Declan Morrissey
declan-morrissey.bsky.social
Declan Morrissey
@declan-morrissey.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at SI NMNH. Passionate about deep sea corals, genomics, taxonomy, and biogeography 🪸🪸🪸
since then, we have described a new genus of Irish Bamboo Coral - Explorisis, named after the RV Celtic Explorer, the ship that collected every specimen!
A new genus of bamboo coral (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae) from the Whittard Canyon, Ireland, Northeast Atlantic
Deep-sea corals are rarely identified to species due to a lack of taxonomic expertise and paucity of sampling. Herein we describe a new genus from the family Keratoisididae collected from the Northeas...
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February 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Bamboozled! Resolving deep evolutionary nodes within the phylogeny of bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae)
Bamboozled! Resolving deep evolutionary nodes within the phylogeny of bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae)
Keratoisididae is a globally distributed, and exclusively deep-sea, family of octocorals that contains species and genera that are polyphyletic. An al…
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February 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The Biodiversity of Calcaxonian Octocorals from the Irish Continental Slope Inferred from Multilocus Mitochondrial Barcoding
The Biodiversity of Calcaxonian Octocorals from the Irish Continental Slope Inferred from Multilocus Mitochondrial Barcoding
Deep-sea corals are important benthic inhabitants that support the biodiversity and function of the wider faunal community; however, their taxonomy is underdeveloped and their accurate identification ...
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February 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Since this is a new platform, I will also reshare my other PhD chapters.
The North-east Atlantic Margin: A Review of the Geology, Geography, Oceanography, and Vulnerable Megabenthic Ecosystems of the Continental Slope of Ireland and the United Kingdom. OA
The North-east Atlantic Margin: A Review of the Geology, Geography, Oc
The Irish–Scottish margin is geologically and oceanographically heterogeneous. Source waters of subpolar and subtropical origin interact with banks, seamounts,
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February 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I will tell her she has a fan club waiting for her 🤣
November 21, 2024 at 12:48 AM