Martin Lindsey Christoffersen

Martin Lindsey Christoffersen, Echinoderm biologist & carcinologist, Brasil

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas–Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, CEP: 58051-900, Brasil
Laboratório de Biodiversidade de Invertebrados Não-Insetos, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, CEP: 58051-900, Brasil.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Young, P.S. & Christoffersen, M.L. 1984. Recent coral barnacles of the genus Ceratoconcha (Cirripedia:Pyrgomatidae) from northeast Brazil. Bulletin of marine science, 35(2): 239-252. ingentaconnect Reference page.

Christoffersen, M.L. & Ramos, G.E. 1987. A new snapping shrimp (Caridea, Alpheidae) from the Pacific coast of Colombia. Revista de Biología Tropical, Universidad de Costa Rica [1988] 35: 333-338. Reference page.

Gondim, A.I., Alonso, C., Dias, T.L.P., Manso, C.L.C., Christoffersen, M.L. 2013. A taxonomic guide to the brittle-stars (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the State of Paraíba continental shelf, northeastern Brazil. ZooKeys 307: 45–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.307.4673 . Reference page.
Gondim, A.I., Dias, T.L.P., Christoffersen, M.L. 2013. Annotated checklist of Echinoderms from Maranhão and Piauí States, Northeastern Brazil. Check List. 9(3): 510–518. DOI: 10.15560/9.3.510 Reference page.

Gondim, A., Christoffersen, M.L. & Dias, T. 2014. Taxonomic guide and historical review of starfishes in northeastern Brazil (Echinodermata, Asteroidea). ZooKeys 449: 1–56. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.449.6813 . Reference page.
Lima, S.F.B., Christoffersen, M.L. & Villacampa, Y. 2014. Record of Basilissopsis for the bathyal region of the South Atlantic (Brazil) based on the description of a new species and the designation of a lectotype for B. rhyssa (Vetigastropoda, Trochidae). Spixiana 37(1): 27–34. PDF Reference page.
Prata, J., Manso, C.L.C. & Christoffersen, M.L. 2014. Aspidochirotida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the northeast coast of Brazil. Zootaxa 3889(1): 127–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.1.8 Reference page.
Santos, A.S. dos, Brasil, A.C. dos S. & Christoffersen, M.L. 2014. Sabellaria and Lygdamis (Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from reefs off northeastern Brazil including a new species of Sabellaria. Zootaxa 3881(2): 125–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.2.2 Reference page.

Assis, J.E. de, Brito, R.J. de, Christoffersen, M.L. & Souza, J.R.B. de 2015. A catalogue of the scaleworm genus Lepidonotus (Polynoidae, Polychaeta) from South America, with two new records for Brazilian waters. Zookeys, 533: 63–98. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.533.6184 Full article Reference page.
Gondim, A.I., Dias, T.L.P., Christoffersen, M.L. & Stöhr, S. 2015: Redescription of Hemieuryale pustulata von Martens, 1867 (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) based on Brazilian specimens, with notes on systematics and habitat association. Zootaxa 3925(3): 341–360. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.3.2. Reference page.
Lucena, R.A., Araújo, J.P. de & Christoffersen, M.L. 2015. A new species of Anoplodactylus (Pycnogonida: Phoxichilidiidae) from Brazil, with a case of gynandromorphism in Anoplodactylus eroticus Stock, 1968. Zootaxa 4000(4): 428–444. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.4.2 Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Gondim, A.I., Christoffersen, M.L., Dias, T.L.P. & Solis-Marin, F.A. 2016. Taxonomic status of the genera Amphipholizona H.L. Clark, 1915 (Ophiuroidea, Ophiolepididae) and Amphigyptis Nielsen, 1932 (Hemieuryalidae): systematic placement and synonymy. Zootaxa 4097(3): 381–395. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.6.Reference page.
Lima S.F.B. & Christoffersen M.L. 2016. Redescription and designation of a neotype for Caecum floridanum (Littorinimorpha, Truncatelloidea, Caecidae) with a characterization of the protoconch and growth stages. ZooKeys 585: 17–31, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.585.7646. Reference page.
Prata, J. & Christoffersen, M.L. 2016. A new species of Pentamera Ayres, 1852 from the Brazilian coast (Holothuroidea, Dendrochirotida, Phyllophoridae). ZooKeys 634: 1–14. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.634.9769. Reference page.

Grangeiro, D.C., Souza, L.A. & Christoffersen, M.L. 2017. New species of Xiphoniscus and new record of Androdeloscia escalonai (Isopoda, Scutocoxifera, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Brazilian Amazon. Zootaxa 4350(2): 374–384. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.11. Reference page.
Prata, J., Borges, M., Manso, C.L.C. & Christoffersen, M.L. 2017. Taxonomic status of Protankyra ramiurna and Protankyra benedeni (Holothuroidea: Apodida: Synaptidae). Zootaxa 4324(3): 518–528. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.3.6. Reference page.

Gondim, A.I., de Moura, R.B., Christoffersen, M.L. & Dias, T.L.P. 2018. Taxonomic guide and historical review of echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4529(1): 1–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4529.1.1 Reference page.
Lucena, R.A. & Christoffersen, M.L. 2018. An annotated checklist of Brazilian sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida). Zootaxa 4370(2): 101–122. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.2.1 Reference page.

Prata, J., Manso, C.L.C. & Christoffersen, M.L. 2020. Dendrochirotida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the northeastern coast of Brazil. Zootaxa 4755(3): 401–453. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.3.1 Reference page.

Lucena, R.A., Christoffersen, M.L. 2022. Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from Museu de Ciências Naturais, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 98(2): 305–312. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.83671 Reference page.