Christopher L. Mah

Christopher L. Mah, US echinodermologist

• Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, United States of America

Taxon names authored

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• 115 taxon names authored by Christopher L. Mah

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Christopher L. Mah

Publications

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1998

• Mah, C.L. 1998a. Preliminary phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the Brisingida (Asteroidea: Forcipulatacea). In: Mooi R, Telford M, editors. Proc 9th Int Echinoderm Conf. San Francisco: Ballkema; pp. 273–277 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 1998b. A phylogeny, taxonomic revision, and natural history of the order Brisingida (Asteroidea). Unpublished Master’s Thesis, San Francisco State University. 1–95.

1999

• Mah, C.L. 1999. Taxonomy of the South Pacific brisingidan Brisingaster robillardi (Asteroidea) with new ontogenetic and phylogenetic information. Zoosystema. 21(3): 535–546. Online Reference page. 

2001

• Clark, A.M. & Mah, C.L. 2001. An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 4. Forcipulatida and Brisingida, in: Jangoux, M. & Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (2001). Echinoderm Studies 6: 229–347. PDF. Reference page. 

2003

• Mah, C.L. 2003. Astrosarkus idipi, a new Indo-Pacific genus and species of Oreasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea) displaying extreme skeletal reduction. Bulletin of Marine Science. 73(3): 685–698. Online Reference page. 

2004

• Villier, L., Kutscher, M., Mah, C.L. 2004. Systematics and palaeoecology of middle Toarcian Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the “Seuil du Poitou”, Western France. Geobios. 37(6): 807–825. DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2003.05.010 Reference page. 

2005

• Mah, C.L. 2005. A phylogeny of Iconaster and Glyphodiscus (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Valvatida, Goniasteridae) with descriptions of four new species. Zoosystema. 27(1): 137–161. Online Reference page. 

2006

• Mah, C.L. 2006. A new species of Xyloplax (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Concentricycloidea) from the northeast Pacific: comparative morphology and a reassessment of phylogeny. Invertebrate biology 125(2): 136–153. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2006.00048.x Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of the deep-sea goniasterid Circeaster (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Goniasteridae) including descriptions of six new species. Zoosystema. 28(4): 917–954. PDF Reference page. 

2007

• Mah, C. 2007. Systematics, phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Pentagonaster clade (Asteroidea: Valvatida: Goniasteridae). Invertebrate systematics 21(4): 311–339. DOI: 10.1071/IS06049 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2007. Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150(): 177–210. DOI: 10.1111/J.1096-3642.2007.00291.X Reference page. 

2008

• Foltz, D.W., Nguyen, A.T., Kiger, J.R., Mah, C.L. 2008. Pleistocene speciation of sister taxa in a North Pacific clade of brooding sea stars (Leptasterias). Marine Biology. 154: 593–602. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-0952-9

2009

• Pawson, D.L., Vance, D.J., Messing, C.G., Solís-Marín, F.A., Mah, C.L..2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota. 1: 1177–1204.
• Foltz, D.W., Mah, C.L. 2009. Recent relaxation of purifying selection on the tandem-repetitive early-stage histone H3 gene in brooding sea stars. Marine Genomics. 2(2): 113–118. DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2009.06.002

2010

• Mah, C.L., Nizinski, M., Lundsten, L. 2010. Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 160(2): 266–301. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00703.x Reference page. 
• Hardy, S.M., Carr, C.M., Hardman, M., Steinke, D., Corstorphine, E., Mah, C.L 2010. Biodiversity and phylogeography of Arctic marine fauna: insights from molecular tools. Marine Biodiversity. 41(1): 195–210. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-010-0056-x
• Foltz, D.W., Mah, C.L. 2010. Difference in larval type explains patterns of nonsynonymous substitutions in two ancient paralogs of the histone H3 gene in sea stars. Evolution & Development. 12(2): 222–230. DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00406.x

2011

• Mah, C.L., Foltz, D.W. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the Valvatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 161(4): 769–788. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00659.x . Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. & Foltz, D.W. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea: Echinodermata): systematics and biogeography. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 162(3): 646-660. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00688.x Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2011. Taxonomy of high-latitude Goniasteridae (Subantarctic & Antarctic): one new genus, and three new species with an overview and key to taxa. Zootaxa 2759: 1–48. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2759.1.1 Reference page. 
• Hendrickx, M.E., Mah, C.L., Zárate-Montes, C.M. 2011. Deep-water Asteroidea (Echinodermata) collected during the TALUD cruises in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 82(3): 798–824. DOI: 10.22201/ib.20078706e.2011.3.692 Reference page. 

2012

• White, B.A., McClintock, J., Amsler, C.D., Mah, C.L., Amsler, M.O., White, S., Quetin, L.B., Ross, R.M. 2012. The abundance and distribution of echinoderms in nearshore hard-bottom habitats near Anvers Island, western Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science. 24(6): 554–560. DOI: 10.1017/S0954102012000569
• Mah, C.L., Mercier, A., Hamel, J.-F. Nizinski, M. 2012. Range extensions and taxonomic notes on Atlantic Myxasteridae (Velatida; Asteroidea). Zootaxa 3572: 55–62. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3572.1.7 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. & Blake, D.B. 2012. Global diversity and phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata). PLoS ONE 7(4): e35644. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035644 Reference page. 

2013

• Foltz, D.W., Fatland, S.D., Eléaume, M., Markello, K., Howell, K.L., Neill, K. Mah, C.L. 2013. Global population divergence of the sea star Hippasteria phrygiana corresponds to the onset of the last glacial period of the Pleistocene. Marine Biology. 160(5): 1285–1296. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2180-1
• Mah, C.L. 2013. Starfish: Biology & Ecology of the Asteroidea. J. Lawrence, editor. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press. 267 pp.

2014

• Blake, D.B. & Mah, C.L. 2014. Comments on "The phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic Asteroidea (Neoasteroidea, Echinodermata)" by A.S. Gale and perspectives on the systematics of the Asteroidea. Zootaxa 3779(2): 177–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.4 Reference page. 
• Gale, K.S.P., Mah, C.L., Hamel, J.-F., Mercier, A. 2014. New records of brisingidan asteroids (Asteroidea: Brisingida) in eastern Canada. Marine Biodiversity Records. 7: e125. DOI: 10.1017/S1755267214001201
• Mah, C.L., Neill K., Eléaume, M., Foltz, F.W. 2014. New species and global revision of Hippasteria (Hippasterinae: Goniasteridae; Asteroidea; Echinodermata). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 171(2): 422–456. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12131 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. & Foltz, D.W. 2014. New taxa and taxonomic revisions to the Poraniidae (Valvatacea; Asteroidea) with comments on feeding biology. Zootaxa 3795(3): 327–372. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.7 Reference page. 

2015

• Mah, C.L. 2015a. A new Atlantic species of Evoplosoma with taxonomic summary and in situ observations of Atlantic deep-sea corallivorous Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea). Marine Biodiversity Records. 8: e5. DOI: 10.1017/S1755267214001407 . Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2015b. New species, corallivory, in situ video observations and overview of the Goniasteridae (Valvatida, Asteroidea) in the Hawaiian Region. Zootaxa 3926(2): 211–228. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.3 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L., Linse, K., Copley, J., Marsh, L., Rogers, A., Clague, D. & Foltz, D. 2015. Description of a new family, new genus, and two new species of deep-sea Forcipulatacea (Asteroidea), including the first known sea star from hydrothermal vent habitats. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 93–113. DOI: 10.1111/ZOJ.12229 Reference page. 

2016

• Glover, A.G., Wiklund, H., Rabone, M., Amon, D.J., Smith, C.R., O'Hara, T., Mah, C.L. & Dahlgren, T.G. 2016. Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7251. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7251 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2016. Deep-sea (>1000 m) Goniasteridae (Valvatida; Asteroidea) from the North Pacific, including an overview of Sibogaster, Bathyceramaster n. gen. and three new species. Zootaxa 4175(2): 101–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.2.1. Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2016. A new species of Brisingenes from the Hawaii undersea military munitions assessment area with an overview of Hawaiian brisingid in situ video observations and functional morphology of subambulacral spines (Forcipulatacea; Asteroidea). Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 128: 43–52. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.06.003 Reference page. 
• Edwards, M.H. et al. 2016. The Hawaii Undersea Military Munitions Assessment. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 128: 4–13. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.04.011
• McClain, C.R. et al. 2016. Multiple processes generate productivity–diversity relationships in experimental wood-fall communities. Ecology. 97(4): 885–898. DOI: 10.1890/15-1669.1

2017

• Amon, D.J., Ziegler, A.F., Kremenetskaia, A., Mah, C.L., Mooi, R., O'Hara, T., Pawson, D.L., Roux, M. & Smith, C.R. 2017. Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e11794. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e11794. Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2017. Overview of the Ferdina-like Goniasteridae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) including a new subfamily, three new genera and fourteen new species. Zootaxa 4271(1): 1–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4271.1.1. Reference page. 
• Linchangco, G.V., Foltz, D.W., Reid, R., Williams, J., Nodzak, C., Kerr, A.M., Miller, A.K., Hunter, R., Wilson, N.G., Mah, C.L., Rouse, G.W., Wray, G.A., Janies, D.A. 2017. The phylogeny of extant starfish (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) including Xyloplax, based on comparative transcriptomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 115: 161–170. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.07.022

2018

• Mah, C.L. 2018. New genera, species and occurrence records of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4539(1): 1–116. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4539.1.1 Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D., Mah, C.L., Hipsley, C.A., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Barrett, N.S. 2018. The Derwent River seastar: re-evaluation of a critically endangered marine invertebrate. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 186(2): 483–490. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly057
• Moreau, C. et al. 2018. Invertebrate diversity in the deep Great Australian Bight (200–5000 m). Marine Biodiversity Records. 11(23): 1–17. DOI: 10.1186/s41200-018-0158-x
• MacIntosh, H. et al. 2018. Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Asteroidea database. ZooKeys. 747: 141–156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.747.22751

2019

• Mecho, A., Easton, E.E., Sellanes, J., Gorny, M., Mah, C.L. 2019. Unexplored diversity of the mesophotic echinoderm fauna of the Easter Island ecoregion. Marine Biology. 166: 91. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-019-3537-x
• Kennedy, B.R.C. et al. 2019. The Unknown and the Unexplored: Insights Into the Pacific Deep-Sea Following NOAA CAPSTONE Expeditions. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00480
• Howell, K.L. et al. 2019. A framework for the development of a global standardised marine taxon reference image database (SMarTaR-ID) to support image-based analyses. PLoS ONE. 14(12): e0218904. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218904

2020

• Mah, C.L. 2020. New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer. Zootaxa. 4766(2): 201-260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1 Reference page. 
• Okanishi, M., Mah, C. 2020. Overlooked biodiversity from museum collections: four new species and one new genus of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from Antarctica and adjacent regions with notes on multi-armed ophiuroids. Marine Biodiversity. 50(64). DOI: 10.1007/s12526-020-01080-w Reference page. 
• O’Hara, T.D. et al. 2020. The lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor fauna of eastern Australia. Marine Biodiversity Records. 13(1): 1–27 DOI: 10.1186/s41200-020-00194-1
• Mah, C.L. & Fujita, T. 2020. New species and occurrence records of Japanese Solasteridae and Ganeriidae including a new species of Paralophaster from the North Pacific with an overview of Hyalinothrix. Zootaxa. 4750(1): 67–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.1.4 Reference page. 

2021

• Gerdes, A., Kihara, T.C., Martínez Arbizu, P., Kuhn, T., Schwarz-Schampera, U., Mah, C.L., Norenburg, J., Linley, T.D., Shalaeva, K., Macpherson, E., Gordon, D., Stöhr, S., Messing, C.G., Bober, S., Guggolz, T., Christodoulou, M., Gebruk, A.V., Kremenetskaia, A., Kroh, A., Sanamyan, K.E., Bolstad, K.S., Hoffman, L., Gooday, A.J., Molodtsova, T. 2021. Megafauna of the German exploration licence area for seafloor massive sulphides along the Central and South East Indian Ridge (Indian Ocean). Biodiversity Data Journal. 9: e69955. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e69955 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2021. The East Pacific/South Pacific Boundary: New taxa and occurrences from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), New Caledonia and adjacent regions. Zootaxa. 4980(3): 401–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.3.1 Reference page. 

2022

• Mah, C.L 2022. New Genera, Species and Occurrences of Deep-Sea Asteroidea (Valvatacea, Forcipulatacea, Echinodermata) collected from the North Pacific Ocean by the CAPSTONE Expedition. Zootaxa. 5164(1): 1–75. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5164.1.1 Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2022. A new genus and species of Goniasteridae, Peedeeaster sandersoni, and the first occurrence of Sclerasterias (Asteriidae) from the Cretaceous Peedee Formation of North Carolina. Zootaxa. 5138(52): 533–548. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5138.5.2 Reference page. 

2023

• Zhang, R.-Y., Fau, M., Mah, C.L., Eléaume, M., Zhang, D.-S., Zhou, Y.-D., Lu, B., Wang, C.-S. 2023. Systematics of deep-sea starfish order Brisingida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), with a revised classification and assessments of morphological characters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 191: 1–21. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107993 . Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2023. New occurrences and a new genus and species of ‘Toothless’ Odontasteridae (Asteroidea) from Australian waters. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 38(1): 49–67. DOI: 10.18195/ISSN.0312-3162.38.2023.049-067 . Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2023. New Genera, Species, and observations on the biology of Antarctic Valvatida (Asteroidea). Zootaxa. 5310(1): 1–88. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5310.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Payne, C.Y., Tilic, E., Boschen-Rose, R.E., Gannon, A., Stiller, J., Hiley, A.S., Grupe, B.M., Mah, C.L., Rouse, G.W. 2023. Xyloplax princealberti (Asteroidea, Echinodermata): A New Species That Is Not Always Associated with Wood Falls. Diversity 15(12): 1212. DOI: 10.3390/d15121212 . Reference page. 

2024

• Mah, C.L., Kogure, Y., Fujita, T. & Higashiji, T. 2024. New Taxa and Occurrences of Mesophotic and Deep-sea Goniasteridae (Valvatida, Asteroidea) from Okinawa and adjacent regions. Zootaxa 5403(1): 1–41. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.1.1. Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2024a. New Goniasteridae and in situ observations significant to deep-sea coral predation. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 1–35. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.01 . Reference page. 
• Mah, C.L. 2024b. Two New Taxa of Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) and Noteworthy Observations of Deep-Sea Asteroidea by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the North and Tropical Atlantic. Zootaxa. 5432(4): 461–508. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5432.4.2 . Reference page. 

2025

• Seid, C.A., Hiley, A.S., McCowin, M.F., Carvajal, J.I., Cha, H., Ahyong, S.T., Ashford, O.S., Breedy, O., Eernisse, D.J., Goffredi, S.K., Hendrickx, M.E., Kocot, K.M., Mah, C.L., Miller, A.K., Koch, N.M., Mooi, R., O'Hara, T.D., Pleijel, F., Stiller, J., Tilic, E., Valentich-Scott, P., Warén, A., Wicksten, M.K., Wilson, N.G., Cordes, E.E., Levin, L.A., Cortés, J. & Rouse, G.W. 2025. A faunal inventory of methane seeps on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica. ZooKeys 1222: 1–250. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1222.134385 Reference page.