Dirk Erpenbeck

Dirk Erpenbeck, German spongiologist.

• Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany.

Taxon names authored

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• 32 taxon names authored by Dirk Erpenbeck

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2006

• Dohrmann, M., Voigt, O., Erpenbeck, D. & Wörheide, G. 2006. Non-monophyly of most supraspecific taxa of calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) revealed by increased taxon sampling and partitioned Bayesian analysis of ribosomal DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40(3): 830–843. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.04.016 Reference page. 

2008

• 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. 

2012

• Erpenbeck, D., Sutcliffe, P., Cook, S. de C., Dietzel, A., Maldonado, M., Van Soest, R.W., Hooper, J.N. & Wörheide, G. 2012. Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(3): 809–816. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.024 Reference page. 
• 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. 

2013

• Gierl, C., Reichenbacher, B., Gaudant, J., Erpenbeck, D. & Pharisat, A. 2013. An Extraordinary Gobioid Fish Fossil from Southern France. PLoS ONE, 8(5): e64117. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064117 Reference page. 

2015

• Itskovich, V.B., Kaluzhnaya, O.V., Veynberg, E. & Erpenbeck, D. 2015. Endemic Lake Baikal sponges from deep water. 1: Potential cryptic speciation and discovery of living species known only from fossils. Zootaxa 3990(1): 123–137. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Erpenbeck, D., Morrow, C. & van Soest, R. 2015. First record of a living species of the genus Janulum (Class Demospongiae) in the Southern Hemisphere. Zootaxa 3980(2): 255–266. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.2.6 Reference page. 

2016

• Ekins, M.G., Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2016. A new species of lithistid sponge hiding within the Isabella mirabilis species complex (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida) from seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge. Zootaxa 4136(3): 433–460. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.2 Reference page. 
• Setiawan, E., de Voogd, N.J., Hooper, J.N.A., Wörheide, G. & Erpenbeck, D. 2016. Bottomless barrel-sponge species in the Indo-Pacific? Zootaxa 4136(2): 393–396. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.11 Reference page. 

2017

• Itskovich, V.B., Kaluzhnaya, O.V., Veynberg, E. & Erpenbeck, D. 2017. Endemic Lake Baikal sponges from deep water. 2: Taxonomy and Bathymetric Distribution. Zootaxa 4236(2): 335–342. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.8. Reference page. 

2018

• Gutekunst, V., Müller, A.U., Pohl, T., Brümmer, F., Malik, H., Fawzi, N., Erpenbeck, D. & Lehnert, H. 2018. A new fistulose demosponge species from the Persian Gulf. Zootaxa 4450(5): 565–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.3 Reference page. 
• Setiawan, E., Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G. & de Voogd, N.J. 2018. Bearing the wrong identity: A case study of an Indo-Pacific common shallow water sponge of the genus Neopetrosia (Haplosclerida; Petrosiidae). Zootaxa 4500(1): 43–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.1.2 Reference page. 

2020

• Ekins, M.G., Erpenbeck, D. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2020. Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition. Zootaxa 4774(1): 1–159. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4774.1.1 Reference page. 

2021

• Schuster, A., Pomponi, S.A., Pisera, A., Cárdenas, P., Kelly, M., Wörheide, G. & Erpenbeck, D. 2021. Systematics of ‘lithistid’ tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic – implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution. PeerJ 9:e10775. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10775 Reference page. 

2023

• Erpenbeck, D., van Soest, R., Wörheide, G. & Kelly, M. 2023. Genetic data confirms the enigmatic demosponge Janulum as haplosclerid. Zootaxa 5254(1): 147–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.1.10 Reference page.