Allen G. Collins

Allen Gilbert Collins, U.S. marine biologist (Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa, Porifera)

• NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
• National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA’s Fisheries Service, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 23 taxon names authored by Allen G. Collins

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1995

• Waggoner, B.M. & Collins, A.G. 1995. A new chondrophorine (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Cadiz Formation (Middle Cambrian) of California. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 69: 7–17. DOI: 10.1007/BF02985970 .

2000

• Collins, A.G. 2000. Towards understanding the phylogenetic history of Hydrozoa: Hypothesis testing with 18S gene sequence data. In: Mills, C.E., Boero, F., Migotto, A. & Gili, J.M. (eds.) Trends in Hydrozoan Biology - IV. Scientia Marina 64(Suppl. 1): 5–22. DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2000.64s15 .

2001

• Medina, M., Collins, A.G., Silberman, J.D. & Sogin, M.L. 2001. Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA. PNAS 98(17): 9707–9712. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.171316998 . JSTOR PubMed Reference page. 

2004

• Marques, A.C. & Collins, A.G. 2004. Cladistic analysis of Medusozoa and cnidarian evolution. Invertebrate Biology 123(1): 23–42. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2004.tb00139.x . Reference page. 
• Voigt, O., Collins, A.G., Pearse, V.B., Pearse, J.S., Ender, A., Hadrys, H. & Schierwater, B. 2004. Placozoa – no longer a phylum of one. Current Biology 14(22): R944-R945. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.10.036 . hdl: 10088/6257 . Reference page. 

2006

• Van Iten, H., Leme, J.M., Simões, M.G., Marques, A.C. & Collins, A.G. 2006. Reassessment of the phylogenetic position of conulariids (?Ediacaran‐Triassic) within the subphylum Medusozoa (phylum Cnidaria). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(2): 109–118. DOI: 10.1017/S1477201905001793 . Reference page. 

2007

• 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. 

2008

• Dohrmann, M., Janusse, D., Reitner, J., Collins, A.G. & Wörheide, G. 2008. Phylogeny and evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida). Systematic Biology 57(3): 388–405. DOI: 10.1080/10635150802161088 Reference page. 

2009

• Dohrmann, M., Collins, A.G. & Wörheide, G. 2009. New insights into the phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): monophyly of Lyssacinosida and Euplectellinae, and the phylogenetic position of Euretidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52(1): 257–262. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.01.010 Reference page. 

2010

• Kahn, A.S., Matsumoto, G.I., Hirano, Y.M. & Collins, A.G. 2010. Haliclystus californiensis, a “new” species of stauromedusa (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) from the northeast Pacific, with a key to the species of Haliclystus. Zootaxa 2518: 49–59. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2518.1.3 Reference page. 

2011

• Collins, A.G., Bentlage, B., Gillan, W., Lynn, T.H., Morandini, A.C. & Marques, A.C. 2011. Naming the Bonaire banded box jelly, Tamoya ohboya, n. sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida: Tamoyidae). Zootaxa 2753: 53–68. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2753.1.3 Reference page. 

2013

• Redmond, N.E., Morrow, C.C., Thacker, R.W., Díaz, M.C., Boury-Esnault, N., Cárdenas, P., Hajdu, E., Lôbo-Hajdu, G., Picton, B.E., Pomponi, S.A., Kayal, E. & Collins, A.G. 2013. Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(3): 388–415. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict078 Reference page. 

2015

• Díaz, M.C., Thacker, R.W., Redmond, N.E., Pérez, T. & Collins, A.G. 2015. Vansoestia caribensis gen. nov., sp. nov.: first report of the family Ianthellidae (Verongida, Demospongiae) in the Caribbean. Zootaxa 3956(3): 403–412. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.3.5. Preview (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

• Pyataeva, S.V., Hopcroft, R.R., Lindsay, D.J. & Collins, A.G. 2016. DNA barcodes unite two problematic taxa: the meiobenthic Boreohydra simplex is a life-cycle stage of Plotocnide borealis (Hydrozoa: Aplanulata). Zootaxa 4150(1): 85–92. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.1.5. Reference page. 

2017

• Miranda, L.S., Branch, G.M., Collins, A.G., Hirano, Y.M., Marques, A.C. & Griffiths, C.L. 2017. Stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) of South Africa, with the description of Calvadosia lewisi sp. nov. Zootaxa 4227(3): 369–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.5.Reference page. 
• Lindsay D.J., Grossmann M.M., Bentlage B., Collins A.G., Minemizu R., Hopcroft R.R., Miyake H., Hidaka-Umetsu M. & Nishikawa J., 2017. The perils of online biogeographic databases: a case study with the ‘monospecific’ genus Aegina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Narcomedusae). Marine Biology Research. 13(5): 494-512. DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2016.1268261. Reference page. 

2020

• Castello-Branco, C., Collins, A.G. & Hajdu, E. 2020. A collection of hexactinellids (Porifera) from the deep South Atlantic and North Pacific: new genus, new species and new records. PeerJ 8: e9431 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9431 Reference page. 
• Ford M., Bezio N. & Collins A.G., 2020. Duobrachium sparksae (incertae sedis Ctenophora Tentaculata Cydippida): A new genus and species of benthopelagic ctenophore seen at 3,910 m depth off the coast of Puerto Rico. Plankton and Benthos Research. 15(4); 296-305. DOI: 10.3800/pbr.15.296. Reference page. 

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