Jerry A. Mclelland
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: (228) 872-4214
Fax: (228) 872-4204
E-mail: jerry.mclelland@usm.edu
Position:
Research Associate, Invertebrate Zoology
Education:
- 1974 B.Sc. Biology, University of Southern Mississippi
- 1978 M.Sc. Biology, University of Southern Mississippi
- Thesis: The summer distribution of Chaetognatha in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
- 2008 Ph.D. Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi
- Dissertation: A systematic and taxonomic review of the family Pseudotanaidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) based primarily on morphometric cladistic analyses
Society Memberships (past and present):
- Mississippi Academy of Sciences
- Gulf Estuarine Research Society
- Mississippi Association of Biologists
- Florida Association of Benthologists
- Biological Society of Washington
- FOAM (Friends of Anaerobic Mud) - student organization at LSU
- International Chaetognath Group
- Pascagoula River Basin Team (environmental planning and advisement group for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality)
Research Interests:
- Ecology and food-web dynamics of benthic macro-invertebrates from intertidal, shallow subtidal and fouling communities.
- Taxonomy and zoogeography of Chaetognatha, Polychaeta, Tanaidacea, Cumacea, Isopoda, Bryozoa, Hydroida, Ophiurida, and Sipunculida from the eastern Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
- Systematics and distribution of deep-water Tanaidacea of the Gulf of Mexico
Publications:
- McLelland, J.A. 1980. Notes on the northern Gulf of Mexico occurrence of Sagitta friderici Ritter-Zahony (Chaetognatha). Gulf Res. Repts. 6(4):343-348.
- Perry, H.M. & J.A. McLelland. 1981. First recorded observance of the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum (Pavilard) Schiller 1933 in Mississippi Sound and adjacent waters. Gulf Res. Repts. 7(1):83-85.
- Perry, H.M & J.A. McLelland. 1981. Blooms continue to cause red tides in coastal waters of Mississippi. Coastal Oceanogr. & Climatol. News. 4(1):1-2.
- McLelland, J.A. 1984. Observations on chaetognath distributions in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico during the summer of 1974. Northeast Gulf Sci. 7(1):49-59.
- McLelland, J.A. 1989. Eukrohnia calliops, a new species of Chaetognatha from the northern Gulf of Mexico with notes on related species. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 102(1):33-44.
- McLelland, J.A. 1989. An illustrated key to the Chaetognatha of the northern Gulf of Mexico with notes on their distribution. Gulf Res. Repts. 8(2):145-172.
- McLelland, J.A. & H.M. Perry. 1989. Records of deep-water chaetognatha from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Res. Repts. 8(2):181-187.
- McLelland, J.A. & R. W. Heard. 1991. Notes on some chaetognaths from Pine Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands (British West Indies). Gulf Res. Repts. 8(3):227-235.
- Spotte, S., R.W. Heard, P. Bubucis, R.R. Manstan, and J.A. McLelland. 1991. Pattern and coloration of Periclimenes rathbunae from the Turks and Caicos Islands, with comments on host associations in other anemone shrimps of the West Indies and Bermuda. Gulf Res. Repts. 8(3):301-311.
- Gaston, G.R, J.A. McLelland, & R.W. Heard. 1992. Feeding biology, distribution, and ecology of two species of benthic polychaetes: Paraonis fulgens and Paraonis pygoenigmatica (Polychaeta: Paraonidae). Gulf Res. Repts. 8(4):395-399.
- Rakocinski, C.F., R.W. Heard, S.E. LeCroy, J.A. McLelland and T. Simons. 1993. Seaward change and zonation of the sandy-shore macrofauna at Perdido Key, Florida, USA. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 36:81-104.
- McLelland, J.A. & G.R. Gaston. 1994. Two new species of Cirrophorus (Polychaeta: Paraonidae) from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 107(4):524-531.
- McLelland, J.A., R.W. Heard, & J.D. Hardy, Jr. 1992 (1994). Arrow worms (Chaetognatha) from the near-shore waters of Tobago. Caribb. Mar. Stud. 3:33-40.
- Gaston, G.R. & J.A. McLelland. 1996. Aricidea (Allia) bryani, a new species of Polychaete (Polychaeta: Paraonidae) from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Res. Repts. 9(3): 189-195.
- Alvarez-Cadena, J.N., E. Suarez-Morales, & J.A. McLelland. 1996. Observations on an isolated population of Sagitta hispida Conant (Chaetognatha) in a tropical lagoon system of northeast Yucatan (Mexico). Gulf Res. Repts. 9(3): 197-204.
- Rakocinski, C.F, R.W. Heard, S.E. LeCroy, J.A. McLelland and T. Simons. 1996. Responses by macrobenthic assemblages to extensive beach restoration at Perdido Key, Florida, U.S.A. J. Coastal Res. 12(1): 326-353.
- McLelland, J.A. & G.H. Meyer. 1998. Ekleptostylis heardi n.sp. (Diastylidae), a new cumacean from South Atlantic waters. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 111(2): 278-287.
- Rakocinski, C.F., S.E. LeCroy, J.A. McLelland and R.W. Heard. 1998. Nested spatio-temporal scales of variation in sandy-shore macrobenthic community structure. Bull. Mar. Sci. 63:343-362.
- Suarez-Morales, E., J. McLelland, and J. Reid. 1999. The planktonic copepods of coastal saline ponds of the Cayman Islands with special reference to the occurrence of Mesocyclops ogunnus Onamabiro, an apparently introduced Afro-Asian cyclopoid. Gulf. Res. Repts. 11:51-55.
- Rakocinski, C.F., S.E. LeCroy, J.A. McLelland and R.W. Heard. 2000. Possible sustained effects of hurricanes Opal and Erin on the macrobenthos of nearshore habitats within the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Gulf and Caribb. Res. 12:19-30.
- McLelland, J.A. 2007. Family Pseudotanaidae Sieg, 1976. In: Larsen, K. & Shimomura, M. (Eds.). Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan III. The deep trenches; the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench. Zootaxa, 1599: 1-149.