Dr Elena Kupriyanova
My research interests are centered on taxonomy, biodiversity, systematics, phylogeny, life history, reproduction, and evolution of marine invertebrates, especially of the polychaete family Serpulidae. I also worked on mollusks, fish, and terrestrial oligochaetes.
Qualifications
- PhD Flinders University, Australia, 2004
- MSc University of Arkansas, USA, 1995
- Diploma in Biology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1990
Awards and grants
- Friday Harbor Laboratories Fellowship, USA, July 1994, June 1996.
- Wade Family Fellowship, Duke University Marine Laboratory, USA, June 1994
- International Postgraduate Research Scholarship Fellowship and Flinders University Research Scholarship 1999-2003
- Elaine Martin Travel Award, Flinders University of South Australia, 2001
- Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, USA, Travel Award, 2004
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Short-Term Invitation Fellowship, 2007
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Long-Term Invitation Fellowship, 2008-2010
- KAKENHI (20008766) grant-in-aid, JSPS, Japan, 2009
- Marie Currie Fellowship, 2010 (declined)
- Systematics Society Fund grant, 2011
- The Australian Museum Foundation Grant, 2012
- Australian Biological Resources Survey (ABRS) grant, 2013
Professional Memberships
- Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Australian Marine Science Association
- Society for the Study of Evolution
- The Systematics Association
- Society of Australian Systematic Biologists
Research Projects
- Evolution of trochophore larvae of serpulid polychaetes
2. Revision of the genus Hydroides (Polychaeta, Serpulidae)
3. Evolution of biomineralisation in deep-sea polychaetes
4. Revision of invasive genera of calcareous tubeworms (Polychaeta, Serpulidae)
Selected presentations
- 2000 - Annual meeting of the Australian Marine Science Association, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Oral presentation: "Are echinoderms and polychaetes created equal? A view of a worm fan on life histories of fan worms".2001 - The 9th International Congress on Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, Grahamstown, South Africa. Oral presentation: "Variation in sperm swimming behaviour and its effect on fertilization success in the serpulid polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa"
- 2004 - The 8th International Polychaete Conference, Madrid, Spain. Oral presentation: "Fertilisation success in serpulid polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa: gamete characteristics, role of sperm dilution, gamete age, and contact time"
- 2004 - The 10th International Congress on Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, Newcastle, UK. Oral presentation: "Effects of temperature on sperm swimming behaviour, respiration, and fertilisation success in the serpulid polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa"
- 2005 – Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Diego, California, USA. Oral presentation: “Browsing through old journals: lessons learned from earlier fecundity-time models.”
- 2007 – The 9th International Polychaete Conference, Portland, Maine, USA. Oral presentation: “Are feeding larvae always primitive? What serpulid phylogeny can tell us about metazoan life-history evolution”
- 2010 – Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Reykjavík, Iceland. Oral presentation: “Undiscovered diversity of abyssal serpulids”
- 2010 – The 10th International Polychaete Conference, Lecce, Italy. Oral presentation: “Phylogenetic relationships within Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) inferred from morphology and DNA sequences: a proposed new classification”
- 2011 – The 4th International Barcoding Conference, Adelaide, Australia. Oral presentation: “CO1 barcoding of Hydroides: a road from impossible to difficult”
- 2012 – The 10th International larval Biology Symposium, Berkeley, CA, USA. Oral presentation: "The biogeography of marine invertebrate life-histories”
- 2012 – The 13th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand. Oral presentation: “Hadal serpulid polychaetes: calcareous tubeworms beyond the abyss”
- 2012 – The 13th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand. Poster presentation: “Are Mesozoic shallow-water serpulids (Annelida, Polychaeta) ancestors of the Recent deep-sea fauna?”
- 2013 - The 11th International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia. Oral presentation: “Written in stone: history of serpulids through time and space”.
- 2013 - The 11th International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia. Poster presentation: "The Synonymy of Chitinopoma and Chitinopomoides with Filogranula (Serpulidae) and description of a new species".
- 2013 - The 11th International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia (4- 9 August). Oral presentation: “Cryptic sympatric species across the Australian range of the global estuarine invader, Ficopomatus enigmaticus”
- 2015 – Australian Marine Science Association Annual Meeting, Geelong, Vic, Australia. Oral presentation “Is Hydroides brachyacanthus a widely-distributed species”
- 2016 – The 9th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, Sydney, Australia. Oral presentation “Understanding invasive polychaetes: integrative taxonomy to the rescue”
- 2016 – 12th International Polychaete Conference, Cardiff, UK, 1-5 August 2016. Poster presentation: “Origin of invasive fanworm Sabella spallanzanii (Sabellidae, Annelida) in Australia and New Zealand”.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Kupriyanova, E.K. 1993. Filogranula rzhavski sp. n. (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) from the Russian Far Eastern Seas. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 72(1):142-145. (In Russian).
- Kupriyanova, E.K. 1993. Deep-water Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Kurile-Kamchatka trench: 1. Genus Hyalopomatus. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 72(1): 145-152. (In Russian).
- Kupriyanova, E.K. 1993. Deep-water Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Kurile-Kamchatka trench: 2. Genera Bathyditrupa, Bathyvermilia, and Protis. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 72(3): 21-28. (In Russian).
- Kupriyanova, E.K. 1993. Metavermilia arctica sp. n. (Serpulidae, Polychaeta) from the Arctic Ocean. Sarsia 78: 155-157.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. & Rzhavsky A.V. 1993. Serpula and Crucigera (Annelida, Polychaeta) of the Russian Far Eastern Seas. Ophelia 38: 47-54.
- Kupriyanova E.K. & Jirkov I. A. 1997. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) of the Arctic Ocean. Sarsia 82(3): 203-236.
- Kupriyanova, E.K & Bailey, C.F. 1998. Disturbance effect of largemouth bass nesting on freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 13(3): 333-341.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. & Badyaev A.V. 1998. Ecological correlates of Arctic Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) distributions. Ophelia 49(3): 181-193.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. 1999. The taxonomic status of Serpula columbiana Johnson 1901 the Asian and American coasts of the North Pacific Ocean. Ophelia 50 (1): 21-34.
- Ozolinsh A.V. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2000. Hitchhiking on scallops: grazing avoidance by macrophytes. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 80: 743-744.
- Kupriyanova, E.K., E. Nishi, H.A. ten Hove, & A.V. Rzhavsky 2001. A review of life history in serpulimorph polychaetes: ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 39:1-101.
- Kupriyanova E. K and Havenhand J. N. 2002. Variation in sperm swimming behaviour and its effect on fertilization success in the serpulid polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 41: 21-26.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. 2003. Evolution of life history in Serpulimorph polychaetes: a phylogenetic analysis. Hydrobiologia 496: 105-114.
- Kupriyanova, E. K. and Havenhand, J. H. 2005. Effects of temperature on sperm swimming behaviour, respiration and fertilisation success in the serpulid polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa (Annelida: Serpulidae). Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 48: 7-17.
- Kupriyanova, E. K. 2006. Fertilization success in Galeolaria caespitosa (Serpulidae, Annelida): the role of sperm dilution, gamete age and contact time. Scientia Marina 70: 309-317.
- Kupriyanova, E. K., T.A. McDonald & Rouse, G.W. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships within Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) inferred from molecular and morphological data. Zoologica Scripta 35: 421-439.
- Nishi, E., Kupriyanova, E. K. & Tachikawa, H. 2007. Metavermilia ogasawaraensis sp. nov. (Serpulidae: Sabellida: Polychaeta: Annelida) from deep-sea locations off Ogasawara Island, Japan with the taxonomic review of the genus Metavermilia. Zootaxa 1447: 47-56.
- Kupriyanova, E. K. and G.W. Rouse. 2008. Yet another example of paraphyly in Annelida: molecular evidence that Sabellidae contains Serpulidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1174-1181.
- Kupriyanova, E.K., Bastida-Zavala, R., Halt, M.N., Lee, M., and Rouse, G.W. 2008. Phylogeny of the Serpula-Crucigera-Hydroides clade (Serpulidae; Annelida) using molecular and morphological data: implications for operculum evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 425-437.
- Styan, C.A., Kupriyanova, E. K., Havenhand, J. N. 2008. Strong barriers to cross-fertilization between populations of a polychaete species are unlikely to have arisen through gametic compatibility arms-races. Evolution 62(12): 3041-3055.
- Link, H., E. Nishi, K. Tanaka, R. Bastida-Zavala, & E.K. Kupriyanova, T. Yamakita. 2009. Hydroides dianthus (Polychaeta: Serpulidae), an alien species introduced into Tokyo Bay, Japan. JMBA2 – Biodiversity Records 6430: 1-6.
- Hove, H.A. ten and Kupriyanova, E. K. 2009. Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): the state of affairs. Zootaxa 2036: 1-126.
- Halt, M. N. Kupriyanova, E. K., Cooper, S. J. B. & Rouse G.W. 2009. Naming species with no morphological indicators: species status of Galeolaria caespitosa (Annelida, Serpulidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology. Invertebrate Systematics 23: 205-222.
- Kupriyanova, E.K., ten Hove, H.A. Sket, B., Zakšek, V., Trontelj, P., and Rouse, G.W. 2009. Evolution of a unique freshwater cave-dwelling serpulid polychaete Marifugia cavatica Absolon and Hrabe, 1930. Systematics and Biodiversity 7: 389-401.
- Nishi, E., T. Masumoto, M. Taru, S. Nakayama, M. Kazama-Wakabayashi, M. Monju, N. Suyama, M. Aida, M. Sato, K. Tanaka and Kupriyanova E. K. 2009. Polychaete fauna and diversity around Haneda, Tokyo Bay, a result of environmental assessment of Haneda Airport enlargement construction. Proceedings of the 21th Ocean Engineering Symposium, August 6-7, 2009, OES21-191, pp. 1-8. (In Japanese with English abstract)
- Kupriyanova, E.K., E. Nishi, M. Kawato, and Y. Fujiwara. 2010. New records of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from hydrothermal vents of North Fiji, Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 2389: 57-68.
- Blakemore, R.J., E.K. Kupriyanova, M.J. Grygier, 2010. Neotypification of Drawida hattamimizu Hatai, 1930 (Oligochaeta: Megadrili: Moniligastridae) and the first DNA (COI) sequences from an earthworm type, plus response to the ‘Can of worms’ theory of cryptic species. Zookeys 41: 1-29.
- Blakemore, R.J. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2010. Unraveling some Kinki worms (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Megadrili: Moniligastridae) - Part I. Opuscula Zoologica 41(1): 3–18.
- Nishi, E., J. H. Bailey-Brock, A. Souza Dos Santos, H. Tachikawa & Kupriyanova E. K.. 2010. Sabellaria isumiensis n. sp. (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from shallow waters off Onjuku, Boso Peninsula, Japan, and re-description of three Indo-West Pacific sabellariid species. Zootaxa 2680: 1-25.
Sabellaria isumiensis n. sp. - Kupriyanova, E.K. and Nishi E. 2010. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Patton-Murray Seamount, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 2665: 51-68.
Apomatus voightae n. sp. - Kupriyanova E.K. 2010. Hyalopomatus mironovi. In Morineaux, M. Baker, M. Ramirez-Llodra E. and Desbruyères. D. Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. DVD. ChEss and Ifremer.
- Nishi, E. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2011. Polychaete fauna of Boso Peninsula coasts and adjacent areas, with notes on polychaete type specimens deposited in Chiba Prefectural Museums. Natural History Research 9: 45-60.
- Kupriyanova, E.K, Bailey-Brock, J.H. and Nishi E. 2011. New records of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected by R/V "Vityaz"from bathyal and abyssal depths of the Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 2871: 43–60.
- Vinn, O. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2011. Evolution of dense outer protective tube layer in serpulids (Polychaeta, Annelida). Carnets de Géologie 5: 137-147.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. & E. Nishi. 2011. New records of the deep-sea Nogrobs grimaldii (Serpulidae: Annelida). Marine Biodiversity Records 4 (e74): 1-4.
- Marshall, D.J., P. J. Krug, E.K. Kupriyanova, M. Byrne, & R.B. Emlet. 2012. The Biogeography of marine invertebrate life histories. Annual Reviews of Ecology, Systematics, and Evolution 43: 97-114.
- Vinn, O., E. K. Kupriyanova, & S. Kiel. 2012. Systematics of serpulid tubeworms (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Cretaceous and Cenozoic hydrocarbon-seep deposits in North America and Europe. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 265 (3): 315-325.
- Kupriyanova, E.K., ten Hove, H.A & E. Nishi. 2012. A taxonomic revision of the genus Pseudochitinopoma Zibrowius, 1969 (Serpulidae, Annelida) with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 3507: 57–78.
- Sun, Y., Kupriyanova, E.K. & Qiu, J. W., 2012. CO1 barcoding of Hydroides: a road from impossible to difficult. Invertebrate Systematics 26(6): 539-547.
- Vinn, O., Kupriyanova E. K. & S. Kiel. 2013. Serpulids (Annelida, Polychaeta) at Cretaceous to modern hydrocarbon seeps: ecological and evolutionary patterns. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 390: 35-41.
- Rzhavsky A.V., Kupriyanova E.K. & Sikorski A.V. 2013. Two new species of serpulid polychaetes from the Barents Sea. Fauna Norvegica 32: 27-38.
- Kolbasova, G. Tzetlin, A.B. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2013. Biology of Pseudopotamilla reniformis (Sabellidae) in the White Sea with a description of asexual reproduction. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 57 (4): 264-275.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. 2014. What do egg size distributions in marine invertebrates tell us about validity of fecundity-time models? Marine Ecology 35 (2): 249–253.
- Kupriyanova, E.K., Vinn O., Taylor P., J. W. Schopf, A. Kudryavtsev, Bailey-Brock, J. 2014. Serpulids living deep: calcareous tubeworms beyond the abyss. Deep-Sea Research I 90: 91-104.
- Kolbasova, G., Tzetlin, A.B. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2014. Chaetal loss and replacement in Pseudopotamilla reniformis (Sabellida, Annelida). Invertebrate Biology 133 (3), 261-273, 2014
- Ippolitov, A.P., Vinn, O. Kupriyanova, E.K. & Jäger, M. 2014. Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: 123-160.
- Wong, E., Kupriyanova, E.K., Hutchings, P.A., M. Capa, V. I. Radashevsky & H.A. ten Hove. 2014. A graphically illustrated glossary to polychaete terminology: invasive species of Sabellidae, Serpulidae and Spionidae. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: 327-342.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. & Mikhin. D. Yu. 2014. Do fecundity-time models really predict extreme optimal egg sizes? Marine Ecology 35 (2): 249–253
- Willette, D.A., Iñiguez, A.R, Kupriyanova, E.K., Starger, C.J. Varman,,T., Toha, A.H.,., Maralit B.A. & P.H. Barber. 2015. Christmas tree worms of Indo-Pacific coral reefs: untangling the Spirobranchus corniculatus (Grube, 1862) complex. Coral Reefs 34:899–904.
- Sun, Y., Wong, E., ten Hove H.A, Hutchings P.A., Williamson, J. & Kupriyanova, E.K. 2015. Revision of the genus Hydroides (Serpulidae, Annelida) from Australia. Zootaxa 4009: 1-99.Kupriyanova, E. K., Sun, Y., ten Hove, H.A., Wong, E. & Rouse, G.W. 2015. Serpulidae (Annelida) of Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa Special Issue 4019: 275-353.
- Kupriyanova, E.K., Ippolitov, A.P. 2015. Deep-sea serpulids (Annelida: Polychaeta) in tetragonal tubes: on a tube convergence path from Mesozoic to Recent. Zootaxa 4044: 151-200.
- Nishi, E., Matsuo, K., Capa, M., S. Tomioka, H., E.K. Kupriyanova, Ribero, L. & Polgar, G. 2015. Sabellaria jeramae n. sp. (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from shallow water of Malaysia, with a note on its reef ecosystem protection and conservation. Zootaxa 4052: 555–568.
- Sun, Y., Wong, E, Tovar-Hernandez, M., Williamson, J. & Kupriyanova, E.K. 2016. Is Hydroides brachyacantha (Serpulidae, Annelida) a widely-distributed species? Invertebrate Systematics 30, 41–59.
- Tovar-Hernandez, M.A., Villalobos, T.F. Kupriyanova, E.K. & Sun, Y. 2016. A new fouling Hydroides (Serpulidae, Sabellida, Annelida) from southern Gulf of California. Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 96 (3): 693-705.
- Miranda, N.A.F., Kupriyanova, E.K., Rishworth, G.M., Peer, N., Bornman, T.G. Bird, M.S. Perissinotto, R. 2016. An invasive species found in modern living analogues to ancient microbial structures: Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Polychaeta; Serpulidae) in stromatolite ecosystems. Aquatic Invasions 11(3), 257-266.
- Kupriyanova, E.K. & P. Hutchings, P.A., Wong, E. 2016. A fully-illustrated web-based guide to distinguish native and invasive polychaetes in Australia. Management of Biological Invasions 7 (3): 305–312.
- Styan, C.A. McCluskey, C.F., Sun Y., Kupriyanova, E.K. 2017. Cryptic sympatric species across the Australian range of the global estuarine invader Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Serpulidae, Annelida). Aquatic Invasions 12 (1) 53–65.
- Read, G.B. ten Hove, H.A. Sun, Y., Kupriyanova, E.K. 2017. Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Annelida: Serpulidae) is feminine: a nomenclatural checklist of updated names. Zookeys 642: 1–52.
- Sun, Y., Wong, E., Keppel, E., Williamson, J., Kupriyanova E.K. 2017. A global invader or a complex of regionally distributed species? Clarifying the status of an invasive calcareous tubeworm Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873) using barcoding. Marine Biology 164: 28
- Ahyong, S.T., Kupriyanova, E.K., Burghardt, I., Sun, Y. Hutchings, P., Capa, M., Wilkins, S. 2017. Phylogeography of the invasive Mediterranean fan worm, Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791), in Australia and New Zealand. Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in press
- Nishi, E., Gil J., Tanaka, K. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2017. Notaulax yamasui sp. nov. from Okinawa and Ogasawara, Japan (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellidae), with notes on its ecology. Zookeys in press
Books
- Rzhavsky A.V., Kupriyanova E. K.., Sikorski A.V., Dahle S. 2014. Calcareous tubeworms (Serpulidae, Polychaeta) of the Arctic Ocean. KMK Press, Moscow, 199 pp.
Book Chapters
- Jirkov I .A. & Kupriyanova E.K. 2001. Family Serpulidae, In: Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean, I. A. Jirkov) Moscow Yanus-K Press, Moscow (In Russian), pp. 554-572.
- Rouse, G., Kupriyanova E.K., Nishi, E. 2005. Chapter 12. Sabellida In: Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Annelida (eds. G. Rouse and F. Pleijel), Science Publishers, Inc. pp. 521-56.
Popular Articles
- Hutchings, P.A. and Kupriyanova, E.K. 2016. Polychaete diversity at Lizard Island revealed. Australian Coral Reef Society, 45: 41-43.
- Hutchings, P.A. and Kupriyanova, E.K. 2016.Worms, glorious worms. The Marine Biologist, 6: 6-7. ISSN 2052-5273
- Hutchings, P.A. and Kupriyanova, E.K.2017. ¬Got an alien? Australian Marine Science Association Bulletin, February, p. 14.
Web Product
- Kupriyanova, E.K., Wong, E. & Hutchings, P.A. 2013. Invasive Polychaete Identifier – an Australian perspective. Version 1.1, 02 December 2013.