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Wetzel, Mark J

Aquatic Oligochaetologist, Macroinvertebrate Zoologist
Illinois Natural History Survey

Address and Contact Information

Natural Resources Study Annex
Champaign, IL  61820
(000) 000-0000
https://mjwetzel.inhs.illinois.edu

Professional Affiliations

Selected Service Activities

Honors and Awards


  • Society for Freshwater Science
    – Half Century Recognition: membership, committee service, meeting participation (2022)
    – Distinguished Service Award (2014)
    – Literature Review Committee: 30 years (2008)
  • Illinois Natural History Survey
    – First recipient, H.H. Ross Memorial Award (1983)
  • Florida Association of Aquatic Biologists (FAB)
    – Contributions to FAB (2023)

Biography

Education

M.S., Zoology, Eastern Illinois University, 1982
B.S., Biology, University of Illinois, 1973
A.S., Biology, Parkland College, 1971

Current Projects

Curator and Collections Manager of the INHS Annelida Collection; Aquatic Zoologist
Collection Profiling Project - INHS Annelida Collection
Aquatic oligochaetes associated with phytotelmata in Florida

 

Research Interests

Taxonomy, systematics, and ecology of North American freshwater Annelida / presentation of taxonomic workshops focusing on these groups; biodiversity, hydrogeology, and water quality of Holarctic springs and caves; preservation of habitat utilized by federal- and state-listed endangered, threatened, and/or rare species of aquatic organisms; distribution, ecology, and taxonomy of aquatic macroinvertebrates, particularly the non-insectan groups.

Selected Publications

Reeves, W.K., J.W. Reynolds and M.J. Wetzel.  2024. Sparganophilus (Annelida, Oligochaeta, Sparganophilidae) in North America.   Sparganophilus (Annelida, Oligochaeta, Sparganophilidae) in North America.  Megadrilogica 28(5): 53–80. April. [paper in English; abstracts in English, French, Spanish, German; with 18 colour plates].

Hribar, Lawrence J. and Mark J. Wetzel. 2023. Dero superterrenus (Michaelsen, 1912) (Annelida, Clitellata, Naididae) associated with phytotelmata and artificial containers in Monroe County, Florida, USA. Florida Scientist 86(4): 501–507.

Martin, P., A. Pinder, and M.J. Wetzel. 2023. Editorial. Pp. 5–7, In: Martin, P., A. Pinder, and M.J. Wetzel (Eds.) 2023. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta [ISAO15]. Zoosymposia 23: 1–103 pp. [open access]. https://www.mapress.com/zs/article/view/zoosymposia.23.1.3

Wetzel, M.J. and J. W. Reynolds. 2023. Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica—A catalogue of names, descriptions, and type specimens of the Oligochaeta. Editio Secunda. Pp. 98–100, In: Martin, P., A. Pinder, and M.J. Wetzel (Eds.) 2023. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta. Zoosymposia 23: 1–103 pp. [open access]. https://www.mapress.com/zs/article/view/zoosymposia.23.1.12

Wetzel, M.J. 2023. Citations for the published proceedings of our 15 International Symposia on Aquatic Oligochaeta (1979–2023). Pp. 101–103, In: Martin, P., A. Pinder, and M.J. Wetzel (Eds.) 2023. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta. [open access]. Zoosymposia 23: 1–103 pp. https://www.mapress.com/zs/article/view/zoosymposia.23.1.13

Wetzel, M.J. and J.W. Reynolds. 2021. A preliminary inventory of earthworms (Annelida, Clitellata) of the Nachusa Grasslands Area, Lee and Ogle Counties, Illinois, USA. Megadrilogica 26(8): 91–125.

Reeves W.K., J.R. Shaw, and M.J. Wetzel. 2021. Cognettia sphagnetorum (Vejdovský, 1878) (Annelida, Clitellata, Enchytraeidae) in North America, with molecular support. Check List 17 (3): 979–983. open access
doi: https://doi.org/10.15560/17.3.979

Magalhães, W.F., P. Hutchings, A. Oceguera-Figueroa, P. Martin, R.M. Schmelz, M.J. Wetzel, H. Wiklund, N.J. Maciolek, G.Y. Kawauchi, and J.D. Williams. 2021. Segmented worms (Phylum Annelida): a celebration of twenty years of progress through Zootaxa and call for action on the taxonomic work that remains. Zootaxa 4979(1): 190–211. open access

Ohtaka, A., K. Hirabayashi, M.J. Wetzel, J. Schenková, and A. Pinder (Eds.). 2020. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, convened at Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, 9–14 September 2018. Zoosymposia 17(1): 1-189; [open access]: doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.17.1.

Martin, P., E. Martinez-Ansemil, A. Pinder, T. Timm, and M.J. Wetzel. 2017. World checklist of freshwater Oligochaeta species. World Wide Web electronic publication. Available online at http://fada.biodiversity.be/group/show/12 [date accessed] [this is an on-line update (first posted 15 December 2016) of our 2008 publication {Hydrobiologia, 595, 117-127; complete citation provided below}, with support from FADA, Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment Initiative].

Robinson, J.L., M.J. Wetzel, and J.S. Tiemann. 2017. Some phoretic associations of macroinvertebrates on transplanted federally endangered freshwater mussels. Northeastern Naturalist 24(4): N29-N34.

Rota, E., S. Martinsson, M. Bartoli, A. Beylich, U. Graefe, A. Laini, M.J. Wetzel, and C. Erséus. 2016. Mitochondrial evidence supports a Nearctic origin for the spreading limicolous earthworm Sparganophilus tamesis Benham, 1892 (Clitellata, Sparganophilidae). Contributions to Zoology 85(1): 113-119.

Martinsson, S., Y. Cui, P.J. Martin, A. Pinder, K. Quinlan, M.J. Wetzel, and C. Erséus. 2015. DNA-barcoding of invasive European earthworms (Clitellata: Lumbricidae) in south-western Australia. Biological Invasions DOI 10.1007/s10530-015-0910-7.

Reynolds, J.W., and M.J. Wetzel. 2014. A checklist by counties of earthworms (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Lumbridicae, Megascolecidae, and Sparganophilidae) in Michigan, USA. Megadrilogica 17(5): 51-72.

Reynolds, J.W., and M.J. Wetzel. 2012. Terrestrial Oligochaeta (Annelida: Clitellata) in North America, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Bermuda. III. Megadrilogica 15(8): 191-211.

Stribling, J., B. Sweeney, J. Morse, G. Corkum, G. Lester, S. Miller, R. Mitchell, B. Poulton, S. Strachan, and M. Wetzel. 2012. "Taxonomic certification versus the scientific method": A rebuttal of Rogers (2012). Zootaxa (3359): 65-68.

Reynolds, J.W., and M.J. Wetzel. 2011. The earthworms (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Komarekionidae, Lumbridicae, Megascolecidae, and Sparganophilidae) of Illinois, USA. Megadrilogica 15(4): 35-67.

Erséus, C., M.J. Wetzel, and L. Gustavsson. 2008. ICZN rules -- a farewell to Tubificidae (Annelida, Clitellata). Zootaxa 1744: 66-68. [9 April]. A downloadable PDF of this paper is available free (through open access) by clicking HERE.

Reynolds, J.W., and M.J. Wetzel. 2008. Terrestrial Oligochaeta (Annelida: Clitellata) in North America, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Bermuda. Megadrilogica 12(12): 157-208.

Martin, P., E. Martínez-Ansemil, A. Pinder, T. Timm, and M.J. Wetzel. 2008. Global diversity of oligochaetous clitellates ('Oligochaeta'; Clitellata) in freshwater. Pp. 117-127, In: E.V. Balian, C. Leveque, H. Segers & K. Martens, eds. Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment. Hydrobiologia 595(1).

Wetzel, M.J., and M.A.P. Morgan. 2007. Aquatic microdrile oligochaetes (Annelida, Clitellata) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee. Pp. 153-158, In: P. Cox, (Ed.). The Great Smoky Mountains National Park All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory: A Search for Species in Our Own Backyard. Southeastern Naturalist 6 (Special Issue 1). 238 pp.

Nijboer, R.C., M.J. Wetzel,and P.F.M. Verdonschot. 2004. Diversity and distribution of Tubificidae, Naididae, and Lumbriculidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta) in the Netherlands: an evaluation of twenty years of monitoring data. Hydrobiologia 520: 127-141.

Kathman, R.D., and M.J. Wetzel. 2003. Allonais inaequalis (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) in North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(3):548-556.

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