Mercer R. Brugler

Mercer R. Brugler, cnidariologist.

Department of Natural Sciences, University of South Carolina Beaufort, 801 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, 29902, USA.
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024, USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Daly, M., Brugler, M.R., Cartwright, P., Collins, A.G., Dawson, M.N., Fautin, D.G., France, S.C., McFadden, C.S., Opresko, D.M., Rodriguez, E., Romano, S.L. & Stake, J.L. 2007. The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Pp. 127–182. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W. A. (eds.) Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy. Zootaxa 1668: 1–766. PDF Full text. Reference page.

MacIsaac, K.G., Best, M., Brugler, M.R., Kenchington, E.L.R., Anstey, L.J. & Jordan, T. 2013. Telopathes magna gen. nov., spec. nov. (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia: Schizopathidae) from deep waters off Atlantic Canada and the first molecular phylogeny of the deep-sea family Schizopathidae. Zootaxa 3700(2): 237–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.2.3 PDF. Reference page.

Rodríguez, E., Barbeitos, M.S., Brugler, M.R., Crowley, L.M., Grajales, A., Gusmão, L., Häussermann, V., Reft, A. & Daly, M. 2014. Hidden among Sea Anemones: The First Comprehensive Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Order Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) Reveals a Novel Group of Hexacorals. PLoS ONE 9(5): e96998. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096998 Reference page.

Horowitz, J., Brugler, M.R., Bridge, T.C.L. & Cowman, P.F. 2020. Morphological and molecular description of a new genus and species of black coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia: Antipathidae: Blastopathes) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4821(3): 553–569. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.3.7 Reference page.

Cruz, B.A., Cappelmann, A., Chutjian, H., Roman, J.C., Reid, M.A., Wright, J., Gonzalez, A.D., Keyman, T., Griffith, K.M., Appiah-Madson, H-J., Distel, D.L., Hayes, V.E., Drewery, J., Pettay, D.T., Staton, J.L. & Brugler, M.R. 2024. Complete mitochondrial genomes of the black corals Alternatipathes mirabilis Opresko & Molodtsova, 2021 and Parantipathes larix (Esper, 1788) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia, Antipatharia, Schizopathidae). ZooKeys 1196: 79–93. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1196.116837 Reference page.