Publications

Ames, Cheryl L., et al. “Cassiosomes Are Stinging-Cell Structures in the Mucus of the Upside-down Jellyfish Cassiopea Xamachana.” Communications Biology, vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0777-8.

Bezio, N., Browning, I., Bely, A., Rabeling, D., & Collins, A. (in review). Circumglobal distribution of the benthic ctenophore Vallicula multiformis (Rankin, 1956), documented through diverse observation types. Journal of Biogeography.

Bezio, N., & Collins, A. (2024). Redescription of the deep-sea benthic ctenophore genus Tjalfiella from the North Atlantic (Class Tentaculata, Order Platyctenida, Family Tjalfiellidae). Zootaxa, 5486(2), 241–266. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.4

Bezio, N. & Collins, A. (in review). Case xxxx– Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1789 junior objective synonym (currently Beroe beroe (Linnaeus, 1758); Ctenophora, Nuda: Beroidae): proposed conservation of the specific name. ICZN (accepted and awaiting case number)

Bezio, N., Collins, A., & Paulay, G. (in review). Beroida (Phylum: Ctenophora), an Order Shrouded in Confusion: a Nomenclatural Review of Beroe and Neis. Zootaxa.

Bezio, N., Paulay, G., & Collins, A. (2025). Benthoplanidae, a new family of benthic ctenophores (Platyctenida), based on morphological and genetic data. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, (jse.70023). doi:10.1111/jse.70023

Bezio, N. Perry, E. Costello, J. Colin, S. (2018). Effects of capture surface morphology of schypomedusae on feeding success: a comparative study. Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 596:83-93

Bezio, N., Semenov, A. & Soto-Angel, J.J. (2024). Remarkable occurrence of a two-mouthed Beroe in the White Sea. Mar. Biodivers. 54(26).

Ford, M. Collins, A. Bezio, N. (2020). Duobrachia sparksa (incertae sedis Ctenophora Tentaculata Cydippida): A new genus and species of benthopelagic ctenophore seen at 3,910 m depth off the coast of Puerto Rico. Plankton Benthos Res 15(4): 296–305

Gibbons, M.J., Morandini, A.C., Straehler-Pohl, I. & Bezio, N. (2022) Identification guide to macro jellyfishes of West Africa. FAO, Rome.

Jaspers. C, Bezio. N, Hinrichsen. H, (2021). Diversity and Physiological Tolerance of Native and Invasive Jellyfish/Ctenophores along the Extreme Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea. Diversity 13(2):57

Kaveh, S., Claereboudt, M., Hoeksema, B., McFadden, C., Bezio, N. and Paulay, G. (2023). Aggregations of a Sessile Ctenophore, Coeloplana sp., on Indo-West Pacific Gorgonians. Diversity 15, no. 10: 1060.

Lewis A, C. Klompen, A. Badhiwala, K. Muffett, K. Reft, A. Kumar, M. Janssen, J. Schultzhaus1, J. Field1, L. Muroskil, M. Bezio, N. Robinson, J. Leary, D. Cartwright, P. Collins, A. Vora11, G. (2020). Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana. Communications Biology 3(1):1-15

Lüskow, F., Bezio, N., Caputo, L., Chi, X., Dumont, H. J., Karunarathne, K. D., López-González, P. J., Mańko, M. K., Marchessaux, G., Suzuki, K. S., & Pakhomov, E. A. (2024). Hidden gems: Scattered knowledge hampered freshwater jellyfish research over the past one-and-a-half centuries. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e70350. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70350

Mills, C.E., Haddock, S.H.D., Bezio, N. (2023). Chapter 5. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies). Pp. 111–129 in: Kelly, M., Mills, S., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C., Nelson, W. (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp.