Prof. Dr. Stefan Richter

Kontakt

Universität Rostock
Institut für Biowissenschaften
Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie
Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock
Tel.: 0381 / 498-6260
Email: stefan.richter (at) uni-rostock.de

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Forschungsschwerpunkte

Morphologie, phylogenetische Systematik und Evolution der Arthropoda, insbesondere der Crustacea; Entstehung von Tagmata und Extremitäten, Progenese der Cladocera

Biogeographische und evolutionsökologischen Fragestellungen; Besiedlung des Ponto-Kaspischen Beckens sowie temporärer Gewässer Australiens; Phylogeographie tasmanischer Berggarnelen (Aanspidacea)

Wissenschaftstheorie und Geschichte der Morphologie und Phylogenetik

Geschichte der Zoologie

Feldforschung u.a. in Österreich, Israel, Australien (inkl. Tasmanien), Russland und Aserbeidschan (Kaspisches Meer), Mexiko, Italien, Südafrika, Bermuda, Singapur, Frankreich, USA.

Studium und Ausbildung

2003: Habilitation an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

1995: Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. an der Freien Universität Berlin

1991 bis 1995: Promotion bei Prof. W. Dohle (FU Berlin) über die phylogenetischen Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Höheren Krebse (Malacostraca)

1990: Diplom bei Prof. W. Sudhaus (FU Berlin) über die phoretischen Bindungen eines Nematoden an Totengräberkäfern (Nicrophorus spp.)

1983 bis 1990: Studium der Biologie, Ev. Theologie, Paläontologie und Archäologie an der Freien Universität Berlin

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

Seit März 2007: Professor (W3) für Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie an der Universität Rostock

Oktober 2003 bis Februar 2007: Hochschuldozent (C2) an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum

Oktober 1995 bis September 2003: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (C1), später Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in der Vergleichenden Zoologie (Prof. G. Scholtz)

 

seit 2020: Mitglied (seit April 2022 Vorsitzender) des Kuratoriums der Nationalparkstiftung Unteres Odertal

2022-2024: Präsident der Willi Hennig Society (2018-2020: Vice President; 2012-2014, 2022: Mitglied des Council)

2012-2019: Fachkollegiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Fachkollegium Zoologie

2017-2018: Präsident der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft (DZG)

2011-2018: Mitglied des Vorstandes der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft (DZG)

2010-2022: Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Museums für Naturkunde, Berlin

seit 2008: Research Associate am American Museum of Natural History, New York

2004-2005: Visiting Scientist am American Museum of Natural History, New York

2000 und 2002: Gastforscher am Zoologisk Museum, Kopenhagen

1999: Visiting Fellow am Australian Museum, Sydney

Akademische Selbstverwaltung

01.04.2021-31.03.2023: Prodekan der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Rostock

2010-2014, 2016-2018, 2021-2023: Mitglied des Fakultätsrates der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Rostock

2010-2012: Geschäftsführender Direktor Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock

2008-2010, 2012-2014: Stellvertretender geschäftsführender Direktor Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock

Herausgebertätigkeiten

Associate Editor of "Cladistics" (seit 2019)

Associate Editor of “Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny” (2006-2019)

Editor "Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research" (2011-2015)

Associate Editor of “Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution” (2006-2010)

Editorial Board "Zoomorphology" (seit 2013)

Editorial Board "Acta Zoologica" (2008-2016)

Mitgliedschaften

Society of Systematic Biologists, Willi Hennig Society (Fellow), International Society of Invertebrate Morphology, The Crustacean Society, Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, Gesellschaft für biologische Systematik, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Freunde und Förderer der Zoologischen Sammlung Rostock, Fördererkreis der Naturwissenschaftlichen Museen Berlin, Förderverein Phyletisches Museum Jena, Förderverein Ernst-Haeckel Haus Jena, Verein der Freunde des Deutsch-Polnischen Europa-Nationalparks Unteres Odertal

Publikationen

143. Grams, M.; Richter, S. (2023): On the four complementary aspects of hierarchical character relationships and their bearing on scoring constraints, expressed in a new syntax for character dependencies. Cladistics 39, 437–455. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12550

142. Höpel, C. G., Yeo, D., Ahyong, S. T., Meier, R., & Richter, S. (2023). First mitochondrial genomes of Anaspidacea (Malacostraca, Crustacea) and the phylogenetic relationships of mountain shrimps (Anaspides Thomson, 1894) and their relatives within Anaspidesidae. Journal of Crustacean Biology 43(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruad028

141. Höpel, C. G., Richter, S. & Ahyong, S. T. (2023). A New Species of Tasmanian Mountain Shrimp, Anaspides driesseni sp. nov. (Malacostraca, Anaspidacea, Anaspidesidae). Records of the Australian Museum 75(1), 25–43. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1829

140. Grams, M.; Klinger, M.; Richter, S. (2023): Neither leg nor jaw—nor always the same: a critical revision of the eumalacostracan maxilliped. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197(4), 965-1004. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac083

139. Hazerli, D.;Höpel, C. G., Richter, S. (2022): New insights into the evolution of portunoid swimming crabs (Portunoidea, Heterotremata, Brachyura) and the brachyuran axial skeleton. Frontiers in Zoology 19(24). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-022-00467-8

138. Fritsch, M., & Richter, S. (2022). How body patterning might have worked in the evolution of arthropods—A case study of the mystacocarid Derocheilocaris remanei (Crustacea, Oligostraca). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23140

137. Höpel, C. G., Yeo, D., Grams, M., Meier, R., & Richter, S. (2022). Mitogenomics supports the monophyly of Mysidacea and Peracarida (Malacostraca). Zoologica Scripta 51, 603– 613. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12554

136. Fritsch, M., & Richter, S. (2022). How body patterning might have worked in the evolution of arthropods—A case study of the mystacocarid Derocheilocaris remanei (Crustacea, Oligostraca). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23140

135. Scholz, S.; Göpel, T.; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2021) High degree of non-genetic phenotypic variation in the vascular system of crayfish – a discussion of possible causes and implications. Zoomorphology 140: 317-329. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-021-00536-2

134. Richter, S., Göpel, T. (2021): Rasse ohne Realität. Warum das Konzept der Unterarten fragwürdig und das der Menschenrassen überholt ist. Biologie in unserer Zeit 2 (2021): 179-188. https://doi.org/10.11576/biuz-4252

133. Höpel, C. G., Ahyong, S. T., Richter, S. (2021): Genetic structure and new occurrence records of the iconic Tasmanian mountain shrimp Anaspides tasmaniae (Thomson, 1893) (Anaspidesidae: Anaspidacea) reveal relictual distribution in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO20100

132. Grams, M., Richter, S. (2021): Locomotion in Anaspides (Anaspidacea, Malacostraca) – insights from a morpho-functional study of thoracopods with some observations on swimming and walking. Zoology 144, Article 125883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2020.125883.

131.Fischer, M.S., Hoßfeld, U., Krause, J. und Richter, S. (2021): The Jena Declaration: Jena, Haeckel and the Question of Human Races, or, Racism Creates Races. Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology Vol. 24 (2019): 91-123.

130. Möller, S., Winkler, HM, Richter, S, Bastrop, R. (2021). Genetic population structure of pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) in the brackish lagoons of the southern Baltic Sea. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 30: 140–149. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12571

129. Hazerli, D., Richter, S. (2020): Why “swimming crabs” are able to swim e The importance of the axial skeleton: A comparison between the “swimming crab” Liocarcinus depurator and two other brachyuran crabs (Cancer pagurus, Carcinus maenas) using µCT and 3D-reconstruction. Arthropod Structure & Development 59 (2020) 100972.

128. Schmidt, M., Hazerli, D., Richter, S. (2020): Kinematics and morphology (2020/2021): A comparison of 3D-patterns in the fifth pereiopod of swimming and non-swimming crab species (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Brachyura). Journal of Morphology, 281:1547–1566.

127. Fischer, M.S., Hoßfeld, U., Krause, J. und Richter, S. (2020): Jena, Haeckel und die Frage nach den Menschenrassen oder der Rassismus macht Rassen. Zoologie 2020. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 7-32. 

126. Schwentner, M.; Rabet, N.; Richter, S.; Giribet, G.; Padhye, S.; Cart, J-F.; Bonillo, C. & Rogers, D.C. (2020): Phylogeny and Biogeography of Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Zoological Studies 59:44.

125. Kalke, P.; Frase, T. & Richter, S. (2020): From swimming towards sessility in two metamorphoses – the drastic changes in structure and function of the nervous system of the bay barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus (Crustacea, Thecostraca, Cirripedia) during development. Contributions to Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10003

124. Ege, Y.C.; Foth, C.; Baum, D.; Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2020): Adapting spherical-harmonics-based geometric morphometrics (SPHARM) for 3D images containing large cavity openings using ambient occlusion: a study with hermit crab claw shape variability. Zoomorphology  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-020-00488-z

123. Richter, S.; Göpel, T.; Wirkner, C.S. (2020): Das Morphem: Beschreibungseinheit der Evolutionären Morphologie. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 73: 500-508.

122. Richter, S. & Wirkner, C.S. (2020): What The Ur-crustacean Looked Like. Chapter 1. Pp 1-20. In: Thiel, M. & Watling, L. The Natural History of Crustacea. Vol. VIII, Evolution and Biogeography. Oxford University Press.

121. Frase, T.; Richter, S. (2020): The brain and the correxponding senses organs in calanoid copepods - evidence of vestiges of compound eyes. Arthropod Structure & Development 54: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2019.100902

120. Fischer, M. S.; Hoßfeld, U.; Krause, J.; Richter, S. (2019): Jenaer Erklärung – Das Konzept der Rasse ist das Ergebnis von Rassismus und nicht dessen Voraussetzung. Biologie in unserer Zeit49 (6): 399-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/biuz.201970606

119. Möller, S.; Winkler, H.M.; Klüge, A.; Richter, S. (2019): Using otolith microchemical analysis to investigate the importance of brackish bays for pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) reproduction in the southern Baltic Sea. Ecology of Freshwater Fish: https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.1247

118. Schwentner, M.; Richter, S.; Rogers, D.C.; Giribet, G. (2018): Tetraconatan phylogeny with special focus on Malacostraca and Branchiopoda: highlighting the strength of taxon-specific matrices in phylogenomics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20181524.

117. Scholz, S.; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2018): Constant morphological patterns in the hemolymph vascular system of crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda). Arthropod Structure & Development 47: 248-267.

116. Leitinger, J.P.; Richter, S. (2018): The chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera, Amblycera) of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). Parasitology International 67:528-532.

115. Richter, S.; Bick, A. (2018): ROSTOCK: The Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock. In: Zoological Collections of Germany, Natural History Collections. Beck, L.A. (Ed.). Springer.

114. Richter, S.; Schwentner, M.; Wirkner, C.S.; Ahyong, S.T. (2018): Phylogeny and species diversity of Tasmanian mountain shrimps and their relatives (Crustacea, Anaspidesidae). Zoologica Scripta 47 (1): 84–105.

113. Fritsch, M.; Richter, S. (2017): Unexpected UBX expression in the maxilliped of the mystacocarid crustacean Derocheilocharis remanei - evidence for a different way of making a maxilliped? Development Genes and Evolution 227 (4): 289-296.

112. Ahyong, S.T.; Schwentner, M.; Richter, S. (2017): The Tasmanian Lake Shrimps, Paranaspides Smith, 1908 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Anaspidesidae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(4): 259-275.

111. Richter, S. (2017): Homology and synapomorphy-symplesiomorphy—neither synonymous nor equivalent but different perspectives on the same phenomenon. Cladistics 33(5): 540-544.

110. Wirkner, C.S.; Göpel, T.; Runge, J.; Keiler, J.; Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J.; Huckstorf, K.; Scholz, S.; Mikó, I.; Yoder, M.; Richter, S. (2017): The first organ-based ontology for arthropods (Ontology of Arthropod Circulatory Systems - OArCS) and its integration into a novel formalization scheme for morphological descriptions. Systematic Biology 66(5): 754-768.

109. Keiler, J.; Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2017): 100 years of carcinization – the evolution of the crab-like habitus in Anomura. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 121(1): 200-222.

108. Göpel, T. & Richter, S. (2016): The word is not enough: on morphemes, characters and ontological concepts. Cladistics 32(6): 682-690.

107. Keiler, J.; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2016): Revealing their innermost secrets: an evolutionary perspective on the disparity of the organ systems in anomuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Contributions to Zoology: 85: 361-386.

106. Frase, T. & Richter, S. (2016): Nervous system development in the fairy shrimp Branchinella sp. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca): Insights into the development and evolution of the branchiopod brain and its sensory organs. Journal of Morphology 227: 1423–1446.

105. Richter, S. (2016): Peter Ax's views on homology - a comparison with Remane and Hennig. Peckiana 11: 67-75.

104. Richter, S.; Stach, T.; Wanninger, A. (2016): Perspective - Nervous system development in bilaterian larvae: testing the concept of 'primary larvae'. Chapter 25: 313-324. In: A. Schmidt-Rhaesa, S. Harzsch, G. Purschke (Eds.). Structure and Evolution of the Invertebrate Nervous Systems. Oxford University Press.

103. Stegner, M.; Richter, S. (2016): Cephalocarida. Chapter 42: Pp: 506-513. In: A. Schmidt-Rhaesa, S. Harzsch, G. Purschke (Eds.). Structure and Evolution of the Invertebrate Nervous Systems. Oxford University Press.

102. Fritsch, M. ; Richter, S. (2016): Branchiopoda. Chapter 43: Pp. 514-521. In: A. Schmidt-Rhaesa, S. Harzsch, G. Purschke (Eds.). Structure and Evolution of the Invertebrate Nervous Systems. Oxford University Press.

101. Fritsch, M.; Richter, S. (2015): How the cladoceran heterogonic life cycle evolved - insights from gamogenetic reproduction and direct development n Cyclestherida. Evolution & Development 17: 356-366.

100. Jaszkowiak, K.; Keiler, J.; Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2015): The mouth apparatus of Lithodes maja (Crustacea: Decapoda) - form, function and biological role. Acta Zoologica 96: 401–417.

99. Keiler, J.; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2015): The anatomy of the king crab Hapalogaster mertensii Brandt, 1850 (Anomura: Paguroidea: Hapalogastridae) – new insights into the evolutionary transformation of hermit crabs into king crabs. Contributions to Zoology 84: 149-165.

98. Schwentner,, M. & S. Richter (2015): Stochastic effects associated with resting egg banks lead to genetically differentiated active populations in large branchiopods from temporary water bodies. Hydrobiologia 760:239-253.

97. Jirikowski, G.J., Wolff, C. & S. Richter (2015): Evolution of eumalacostracan development--new insights into loss and reacquisition of larval stages revealed by heterochrony analysis. EvoDevo 2015, 6: 4

96. Schwentner,, M., Timms, B.V. & S. Richter (2015): Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda: Diplostraca) in Australia's arid zone: unparalleled diversity at regional scales and within water bodies. Journal of Crustacan Biology 35: 366-378.

95. Rogers, C., Schwentner, M., Olesen, J. & S. Richter (2015): Evolution, classification, and global diversity of large Branchiopoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology 35: 297-300.

94. Stegner, M.E.J. & S. Richter (2015): Development of the nervous system in Cephalocarida (Crustacea): early neuronal differentiation and successive patterning. Zoomorphology 134:183–209.

93. Stegner, M.E.J.; Stemme T.; Iliffe T.M; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2015): The brain in three blind representatives of Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea and Mictocaridida (Peracarida, Malacostraca, Crustacea. BMC Neuroscience 16: 19.

92. Schwentner, M.; Just, F. & S. Richter (2015): Evolutionary systematics of the Australian Cyzicidae (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata) with the description of a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173: 271–295.

91. Deans, A.R. ... Richter, S. ... Wirkner, C.S. et al. (73 authors) (2015): Finding our way through phenotypes. PLoS Biology 13: e1002033.

90. Keiler, J., Richter, S. & Wirkner, C.S. (2015): Evolutionary morphology of the organ systems in squat lobsters and porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomala) - an insight into carcinization. Journal of Morphology 276:1–21.

89. Richter, S. & Wirkner, C.S. (2014): A research program for Evolutionary Morphology. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 52: 338-350.

88. Kaji, T., Fritsch, M., Schwentner, M., Olesen, J., Richter S. (2014): Male claspers in clam shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: a case study on homology versus analogy. Journal of Experimental Zoololgy B Mol Dev Evol 322:269-80.

87. Loesel, R. & S. Richter (2014): Neurophylogeny - from description to character analysis. Pp: 505-514. In: Deep Metazoan Phylogeny: The backbone of the Tree of Life. Wägele J.W.; Bartholomäus T. (Eds.). De Gruyter, Berlin.

86. Stegner, M.E.J., Fritsch, M. & S. Richter (2014): The central complex in Crustacea. Pp: 361-384. In: Deep Metazoan Phylogeny: The backbone of the Tree of Life. Wägele J.W.; Bartholomäus T. (Eds.). De Gruyter, Berlin.

85. Stegner, M.E.J., Brenneis, G. & S. Richter (2014): The ventral nerve cord in Cephalocarida (Crustacea): New insights into the ground pattern of Tetraconata. Journal of Morphology 275: 269-294.

84. Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V. & S. Richter (2014): Evolutionary systematics of the Australian Eocyzicus fauna (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) reveals hidden diversity and phylogeographic structure. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 52: 15--31

83. Jirikowski, G., Richter, S., Wolff, C. (2013): Myogenesis of Malacostraca – the “egg-nauplius” concept revisited. Frontiers in Zoology 2013, 10:76.

82. Richter, S. (2013): Günter Tembrock (1918 - 2011) - sein Wirken für die Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde (NF) 49: 197-202.

81. Richter, S. (2013): Willi Hennig und die Phylogenetische Systematik - Gedanken zum 100. Geburtstag des Revolutionärs der Systematik. Zoologie 2013. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft. S. 31-40.

80. Richter, S., Schminke, H.K. (2013): Mandibulata. In: Westheide, W.; Rieger, G. (eds.) Spezielle Zoologie. Teil 1. Einzeller und Wirbellose Tiere. Springer Spektrum, S. 542-543.

79. Richter, S. (2013): Panarthropoda, Arthropoda. In: Westheide, W.; Rieger, G. (eds.) Spezielle Zoologie. Teil 1. Einzeller und Wirbellose Tiere. Springer Spektrum, S. 454-456; 474-487.

78. Frase, T.; Richter, S. (2013): The fate of the onychophoran antenna. Dev Genes Evol (2013) 223:247–251

77. Fritsch, M., Bininda-Emonds, O.P.R., Richter, S. (2013): Unraveling the origin of Cladocera by identifying heterochrony in the developmental sequences of Branchiopoda. Frontiers in Zoology 2013, 10:35

76. Keiler, J.; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2013): Evolutionary Morphology of the Hemolymph Vascular System in Hermit and King Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomala). Journal of Morphology 274:759–778

75. Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2013): Objekte der Morphologie. S. 93-97. In: M. Bruhn, G. Scholtz (Eds.) Morphologien. Bildwelten des Wissens 9.2. Akademie Verlag Berlin.

74. Fritsch , M., Kaji, T., Olesen, J. & Richter, S. (2013): The development of the nervous system in Laevicaudata (Crustacea, Branchiopoda): insights into the evolution and homologies of branchiopod limbs and ‘frontal organs’. Zoomorphology 132:163–181.

73. Richter, S., Stein, M., Frase, T., Szucsich, N. U. (2013): The Arthropod Head. Pp 223-240. In: Minelli, A.; Boxshall, G.; Fusco, G. (eds.) Arthropod Biology and Evolution - Molecules, Development, Morphology. Springer, Heidelberg.

72. Schwentner, M., Clavier, S., Fritsch, M., Olesen, J., Padhye, S., Timms, B.V. & Richter, S. (2013). Cyclestheria hislopi (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): A group of morphologically cryptic species with origins in the Cretaceous. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 800–810.

71. Wirkner, C.S. & Richter, S. (2013): Circulatory System and Respiration. Chapter 14. Pp 376-412. In: Thiel, M. & Watling, L. The Natural History of Crustacea. Vol. I, Functional Morphology and Diversity. Oxford University Press.

70. Olesen, J. & Richter, S. (2013): Onychocaudata (Branchiopoda: Diplostraca), a new high-level taxon in branchiopod systematics. Journal of Crustacean Biology 33: 62-65.

69. Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V. & Richter, S. (2012): Flying with the birds? – Recent large-area dispersal of four Limnadopsis species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Ecology and Evolution 2: 1605–1626.

68. Fritsch, M.; Richter, S. (2012): Nervous system development in Spinicaudata and Cyclestherida (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) – comparing two different modes of indirect development by using an event pairing approach. Journal of Morphology 273: 672–695.

67. Schwentner, M.; Timms, B.V.; Richter, S. (2012): Description of four new species of Limnadopsis from Australia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Zootaxa 3315: 42–64.

66. Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2011): An integrative approach to species delineation incorporating different species concepts: a case study of Limnadopsis (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104: 575-599.

65. Keiler, J.; Richter, S. (2011): Morphological diversity of setae on the grooming legs in Anomala (Decapoda: Reptantia) revealed by scanning electron microscopy. Zoologischer Anzeiger 250: 343-366.

64. Reimann, A.; Richter, S.; Scholtz, G. (2011): Phylogeny of the Anomala (Crustacea, Decapoda, Reptantia) based on the ossicles of the foregut. Zoologischer Anzeiger 250: 316-342.

63. Stegner, M.E.J.; Richter, S. (2011): Morphology of the brain in Hutchinsoniella macracantha (Cephalocarida, Crustacea). Arthropod Structure and Development 40: 221-243.

62. Fritsch, M.; Richter, S. (2010): The formation of the nervous system during larval development in Triops cancriformis (Bosc) (Crustacea, Branchiopoda): An immunohistochemical survey. Journal of Morphology 271:1457-1481.

61. Richter, S.; Loesel, R.; Purschke, G.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, A.; Scholtz, G.; Stach, T.; Vogt, L.; Wanninger, A.; Brenneis, G.; Döring, C.; Faller, S.; Fritsch, M.; Grobe, P.; Heuer, C.M.; Kaul, S.; Møller, O.S.; Müller, C.H.G.; Rieger, V.; Rothe, B.H.; Stegner, M.E.J.; Harzsch, S. (2010): Invertebrate neurophylogeny - suggested terms and definitions for a neuroanatomical glossary. Frontiers in Zoology 7:29.

60. Jirikowski G., Kreissl S., Richter S., Wolff C. (2010): Muscle development in the marbled crayfish—insights from an emerging model organism (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Decapoda). Development Genes and Evolution 220: 89-105.

59. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2010): Evolutionary Morphology of the circulatory system in Peracarida. Cladistics 26: 143-167.

58. Brenneis, G.; Richter, S. (2010): Architecture of the nervous system in Mystacocarida (Arthropoda, Crustacea) - an immunohistochemical study and 3D reconstruction. Journal of Morphology 271: 169-189.

57. Schwentner, M.; Timms, B.V., Bastrop, R.; Richter, S. (2009): Phylogeny of Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) based on three molecular markers - an Australian origin for Limnadopsis. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 53: 716-725.

56. Richter, S.; Møller, O.S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2009): Advances in Crustacean Phylogenetics. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 67: 275-286.

55. Timms, B.V.; Richter, S. (2009): The clam shrimp Eozycicus (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Cycicidae) in Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 29(2): 245-253.

54. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2009): The hemolymph vascular system in Tethysbaena argentarii (Thermosbaenacea, Monodellidae) as revealed by 3D reconstruction of semi-thin sections. Journal of Crustacean Biology 29(1): 13-17.

53. Vogt, G.; Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2009): Symmetry variation in the heart-descending artery system of the parthenogenetic Marbled Crayfish. Jounal of Morphology 207: 221-226.

52. Richter, S. (2008): Hans-Eckard Gruner (15. Mai 1926 – 6. Dezember 2006). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 47: 73-76.

51. Richter, S. (2008): Günter Tembrock und die Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. In: A. Wessel (Hrsg.) „Ohne Bekenntnis keine Erkenntnis“ – Günter Tembrock zu Ehren. Berliner Studien zur Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Humanontogenetik Band 25. Kleine Verlag, Bielefeld.

50. Haupt, C.; Richter, S. (2008): Limb articulation in caridoid crustaceans revisited – new evidence from Euphausiacea (Malacostraca). Arthropod Structure & Development 37: 221-233.

49. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2008): Morphology of the hemolymph vascular system in Tanaidacea and Cumacea – implications for the relationships of “core group” Peracarida (Malacostraca; Crustacea). Arthropod Structure & Development 37: 141-154.

48. Reimann, A.; Richter S. (2007): The nauplius eye complex in ‘conchostracans’ (Crustacea, Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) and its phylogenetic implications. Arthropod Structure & Development 36: 408-419.

47. Richter, S. (2007): Aufgaben einer Evolutionären Morphologie im 21. Jahrhundert. S. 49-57. In: J.W. Wägele (Herausgb.) Höhepunkte der Zoologischen Forschung im deutschen Sprachraum. Festschrift zur 100. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft in Köln vom 21. Bis 24. September 2007.

46. Richter, S.; Olesen, J.; Wheeler, W.C. (2007): Branchiopod phylogeny – a combined analysis using morphology and six molecular loci. Cladistics 23: 301-336.

45. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter. S. (2007): The circulatory system and its spatial relations to other major organ systems in Spelaeogriphacea and Mictacea (Malacostraca, Crustacea) – a three-dimensional analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149: 629-642.

44. Kirsch, R.; Richter, S. (2007). The nervous system of Leptodora kindtii (Branchiopoda, Cladocera) surveyed with Confocal Scanning Microscopy (CLSM), including general remarks on the branchiopod neuromorphological ground pattern. Arthropod Structure & Development 36: 143-156.

43. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2007): Comparative analysis of the circulatory system in Amphipoda (Malacostraca, Crustacea). Acta Zoologica 88: 159-171.

42. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter. S. (2007): The circulatory system of Mysidacea – implications for the phylogenetic position of Lophogastrida and Mysida (Malacostraca, Crustacea). Journal of Morphology 268: 311-328.

41. Brösing, A.; Richter, S.; Scholtz, G. (2007): Phylogenetic analysis of the Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda) based on characters of the foregut with establishment of a new taxon. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45: 20-32.

40. Richter, S.; Kornicker, L.S. (2006): The mandibles of a halocyprid ostracod (Halocypridae; Halocypridina; Ostracoda) – a new record of mandibular gnathal edges with a ‚lacinia-mobilis’. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26: 113-118.

39. Richter, S.; Timms, B.V.T. (2005): A list of the Recent clam shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, including a description of a new species of Eocyzicus. Records of the Australian Museum 57: 341-354.

38. Richter, S. (2005): Homologies in phylogenetic analyses – concept and tests. Theory in Biosciences 124: 105-120.

37. Giribet, G.; Richter, S.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Wheeler, W.C. (2005): The position of Crustacea within Arthropoda: evidence from nine molecular loci and morphology. Crustacean Issues 16: 307-352.

36. Pabst, T.; Richter, S. (2004): The larval development of an Australian limnadiid clam shrimp (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Spinicaudata), and a comparison with other Limnadiidae. Zoologischer Anzeiger 243, 99-115.

35. Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2004): Kontroversen in der phylogenetische Systematik der Euarthropoda. In: Kontroversen der phylogenetischen Systematik der Metazoa (S. Richter; W. Sudhaus, Hrsgb.). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 43: 73-102.

34. Richter, S.; Sudhaus, W. (2004): Vorspann zu den Kontroversen in der phylogenetischen Systematik der Metazoa. In: Kontroversen in der phylogenetischen Systematik der Metazoa (S. Richter; W. Sudhaus, Hrsgb.). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 43: 5-14.

33. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2004): Improvement of micro anatomical research by combination of corrosion casts with micro CT and 3D reconstruction exemplified on the circulatory organs of the woodlouse. Microscopy Research and Technique 64: 250-254.

32. Richter, S. (2004): A comparison of the mandibular gnathal edges in branchiopod crustaceans – implications for the phylogenetic position of the Laevicaudata (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). Zoomorphology 123: 31-44.

31. Müller, C; Rosenberg, J; Richter, S; Meyer-Rochow, V-B (2003): The compound eye of Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chilopoda: Notostigmophora): an ultrastructural re-investigation that adds support to the Mandibulata-concept. Zoomorphology 122: 191-209.

30. Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2003): The circulatory system of the Phreatoicidea: implications for the isopod ground pattern and peracarid phylogeny. Arthropod Structure & Development 32: 337-347.

29. Richter, S. (2003): The mouthparts of two lophogastrids, Chalaraspidum alatum and Pseudochalaraspidum hanseni (Lophogastrida, Peracarida, Malacostraca), including some remarks on the monophyly of the Lophogastrida. Journal of Natural History 37: 2773-2786.

28. Edgecombe, G.D.; Richter, S.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2003): The mandibular gnathal edges: homologous structures throughout Mandibulata? African Invertebrates 44: 115-135.

27. Olesen, J.; Richter, S.; Scholtz, G. (2003): On the ontogeny of Leptodora kindtii (Focke, 1844) (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Cladocera) – with notes on the phylogeny of the Cladocera. Journal of Morphology 256: 235-259.

26. Timms, B.V.; Richter, S. (2002): A preliminary analysis of the conchostracans (Crustacea: Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata) of the middle Paroo catchment of the Australian arid-zone. Hydrobiologia 486, 239-247.

25. Richter, S.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Wilson, G.D.F. (2002): The lacinia mobilis and similar structures – a valuable character in arthropod phylogenetics? Zoologischer Anzeiger 241, 339-361.

24. Braband, A.; Richter, S.; Hiesel, R.; Scholtz, G. (2002): Phylogenetic relationships within the Phyllopoda (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25, 229-244.

23. Richter, S. (2002): The Tetraconata concept: hexapod – crustacean relationships and the phylogeny of Crustacea. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 2, 217-237.

22. Brösing, A.; Richter, S.; Scholtz, G. (2002): The foregut-ossicle system of Dromia wilsoni, Dromia personata and Lauridromia intermedia (Decapoda, Brachyura, Dromiidae). Arthropod Structure and Development 30, 329-338.

21. Richter, S. (2002): Evolution of optical design in the Malacostraca (Crustacea). In: The Crustacean Nervous System (Ed. K. Wiese), 512-524. Springer, Heidelberg.

20. Olesen, J.; Richter, S.; Scholtz, G. (2001): The evolutionary transformation of phyllopodous to stenopodous limbs in the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) – Is there a common mechanism for early limb development in arthropods? International Journal of Developmental Biology 45, 869-876.

19. Richter, S.; Scholtz, G. (2001): Phylogenetic analysis of the Malacostraca (Crustacea). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 39, 113-136.

18. Richter, S.; Braband, A.; Aladin, N.; Scholtz, G. (2001). The phylogenetic relationships of „predatory water-fleas“ (Cladocera: Onychopoda, Haplopoda) inferred from 12S rDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19, 105-113.

17. Richter, S. (2000): Franz Eilhard Schulze und die Zoologische Lehrsammlung der Berliner Universität. In: Theater der Natur und Kunst / Theatrum naturae et artis. Wunderkammern des Wissens. Bredekamp, H. Brüning, J. Weber, C. (Hrsgb.), 119-127.

16. Eder, E.; Richter, S.; Gottwald, R.; Hödl, W. (2000): First record of Limnadia lenticularis males in Europe (Branchiopoda: Conchostraca). Journal of Crustacean Biology 20, 657-662.

15. Richter, S. (1999): The structure of the ommatidia of the Malacostraca – a phylogenetic approach. Verhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Hamburg (NF) 38, 161-204.

14. Richter, S. (1998): Die Lehrsammlung des Zoologischen Instituts der Berliner Universität – ihre Geschichte und ihre Bedeutung. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (N.F.) 38, 59-76.

13. Richter, S. (1998): Die stammesgeschichtlichen Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen der Flußkrebse – die Stellung der Astacida im phylogenetischen System der Decapoda. Stapfia N.F. 137, 213-220.

12. Richter, S. (1997): Die Brehm-Gedenkstätte in Renthendorf (Thüringen). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (N.F.) 36, 178-182.

11. Scholtz, G.; Richter, S. (1995): Phylogenetic systematics of reptantian Decapoda Malacostraca: Crustacea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113, 289-328.

10. Richter, S. (1995): Aspekte der phylogenetischen Systematik der Malacostraca (Crustacea). Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 88.1, 150.

09. Götz, P.; Richter, S. (1995): Exkursion zum Rietzer See. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (N.F.) 34, 197-199.

08. Richter, S.; Meier, R. (1994): The development of phylogenetic concepts in Hennig's early theoretical publications. Systematic Biology 43, 212-221.

07. Richter, S.; Scholtz, G. (1994): Morphological evidence for a hermit crab ancestry of lithodids (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomala, Paguroidea). Zoologischer Anzeiger 233, 187-210.

06. Richter, S. (1994): Monophylie der Lophogastrida und Phylogenetisches System der Peracarida (Crustacea). Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 87.1, 231.

05. Scholtz, G.; Dohle, W.; Sandeman, R.E.; Richter, S. (1993): Expression of engrailed can be lost and regained in cells of one clone in crustacean embryos. International Journal of Developmental Biology 37, 299-304.

04. Richter, S. (1993): Die Eucarida sind nicht monophyletisch – Ommatidienstruktur deutet auf nähere Verwandtschaft von Euphausiacea, Syncarida und Peracarida (Crustacea). Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 86.1, 144.

03. Richter, S. (1993): Phoretic association between the dauerjuveniles of Rhabditis stammeri (Rhabditidae) and life history stages of the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Nematologica 39, 346-355.

02. Meier, R.; Richter, S. (1992): Suggestions for a more precise usage of proper names of taxa. Ambiguities related to the stem lineage concept. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 30, 81-88.

01. Richter, S. (1991): Zum Lebenszyklus von Rhabditis stammeri. Bemerkenswerte Bindungen eines aasbesiedelnden Nematoden an Totengräberkäfer (Nicrophorus/ Silphidae). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (N.F.) 31, 125-136.