James A. Blake

James A. Blake, US Marine zoologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Kudenov, J.D., Blake, J.A. 1978. A review of the genera and species of the Scalibregmidae (Polychaeta) with descriptions of one new genus and three new species from Australia. Journal of Natural History. 12: 427-444. DOI: 10.1080/00222937800770291 Reference page.

Blake, J.A. 1991. Revision of some genera and species of Cirratulidae from the Western North Atlantic. Ophelia. 5(Supplement): 17–30. ResearchGate Reference page.

Blake, J.A. 2000. A new genus and species of polychaete worm (Family Orbiniidae) from methane seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of the systematics and phylogenetic interrelationships of the genera of Orbiniidae. Cahiers de biologie marine. 41(4): 435-450. DOI: 10.21411/CBM.A.84F1D61E Reference page.

Blake, J.A. 2015: New species of Chaetozone and Tharyx (Polychaeta: Cirratulidae) from the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic and the Northeastern Pacific, including a description of the lectotype of Chaetozone setosa Malmgren from Spitsbergen in the Norwegian Arctic. Zootaxa 3919(3): 501–552. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.3.5. Reference page.
Blake, J.A. 2015. New species of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the East Antarctic Peninsula including a description of the ecology and post-larval development of species of Scalibregma and Oligobregma. Zootaxa 4033(1): 57–93. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.1.3. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Blake, J.A. & Göransson, P. 2015. Redescription of Tharyx killariensis (Southern) from Ireland and description of two new species of Tharyx from the Kattegat, Sweden (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae). Zootaxa 4039(4): 501–515. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.4.1. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Dean, H.K. & Blake, J.A. 2015: The Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of Pacific Costa Rica. Zootaxa 3956(2): 183–198. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.2. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Blake, J.A. 2016. Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. Zootaxa 4166(1): 1–93. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4166.1.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Dean, H.K. & Blake, J.A. 2016. Aphelochaeta (Polychaeta: Cirratulidae) from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, with a description of five new species. Zootaxa 4103(2): 101–116. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Blake, J.A. 2017. Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. Zootaxa 4218(1): 1–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4218.1.1. ISBN 978-1-77670-068-4 (print); ISBN 978-1-77670-069-1 (online). Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Blake, J.A. & Lavesque, N. 2017. A new species of Chaetozone (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae) from the Bay of Biscay offshore France, together with a review of Chaetozone species from the North Atlantic and adjacent waters. Zootaxa 4312(3): 565–579. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.3.10. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Blake, J.A. & Maciolek, N.J. 2018. New species and records of Uncispionidae and Pygospiopsis (Polychaeta, Spionida) from deep water off the east and west coasts of North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Antarctic Peninsula, and Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4450(2): 151–195. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.1 PDF Reference page.
Blake, J.A. 2018. Bitentaculate Cirratulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected chiefly during cruises of the R/V Anton Bruun, USNS Eltanin, USCG Glacier, R/V Hero, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, and R/V Polarstern from the Southern Ocean, Antarctica, and off Western South America. Zootaxa. 4537(1): 1-130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4537.1.1 Reference page.

Blake, J.A. 2019. New species of Cirratulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from abyssal depths of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, North Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4629(2): 151–187. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.2.1. Reference page.
Blake, J.A., Dean, H.K 2019. New Species of Cirratulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa. 4671(3): 301–338. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.3.1 Reference page.

Blake, J.A. 2020. New species and records of deep-water Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific continental slope, abyssal Pacific Ocean, and the South China Sea. Zootaxa. 4730(1): 1-61. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4730.1.1 Reference page.