Leslie Edward Watling
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Leslie ("Les") Edward Watling (1945-), Canadian marine biologist.
- Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu 96822, Hawaii, USA.
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Publications
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1980
[edit]- Watling, L. & Holman, H. 1980. New Amphipoda from the Southern Ocean, with partial revisions of the Acanthonotozomatidae and Paramphithoidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93(3): 609–654. BHL Reference page.
1981
[edit]- Watling, L. & Holman, H. 1981. Additional Acanthonotozomatid Paramphithoid And Stegocephalid Amphipoda From The Southern Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(1): 181–227. BHL Reference page.
1991
[edit]- Watling, L. 1991. Revision of the cumacean family Leuconidae. Journal of Crustacean Biology 11(4): 569–582. DOI: 10.2307/1548527, ResearchGate
Reference page. - Watling, L. 1991. Rediagnosis and revision of some Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 104(4): 751–757. BHL Reference page.
1996
[edit]- Watling, L. & McCann, L.D. 1996. Cumacea. pp. 121–180. In. Blake, J.A. & Scott, P.H. (eds.) Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel, vol. 11, The Crustacea Pt. 2, The Isopoda, Cumacea and Tanaidacea. GoogleBooks Reference page.
2003
[edit]- González, E.R. & Watling, L. 2003. A new species of Hyalella from Colombia, and the redescription of H. meinerti Stebbing, 1899 from Venezuela (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Journal of Natural History 37(17): 2095–2111. DOI: 10.1080/00222930210133255 Reference page.
2005
[edit]- Lehnert, H., Watling, L. & Stone, R. 2005. Cladorhiza corona sp. nov. (Porifera: Demospongiae: Cladorhizidae) from the Aleutian Islands (Alaska). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85(6): 1359–1366. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405012531
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2007
[edit]- Watling, L., 2007. A review of the genus Iridogorgia (Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae) and its relatives, chiefly from the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87(02): 393-402. DOI: 10.1017/s002531540705535x

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2010
[edit]- Webber, W.R., Fenwick, G.D., Bradford-Grieve, J.M., Eagar, S.H., Buckeridge, J.S., Poore, G.C.B., Dawson, E.W., Watling, L., Jones, J.B., Wells, J.B.J., Bruce, N.L., Ahyong, S.T., Larsen, K., Chapman, M.A., Olesen, J., Ho, J.-S., Green, J.D., Shiel, R.J., Rocha, C.E.F., Lörz, A.-N., Bird, G.J. & Charleston, W.A. 2010. 8. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. Pp. 98–232 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page. ResearchGate
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2011
[edit]- Watling, L. & France, S.C., 2011. A New Genus and Species of Bamboo Coral (Octocorallia: Isididae: Keratoisidinae) from the New England Seamounts. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52(2): 209–220. DOI: 10.3374/014.052.0202.
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2015
[edit]- Gerken, S. & Watling, L. 2015. Platycuma bamberconfabulor sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cumacea: Nannastacidae) from Antarctica, with a note on the gut of Platycuma. Zootaxa 3995(1): 133–137. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.13. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
- Watling, L. 2015. A new genus of bamboo coral (Octocorallia: Isididae) from the Bahamas. Zootaxa 3918(2): 239–248. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.2.5. Reference page.
2016
[edit]- Dahlgren, T.G., Wiklund, H., Rabone, M., Amon, D.J., Ikebe, C., Watling, L., Smith, C.R. & Glover, A.G. 2016. Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Cnidaria. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e9277. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e9277 Reference page.
2018
[edit]- Magalhães, W.F., Bailey-Brock, J.H. & Watling, L. 2018. Four new species of Magelona (Annelida: Magelonidae) from Easter Island, Guam and Hawaii. Zootaxa 4457(3): 379–396. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.2
Reference page. - Thomson, S.A., Pyle, R.L., Ahyong, S.T., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Ammirati, J., Araya, J.F., et al. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLOS Biology 16(3): e2005075. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 Reference page.
2020
[edit]- Watling, L. 2020. Toward a revision of the bamboo corals: Part 1, species in the Muricellisidinae (Octocorallia: Isididae). Zootaxa 4881(2): 361–371. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.2.9
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2021
[edit]- Calder, D.R. & Watling, L. 2021. Report on hydrozoans (Cnidaria), excluding Stylasteridae, from the Emperor Seamounts, western North Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4950(2): 201–247. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.1
Reference page. - Watling, L.E. & France, S.C. 2021. Toward a Revision of the Bamboo Corals: Part 2, Untangling the Genus Lepidisis (Octocorallia: Isididae). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 62(2): 97–110. DOI: 10.3374/014.062.0202 Reference page.
- Saucier, E.H., France, S.C. & Watling, L.E. 2021. Toward a revision of the bamboo corals: Part 3, deconstructing the Family Isididae. Zootaxa 5047(3): 247-272. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5047.3.2 Reference page.
2022
[edit]- Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Dahlgren, T.G., Amon, D.J., Cairns, S., Drennan, R., Durden, J.M., Eléaume, M.P., Hosie, A.M., Kremenetskaia, A., McQuaid, K., O’Hara, T.D., Rabone, M., Simon-Lledó, E., Smith, C.R., Watling, L., Wiklund, H. & Glover, A.G. 2022. Benthic megafauna of the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean. ZooKeys 1113ː 1–110. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172
Reference page. - Watling, L.E., Saucier, E.H. & France, S.C. 2022. Towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Octocorallia): Part 4, delineating the family Keratoisididae. Zootaxa 5093(3): 337-375. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.3.4 Reference page.
- Lapointe, A. & Watling, L. 2022. Towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Octocorallia): Part 5, new genera and species of Keratoisididae from the Tasmanian deep sea. Zootaxa 5168(2): 137–157. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.2.3 Reference page.
2024
[edit]- France S.C. & Watling, L. 2024. Toward a revision of the bamboo corals: Part 6, Illuminating a new candelabrum genus (Octocorallia: Keratoisididae) Zootaxa 5497(4): 505–519. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.4.3 Reference page.
- Xu, Y., Lu B., Watling, L.E., Zhan, Z.-F., Wang, C.-S. & Xu. K.-D., 2024. Studies on western Pacific gorgonians (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Part 3: towards a revision of the bamboo corals (Keratoisididae) with descriptions of three new genera and four new species. Zootaxa 5555(2): 151–181. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5555.2.1.
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