Claus Nielsen

Claus Nielsen (1938–2024), Danish marine biologist.

Biosystematics, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Taxon names authored

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• 1 taxon names authored by Claus Nielsen

Publications

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• Nielsen, C. 1995. Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854868-0. Reference page. 
• Bourlat, S.J., Nielsen, C., Lockyer, A.E., Littlewood, D.T.J. & Telford, M.J. 2003. Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs. Nature 424: 925–928. DOI: 10.1038/nature01851 . Reference page. 
• Nielsen, C. 2003. Proposing a solution to the Articulata–Ecdysozoa controversy. Zoologica Scripta 32(5): 475–482. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00122.x .
• Bourlat, S.J., Nielsen, C., Economou, A.D. & Telford, M.J. 2008. Testing the new animal phylogeny: a phylum level molecular analysis of the animal kingdom. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(1): 23–31. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.07.008 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Nielsen, C. 2010. After all: Xenoturbella is an acoelomorph! Evolution & Development 12(3): 241–243. DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00408.x .
• Nielsen, C. 2012. The authorship of higher chordate taxa. Zoologica Scripta 41(4): 435–436. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00536.x .
• Nielsen, C. 2017. Loxosomella decorata n. sp., a new solitary entoproct from San Juan Island, WA, USA. Zootaxa 4238(4): 594–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.8 Reference page.