I have a lifetime interest in the systematics and biogeography of molluscs, and was a curator at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris until 1998 when I joined University of Málaga, Spain as a lecturer in Zoology. My research is focused on European and West African marine molluscs, with a particular attention to the ibero-moroccan area. My efforts of recent years have culminated in the collaborative publication of a large identification handbook for the marine molluscs of southern Spain. My involvement in databases had started with the creation of the Check List of European Marine Mollusca in 1995, also a collaborative effort which was later incorporated as the mollusc component of the European Register of Marine Species and later of WoRMS.
ERMS 2.0: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2008). European Register of Marine Species. Http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php. Accessed on yyyy-mm-dd.
[previously: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Emblow, C.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2004). European Register of Marine Species. Available online at http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php. Consulted on [date]., more
CLEMAM: Data from CLEMAN: Check List of European Marine Mollusca Database
http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.clemam.html searched on dd/mm/yyyy., more
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Accessed at https://www.molluscabase.org on yyyy-mm-dd, more
Caballero-Herrera, J.A.; Hoffman, L.; Freiwald, A.; Gofas, S. (2023). The dispersal capacity of Mollusca - a test on the South Azorean Seamount Chain. Mar. Biodiv. 53(5): 59. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-023-01366-9
Moya-Urbano, E.; Urra, J.; Gofas, S.; Gallardo-Núñez, M.; Mateo-Ramírez, Á.; Farias, C.; Ordinas, X.; Caballero-Herrera, J.A.; Bárcenas, P.; García-Ruiz, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2023). Molluscan assemblages in shelf and slope sedimentary habitats of the Northern Alboran Sea and their linkage to environmental variables. Regional Studies in Marine Science 65: 103077. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2023.103077
Ruiz Villaespesa, E.; Urra, J.; Salas, C.; Gofas, S. (2023). Faunal turnover between meso- and infralittoral algal turf assemblages: A case study in a highly biodiverse Marine Protected Area of the northern Alboran Sea (W Mediterranean). Regional Studies in Marine Science 60: 102842. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2023.102842
Urra, J.; Utrilla, O.; Gofas, S.; Valencia, V.A.; Farias, C.; González-García, E.; López-González, N.; Fernández-Salas, L.M.; Rueda, J.L. (2023). Late Pleistocene boreal molluscs in the Gulf of Cadiz: past and current oceanographic implications. Quat. Sci. Rev. 313: 108196. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108196
Caballero-Herrera, J.A.; Olivero, J.; Von Cosel, R.; Gofas, S. (2022). An analytically derived delineation of the West African coastal province based on bivalves. Diversity Distrib. 28(12): 2791-2805. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13454
Dauvin, J.-C.; Gofas, S.; Raoux, A.; Bouchet, V.; Pavard, J.-C.; Pezy, J.-P. (2022). The American protobranch bivalve Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831) in European waters. Bioinvasions Records 11(2): 473-481. https://dx.doi.org/10.3391/bir.2022.11.2.20
Gofas, S.; Luque, Á.A.; Oliver, J.D.; Templado, J.; Serrano, A. (2021). The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean). European Journal of Taxonomy, 785(1). Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris. 114 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.785.1605
Utrilla, O.; Gofas, S.; Urra, J.; Marina, P.; Mateo-Ramírez, Á.; López-González, N.; González-García, E.; Salas, C.; Rueda, J.L. (2020). Molluscs from benthic habitats of the Gazul mud volcano (Gulf of Cádiz). Sci. Mar. (Barc.) 84(3): 273-295. https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05027.17a
Gofas, S.; Luque, Á.A.; Urra, J. (2019). Planktotrophic Columbellidae (Gastropoda) in the northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, with description of a new species in the genus Mitrella. Bull. Mar. Sci. 96. https://dx.doi.org/10.5343/bms.2019.0015
Crocetta, F.; Gofas, S.; Salas, C.; Tringali, L.P.; Zenetos, A. (2017). Local ecological knowledge versus published literature: a review of non-indigenous Mollusca in Greek marine waters. Aquat. Invasions 12(4): 415-434. https://dx.doi.org/10.3391/ai.2017.12.4.01
Gofas, S.; Luque, Á.A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Sci. Mar. (Barc.) 81(2): 1-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04543.21A
Horton, T.; Gofas, S.; Kroh, A.; Poore, G.C.B.; Read, G.; Rosenberg, G.; Stöhr, S.; Bailly, N.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Brandão, S.N.; Costello, M.J.; Decock, W.; Dekeyzer, S.; Hernandez, F.; Mees, J.; Paulay, G.; Vandepitte, L.; Vanhoorne, B.; Vranken, S. (2017). Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species. Eur. J. Taxon. 389: 1-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.389
Gofas, S.; Salas, C.; Rueda, J.L.; Canoura, J.; Farias, C.; Gil, J. (2014). Mollusca from a species-rich deep-water Leptometra community in the Alboran Sea. Sci. Mar. (Barc.) 78(4): 537-553. https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04097.27A
Zenetos, A.; Gofas, S.; Morri, C.; Rosso, A.; Violanti, D.; Garcia-Raso, J.E.; Cinar, M.E.; Almogi-Labin, A.; Ates, A.S.; Azzurro, E.; Ballesteros, E.; Bianchi, C.N.; Bilecenoglu, M.; Gambi, M.C.; Giangrande, A.; Gravili, C.; Hyams-Kaphzan, O.; Karachle, P.K.; Katsanevakis, S.; Lipej, L.; Mastrototaro, F.; Mineur, F.; Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M.A.; Ramos Espla, A.; Salas, C.; San Martín, G.; Sfriso, A.; Streftaris, N.; Verlaque, M. (2012). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2012. A contribution to the application of European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part 2. Introduction trends and pathways. Mediterr. Mar. Sci. 13(2): 328-352. https://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.327
Urra, J.; Gofas, S.; Rueda, J.L.; Marina, P. (2011). Molluscan assemblages in littoral soft bottoms of the Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea). Mar. Biol. Res. 7(1): 27-42. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451001003660301
Antit, M.; Gofas, S.; Azzouna, A. (2010). A gastropod from the tropical Atlantic becomes an established alien in the Mediterranean. Biological Invasions 12(5): 991-994. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-009-9532-2
Zenetos, A.; Gofas, S.; Verlaque, M.; Cinar, M.E.; García Raso, J.E.; Bianchi, C.N.; Morri, C.; Azzurro, E.; Bilecenoglu, M.; Froglia, C.; Siokou, I.; Violanti, D.; Sfriso, A.; San Martín, G.; Giangrande, A.; Katagan, T.; Ballesteros, E.; Ramos Esplá, A.A.; Mastrototaro, F.; Ocaña, O.; Zingone, A.; Gambi, M.C.; Streftaris, N. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterr. Mar. Sci. 11(2): 381-493. https://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.87
Rueda, J.L.; Gofas, S.; Urra, J.; Salas, C. (2009). A highly diverse molluscan assemblage associated with eelgrass beds (Zostera marina L.) in the Alboran Sea: micro-habitat preference, feeding guilds and biogeographical distribution. Sci. Mar. (Barc.) 73(4): 679-700. https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2009.73n4679
Urra, J.; Gofas, S. (2009). New records of Bela powisiana (Dautzenberg 1887) (Gastropoda: Conidae) in southern Europe. J. Conch., Lond. 40(1): 1-4
Gofas, S.; Zenetos, A. (2003). Exotic molluscs in the Mediterranean Basin: current status and perspectives, in: Gibson, R.N. et al.Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, 41: pp. 237-277
Rueda, J.L.; Fernández-Casado, M.; Salas, C.; Gofas, S. (2001). Seasonality in a taxocoenosis of molluscs from soft bottoms in the Bay of Cádiz (southern Spain). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 81(6): 903-912
Gofas, S.; Warén, A. (1998). Europe's smallest gastropod: habitat, distribution and relationships of Retrotortina fuscata (Omalogyridae). Cah. Biol. Mar. 39(1): 9-14
Backeljau, T.; Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; De Bruyn, L. (1994). Genetic variation, systematics and distribution of the venerid clam Chamelea gallina. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 74: 211-223. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400035773
Gofas, S.; Fernandes, F. (1994). The Marginellidae of Angola: the genus Marginella. J. Conch., Lond. 35: 103-119
Gofas, S.; Fernandes, F. (1992). The Marginellidae of Angola: the genus Volvarina. J. Conch., Lond. 34(4): 187-198
Bellon-Humbert, C.; Clémarec, M.; Gofas, S. (1979). Cultellus combieri Fischer-Piette et Nicklès (Mollusca, Bivalvia), espèce nouvelle pour la faune atlantique marocaine. Cah. Biol. Mar. 20(2): 161-164
Oliver, J.D.; Hoffman, L.; Gofas, S.; Urgorri, V.; Templado, J. (2024). Skeneid gastropods (Vetigastropoda, Trochoidea) from the continental shelf and slope off Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula). Iberus 42(1): 73-90
Gofas, S.; Freiwald, A.; Hoffman, L. (2023). New species and new records in Cerithiopsidae and Newtoniellidae (Triphoroidea, Gastropoda) from the South Azorean Seamount Chain. Iberus 41(1): 111-148
Hoffman, L.; Gofas, S.; Freiwald, A. (2021). The genus Anatoma Woodward, 1859 (Gastropoda, Anatomidae) from Azorean seamounts. Iberus 39(2): 139-152
Mouna, A.; Gofas, S.; Azzouna, A. (2017). Les Muricidae (Mollusques, Gasteropodes) de la Goulette (Baie de Tunis). Xenophora taxonomy 16: 47-51
Gofas, S.; Peñas, A.; Rolán, E. (2010). Deep water Pyramidelloidea of the tropical South Pacific: Turbonilla and related genera. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 200. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum: Paris. ISBN 978-2-85653-642-1. 436 pp.
Peñas, A.; Rolán, E.; Luque, Á.A.; Templado, J.; Moreno, D.; Rubio, F.; Salas, C.; Sierra, A.; Gofas, S. (2006). Moluscos marinos de la isla de Alborán = Marine Mollusca from the Alboran island. Iberus 24(1): 23-151
Von Cosel, R.; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. IRD Éditions, Publications scientifiques du Muséum, MRAC: Marseille. ISBN 978-2-85653-888-3. 1102 pp.
Gofas, S.; Moreno, D.; Salas, C. (2011). Moluscos marinos de Andalucía: I. Introducción general, clase Solenogastres, clase Caudofoveata, clase Polyplacophora y clase Gastropoda (Prosobranchia). Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico, Universidad de Málaga: Málaga. ISBN 978-84-9747-381-1. XVI, 1-342 pp.
Gofas, S.; Moreno, D.; Salas, C. (2011). Moluscos marinos de Andalucía: II. Clase Gastropoda (Heterobranchia), clase Bivalvia, clase Scaphopoda, clase Cephalopoda, glosario e índices. Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico, Universidad de Málaga: Málaga. ISBN 978-84-9747-382-8. XII, 343-798 pp.
Zenetos, A.; Gofas, S.; Russo, G.; Templado, J. (2003). CIESM atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean: 3. Molluscs. CIESM Publishers: Monaco. ISBN 92-990003-3-6. 376 pp.
Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.) (1985). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola = Shells and molluscs of Angola. Elf Aquitaine Angola/Universidade Agostinho: Angola. 140 pp.
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213, more
