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Mollen, Frederik
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A1 Publications (29) [show]
Flaum, B.; Schmitt, K.; Hu, R.; Kong, T.F.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Debiais-Thibaud, M.; Dean, M. (2025). Staghorn or stingray? High-resolution network analysis of cartilaginous trabeculae, in: SICB 2025 Annual Meeting Abstracts, 3-7 January, Atlanta, Georgia. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(Suppl. 1): pp. S159, more Li, A.; Schindler, M.; Paskin, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Scott, E.; Hauert, S.; Payne, N.; Cade, D.; Goldbogen, J.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2025). Functional models from limited data: parametric anatomy and 3D kinematics of basking shark feeding, in: SICB 2025 Annual Meeting Abstracts, 3-7 January, Atlanta, Georgia. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(Suppl. 1): pp. S296, more Schindler, M.; Li, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Payne, N.; Amini, S.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Hu, R.; Dean, M. (2025). Against the grain: untangling the tangled denticles of basking sharks, in: SICB 2025 Annual Meeting Abstracts, 3-7 January, Atlanta, Georgia. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(Suppl. 1): pp. S462-S463, more Blumer, M.J.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Ciecierska-Holmes, J.; Redl, S.; Pechriggl, E.J.; Mollen, F.H.; Dean, M.N. (2024). Intermediate filaments spatially organize intracellular nanostructures to produce the bright structural blue of ribbontail stingrays across ontogeny. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 12: 1393237. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1393237, more Surapaneni, V.A.; Blumer, M.J.; Tadayon, K.; McIvor, A.J.; Redl, S.; Honis, H.-R.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Dean, M.N. (2024). Ribbontail stingray skin employs a core–shell photonic glass ultrastructure to make blue structural color. Advanced Optical Materials 12(12): 2301909. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.202301909, more Devloo-Delva, F.; Burridge, C.P.; Kyne, P.M.; Brunnschweiler, J.M.; Chapman, D.D.; Charvet, P.; Chen, X.; Cliff, G.; Daly, R.; Drymon, J.M.; Espinoza, M.; Fernando, D.; Garcia Barcia, L.; Glaus, K.; González‐Garza, B.I.; Grant, M.I.; Gunasekera, R.M.; Hernández, S.I.; Hyodo, S.; Jabado, R.W.; Jaquemet, S.; Johnson, G.; Ketchum, J.T.; Magalon, H.; Marthick, J.R.; Mollen, F.H.; Mona, S.; Naylor, G.J.P.; Nevill, J.E.G.; Phillips, N.M.; Pillans, R.D.; Postaire, B.D.; Smoothey, A.F.; Tachihara, K.; Tillet, B.J.; Valerio‐Vargas, J.A.; Feutry, P. (2023). From rivers to ocean basins: the role of ocean barriers and philopatry in the genetic structuring of a cosmopolitan coastal predator. Ecol. Evol. 13(2): e9837. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9837, more Mollen, F.H.; Iglésias, S.P. (2023). An inventory of Bramble sharks Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Elasmobranchii, Echinorhinidae) in natural history collections worldwide for conservation status assessment. Zoosystema 45(22): 653-747. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a22, more Surapaneni, V.A.; Schindler, M.; de Faria, L.; Ziege, R.; Bidan, C.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2023). Groovy and gnarly: Surface wrinkles as a multi-functional motif for terrestrial and marine environments. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62(S1): S303-S304, more White, W.T.; Mollen, F.H.; O’Neill, H.L.; Yang, L.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2023). Species in disguise: A new species of Hornshark from Northern Australia (Heterodontiformes: Heterodontidae). Diversity 15(7): 849. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15070849, more Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2022). Exploring diet shifts and ecology in modern sharks using calcium isotopes and trace metal records of their teeth. J. Fish Biol. Early view. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15211, more Barone, M.; Mollen, F.H.; Giles, J.L.; Marshall, L.J.; Villate-Moreno, M.; Mazzoldi, C.; Pérez-Costas, E.; Heine, J.; Guisande, C. (2022). Performance of iSharkFin in the identification of wet dorsal fins from priority shark species. Ecological Informatics 68: 101514. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101514, more Goolaerts, S.; Christiaens, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Mottequin, B.; Steurbaut, E. (2022). Applying micro-CT imaging in the study of historically and newly collected specimens of Belosaepia (Sepiida, Coleoidea, Cephalopoda) from the Early Eocene (Ypresian) of Belgium. Riv. ital. paleontol. stratigr. (Testo stamp.) 128(3): 585-606. https://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/16617, more Surapaneni, V.A.; Schindler, M.; Ziege, R.; de Faria, L.C.; Wölfer, J.; Bidan, C.M.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M.N. (2022). Groovy and gnarly: Surface wrinkles as a multifunctional motif for terrestrial and marine environments. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62(3): 749-761. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac079, more Collareta, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Merella, M.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2021). Remarkable multicuspid teeth in a new elusive skate (Chondrichthyes, Rajiformes) from the Mediterranean Pliocene. Paläontol. Z. 95(1): 117-128. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00542-7, more Collareta, A.; Merella, M.; Mollen, F.H.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2020). The extinct catshark Pachyscyllium distans (Probst, 1879) (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes) in the Pliocene of the Mediterranean Sea. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 295(2): 129-139. https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2020/0877, more Goolaerts, S.; De Ceuster, J.; Mollen, F.H.; Gijsen, B.; Bosselaers, M.; Lambert, O.; Uchman, A.; Van Herck, M.; Adriaens, R.; Houthuys, R.; Louwye, S.; Bruneel, Y.; Elsen, J.; Hoedemakers, K. (2020). The upper Miocene Deurne Member of the Diest Formation revisited: unexpected results from the study of a large temporary outcrop near Antwerp International Airport, Belgium. Geol. Belg. 23(3-4): 219-252. https://dx.doi.org/10.20341/gb.2020.011, more Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2020). L’histoire de la description du squale bouclé Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Echinorhinidae) et la redécouverte des illustrations du type perdu. Zoosystema 42(14): 173-193. https://hdl.handle.net/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a13, more Mollen, F.H. (2020). Lost and found: the posthumous portrait of Louis Agassiz by Henry Ulke (1876), and their noteworthy relationship. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 139(1): 1-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13358-020-00203-x, more Mollen, F.H. (2019). Making Louis Agassiz’s wish come true: combining forces and a new protocol for collecting comparative skeletal material of sharks, skates and rays, as a comment and an addition to ‘The need of providing tooth morphology in descriptions of extant elasmobranch species’ by Guinot et al. (2018). Zootaxa 4571(2): 295-300. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.13, more Mollen, F.H. (2018). Checklist anxiety: the case for sharks, skates and rays. J. Fish Biol. 93(1): 163-164. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13733, more Mollen, F.H.; Hovestadt, D.C. (2018). A new partial skeleton of a palaeospinacid shark (Neoselachii, Synechodontiformes) from the Albian of northern France, with a review of the taxonomic history of Early Cretaceous species of Synechodus Woodward, 1888. Geodiversitas 40(25): 557-574. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a25, more Mollen, F.H.; van Bakel, B.W.M.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2016). A partial braincase and other skeletal remains of Oligocene angel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Squatiniformes) from northwest Belgium, with comments on squatinoid taxonomy. Contributions to Zoology 85(2): 147-171, more Mollen, F.H.; Wintner, S.P.; Iglésias, S.P.; Van Sommeran, S.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2012). Comparative morphology of rostral cartilages in extant mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae) using CT scanning. Zootaxa 3340: 29-43, more Mollen, F.H.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2012). The taxonomic value of rostral nodes of extinct sharks, with comments on previous records of the genus Lamna (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Pliocene of Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina (USA). Acta Geol. Pol. 62(1): 117-127, more Fraaije, R.H.B.; van Bakel, B.W.M.; Jagt, J.W.M.; Mollen, F.H. (2011). A new axiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from the Neogene of Belgium and the Netherlands. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 260(2): 157-163. dx.doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0167, more Mollen, F.H. (2010). A partial rostrum of the Porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks. Geol. Belg. 13(1-2): 61-76, more Mollen, F.H. (2008). A new Middle Eocene species of Premontreia (Elasmobranchii, Scyliorhinidae) from Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. Geol. Belg. 11(3-4): 123-131, more Natanson, L.J.; Wintner, S.P.; Johansson, F.; Piercy, A.; Campbell, P.; De Maddalena, A.; Gulak, S.J.B.; Human, B.; Fulgosi, F.C.; Ebert, D.A.; Hemida, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Vanni, S.; Burgess, G.H.; Compagno, L.J.V.; Wedderburn-Maxwell, A. (2008). Ontogenetic vertebral growth patterns in the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 361: 267-278. dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps07399, more Mollen, F.H. (2007). A new species of Abdounia (Elasmobranchii, Carcharhinidae) from the base of the Boom Clay Formation (Oligocene) in northwest Belgium. Geol. Belg. 10(1-2): 69-79, more
Peer reviewed publications (3) [show]
Li, T.; Schindler, M.; Paskin, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Scott, E.; Hauert, S.; Payne, N.; Cade, D.E.; Goldbogen, J.A.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M.N. (2025). Functional models from limited data: A parametric and multimodal approach to anatomy and 3D kinematics of feeding in basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus). Anat. Rec. Online first. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.25693, more Reinecke, T.; Mollen, F.H.; Gijsen, B.; D'Haeze, B.; Hoedemakers, K. (2024). Batomorphs (Elasmobranchii: Rhinopristiformes, Rajiformes, Torpediniformes, Myliobatiformes) of the middle to late Ypresian, early Eocene, in the Anglo-Belgian Basin (south-western North Sea Basin) – a review and description of new taxa. Palaeontos 35: 1-172, more Reinecke, T.; Mollen, F.H.; Seitz, J.C.; Motomura, H.; Hovestadt, D.C.; Hoedemakers, K. (2023). Iconography of jaws and representative teeth of extant rhinopristiform and dasyatoid batoids (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) for comparison with fossil batoid material. Palaeontos 34: 3-158, more
Book [show]
Jagt, J.W.M.; Harle, N.; Strijckers, J.; Mollen, F.H. (2015). Haai. Natuurhistorisch Museum: Maastricht. 39 pp., more
Book chapters (3) [show]
Silva, K.C.R.; Oddone, M.C.; Mollen, F.H. (2022). Estudo morfológico dentário do tubarão noturno Carcharhinus signatus (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae), in: 21ª Mostra da Produção Universitária - MPU, Rio Grande/RS, Brasil, 19 a 21 de outubro de 2022. pp. 1-4, more Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2018). L’histoire de la disparition précoce du Squale bouclé (Echinorhinus brucus) révélée par une approche intégrative en écologie historique, in: VIIe Rencontres de l’Ichtyologie en France, Paris, 27-30 mars 2018. pp. 81, more Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2018). The story of the early extirpation of the Bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus, Echinorhinidae) exhumed by an integrative historical ecology approach, in: ICES WGHIST Report 2018. Interim report of the Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (WGHIST) 4-7 September 2018 Brest, France. CM Documents - ICES, CM 2018(HAPISG:19): pp. 23-24, more
Abstracts (9) [show]
Li, T.; Paskin, M.; Schindler, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Mollen, F.H.; Baumgärtner, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2023). Lessons from really big fish: integrating incomplete data in parametric modelling of coherent skeletal model, in: ICVM 2023: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 1 August 2023 . , more Schindler, M.; Liu, C.; Li, T.; Paskin, M.; Png, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Payne, N.; Amini, S.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Dean, M. (2023). Armed to the teeth: Adaptive functionality of shark denticles from material and mechanical perspectives, in: ICVM 2023: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 1 August 2023 . , more Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2022). De l’émail à l’estomac: apport de la géochimie isotopique du calcium à l’étude du régime alimentaire chez les élasmobranches actuels et fossiles, in: RIF 2022: 8e Rencontres de l'Ichtyologie en France, 15-18 mars 2022, Paris: Livre des résumés. pp. 9-10, more Schindler, M.; Liu, C.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Tang, T.; De Falco, P.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Dean, M.; Hanna, S. (2022). Hierarchical design of basking shark gill rakers and their potential for high-volume suspension filters, in: SICB Annual Meeting 3–7 January 2022, Phoenix, Arizona. , more Surapaneni, V.A.; Wölfer, J.; Schindler, M.; de Faria, L.C.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M.N. (2022). Ecomorphology of multifunctional wrinkles across terrestrial and aquatic organisms - a source of inspiration for functionalized biomimetic surfaces, in: SEB Annual Conference 2022, Montpellier, France from 5 to 8 July 2022. , more Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2021). Contribution of calcium isotope geochemistry to the study of diet in present and fossil elasmobranchs, case of Megalodon, in: Saslis, H. et al. 2nd Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap (CPEG), Online, 5th-9th September 2021 (hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin): Abstract Book. pp. 28, more Collareta, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Merella, M.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2020). Ginglymostomatid-like multicuspid teeth in an elusive rajid skate from the Tuscan Pliocene, in: 64th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting. Virtual meeting 16th–18th December 2020 hosted by Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK: Programme, abstracts and AGM papers. pp. 63, more Devloo-Delva, F.; Burridge, C.P.; Kyne, P.M.; Brunnschweiler, J.M.; Chapman, D.D.; Charvet, P.; Chen, X.; Cliff, G.; Daly, R.; Drymon, J.M.; Espinoza, M.; Fernando, D.; Garcia Barcia, L.; Glaus, K.; Grant, M.I.; Gunasekera, R.M.; Hernández, S.I.; Hyodo, S.; Jabado, R.W.; Jaquemet, S.; Johnson, G.; Magalon, H.; Marthick, J.R.; Mollen, F.H.; Mona, S.; Naylor, G.J.P.; Nevill, J.E.G.; Phillips, N.M.; Pillans, R.D.; Postaire, B.D.; Smoothey, A.F.; Tachihara, K.; Tillet, B.J.; Valerio, J.; Feutry, P. (2020). From rivers to ocean basins – Global genetic population structure of the bull shark, in: OCS Virtual Conference, November 3 & 4, 2020: Program and abstracts. pp. 8, more Mollen, F.H.; Hilte, F.; Bauwens, J. (2016). Onderzoek blaast nieuw leven in oude braamhaai van Oostende, in: Lescrauwaet, A.-K. et al. (Ed.) Abstractenboek studiedag “Vissen in het verleden. Een multidisciplinaire kijk op de geschiedenis van de Belgische zeevisserij”. VLIZ Special Publication, 76: pp. 63-66, more
Other publications (6) [show]
Demarrez, I.; Mollen, F.H. (2025). De Egemse kleigroeve Ampe, een schatkamer vol historische mariene biodiversiteit. De Roede van Tielt 56(2): 172-179, more Mollen, F.H.; Iglésias, S.P. (2024). An inventory of Bramble sharks in natural history collections for conservation status assessment. Oceans Past News 27: 3, more Goolaerts, G.; Christiaens, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Steurbaut, E.; Mottequin, B. (2020). Applying micro-CT imaging in the study of fossil sepiids and nautilids (Cephalopoda): examples from the Eocene of Belgium. Abstracts - Geological Society of America 52(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020am-357179, more Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2020). First and last record of Bramble sharks in France spans 300 years at exactly the same location. Oceans Past News 17: 3, more Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2018). Cold case: The early disappearance of the Bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus) in European and adjacent waters. Oceans Past News 10: 1-5, more Haelters, J.; Mollen, F.H. (2007). Reuzenhaaien Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) op de visveiling in België in 2006 en 2007. De Strandvlo 27(3-4): 94-102, more