About me
I am a biologist and zoologist with special interest for aquatic environments. I like the ocean and love the deep ocean. I worked with deep sea samples of several abyssal plains of the Atlantic and pacific oceans. As a classical taxonomist I like to look on details. My research focuses on taxonomy of cephalopods and Tanaidacea (crustacea).
Biodiversity on our planet is still the big unknown and one of the last frontiers in discovery for mankind. In my opinion the study and understanding of the global biodiversity is the key to our survival in the future.
Beside science I enjoy the company of my dogs and to cook.
Curriculum
Education
2004 | Dr. rer. Nat. (PhD). University of Hamburg, Germany. Thesis title: Systematic, phylogeny and zoogeography of deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the Atlantic Ocean on example of selected taxa. |
2000 | Diplom Biologe (MSc) University of Hamburg, Germany. Major: zoology; minors: geology and paleontology, hydrobiology. Thesis title: Hexakorallen der Schreibkreide Norddeutschlands.(Hexacorallia of the cretaceous from north Germany) |
1996 | BSc Biologist Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (P.U.J.) Bogotá, Colombia. Thesis title: Estudio de la comunidad de Peces Asociada al Cardenal Tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi, Pisces, Characidae) y Limitantes del Método de la Pesca Eléctrica en el Caño Bocón, Guainia. (Study of the fish community associated t the Cardinal Tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi, Pisces, Characidae) and limitations of electric fishing in the Caño Bocón, Guainia.). |
1987 | German High school, Studienkolleg, Hamburg, Germany |
1986 | Colombian High school Colegio Andino Bogotá, Colombia |
EMPLOYMENT
2013 | Chief scientist Marverde Foundation, Cephalopoda and Tanaidacea of the southern Caribbean. |
2012 | Marine Biology consultant for the project of enlargement of the ports of San Andres y Providencia Islands, Colombia. |
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. |
2000-03 | Research assistant, University of Hamburg, Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum Hamburg, program of deep sea Tanaidacea research. (DFG Grants Br 1121/19-1, 19-2) Germany |
1997-99 | Student work in the scientific collections, Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum Hamburg, Germany. Lower Invertebrates II collection and fish collection. |
1996 | Excursion leader, Fishing and Systematics of Fishes, Rio Meta, P.U.J. Colombia (March). |
Teaching, courses
Introduction to invertebrates
Biogeography
Biodiversity
Taxonomy and animal systematics
Biodiversity and taxonomy in the modern world
Deep sea and abyssal biology
PUBLICATIONS
Guerrero Kommritz, J. (1996): Ensayos sobre pesca electrica en Colombia. Dahlia
2: 71-77.
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. (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.
Guerrero, J., Amezquita, S. Aguilar, C., Rodriguez, D., Prada-Pedreros, S (1997): Peces de la zona de rebalse poco profonda de la cuenca del caño Bocón, Orinoquia Colombiana. La investigación en la Universidad Javeriana IV Congreso Tomo I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana: 277-282.
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.
DoNascimiento, C., Prada-Pedreros, S., & Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2014) Trichomycterus venulosus (Steindachner, 1915), a junior synonym of Eremophilus mutisii Humboldt, 1805 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) and not an extinct species. Neotropical ichthyology 12(4):707-715.
DoNascimiento, C., Prada-Pedreros, S., & Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2014) A new catfish speceis of the genus Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomicteridae) from the rio Orinoco versant of the Páramo de Cruz verde, Eastern cordillera of Colombia. Neotropical ichtyology. 12(4): 717-728.
Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Camelo Guarin, S. (2015) Two new species of Octopus from the southern Caribbean. Marine Biodiversity. DOI 10.1007/s12526-015-0406-9
Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Rodriguez-Bermudez, A. (2017) Sepiolids (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) from the southern Caribbean, Colombian Coast, and a redescription of Nectoteuthis pourtalesii Verrill, 1883 Marine Biodiversity 47 (1): 203-224.
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.
Ritschard EA, Guerrero-Kommritz J, Sanchez JA. 2019. First molecular approach to the octopus fauna from the southern Caribbean. PeerJ 7300 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7300
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Prada-Pedreros, S., Rivera-Rondon, C. A. & Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2006): Trichomycterus venulosus (Steindachner, 1917), does this fish still exist in the páramo de Cruz Verde (Cundinamarca, Colombia)?. Biota Colombiana 7(1): 166-168.
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. & Escobar-Calderon, F. (2017) Some new observations on the freshwater oyster Acostaea rivolii (Deshayes, 1827) (Bivalvia: Etheriidae). Amici Molluscarum 25 (1-2): 45-49.
Guerrero Kommritz, J. Cantera, J. Puentes V, & Leon J (2018) Frist observations of the bigfin squid Magnapinna sp. in the Colombian Southern Caribbean. Biodiversity data Journal 6: e24170.
First observation on Cirrothauma sp in the Colombian southern Caribbean Biodiversity (2018) International Journal 2(3): 272-273.
Garcia-Bonilla, E., Gonzalez, P. Piraquete, L., Guerrero-Kommritz, J. Puyana, M. & Acosta, A. (2020). Sea grasses a new unreported habitat for the heterobranch mollusk Umbraculum umbraculum in the Caribbean region. Marine and Fisheries sciences 33(1): 129-133.
Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2021) Cefalopodos (Molusca) del mar caribe colombiano. Boletin de Investigaciones Marinas y costeras 50 (1):191-196
BOOK CHAPTERS
Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Melzer, R. (2010) Cephalopoda-Octopus, Squid & Cuttlefish. In: Invertebrates of the Chilenean Fjords. Nature in Focus Chile. pp 456-460.
Alvarez-Leon, A., Rodriguez-Forero, A., Gonzales-Acosta. J.A., Rosado-Puccini, R., Hernandez-Barrero, S., Valderrama-Barco, M., Pinilla, G.A., Lehman, P., Forero-Useche, J.E., Prada-Pedreros, P., DoNacimento,C.L. & Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2012) Eremophilus mutisii Humboldt, 1801. Pp114. En: Mojica,J.I., Usma, J.S., Alvarez-Leon, R. &Lasso, C.A. (Eds) (2012). Libro Rojo de peces dulceacuicolas de Colombia 2012. Instituto de Investigacion de recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt, Instituto de ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Colombia, WWF Colombia y Universidad de Manizales Bogota, D.C., Colombia, 319 pp.
Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Cantera J. (2019). Cephalopoda. In Puentes, V, Dueñas LF, Leon J eds Guia Visual de Organismos de Aguas profundas del Caribe Colombiano/Visual Guide of deep sea organism of the Colombian Caribbean. Anadarko Colombia Company © Fondo nacional de financiamiento para la ciencia tecnologia y la innovacion Francisco Jose de Caldas Colciencias ©. Pp 51-54.
Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2020). Tanaidacea. In Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates (Fourth Edition)Volume 5: Keys to Neotropical and Antarctic Fauna Phylum artropoda Crustacea Malacostraca 2020, Pages 809-986 pp860-86
MONOGRAPHIES
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. (2004): Systematik, Phylogenie und Zoogeographie von Tiefsee-Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) am Beispiel ausgewählter Taxa. Dissertation, Universität Hamburg. Internet publication
www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/opus/volltext/2004/2280/
Guerrero Kommritz, J. (2015) La costa de las perlas. Jürgen Guerrero Kommritz by Lulu.com 103 p.
Guerrero Kommritz, J.; Rodriguez Bermudez, A.; Camelo Guarin, S.; Quiñonez Duarte, J. (2016) Catalogo de pulpos de aguas someras de la Bahia de Taganga, sector Tayrona, Caribe Sur. Fundabas. 55p.
Guerrero-Kommritz, J. & Escobar-Calderon, F. (2017) La ostra de agua dulce del Magdalena Acostaea rivolii (Deshayes, 1827) Guerrero Kommritz Fundabas 119pp
Salazar, L., Acosta, A., Romero-Tibabuzo, C., Guerrero-Kommritz, J.,Acero, A., Dueñas, P. Campos, N., Borrero-Perez, G.,Puyana, M., Diaz, C. Zea, S., Bocanegra, V., Ruiz-Pino, D. (2021). Fauna Marina: Bahia de Taganga Caribe Colombiano. Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogota. Colombia 140p.