Matjaž Kuntner

Matjaž Kuntner, Slovenian arachnologist.

• Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana.
• National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana.

Matjaž Kuntner

Taxon names authored

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• 42 taxon names authored by Matjaž Kuntner

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2006

• Kuntner, M. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of the Gondwanan nephilid spider lineage Clitaetrinae (Araneae, Nephilidae). Zoologica Scripta 35(1): 19-62. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00220.x. . Reference page. 

2008

• Kuntner, M., Coddington, J.A. & Hormiga, G. 2008. Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24: 190. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x Reference page. 

2009

• Kuntner, M.; Coddington, J.A. 2009: Discovery of the largest orbweaving spider species: the evolution of gigantism in Nephila. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7516. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007516 Reference page. 

2011

• Blackledge, T. A., Kuntner, M. & Agnarsson, I. 2011: The form and function of spider orb webs: evolution from silk to ecosystems. Advances in Insect Physiology 41: 175–262.
• Gregorič, M., Agnarsson, I., Blackledge, T. A. & Kuntner, M. 2011. How did the spider cross the river? Behavioral adaptations for river-bridging webs in Caerostris darwini (Araneae: Araneidae). PLoS ONE 6(10): e26847.
• Gregorič, M., Agnarsson, I., Blackledge, T. A. & Kuntner, M. 2011. Darwin’s bark spider: Giant prey in giant orb webs (Caerostris darwini, Araneae: Araneidae)? Journal of Arachnology 39: 287–295.
• Higgins, L., Coddington, J. A., Goodnight, C. & Kuntner, M. 2011. Testing ecological and developmental hypotheses of mean and variation in adult size in nephilid orb-weaving spiders. Evolutionary Ecology, 25: 1289–1306.
• Kralj-Fišer, S., Gregorič, M., Zhang, S., Li, D. & Kuntner, M. 2011. Eunuchs are better fighters. Animal Behaviour 81: 933–939.
• Kuntner, M. & Agnarsson, I. 2011. Phylogeography of a successful aerial disperser: the golden orb spider Nephila on Indian Ocean islands. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 119.
• Kuntner, M. & Agnarsson, I. 2011. Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 477–488. PDF
• Kuntner, M., May-Collado, L. J. & Agnarsson, I. 2011. Phylogeny and conservation priorities of afrotherian mammals (Afrotheria, Mammalia). Zoologica Scripta 40: 1–15.
• Luštrik, R., Turjak, M., Kralj-Fišer, S. & Fišer, C. 2011. Coexistence of surface and cave amphipods in an ecotone environment (spring area). Contributions to Zoology 80: 133–141.
• Pruitt, J. N., DiRienzo, N., Kralj-Fišer, S., Johnson, J. C. & Sih A. 2011. Individual- and condition-dependent effects on habitat choice and choosiness. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. doi: 10.1007/s00265-011-1208-0 PDF
• Su, Y.-C., Chang, Y.-H., Smith, D., Zhu, M.-S., Kuntner, M. & Tso, I.-M. 2011. Biogeography and speciation patterns of the golden orb spider genus Nephila in Asia (Araneae: Nephilidae). Zoological Science 28: 47–55.
• Valentincic, T., Miklavc, P., Kralj, S. & Zgonik, V. 2011. Olfactory discrimination of complex mixtures of amino acids by the black bullhead Ameiurus melas. Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.02976.x
• Zhang, S., Kuntner, M. & Li, D. 2011. Mate binding: male adaptation to sexual conflict in the golden orb-web spider (Nephilidae: Nephila pilipes). Animal Behaviour 82: 1299–1304.

2012

• Agnarsson, I. & Kuntner, M. 2012. The generation of a biodiversity hotspot: Biogeography and phylogeography of the western Indian ocean islands. In Kesara Anamthawat-Jonsson (Ed.): Current Topics in Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems. Rijeka: In Tech Publishers, pp. 33-82. ISBN 978-953-51-0217-5.
• Agnarsson, I., Kuntner, M. & Blackledge, T. A. 2012. Darwin’s Bark Spider. Pp. 52-54 in: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York.
• Blackledge T. A., Kuntner M., Marhabaie M., Leeper M. T. & Agnarsson I. 2012. Biomaterial evolution parallels behavioral innovation in the origin of orb-like spider webs. Scientific Reports 2: 833.
• Coddington, J., Kuntner, M. & Opell, B. D. 2012. Systematics of the spider family deinopidae with a revision of the genus Menneus. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 636: 1–61.
• Kralj-Fišer, S. & Kuntner, M. 2012. Eunuchs as better fighters? Naturwissenschaften 99:95–101.
• Kralj-Fišer, S. & Schneider, J. M. 2012 Individual behavioural consistency and plasticity in an urban spider. Animal Behaviour 84: 197–204. PDF (online)
• Kralj-Fišer, S., Schneider, J., Justinek, Ž., Kalin, S., Gregorič, M., Pekár, S. & Kuntner, M. 2012. Mate quality, not aggressive spillover, explains sexual cannibalism in a size dimorphic spider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 145–151.
• Kuntner, M., Gregorič, M., Zhang, S., Kralj-Fišer, S. & Li, D. 2012. Mating plugs in polyandrous giants: Which sex produces them when how and why? PLoS ONE 7(7): e40939.
• Kuntner, M., Zhang, S., Gregorič, M. & Li, D. 2012. Nephila female gigantism attained through post-maturity molting. Journal of Arachnology 40:345–347.
• Lee, Q., Oh, J., Kralj-Fišer, S., Kuntner, M. & Li, D. 2012. Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance. Biology letters doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0285
• Li, D., Oh, J., Kralj-Fišer, S. & Kuntner M. 2012. Remote copulation: male adaptation to female cannibalism. Biology letters 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1202
• Năpăruş, M. & Kuntner, M. 2012. A GIS model predicting potential distributions of a lineage: a test case on Hermit spiders (Nephilidae: Nephilengys). PLoS ONE 7(1): e30047.

2013

• Čandek, K., Gregorič, M., Kostanjšek, R., Frick, H., Kropf, C. & Kuntner, M. 2013. Targeting a portion of central European spider diversity for permanent preservation. Biodiversity data journal, 1: e980. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e980 Reference page. 

2015

• Agnarsson, I., Jencik, B.B., Veve, G.M., Hanitriniaina, S., Angostini, D., Goh, S.P., Pruitt, J. & Kuntner, M. 2015: Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas. Zookeys, 509: 13–52. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.509.8897 Full article view Reference page. 
• Čandek, K., Gregorič, M., Kostanjšek, R., Frick, H., Kropf, C. & Kuntner, M. 2015. Corrigendum: Targeting a portion of central European spider diversity for permanent preservation. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4301. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4301. Reference page. 
• Kostanjšek, R. & Kuntner, M. 2015. Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1–91. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.474.8474 . Reference page. 
• Xu, X., Liu, F.X., Chen, J., Ono, H., Li, D.Q. & Kuntner, M. 2015d. A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 488: 121-151. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.488.8726. . Reference page. 
• Xu, X., Liu, F.X., Chen, J., Li, D.Q. & Kuntner, M. 2015f. Integrative taxonomy of the primitively segmented spider genus Ganthela (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae): DNA barcoding gap agrees with morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2): 288-306. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12280. . Reference page. 

2016

• Agnarsson, I., LeQuier, S.M., Kuntner, M., Cheng, R-C., Coddington, J.A. & Binford, G. 2016. Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba. ZooKeys 625: 25–44. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.625.8729. Reference page. 

2017

• Xu, X., Liu, F-X., Kuntner, M. & Li, D-Q. 2017. Four new species of the primitive segmented spider genus Qiongthela from Hainan island, China (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 714: 1—11. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.714.19858. . Reference page. 

2018

• Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V., Fatemi, Y., Malek-Hosseini, M.J. & Kuntner, M. 2018. A new species of Stenasellus Dollfus, 1897 from Iran, with a key to the western Asian species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Stenasellidae). ZooKeys 766: 39–50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.766.23239. Reference page. 

2019

• Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C.A., Cheng, R.C., Gregorič, M., Lupše, N., Lokovšek, T., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J.A. & Bond, J.E. 2019. Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68(4): 555-572. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syy082. . Reference page. 
• Xu, X., Ono, H., Kuntner, M., Liu, F.X. & Li, D.Q. 2019. A taxonomic monograph of the liphistiid spider genus Heptathela, endemic to Japanese islands. ZooKeys 888: 1-50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.888.34494 . Reference page. 

2021

• Malek-Hosseini, M.J., Muilwijk, J., Gregorič, M., Kuntner, M. & Čandek, K. 2021. First insights into the origin of Iranian cave beetle diversity with description of two new species of the genus Duvalius (Carabidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59(6): 1453-1469. Reference page. 

2022

• Framenau, V.W. & Kuntner, M. 2022. The new Australian leaf-curling orb-weaving spider genus Leviana (Araneae, Araneidae). Evolutionary Systematics 6: 103–133. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.6.83573. . Reference page. 
• Malek-Hosseini, M.J., Jugovic, J., Fatemi, Y., Kuntner, M., Kostanjšek, R., Douady, C.J., Malard, F. 2022. A new obligate groundwater species of Asellus (Isopoda, Asellidae) from Iran. Subterranean Biology. 42: 97–124. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.42.79447 Reference page. 

2023

• Yu, K.P., Lo, Y.Y., Cheng, R.C., Raven, R.J. & Kuntner, M. 2023. Discovery of a new intertidal trapdoor spider of the genus Idioctis (Araneae: Barychelidae), with a generic range extension to Taiwan. The Journal of Arachnology 51(2): 238-248. . Reference page.