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Relevant Publications

2002:

Nielsen, J.G. and D.M. Cohen (2002) Notes on Bythites (Pisces, Bythitidae), with a new genus for B. hollisi. Archive of Fishery and Marine Research 50(1):49-54. Link to Abstract

2004:

Chernova, N. V. and D. L. Stein. (2004) A remarkable new species of Psednos (Teleostei: Liparidae) from the western North Atlantic Ocean. Fishery Bulletin 102(2):245-250. Link to Article

Quattrini, A.M., S.W. Ross, K.J. Sulak, A-M. Necaise, T.L. Casazza, G. D. Dennis (2004) Marine fishes new to continental United States waters, North Carolina, and the Gulf of Mexico Southeastern Naturalist 3(1):155-172. Link to Abstract

2005:

Casazza, T.L., S.W. Ross, A-M. Necaise and K.J. Sulak (2005) Reproduction and mating behavior of the Atlantic flyingfish, Cheilopogon melanurus (Exocoetidae), off North Carolina. Bulletin of Marine Science 77(3):363-375. Link to Abstract

Meister, H.S., D.M. Wyanski, J.K. Loefer, S.W. Ross, A.M. Quattrini and K.J. Sulak (2005) Further Evidence for the Invasion and Establishment of Pterois volitans (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) along the Atlantic coast of the United States. Southeastern Naturalist 4(2):193-206. Link to Article  Link to Abstract

Reed, J.K. and S.W. Ross (2005) Deep-water reefs off the southeastern U.S.: recent discoveries and research. Current 21(4):33-37. Link to Abstract

2006:

Quattrini, A.M. and S.W. Ross (2006) Fishes associated with North Carolina shelf-edge hardbottoms and initial assessment of a proposed marine protected area. Bulletin of Marine Science 79(1):137-163. Link to Abstract

Williams, B., M.J. Risk, S.W. Ross and K.J. Sulak (2006) Deep-water antipatharians: proxies of environmental change. Geology 34(9):773-776. Link to Article

2007:

Brooks, R.A., M.S. Nizinski, S.W. Ross and K.J. Sulak (2007) Sublethal Injury Rate in a Deepwater Ophiuroid, Ophiacantha bidentata, an Important Component of Western Atlantic Lophelia reef communities. Marine Biology 152(2):307-314. Link to Abstract

Caruso, J.H., S.W. Ross, K.J. Sulak and G.R. Sedberry (2007) Deep-water chaunacid and lophiid anglerfishes (Pisces: Lophiiformes) off the Southeastern United States Journal of Fish Biology 70(4):1015-1026. Link to Abstract

McCosker, J.E. and S.W. Ross (2007) A New Deepwater Species of the Snake Eel Genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from North Carolina. Copeia 2007(4):783-787. Link to Abstract

Partyka, M.L., S.W. Ross, A.M. Quattrini, G.R. Sedberry, T.W. Birdsong, J. Potter and S. Gottfried (2007) Southeastern United States Deep Sea Corals (SEADESC) Initiative: A Collaboration to Characterize Areas of Habitat-Forming Deep-Sea Corals. NOAA Tech. Memo. OAR OER 1. 176 pp. Link to Abstract

Ross, S.W., T.L. Casazza, A.M. Quattrini and K.J. Sulak (2007) Anguilliform larvae collected off North Carolina. Marine Biology 150(4):681-695. Link to Abstract

Ross, S.W. (2007) Unique deep-water ecosystems off the southeastern United States. Oceanography 20(4):130-139. Link to Article

Ross, S.W. and M.S. Nizinski (2007) State of Deep Coral Ecosystems in the U.S. Southeast Region: Cape Hatteras to southeastern Florida. p. 233-270, Ch 6 In: Lumsden, S.E., T.F. Hourigan, A.W. Bruckner and G. Dorr (Eds.). The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States. NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-3. Silver Spring, MD. 365 pp. Link to Abstract

Ross, S.W. and A.M. Quattrini (2007) The Fish Fauna Associated with Deep Coral Banks off the Southeastern United States. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 54(6):975-1007. Link to Article

Williams, B., M.J. Risk, S.W. Ross and K.J. Sulak (2007) Stable isotope data from deep-water antipatharians: 400-year records from the southeastern coast of the United States of America. Bulletin of Marine Science 81(3):437-447. Link to Abstract

2008:

Casazza, T.L. and S.W. Ross (2008) Fishes associated with pelagic Sargassum and non-structured, open-water habitats in the Gulf Stream off North Carolina, USA. Fishery Bulletin 106(4):348-363. Link to Abstract

Fernholm, B. and A.M. Quattrini (2008) A New Species of Hagfish (Myxinidae: Eptatretus) Associated with Deep-Sea Coral Habitat in the Western North Atlantic. Copeia 2008(1):126-132. Link to Abstract

Gartner, J. V., Jr., K. J. Sulak, S. W. Ross, and A-M Necaise (2008) Persistent near-bottom aggregations of mesopelagic animals along the North Carolina and Virginia continental slopes. Marine Biology 153(5):825-841. Link to Abstract

Henry, L-A., M.S. Nizinski and S.W. Ross (2008) Occurrence and biogeography of hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from deep-water coral habitats off the southeastern United States. Deep-Sea Research I 55(6):788-800. Link to Article

Messing, C.G., J.K. Reed, S.D. Brooke and S.W. Ross (2008) Deep-Water Coral Reefs of the United States. p. 763-787. In: Riegl, B. & R.E. Dodge (eds.). Coral Reefs of the USA. Springer. 802 pp. Link to Abstract

Morrison, C.L., M.S. Eackles, R.L. Johnson and T. L. King (2008) Characterization of 13 microsatellite loci for the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus 1758) from the western North Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Molecular Ecology Resources 8(5):1037-1039. Link to Abstract

2009:

Kellogg, C. A. J.T. Lisle and J.P. Galkiewicz (2009) Culture-independent Characterization of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Cold-Water Coral Lophelia pertusa in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75(8): 2294-2303. Link to Abstract

Nielsen, J.G., S.W. Ross and D.M. Cohen (2009) Atlantic occurrence of the genus Bellottia (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with two new species from the Western North Atlantic. Zootaxa 2018:45-57. Link to Article

Quattrini, A.M., M.L. Partyka and S.W. Ross (2009) Aspects of the reproductive biology of the skate Fenestraja plutonia (Garman) off North Carolina. Southeastern Naturalist 8(1):55-70. Link to Article

Ross, S.W. and A.M. Quattrini (2009) Deep-sea reef fish assemblage patterns on the Blake Plateau (Western North Atlantic Ocean). Marine Ecology 30(1):74-92. Link to Abstract   Link to Article