Vita
Dr. Karl-Otto Nagel

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
karl-otto.nagel@senckenberg.de
- * 1959
- 1978 – 1984 Studium Diplom-Biologie, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
- 1984 – 1988 Promotionsstudium, Universität (Gh) Kassel; Stipendium: Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
- 1989 – 1991 Postdoc, Universität Turin, Italien (Prof. G. Badino): Stipendium: DFG
- 2001 – 2005 Berater in EU-Projekten, Bratislava, Slowakei
- 2012 – 2015, 2019 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt a/M; Förderung: DFG, Datz-Stiftung
Publikationen
ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen
(vollständiges Verzeichnis und Downloads auf researchgate)
Sayenko, E.M., Nagel, K.-O. & Palatov, D.M. (2025): Detailed description of the glochidium of Pseudanodonta complanata (Rossmässler, 1835) (Bivalvia: Unionidae), Depressed River Mussel, from distant regions of its geographic range. – Archiv für Molluskenkunde 154 (2): 317–327.
Nagel, K.-O. & Sayenko, E.M. (2025): Freshwater mussel (Bivalvia, Palaeoheterodonta) larvae in natural history collections: an underutilised resource. – Natural History Collections and Museomics 2: 1–14.
Nagel, K.-O. (2025): Type catalog of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionida) in the collection of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. – Archiv für Molluskenkunde 154 (1): 79-274.
Nakamura, K., Wantzen, K.M., Soler, J., Sousa, R., Nagel, K.-O., Aldridge, D.C., Lopes-Lima, M. & Prié, V. (2024): Synopsis of the European Freshwater Mussels: Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793), the Giant Freshwater Pearl Mussel. – Hydrobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05610-6
Nagel, K.-O., Schiøtte, T., Gofarov, M.Y., Vikhrev, I.V., Konopleva, E.S. & Bolotov, I.N. (2022): Re-discovery of the type series of the Indian freshwater mussel Parreysia corrugata (O. F. Müller, 1774) with the designation of the lectotype (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Parreysiinae). – Journal of Natural History, 56 (5-8): 493-511, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2063083.
Bolotov, I.N., Pasupuleti, R., Subba Rao, N.V., Unnikrishnan, S.K., Chan, N., Lunn, Z., Win, T., Gofarov, M.Y., Kondakov, A.V., Konopleva, E.S., Lyubas, A.A., Tomilova, A.A., Vikhrev, I.V., Pfenninger, M., Düwel, S.S., Feldmeyer, B., Nesemann, H.F. & Nagel, K.-O. (2022): Oriental freshwater mussels arose in East Gondwana and arrived to Asia on the Indian Plate and Burma Terrane. – Scientific Reports, 12 (1518). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05257-0.
Nagel, K.-O., Bolotov, I. N. & Feldmayer, B. (2021): Die zweite Welle – Sinanodonta lauta – ist (vorerst) noch nicht da. – Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 105: 64-66.
Nagel, K.-O. (2021): Wachstum und Alter der Buntsandstein-Flussperlmuschel, Margaritifera margaritifera parvula (HAAS, 1908) – Befunde aus den beiden letzten bekannten Populationen in Hessen und Bayern. – Beiträge zur Naturkunde in Osthessen 57: 19-25, Fulda. (erschienen/published 01/2021)
Riccardi, N., Froufe, E., Bogan, A.E., Zieritz, A., Texeira, A., Vanetti, I., Varandas, S., Zaccara, S., Nagel, K.-O. & Lopes-Lima, M. (2020): Phylogeny of European Anodontini (Bivalvia: Unionidae) with a redescription of Anodonta exulcerata. – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 189 (3): 45–761; https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz136
Ferreira-Rodríguez, N., Akiyama, Y.B., Aksenova, O.V., Araujo, R., Barnhart, M.C., Bespalaya, Y.V., Bogan, A.E., Bolotov, I.N., Budha, P.B., Clavijo, C., Clearwater, S.J., Darrigran, G., Do, V.T., Douda, K., Froufe, E., Gumpinger, C., Henrikson, L., Humphrey, C.L., Johnson, N.A., Klishko, O., Klunzinger, M.W., Kovitvadhi,S., Kovitvadhi, U., Lajtner, J., Lopes-Lima, M., Moorkens, E.A., Nagayama, S., Nagel, K.-O., Nakano, M., Negishi, J.N., Ondina, P., Oulasvirta, P., Prié, V., Riccardi, N., Rudzīte, M., Sheldon, F., Sousa, S., Strayer, D.L., Takeuchi, M., Taskinen, J., Teixeira, A., Tiemann, J.S., Urbańska, M., Varandas, S., Vinarski, M.V., Wicklow, B.J., Zając, T., Vaughn, C.C. (2019): Research priorities for freshwater mussel conservation assessment. – Biological Conservation 231: 77-87. ISSN 0006-3207 (Available online: 16 January 2019)
Araujo, R., Buckley, D., Nagel, K.-O., García-Jiménez, R. & Machordom, A. (2018): Species boundaries, geographic distribution and evolutionary history of the Western Palaeartic freshwater mussels Unio (Bivalvia, Unionidae). – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 275-299, London.
Lopes-Lima M., Sousa R., Geist J., Aldridge D., Araujo R., Bergengren J., Bespalaja Y., Bodis E., Burlakova L., Van Damme D., Douda K., Froufe E., Georgiev D., Gumpinger C., Karatayev, A., Kebapçi Ü., Killeen I., Lajtner J., Larsen B., Lauceri R., Legakis A., Lois S., Lundberg S., Moorkens E., Motte G., Nagel K.-O., Ondina P., Outeiro A., Paunovic M., Prie V., Von Proschwitz T., Riccardi N., Rudzīte M., Rudzītis M., Scheder C., Seddon M., Şereflişan H., Simić V., Sokolova S., Stoeckl K., Taskinen J., Teixeira A., Thielen F., Trichkova T., Varandas S., Vicentini H., Zajac K., Zajac T. & Zogaris S. (2017): Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges. – Biological Reviews 92: 572-607.
Araujo, R., Buckley, D., Nagel, K.-O. & Machordom, A. (2017): Potomida littoralis (Bivalvia, Unionidae) evolutionary history: slow evolution or recent speciation? – Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 277-299
Nagel, K.-O., Dümpelmann, C. & Pfeiffer, M. (2015): Effective growth cessation in adult Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Germany. – Folia Malacologica 23: 309-313, Poznan.
Nagel, K.-O., Castagnolo, L., Cencetti, E. & Moro, G.A. (2007): Notes on reproduction, growth and habitat of Microcondylaea bonellii (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the torrente Versa (Italy). — Mollusca, 25(1): 41-49, Dresden.
Nagel, K.-O., Šteffek, J. & Vavrová, L’. (2006): Distribution of Unionidae in Slovakia, with notes on their ecology and conservation. — Lauterbornia, 58: 83-96, Dinkelscherben.
Nagel, K.-O. (2004): Observations on the reproductive period of the freshwater mussel Potomida littoralis (Unionidae). — Iberus, 22 (2): 1-8, Gijón.
Nagel, K.-O. & Badino, G. (2001): Population genetics and systematics of European Unionoidea. — In: Ecology and evolutionary biology of the freshwater mussels Unionoida (G. Bauer & K. Wächtler, eds.). — Ecological studies, 145: 51-80. Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg.
Nagel, K.-O. (2000): Testing hypotheses on the dispersal and evolutionary history of freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae). — Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 13: 854-865, Oxford.
Nagel, K.-O., Badino, G. & Celebrano, G. (1998): Systematics of European naiades (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae and Unionidae): a review and some new aspects. — Malacological Review – Supplement 7 (Bivalvia I): 83-104, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Nagel, K.-O., Badino, G. & Alessandria, B. (1996): Population genetics of European Anodontinae (Bivalvia: Unionidae). — Journal of Molluscan Studies, 62: 343-357, London.