Bibliography
D. Ross Robertson
Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo, Sharpe, Diana M. T., Robertson, D. R., Bravo, Victor, Jeschke, Jonathan M., and Torchin, Mark E. 2025. "New fish migrations into the Panama Canal increase likelihood of interoceanic invasions in the Americas." Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.049.
Ewing, Megan M., Welicky, Rachel, Baldwin, Carole C., Robertson, D. R., Maslenikov, Katherine P., and Tornabene, Luke. 2025. "Analysis of bulk stable isotopes and trophic positions of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) on deep versus shallow reefs at Curacao." Biological Invasions, 27, (1) 44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03476-2.
Rivera-Higueras, Mariana, Brandl, Simon J., Pérez-España, Horacio, Simoes, Nuno, González-Gándara, Carlos, De La Cruz-Francisco, Vicencio, and Robertson, D. Ross. 2025. "Population dynamics of the nonnative damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomos and its potential competitors on coral reefs in the southern Gulf of Mexico." Bulletin of Marine Science, https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2024.0091.
Bernal-Hernández, Moises Emanuel, Beltrán-López, Rosa Gabriela, Robertson, D. R., Baldwin, Carole C., Espinoza, Eduardo, Martínez-Gómez, Juan Esteban, Barraza, Enrique, Angulo, Arturo, Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan, Acosta, Adrian F. González, and Domínguez-Domínguez, Omar. 2024. "Cryptic Diversity in Scorpaenodes xyris (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) Throughout the Tropical Eastern Pacific." Journal of Molecular Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-024-10212-w.
Chong‐Montenegro, Carolina, Castellanos‐Galindo, Gustavo A., and Robertson, D. R. 2024. "Local Ecological Knowledge as a Conservation Tool for Identifying Threats to the Pacific Goliath Grouper (Epinephelus quinquefasciatus) in Panama." Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34, (11). https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.70021.
Cord, Isadora, Floeter, Sergio R., Araujo, Gabriel S., Quimbayo, Juan P., Robertson, D. Ross, Victor, Benjamin C., Wirtz, Peter, Pinheiro, Hudson T., Freitas, Rui, and Rocha, Luiz A. 2024. [Dataset] Atlantic reef fishes: distributions and life-history traits. Distributed by Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.13655554.
Robertson, D. R., Dunlap-Smith, Alasdair, Goolishian Hernandez, Andre Michael, Richter, Lee, Richter, Sara, Mitchell, Serenity, Estape, Carlos, Morgan Estape, Allison, and Victor, Benjamin C. 2024. "Additions to the marine fish fauna of the US Virgin Islands (2024)." Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 41 112–137. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14541751.
Taylor, Brett M., Prince, Jeremy, Mutz, Stephanie, Pardee, Cassandra, Wiley, John, Robertson, D. R., and Choat, J. H. 2024. "A widespread, consistent, and perplexing biphasic pattern in log catch‐at‐age data from a widely harvested family of tropical reef fishes." Fish and Fisheries, https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12853.
Torres-García, Rolando Quetzalcoatl, Gaither, Michelle R., Robertson, D. R., Torres-Hernández, Eloisa, Caselle, Jennifer E., Durand, Jean-Dominique, Angulo, Arturo, Espinoza-Herrera, Eduardo, García-De León, Francisco J., Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan, and Domínguez-Domínguez, Omar. 2024. "Geographic genetic variation in the Coral Hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Cirrhitidae), in relation to biogeographic barriers across the Tropical Indo-Pacific." PeerJ, 12. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18058.
Victor, Benjamin C., Grove, Jack Stein, Long, Douglas J., Robertson, D. R., Keith, Inti, Bensted-Smith, William, and Salinas-de-Leon, Pelayo. 2024. "List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador (Version 2.0)." https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14057694.
Martínez-Servín, Francisco, López-Arroyo, Yareli Margarita, Moreno-Vázquez, Aurora Lizeth, Robertson, D. R., Arredondo-Chávez, Alfrancis Teresa, Sánchez-Jiménez, Juan Antonio, Ávila-Morales, Oscar Gabriel, Madrigal-Guridi, Xavier, Caballero-Vázquez, Jose Adan, Schmitter-Soto, Juan, Domínguez-Domínguez, Omar, and Solís-Guzmán, María Gloria. 2023. "New records of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) from Puerto Morelos Reef National Park (Mexican Caribbean)." Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 53 107–122. https://doi.org/10.3897/aiep.53.101239.
Baldwin, Carole C., Arcila, Dahiana, Robertson, D. R., and Tornabene, Luke. 2023. "Description of the First Species of Polylepion (Teleostei: Labridae) from the Atlantic Ocean with Analysis of Evolutionary Relationships of the New Species." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 111, (2). https://doi.org/10.1643/i2022075.
Bernardi, Giacomo, Cohn, Francesca, Dominguez-Dominguez, Omar, Kingon, Kelly, Tornabene, Luke, and Robertson, D. Ross. 2023. "Establishment genomics of the Indo-Pacific damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomos, in the Greater Caribbean." Biological Invasions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03226-w.
Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo, Baldwin, Carole C., Fischer, Luciano G., Robertson, D. Ross, Bertoncini, Athila, Garcia, Lucas Canes, Silva, Jodir Pereira DA, and Sampaio, Claudio L. S. 2023. "Generic reassignment of Centropristis fuscula Poey, 1861 (Teleostei: Serranidae), with re-description of the species and comments on its geographical range and sexual system." Zootaxa, 5346, (1) 51–73. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5346.1.3.
Craig, Matthew and Robertson, D. Ross. 2023. "Mycteroperca profundorum Cervigón, 2011, a junior synonym of Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey, 1860) (Teleostei: Epinephelidae)." Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 40 77–80. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10426425.
Lea, Robert N., Frable, Benjamin W., and Robertson, D. R. 2023. "Misidentification of Ophidion imitator Lea, 1997 as Otophidium indefatigabile Jordan & Bollman, 1890 (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae: Ophidiinae)." Zootaxa, 5230, (1) 95–96. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5230.1.7.
Fuentes, Katlyn M., Baldwin, Carole C., Robertson, D. Ross, Lardizabal, Claudia C., and Tornabene, Luke. 2023. "Two new species of Varicus from Caribbean deep reefs with comments on the related genus Pinnichthys (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup)." Zookeys, 1180 159–180. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1180.107551.
Palmerin-Serrano, Paola N., Pineros, Victor J., Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Espinoza, Eduardo, Barraza, Enrique, Martinez-Gomez, Juan E., Solis-Guzman, Maria G., Calderon-Cortes, Nancy, Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan, and Dominguez-Dominguez, Omar. 2023. "Comparative phylogeography and demographic histories of five widely distributed tropical eastern Pacific fishes." Marine Biology, 170, (12). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04299-w.
Schreiber, Lennart, Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo, Robertson, D. Ross, Torchin, Mark, Chavarria, Karina, Laakmann, Silke, and Saltonstall, Kristin. 2023. "Environmental DNA (eDNA) reveals potential for interoceanic fish invasions across the Panama Canal." Ecology and Evolution, 13, (1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9675.
Puebla, Oscar, Coulmance, Floriane, Estape, Carlos J., Estape, Allison Morgan, and Robertson, D. Ross. 2022. "A review of 263 years of taxonomic research on Hypoplectrus (Perciformes: Serranidae), with a redescription of Hypoplectrus affinis (Poey, 1861)." Zootaxa, 5093, (2) 101–141. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5093.2.1.
Robertson, D. Ross, Tornabene, Luke, Lardizabal, Claudia C., and Baldwin, Carole C. 2022. "Submersibles Greatly Enhance Research on the Diversity of Deep-Reef Fishes in the Greater Caribbean." Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.800250.
Torres-Hernandez, Eloisa, Betancourt-Resendes, Isai, Angulo, Arturo, Robertson, D. Ross, Barraza, Enrique, Espinoza, Eduardo, Diaz-Jaimes, Pindaro, and Dominguez-Dominguez, Omar. 2022. "A multi-locus approach to elucidating the evolutionary history of the clingfish Tomicodon petersii (Gobiesocidae) in the Tropical Eastern Pacific." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107316.
Torres-Hernandez, Eloísa, Betancourt-Resendes, Isai, Gloria Solís-Guzmán, Maria, Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Martínez-Gómez, Juan E., Espinoza, Eduardo, and Domínguez-Domínguez, Omar. 2022. "Phylogeography and evolutionary history of the Panamic Clingfish Gobiesox adustus in the Tropical Eastern Pacific." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107496.
Stuthmann, Lara E., Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo A., and Robertson, D. Ross. 2022. "The functional ecology of mangrove fishes across the Isthmus of Panama." Diversity and Distributions, https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13519.
Robertson, D. Ross, Estapé, Carlos J., Estapé, Allison M., Richter, Lee, Peña, Ernesto, and Victor, Benjamin. 2022. "An updated, illustrated inventory of the marine fishes of the US Virgin Islands." ZooKeys, 1103 79–122. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1103.83795.
Robertson, D. Ross, Estapé, Carlos J., Estapé, Allison M., Richter, Lee, Peña, Ernesto, and Victor, Benjamin C. 2022. "Addendum and Corrigendum: An updated, illustrated inventory of the marine fishes of the US Virgin Islands (vol 1103, pg 79, 2022)." Zookeys, (1112) 219–221. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1112.87591.
Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo, Sharpe, Diana M. T., Robertson, D. R., and Torchin, Mark E. 2022. "Author Correction: A new wave of marine fish invasions through the Panama and Suez canals." Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6, (8) 1239–1239. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01849-1.
Tornabene, Luke, Manning, Rachel, Robertson, D. Ross, Van Tassell, James L., and Baldwin, Carole 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, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac013.
McFarland, Emily P., Baldwin, Carole C., Robertson, D. Ross, Rocha, Luiz A., and Tornabene, Luke. 2021. "Correction to A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) (vol 1008, pg 107, 2020)." Zookeys, (1036) 171–172. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1036.65739.
Beldade, Ricardo, Longo, Gary C., Clements, Kendall D., Robertson, D. Ross, Perez-Matus, Alejandro, Itoi, Shiro, Sugita, Haruo, and Bernardi, Giacomo. 2021. "Evolutionary origin of the Atlantic Cabo Verde nibbler (Girella stuebeli), a member of a primarily Pacific Ocean family of antitropical herbivorous reef fishes." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107021.
Carlon, David B., Robertson, D. Ross, Barron, Robert L., Choat, John Howard, Anderson, David J., Schwartz, Sonja A., and Sanchez-Ortiz, Carlos A. 2021. "The origin of the parrotfish species Scarus compressus in the Tropical Eastern Pacific: region-wide hybridization between ancient species pairs." Bmc Ecology and Evolution, 21, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01731-3.
Vilizzi, Lorenzo, Copp, Gordon H., Hill, Jeffrey E., Adamovich, Boris, Aislabie, Luke, Akin, Daniel, Al-Faisal, Abbas J., Almeida, David, Azmai, M. N. Amal, Bakiu, Rigers, Bellati, Adriana, Bernier, Renee, Bies, Jason M., Bilge, Gokcen, Branco, Paulo, Bui, Thuyet D., Canning-Clode, João, Cardoso Ramos, Henrique Anatole, Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo A., Castro, Nuno, Chaichana, Ratcha, Chainho, Paula, Chan, Joleen, Cunico, Almir M., Curd, Amelia et al. 2021. "A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions." Science of the Total Environment, 788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147868.
Long, Douglas J., Ebert, David A., Tavera, Jose, Acero P., Arturo, and Robertson, D. Ross. 2021. "Squatina mapama n. sp., a new cryptic species of angel shark (Elasmobranchii: Squatinidae) from the southwestern Caribbean Sea." Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 38 113–130. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.5806693.
Robertson, D. Ross, Dominguez-Dominguez, Omar, Solís-Guzmán, María G., and Kingon, Kelly C. 2021. "Origins of isolated populations of an Indo-Pacific damselfish at opposite ends of the Greater Caribbean." Aquatic Invasions, 16, (2) 269–280. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.04.
Robertson, D. Ross, Kingon, Kelly C., Baksh, Solomon, Estapé, Carlos J., and Estapé, Allison Morgan. 2021. "The Indo-Pacific damselfish Neopomacentrus cyanomos at Trinidad, southeast Caribbean." Aquatic Invasions, 16. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2021.16.2.03.
McFarland, Emily, Baldwin, Carole C., Robertson, D. Ross, Rocha, Luiz, and Tornabene, Luke M. 2020. [Dataset] Alignments of Sequence Data for Phylogenetic Analysis of Damsel. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.H9W0VT4GR.
Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo and Robertson, D. Ross. 2020. "A tropical fish out of water." Frontiers EcoPics, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2247.
Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo, Robertson, D. Ross, and Torchin, Mark E. 2020. "A new wave of marine fish invasions through the Panama and Suez canals." Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01301-2.
Chollett, Iliana and Robertson, D. Ross. 2020. "Comparing biodiversity databases: Greater Caribbean reef fishes as a case study." Fish and Fisheries, Article faf.12497. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12497.
Clarke, Tayler M., Reygondeau, Gabriel, Wabnitz, Colette, Robertson, D. Ross, Ixquiac-Cabrera, Manuel, Lopez, Myrna, Ramirez Coghi, Ana Rosa, del Rio Iglesias, Jose Luis, Wehrtmann, Ingo, and Cheung, William W. L. 2020. "Climate change impacts on living marine resources in the Eastern Tropical Pacific." Diversity and Distributions, https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13181.
McFarland, Emily P., Baldwin, Carole C., Robertson, D. Ross, Rocha, Luiz A., and Tornabene, Luke. 2020. "A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae)." Zookeys, (1008) 107–138. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.58805.
Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee, and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2020. "Misidentification of Bellator gymnostethus (Gilbert, 1892) as Prionotus ruscarius Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae)." Zootaxa, 4852, (1) 142. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.8.
Robertson, D. Ross, Estapé, Carlos J., Estapé, Allison M., Peña, Ernesto, Tornabene, Luke, and Baldwin, Carole C. 2020. "The marine fishes of St Eustatius Island, northeastern Caribbean: an annotated, photographic catalog." ZooKeys, 1007 145–180. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1007.58515.
Robertson, D. Ross and Peña, Ernesto. 2020. [Dataset] A set of six databases used in a study of the biogeography of Greater Caribbean reef fishes entitled: Comparing biodiversity databases: Greater Caribbean reef-fishes as a case study Iliana Chollett1, D. Ross Robertson2 1 Sea Cottage, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, Ireland 2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panamá. Distributed by Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3606645.
Robertson, D. Ross and Tornabene, Luke M. 2020. [Dataset] Reef-associated Bony Fishes of the Greater Caribbean: a Checklist; Version 2. Distributed by Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3974538.
Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo, Robertson, D. Ross, Pacheco-Chaves, Bernald, Angulo, Arturo, and Chong-Montenegro, Carolina. 2019. "Atlantic Tarpon in the Tropical Eastern Pacific 80 years after it first crossed the Panama Canal." Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 29, (2) 401–416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-019-09565-z.
Guzmán, Héctor M. and Robertson, D. Ross. 2019. [Dataset] SST_Coiba, Isla Catedral. Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.10068053.V1.
Linardich, Christi, Ralph, Gina M., Robertson, D. Ross, Harwell, Heather, Polidoro, Beth A., Lindeman, Kenyon C., and Carpenter, Kent E. 2019. "Extinction risk and conservation of marine bony shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico." Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 29, (1) 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2959.
MacKenzie, KM, Robertson, D. Ross, Adams, JN, Altieri, AH, and Turner, BL. 2019. "Structure and nutrient transfer in a tropical pelagic upwelling food web: from isoscapes to the whole ecosystem." Progress in Oceanography, 178 102145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102145.
Paton, Steven and Robertson, D. Ross. 2019. [Dataset] SST_San Blas. Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.10068065.V1.
