Evolution und Biodiversität der Tiere

Dr. Victor Manuel Conde Vela

Short CV

since 2026 Taxidermist at the biodiversity museum, Georg-August University Göttingen
2022-2023 Postdoctoral researcher, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
2020-2022 Postdoctoral researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico.
2016-2019 PhD in Ecology and Sustainable Development, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico.
2014-2015 MSc in Natural Resources and Rural Development, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico.
2008-2013 Bachelor in Biology, Instituto Tecnológico de Chetumal, Mexico.

Selected publications

  • Gonzalez, B.C., Conde-Vela, V.M. & Osborn, K.J. (2023) Synonymization of two, monotypic black-coral-commensal scale worm genera, Antipathipolyeunoa Pettibone, 1991 and Parahololepidella Pettibone, 1969 (Polynoidae, Aphroditiformia). ZooKeys, 1178, 61–68. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1178.106101
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2022) Reinstatement of Perinereis bairdii (Webster, 1884) and description of P. websteri sp. nov. from Bermuda, including the reproductive morphology of two Atlantic Perinereis species (Annelida: Errantia: Phyllodocida). European Journal of Taxonomy, 787, 104–145. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.787.1619
  • Salazar-Vallejo, S.I.*, de León-González, J.A. & Conde-Vela, V.M. (2022) Revision of the “Nereis falsa de Quatrefages, 1866” species-group (Annelida, Nereididae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 779, 1–70. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.779.1579
  • Villalobos-Guerrero, T.F.*, Conde-Vela, V.M. & Sato, M. (2021) Review of Composetia Hartmann-Schröder, 1985 (Annelida: Nereididae), with the establishment of two new similar genera. Journal of Natural History, 55 (37–38), 2313–2397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2021.1976295
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2021) Revision of Ceratonereis Kinberg, 1865 recorded from the Caribbean Sea, with description of two new Ceratonereis species and a new combination of Platynereis Kinberg, 1865. Zootaxa, 5026 (3), 301–343. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5026.3.1
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2021) Revision of Laeonereis Hartman, 1945 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Gymnonereidinae), with a review of shaft morphology in nereidids. Journal of Natural History, 55 (7–8), 381–455. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2021.1903601
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2019) Sinkhole and brackish water nereidid polychaetes: Revision of Stenoninereis Wesenberg-Lund, 1958 (Annelida). Subterranean Biology, 30, 95–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.30.36273
  • Conde-Vela, V.M.* & Wu, X. (2019) Revision of Sinonereis Wu & Sun, 1979 (Annelida: Nereididae). Zoosystema, 41 (9), 153–161. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2019v4a9
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2019) Re-evaluation of the morphology of the monotypic genera Lycastonereis Rao, 1981 and Ganganereis Misra, 1999 (Annelida, Phyllodocida, Nereididae). Zootaxa, 4567 (3), 450–460. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.2
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2018) New species of Pseudonereis Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from the Atlantic Ocean, and a review of paragnath morphology and methodology. Zootaxa, 4471(2): 245–278. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.2
  • Conde-Vela, V.M.*, Wu, X. & Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. (2018) Reevaluation and new species of Kainonereis Chamberlin, 1919 (Annelida: Polychaeta: Nereididae). Zoological Studies, 57(6): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2018.57-06
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2017) The troglomorphic adaptations of Namanereidinae (Annelida, Nereididae) revisited, including a redescription of Namanereis cavernicola (Solís-Weiss & Espinasa, 1991), and a new Caribbean species of Namanereis Chamberlin, 1919. Subterranean Biology, 23: 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.23.13701
  • Conde-Vela, V.M. (2013) Namalycastis occulta n. sp. and a new record of N. borealis (Polychaeta: Nereididae: Namanereidinae) from the Northwestern Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa, 3721(5): 475–487. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3721.5.3