Dr. Jürgen Guerrero Kommritz

Associated Scientists

Associated Scientists are professional scholars who formally and actively collaborate with CeNak scientific staff through co-authored publications, collaborative projects, etc. including regular use of the research collections and other facilities of the CeNak. Associated Scientists have achieved a degree, usually a doctorate, and have professional status within their academic community, they are generally affiliated with a recognized academic institution as active or retired staff and have an active publication record.

Joint publications with scientific staff of the CeNak

• Guerrero-Kommritz, J., Schmidt, A. & Brandt, A. (2002): Paranarthrua Hansen, 1913 (Crustacea:Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin, description of Paranarthrura angolensis n. sp.  Zootaxa 116: 1-12.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Hilmer, G. (2004): Die Gattungen Parasmilia und Trochosmilia (Scleractinia) aus der Schreibkreide Norddeutschalnds. Geologisches Jahrbuch A 157: 69-97
• Brandt, A., Brenke, N., Andres, H-G., Brix, S., Guerrero-Kommritz, J, Mühlhardt-Siegel, U., Wägele, J-W. (2005): Diversity of peracarid crustaceans (Malacostraca) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 5(1): 105-112
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Brandt, A. (2005): Phylogenetic analysis of genera of “Akanthophoreinae” (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 5:285-296.
• Publications based on material from CeNak
• Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2000): A new species of Graneledone from the south west Atlantic. Journal of Molluscan studies, 66(4): 543-549.
• Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2001): Catalogue of the Cephalopod type specimens in the Zoological Museum Hamburg.  Mitt. hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 98: 171-174.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2003): Portaratrum, a new genus of deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea) with description of two new species.  Zootaxa 282: 1 –14.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2003): Agathotanaididae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin.  Zootaxa 330: 1-15.
• Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2004): A revision of the genus Paraleptognathia Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) and description of new species.  Zootaxa 481: 1-64.
• Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2004): Hexakorallen der Ober-Kreide Norddeutschlands.  Tectum Verlag  88p.
• Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2005): The genus Chauliopleona Dojiri & Sieg 1997 and description of new species. Journal of Natural History 39(16):1177 – 1210.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2005): Notes on the Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Angola Basin Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 5(1): 171-178.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2006): Octopods (Cephalopoda: Octopda) with uniserial suckers from the southwest Atlantic Ocean in the zoological museum Hamburg. Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst.103:11-32.
• Salcedo Vargas, M. A. & Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2000): Three new cephalopods from the Atlantic Ocean. Mitt. hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 97:31-44.
• Salcedo Vargas, M.A. & Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2001): New data on juvenile stages of lepidoteuthid families (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Mitt. hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 98: 23 – 30.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J., Schmidt, A. & Brandt, A. (2002): Paranarthrua Hansen, 1913 (Crustacea:Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin, description of Paranarthrura angolensis n. sp.  Zootaxa 116: 1-12.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J & Heard, R. W. (2004): A new genus and species of deep-sea apseudomorph tanaidacean (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from the Angola Basin. Mitt. hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 100: 127-137.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Błażewicz-Paskowycz, M. (2004): New species of Tanaella Norman et Stebbing, 1886 (Tanaidacea: Crustacea) from the deep-sea of the Antarctic and the Angola Basin. Zootaxa 459: 1-20.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Błażewicz-Paskowycz, M. (2004): Magotanais, a new genus of Tanaidacea (Tanaidomorpha, Crustacea) from the Weddell sea, Antarctica.  Beaufortia 54(8) 105-112.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Hilmer, G. (2004): Die Gattungen Parasmilia und Trochosmilia (Scleractinia) aus der Schreibkreide Norddeutschalnds. Geologisches Jahrbuch A 157: 69-97
• Brandt, A., Brenke, N., Andres, H-G., Brix, S., Guerrero-Kommritz, J, Mühlhardt-Siegel, U., Wägele, J-W. (2005): Diversity of peracarid crustaceans (Malacostraca) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 5(1): 105-112
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Brandt, A. (2005): Phylogenetic analysis of genera of “Akanthophoreinae” (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 5:285-296.
• Ibañez, C.M., Sepulveda R.D, Guerrero-Kommritz J. & Chong J. (2008) Redescription of Robsonella fontaniana (d´Orbigny, 1834) (Cephalopda: Octopodidae). Journal of the marine Biological Association of the Unted Kingdom 88(3):617 – 624.
• Weigmann, S. & Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2009) New species of Neotanais Beddard, 1886 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from the deep sea of the tropical and southern East Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 1992:20-36.
• Rotermund, N. & Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2010) Taxonomy and Biogeography of the genus Heteroteuthis Gray, 1849 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. 90(2): 367-390.
• Gleadall, I., Guerrero-Kommritz, J., Hochberg, F.G. & Laptikhovsky, V. (2010). The Inkless Octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopoda) of the Southwest Atlantic. Zoological Science 27: 528 – 553.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2011) Seasonal distribution of squid early life stages in the Lazarev Sea, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 23(1):93-94.
• Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Rodriguez-Bermudez, A. (2018) Soft-bottom octopods (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) of the southern Caribbean with the description of a new species of Macrotritopus. Marine Biodiversity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-018-0903-8.

Professional employment and academic education

• 2012/2018 - Freelance Biologist
• 2010/2011 - Full professor, Biodiversity, Conservation, Biogeography and Animal Taxonomy, Military University Nueva Granada (UMNG), Colombia
• 2005/2009 - Tanaidacea researcher, Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung (DZMB) and the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Germany, deep sea program, expeditions Biozaire, DIVA and Nodinaut.
• 2000/2004 - Scientific staff member at the Center of Natural History, Doctorate to Dr. rer. nat. Systematic, phylogeny and zoogeography of deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the Atlantic Ocean on example of selected taxa.
• 1997/2000 - Diplom Biologe (Msc), University of Hamburg
• 1990/1996 - Bsc Biology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá Colombia

Research interest

The focus of my research is on the taxonomy and systematics of Tanaidacea (Peracarida: Crustacea) and Cephalopoda (Mollusca), with special interest in the Neotropic and deep sea.