Försterra, Günter & Verena Häussermann (2003): First report on large scleractinian (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) accumulations in cold-temperate shallow water of south Chilean fjords. Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 345: 117-128.
Häussermann, Verena (2004, Erratum 2005): The sea anemone genus Actinostola Verrill, 1883: variability and utility of traditional taxonomic features; and a re-description of Actinostola chilensis McMurrich, 1904. Polar Biology 28: 26-28. Erratum Polar Biology 28: 338-350.
Häussermann, Verena (2004): Identifications and taxonomy of soft-bodied hexacorals exemplified by Chilean sea anemones; including guidelines for sampling, preservation and examination. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 84: 931-936.
Häussermann, Verena (2004): Re-description of Phymactis papillosa (Lesson, 1830) and
Phymanthea pluvia (Drayton in Dana, 1846) (Cnidaria: Anthozoa), two common actiniid sea anemones from the south east Pacific with a discussion of related genera. Zoologische Mededelingen 78: 345-381.
Schrödl, Michael, Alarcón, María-Angélica, Bedriñana, Luis R., Bravo, Francisco J., Bustamante, Carlos M., Carvalho, Rosana, Försterra, Günter, Gallardo, Carlos, Häussermann, Verena & Andrea Salmen (2005): Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from the southern Chilean Comau Fjord, with redescription of Polycera priva Marcus, 1959. Vita Malacologica 3: 23-33.
Cairns, Stephen, Häussermann, Verena & Günter Försterra (2005): A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 1018: 14-46.
Häussermann, Verena (2006): Biodiversity of Chilean sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa): distribution patterns and biogeographic implications; including new records for the fjord region. Investigaciones Marinas 34 (2): 23-35.
Försterra, Günter, Beuck, Lydia, Häussermann, Verena & André Freiwald (2005): Shallow water Desmophyllum dianthus (Scleractinia) from Chile: characteristics of the biocenoses, the bioeroding community, heterotrophic interactions and (palaeo)-bathymetrical implications. In: Freiwald, A., Roberts, J. M. (eds.): Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 937-977.
Häussermann, Verena & Günter Försterra (2005). Distribution patterns of Chilean shallow-water sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia); with a discussion of the taxonomic and zoogeographic relationships between the actinofauna of the South East Pacific, the South West Atlantic and Antarctica. In W. E. Arntz, G. A. Lovrich and S. Thatje (eds.): The Magellan-Antarctic connection: links and frontiers at high southern latitudes. Scientia Marina 69 (Suppl. 2), pp. 91-102.
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Galea, Horia (2006): Two new species of the genus Halopteris (Cnidaria; Hydrozoa) from the Chilean fjords. Zootaxa 1165: 57-68.
Melzer, Roland R., Schrödl, Michael, Häussermann, Verena, Försterra, Günter, and Montoya Bravo, Maria Fernanda (2006): Pycnogonids on cnidarians at Comau fjord, Southern Chile: a report on 2005 SCUBA collections. Spixiana 29: 237-242.
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Schwabe, Enrico, Försterra, Günter, Häussermann, Verena, Alarcón, María-Angélica, & Michael Schrödl (2006): Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the southern Chilean Comau Fjord
, with reinstatement of Tonicia calbucensis Plate, 1897. Zootaxa 1341: 1-27.
van Ofwegen, Leen, Häussermann, Verena & Günter Försterra (2006): A new genus of soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Clavulariidae) from Chile. Zootaxa 1219: 47-57.
Försterra, Günter, Häussermann, Verena & Carsten Lüter (2008): Mass occurrences of the recent brachiopod Magellania venosa (Terebratellidae) in the fjords Comau and Reñihue, Chile. Marine Ecology 29: 1-6.
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Häussermann, V. and G. Försterra. 2007. Large assemblages of cold-water corals in Chile: a summary of recent findings and potential impacts. Pages 195207 in George R. Y. and S. D. Cairns, eds. Conservation and adaptive management of seamount and deep-sea coral ecosystems. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami. 324 p.
van Ofwegen, Leen, Häussermann, Verena & Günter Försterra (2007): The genus Alcyonium (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Alcyoniidae) in Chile. Zootaxa 1607: 1-19.
Publication #20
Försterra, Günter & Verena Häussermann (in press): The balance between standardization, quality, and practicability in benthic inventories – experiences with the NaGISA protocol in the Chilean fjord region. Seto Marine Biological Laboratory Publications (Kyoto).
Altnöder, A., J. M. Bohn, I.-M. Räuckert & E. Schwabe (2007): The presumed shelled juvenile of the parasitic gastropod Entocolax schiemenzii Voigt, 1901 (Gastropoda: Entoconchidae) and its holothurian host Chiridota pisanii Ludwig, 1886 (Holothuroidea: Chiridotidae). Spixiana 30 (2): 187-199.
Publication # 22
Iriarte, Jose Luis, Gonzalez, Humberto, Torres, Rodrigo, Mardones, Jorge, Sánchez, Nicolás, Försterra, Günter and Häussermann, Vreni (in review): Oceanographic studies and ecological interactions in Southern Chilean fjords: the Comau fjord example. Journal of Marine Systems.
Sinniger, Frederik and Häussermann, Vreni (in press): Zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) from shallow water of the southern Chilean fjord region, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. Organisms Diversity and Evolution.
Häussermann, Verena and Försterra, Günter (2008): A new species of sea anemone from the Chilean fjord region, Paraisanthus fabiani (Actiniaria: Isanthidae), with a discussion of the family Isanthidae Carlgren, 1938. Zootaxa.
Eduardo L. Esteves; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu & Eduardo Hajdu (2007): Three new species of Crambe Vosmaer, 1880 (Crambeidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae) from south-east Pacific fjords (Chilean Patagonia), with comments on morphologic characters in the genus. JMBA 87: 1367-1378.
Galea, Horia and Leclere, Lucas (2007): On some morphologically aberrant, auto-epizootic forms of Plumularia setacea (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from southern Chile. Zootaxa 1484: 39-49.
Galea, Horia, Häussermann, Verena and Försterra, Günter (2007): Cnidaria, Hydrozoa: First records, local and extended world distribution, region of south-Chilean fjords. Check List 3(4): 308-320.
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Galea, Horia, Försterra, Günter and Häussermann, Verena (2007): Additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile. Zootaxa 1650:55-68.
Publication # 31
Atwood, L., Melzer, R. M., and R. Meyer (submitted). Vertical migration of Decapoda larvae in response to freshwater: a Chilean fjord case study. Journal of Plankton Research.
Eduardo Hajdu and Ruth Desqueyroux-Faúndez (2008): A reassessment of the phylogeny and biogeography of Rhabderemia Topsent, 1890 (Rhabderemiidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 115(2): 377-395.
Fernanda Azevedo, Eduardo Hajdu, Philippe Willenz and Michelle Klautau (submitted): New records of calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) from the Chilean coast. Zootaxa.
Publication # 35
Galea, Horia, Häussermann, Verena, and Försterra, Günter (submitted): New additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjord region of southern Chile. Zootaxa.
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Melzer RR, Schwabe E (2008) First record of an early pea crab stage on Tonicia chilensis. (Frembly, 1827) (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). Zootaxa 1919: 58-60.
Reiff, Nicola (2008): Inventarisierung und Dokumentation der Evertebratenfauna der chilenischen Fjordregion. GBC Annual report 2006/2007: 13-14.
Försterra, Günter & Verena Häussermann (2004): Chilean fjords – an endangered paradise. Global Marine Environment 1: 12-13. (Copyright Cambridge University Press)
Häussermann, Verena & Günter Försterra (2004): Chilean sea anemones – forgotten flowers of the sea. Global Marine Environment 1: 16-17. (Copyright Cambridge University Press)
Försterra, Günter & Verena Häussermann (2004): Die chilenischen Fjorde - ein bedrohtes Paradies. GfBS newsletter 13: 24-26, 57. (Copyright Museum Naturalis)
Häussermann, Verena & Günter Försterra (2004): Die chilenischen Seeanemonen - vergessene Blumen des Meeres. GfBS newsletter 13: 31-33, 57. (Copyright Museum Naturalis)
Försterra, Günter, Häussermann, Verena & Gerard P. Foley Jr. (2006): Adding pieces to a complex puzzle – discovering the benthic life in the channels and fjords of Chilean Patagonia. Global Marine Environment 3: 18-21. (Copyright Cambridge University Press)
Hajdu, Eduardo, Willenz, Philippe, Lôbo-Hajdu, Gisele, Desqueyroux-Faundez, Ruth, Carvalho, Mariana, Häussermann, Verena, Försterra, Günter & Marta Scuteri (2006): Marine sponges biodiversity. Project AMBARC-diving and wading in South America. Global Marine Environment 4: 28-29. (Copyright Cambridge University Press)
Willenz, Philippe, Häussermann, Verena, Försterra, Günter, Schrödl, Michael, Melzer, Roland, Atwood, Elizabeth & Christian Jorda (2007). Finding more pieces of the Chilean puzzle. Global Marine Environment 5: 26-29.
Reiff, Nicola (2007): Kolibris und Pinguine: Von minus dreissig bis eintausend Meter. GfBS Newsletter 19.
Unpublished reports:
Försterra, Günter, Häussermann, Verena, Fitzek, Reinhard, & Gabriel Yany (2004, updated version 2006): Antecedentes para el establecimiento de un área marina de alta protección (parque marino) en los fiordos Comau y Reñihué (incluyendo Quintupeu, Cahuelmo y la isla Lilihuapi) como área de referencia científica.
Häussermann, Verena, Försterra, Günter, Wehrmann, Achim, Thiel, Martin, Schrödl, Michael & Elena Clasing (2004): Primer workshop en la Estacion Cientifica Huinay: los fiordos chilenos (in spanish, english and german).
Försterra, Günter, Häussermann, Verena (2007): Impactos relacionados con la construccion de una carretera a lo largo de los fiordos Comau y Reñihué.
