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
2021
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, 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 .
Ahnelt, H., Romanova, T., Klinge, A., Böhme, W., Fritz, U., & Asztalos, M. (Accepted/In press). The common grass snake (Natrix natrix) on Sylt: human-mediated colonization of a North Sea island. Salamandra: Zeitschrift für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, 57(2).
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.
2020
Ahnelt, H., Wibowo, A., & Prianto, E. (2020). A new species of Pectenocypris (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from peat swamps in Sumatra. Vertebrate Zoology, 70, 1-8.
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, 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 cyprinids Alburnoides and Alburnus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Leuciscinae) from the Vjosa River (Albania). ZooKeys.
Bradić-Milinović, 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.
Fuxjäger, L., Wanzenböck, S., Ringler, E., Wegner, K. M., Ahnelt, H., & Shama, L. N. S. (2019). Adaptive significance of transgenerational plasticity: mate choice and reproductive success of oceanic stickleback under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.
2018
Ahnelt, H., & Sauberer, M. (2018). A new species of Schindler's fish (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Schindleria) from the Malay Archipelago (Southeast Asia), with notes on the caudal fin complex of Schindleria. Zootaxa, 4531(1). doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4531.1.4
Ahnelt, H., Konecny, R., Gabriel, A., Bauer, A., Pompei, L., Lorenzoni, M., & Sattmann, H. (2018). First report of the parasitic copepod Lernaea cyprinacea (Copepoda: Lernaeidae) on gobioid fishes (Teleostei: Gobonellidae) in southern Europe. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 419. doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2018022
Ahnelt, H. (2018). Imprecise naming: The anadromous and the sea spawning threespine stickleback should be discriminated by names. Biologia, 73(4), 389-392. doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0038-1
Atminarso, D., Wibowo, A. (Ed.), Kusuma, W. E., Prianto, E., Ahnelt, H., Vasemägi, A., & Kumazawa, Y. (2018). The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of Pectenocypris sp. (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) from Serkap River, Sumatra, Indonesia. Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 3, 122-124. doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1424585
Pichler, A., Ahnelt, H., Kirchner, S., Sattmann, H., Haring, E., Handschuh, S., Freyhof, J., Victor, R., & Kruckenhauser, L. (2018). The morphological diversity of Garra barreimiae [Teleostei: Cyprinidae]. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 101(6), 1053-1065. doi.org/10.1007/s10641-018-0758-7