Merrick G. Ekins

Merrick G. Ekins, Australian spongiologist.

• Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 37 taxon names authored by Merrick G. Ekins

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2014

• Hall, K.A., Ekins, M.G. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2014. Two new desma-less species of Theonella Gray, 1868 (Demospongiae: Astrophorida: Theonellidae), from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and a re-evaluation of one species assigned previously to Dercitus Gray, 1867. Zootaxa 3814(4): 451–477. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.1 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. 

2018

• Ekins, M.G., Debitus, C., Erpenbeck, D. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2018. A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 4410(2): 379–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.7 Reference page. 

2019

• Sorokin, S.J., Ekins, M.G., Yang, Q. & Cárdenas, P. 2019. A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny. European Journal of Taxonomy 529: 1–26. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.529 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

• Ekins, M.G., Horowitz, J., Beaman, R.J. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2021. A new carnivorous sponge (Porifera) from the Coral Sea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 62: 205–215. DOI: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.62.2021.2020-06 Reference page. 

2023

• Ekins, M. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2023. New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR. Zootaxa 5293(3): 435–471. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2 Reference page.