Peer reviewed articles published by current members in our lab:
(email Luke.Tornabene@gmail.com for free pdfs of any of these)
*denotes student author
Greenfield, D.W., Erdmann, M.V., Tornabene, L. (2023) Eviota atauroensis, a new dwarfgoby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Timor Leste. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 40: 48-56.
*Katlyn M. Fuentes, Carole C. Baldwin, D. Ross Robertson, Claudia C. Lardizábal, Luke Tornabene. (2023) Two new species of Varicus from Caribbean deep reefs, with comments on the related genus Pinnichthys (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup). Zookeys 1180: 1590-180.
Baldwin, C.C., Arcila, D., Robertson, D.R., Tornabene, L. (2023). Description of the first species of Polylepion (Teleostei: Labridae) from the Atlantic Ocean with analysis of evolutionary relationships of the new species. Ichthyology and Herpetology 111(2): 182-190.
*Gomez-Buckley, M.C., Gallego, R., Arranz, V., Tuikolongahau, H., Stone, K., Erdmann, M.V., Tornabene, L. (2023). Comparing anesthetic stations and environmental DNA sampling to determine community composition of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga. Coral Reefs.
Erdmann, M.V., Greenfield, D.W., Tornabene, L. (2023) Eviota taeiae, a new dwargoby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) of the Eviota guttata complex from Samoa. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 40: 37-47.
Welicky, R.L., Feddern, M.L., Rolfe, T., Leazer, K., Moosmiller, A., Fiorenza, E., Maslenikov, K.P., Tornabene, L., Holtgrieve, G., Wood, C.L. (2023). Reconstructing trophic position over the past century for five Puget Sound fish species. Marine Ecology Progress Series 706: 1-15. – Feature Article
Wood, C.L., Welicky, R.L., Preisser, C.P., Leslie, K.L., Mastick, N., Greene, C., Maslenikov, K.P., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J.M., Essington, T.E. (2023) A reconstruction of parasite burden reveals one century of climate-associated parasite decline. PNAS 120 (3) e2211903120.
Miller, E.C., Martinez, C.M., Friedman, S.T., Wainwright, P.C., Price, S.A., Tornabene, L. (2022). Alternating regimes of shallow and deep diversification in marine fishes. PNAS 119: e2123544119.
*Gardiner, J.R., Orr., J.W., Tornabene, L. (2023). Two new species of snailfishes (Cottiformes: Lipairdae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and a redescription of the closely related Careproctus candidus. Ichthyology and Herpetology 11: 54-71.
Goatley, C.H.R, Tornabene, L. (2022) Tempestichthys bettyae, a new genus and species of ocean sleeper (Gobiiformes, Thalasseleotrididae) from the central Coral Sea. Systematics and Biodiversity.
Preisser, W., Welicky, R., Leslie, K., Mastick, N., Fiorenza, E., Maslenikov, K., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J., Wood, C. (2022). Parasite communities in English Sole (Parophrys vetulus) have changed in composition but not richness in the Salish Sea, Washington, USA since 1930. Parasitology, 149: 786-798.
Tornabene, L., *Manning, R., Robertson, D.R., Van Tassell, J.L., Baldwin, C. (2022). A new lineage of deep-reef gobies from the Caribbean, including two new species and one new genus (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. zlac013. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac013
Robertson, D.R., Tornabene, L., Baldwin, C.C., Lardizabal, C. (2022). Submersibles greatly enhance research on the diversity of deep-reef fishes in the Greater Caribbean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:800250. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.800250.Kolora, S.R.R.,
Owens, G.L., Vazques, J.M., Stubbs, A., Chatla, K., Jainese, C., Seeto, Kl, McCrea, M., Sandel, M.W., Vianna, J.A., Maslenikov, K.P., Bachtrog, D., Orr, J.W., Love, M., Sudmant, P.H. (2021). Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes. Science, 374: 842-847.
Love, M.S., Bizzarro, J.J., Cornthwaite, A.M., Frable, B.W., Maslenikov, K.P. (2021). Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska–Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Zootaxa, 5053: 1-285.
*Atta, C.J., Yuan, H., Li, C., Arcila, D., Betancur-R, R., Hughes, L.C., Orti, G., Tornabene, L. (2021). Exon-capture data and locus screening provide new insights into the phylogeny of flatfishes (Pleuronectoidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107315
Tornabene, L., Greenfield, D.W., Erdmann, M.V. (2021). A review of the Eviota zebrina complex, with the description of four new species (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zookeys.
*Healy, J., Helser, T.D., Tornabene, L., Benson, I. (2021). Aging fish at the molecular level using Fourier transformed near-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIRs): a case study for pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) stocks in the Bering Sea. Ecosphere, 12(8): e03697. doi/10.1002/ecs2.3697
Kovačić, M., Bogorodsky, S.V., Zajonz, U., Tornabene, L. (2021). A new species of Hetereleotris (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Socotra Archipelago (north-western Indian Ocean), a rare case of a hole-associated adaptation in gobiid fishes. Zootaxa.
Welicky, R.L., Preisser, W.C., Leslie, K.L., Mastick, N., Fiorenza, E, Maslenikov, K.P., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J.M., Wood, C.L. (2021). Parasites of the past: Ninety years of change in parasitism for English Sole. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Welicky, R., Rolfe, T., Leazer, K., Maslenikov, K., Tornabene, L., Holtgrieve, G., Wood, C. (2020). Fluid-preserved fishes are one solution for assessing historical change in fish trophic level. Ecology and Evolution, 11(1): 415-426.
Robertson, D.R., Estapé, C.J., Estapé, A.M., Peña, E., Tornabene, L., Baldwin, C.C. (2020). The marine fishes of St Eustatius Island, northeastern Caribbean: an annotated, photographic catalog. Zookeys, 1007: 145-180. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1007.58515
Varón, A., Dikov, R., Li, C., Carnevale, G., Baldwin, C., Tornabene, L., Hilton, E.J. (2020). Confronting sources of systematic error to resolve historically contentious relationships: a case study using gadiform fishes (Teleostei, Paracanthopterygii, Gadiformes). Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa095
Orr, J.W., Pitruk, D.L., *Manning, R., Stevenson, D.E., *Gardner, J.R., Spies, I. (2020) A new species of snailfish (Cottiformes: Liparidae) closely related to Careproctus melanurus of the Eastern North Pacific. Copeia 108(4): 711-726.
Maslenikov, K.P. (2021). Specimens by the millions: managing large, specialized collections at the University of Washington Burke Museum Fish Collection. Copeia.
*McFarland, E.P., Baldwin, C.C., Robertson, D.R., Rocha, L.A., Tornabene, L. (2020). A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei: Pomacentridae). Zookeys, 1008: 107-138. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1008.58805
Welicky, R.L., Preisser, W.C., Leslie, K.L., Mastick, N., Fiorenza, E, Maslenikov, K.P., Tornabene, L., Kinsella, J.M., Wood, C.L. (2020). Parasites of the past: Ninety years of change in parasitism for English Sole. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Welicky, R., Rolfe, T., Leazer, K., Maslenikov, K.P., Tornabene, L., Holtgrieve, G., Wood, C. (2020). Fluid-preserved fishes are one solution for assessing historical change in fish trophic level. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Brandl, S.J., Johansen, J.L., Casey, J.M., Tornabene, L., Morais, R., Burt, J.A. (2020) Extreme environmental conditions reduce coral reef fish biodiversity and productivity. Nature Communications, 11: 3832. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17731-2.
Fiorenza, E., Leslie, L., Torchin, M., Maslenikov, K.P, Tornabene, L., Wood, C. (2020). Fluid preservation causes minimal reduction of parasite detectability in fish specimens: A new approach for reconstructing parasite communities of the past. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 6449-6460. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6379
Huie, J.*, Thacker, C., Tornabene, L. (2020). Co-evolution of cleaning and feeding morphology in Caribbean and eastern Pacific gobies. Evolution 74(2): 419-433. doi:10.1111/evo.13904
Brandl, S.J., Tornabene, L., Goatley, C.H.R., Casey, J.M., Morais, R.A., Côté, I.M., Baldwin, C.C., Parravicini, V.P., and Bellwood, D.R. (2019). Response to Comment on “Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral reef ecosystem functioning”. Science 366:eaaz1301. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz1301
Yuan, H., *Atta, C., Tornabene, L., and Li, C. (2019). Assexon: Assembling exon using gene capture data. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 15: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1176934319874792
Atta, C.J.*, Coker, D.J., Sinclair-Taylor, T.H., DiBattista, J.D., Kattan, A., Monroe, A.A., Berumen, M. (2019). Conspicuous and cryptic reef fishes from a unique and economically important region in the northern Red Sea. PloS ONE 14(10): e0223365.
Helser, T.E., Benson, I., Erickson, J., Healy, J*., Kastelle, C., Short, J.A. (2019). A transformative approach to ageing fish otoliths using Fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy: a case study of eastern Bering Sea walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 76(5): 780-789.
Orr, J.W., Spies, I., Stevenson, D.E., Longo, G.C., Kai, Y., Ghods, S.*, Hollowed, M. (2019). Molecular phylogenetics of snailfishes (Cottoidei: Liparidae) based on MtDNA and RADSseq genomic analyses, with comments on selected morphological characters. Zootaxa, 4642: 1-76.
Brandl, S.J., Tornabene, L., Goatley, C.H.R., Casey, J.M., Morais, R.A., Côté, I.M., Baldwin, C.C., Parravicini, V.P., and Bellwood, D.R. (2019). Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral reef ecosystem function. Science 21: 1189-1192. https://doi.org/ 10.1126/science.aav3384
Tornabene, L., Baldwin, C. (2019). Psilotris vantasselli, a new of species of goby from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini: Nes subgroup). Zootaxa, 4624. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.3
Robertson, D.R., Baldwin, C.C., Bellwood, D., Pyle, R., Smith-Vaniz, W., Tornabene, L., & Van Tassell, J.L. (2019) Aspiration or expiration: hypoxia and the interpretation of fish predation in the fossil record. Palaios, 34: 1-3.
Greenfield, D.W., Tornabene, L., Erdmann, M.V. & Pada, D.N. (2019). Eviota gunawanae, a new microendemic dwarfgoby from the Fakfak Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 32: 57–67.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2616753.
Kovacic, M., Bogorodsky, S.V., Troyer, E.M., Tornabene, L. (2019). Cerogobius petrophilus (Teleostei: Gobiidae), a new gobiid genus and species from the Red Sea. Zootaxa 4565 (2): 171-189. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4565.2.2
Gamble, M.M., K.A. Connelly, *J.R. Gardner, J.W. Chamberlin, K.I. Warheit, and D.A. Beauchamp. (2018). Size, Growth, and Size-Selective Mortality of Subyearling Chinook Salmon during Early Marine Residence in Puget Sound. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 147:2.
Hansen, A.G., *J.R. Gardner, K.A. Connelly, M. Polacek, and D.A. Beauchamp. (2018). Trophic compression of lake food webs under hydrologic disturbance. Ecosphere 9(6).
Tornabene, L., Robertson, D.R., Baldwin, C.C. (2018). A new species of Lipogramma (Teleostei: Grammatidae) from deep reefs of Roatan, Honduras. Zookeys 809: 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.809.29280
Greenfield, D.W., Tornabene, L., *Gómez-Buckley, M., and Erdmann, M.V. (2018). Eviota maculosa, a new dwarfgoby from the Western Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 31: 18-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1445810
Smith-Vaniz, W.F., Tornabene, L., Macieira, R.M. (2018). Review of Brazilian jawfishes of the genus Opistognathus with descriptions of two new species (Teleostei, Opistognathidae). Zookeys 794: 95-133. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.794.26789
Kuang, T., Tornabene, L., Li, J., Chakrabarty, P., Naylor, G.J.P., and Li, C. (2018). An empirical approach to dissecting phylogenomic data: interrelationships of the Gobioidei, an exceptionally diverse clade of fishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 128: 192-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.07.018.
Brandl, S.J., Goatley, C.H.R., Bellwood, D.R., Tornabene, L. (2018). The hidden half: ecology and evolution of cryptobenthic fishes on coral reefs. Biological Reviews 93: 1846-1873. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12423
Baldwin, C., Tornabene, L., Robertson, D.R. (2018). Below the mesophotic. Scientific Reports 8:4920. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23067-1
Ahmadia, G.A., Tornabene, L., Smith, D.J., Pezold, F.L. (2018). The relative importance of regional, local, and evolutionary factors structuring cryptobenthic coral-reef assemblages. Coral Reefs 37: 279-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-018-1657-2
Baldwin, C., Tornabene, L., Robertson, D.R., Nonaka, A., Gilmore, R.G. (2018). More new deep-reef basslets (Teleostei: Grammatidae: Lipogramma), with updates on the eco-evolutionary relationships within the genus. Zookeys 729: 129-161. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.729.21842
Tornabene, L., Dies, B., Erdmann, M.V. (2018). Evaluating the phylogenetic position of the goby genus Kelloggella (Teleostei: Gobiidae), with notes on osteology of the genus and description of a new species from Niue in the South Central Pacific Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183: 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx060
Liu, J., Jiang, J., Song, S., Tornabene, L, Chabarria, R., Naylor, G.J.P., Li, C. (2017). Multilocus DNA barcoding – Species identification with multilocus data. Scientfic reports 7: 16601. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16920-2
Linardich, C., Ralph, G., Carpenter, K., and 47 coauthors. (2017). The conservation status of marine bony shorefishes of the greater Caribbean. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. Viii+75 pp. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2017.RA.1.en
Tornabene, L. and Baldwin, C.C. (2017). A new mesophotic goby, Palatogobius incendius (Teleostei: Gobiidae), and the first record of invasive lionfish preying on undescribed biodiversity. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177179. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177179
Greenfield, D.W., and Tornabene, L. (2017). Eviota imitata, a new dwarfygoby from Raja Ampat, Indonesia (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Jounral of the Ocean Science Foundation 26: 86-94.
Baldwin, C.C., Robertson, D.R., Nonaka, A., Tornabene, L. (2016). Two new deep-reef basselets (Teleostei: Grammatidae: Lipogramma), with comments on the eco-evolutionary relationships of the genus. Zookeys 638: 45-82.
Ceríaco, L.M., Gutiérrez, E.E., Dubois, A, and 490 signatories (2016). Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa 4196: 435-445.
Tornabene, L., Van Tassell, J.L., Robertson, D.R., and Baldwin, C.C. (2016). Repeated invasions into the twilight-zone: evolutionary origins of a novel assemblage of fishes from deep Caribbean reefs. Molecular Ecology 25: 3662-3682.
Tornabene, L., Robertson, D.R., and Baldwin, C.C. (2016). Varicus lacerta, a new species of goby (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup) from a mesophotic reef in the Southern Caribbean. Zookeys 596: 143-256.
Tornabene, L., and Greenfield, D.W. (2016). Eviota erdmanni (Teleostei: Gobiidae), a new dwarfgoby from the Savu Sea, Flores, Indonesia. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 16: 1-9. http://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf22a.pdf
Tornabene, L., Van Tassell, J. L., Gilmore, R.G., Robertson, D. R., Young, F., and Baldwin, C.C. (2016). Molecular phylogeny, analysis of character evolution, and submersible collections enable a new classification for a diverse group of gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Nes subgroup), including nine new species and four new genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177: 794-812. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12394
Tornabene, L., *Valdez, S., Erdmann, M., and Pezold, F. (2016). Multi-locus sequence data reveal a new species of coral reef goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota), and evidence of Pliocene vicariance across the Coral Triangle. Journal of Fish Biology 88 (5): 1811-1845. doi: 10.1111/jfb.12947
Van Tassell, J. L., Joyeux, J.C., Macieira, R.M., and Tornabene, L. (2015). Status of Gobiosoma (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Brazil: description of a new species, redescription of G. hemigymnum, molecular phylogeny of the genus, and key to Atlantic species. Zootaxa 4007 (4): 451-480.
Tornabene, L., *Valdez, S., Erdmann, M.V., and Pezold, F. (2015). Support for a ‘Center of Origin’ in the Coral Triangle: cryptic diversity, recent speciation, and local endemism in a diverse lineage of reef fishes (Gobiidae: Eviota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 200-210.
Greenfield, D.W., and Tornabene, L. (2014). Eviota brahmi n. sp. from Papua New Guinea, with a redescription of Eviota nigriventris (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 3793 (1): 133-146.
Tornabene, L., Van Tassell, J.L. (2014). Redescription of the goby genus Gobiosoma (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini), with the synonymy of the genus Enypnias. Journal of Natural History 48: 1413-1437. doi:10.1080/00222933.2013.840938/.
Tornabene, L., Ahmadia, G.N., and Williams, J.T. (2013). Four new species of dwarfgobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota) from the Austral, Gambier, Marquesas and Society Archipelagos, French Polynesia. Systematics and Biodiversity 11 (3): 363-380.
Tornabene, L., Chen, Y, and Pezold, F. (2013). Gobies are deeply divided: phylogenetic evidence from nuclear DNA (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Gobiidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 11 (3): 345-361.
Tornabene, L., Ahmadia, G.N., Berumen, M.L., Smith, D.J., Jompa, J., and Pezold, F. (2013). Evolution of microhabitat association and morphology in a diverse group of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (1): 391-400.
Tornabene, L., Van Tassell, J.L. and Robertson, D.R. (2012). Microgobius urraca (Teleostei: Gobiidae), a new species of goby from Pacific Panama. Zootaxa 3447: 41-55.
Van Tassell, J.L., Tornabene, L. and Colin, P. (2012). Review of the western Atlantic species of Bollmannia (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini) with the description of a new allied genus and species. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 18(2): 61-94.
Tornabene, L. and Pezold, F. (2011). Phylogenetic analysis of Western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 2042: 27-36.
Van Tassell, J.L., Tornabene, L. and Taylor, M. (2011). A History of Gobioid Morphological Systematics. In: The Biology of Gobies, R.A. Patzner, J.L. Van Tassell, M. Kovacic and B.G. Kapoor (Eds). CRC Press, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. New Delhi.
Tornabene, L., Baldwin, C., Weigt, L., and F. Pezold. (2010). Exploring the diversity of western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) using cytochrome-c oxidase subunit I, with descriptions of two new species. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 16 (4): 141-170.