Paco Cárdenas

Paco Cárdenas (1976–), French spongiologist.

• Curator of Zoology, Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Sweden. (2022-)
• Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Pharmacognosy, BioMedical Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. (2020-2022)
• Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Division of Pharmacognosy, BioMedical Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. (2014-2020)
• Department of Organismal Biology, Division of Systematic Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. (2011-2014)

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• 42 taxon names authored by Paco Cárdenas

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• 1 eponym of Paco Cárdenas

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• Cárdenas, P., Xavier, J., Tendal, O., Schander, C. & Rapp, H.T. 2007. Redescription and resurrection of Pachymatisma normani (Demospongiae, Geodiidae), with remarks on the genus Pachymatisma. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87(6): 1511–1525. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407058286 Reference page. 

• Cárdenas, P., Menegola, C., Rapp, H.T. & Díaz, M.C. 2009. Morphological description and DNA barcodes of shallow-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Bocas del Toro, Panama, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 2276(1): 1–39. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2276.1.1 Reference page. 

• Cárdenas, P., Rapp, H.T., Schander, C. & Tendal, O.S. 2010. Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the Geodiidae (Porifera,Demospongiae, Astrophorida) - combining phylogenetic and Linnaean classification. Zoologica Scripta 39(1): 89–106. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00402.x Reference page. 

• Cárdenas, P., Xavier, J.R., Reveillaud, J., Schander, C. & Rapp, H.T. 2011. Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18318. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018318 Reference page. 

• Cárdenas, P. & Rapp, H.T. 2012. A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species. Zootaxa 3253(1): 1–53. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3253.1.1 Reference page. 
• Cárdenas, P., Pérez, T. & Boury-Esnault, N. 2012. Chapter two – Sponge Systematics Facing New Challenges. pp. 79-209 in Becerro, M.A., Uriz, M.J., Maldonado, M. & Turon, X. (eds.). Advances in Sponge Science: Phylogeny, Systematics, Ecology. Advances in Marine Biology 61: 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-12-387787-1 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-387787-1.00010-6 Reference page. 
• Gazave, E., Lapébie, P., Ereskovsky, A.V., Vacelet, J., Renard, E., Cárdenas, P. & Borchiellini, C. 2012. No longer Demospongiae: Homoscleromorpha formal nomination as a fourth class of Porifera. In: Maldonado, M., Turon, X., Becerro, M.A. & Uriz, M.J. (Eds). Ancient Animals, New Challenges. Sponge Research Developments. Hydrobiologia 687(1): 3–10. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0842-x Reference page. 

• Redmond, N.E., Morrow, C.C., Thacker, R.W., Díaz, M.C., Boury-Esnault, N., Cárdenas, P., Hajdu, E., Lôbo-Hajdu, G., Picton, B.E., Pomponi, S.A., Kayal, E. & Collins, A.G. 2013. Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(3): 388–415. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict078 Reference page. 

• Cárdenas, P. & Rapp, H.T. 2015. Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 95(7): 1475–1516. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315415000983 Reference page. 
• Morrow, C. & Cárdenas, P. 2015. Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera). Frontiers in Zoology 12: 7. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-015-0099-8 Reference page. 

• Cárdenas, P. & Thollesson, M. 2016. A new Hymedesmia (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with large sigmas off western Sweden. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 96(6): 1305–1312. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315415001630 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M. & Cárdenas, P. 2016. An unprecedented new genus and family of Tetractinellida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from New Zealand's Colville Ridge, with a new type of mitochondrial group I intron. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177(2): 335–352. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12365 Reference page. 

• Carballo, J.L., Bautista-Guerrero, E., Cárdenas, P., Cruz-Barraza, J.A. & Aguilar-Camacho, J.M. 2018. Molecular and morphological data from Thoosidae in favour of the creation of a new suborder of Tetractinellida. Systematics and Biodiversity 16(5): 512–521. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2018.1457100 Reference page. 
• Cárdenas, P., Vacelet, J., Chevaldonné, P., Pérez, T. & Xavier, J.R. 2018. From marine caves to the deep-sea, a new look at Caminella (Demospongiae, Geodiidae) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region. Pp 174–196 In Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & de Voogd, N.J. (eds.). Deep Sea and Cave Sponges. Zootaxa 4466(1): 1–237. Reference page.  Zootaxa 4466(1): 174–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.14 Reference page. 
• Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & de Voogd, N.J. (eds.). Deep Sea and Cave Sponges. Zootaxa 4466(1): 1–237. Reference page. 
• Vacelet, J. & Cárdenas, P. 2018. When is an aster not an aster? A new deep-sea Discorhabdella (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with asters, from the Mozambique Channel. Pp 197–204 In Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & de Voogd, N.J. (eds.). Deep Sea and Cave Sponges. Zootaxa 4466(1): 1–237. Reference page.  Zootaxa 4466(1): 197–204. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.15 Reference page. 

• Kelly, M., Cárdenas, P., Rush, N., Sim-Smith, C., Macpherson, D., Page, M. & Bell, L.J. 2019. Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 506: 1–25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.506 Reference page. 
• Sorokin, S.J., Ekins, M.G., Yang, Q. & Cárdenas, P. 2019. A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny. European Journal of Taxonomy 529: 1–26. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.529 Reference page. 
• Rubin-Blum, M., Antony, C. P., Sayavedra, L., Martínez-Pérez, C., Birgel, D., Peckmann, J., Wu, Y.-C., Cárdenas, P., MacDonald, I., Marcon, Y., Sahling, H., Hentschel, U. & Dubilier, N. 2019. Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts. The ISME Journal 13(5): 1209-1225. DOI: 10.1038/S41396-019-0346-7 Reference page. 
• Adl. S.M., Bass, D., Lane, C.E., Burger, G., Schoch, C.L., Smirnov, A., Agatha, S., Berney, C., Brown, M.W., Burki, F., Cárdenas, P., Čepička, I., Chistyakova, L., Del Campo, J., Dunthorn, M., Edvardsen, B., Eglit, Y., Guillou, L., Hampl, V., Heiss, A.A., Hoppenrath, M., James, T.Y., Karnkowska, A.E., Karpov, S., Kim, E., Kolisko, M., Lahr, D.J.G., Lara, E., Le Gall, L., Lynn, D.H., Mann, D.G., Massana, R., Mitchell, E.A.D., Morrow, C., Park, J.S., Pawlowski, J.W., Powell, M.J., Richter, D.J., Rueckert, S., Shadwick, L., Shimano, S., Spiegel, F.W., Torruella, G., Youssef, N., Zlatogursky, V.V. & Zhang, Q. 2018 (Online) 2019 (Print). Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 66(1): 4–119. DOI: 10.1111/JEU.12691 . Reference page. 

• Carvalho, F.C., Cárdenas, P., Ríos, P., Cristobo, J., Rapp, H.T., Xavier, J.R. 2020. Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species. PeerJ. 8: e8703. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8703 Reference page. 
• Cárdenas, P. 2020. Surface Microornamentation of Demosponge Sterraster Spicules, Phylogenetic and Paleontological Implications Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 613610. DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2020.613610 Reference page. 

• Schuster, A., Pomponi, S.A., Pisera, A., Cárdenas, P., Kelly, M., Wörheide, G. & Erpenbeck, D. 2021. Systematics of ‘lithistid’ tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic – implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution. PeerJ 9:e10775. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10775 Reference page. 

• Cárdenas, P., Gamage, J., Hettiarachchi, C.M. & Gunasekera, S. 2022. Good Practices in Sponge Natural Product Studies: Revising Vouchers with Isomalabaricane Triterpenes. Marine Drugs 20(3): 190. DOI: 10.3390/md20030190 Reference page. 

• Steffen, K., Proux-Wéra, E., Soler, L., Churcher, A., Sundh, J. & Cárdenas, P. 2023. Whole genome sequence of the deep-sea sponge Geodia barretti (Metazoa, Porifera, Demospongiae). G3 (Genes, Genomes, Genetics). DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad192 Reference page. 

• Díaz, J.A., Ordines, F., Massutí, E. & Cárdenas, P. 2024. From caves to seamounts: the hidden diversity of tetractinellid sponges from the Balearic Islands, with the description of eight new species. PeerJ. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16584 Reference page.