana 33(1): 1-11. PDF Reference page.
Stout, C.C., Pola, M. & Valdés, Á. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of Dendronotus nudibranchs with emphasis on northeastern Pacific species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(4): 367-375. DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyq022 . Reference page.

Valdés, A.; Moran, A.L.; Woods, H.A. 2011: A new species of Armodoris (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Akiodorididae) from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Polar biology 34(3): 459-463. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0889-6 . Reference page.

Crocetta, F., Macali, A., Furfaro, G., Cooke, S., Villani, G. & Valdés, Á. 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 Reference page.
Espinoza, E., DuPont, A. & Valdés, A. 2013a: A tropical Atlantic species of Melibe Rang, 1829 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Tethyiidae). ZooKeys, 316: 55–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.316.5452 Reference page.

Espinoza, E., DuPont, A. & Valdés, A. 2014: Molecular data reveal an undescribed cryptic species of Costasiella Pruvot-Fol, 1951 (Euthyneura: Sacoglossa: Limapontidae) in the Bahamas. American malacological bulletin 32(2): 173–182. DOI: 10.4003/006.032.0208 Reference page.

Krug, P.J., Vendetti, J.E. & Valdés, A. 2016. Molecular and morphological systematics of Elysia Risso, 1818 (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa) from the Caribbean region. Zootaxa 4148(1): 1–137. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4148.1.1. Reference page.
Valdés, Á., Cadien, D.B. & Gosliner, T.M. 2016. Philinidae, Laonidae and Philinorbidae (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea: Philinoidea) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean and the Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean). Zootaxa 4147(5): 501–537. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.5.1. Reference page.
Araya, J.F., Valdés, Á. 2016. Shallow water heterobranch sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the Región de Atacama, northern Chile. PeerJ. 4: e1963. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1963 Reference page.

Hoover, C.A., Padula, V., Schrödl, M., Hooker, Y. & Valdés, Á. 2017. Integrative taxonomy of the Felimare californiensis and F. ghiselini species complex (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae), with description of a new species from Peru. Journal of Molluscan Studies 83(4): 461–475. DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyx035. Reference page.

Valdés, Á., Lundsten, L. & Wilson, N.G. 2018. Five new deep-sea species of nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cladobranchia) from the Northeast Pacific. Zootaxa 4526(4): 401–433. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.4.1 Reference page.

Innabi, J., Stout, C.C. & Valdés, A. 2023. Seven new “cryptic” species of Discodorididae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from New Caledonia. Zookeys 1152ː 45–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1152.98258 Reference page.