Alexander S. Plotkin

Alexander S. Plotkin, Russian spongiologist

• Department of Ichthyology & Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology & Soil Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 11 taxon names authored by Alexander S. Plotkin

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• Plotkin, A.S. & Janussen, D. 2007. New genus and species of Polymastiidae (Demospongiae: Hadromerida) from the Antarctic deep sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87(6): 1395–1401. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407058134 Reference page. 

2008

• Plotkin, A.S. & Janussen, D. 2008. Polymastiidae and Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Hadromerida) of the deep Weddell Sea, Antarctic. Zootaxa 1866: 95–135. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Gerasimova, E., Erpenbeck, D. & Plotkin, A. 2008. Vosmaeria Fristedt, 1885 (Porifera, Demospongiae, Halichondriidae): revision of species, phylogenetic reconstruction and evidence for split. Zootaxa 1694: 1–37. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 

2016

• Plotkin, A., Voigt, O., Willassen, E. & Rapp, H.T. 2016. Molecular phylogenies challenge the classification of Polymastiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) based on morphology. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 17(1): 45–66. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-016-0301-7 Reference page. 

2017

• Plotkin, A., Morrow, C., Gerasimova, E. & Rapp, H.T. 2017. Polymastiidae (Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with ornamented exotyles: a review of morphological affinities and description of a new genus and three new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 97(6): 1351–1406. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315416000655 Reference page.