Wilfred John E. Santiañez, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Collections Manager, G.T. Velasquez Phycological Herbarium (MSI)

Contact:
wjsantianez@msi.upd.edu.ph

Education:
PhD in Natural History Sciences (Biodiversity), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Research Interests:
Seaweed biology (biodiversity, systematics, molecular phylogeny), biogeography, ecology, and mariculture

Marine Phycology Laboratory

Selected Publications:

• Santiañez, W.J.E. (2024). White rot disease occurs on wild individuals of the economically important red seaweed Halymenia durvillei (Rhodophyta). Diversity, 16(11), 652. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16110652
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & Wynne, M.J. (30 April 2024). Overview of the systematics of the brown algal family Scytosiphonaceae (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae). Jeju Journal of Island Sciences, 1(1), 20-33. https://doi.org/10.23264/JJIS.2024.1.1.020
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & Lastimoso, J.M.L. (2024). Status of seaweed resources. In Arceo, H.O., Velos, M.J.P., Nuñez, M.A.C. and Aliño, P.M. (eds.). The West Philippine Sea: State of the Coasts (pp. 55-64). University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
• Santiañez, W.J.E., Lastimoso, J.M.L., Hoshino, M., Villafuerte, B.N.Q., Kogame, K., & Trono Jr, G.C. (18 October 2023). Molecular-assisted taxonomic study on the Sargassum C. Agardh (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) in northwestern Luzon, Philippines. Cryptogamie, Algologie, 44(7), 127-142. https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2023v44a7
• Santiañez, W.J. (17 April 2023). Notes on the tribes of the brown algal family Scytosiphonaceae (Phaeophyceae). Notulae Algarum, 280, 1-4. https://www.notulaealgarum.com/2023/documents/Notulae%20Algarum%20No.%20280.pdf
• Santiañez, W.J. (2023). Ulva vietnamensis L.-A.T.Tran, Leliaert & De Clerck is a heterotypic synonym of Ulva tentaculosa Lagourgue & Payri (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta). Notulae Algarum, 276, 1-3. https://www.notulaealgarum.com/2023/documents/Notulae%20Algarum%20No.%20276.pdf?fbclid=IwAR290rityz1nCMfd5qm9Y73PXu_hGRqb8QqhtVTrDJlUE_K6daFma370CIU
• Ganzon-Fortes, E.T., & Santiañez, W.J.E. (2022). The Gregorio T. Velasquez phycological herbarium (MSI): A legacy and national heritage. Philippine Journal of Science, 151(S1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.56899/151.S1.01
• Santiañez, W.J.E., Guerta, C.A.T., & Lastimoso, J.M.L. (27 October 2022) Marine Macroalgal Reference Culture Collection at the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP-MMARCC): Status and prospects for advancing Philippine phycology. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, 2508, 0342. https://doi.org/10.26757/pjsb2022a16004
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & Kogame, K. (18 June 2022). Manzaea minuta gen. & comb. nov. (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae) from the tropical Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, 16(1), 1-7. https://asbp.org.ph/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/PJSB_2022_16-001.pdf.
• Sasagawa, E., Santiañez, W.J.E., & Kogame, K. (October 2022). Asterocladon ednae sp. nov. (Asterocladales, Phaeophyceae) from the Philippines. Phycological Research, 70(4), 185-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/pre.12490
• Lastimoso, J.M.L., & Santiañez, W.J.E. (11 January 2021). Updated checklist of the benthic marine macroalgae of the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 150(S1), 29-92. https://doi.org/10.56899/150.S1.04
• Poza, A.M., Santiañez, W.J.E., Croce, M.E., Gauna, M.C., Kogame, K., & Parodi, E.R. (October 2020). Cryptic haploid stages in the life cycle of Leathesia marina (chordariaceae, phaeophyceae) under in vitro culture. Journal of Phycology, 56(5), 1349-1361. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13034
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & Wynne, M.J. (May 28, 2020). Proposal of Phycocalidia Santiañez & MJ Wynne nom. nov. to replace Calidia L.-E. Yang & J. Brodie nom. illeg. (Bangiales, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum, 140, 1-3. https://www.notulaealgarum.com/2020/documents/Notulae%20algarum%20No.%20140.pdf
• Santiañez, W.J.E. (15 October 2020). Notes on the taxonomy of the Philippine endemic Porphyra marcosii Cordero (Bangiaceae, Rhodophyta). Notulae Algarum, 163, 1-4. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344675538_Notes_on_the_taxonomy_of_the_Philippine_endemic_Porphyra_marcosii_Cordero_Bangiaceae_Rhodophyta
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & Wynne, M.J. (2020 April 16). Establishment of Mimica gen. nov. to accommodate the anaxiferous species of the economically important red seaweed Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta). Phytotaxa, 439(2), 167-170. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.439.2.8
• Santiañez, W.J.E., Al-Bader, D., West, J.A., Bolton, J.J., & Kogame, K. (October 2020). Status, morphology, and phylogenetic relationships of Iyengaria (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae), a brown algal genus with a disjunct distribution in the Indian Ocean. Phycological Research, 68(4), 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1111/pre.12438
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & Kogame, K. (2019 April 24). Proposals to recognize Petalonia tenella comb. nov. and to resurrect Hapterophycus canaliculatus (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae). Botanica Marina, 62(2), 149-153. https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2018-0077
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & West, J.A. (19 July 2019). New records of Rosenvingea (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae) from the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, 13(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.26757/pjsb2019a13001
• Santiañez, W.J.E., & Wynne, M.J. (January 2019). Evidence for the treatment of Talarodictyon tilesii as an older taxonomic synonym of Hydroclathrus stephanosorus (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae). Phycological Research, 67(1), 82-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/pre.12348
• Santiañez, W.J.E., E. Macaya, K.M. Lee, G.Y. Cho, S.M. Boo and K. Kogame. 2018. Taxonomic reassessment of the Indo-Pacific Scytosiphonaceae (Phaeophyceae): Hydroclathrus rapanuii sp. nov. and Chnoospora minima from Easter Island, with proposal of Dactylosiphon gen. nov. and Pseudochnoospora gen. nov. Botanica Marina 61: 47–64.
• Santianez, W.J.E., K.M. Lee, S. Uwai, A. Kurihara, P.J.L. Geraldino, E.T. Ganzon-Fortes, S.M. Boo and K. Kogame. 2018. Untangling nets: Elucidating the diversity and phylogeny of the clathrate brown algal genus Hydroclathrus, with the description of a new genus Tronoella (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae). Phycologia 57: 61–78.
• Santiañez, W.J.E. and K. Kogame. 2017. Transfer of Petalonia filiformis (Batters) Kuntze to the genus Planosiphon McDevit & G.W.Saunders (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae). Notulae Algarum 40: 1–3.
• Santiañez, W.J.E., H.J. Suan-Flandez and G.C. Trono, Jr. 2016. White rot disease and epiphytism on Halymenia durvillei Bory de Saint-Vincent (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) in culture. Science Diliman 28: 54–60.
• Santiañez, W.J.E., R.S. Sariego and G.C. Trono, Jr. 2015. The seaweed flora of the Balabac Marine Biodiversity Conservation Corridor (BMBCC), Southern Palawan, Western Philippines. Plant Ecology and Evolution 148: 267–282.
• Yaegashi, K., Y. Yamagishi, S. Uwai, T. Abe, W.J.E. Santiañez and K. Kogame. 2015. Two species of the genus Acinetospora (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae) from Japan: A. filamentosa comb. nov. and A. asiatica sp. nov. Botanica Marina 58: 331–343.
• Marquez, G.P.B., W.J.E. Santiañez, G. C. Trono, Jr., M.N.E. Montaño, H. Araki, H. Takeuchi and T. Hasegawa. 2014. Seaweed biomass of the Philippines: Sustainable feedstock for biogas production. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 38: 1056–1068.
• Santiañez, W.J.E. and G. C. Trono, Jr. 2013. Taxonomy of the genus Sargassum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) in Alabat Island, Quezon, Northeastern Philippines. Science Diliman 25: 29–50.