- tom.alvestad@uib.no
- Visitor address
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Allégaten 41
5007 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7800NO-5020 BergenNorway
Publications
Conference lecture
- Torkild Bakken; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Eivind Oug et al. (2026). Integrative taxonomy to resolve species complexes and genetic typification of original polychaete names from type localities. (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Marte Leane Bleken Klemetsdal; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2025). Faunal Communities of Arctic Deep-Water Methane Seeps are Specialised with Links to Hydrothermal Vents.. (external link)
- Torkild Bakken; Eivind Oug; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2015). Polychaetous annelids in the deep Nordic Seas: strong bathymetric gradients, low deep-sea diversity and underdeveloped taxonomy. (external link)
- Laetitia M Gunton; Elena K. Kupriyanova; Tom Alvestad et al. (2019). Worms from the abyss: annelid diversity and species distribution from Australia’s eastern lower bathyal and abyssal environments. (external link)
- Torkild Bakken; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Eivind Oug et al. (2019). Integrating DNA barcoding with traditional morphology-based taxonomy: assessment of species diversity in marine bristle worms (Annelida). (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2021). The fauna of the Loki’s Castle vent field on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Tom Alvestad et al. (2017). Do ampharetids take sedimented steps between vents and seeps? Phylogeny and habitat-use of Ampharetidae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) in chemosynthesis-based ecosystems. (external link)
- Nataliya Budaeva; Maria Capa; Arne Nygren et al. (2019). Cryptic diversity and genetic connectivity in the deep-sea annelids across the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland Ridge. (external link)
- Katrine Kongshavn; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Torkild Bakken et al. (2016). Experiences after three years of automated DNA barcoding of Polychaeta. (external link)
- Torkild Bakken; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn et al. (2016). DNA barcoding contributing to new knowledge on diversity and distribution of Polychaeta (Annelida) in Norwegian and adjacent waters. (external link)
- Katrine Kongshavn; Eivind Oug; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2013). Polychaete diversity in the Nordic Seas: new insight based on extensive seabed sampling and mapping by the University of Bergen and the MAREANO project. (external link)
Academic article
- Tom Alvestad; Filip Marklund; Arne Nygren et al. (2026). Redescription of Melinna palmata (Annelida, Melinnidae), a recently established species in Sweden, with a synoptic table for Melinnidae species occurring in Sweden and Norway. (external link)
- Jon Thomassen Hestetun; Anders Lanzén; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2026). Metabarcoding and targeted barcoding can enhance Norwegian Continental Shelf macrofauna species inventories. (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Marte Leane Bleken Klemetsdal; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2025). Faunal communities of Arctic deep-water methane seeps are specialised with links to hydrothermal vents. (external link)
- Eivind Oug; Torkild Bakken; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2016). Polychaetous annelids in the deep Nordic Seas: Strong bathymetric gradients, low diversity and underdeveloped taxonomy. (external link)
- Per Djursvoll; Per Kristian Solevåg; Tom Alvestad (2006). Myriapod records along the Sognefjord, Western Norway. (external link)
- Julio Parapar; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn et al. (2017). A new species of Ampharete (Annelida: Ampharetidae) from the NW Iberian Peninsula, with a synoptic table comparing NE Atlantic species of the genus. (external link)
- Antonina Kremenetskaia; Tom Alvestad; Heather D. Penney et al. (2024). A new species of holothuroid from the Labrador Sea (eastern Canada): Pseudothyone labradorensis sp. nov. (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, Dendrochirotida, Sclerodactylidae). (external link)
- Maël Grosse; Arne Nygren; Karin Meißner et al. (2025). Molecular Investigation of the Diversity of Cirratulidae (Annelida) Doubles the Number of Known Species in European Waters. (external link)
- Jon Anders Kongsrud; Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Tom Alvestad et al. (2016). New species of Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Arctic Loki Castle vent field. (external link)
- Tom Alvestad; Nataliya Budaeva (2015). Neosabellides lizae, a new species of Ampharetidae (Annelida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. (external link)
- Maël Grosse; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Tom Alvestad et al. (2025). A new species and a new record of Cirratulidae (Annelida, Cirratulida) from Loki’s Castle vent field. (external link)
- Yessica Chávez-López; Tom Alvestad; Jenna M. Mooree (2025). A review of Anobothrus Levinsen, 1884, restricted, with reinstatement of Anobothrella Hartman, 1967 and Melythasides Desbruyères, 1978, and redescription of seven species (Annelida, Ampharetidae). (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2024). Diversity, habitat endemicity and trophic ecology of the fauna of Loki’s Castle vent field on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. (external link)
- Tom Alvestad; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn (2014). Ampharete undecima, a new deep-sea ampharetid (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Norwegian Sea. (external link)
- Laetitia M Gunton; Elena K. Kupriyanova; Tom Alvestad et al. (2021). Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ‘Investigator’ voyage. (external link)
- Maël Grosse; Tom Alvestad; Arne Nygren et al. (2025). Phylogenetic analyses elucidate the identity and distribution of two early-described species of Arctic Cirratulidae (Annelida, Sedentaria). (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Tom Alvestad et al. (2017). Do ampharetids take sedimented steps between vents and seeps? Phylogeny and habitat-use of Ampharetidae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) in chemosynthesis-based ecosystems. (external link)
- Timothy D. O'Hara; Alan Williams; Shane T. Ahyong et al. (2020). The lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor fauna of eastern Australia. (external link)
- Miguel Angel Meca Jimenez; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn et al. (2024). Diversity of Orbiniella (Orbiniidae, Annelida) in the North Atlantic and the Arctic. (external link)
- Laetitia M Gunton; Elena K. Kupriyanova; Tom Alvestad (2020). Two new deep-water species of Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the eastern Australian continental margin. (external link)
Conference poster
- Tom Alvestad; Katrine Kongshavn; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2017). Building a comprehensive barcode reference library of the Norwegian Echinodermata through NorBOL - an ongoing effort. (external link)
- Endre Willassen; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn et al. (2017). Investigating the marine invertebrate fauna of the West African continental shelf with DNA barcodes. (external link)
- Lloyd Allotey; Tom Alvestad; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2017). Diversity and species distributions of Glyceriformia (Annelida, Polychaeta) in shelf areas off western Africa. (external link)
- Jon Anders Kongsrud; Torkild Bakken; Eivind Oug et al. (2017). Assessing species diversity in marine bristle worms (Annelida, Polychaeta): integrating barcoding with traditional morphology-based taxonomy. (external link)
- Katrine Kongshavn; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Tom Alvestad et al. (2017). Barcoding of marine invertebrates from Norway through NorBOL. (external link)
- Katrine Kongshavn; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2015). Integrating DNA-barcoding and morphology to study marine invertebrates. Exploring biodiversity and biogeography of deep-sea polychaetes in the Norwegian Sea.. (external link)
- Polina B. Borisova; Nataliya Budaeva; Tom Alvestad (2019). Phylogeography of Aglaophamus malmgreni (Nephtyidae) in the Arctic and northeastern Atlantic. (external link)
- Tom Alvestad; Nataliya Budaeva; Katrine Kongshavn et al. (2019). Ampharetidae (Annelida) from deep Nordic Seas. (external link)
- Tom Alvestad; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Nataliya Budaeva (2023). High diversity in the genera Anobothrus and Amythasides (Annelida, Ampharetidae) in the North Atlantic Ocean. (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Tom Alvestad; Hans Tore Rapp et al. (2016). Phylogeny of Ampharetidae. (external link)
- Tom Alvestad; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn (2016). Eclysippe Eliason, 1955 (Annelida, Ampharetidae) from the North Atlantic with the description of a new species from Norwegian waters. (external link)
- Nataliya Budaeva; Tom Alvestad; Torkild Bakken et al. (2019). DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity and genetic connectivity in the deep-sea annelids across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. (external link)
- Nataliya Budaeva; Katrine Kongshavn; Tom Alvestad (2019). Leddormer fra dyphavet. (external link)
- Lloyd Allotey; Akanbi Bamikole Williams; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2016). Diversity and species distributions of Glyceriformia in shelf areas off western Africa. (external link)
- Tom Alvestad; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn (2013). A new deep-sea species of Ampharete from the Norwegian Sea. (external link)
- Jon Anders Kongsrud; Tom Alvestad; Eivind Oug et al. (2013). The Polychaete fauna associated with the Arctic Loki’s Castle vent field. (external link)
Conference abstract
- Jon Anders Kongsrud; Torkild Bakken; Eivind Oug et al. (2017). Assessing species diversity in marine bristle worms (Annelida, Polychaeta): integrating barcoding with traditional morphology-based taxonomy. (external link)
- Katrine Kongshavn; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Tom Alvestad et al. (2017). Barcoding of marine invertebrates from Norway through NorBOL. (external link)
- Endre Willassen; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Katrine Kongshavn et al. (2017). Investigating the marine invertebrate fauna of the West African continental shelf with DNA barcodes. (external link)
- Tom Alvestad; Katrine Kongshavn; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2017). Building a comprehensive barcode reference library of the Norwegian Echinodermata through NorBOL: an ongoing effort. (external link)
- Lloyd Allotey; Tom Alvestad; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2017). Diversity and species distributions of Glyceriformia (Annelida, Polychaeta) in shelf areas off western Africa. (external link)
- Nataliya Budaeva; Tom Alvestad; Torkild Bakken et al. (2019). DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity and genetic connectivity in the deep-sea annelids across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. (external link)
- Endre Willassen; Tom Alvestad; Katrine Kongshavn et al. (2019). DNA barcoding marine fauna with NorBOL — current status. (external link)
- Katrine Kongshavn; Tom Alvestad; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2019). DNA barcodes of Nordic Echinodermata. (external link)
- Torkild Bakken; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Eivind Oug et al. (2019). DNA barcoding assessment of species diversity in marine bristle worms (Annelida), integrating barcoding with traditional morphology-based taxonomy. (external link)
Research report
- Torkild Bakken; Katrine Kongshavn; Luis Felipe Martell Hernández et al. (2020). Feltarbeid i Saltstraumen marine verneområde. Utfordringer og metodikk for observasjon og skånsom innsamling av marin fauna i en av verdens sterkeste tidevannsstrømmer. (external link)
- Ragni Torvanger; Einar Bye-Ingebrigtsen; Øydis Alme et al. (2015). Marin overvåkning Rogaland - Statusrapport april 2015. (external link)
- Tone Vassdal; Per-Otto Johansen; Ragni Torvanger et al. (2013). Marinbiologisk undersøkelse ved AS Sævareid Fiskeanlegg i Fusa kommune, 2012. (external link)
- Silje H. Hadler-Jacobsen; Tone Vassdal; Tom Alvestad et al. (2013). Resipientundersøkelse av fjorden ved Festningsdalen avfallsplass i 2012. (external link)
- Vivian Husa; Erling Heggøy; Ann-Lisbeth Agnalt et al. (2012). Kartlegging av fremmede marine arter i Rogaland. (external link)