Invertebrate Zoology
Malacology and Marine Invertebrates
John Starmer,
PhD Student
Dissertation Research
I am interested in undertstanding how modern and historical processes interact to create and limit biodiversity at local and regional scales. I am studying aspidochirote sea cucumber phylogenetics (Synallactidae, Holothuriidae, Stichopodidae) with a focus on the stichopodids. I hope to determine if habitat specificity influenced the group's ability to diversify in shallow water tropical versus shallow-temperate and deep water environments.
Thelenota anax
Selected publications
- Starmer, J.A. (2003) An annotated checklist of ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from Guam. Micronesica 35-36:547-562.
- Paulay, G, M.P. Puglisi and J.A. Starmer. (2003) The non-scleractinian Anthozoa (Cnidaria) of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica. 35-36: 138-155.
- Starmer, J., M.S. Trianni and P. Houk. 2002. The Status of Coral Reefs in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. In Turgeon, D.D. and R.G. Asch, eds. 2002. Health of US Coral Reef Ecosystems: 2002. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/ National Ocean Service/ National Center for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, MD. 195-204. PDF
- McPhail, K.L., M.T. Davies-Coleman, and J.A. Starmer. 2001. Sequestered chemistry of the arminacean nudibranch Leminda millecra in Algoa Bay, South Africa. J. Nat. Prod. 64: 1183-1190.
- Slattery, M., J. Starmer, and V.J. Paul. 2001. Temporal and spatial variation in defensive metabolites of the tropical Pacific sort corals Sinularia maxima and S. polydactyla. Marine Biology 138:1183-1193.
- Williams, G.C. and J. Starmer. 2000. A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from South Africa. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 52(8): 87-96.
- Slattery, M., G.A. Hines, J. Starmer, and V.J. Paul. 1999. Reproduction in the soft coral Sinularia polydactyla: Chemical signals in gametogenesis, spawning, settlement and larval defense. Coral Reefs 18:75-84.
- Avila, C., M. Ballesteros, M.Slattery, J. Starmer, and V.J.Paul. 1998. Phyllodesmium guamensis (Nudibranchia: Aeolidoidea), a new species from Guam (Micronesia) J. Moll. Stud. 64:215-222.
2004 FLMNH - Last update 13 October 2004 ~ jas
