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Helena Wiklund
Principal Research Engineer
Department of MarineAbout Helena Wiklund
I work on benthic invertebrates from the deep-sea, using morphological information and molecular tools to describe taxa that are new to science and to document the biodiversity on abyssal plains.
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A tale of two tubeworms: taxonomy of vestimentiferans (Annelida: Siboglinidae) from the Mid-Cayman Spreading
Centre
M. N. Georgieva, N. N. Rimskaya-Korsakova, V. I. Krolenko, C. L. Van Dover, D. J. Amon, J. T. Copley, S. Plouviez, B. Ball, Helena Wiklund, A. G. Glover
Invertebrate Systematics - 2023 -
The Annelid Community of a Natural Deep-sea Whale Fall off Eastern
Australia
M. N. Georgieva, Helena Wiklund, D. A. Ramos, L. Neal, C. J. Glasby, L. M. Gunton
Records of the Australian Museum - 2023 -
Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biodiversity of Lumbrineridae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Central Pacific Clarion-Clipperton
Zone.
Lenka Neal, Emily Abrahams, Helena Wiklund, Muriel Rabone, Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Eva C D Stewart, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Adrian G Glover
ZooKeys - 2023 -
How many metazoan species live in the world’s largest
mineral exploration
region?
Muriel Rabone, Joris H. Weithase, Erik Simon-Lledo, Aidan M. Emery, Daniel O.B. Jones, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Helena Wiklund, Tammy Horton, Adrian G. Glover
Current Biology - 2023 -
Checklist of newly-vouchered annelid taxa from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean, based on morphology and genetic
delimitation
Helena Wiklund, M. Rabone, A. G. Glover, G. Bribiesca-Contreras, R. Drennan, E. C. D. Stewart, C. M. Boolukos, L. King, E. Sherlock, C. R. Smith, Thomas G. Dahlgren, L. Neal
Biodiversity Data Journal - 2023 -
Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world's largest marine minerals exploration
frontier
Eva C.D. Stewart, Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Sergi Taboada, Helena Wiklund, Ascensão Ravara, Ellen Pape, Bart De Smet, Lenka Neal, Marina R. Cunha, Daniel O.B. Jones, Craig R. Smith, Adrian G. Glover, Thomas G. Dahlgren
Diversity and Distributions - 2023 -
Abyssal fauna of polymetallic nodule exploration areas, eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Amphinomidae and Euphrosinidae (Annelida,
Amphinomida)
L. Neal, Helena Wiklund, L. M. Gunton, M. Rabone, G. Bribiesca-Contreras, Thomas G. Dahlgren, A. G. Glover
ZooKeys - 2022 -
Benthic megafauna of the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific
Ocean
G. Bribiesca-Contreras, Thomas G. Dahlgren, D. J. Amon, S. Cairns, R. Drennan, J. M. Durden, M. P. Eleaume, A. M. Hosie, A. Kremenetskaia, K. McQuaid, T. D. O'Hara, M. Rabone, E. Simon-Lledo, C. R. Smith, L. Watling, Helena Wiklund, A. G. Glover
Zookeys - 2022 -
Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV 'Investigator'
voyage
L. M. Gunton, E. K. Kupriyanova, T. Alvestad, L. Avery, J. A. Blake, O. Biriukova, M. Boggemann, P. Borisova, N. Budaeva, I. Burghardt, M. Capa, M. N. Georgieva, C. J. Glasby, P. W. Hsueh, P. Hutchings, N. Jimi, J. A. Kongsrud, J. Langeneck, K. Meissner, A. Murray, M. Nikolic, H. Paxton, D. Ramos, A. Schulze, R. Sobczyk, C. Watson, Helena Wiklund, R. S. Wilson, A. Zhadan, J. H. Zhang
Zookeys - 2021 -
The Current State of Eunicida (Annelida) Systematics and
Biodiversity
J. Zanol, L. E. Carrera-Parra, T. M. Steiner, A. C. Z. Amaral, Helena Wiklund, A. Ravara, N. Budaeva
Diversity - 2021 -
Neanthes goodayi sp. nov. (Annelida, Nereididae), a remarkable new annelid species living inside deep-sea polymetallic
nodules
Regan Drennan, Helena Wiklund, Muriel Rabone, Magdalena N. Georgieva, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Adrian G. Glover
European Journal of Taxonomy - 2021 -
Biogeography and Connectivity Across Habitat Types and Geographical Scales in Pacific Abyssal Scavenging
Amphipods
Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Tammy Horton, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Regan Drennan, Daniel O.B. Jones, Astrid B. Leitner, Kirsty A. McQuaid, Craig R. Smith, Sergio Taboada, Helena Wiklund, Adrian G. Glover
Frontiers in Marine Science - 2021 -
Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through Zootaxa and call for action on the taxonomic work that
remains
W. F. Magalhaes, P. Hutchings, A. Oceguera-Figueroa, P. Martin, R. M. Schmelz, M. J. Wetzel, Helena Wiklund, N. J. Maciolek, G. Y. Kawauchi, J. D. Williams
Zootaxa - 2021 -
Four new species and further records of Dorvilleidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from deep-sea organic substrata, NE
Atlantic
A. Ravara, Helena Wiklund, M. R. Cunha
European Journal of Taxonomy - 2021 -
Chiridota heheva-the cosmopolitan
holothurian
E. A. Thomas, R. Y. Liu, D. Amon, J. T. Copley, A. G. Glover, S. J. Helyar, K. Olu, Helena Wiklund, H. B. Zhang, J. D. Sigwart
Marine Biodiversity - 2020 -
Abyssal fauna of polymetallic nodule exploration areas, eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Annelida: Capitellidae, Opheliidae, Scalibregmatidae, and
Travisiidae
Helena Wiklund, L. Neal, A. G. Glover, R. Drennan, M. Rabone, Thomas G. Dahlgren
Zookeys - 2019 -
Phylogeny, evolution and mitochondrial gene order rearrangement in scale worms (Aphroditiformia,
Annelida)
Yanjie Zhang, Jin Sun, Greg W. Rouse, Helena Wiklund, Fredrik Pleijel, Hiromi K. Watanabe, Chong Chen, Pei Yuan Qian, Jian Wen Qiu
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 2018 -
Mitochondrial genome and polymorphic microsatellite markers from the abyssal sponge Plenaster craigi Lim & Wiklund, 2017: tools for understanding the impact of deep-sea
mining
Sergi Taboada, Nathan J. Kenny, Ana Riesgo, Helena Wiklund, Gordon L.J. Paterson, Thomas G. Dahlgren, Adrian G. Glover
Marine Biodiversity - 2018 -
Insights into the abundance and diversity of abyssal megafauna in a polymetallic-nodule region in the eastern Clarion-Clipperton
Zone
Diva J Amon, AF Ziegler, Thomas G. Dahlgren, AG Glover, A Goineau, AJ Gooday, Helena Wiklund, CR Smith
Scientific Reports - 2016 -
Abyssal fauna of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean:
Echinodermata.
Adrian G Glover, Helena Wiklund, Muriel Rabone, Diva J Amon, Craig R Smith, Tim O'Hara, Christopher L Mah, Thomas G. Dahlgren
Biodiversity data journal - 2016 -
Bertil Åkesson (1928-2013)
obituary.
Arne Nygren, Thomas Dahlgren, Fredrik Pleijel, Helena Wiklund, Tomas Cedhagen, Christer Erséus, Malte Andersson
Memoires of Museum Victoria - 2014 -
Two new Antarctic Ophryotrocha (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) described from shallow-water whale
bones
S Taboada, Helena Wiklund, A Glover, Thomas G. Dahlgren, J Cristobo, C Avila
Polar Biology - 2013 -
Systematics and biodiversity of Ophryotrocha (Annelida, Dorvilleidae) with descriptions of six new species from deep-sea whale-fall and wood-fall habitats in the north-east
Pacific
Helena Wiklund, I. V. Altamira, A. G. Glover, C. R. Smith, A. R. Baco, Thomas G. Dahlgren
Systematics and Biodiversity - 2012 -
Stable isotope signatures and methane use by New Zealand cold seep
benthos
Andrew R. Thurber, Kerstin Kröger, Carlos Neira, Helena Wiklund, Lisa A. Levin
MARINE GEOLOGY - 2010 -
High symbiont diversity in the bone-eating worm Osedax mucofloris from shallow whale-falls in the North
Atlantic
C Verna, A. Ramette, Helena Wiklund, Thomas G. Dahlgren, A. G. Glover, F. Gaill, N. Dubilier
Environmental Microbiology - 2010 -
Evolution of annelid diversity at whale-falls and other marine ephemeral
habitats
Helena Wiklund
2009 -
Cryptic speciation at organic-rich marine habitats: a new bacteriovore annelid from whale-fall and fish farms in the North-East
Atlantic
Helena Wiklund, A. G. Glover, P. J. Johannessen, Thomas G. Dahlgren
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society - 2009 -
Three new species of Ophryotrocha (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) from a whale-fall in the North-East
Atlantic
Helena Wiklund, A. G. Glover, Thomas G. Dahlgren
Zootaxa - 2009 -
The phylogenetic relationships between Amphinomidae, Archinomidae and Euphrosinidae (Amphinomida: Aciculata: Polychaeta), inferred from molecular
data
Helena Wiklund, Arne Nygren, Fredrik Pleijel, Per Sundberg
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK - 2008 -
Vrijenhoekia balaenophila, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off CaliforniaVrijenhoekia balaenophila, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off
California
Fredrik Pleijel, G. W. Rouse, C. Ruta, Helena Wiklund, Arne Nygren
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society - 2008 -
Phylogeny of Hesionidae (Aciculata, Polychaeta), assessed from morphology, 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, 16S rDNA and
COI
C. Ruta, Arne Nygren, V. Rousset, Per Sundberg, Helena Wiklund, Fredrik Pleijel
Zoologica Scripta - 2007 -
A shallow-water whale-fall experiment in the north
Atlantic
Thomas G. Dahlgren, Helena Wiklund, Björn Källström, Tomas Lundälv, C. R. Smith, A. G. Glover
Cahiers De Biologie Marine - 2006 -
Phylogeny of Aphroditiformia (Polychaeta) based on molecular and morphological
data
Helena Wiklund, Arne Nygren, Fredrik Pleijel, Per Sundberg
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 2005