Benedikt Wiggering

Ongoing Projects

• Comparative Biogeography and Evolutionary Systematics of an amphidromous snail genus (Stenomelania, Thiaridae, Gastropoda)
• Systematics, Reproductive Biology and Biogeography of an unusual marine invertebrate family (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Planaxidae)

Co-Course Instructor

• Zoologische Exkursionen (Ss) (61-708)
• Praktikum Zoologische Bestimmungsübungen Mollusken (Ss; BSc.) (Als Teil des Moduls Biodiversität der Tiere) (61-013)

Scientific Career

Since May 2015 - Research assistant and PhD student
at Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) - Center of Natural History – Universität Hamburg - Zoological Museum

Academic Training and Degrees

April 2015 - Master of Science Organismic Biology and Evolution
Title of master thesis: “Systematics, reproductive Biology and Biogeography of an unusual marine invertebrate family (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Planaxidae).”

October 2012-April 2015 - Study Organismic Biology and Evolution (MSc.)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

September 2012 - Bachelor of Science Biological Diversity and Ecology
Title of bachelor thesis: “Preparation, morphology and botanical affiliation of stellate plant hairs from cretaceous and paleogene ambers.”

October 2009-September 2012 - Study Biological Diversity and Ecology (BSc.)
Georg-August Universität Göttingen

Editorial Activities

March 2014-May 2015 - Editorial assistant
for the 14^th revised and expanded edition of „Süßwassermollusken“ von Peter Glöer (Publisher: Deutschen Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtung)

April 2011-April 2015 - Chief editor of „Naturkundliche Beiträge“
of Deutscher Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtung

Publications

Papers

• Veeravechsukij N, Krailas D, Namchote S, Wiggering B, Neiber M T, Glaubrecht M. 2018. Molecular phylogeography and reproductive biology of the freshwater snail Tarebia granifera in Thailand and Timor (Cerithioidea, Thiaridae): morphological disparity versus genetic diversity. Zoosyst Evol 94(2): 461-493 https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.28981

• Wiggering B, Glaubrecht M. 2018. Two potential players in the evolutionary theatre: Do caddisflies mimic gastropods? Acta Zool. 99(1): 52–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/azo.12192

Talks

• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2018. Eine wie die andere? Ein evolutionssystematischer Ansatz zur Abgrenzung von Neoradina BRANDT, 1974 (Cerithioidea: Thiaridae) gegenüber phänotypisch ähnlichen viviparen Süßwasserschnecken. in Zusammenfassung der Tagungsbeiträge anlässlich der 57. Frühjahrstagung der DMG vom 18.-21 Mai 2018 in Cismar. – Mitteilungen der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft [in press]

• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2018. All about the same - Delineating cryptic marsupial snails from Thailand (Gastropoda: Thiaridae). in 19th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS) conference abstracts. - Awarded best student talk.

• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2017. Cracking hard shells: using evolutionary sytematics to delineate Thai freshwater gastropods. in SAGE2017 Conference program and abstracts: 229.
  
  
• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2017. One mode is not enough: reproductive diversity in Cerithioidean freshwater snails. in Book of abstracts BioSystEU2017 meeting.
  
  
• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2017. Reproduktionsbiologie der Cerithioidea mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Süßwasser-Thiariden in Hinblick auf ihre Biogeographie. in Nordsieck, R. Zusammenfassungen Der Tagungsbeiträge Anlässlich Der 55. Frühjahrstagung Der DMG Vom 13. Bis 16. Mai 2016 in Unterkirchbach/Österreich. - Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 96: 47–52.
  
  
• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2016. Spotting specifics in nature’s look-alike contest: Evolutionary systematics of Thai marsupial snails. in Book of abstracts DZG meeting 2016.
  
  
• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2016. Escaping from Adultoicentrism: On the Biogeography and Lifehistroy of Cerithioidean Gastropods from a Freshwater Thiarid Perspective. in Hwai, A. T. S.; Yasin, Z.; Peng, C. T. C.; & Razalli, N. M. (Editors) World Congress of Malacology 2016, Programme & Abstract Book.
  
  
• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2016. Snails in Space: Diversity and distribution patterns underlined by an intertidal gastropod family (Planaxidae). – Zitteliana 88: 54.

• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2015. Einblicke in die Evolutionssystematik der Planaxidae. in Rüetschi, J. Zusammenfassung der Tagungsbeiträge anlässlich der 54. Frühjahrstagung der DMG vom 22.-25. Mai 2015 in Beathenberg/Schweiz. – Mitteilungen der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 94: 33-40.

• Wiggering, B.; Glaubrecht, M. 2015. Cryptic species or a continuum of reproductive modes – an assessment of poecilogony in Planaxis sulcatus (Born, 1780) (Planaxidae, Gastropoda, Mollusca). – DZG Graduate Meeting No book of abstracts published. 

Poster

• Wiggering, B. & Glaubrecht, M. 2015. Regions, Range and Redundancy — Correlating chorology and taxonomy in marine gastropods. – Frontiers of Biogeography vol. 6, suppl. 1: 132.

•  Glaubrecht, M.; Greenwood, A.; Ebersbach, J.; Szymansky, A.; Hönig, K.; Wiggering, B. & Gimnich, F. 2013. New Insights from a Lost World – Unlocking the Potential of Museum Collections Using Historical Specimens. – Acoreana Supplemento 8 (World Congress of Malacology Book of Abstracts): 115.