Dipl. Biol. Torben Riehl

Universität Hamburg
Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum
Niedere Tiere II / DZMB Senckenberg
Martin-Luther-King Platz 3
D-20146 Hamburg

t.riehl (at) gmx.de
torben.riehl(at)studium.uni-hamburg.de

Werdegang

Research focus

• Evolution of deep-sea fauna
• Systematics of deep-sea isopods (Crustacea: Asellota), with focus on Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916
• Marine biodiversity
• Taxonomy, phylogenetic systematics, molecular genetics, photo documentation

Further interests/activities

• Ornithology
• Scientific diving
• Photography

Publications

Articles

• Brix S, Riehl T, Leese F (in press): First genetic data for Haploniscus rostratus and Haploniscus unicornis from neighbouring deep-sea basins in the South Atlantic. Zootaxa Xxx.

• Brandt A, Bathmann U, Brix S, Cisewski B, Flores H, Göcke C, Janussen D, Krägefsky S, Kruse S, Leach H, Linse K, Pakhomov E, Peeken I, Riehl T, Sauter, Sachs O, Schüller M, Schrödl M, Schwabe E, Strass V, van Franeker J, Wilmsen E (in press): Maud Rise – a snapshot through the water column. Deep-Sea Research II Xxx. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.01.008.

• Riehl T, Brandt A (2010): Descriptions of two new species in the genus Macrostylis Sars, 1864 (Isopoda, Asellota, Macrostylidae) from the Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean), with a rejection of the genus Desmostylis Brandt, 1992. Zookeys 57: 9–49, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.57.310.

• Brandt, A., Brix, S., Ebbe, B., Kramer, L., Riehl, T., Schüller, M., Würzberg, L. (2010): Macrofauna - Biodiversity, ecology and zoogeography of peracarid crustaceans and Polychaeta. In Bathmann (2010) (Ed.) The Expedition of the Research Vessel "Polarstern" to the Antarctic in 2007/2008 (ANT-XXIV/2). Ber. Polar & Meeresforsch. 604: 110-118.

• Riehl, T., Haas, A. and Das, I. (2008): Hylarana raniceps Predation. Herpetological Review. 39 (1): 77.

Posters and oral presentations

• Riehl T, Brix S, Leese F. A molecular genetic approach to the biodiversity and evolution of deep-sea Isopoda. Vortrag auf der BioSystematics 2011, Berlin, Germany

• Riehl T, Brandt A. A proposed classification of setae for Macrostylidae (Crustacea: Isopoda). Poster auf der BioSystematics 2011, Berlin, Germany

• Riehl T. DNA and deep-sea isopod taxonomy. Poster auf der 103. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany

• Brix S, Riehl T, Jeskulke K, Driskell A. DNA barcoding deep-sea Isopoda. Poster auf der 103. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany

• Elsner N, Brandt A, Riehl T. Preliminary results of the Russian-German SoJaBio (Sea of Japan Biodiversity Studies) expedition with RV Akademik Lavrentjev in August 2010. Vortrag auf der 103. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany

• Riehl, T. Morphology and DNA to complement each other in deep-sea isopod taxonomy. Poster zum 12^th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Reykjavík, Island, Juni 2010.

• Brix, S., T. Riehl, K. Jeskulke. A. Driskell. DNA barcoding deep-sea Isopoda. Poster zum 12^th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Reykjavík, Island, Juni 2010.

• Riehl, T., S. Kaiser & A. Brandt „Alike but unalike – Morphological conformity vs. high species diversity in deep-sea Macrostylidae (Crustacea: Isopoda)” Preis der Crustacean Society für das beste studentische Poster. Poster zur 14. Crustaceologentagung, Universität Rostock, April 2009.

• Riehl, T., N. Brenke, H. Flores, M. Schrödl & R.Z. Guardiola “Amazing Diversity – Marine life of Antarctica from the surface to the abyssal plain.” Poster zur SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Konferenz, St. Petersburg, Russland, Juli 2008.

• Brix, S. & T. Riehl. “Steps towards understanding deep-sea evolution: molecular phylogeny of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Isopoda: Asellota).” Poster zur Systematics 2008, Göttingen, April 2008.

• Brix, S. & T. Riehl. “New isopod species and molecular data - Steps towards a phylogeny of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897. Vortrag zum 2nd International DIVA-Workshop (DIVA 1&2); Universität Santiago de Compostela, A Graña, Spanien, März 2008.