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Poore, Gary
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I research the taxonomy and phylogeny of marine Crustacea, especially Isopoda and Decapoda, and ecology and biogeography of communities of marine soft-bottom macrobenthos. I have published identification guides for diverse audiences.
Forty years experience in the taxonomy of marine crustaceans and environmental ecology has given me to a broad knowledge of the taxonomy of marine invertebrates that has led to publication of numerous papers and three books on crustacean systematics. I have collaborated with other institutions in Australia and elsewhere and was heavily involved with the Census of Marine Life during its decade (2001–2010) and since. I am a foundation member of The Crustacean Society. This involvement has enabled me to built links between researchers all over the globe that result in furthering research and building and maintaining WoRMS. As a member of the WoRMS SC I have pushed successfully for the inclusion of identification keys to the resources offered and would continue to advocate this.

Taxonomic terms: Axiidae Huxley, 1879 [WoRMS]; Crustacea [WoRMS]; Gebiidea [WoRMS]; Isopoda [WoRMS]

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Function: Taxonomic editor

WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), more

Function: Taxonomic editor

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda on yyyy-mm-dd, more
WRiMS: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced on yyyy-mm-dd, more
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Accessed at https://www.decanet.info on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Poore, G.C.B.; Jaume, D. (2025). World List of Thermosbaenacea. Accessed at https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1139 on yyyy-mm-dd., more

A1 Publications (22) [show]
Kou, Q.; Poore, G.C.B.; Li, X. (2024). A new species of Ctenocheles Kishinouye, 1926 (Decapoda, Axiidea, Ctenochelidae) from China. Zootaxa 5529(2): 381-395. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5529.2.9, more Poore, G.C.B.; Black, J.R. (2024). Four new species of Valvifera (Crustacea: Isopoda) from ANDEEP cruises in the Weddell Sea. Zootaxa 5477(3): 295-314. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.2, more De Grave, S.; Decock, W.; Dekeyzer, S.; Davie, P.J.F.; Fransen, C.H.J.M.; Boyko, C.B.; Poore, G.C.B.; MacPherson, E.; Ahyong, S.T.; Crandall, K.A.; de Mazancourt, V.; Osawa, M.; Chan, T.-Y.; Ng, P.K.L.; Lemaitre, R.; van der Meij, S.E.T.; Santos, S. (2023). Benchmarking global biodiversity of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda). J. Crust. Biol. 43(3): ruad042. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruad042, more Richer de Forges, B.; Ahyong, S.T.; Castro, P.; Chan, T.-Y.; Clark, P.F.; Lemaitre, R.; MacPherson, E.; Ng, P.L.K.; Poore, G.C.B.; Poupin, J.; Tavares, M. (2021). Alain Crosnier’s role in modern carcinology: exploration, international collaboration, and taxonomy. J. Crust. Biol. 41(3): ruab031. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruab031, more Stransky, B.; Svavarsson, J.; Poore, G.C.B.; Kihara, T.C. (2020). Revision of Pleuroprion zur Strassen, 1903 (Holidoteidae) and re-evaluation of Spectrarcturus Schultz, 1981 (Arcturidae) (Crustacea, Isopoda, Valvifera). Zootaxa 4894(1): 1-52. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4894.1.1, more Horton, T.; Gofas, S.; Kroh, A.; Poore, G.C.B.; Read, G.; Rosenberg, G.; Stöhr, S.; Bailly, N.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Brandão, S.N.; Costello, M.J.; Decock, W.; Dekeyzer, S.; Hernandez, F.; Mees, J.; Paulay, G.; Vandepitte, L.; Vanhoorne, B.; Vranken, S. (2017). Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species. Eur. J. Taxon. 389: 1-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.389, more Poore, G.C.B.; Dworschak, P.C. (2017). Family, generic and species synonymies of recently published taxa of ghost shrimps (Decapoda, Axiidea, Eucalliacidae and Ctenochelidae): cautionary tales. Zootaxa 4294(1): 119-125. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4294.1.6, more Poore, G.C.B.; Avery, L.; Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M.; Browne, J.; Bruce, N.L.; Gerken, S.; Glasby, C.; Greaves, E.; McCallum, A.W.; Staples, D.; Syme, A.; Taylor, J.; Walker-Smith, G.; Warne, M.; Watson, C.; Williams, A.; Wilson, R.S.; Woolley, S. (2015). Invertebrate diversity of the unexplored marine western margin of Australia: taxonomy and implications for global biodiversity. Mar. Biodiv. 45(2): 271-286. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0255-y, more Poore, G.C.B.; Hyžný, M.; Chan, T.-Y.; Tamaki, A.; Mantelatto, F.L.; Karasawa, H.; Tsang, L.M.; Lemaitre, R.; Dworschak, P.C.; Ahyong, S.T.; Robles, R.; Komai, T.; Felder, D.L.; Schweitzer, C.E.; Feldmann, R.M.; Chu, K.H.; Martin, J.W.; Crandall, K.A.; Ngoc-Ho, N.; Tudge, C.C.; Bracken-Grissom, H.D.; Li, X. (2014). On stabilising the names of the infraorders of thalassinidean shrimps, Axiidea de Saint Laurent, 1979 and Gebiidea de Saint Laurent, 1979 (Decapoda). Crustaceana 87(10): 1258-1272. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003354, more Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Poore, G.C.B.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stöhr, S.; Walter, T.C.; Vanhoorne, B.; Decock, W.; Appeltans, W. (2013). Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases. PLoS One 8(1): 20 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051629, more Appeltans, W.; Ahyong, S.T.; Anderson, G.; Angel, M.V.; Artois, T.; Bailly, N.; Bamber, R.N.; Barber, A.; Bartsch, I.; Berta, A.; Blazewicz-Paszkowycz , M.; Bock, P.; Boxshall, G.; Boyko, C.B.; Nunes Brandão, S.; Bray, R.A.; Bruce, N.L.; Cairns, S.D.; Chan, T.-Y.; Cheng, L.; Collins, A.G.; Cribb, T.H.; Curini-Galletti, M.; Dahdouh-Guebas, F.; Davie, P.J.F.; Dawson, M.N.; De Clerck, O.; Decock, W.; De Grave, S.; de Voogd, N.J.; Domning, D.P.; Emig, C.C.; Erséus, Ch.; Eschmeyer, W.; Fauchald, K.; Fautin, D.G.; Feist, S.W.; Fransen, C.H.J.M.; Furuya, H.; García-Alvarez, O.; Gerken, S.; Gibson, D.; Gittenberger, A.; Gofas, S.; Gómez-Daglio, L.; Gordon, D.P.; Guiry, M.D.; Hernandez, F.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Hopcroft, R.R.; Jaume, D.; Kirk, P.; Koedam, N.; Koenemann, S.; Kolb, J.B.; Kristensen, R.M.; Kroh, A.; Lambert, G.; Lazarus, D.B.; Lemaitre, R.; Longshaw, M.; Lowry, J.; MacPherson, E.; Madin, L.P.; Mah, C.; Mapstone, G.; McLaughlin, P.A.; Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Messing, C.G.; Mills, C.E.; Molodtsova, T.N.; Mooi, R.; Neuhaus, B.; Ng, P.K.L.; Nielsen, C.; Norenburg, J.; Opresko, D.M.; Osawa, M.; Paulay, G.; Perrin, W.; Pilger, J.F.; Poore, G.C.B.; Pugh, Ph.R.; Read, G.B.; Reimer, J.D.; Rius, M.; Rocha, R.M.; Sáiz Salinas, J.I.; Scarabino, V.; Schierwater, B.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, A.; Schnabel, K.E.; Schotte, M.; Schuchert, P.; Schwabe, E.; Segers, H.; Self-Sullivan, C.; Shenkar, N.; Siegel, V.; Sterrer, W.; Stöhr, S.; Swalla, B.; Tasker, M.L.; Thuesen, E.V.; Timm, T.; Todaro, M.A.; Turon, X.; Tyler, S.; Uetz, P.; van der Land, J.; Vanhoorne, B.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Walker-Smith, G.K.; Walter, T.C.; Warren, A.; Williams, G.C.; Wilson, S.P.; Costello, M.J. (2012). The magnitude of global marine species diversity. Curr. Biol. 22(23): 2189-2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036, more Poore, G.C.B.; Bruce, N.L. (2012). Global diversity of marine isopods (except Asellota and Crustacean symbionts). PLoS One 7(8): e43529. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043529, more Williams, A.; Althaus, F.; Dunstan, P.K.; Poore, G.C.B.; Bax, N.J.; Kloser, R.J.; McEnnulty, F.R. (2010). Scales of habitat heterogeneity and megabenthos biodiversity on an extensive Australian continental margin (100–1100 m depths). Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 31(1): 222-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00355.x, more Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.C.B.; Ahyong, S.T.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K.E. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905(1). Magnolia Press: Auckland. ISBN 978-1-86977-289-5; e-ISBN 978-1-86977-290-1. 220 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1, more Koslow, J.A.; Gowlett-Holmes, K.; Lowry, J.K.; O'Hara, T.; Poore, G.C.B.; Williams, A. (2001). Seamount benthic macrofauna off southern Tasmania: community structure and impacts of trawling. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 213: 111-125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps213111, more Poore, G.C.B. (2001). Isopoda Valvifera: diagnoses and relationships of the families. J. Crust. Biol. 21(1): 205-230, more Poore, G.C.B. (2000). A new genus and species of callianassid ghost shrimp from Kyushu, Japan (Decapoda: Thalassinidea). J. Crust. Biol. 20 Special No.2: 150-156, more Richer de Forges, B.; Koslow, J.A.; Poore, G.C.B. (2000). Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount fauna in the southwest Pacific. Nature (Lond.) 405: 944-947. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35016066, more Tudge, C.C.; Poore, G.C.B.; Lemaire, R. (2000). Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of generic relationships within the Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassoidea). J. Crust. Biol. 20 Special No.2: 129-149, more Gray, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Ugland, K.I.; Wilson, R.S.; Olsgard, F.; Johannessen, Ø. (1997). Coastal and deep-sea benthic diversities compared. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 159: 97-103, more Poore, G.C.B. (1996). Species differentiation in Synidotea (Isopoda: Idoteidae) and recognition of introduced marine species: A reply to Chapman and Carlton. J. Crust. Biol. 16(2): 384-396. https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1548894, more Poore, G.C.B.; Mobley, M.C. (1980). Canonical correlation analysis of marine macrobenthos survey data. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 45: 37-50, more
Peer reviewed publications (8) [show]
Rivadeneira, M.; Poore, G.C.B. (2020). Latitudinal gradient of diversity of marine crustaceans: Towards a synthesis, in: Thiel, M. et al. Evolution and Biogeography of the Crustacea. The Natural History of the Crustacea series, 8: pp. 389-412, more Thiel, M.; Poore, G.C.B. (Ed.) (2020). Evolution and Biogeography of the Crustacea. The Natural History of the Crustacea series, 8. Oxford University Press: New York. ISBN 978-0-19-063784-2. xiv, 520 pp., more Merrin, K.L.; Poore, G.C.B. (2003). Four new species of Ischnomesidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) from off south-eastern Australia. Mem. Mus. Vic. 60(2): 285-307, more Walker, T.M.; Poore, G.C.B. (2003). Rediagnosis of Palaemon and differentiation of southern Australian species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Mem. Mus. Vic. 60(2): 243-256, more Brandt, A.; Poore, G.C.B. (2001). Two new species of Tridentella Crustacea: Isopoda: Tridentellidae from Namibia. Beaufortia 51(11): 199-212, more Poore, G.C.B.; Brandt, A. (1997). Crustacea Isopoda Serolidae: Acutiserolis cidaris and Caecoserolis novaecaledoniae, two new species from the Coral Sea, in: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 18. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie, 176: pp. 151-168, more Poore, G.C.B.; Ton, H.M.L. (1993). Idoteidae of Australia and New Zealand (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera). Invertebr. Taxon. 7(2): 197-278, more Poore, G.C.B. (1991). Crustacea Isopoda: Deep-sea Chaetiliidae (Valvifera) from New Caledonia and the Philippines, in: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 9. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie, 152: pp. 139-153, more
Books (2) [show]
Poore, G.C.B.; Ahyong, S.T. (2023). Marine decapod Crustacea: A guide of families and genera of the world. CRC Press: Boca Raton. ISBN 9781486311781. 916 pp., more Poore, G.C.B.; Ahyong, S.T.; Taylor, J. (Ed.) (2011). The biology of squat lobsters. Crustacean Issues, 20. CSIRO Publishing: Baton Roca. ISBN 978-1-4398-6614-6. 363 pp., more
Book chapters (8) [show]
McEnnulty, F.R.; Gowlett-Holmes, K.L.; Williams, A.; Althaus, F.; Fromont, J.; Poore, G.C.B.; O’Hara, T.D.; Marsh, L.; Kott, P.; Slack-Smith, S.M.; Alderslade, P.; Kitahara, M.V. (2011). The deepwater megabenthic invertebrates on the western continental margin of Australia (100–1100 m depths): composition, distribution and novelty, in: McEnnulty, F.R. (Ed.) Deepwater megabenthos of south-western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement, 80: pp. 1-191, more Carney, R.S.; Menot, L.; Billett, D.; Galéron, J.; Ingole, B.; Kitazato, H.; Krylova, E.M.; Levin, L.A.; Poore, G.C.B.; Lavrado, H.P.; Rowe, G.T.; Sellanes, J.; Vanreusel, A.; Sibuet, M. (2010). Continental Margin Ecosystems on a worldwide scale: II. Large-scale distribution and diversity patterns revisited along continental slopes, in: A decade of discovery: Census of Marine Life 2010. The J. Frederick Grassle Scientific Symposium on the Census of Marine Life: Poster abstracts. pp. [1], more Levin, L.A.; Menot, L.; Billett, D.; Carney, R.S.; Galéron, J.; Ingole, B.; Kitazato, H.; Krylova, E.M.; Poore, G.C.B.; Lavrado, H.P.; Rowe, G.T.; Sellanes, J.; Vanreusel, A.; Sibuet, M. (2010). Continental Margin Ecosystems on a worldwide scale: III. Influence of the newly perceived habitat heterogeneity on biodiversity, in: A decade of discovery: Census of Marine Life 2010. The J. Frederick Grassle Scientific Symposium on the Census of Marine Life: Poster abstracts. pp. [1], more Menot, L.; Sibuet, M.; Carney, R.S.; Levin, L.A.; Rowe, G.T.; Billett, D.S.M.; Poore, G.C.B.; Kitazato, H.; Vanreusel, A.; Galéron, J.; Lavrado, H.P.; Sellanes, J.; Ingole, B.; Krylova, E.M. (2010). New perceptions of continental margin biodiversity, in: Mcintyre, A.D. (Ed.) Life in the world's oceans: diversity, distribution, and abundance. pp. 79-101, more Sibuet, M.; Menot, L.; Billett, D.; Carney, R.S.; Galéron, J.; Ingole, B.; Kitazato, H.; Krylova, E.M.; Levin, L.A.; Poore, G.C.B.; Lavrado, H.P.; Rowe, G.T.; Sellanes, J.; Vanreusel, A. (2010). Continental Margin Ecosystems on a worldwide scale (COMARGE): I. Species rich, complex and fragile deep-sea landscapes within human reach, in: A decade of discovery: Census of Marine Life 2010. The J. Frederick Grassle Scientific Symposium on the Census of Marine Life: Poster abstracts. pp. decade, more Poore, G.C.B.; Schotte, M. (2009). Synidotea laticauda Benedict, 1897, in: Boykp, C.B. et al. (Ed.) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. , more Robles, R.; Tudge, C.C.; Dworschak, P.C.; Poore, G.C.B.; Felder, D.L. (2009). Molecular phylogeny of the Thalassinidea based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes, in: Martin, J.W. et al. (Ed.) Decapod crustacean phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues, 18: pp. 309-326, more Poore, G.C.B. (2001). Families and genera of Isopoda Anthuridea, in: Kensley, B. et al. (Ed.) Isopod systematics and evolution. Crustacean Issues, 13: pp. 63-173, more
Abstracts (2) [show]
Appeltans, W.; Decock, W.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.P.; Poore, G.C.B.; van Soest, R.; Stöhr, S.; Walter, C.; Costello, M.J. (2011). The World Register of Marine Species: an authoritative, open-access web-resource for all marine species, in: The future of the 21st century ocean: Marine Sciences and European Research Infrastructures. An International Symposium, 28th June - 1 July 2011 Brest, France. pp. 30, more Appeltans, W.; Decock, W.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.P.; Poore, G.C.B.; Hoeksema, B.W.; van Soest, R.W. (2010). The World Register of Marine Species, the first online inventory of all marine species, in: A decade of discovery: Census of Marine Life 2010. The J. Frederick Grassle Scientific Symposium on the Census of Marine Life: Poster abstracts. pp. [1], more
Other publications (2) [show]
Appeltans, W.; Decock, W.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Fauchald, K.; Gordon, D.P.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Poore, G.C.B.; van Soest, R.; Stöhr, S.; Walter, C.; Costello, M.J. (2010). The World Register of Marine Species, the first online inventory of all marine species [Poster]. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)/WoRMS Steering Committee: Oostende. 1 poster pp., more Boykp, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S.; Schotte, M.; Wilson, G.D.F. (Ed.) (2009). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. [S.n.]: [s.l.]. , more

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