Elena M. Chaban

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Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Elena.Chaban@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-13-11, ext. 235
Educational background: A.I. Herzen State Pedagogical University, Department of Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry), Saint-Petersburg, Russia (1975–1980)
Dissertations: “Shelled opisthobranchiate mollusks of the orders Cephalaspidea and Anaspidea (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) of northern and Far-East seas of Russia.” (PhD)
Research interests: Shelled opisthobranchiate mollusks: fauna, taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny; Arctic fauna of Nemertea.
Field studies: The White, Barents and Japan seas.
Professional membership: Russian Far East Malacological Society
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RSF grant no. 20-74-10012 “Comparative phylogeography of gastropod molluscs in Arctic seas: fauna, colonization tracks and species divergence times” – executor.
  • RFBR 14-04-01067: “Comparative morphology and phylogeny of the basal nemertean groups”, 2014–2016 – executor.
  • RFBR 15-04-01933: “Cryptic taxonomic diversity of the marine nemerteans of the Northern Hemisphere”, 2015–2017, – executor.
  • RFBR 18-05-60157: “Century-long changes in the bottom ecosystems of the Russian Arctic seas, the current state and forecast”, 2018–2020, – executor.
Selected Publications:
  • Chaban EM, Ekimova IA, Schepetov DM, Chernyshev AV. 2022. The new genus Aglaona: the first abyssal aglajid (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea: Aglajidae) with a description of two new species from the North-Western Pacific Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab115
  • Chaban E.M. 2021. Shell-bearing mollusks of the order Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of the Kara Sea: fauna and ecology. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute. Vol. 325, No 2. P. 197–216. (in Russian) https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2021.325.2.197
  • Chaban E.M., Tikhonova E.P., Golikova E.A. 2021. Publications by Prof. A.N. Golikov (1931–2010): a complete list prepared in memory of his 90th anniversary. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society.Vol.25, № 1/2, p. 153–180. (in Russian) https://doi.org/10.24866/1560-8425/2021-25/153-180
  • Chaban. E.M. 2020. New data on Roxania Leach, 1847 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the Sea of Marmara based on materials of the Russian expedition in 1894. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute. Vol. 324, No 4. P. 535–547. (in Russian) https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2020.324.4.535
  • Chaban E.M. 2020. List of publications of Academician O.A. Scarlato (1920–1994) prepared for the 100th anniversary of his birth. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. vol. 24, N 1/2, pp. 133–156. (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.24866/1560-8425/2020-24/133-156
  • Chaban E.M., Chernyshev A.V. Data on breading of the euopisthobranch mollusk Yokoyamaia ornatissima (Yokoyama, 1927) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Philinidae) from Vostok Bay (Sea of Japan) //The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. 2019, vol. 23, N 1-2, pp 117–126.
  • Denisenko S.G., Denisenko N.V., Chaban E.M., Gagaev S.Yu., Petryashov V.V., Zhuravleva N.E. & Sukhotin A.A. The current status of the macrozoobenthos around the Atlantic walrus haul-outs in the Pechora Sea (SE Barents Sea) // Polar Biology. 2019. V. 42, No 9. P. 1703–1717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-02455-3
  • Chaban E.V., Ekimova I.A., Schepetov D.M., Kohnert P.C., Schrödl M., Chrnyshev A.V. Euopisthobranch mollusks of the order Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and the adjacent Pacific abyssal plain with descriptions of three new species of the genus Spiraphiline (Philinidae) // Progress in Oceanography. 2019. 178. 102185 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102185
  • Chaban E.V., Ekimova I.A., Schepetov D.M., Chrnyshev A.V. Meloscaphander grandis (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea), a deep-water species from the North Pacific: Redescription and taxonomic remarks // Zootaxa, 2019. 4646(2): 385–400. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4646.2.12
  • Cherneva I.A., Chernyshev A.V., Ekimova I.A., Shepetov D.M., Polyakova N.E., Neretina T.V., Turanov S.V., Chaban E.M., Malakhov V.V. Species identity and genetic structure of nemerteans of the "Lineus ruber-viridis" complex (Muller, 1774) from Arctic waters // Polar Biology.2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2438-7
  • Chaban EM, Kano Y., Fukumori H., Chernyshev AV. Deep-sea gastropods of the family Ringiculidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) from the Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, and adjacent waters with the description of three new species // DSRII4350: Deep-Sea Research Part II 2018. V. 154. P. 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.11.008
  • Chaban E.M., Chernyshev A.V. Opisthobranch cephalaspidean mollusks (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of Vostok Bay, Sea of Japan. Part 2 // The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. 2017. V. 21, N 2, pp. 39–53. (In Russian)
  • Chaban E.M. New genus of opisthobranch molluscs Antarctophiline gen. nov. (Cephalaspidea: Philinoidea) from the Cooperation Sea, Antarctica // Ruthenica. 2016, 26(1): 49–56.
  • Chaban E.M. Chapter 8. Heterobranch mollusks of the orders Acteonoidea and Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) of Vietnam: Annotated check-list with illustrations of some species. In: A.V. Adrianov and K.A. Lutaenko (Eds.) Biodiversity of the western part of the South China sea. 2016. Vladivostok: Dalnauka. P. 415–448.
  • Chaban E.M., Chernyshev A.V. The First Finding of Smaragdinella sieboldi A. Adams, 1864 (Opisthobranchia: Haminoeidae) in the South China Sea with Description of the Anatomy of the Species // Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 2016, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 362–367 https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074016040039
  • Chaban E.M. Opisthobranch molluscs of “Cylichna occulta group” (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Cylichnidae) from the Chukchi Sea and adjacent waters // The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. 2016, vol. 20, N 1, pp. 5–26.
  • Chaban EM, Kijashko PV. On two cephalaspid molluscs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) with two gizzard plates, and description of a new genus and a new family // Zoosystematica Rossica. 2016, 25(2): 204–215.
  • Lutaenko K.A., Chaban E.M. Bivalve collection of C.E. Lischke in the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg: Mytilidae, Ungulinidae and Tellinidae // Korean J. Malacol. 2016, 32(2): 141-147. https://doi.org/10.9710/kjm.2016.32.2.141
  • Chaban E.M., Nekhaev I.O., Lubin P.A. Hermania indistincta comb. nov. (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Cephalaspidea) from the Barents Sea – new species and genus for the fauna of the Russian Seas // Zoosystematica Rossica. 2015, 24(2):148–154.
  • Chaban E.M., Chernyshev A.V. Opisthobranch cephalaspidean mollusks (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of Vostok Bay, Sea of Japan. Part 1 // The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society, 2014, vol. 18, pp. 41–62. (In Russian)
  • Chaban E.M., Chernyshev A.V. New and little-known shell-bearing heterobranch mollusks (Heterobranchia:Aplustridae and Cephalaspidea) from the bathyal zone of the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan. Deep-Sea Research II. 2013, 86-87: 156–153.
  • Chaban E.M., Nekhaev O.I. Age variability in the shell of Scaphander punctostriatus (Mighels et C.B. Adams, 1842) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) as revealed by specimens from the Russian part of the Barents Sea // Zoosystematica Rossica. 2013, 22(2): 165–171.
  • Chaban E.M., Martynov A.V. Clade Cephalaspidea, Clade Sacoglossa. In: Sirenko B.I. (Ed.) Check-list of species of free-living invertebrates of the Russian FarEastern seas // Explorations of the fauna of the seas. 2013, 75(83): 166, 167.
  • Chaban E.M. Cephalaspidean molluscs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of the East Siberian sea. Fauna of the East Siberian Sea, distribution petterns and structure of bottom communities // Explorations of Fauna of the Seas. 2010, 66(74): 71–88. (In Russian)
  • Chernyshev A.V., Chaban E.M. The first finding of Alderiopsis nigra (Baba, 1937) (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa) in Rusian seas. вморяхРоссии // The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. 2010, 14: 114–118.
  • Chaban E.M., Soldatenko E.V. Comparative morphology of the hammer-shaped penises of two species of opisthobranch molluscs of the genus Philine Ascanius, 1772 (Opisthobranchia: Cephalaspidea: Philinidae) // Zoosystematica Rossica. 2009, 18(1): 5–10.
  • Gulbin V.V., Chaban E.M. Review of the shell-bearing gastropods in the Russian waters of the East Sea (Sea of Japan). IV. Heterobranchia // The Korean Journal of Malacology. 2009, 25 (1): 71-79.
  • Chaban E.M., Chernyshev, A.V. Type specimens of benthic nemerteans (Nemertea, Enopla) in the Zoological Institute (St. Petersburg) // Zoosystematica Rossica. 2008, 17(2): 53–60.
  • Chaban E.M., Martynov A.V. Acteonoidea, Cephalaspidea. In: Yu.I.Kantor, A.V.Sysoev. Marine and brackish water gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. KMK Scientiffic Press Ltd, Moskow, 2006, 249–261, pls. 124–129.
  • Chernyshev, A.V., Chaban E.M. Types of the pelagic nemerteans in the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (Nemertea: Enopla) // Zoosystematica Rossica. 2005, 13(2):151–156.
  • Chaban E.M. Cephalaspidean mollusks (Molluska, Opisthobranchia) of the Laptev Sea // Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas. 2004, 54(62): 71–87. (In Russian)
  • Chaban Е.М., A. V. Martynov. On taxonomy of the genus Tornatina A.Adams, 1850 (Opisthobranchia: Cephalaspidea. Zoological sessions. Annual reports 2000. Proceedings of the zoological Institute RAS, 2001, vol. 289:51-58.
  • Chaban Е.М. Subclass Opisthobranchia: order Cephalaspidea, Anaspidea, Acochlidiida, Sacoglossa, Thecosomata, Gymnosomata. List of species of free-living invertebrates of Eurasian Arctic seas and adjacent deep waters // Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas. 2001, 51(59): 108–109.
  • Chaban Е. М. A new species of the genus Bogasonia Warén from the Middle Kurile Islands (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Diaphanidae) // Zoosystematica Rossica. 1998, 7(2): 243–244.
  • Chaban E.M., Martynov A.V. Melanochlamys diomedea (Bergh, 1893) (Opisthobranchia: Aglajidae) – the genus and the species new for Russian fauna // Ruthenica. 1998, 8(2): 147–152. (In Russian)
  • Chaban E.M. Opisthobranch molluscs of the family Diaphanidae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) of the Russian seas // Ruthenica. 1996, 6(2): 127–148. (In Russian)