Bio Dr. Ulrich Schiewen

 

Section leader of the Z.S.M. since 2004

 

Bavarian Natural History Collections

The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

 - Department of Ichthyology -

 

Research Focus: Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genetics of Fishes.

Focus on Cichlids and Gobies.

 

Peer reviewed articles

Geiger M, McCrary J & Schliewen UK (2013) Crater lake Apoyo revisited - population genetics of an emerging species flock. PLOSOne 8(9) e74901

Cerwenka AF, Alibert P, Brandner J, Geist J &Schliewen UK (2013)Phenotypic differentiation of Ponto-Caspian gobies during a contemporary invasion of the upper Danube River HydrobiologiaDOI 10.1007/s10750-013-1668-5

van der Zee, JR, Sonnenberg R & Schliewen UK (2013) Description of three new species of Hylopanchax Poll & Lambert, 1965 from the central Congo Basin (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Procatopodini) with a redefinition of the genus. Zootaxa 3701 (1): 035–053

Brandner J, Cerwenka AF, Schliewen UK & Geist J (2013) Bigger is better: characteristics of round gobies forming an invasion front in the Danube river. PLOSOne 8(9) e73036.

Agoretta A, San Mauro D, Schliewen UK, van Tassell, Kovačić M, Zardoya R & Rüber L. (2013) Molecular phylogenetics of Gobioidei and phylogenetic placement of European gobies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3), 619-633

Lerceteau-Köhler E, Schliewen UK, Kopun T & Weiss S (2013) Genetic variation in brown trout Salmo trutta across the Danube, Rhine, and Elbe headwaters: a failure of the phylogeographic paradigm? BMC Evolutionary Biology13:176 

Reshetnikov A & Schliewen UK, (2013) First record of the invasive alien fish Perccottus glenii Dybowskii, 1877 (Odontobutidae) in the Upper Danube drainage (Bavaria, Germany). Journal of Applied Ichthyology2013, 1-3

Lindner K , Cerwenka A, Brandner J, Gertzen S, Borcherding J, Geist J & Schliewen UK(2013)  First evidence for interspecific hybridisation between invasive goby speciesNeogobius fluviatilis and N. melanostomus(Teleostei: Gobiidae: Benthopilinae). Journal of Fish Biology82, 2018-2128-2134

Firmat C, Alibert P, Lousseau M, Baroiller J-F &Schliewen UK.(2013) Successive invasion-mediated interspecific hybridisations and population structure in the endangered cichlid Oreochromis mossambicus. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63880.

Dunz A & Schliewen UK (2013) Molecular phylogeny and generic revision of the haplotilapiine cichlid fishes formerly referred to as “Tilapia”. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 68, 64-80.

Brandner J, Auerswald, C. Cerwenka A.,Schliewen UK & Geist J (2013) Comparative feeding ecology of invasive Ponto-Caspian gobies: Effects of seasonality and trophic relations. Hydrobiologia 703, 113-131.

Herder F, Schliewen UK, Geiger Mf, Hadiaty RK, Gray SM, McCinnon JS, Walter RP & Pfaender J (2012) Alien invasion in Wallace´s Dreampond: records of hybridogenic “flower horn”cichlid in Lake Matano, with an annotated checklist of fishes species introduced into the Malili Lakes system in Sulawesi. Aquatic Invasions 7 (4), 521-535.

Dunz A, Vreven E, Ibala Zamba A & Schliewen UK (2012) Congolapia, a new cichlid genus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the central Congo basin, with the redescription of C. bilineata (Pellegrin, 1900) and C. crassa(Pellegrin, 1903) and the description of a new species. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 23, 155-179.

Schwarzer J, Swartz E, Vreven E, Snoeks J, Cotteril F, Misof B & Schliewen UK (2012) Repeated trans-watershed hybridisation among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B (Zool.) 279, 4389-4398.

Kovačić M, Patzner R & Schliewen UK (2012) A first quantitative assessment of habitat factors associated with diversity of “rare” and “real” cryptobenthic fishes in the Mediterranean See. Marine Biology doi:10.1007/s00227-012-2030-6.

Härtl M, Cerwenka  AF, Brandner J, Borcherding J, Geist J & Schliewen UK (2012) First record of Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857) in Germany (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Benthophilinae). Spixiana 155-159.

Wirtz P & Schliewen UK (2012) A new species of Liopropoma Gill, 1862 (Teleostei, Perciformes, Serranidae) from the Cape Verde islands. Spixiana 35, 149-144.

Dunz A & Schliewen UK (2012) Description of a rheophilic Tilapia species Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Guinea with comments on Tilapia rheophila Daget, 1962.Zootaxa 3314, 17-30

Cerwenka A., Schliewen UK & Herder F (2012) Alternative egg-feeding tactics inTelmatherina sarasinorum, a trophic specialist of Lake Matano´s evolving sailfin silversides fish radiation. Hydrobiologia 693, 131-139 DOI 10.1007/s10750-012-1099-8

Firmat C, Schliewen UK, Lousseau M, & Alibert P.(2012) Body shape differentiation at global and local geographic scales in the invasive cichlid Oreochromis mossambicus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105, 369-381

Schwarzer J, Misof B & Schliewen UK (2012) Speciation within genomic  networks: A case study based on Steatocranus cichlids of the lower Congo rapids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology,  25(1) 138-148.

Schwarzer J, Misof B, Ifuta SN & Schliewen UK(2011) Time and origin of cichlid colonizsation of the lower Congo rapids. Plos One  6(7): e22380

Schliewen UK (2011) Diversity and distribution of marine, euryhaline and amphidromous gobies from Western, Central and Southern Africa. In: The Biology of Gobies(eds.Patzner RA, VanTassell JL,  Kovačić M & Kapoor BG.), Science Publishers Enfield, Jersey, Plymouth, 207-234

Straube N., Duhamel, G., Gasco N, Kriwet J &Schliewen UK (2011)  Description of a new deep-sea Lantern Shark Etmopterus viatorsp. nov. (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Southern Hemisphere. In: The Kerguelen Plateau: marine ecosystems and fisheries  G Duhamel & D Welsford D eds.), Société Francaise d`Ichthyologie, pp 137-150

Straube, N., Kriwet, J. & Schliewen, U.  (2011) Cryptic diversity and species assignment of large lantern sharks of the Etmopterus spinax clade from the Southern Hemisphere (Squaliformes, Etmopteridae). Zoologica Scripta 40: 61-75

Neumann D, Stiassny MLJ & Schliewen UK(2011) Two new of Sarotherodon species (Pisces: Cichlidae)endemic to Lake Ejagham, Cameroon, west-central Africa, with comments on the Sarotherodon galilaeus species complex. Zootaxa 2765:1-20

Dunz A & Schliewen UK (2010) Description of a Tilapia (Coptodon) species flock of Lake Ejagham (Cameroon) including a redescription of Tilapia deckerti Thys van den Audenaerde 1967. Spixiana 33(2): 251-280.

Dunz A & Schliewen UK (2010) Description of a new species of “Tilapia” Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Ghana. Zootaxa2548: 1–21.

Straube N, Iglesias SP, Sellos DY, Kriwet J &Schliewen UK (2010) Molecular phylogeny and node time estimation of bioluminescent lantern sharks (Elasmobranchii: Etmopteridae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(3): 905-17.

Geiger M, McCrary J & Schliewen UK (2010) Not a simple case: a first comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis for the Midas cichlid complex (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Amphilophus).Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution56(3):1011-24.

Herder, F & Schliewen UK (2010) Beyond sympatric speciation: Speciation in the sailfin silverside fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi). In: Evolution in action - Adaptive Radiations and the Origins of Biodiversity(eds Glaubrecht M & Schneider H) Springer Verlag, Heidelberg

Geiger M & Schliewen UK (2010)Gymnocephalus ambriaelacus, a new species of ruffe from Lake Ammersee, southern Germany (Teleostei, Perciformes, Percidae). Spixiana 33 (1) 119-137.

Pfaender J, Schliewen UK & Herder F (2009) Phenotypic  traits meet patterns of resource use in the radiation of "sharpfin" sailfin silverside fish in Lake Matano. Evolutionary Ecology DOI 10.1007/s10682-009-9332-2

Schwarzer J, Misof B, Tautz D & Schliewen UK(2009) The root of the East African Cichlid radiations. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:186doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-186

Dunz A & Schliewen UK (2009) Description of two new species of Nannocharax Günther, 1867 (Teleostei: Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Cross River Cameroon – with notes on Nannocharax fasciatus Günther, 1867. Zootaxa 2028, 1-19

Schwarzer J, Herder F, Misof B, Hadiaty RK &Schliewen UK (2008) Gene flow at the margin of Lake Matano’s adaptive sailfin silverside radiation: Telmatherinidae of River Petea in Sulawesi. Hydrobiologia  615, 201-213

Schliewen UK & Kovačić M (2008) Didogobius amicuscaridis spec. nov. and D. wirtzi spec. nov., two new species of symbiotic gobiid fish from São Tomé and Cape Verde islands (Perciformes, Gobiidae). Spixiana 31, 247-261.

Koblmüller, S., Schliewen UK, Duftner N, Sefc KM, Katongo, C & Sturmbauer C (2008) Origin and spread of the haplochromine cichlid fishes in Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49, 153-169

Herder F, Pfaender J & Schliewen UK (2008): Adaptive sympatric speciation of polychromatic “roundfin” sailfin silverside fish in Lake Matano (Sulawesi). Submitted toEvolution International Journal of Organic Evolution 62, 2178-2195

Kovačić M & Schliewen UK (2008) A new species of Gorogobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from São Tomé Islands. Zootaxa1686, 29-26

Straube N, Schliewen UK, Kriwet J (2007) Dental structure of Giant lantern sharkEtmopterus baxteri (Chondrichthys: Squaliformes) and its taxonomic implications.Environmental Biology of Fishes 82, 133-141

Stiassny MLJ & Schliewen UK (2007)Congochromis, a new cichlid genus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from central Africa, with the description of a new species from the upper Congo River, Democratic Republic of Congo. American Museum Novitates 3576, 1-16

Wirtz P, Ferreira CEL., Floeter SR, Fricke R, Gasparini JL, Iwamoto T, Rocha L, Sampaio CLS & Schliewen UK (2007) Coastal fishes of São Tomé and Principé islands, Gulf of Guinea (eastern Atlantic Ocean) – an update.Zootaxa 1523, 1-48.

Herder F, Nolte A, Schwarzer J, Hadiaty RK,Schliewen UK (2006) Adaptive radiation and hybridization in Wallace's Dreamponds: evidence from sailfin silversides in the Malili Lakes of Sulawesi. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B (Zool.) 273: 2209-2217.

Herder F, Schwarzer J, Pfaender J, Hadiaty RK,Schliewen UK (2006) Preliminary checklist of sailfin silversides (Pisces: Telmatherinidae) in the Malili Lakes of Sulawesi (Indonesia), with a synopsis of systematics and threats.Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie 5: 139-163

Schliewen UK & Stiassny MLJ (2003)) Etia nguti, a new genus and species of cichlid fish from the River Mamfue, Upper Cross River basin in Cameroon, West-Central Africa.Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14, 61-71.

Englbrecht CC, Schliewen UK & Tautz D (2002) The impact of stocking on the genetic integrity of Arctic charr (Salvelinus) populations from the Alpine region. Molecular Ecology 11, 1017-1027.

Schliewen UK (2001) Artbildung ohne Grenzen - Analyse sympatrischer Artbildung an Fischen in kleinen isolierten Seen. In: Jahrbuch 2001 der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, München 2001.

Schliewen UK , Rassmann K, Markmann M, Markert J, Kocher TD & Tautz D (2001) Genetic and ecological divergence of a monophyletic cichlid species pair under fully sympatric conditions in Lake Ejagham, Cameroon. Molecular Ecology 10, 1471-1488.

Englbrecht CC, Freyhof J, Nolte A, Rassmann K,Schliewen UK & Tautz D (2000) Phylogeography of the bullhead Cottus gobio(Pisces: Teleostei: Cottidae) suggests a pre-Pleistocene origin of the major central European populations. Molecular Ecology 9 , 709-721.

Schliewen UK , Tautz D & Pääbo S (1994) Sympatric speciation suggested by monophyly of crater lake cichlids. Nature 368, 629-632.

Schliewen UK , Fricke H, Schartl M, Epplen JT & Pääbo S (1993) Which home for coelacanths? Nature 363, 405.

Stiassny M, Schliewen UK & Dominey WJ (1992) A new species flock of cichlid fishes from Lake Bermin, Cameroon, with a description of eight new species of Tilapia (Labroidei: Cichlidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 3, 311-346. 

 

 

 

Unpublished reports (Selection)

 

Thieme M,  Shapiro A, Colom A, Schliewen UK, Sindorf N, Kamdem TohamA(editors/contributors)(2008)Inventaire Rapide des Zones Humides Représentatives en République Démocratique du Congo, Institute Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN), 65 pages, Appendices

Schliewen UK (2007) Aquatic Biodiversity of the Ngoyla Forest Jengi South East Forests Project Area, Cameroon with a pictorial checklist of the fishes of the Jengi Forest. Report to WWF-Cameroon Programme Office, 76 pages.

Schliewen UK (2006) Rapid Assessment of Fish Diversity in the Upper Nyong catchment area - with a note on gorillas in the swamp forest above Abong Mbang. Report to Cameroon Wildlife Conservation Society (CWCS), 32 pages.

Klee B & Schliewen UK (2004): Genetische Typisierung von Rhein-Maifischen und benachbarten Maifischpopulationen (Alosa alosa). Gutachten für die Landesanstalt für Ökologie, Bodenordnung und Forsten, Recklinghausen, NRW, 38 pp.

Schliewen UK (2002) Evaluierung des Potentials zur nachhaltigen Nutzung von Zierfischen als alternative Erwerbsquelle in der südwestlichen Region des Salonga-Nationalparks (Demokratische Republik Kongo). "Bericht für die Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (gtz)", 62 pages.

Schliewen UK, Englbrecht C, Rassmann K, Klein L, Miller M & Tautz D (2001) Veränderungen der genetischen Vielfalt: Molekulare und populationsökologische Charakterisierung autochthoner und durch Besatz beeinflusster Salmoniden-Populationen (Bachforelle, Alpen-Seesaibling) in Bayern. Texte 48/01 des Umweltbundesamtes, Berlin, 206 pp.

Schliewen UK (2000) Aquatic Biodiversity of the Congo Basin of the Jengi South East Forests Project Area, Cameroon. Report to WWF-Cameroon Programme Office. 97 pages.

Schliewen UK (1999) La faune des poissons du sud de Benin. In: Evaluation écologique intégrée de la forêt naturelle de la Lama en Republique du Benin. Für das Projekt: "Promotion de l´économie forestière et du´bois", p 17-18.

Tautz D & Schliewen UK (1999) Einfluß von Neozooen auf die genetische Biodiversität. In: Texte des Umweltbundesamtes (UBA) 55/99 „Gebietsfremde Organismen in Deutschland“, pp 98-104.

Schliewen UK (1998) Ichthyological inventory of protected areas in South West Ghana. Bericht für das "Protected Areas Development Programme, Südwest Ghana (PADP)", 75 pp.

Schliewen UK (1996) Ichthyological survey of the Rumpi Hill waters. Bericht für die „Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (gtz)", 56 pp .

Schliewen UK (1996) Barombi Mbo: Summary of the background knowledge of the natural history of the lake and recommendations for conservation. Bericht für die „Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (gtz)", 15 pp.

 

Popular articles (selection)

 

Miller M & Schliewen UK (2005) The molecular phylogeny of Apistogramma – a working hypothesis, pp. 24-26. In: Stawikowski, R., Koslowski, I. & Bohnet, V., editors. Südamerikanische Zwergcichliden / South American Dwarf Cichlids. DATZ Sonderheft, Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.

Schliewen UK (2002) Vielfalt auf kleinem Raum. Die Fische der Südwestprovinz Kameruns. DATZ 55, pp 18-23 und

Schliewen UK (1997) Baikal: See mit Tiefe. Abenteuer Natur 6/97, pp 56-66

Schliewen UK (1996) Korup Nationalpark: Aquarienfische aus dem "ältesten Regenwald Afrikas". Aquatica, 1, pp 84-96

Schliewen UK (1996) Galapagos in Kamerun: Artbildung im Barombi Mbo. In: Cichliden. Festschrift zum 25jährigen Jubiläum der DCG. pp 16-23

Schliewen UK (1991/1992) Die Cichliden der Kameruner Kraterseen.I. Bermin und II. Barombi Mbo. DATZ, 44, pp 32-37 and 45, pp 166-171

 

Schliewen UK (1995) Aquaristik & Naturschutz. DATZ, 48, pp 116-121