Brian S. Leander

Brian S. Leander, Canadian zoologist, helminthologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 15 taxon names authored by Brian S. Leander

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Chantangsi, C., Esson, H. J., & Leander, B. S. 2008. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a marine interstitial tetraflagellate with putative endosymbionts: Auranticordis quadriverberis n. gen. et sp. (Cercozoa). BMC microbiology, 8: 123, [1].

2009

• Okamoto, N., Chantangsi, C., Horák, A., Leander, B.S., Keeling, P.J. 2009. Molecular phylogeny and description of the novel katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and establishment of the Hacrobia taxon nov. PLoS ONE 4(9): e7080 [1–11]. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007080 Reference page. 

2010

• Yubuki, N., Leander, B. S., & Silberman, J. D. 2010. Ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of a novel phagotrophic stramenopile from low oxygen environments: Rictus lutensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida, incertae sedis). Protist 161(2): 264-278.
• Breglia, S. A., Yubuki, N., Hoppenrath, M., & Leander, B. S. 2010. Ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of a novel euglenozoan with extrusive episymbiotic bacteria: Bihospites bacati n. gen. et sp. (Symbiontida). BMC Microbiology 10: 145, [2].
• Chantangsi, C., & Leander, B. S. 2010. An SSU rDNA barcoding approach to the diversity of marine interstitial cercozoans, including descriptions of four novel genera and nine novel species. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 60: 1962–1977, [3].
• Chantangsi, C. & Leander, B.S. 2010. Ultrastructure, life cycle and molecular phylogenetic position of a novel marine sand-dwelling cercozoan: Clautriavia biflagellata n. sp. Protist 161(1): 133–147. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2009.09.001 PDF. Reference page. 
• Kolisko, M., Silberman, J. D., Cepicka, I., Yubuki, N., Takishita, K., Yabuki, A., Leander, B. S., Inouye, I., Inagaki, Y., Roger, A. J. & Simpson, A. G. B. 2010. A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats. Environmental Microbiology 12: 2700–2710.
• Kim, E., Yubuki, Y., Leander, B.S., Graham, L.E. 2010. Ultrastructure and 18S rDNA phylogeny of Apoikia lindahlii comb. nov (Chrysophyceae) and its epibiontic protists, Filos agilis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida) and Nanos amicus gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida). Protist 161(2): 177–196. DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2009.09.003

2012

• Yamaguchi, A., Yubuki, N., Leander, B.S. 2012. Morphostasis in a novel eukaryote illuminates the evolutionary transition from phagotrophy to phototrophy: description of Rapaza viridis n. gen. et sp. (Euglenozoa, Euglenida). BMC Ecology and Evolution 12(29). DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-29 Reference page. 

2013

• Rueckert, S., Wakeman, K.C. & Leander, B.S. 2013. Discovery of a diverse clade of gregarine apicomplexans (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida) from Pacific eunicid and onuphid polychaetes, including descriptions of Paralecudina n. gen., Trichotokara japonica n. sp., and T. eunicae n. sp. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 60: 121-136.

2015

• Yubuki, N., Pánek, T., Yabuki, A., Čepička, I., Takishita, K., Inagaki, Y., & Leander, B.S. 2015. Morphological Identities of Two Different Marine Stramenopile Environmental Sequence Clades: Bicosoeca kenaiensis (Hilliard, 1971) and Cantina marsupialis (Larsen and Patterson, 1990) gen. nov., comb. nov. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 62(4): 532-542. [4].

2017

• Leander, B.S., Lax, G., Karnkowska, A., Simpson, A.G.B. 2017. Euglenida. In: Archibald, J.M., Simpson, A.G.B., Slamovits, C. (Eds.). Handbook of the Protists. Springer, pp. 1-42. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32669-6_13-1

2021

• van Steenkiste, N.W.L., Rivlin, N., Kahn, P., Wakeman, K.C. & Leander, B.S. 2021. Grappleria corona gen. et sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Jenseniidae fam. nov.) and an updated molecular phylogeny of ‘dalyelliid' and temnocephalid microturbellarians. Systematics and Biodiversity 19(3): 261–272. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1841326 Reference page.