Tom Schiøtte

Primary fields of research

Faunistics and zoogeography of Arctic and North Atlantic, marine Mollusca and to some extent of other invertebrates in this area.

Taxonomy and zoogeography of Cephalaspidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda).

Current research

Writing a revised species catalogue of Greenlandic, marine Mollusca with indication of their geographic occurrence and depth zonation in Greenland waters and with a complete list of relevant literature (together with Ole S. Tendal).

Participating in writing other species catalogues of Greenlandic, marine invertebrates (with Ole S. Tendal and others).

Preliminary list of publications

CV

Born 1953.

Student 1972.

Army service 1972 to 1976 and after that about 20 days a year of reserve duty until end of contract in 1996 with the rank of captain.

Working at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC) from 1977 until 2000, primarily as an assistant (in some periods acting) curator of mollusks.

2001-spring 2003 working as project coordinator and database manager on the Greenland Marine Benthos project headed by Ole S. Tendal. Project concluded with a report to the Environment Agency, who financed the work.

From spring 2003 working at the ZMUC as curatorial assistant on various groups and as database manager for the Greenland Marine Benthos database.

Has through the years taken a number of university and external courses in Danish and Arctic marine fauna, in zoogeography, museology, relational databases and GIS.

Has participated in many collecting trips and expeditions to tropical areas (Philippines, Thailand), the North Atlantic (the BIOFAR and BIOICE programmes), the Antarctic (EPOS), and Greenland. Leader of the zoological part of the 1995 Independence Fiord Expedition.

Research through the years first concentrated on mollusks in the Red Sea, but later with focus on mollusks in the polar regions and in the North Atlantic. The research has been concentrated on taxonomy, faunistics, zoogeography, and phylogenetics.

Has participated in a number of congresses, symposia and meetings of malacologists or Danish and Nordic marine scientists, usually with talks and/or posters.

Has frequently done referee work (mainly on mollusk articles) for various international journals.

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

The list of publications has not yet been inserted in the correct place in this home page system, but it includes the following publications:

Schiøtte, T. 1981: Tiarmede blæksprutter. Klovnfisken 1981(7):9-18.

Schiøtte, T. 1983: Indsamlingsrejse til Philippinerne 1982. Klovnfisken 1983(5):11-18.

Yaron, I., Schiøtte, T. & Wium-Andersen, G. 1986: A review of molluscan taxa described by P. Forsskål and C. Niebuhr with citation of original descriptions, discussion of type-material available and selection of some lectotypes. Steenstrupia 12(10):157-203.

Schiøtte, T. 1986: Marine Mollusca from Jørgen Brønlund Fjord, Peary Land, North Greenland. P. 78 in Heppell (ed.): Abstracts, Ninth International Malacological Congress.  103 pp.. National Museums of Scotland. Edinburgh.

Schiøtte, T. &  Vedelsby, A. 1986: Forsskål and Niebuhr: their expedition and collections. P. 78 in Heppell (ed.): Abstracts, Ninth International Malacological Congress.  103 pp.. National Museums of Scotland. Edinburgh.

Schiøtte, T. 1989: Marine Mollusca from Jørgen Brønlund Fjord, North Greenland, including the description of Diaphana vedelsbyae n.sp. Meddelelser om Grønland Biosci. 28:1-24.

Vedelsby, A. & Schiøtte, T. 1990: Den plettede voldsnegl, Helix aspersa Müller, 1774 genfundet i Danmark. Flora og Fauna 96(1):17-18.

Petersen, G.H. & Schiøtte, T. 1990: Material for the assessment of the origin of Antarctic benthos. Berichte zur Polarforschung 68:106.

Petersen, G.H., Schiøtte, T. & Tendal, O.S. 1990: Til Antarktis med Polarstern. Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Årsskrift 1988/89:37.

Schiøtte, T. 1992: Forsskål and Niebuhr: Their expedition and collections. Pp. 353-356 in Gittenberger & Goud (eds): Proceedings of the Ninth International Malacological Congress.  414 pp.. Unitas Malacologica. Leiden.

Schiøtte, T. 1992: The tectibranch gastropods of the Faroe Islands and their relations to temperature and depth. Pp. 96-97 in J. Kløvstad (ed.): Nordurlandahúsid í Føroyum, Årbok 1991-92. 115 pp.

Schiøtte, T. & Warén, A. 1992: An annotated and illustrated list of the types of Mollusca described by H.P.C. Møller from West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland Biosci. 35:1-34.

Schiøtte, T. 1993: Godt begyndt, men aldrig fuldendt - H.P.C. Møllers bløddyr. Dyr i Natur og Museum 1993(1):14-16.

Schiøtte, T. 1996: [Untitled]. Pp. 276-277 in: Comments on the proposed suppression for nomenclatorial purposes of S.D. Kaicher's Card Catalogue of World-Wide Shells (1973-1992). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53(4):273-277. 

Schiøtte, T. 1998: A taxonomic revision of the genus Diaphana Brown, 1827, including a discussion of the phylogeny and zoogeography of the genus (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Steenstrupia 24(1):77-140.

Klitgaard, A.B. & Schiøtte, T. 1998: "The Last Frontier" besejres: Bundfaunaen i Independence Fjord. Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, Årsskrift 8:8-11.

Tendal, O.S., Schiøtte, T. & Klitgaard, A.B. 2000: Et katalog over Grønlands marine invertebratfauna. Pp 9-10 in Berg, T.B.G., Nymand, J. & Rosing-Asvid, A.: Arktisk Biologisk Forskermøde VIII 2000 Book of Abstracts. Zoological Institute, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen.

Tendal, O.S. & Schiøtte, T. 2001: Bunddyrene ved Grønland. Hovedområdet 2001(1):12-13.

Tendal, O.S. & Schiøtte, T. 2001: Nyt lys på Grønlands bunddyr. Dyr i Natur og Museum 2001(1):13-15.

Linse, K. & Schiøtte, T. 2002: A new species of Diaphana from bathyal depths in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica and first record of Diaphana inflata (Strebel, 1908) in the High Antarctic (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies 68:147-153.

Schiøtte, T. & Tendal, O.S. 2002: A data survey of the Greenland marine invertebrate benthos. P. 8 in Raundrup, K., Levermann, N. & Clemmensen, S.: Arktisk Biologisk Forskermøde IX 2002 Book of Abstracts. Natural History Museum. Århus.

Schiøtte, T. 2002: Østers. Pp 555-556 in: Den Store Danske Encyklopædi, vol. 20. Gyldendal.

Schiøtte, T. 2003: Fjordene i Peary Land og deres udforskning. Pp 273-275 in Martens, Jensen, Meldgaard & Meltofte (eds): Peary Land. 332 pp. Atuagkat. Nuuk.

Schiøtte, T. 2005: Boring bivalves in the Arctic deep sea? First record of Xylophaga shells (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pholadidae) from the Greenland Sea. Deep-Sea Newsletter 34:16-17.

Schiøtte, T. 2005: Marine, benthic mollusks common to North Greenland and the Faroes: A first investigation of a previously unrecognized, North Atlantic fauna element. Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis Supplementum XXXXI:94-108.

Sneli, J.-A., Schiøtte, T., Jensen, K.R., Wikander, P.B., Stokland, q. & Sørensen, J. 2005: The Marine Mollusca of the Faroes. Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis Supplementum XXXXII:15-190.

Schiøtte, T. 2006: An Antarctic opisthobranch that was no such thing - A reminder for everybody. Opisthobranch Newsletter 27(2):1-2.

Schiøtte, T. 2007: Sneglen der snød. Dyr i Natur og Museum 2007(1):18-19.

Tendal, O.S. & Schiøtte, T. (eds) unpubl.: Report on Greenland marine benthic animals, diversity and geographic distribution (project funded by the Danish Environment Agency, Arctic Environment Programme).