About me
I am interested in phenotypic diversity and population dynamics of fishes, generally in relation to habitat selection, foraging and adaptation.
Atavism in the threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus: four dorsal spines. * = additional dorsal spine.
Breeding tubercles of a nase, Chondrostoma. Skin is stained blue, the tubercles pink.
Schindleria, Infant fishes, are extremely progenetic gobiid fishes with a very fast generation time, up to nine generations the year. Different coloration is due to different preservation. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Osteological atlas of Quietula guaymasiae, a gobiid fish from the Eastern Central Pacific. Fig. 32: Jaws, suspensory and opercular series in lateral view. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Innervation of the free neuromasts of Lythrypnus dalli, a gobiid fish from the Eastern Central Pacific. Scale bar = 5 mm.
Publication list
2022
Ahnelt, H., Robitzch, V., & Abu El-Regal, M. (2022). A new species of toothless, short dorsal-fin Schindleria (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea (Egypt). Vertebrate Zoology, 72, 551-559.
Robitzch, V., Olivier, D., & Ahnelt, H. (Accepted/In press). First insight into the swimming behavior of the pedomorphic fish Schindleria sp. (Gobiidae). Ichthyological Research.
Wanzenböck, S., Fuxjäger, L., Ringler, E., Ahnelt, H., & Shama, L. N. S. (2022). Temperature-dependent reproductive success of stickleback lateral plate morphs: implications for population polymorphism and range shifts under ocean warming. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9(759450). doi.org/103389/fmars.2022.759450
2021
Ahnelt, H., Tougard, C., & Kovacic, M. (2021). Designation of a lectotype for the Canestrini’s Goby, Gobius canestrinii Ninni, 1883 (Teleostei, Gobiiformes, Gobiidae, Gobionellinae). Acta Adriatica, 62(1), 45–48. doi.org/10.32582/AA.62.1.2
Ahnelt, H., Ramler, D., Madsen, M. Ø., Jensen, L. F., & Windhager, S. (2021). Diversity and sexual dimorphism in the head lateral line system in North Sea populations of threespine sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus (Teleostei: Gasterosteidae). Zoomorphology, 140(1), 103 - 117. doi.org/10.1007/s00435-020-00513-1
Ahnelt, H., Pleitner, S., & Schulz, B. (2021). First records of the Oak bush-cricket Meconema thalassinum on three German North Sea islands (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Tettigoniidae). Fragmenta Entomologica, 53(1), 81-84 . doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/455
Ahnelt, H., Romanova, T., Klinge, A., Böhme, W., Fritz, U., & Asztalos, M. (2021). The common grass snake (Natrix natrix) on Sylt: human-mediated colonization of a North Sea island. Salamandra: Zeitschrift für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, 57(2), 285–290. www.salamandra-journal.com/index.php/home/contents/2021-vol-57/2033-ahnelt-h-t-romanova-a-klinge-w-boehme-u-fritz-m-asztalos
Robitzch, V., Schröder, M., & Ahnelt, H. (2021). Morphometrics reveal inter- and intraspecific sexual dimorphisms in two Hawaiian Schindleria, the long dorsal finned S. praematura and the short dorsal finned S. pietschmanni. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 292, 197–206.
Tougard, C., Vukić, J., Ahnelt, H., Buj, I., Kovačić, M., Moro, G. A., Tutmann, P., & Šanda, R. (2021). Quaternary climatic cycles promoted (re)colonization and diversification events in Adriatic sand gobies. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59(5), 1037-1052. doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12468
2020
Ahnelt, H., Wibowo, A., & Prianto, E. (2020). A new species of Pectenocypris (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from peat swamps in Sumatra. Vertebrate Zoology, 70(1), 1-8. doi.org/10.26049/VZ70-1-2020-01
Ahnelt, H. (2020). A new species of Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Tahiti (French Polynesia) with a unique lower jaw dentition. Vertebrate Zoology, 70(2), 195-205.
Ahnelt, H., & Sauberer, M. (2020). Deep-water, offshore, and new records of Schindler’s fishes, Schindleria (Teleostei, Gobiidae), from the Indo-west Pacific collected during the Dana-Expedition, 1928–1930. Zootaxa, 4731(4), 451–470.
Ahnelt, H., Sauberer, M., Ramler, D., Koch, L., & Pogoreutz, C. (2020). Negative allometric growth during ontogeny in the large pelagic filter-feeding basking shark. Zoomorphology: an international journal of comparative and functional morphology, 139(1), 71–83. doi.org/10.1007/s00435-019-00464-2
Mahdipour, E., Alavi-Yeganeh, M. S., Sharifpour, I., & Ahnelt, H. (2020). Reproductive biology of Caspian goby, Neogobius caspius (Eichwald, 1831) in the southern Caspian Sea (Noor beach). Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 19, 3345-3363.
Palandačić, A., Kruckenhauser, L., Ahnelt, H., & Mikschi, E. (2020). European minnows through time: museum collections aid genetic assessment of species introductions in freshwater fishes (Cyprinidae: Phoxinus species complex). Heredity, 124, 410–422.
2019
Ahnelt, H. (2019). Redescription of the paedomorphic goby Schindleria nigropunctata Fricke & El-Regal 2017 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea. Zootaxa.
Bogutskaya, N., & Ahnelt, H. (2019). New data on the western Balkan leuciscids Alburnoides and Alburnus (Teleostei, Leuciscidae) from the Vjosa River, Albania. ZooKeys, 870, 101-115. doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.870.36235
Bradić-Milinović, K., Ahnelt, H., Rundić, & Schwarzhans, W. (2019). The lost freshwater goby fish fauna (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from the early Miocene of Klinci (Serbia). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 138(2), 285-315. doi.org/10.1007/s13358-019-00194-4
Fuxjäger, L., Wanzenböck, S., Ringler, E., Wegner, K. M., Ahnelt, H., & Shama, L. N. S. (2019). Within-generation and transgenerational plasticity of mate choice in oceanic stickleback under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 374(1768), [Y]. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0183