Claus Nielsen

Claus Nielsen (1938–2024), Danish marine biologist.

Biosystematics, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Taxon names authored

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2 taxon names authored by Claus Nielsen

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1960s

Nielsen, C. & Ryland, J.S. 1961. Three new species of Entoprocta from West Norway. Sarsia 1(1): 39–45. DOI: 10.1080/00364827.1961.10410243 .
Nielsen, C. 1964. Entoprocta from the Bergen area. Sarsia 17(1): DOI: 10.1080/00364827.1964.10409535 .
Nielsen, C. 1964. Studies on Danish Entoprocta. Ophelia 1(1): 1–76. DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1964.10416272 .
Nielsen, C. 1965. Four New Species of Pogonophora from the Atlantic Ocean off Southern Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science 15(4): 964–986. Online.
Nielsen, C. 1966. Some Loxosomatidae (Entoprocta) from the Atlantic coast of the United States. Ophelia 3(1): 249–275. DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1966.10409645 Reference page.

1970s

Nielsen, C. 1971. Entoproct life-cycles and the entoproct/ectoproct relationship. Ophelia 9(2): 209–341. DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1971.10430095 .

1980s

Nielsen, C. 1985. Animal phylogeny in the light of the trochaea theory. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 25(3): 243–299. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1985.tb00396.x .

1990s

Nielsen, C. 1995. Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854868-0. Reference page.
Nielsen, C., Scharff, N. & Eibye-Jacobsen, D. 1996. Cladistic analyses of the animal kingdom. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 57(4): 385–410. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb01857.x .

2000s

Nielsen, C. 2001. Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla (2nd edition). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850682-1, ISBN 978-0-19-850682-9. Reference page.
Nielsen, C. & Meier, R. 2002. What cell lineages tell us about the evolution of Spiralia remains to be seen. Evolution 56(12): 2554–2557. DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00181.x .
Bourlat, S.J., Nielsen, C., Lockyer, A.E., Littlewood, D.T.J. & Telford, M.J. 2003. Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs. Nature 424(6951): 925–928. DOI: 10.1038/nature01851 . Reference page.
Nielsen, C. 2003. Proposing a solution to the Articulata–Ecdysozoa controversy. Zoologica Scripta 32(5): 475–482. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00122.x .
Lützen, J. & Nielsen, C. 2005. Galeommatid bivalves from Phuket, Thailand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144(3): 261–308. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00168.x .
Vinther, J. & Nielsen, C. 2005. The Early Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc. Zoologica Scripta 34(1): 81–89. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00177.x .
Bourlat, S.J., Nielsen, C., Economou, A.D. & Telford, M.J. 2008. Testing the new animal phylogeny: a phylum level molecular analysis of the animal kingdom. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(1): 23–31. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.008 . PDF. Reference page.
Nielsen, C. 2008. A review of the solitary entoprocts reported from sponges from Napoli (Italy), with designation of a neotype of Loxosoma pes Schmidt, 1878. Journal of Natural History 42(23–24): 1573–1579. DOI: 10.1080/00222930802130294 .

2010s

Nielsen, C. 2010. The “new phylogeny”. What is new about it? In: Contributions to the WILLI-HENNIG-Symposium on Phylogenetics and Evolution, University of Hohenheim, 29 September – 2 October 2009. Palaeodiversity 3, Supplement: 149–150. PDF.
Nielsen, C. 2010. A review of the taxa of solitary entoprocts (Loxosomatidae). Zootaxa 2395: 45–56. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2395.1.4 . ResearchGate .
Nielsen, C. 2010. After all: Xenoturbella is an acoelomorph! Evolution & Development 12(3): 241–243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00408.x .
Nielsen, C. 2012. The authorship of higher chordate taxa. Zoologica Scripta 41(4): 435–436. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00536.x .
Nielsen, C. 2012. Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla (3rd edition). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960602-3. Google Books. Reference page.
Jensen, K. & Nielsen, C. 2014. The nudibranch names mentioned as n.sp. in Bergh (1861) are almost all nomina nuda (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia). Zootaxa 3753(2): 146–154. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.2.4 . Reference page.
Jékely, G., Paps, J. & Nielsen, C. 2015. The phylogenetic position of ctenophores and the origin(s) of nervous systems. EvoDevo 6: article 1. DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-6-1 . Reference page.
Nielsen, C. 2017. Loxosomella decorata n. sp., a new solitary entoproct from San Juan Island, WA, USA. Zootaxa 4238(4): 594–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.8 Reference page.

References

Telford, M., Hejnol, A. & Arendt, D. 2024. Claus Nielsen (1938–2024), zoologist of invertebrates. Nature 627(8003): 265. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-00540-8 .