Owner at Taxonomicum
Co-editor of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): Amphipoda team
Scientific interests:
Zoology, Taxonomy, Zoogeography, Marine Biology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Phylogeography, Population Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Conservation Biology, History of Zoology
Special expertise:
Malacostracan Crustaceans
Publications:
Biogeography and systematics of mysids
Daneliya, M.E. 2023. On the mysid crustacean genus Deltamysis (Mysidae: Heteromysinae), with a new species and a new record from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 75(4): 413−430. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1881
Daneliya, M.E. 2023. Mysid subfamily Boreomysinae (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) in the southeast Australian deep-sea. Records of the Australian Museum, 75(2): 87−124. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1845
Daneliya, M.E. 2021. On the Mysid Crustacean Genus Heteromysis (Mysidae: Heteromysinae) of the Tasman Sea, with Notes about the Tribe Heteromysini. Records of the Australian Museum, 73(1): 1−50. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.73.2023.1737
Daneliya, M.E., Wittmann, K.J. 2021. Conservation of continental Mysida and Stygiomysida. In: Kawai, T., Rogers, D.Ch. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York. Crustacean Issues, 20: 306−345.
Daneliya, M.E., Petryashev, V.V., Väinölä, R.V. 2019. Malacostraca: Mysida and Stygiomysida. In: Rogers, D.C., Thorp, J.H. (Eds.), Keys to Palaearctic Fauna. Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates – Volume IV. Fourth Edition. Elsevier Academic Press, pp. 866-889.
Daneliya, M.E., Price, W.W. & Heard, R.W. 2018. Revision of the Siriella brevicaudata species group (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from the West Indo-Pacific. European Journal of Taxonomy, 426: 1–80. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.426
Wittmann, K.J., Ariani, A.P. & Daneliya, M. 2016. The Mysidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Mysida) in fresh and oligohaline waters of the Mediterranean. Taxonomy, biogeography, and bioinvasion. Zootaxa, 4142 (1): 1-70; http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4142.1.1
Stepanyants, S.D., Khlebovitch, V.V., Alekseev, V.R., Daneliya, M.E. & Petryashev, V.V. 2015. Identification keys for fishes and invertebrates of the Caspian Sea. V. 2. Cnidarians, ctenophorans, polychaets, copepods and mysids. КМК Scientific Press Ltd., St. Petersburg/Moscow, 244 p.
Daneliya, M.E. 2015. Book Review: J.C. von Vaupel Klein, M. Charmantier-Daures & F.R. Schram (eds.), 2014. Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, taxonomy, biology. The Crustacea, revised and updated, as well as extended from the Traité de Zoologie, 4(B): i-vi, 1-463, illustrated, including 9 pp. of colour illustrations. (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston). Hardbound. ISBN 978-90-04-26492-2. List price € 231.- or US$ 299. Crustaceana, 88 (4): 504-509.
Petryashev, V.V. & Daneliya, M.E. 2014. Taxonomic status of the Western-Pacific mysid species of the Neomysis awatschensis (Brandt, 1851) group. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 40 (3): 178-189.
Daneliya, M.E. 2012. Description of Heteromysis (Olivemysis) ningaloo new species and interesting records of H. (Gnathomysis) harpaxoides Băcescu & Bruce (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) fromthe Australian coral reefs. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 27(2): 135-147. PDF
Daneliya, M.E., Petryashev, V.V., Väinölä, R. 2012. Continental mysid crustaceans of Northern Eurasia. In: Korovchinsky, N.M., Zhdanova, S.M., Krylov, A.V. (Eds), Modern problems of the continental crustacean research. Proceedings of the lectures and presentations of the International school-conference. I.D. Papanin’s Institute of Biology of Continental Waters RAS, Borok, November 5-9, 2012. OOO Kostromskoi pechatnyi dom, Kostroma, pp. 21-30.
Daneliya, M.E., Petryashev, V.V. 2011. Redescription of three species and a subspecies of the mysid genus Paramysis (Mysida, Mysidae) from Ponto-Caspian basin. Crustaceana, 84 (7): 797-829.
Daneliya, M.E., Petryashev, V.V. 2011. Biogeographic zonation of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea basin based on mysid fauna (Crustacea, Mysidacea). Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 36 (2): 85-97.
Audzijonyte, A., Daneliya, M.E., Mugue, N., Väinölä, R. 2008. Phylogeny of Paramysis (Crustacea: Mysida) and the origin of Ponto-Caspian endemic diversity: resolving power from nuclear protein coding genes. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 46: 738-759.
Daneliya, M.E., Audzijonyte, A., Väinölä, R., 2007. Diversity within the Ponto-Caspian Paramysis baeri Czerniavsky sensu lato revisited: P. bakuensis G.O. Sars restored (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae). Zootaxa, 1632: 21-36.
Audzijonyte, A., Daneliya, M.E., Väinölä, R., 2006. Comparative phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian mysid crustaceans: isolation and exchange among dynamic inland sea basins. Molecular Ecology, 15: 2969-2984.
Petryashev, V., Daneliya, M., 2006. Check-list for Caspian mysids (opossum shrimps). Caspian Sea Biodiversity Project under umbrella of Caspian Sea Environment Program. http://www.zin.ru/projects/caspdiv/caspian_mysidacea.html
Daneliya, M.E., 2004. On the systematics of mysids of the genus Paramysis (Crustacea, Mysidacea) from Ponto-Caspian Basin. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 83(4): 408-416.
Daneliya, M.E. 2004. Order Mysidacea. In: Check-lists of marine flora and fauna. Karadag. Hydrobiological studies. Book 2. Simpheropol, SONAT, 384-385.
Daneliya, M.E. 2004. Mysids. In: Flora, fauna and micobiota of the State Sholokhov’s Reserve-Museum. Rostov-na-Donu, Yug, 80.
Daneliya, M.E. 2003. Mysids (Crustacea: Mysidacea) of the Sea of Azov Basin. The abstract of Ph.D. thesis. St.-Petersburg. 23 p.
Daneliya, M.E. 2002. Paramysis sowinskii sp. n. – new species of mysids (Crustacea, Mysidacea) from Ponto-Caspian Basin. Vestnik Zoologii. 36(2): 69-72.
Daneliya, M.E. 2002. Mysid fauna (Crustacea, Mysidacea) of Azov Sea basin. In: Ecosystem studies of Azov Sea and its coast (Eds. Matyshov G.G.). Apatity, pp. 293-303.
Daneliya, M.E. 2001. On the distribution of Katamysis warpachowskyi G.O.Sars (Crustacea, Mysidacea) in Don River basin. Izvestiya VUZov. Severo-Kavkazsky Region. Estestvenny. Nauki, 2: 49-50.
Daneliya, M.E. 2001. The fauna of mysids (Crustacea, Mysidacea) of Don River delta. Habitat and abundance. In: Environment, biota and modeling of ecological processes in the Sea of Azov Basin (Eds. Matishov G.G.). Apatity, pp. 116-120.
Daneliya, M.E. 2000. The role of mysids in the ecosystem of Sea of Azov. In: Regularities of oceanological and biological processes in Azov Sea (Eds. Matishov G.G.). Apatity, pp. 235-237.
Daneliya, M.E. 2000. Degree of variability of morphological characters in mysid Paramysis lacustris (Cz., 1882) (Crustacea, Mysidacea) and comparative variability of characters. Izvestia VUZov. Severo-Kavkazsky Region. Estestvennye Nauki, 2: 63-65.
Biogeography and systematics of amphipods
Horton, T., De Broyer, C., Bellan-Santini, D., Coleman, C.O., Copilaș-Ciocianu, D., Corbari, L., Daneliya, M.E., Dauvin, J.C., Decock, W., Fanini, L., Fišer, C., Gasca, R., Grabowski, M., Guerra-García, J.M., Hendrycks, E.A., Hughes, L.E., Jaume, D., Kim, Y.-H., King, R.A., Lo Brutto, S., Lörz, A.-N., Mamos, T., Serejo, C.S., Senna, A.R., Souza-Filho, J.F., Tandberg, A.H.S., Thurston, M.H., Vader, W., Väinölä, R., Domedel, G.V., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Vonk, R., White, K.N., and Zeidler, W. 2023. The World Amphipoda Database: history and progress. In Festschrift in Honour of James K. Lowry, ed. P. B. Berents, S. T. Ahyong, A. A. Myers, and L. Fanini. Records of the Australian Museum 75(4): 329–342. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1875
Horton, T., Lowry, J., De Broyer, C., Bellan-Santini, D., Coleman, C. O., Daneliya, M., Dauvin, J-C., Fišer, C., Gasca, R., Grabowski, M., Guerra-García, J. M., Hendrycks, E., Holsinger, J., Hughes, L., Jazdzewski, K., Just, J., Kamaltynov, R. M., Kim, Y.-H., King, R., Krapp-Schickel, T., LeCroy, S., Lörz, A.-N., Senna, A. R., Serejo, C., Sket, B., Tandberg, A.H., Thomas, J., Thurston, M., Vader, W., Väinölä, R., Vonk, R., White, K. & Zeidler, W. 2019. World Amphipoda Database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/amphipoda on 2019-04-26.
Leppänen, J.J., Kotta, J., Daneliya, M. & Salo, E. 2017. First record of Chelicorophium curvispinum (G.O. Sars, 1895) from Lake Mälaren, SE Sweden. BioInvasions Records, 6 (in press), https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2017.6.4.07
Daneliya, M.E. & Wowor, D. 2016. Cosmopolitan landhopper Talitroides topitotum (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae) in Java, Indonesia. Check List, 12(4): 1933 (1-9);
http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/12.4.1933
Daneliya, M.E. & Väinölä, R. 2014. Five subspecies of the Dorogostaiskia parasitica complex (Dybowsky) (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Acanthogammaridae), epibionts of sponges in Lake Baikal. Hydrobiologia, DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1671-x.
Daneliya, M.E. & Laakkonen, H. 2012. The Japanese skeleton shrimp Caprella mutica [Amphipoda: Caprellidae] in Sweden (Eastern Skagerrak). Marine Biodiversity Records, 5: 1-6.
Daneliya, M.E., Kamaltynov, R.M., Väinölä, R. 2011. Phylogeography and systematics of Acanthogammarus s. str., giant amphipod crustaceans from Lake Baikal. Zoologica Scripta, 40 (6): 623-637.
Petryashev, V.V., Daneliya, M.E., Chernyshev, A.V. 2011. Stella Vladimirovna Vassilenko (1936-2011): in memoriam. Zootaxa, 3098: 47-54.
Daneliya, M.E. 2011. A new species of Sandro Karaman & Barnard (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Austroniphargus family group) from South-East Madagascar. Zootaxa, 2929: 37-50.
Daneliya, M.E., Kamaltynov, R.M., Kontula, T., Väinölä, R. 2009. Systematics of Baikalian Babr (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pallaseidae). Zootaxa, 2276: 49−68.
Other scientific publications
Yaripour, S., Bandekar, M., Vihavainen, J., More, K., Eronen, A., Durão, M. F., Daneliya, M., Houni, T., Halonen, T., Leskinen, J. T. T., Haverinen, J., Huuskonen, H., Candolin, U., Kekäläinen, J., & Kortet, R. 2025. Effects of polymethylmethacrylate nanoplastics on the swimming behaviour and gut microbiome of the freshwater amphipod Gammarus pulex. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 289, Article 117501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.117501
Thomson, S.A., Pyle, R.L., Ahyong, S.T., Alonso-Zarazaga, M., Ammirati. J., Araya, J.F., et al. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLoS Biology, 16 (3): e2005075. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075.
Daneliya, M.E. 2011. Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. In: Dickinson, E.C., Overstreet, L.K., Dowsett, R.J., Bruce, M.D. (eds.), Proirity! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the Literature and its Reviewers. Avess Press, Northhampton, UK, pp. 215-217.
Dickinson, E., Daneliya, M.E. 2011. Mémoires présentés à l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. In: Dickinson, E.C., Overstreet, L.K., Dowsett, R.J., Bruce, M.D. (eds.), Proirity! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the Literature and its Reviewers. Avess Press, Northhampton, UK, p. 217.
Dickinson, E., Daneliya, M.E. 2011. A re-examination of the sixth series of the “Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg”. Russian Journal of Ornithology, 20 (630): 223-229.
Minoransky, V.A., Arzanov, J.G., Bakhtadze, G.B., Daneliya, M.E., Kazakov, B.A., Kasatkin, D.G., Lipkovich, A.D., Nabozhenko, M.V., Khachikov, E.A., Chikhachev, A.S., Shokhin, I.V. Red Data Book of Rostov region. Rostov-on-Don, 2004. 364 p.
Presentations on symposia:
Daneliya, M.E., Kamaltynov, R.M., Väinölä, R., 2012. Molecular exploration of Lake Baikal amphipod radiation. Abstracts of the International Symposium “Speciation in Ancient Lakes, SIAL 6” (Bogor, Indonesia, August 26-30, 2012), p. 9.
Daneliya, M.E., Kamaltynov, R.M., Väinölä, R. 2010. Phylogeography and systematics of Dorogostaiskia parasitica (Gammaridea: Acanthogammaridae), sponge commensal from Lake Baikal. Abstracts of the XIV International Colloquium on Amphipoda (Seville, Spain, September 13-18, 2010), p. 31.
Daneliya, M.E., Kamaltynov, R.M., Väinölä, R. 2010. Phylogeny and phylogeography of Acanthogammarus, giant endemic amphipods of Lake Baikal. Abstracts of the Seventh International Crustacean Congress (Qingdao, China, June 20-25, 2010), p. 59.
Daneliya, M.E., Kamaltynov, R.M., Väinölä, R. 2009. Genetic diversification in shallow- and deep-water amphipod crustaceans of Lake Baikal. Abstracts of the International Symposium “Speciation in Ancient Lakes, SIAL V” (Ohrid, September 7-11, 2009). Zbornik na rabotite. Review, 42(1): 18-19.
Daneliya, M.E., Väinölä R. 2008. Dynamics of genetic diversification in endemic amphipod crustaceans from Lake Baikal. “Evolution-2008”, University of Minnesota (no abstracts at the conference).
Daneliya, M.E., Väinölä R. 2007. Environmental stability and origin of diversity: mtDNA lineages in shallow- and deepwater amphipods of the ancient Lake Baikal. Abstracts of First EuroDIVERSITY Conference “Challenges of Biodiversity Science” (Paris, 3-5 October, 2007). P.80.
Audzijonyte, A. Daneliya, M.E., Mugue, N., Väinölä, R. 2006. Origin and age of endemic diversity of Paramysis (Crustacea) in the Ponto-Caspian region. Abstracts of the International Symposium “Speciation in Ancient Lakes, SIAL IV” (Berlin, September 4-8, 2006). Berliner paläobiologische abhandlungen, 9: 9.
Audzijonytė A., Daneliya M., Väinölä R. 2005. Is the mitochondrial COI gene useful to understand the origin of the Ponto-Caspian mysid invaders (Crustacea, Mysida)? Abstracts of the conference “Exploring diversity of Baltic Sea biota: new tools, results and implications” (Tvärminne Zoological Station, 22-24 April 2005). Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki, p. 37.
Audzijonytė A., Daneliya M., Väinölä R. 2005. Phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian mysids at home and abroad: is mitochondrial COI gene useful in tracing invaders origins? Abstracts Sixth International Crustacean Congress (Glasgow, Scoltland, UK, 18-22 July 2005). Glasgow, University of Glasgow, p. 73.
Daneliya, M.E. 2001. Relation of mysids (Crustacea, Peracarida) to salinity and their distribution in Azov Sea Basin. Abstracts reports I Russian School on Marine Biology: “Contemporary problems of biology and ecology of seas” (Rostov-on-Don, October 16-18, 2001). Murmansk, pp. 69-70.