Marine Biodiversity - Highly cited articles in 2023 (articles published between 2021 and 2023)

Metabarcoding of zooplankton diversity within the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean: improved resolution from multi-gene markers and region-specific DNA databases
Jennifer M. Questel, Russell R. Hopcroft, Hayley M. DeHart, Caitlin A. Smoot, Ksenia N. Kosobokova & Ann Bucklin

DNA barcoding and cryptic diversity of deep-sea scavenging amphipods in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (Eastern Equatorial Pacific)
Inga Mohrbeck, Tammy Horton, Anna M. Jażdżewska & Pedro Martínez Arbizu

Global controversy in oyster systematics and a newly described species from SE Asia (Bivalvia: Ostreidae: Crassostreinae)
Julia D. Sigwart, Nur Leena W. S. Wong & Yuzine Esa

Introduced species in a tidal ecosystem of mud and sand: curse or blessing?
Karsten Reise, Christian Buschbaum, Dagmar Lackschewitz, David W. Thieltges, Andreas M. Waser & K. Mathias Wegner

Prey preferences, consumption rates and predation effects of Asian shore crabs (Hemigrapsus takanoi) in comparison to native shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) in northwestern Europe
Annika Cornelius, Katerina Wagner & Christian Buschbaum

Eurythenes atacamensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) exhibits ontogenetic vertical stratification across abyssal and hadal depths in the Atacama Trench, eastern South Pacific Ocean (this opens in a new tab)
Johanna N. J. Weston, Liliana Espinosa-Leal, Jennifer A. Wainwright, Eva C. D. Stewart, Carolina E. González, Thomas D. Linley, William D. K. Reid, Pamela Hidalgo, Marcelo E. Oliva, Osvaldo Ulloa, Frank Wenzhöfer, Ronnie N. Glud, Rubén Escribano & Alan J. Jamieson

A new species of pygmy Paroctopus Naef, 1923 (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae): the smallest southwestern Atlantic octopod, found in sea debris
Tatiana S. Leite, Erica A. G. Vidal, Françoise D. Lima, Sergio M. Q. Lima, Ricardo M. Dias, Giulia A. Giuberti, Davi de Vasconcellos, Jennifer A. Mather & Manuel Haimovici

Unexpected high abundance of aragonite-forming Nanipora (Octocorallia: Helioporacea) at an acidified volcanic reef in southern Japan
James Davis Reimer, Haruko Kurihara, Timothy Ravasi, Yoichi Ide, Michael Izumiyama & Hajime Kayanne

First complete description of the dark-mouth skate Raja arctowskii Dollo, 1904 from Antarctic waters, assigned to the genus Bathyraja (Elasmobranchii, Rajiformes, Arhynchobatidae)
Matthias F. W. Stehmann, Simon Weigmann & Gavin J. P. Naylor

Molecular and morphological systematics of the crinoid-parasitic snail genus Goodingia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Eulimidae) with new insights into intrafamilial phylogenetic relationships
Tsuyoshi Takano & Ryutaro Goto