2025

Botany

Perlmutter G.B. and Westberg M. (2025) The Identity of Caloplaca quercicola. Evansia, 42(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1639/0747-9859-42.1.1

Westberg, M. (2025) Fennoskandiska knagglavar, Thalloidima. Achariana, 6.0.0..

Westberg, M., Isaksson, R. & Frisch, A. (2025) Two new lichenicolous Arthonia species from Scandinavia. Phytotaxa682 (1): 68–80. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.1.4

Paleontology

Sachs S., Madzia D., Marx M., Roberts A.J., Hampe O. and Kear B.P. (in press) The osteology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic placement of Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris (Plesiosauroidea, Microcleididae) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany. The Anatomical Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25620

Meyerkort R.D., Kear B.P., Everhart M.J. and Siversson M. (2025) Youngest fossil occurrence of ichthyosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere. Cretaceous Research, 168, 106071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106071

Marx M., Sjövall P., Kear B.P., Jarenmark M., Eriksson M.E., Sachs S., Nilkens K., Op De Beeck M. and Lindgren J. (2025) Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur. Current Biology, 35(5), 1113-1120.e1113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.001

Marx M., Sachs S., Kear B.P., Eriksson M.E., Nilkens K. and Lindgren J. (2025) A new specimen of Plesiopterys wildi reveals the diversification of cryptoclidian precursors and possible endemism within European Early Jurassic plesiosaur assemblages. PeerJ, 13, e18960. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18960

Cowen M.B., de Rafélis M., Ségalen L., Kear B.P., Dumont M. and Žigaitė Ž. (2025) Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains. PeerJ, 13, e18763. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18763

Zoology

Pereira R., Larsson M., Cárdenas P. and Thollesson M. (2025) Swedish marine demosponge fauna (Porifera: Demospongiae) sampled 80 years after Jägerskiöld’s inventory. European Journal of Taxonomy, 983, 1–64. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.983.2835

Cárdenas P. and Meister M. (in press) The Schmidt collection of envelopes in the Musée Zoologique of Strasbourg, France. Journal of the History of Collections.

2024

Botany

Vondrák, J., Svoboda, S., Malíček, J. Šoun, J.,  Košnar, J., Svensson, M., Timdal, E., Machač, J. & Palice, Z. 2024. Combining environmental DNA data and taxonomic surveys provides an unprecedented understanding of lichen diversity and accelerates the discovery of new species. Preslia 96: 351–417.

Kantelinen, A., Svensson, M., Malíček, J., Vondrák, J., Thor, G., Palice, Z., Svoboda, S. & Myllys, L. 2024. A phylogenetic study of Micarea melaeniza and similar-looking species (Pilocarpaceae) unveils hidden diversity and clarifies species boundaries and reproduction modes. MycoKeys 106: 327–354.

Jung, P., Briegel-Williams, L., Büdel, B., … Westberg, M., … et al. (23 authors). (2024) The underestimated fraction: diversity, challenges and novel insights into unicellular cyanobionts of lichens. ISME Communications 4(1): ycae069.

Olofsson J.K., Tyler T., Dunning L.T., Hjertson M., Rühling Å. and Hansen A.J. (2024) Morphological and genetic evidence suggest gene flow among native and naturalized mint species. American Journal of Botany, 111(2), e16280.

Svensson, M., Ekman, S., Arup, U., Eide Ekman, L., Hammarström, O., Isaksson, R., Jonsson, F., Palice, Z., Vicente, R. & Westberg, M. 2024. Further additions to the Swedish flora of lichenised fungi. Graphis Scripta 36: 15–49

Vicente, R., Westberg, M., Isaksson, R., Anderberg, R., Frisch, A., Hammarström, O., Hansson, J., Jonsson, F. & Svensson. M. 2024. Additions to the flora of lichenicolous fungi of Sweden II. Graphis Scripta 36: 123–147

Westberg, M. Wedin, M. & Svensson, M. 2024. Myriospora molybdina comb. nov. and the identity of Acarospora hysgina. Nordic Journal of Botany 2024: e04269, 11pp.

Wheeler, T., McCarthy, J., Owe-Larsson, B. & Fryday, A. 2024. Taxonomic innovations in Megasporaceae (lichenized Ascomycota, Pertusariales): Antidea, a new genus for Aspicilia brucei; two new species of Aspicilia, and new combinations in Aspilidea and Lobothallia. Lichenologist 56: 273–286.

Zoology

Díaz J.A., Ordines F., Massutí E. and Cárdenas P. (2024) From caves to seamounts: the hidden diversity of tetractinellid sponges from the Balearic Islands, with the description of eight new species. PeerJ, 12:e16584. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16584

Quicke D.L.J., Van Noort S., Ranjith A.P., Friedman A.L.L., Mejlon H. and Butcher B.A. (2024) Revision of Trigastrotheca Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) with descriptions of 13 new species. ZooKeys, 1205, 115-167. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1205.125014

Gallego R., Arias M.B., Corral-Lou A., Díez-Vives C., Neave E.F., Wang C., Cárdenas P., Steffen K., Taboada S., Villamor A., Kenchington E., Mariani S. and Riesgo A. (2024) North Atlantic deep-sea benthic biodiversity unveiled through sponge natural sampler DNA. Communications Biology, 7(1), 1015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06695-4

Santodomingo N., Díez-Vives C., Kenny N.J., Cárdenas P., Balcells L., Moles J., Zea S., Giribet G., Lanna E., Gracia-Sancha C. and Riesgo A. (2024) Integrative taxonomy of Tethya: description of four new species based on morphology, phylogeny and microbiome diversity. Systematics and Biodiversity, 22(1), 2383341. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2024.2383341

Paleontology

Agić, H., Jensen, S., Meinhold, G., Högström, A. E., Ebbestad, J. O. R., Høyberget, M., Palacios, T., & Taylor, W. L., 2024: Life through an Ediacaran glaciation: Shale-and diamictite-hosted organic-walled microfossil assemblages from the late Neoproterozoic of the Tanafjorden area, northern Norway. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 635, 11195.

Alhalabi W.A., Bardet N., Sachs S., Kear B., Joude I., Yazbek M., Godoy P. and Langer M. (2024) Recovering lost time in Syria: New Late Cretaceous (Coniacian- Santonian) elasmosaurid remains from the Palmyrides mountain chain. Cretaceous Research, 159.

Goswami, V., Hannah, J. L., Stein, H. J., Ahlberg, P., Maletz, J., Lundberg, F., & Ebbestad, J. O. R. (2024). Re-Os geochronology and geochemical evolution of late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician Alum and Tøyen shales, Sweden. Global and Planetary Change242, 104580.

Johnston, P. A., Collom, C. J., & Ebbestad, J. O. R., 2024: Morphology and systematic position of Shaninopsis Isberg, 1934 (Bivalvia: Cryptodonta), from the Boda Limestone (Upper Ordovician), Sweden. Journal of Molluscan Studies 90(4), eyae054.

Kear B. (2024) Australasian mammals make the Australian Fossil National Species List. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 1-3.

Kear B., Roberts A., Young G., Terezow M., Mantle D., Barros I. and Hurum J. (2024) Oldest southern sauropterygian reveals early marine reptile globalization. Current Biology, 34, R562-R563.

Meyerkort R., Kear B., Everhart M. and Siversson M. (2024) Youngest fossil occurrence of ichthyosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere. Cretaceous Research, 168, 106071.

Vajda V. and Kear B. (2024) An earliest Triassic riparian ecosystem from the Bulgo Sandstone (Sydney Basin), Australia: palynofloral evidence of a high-latitude terrestrial vertebrate habitat after the end-Permian mass extinction. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 48, 483-494.

Weidner, T., Nielsen, A. T., & Ebbestad, J.O.R., 2024: Tomagnostella tullbergi n. sp. (Agnostidae) from the middle Cambrian Lejopyge laevigata Zone of Scandinavia. Bulletin Of The Geological Society Of Denmark 73, 193-198.