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Research Articles

2023

  • Herranz, M., Moreleon, A.D., Rho, Y.S., Sørensen, M.V. (2023). Expanding the Echinoderes coulli group (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) with a new species from the Chuuk Islands, Micronesia. Zoologischer Anzeiger 302: 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2022.11.010

  • Anguas-Escalante, A., Herranz, M., Martínez-Arce, A., De Jesús-Navarrete, A., Sørensen, M.V. (2023). New Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from Mexico: Molecular barcoding demonstrate species delimitation between highly similar morphospecies. Zoologischer Anzeiger 302:146-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2022.12.001

  • González-Casarrubios, A., Cepeda, D., Pardos, F., Neuhaus, B., Yamasaki, H., Herranz, M., et al. (2023). Towards a standardisation of morphological measurements in the phylum Kinorhyncha. Zoologischer Anzeiger. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2022.11.015

2022

  • Holt, C.C., Boscaro, V., Van Steenkiste N.W.L., Herranz, M., et al. (2022). Microscopic marine invertebrates are reservoirs for cryptic and diverse protists and fungi. Microbiome 10, 161. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01363-3

  • Sørensen, M.V., Grzelak, K., Kristensen, R., Herranz, M. (2022). ­First account on Loricifera from New Zealand: A new species of Pliciloricus, and a Shira larva with postlarva representing the new genus and species Patuloricus tangaroa gen. et sp. nov.) Zoologischer Anzeiger 299:207-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2022.06.004  

  • Sørensen M.V., Herranz, M. (2022). Adult moulting and dimorphism in a new species of Sphenoderes (Kinorhyncha: Kentrorhagata)—Is the exception becoming the rule? Acta Zoologica, 00:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/azo.12361

  • Boscaro, V., Holt, C.C., Van Steenkiste N.W.L., Herranz, M., et al. (2022). Microbiomes of microscopic marine invertebrates do not reveal signatures of phylosymbiosis. Nature microbiology 7, 810-819. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01125-9  

  • Herranz, M., Stiller, J., Worsaae K., Sørensen, M.V. (2022). Phylogenomic analyses of mud dragons. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 168, 107375 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107375

2021

  • Sørensen, M.V., Herranz, M., Pardos F., Durucan, F. (2021). Kinorhynchs from sandy coastal habitats in Turkey, with the description of a new pan-Mediterranean species of Echinoderes (Cyclorhagida: Echinoderidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-2108-20

  • Herranz, M., Park, T., Di Domenico, M. et al. (2021). Revisiting kinorhynch segmentation: variation of segmental patterns in the nervous system of three aberrant species. Frontiers in Zoology 18, 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-021-00438-5

  • Angel, P., Herranz, M., & Leander, B. S. (2021). Insights into the Morphology of Haplozoan Parasites (Dinoflagellata) using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy. The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 68(4), [e12855]. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12855

  • Herranz, M., Worsaae, K., Park, T., Leander B.S., Sørensen M.V. (2021) Myoanatomy of three aberrant kinorhynch species: similar but different? Zoomorphology 140, 193–215. Read-only full content in: https://rdcu.be/cfVsE. [Postprint] The final authenticated version is available on-line at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00435-021-00519-3

2020

  • Sørensen, M. V., Goetz, F. E., Herranz, M., Chang, C. Y., Chatterjee, T., Durucan, F., Neves, R. C., Yildiz, N. Özlem, Norenburg, J., & Yamasaki, H. (2020). Description, redescription and revision of sixteen putatively closely related species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida), with the proposition of a new species group – the Echinoderes dujardinii group. European Journal of Taxonomy, 730(1), 1–101. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.730.1197

  • Herranz, M., Sørensen M.V., Park, T., Leander B.S., Worsaae, K. (2020). Insights into mud dragon morphology (Kinorhyncha, Allomalorhagida): myoanatomy and neuroanatomy of Dracoderes abei and Pycnophyes ilyocryptus. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. Read-only full content in: https://rdcu.be/cfVuA. [Postprint] The final authenticated version is available on-line at: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13127-020-00447-y.pdf

  • Yamasaki, H., Herranz, M., Sørensen, M.V. (2020). An interactive identification key to species of Echinoderidae (Kinorhyncha). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 287 14-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2020.05.002

2019

  • Herranz, M., Leander B. S., Pardos F., Boyle M. J. (2019). Neuroanatomy of Mud dragons: a comprehensive view of the nervous system in Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha) by confocal laser scanning microscopy. BMC evolutionary Biology 19: 86. https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-019-1405-4

  • Herranz, M., Di Domenico, M., Sørensen M.V., Leander B.S. (2019). The enigmatic kinorhynch Cateria styx Gerlach, 1956 - A sticky son of a beach. Zoologischer Anzeiger 282: 10-30. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044523119300671

  • Van Steenkiste N.W.L., Stephenson I., Herranz, M., Husnik F., Keeling P.J., Leander B.S. (2019). A new case of kleptoplasty in animals: marine flatworms steal functional plastids from diatoms. Science Advances 5: 3. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4337

  • Gavelis, G.S., Herranz, M., Wakeman, K.C. et al (2019). Dinoflagellate nucleus contains an extensive endomembrane network, the nuclear net. Scientific Reports 9, 839. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37065-w

  • Del Campo, J., Pons, M.J., Herranz, M., Wakeman, K.C., Del Valle. J; Vermeij, M. J. A., Leander B. S., Keeling P. J. (2019). Validation of a universal set of primers to study animal‐associated microeukaryotic communities. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14733

  • Randsø, P.V., Yamasaki, H., Bownes S. J., Herranz, M., Di Domenico M., Qii G. B., Sørensen M.V. (2019). Phylogeny of the Echinoderes coulli-group (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida: Echinoderidae) – a cosmopolitan species group trapped in the intertidal. Invertebrate Systematics 33(3) 501-517 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS18069

2018

  • Randsø, P.V., Di Domenico M., Herranz, M., Lorenzen E.D., Sørensen M.V. (2018). Population genetic structure of the intertidal kinorhynch Echinoderes marthae (Kinorhyncha; Cyclorhagida; Echinoderidae) across the São Sebastião Channel, Brazil. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 131(1):36-46. https://doi.org/10.2988/17-00005

2017

  • Herranz, M., Yangel E. & Leander B.S (2017). Echinoderes hakaiensis sp. nov.: a new mud dragon (Kinorhyncha, Echinoderidae) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean with the redescription of Echinoderes pennaki Higgins, 1960. Marine Biodiversity. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-017-0726-z

  • Gavelis G.S., Wakeman K.C., Tillmann U, Ripken C, Mitarai S, Herranz, M., Özbek S, Holstein T, Keeling P.J. & Leander B.S (2017). Microbial arms race: Ballistic “nematocysts” in dinoflagellates represent a new extreme in organelle complexity. Science Advances 3, 3. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/3/e1602552

2016

2015

  • Sørensen, M.V., Dal Zotto, M., Rho H. S., Herranz, M., Sánchez N., Pardos F & Yamasaki H. (2015). Towards a phylogeny of Kinorhyncha, based on morphology and two molecular loci. Journal: PLoS ONE 10 (7): e0133440. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133440

2014

2013

  • Herranz, M., Pardos, F., & Boyle, M (2013). Comparative morphology of serotonergic‐like immunoreactive elements in the central nervous system of kinorhynchs (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida). Journal of Morphology, 274: 258–274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2013.09.005

  • Herranz, M. & Pardos, F. (2013). Fissuroderes sorenseni sp. nov. and Meristoderes boylei sp. nov.: First Atlantic recording of two rare kinorhynch genera, with new identification keys. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 253(2), 93–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2013.09.005

2012

  • Herranz, M., Thormar, J., Benito, J., Sánchez, N., & Pardos, F (2012). Meristoderes gen. nov., a new kinorhynch genus, with the description of two new species and their implications for echinoderid phylogeny (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida, Echinoderidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 251(3), 161-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2011.08.004

  • Sørensen, M.V., Herranz, M., Rho, H. S., Min, W., Yamasaki, H., Sánchez, N., & Pardos, F (2012). On the genus Dracoderes Higgins & Shirayama, (1990) (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) with a redescription of its type species, and a description of a new species from Spain. Marine Biology Research, 8(3), 210–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2011.615328

  • Herranz, M., Sánchez, N., Benito, J., & Pardos, F (2012). Kinorhyncha from the Iberian Peninsula: new data from the first intensive sampling campaigns. Zootaxa 3402: 24-44. https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/13864

2011

  • Sánchez, N., Pardos, F., Herranz, M., & Benito, J (2011). Pycnophyes dolichurus sp. nov. and P. aulacodes sp. nov. (Kinorhyncha, Homalorhagida, Pycnophyidae), two new kinorhynchs from Spain with a reevaluation of homalorhagid taxonomic characters. Helgoland Marine Research, 65(3), 319-334. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10152-010-0226-z

2010