Yun-Lu Xiao

Yun-Lu Xiao, Chinese echinodermologist

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Xiao, Y-L., Xiao, N., Zeng, X-Q. 2023. Benthodytes tetrapapillata sp. nov., a new elasipodid sea cucumber (Elasipodida: Psychropotidae) from a seamount in the Western Pacific Ocean. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 41(5): 1978–1987. DOI: 10.1007/s00343-022-2220-0 . Reference page.

Xiao, Y-L. & Zhang, H-B. 2024. Three new species and one new record of Deimatidae (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, Synallactida) discovered in the South China Sea and the Mariana fore-arc area using integrative taxonomic methods. ZooKeys 1195: 309–335. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1195.115913 Reference page.

Xiao, Y.-L. & Zhang, H.-B. 2025. Morphological and molecular evidence reveals a new species of Laetmogone (Holothuroidea, Elasipodida) from abyssal depths of the south Pacific Ocean. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(1): 127–139. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.135131 Reference page.
Xiao, Y.-L. & Zhang, H.-B. 2025. Integrative taxonomy reveals three new species and one new record of Psychropotes (Holothuroidea, Elasipodida, Psychropotidae) from the Kermadec Trench region and the Wallaby-Zenith Fracture Zone. PeerJ 13: e18806. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18806 Reference page.
Xiao, Y-L. & Xiao, N. 2025. Description of four new synallactid species (Holothuroidea, Synallactida, Synallactidae) from the tropical Western Pacific Ocean. ZooKeys 1231: 347–370. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1231.142729 Reference page.