Bernard Picton

Bernard Picton, British malacologist

National Museums Northern Ireland, 153 Bangor Road, Cultra, Holywood, BT18 0PE, UK

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Morrow, C.C., Picton, B.E., Erpenbeck, D., Boury-Esnault, N., Maggs, C.A. & Allcock, A.L. 2012. Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: A new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(1): 174–190. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.016 Reference page.

Furfaro, G., Picton, B., Martynov, A. & Mariottini, P. 2016. Diaphorodoris alba Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960 is a valid species: molecular and morphological comparison with D. luteocincta (M. Sars, 1870) (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Zootaxa 4193(2): 304–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.2.6. Reference page.
Furfaro, G., Picton, B., Martynov, A. & Mariottini, P. 2016. Erratum: GIULIA FURFARO, BERNARD PICTON, ALEXANDER MARTYNOV & PAOLO MARIOTTINI (2016) Diaphorodoris alba Portmann & Sandmeier, 1960 is a valid species: molecular and morphological comparison with D. luteocincta (M. Sars, 1870) (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Zootaxa, 4193: 304–316. Zootaxa 4208(6): 600–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.6.8. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Korshunova, T.A., Martynov, A., Bakken, T., Evertsen, J., Fletcher, K., Mudianta, I.W., Saito, H., Lundin, K., Schrödl M. & Picton, B. 2017. Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 717: 1–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.717.21885. Reference page.
Korshunova, T., Martynov, A., Bakken, T., Evertsen, J., Fletcher, K., Mudianta, I.W., Saito, H., Lundin, K., Schrödl, M. & Picton, B. 2017. Corrigenda: Polyphyly of the traditional family Flabellinidae affects a major group of Nudibranchia: aeolidacean taxonomic reassessment with descriptions of several new families, genera, and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.717.21885. ZooKeys 725: 139–141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.725.23022. Reference page.
Korshunova, T., Martynov, A. & Picton, B. 2017. Ontogeny as an important part of integrative taxonomy in tergipedid aeolidaceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with a description of a new genus and species from the Barents Sea Zootaxa 4324(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.1. Reference page.

Korshunova, T., Fletcher, K., Lundin, K., Picton, B. & Martynov, A. 2018. The genus Zelentia Korshunova et al., 2017 is an amphi-boreal taxon expanded to include three new species from the North Pacific and Atlantic oceans (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Trinchesiidae). Zootaxa 4482(2): 297–321. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.4 Reference page.

Korshunova, T., Mehrotra, R., Arnold, S., Lundin, K., Picton, B. & Martynov, A. 2019. The formerly enigmatic Unidentiidae in the limelight again: a new species of the genus Unidentia from Thailand (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Zootaxa 4551(5): 556–570. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.5.4 Reference page.
Martynov, A., Mehrotra, R., Chavanich, S., Nakano, R., Kashio, S., Lundin, K., Picton, B. & Korshunova, T. 2019. The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. str. with the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Zookeys, 818: 89–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.818.30477 Reference page.
Korshunova, T., Picton, B., Furfaro, G., Mariottini, P., Pontes, M., Prkić, J., Fletcher, K., Malmberg, K., Lundin, K., Martynov, A. 2019. Multilevel fine-scale diversity challenges the 'cryptic species' concept. Scientific Reports. 9(6732): 1-21. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42297-5 Reference page.

Martynov, A., Lundin, K., Picton, B., Fletcher, K., Malmberg, K., Korshunova, T. 2020. Multiple paedomorphic lineages of soft-substrate burrowing invertebrates: parallels in the origin of Xenocratena and Xenoturbella. PLoS ONE. 15(1): e0227173. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227173 Reference page.