Maria Celia D. Malay, Ph.D. – Associate Professor

Contact:
mdmalay@msi.upd.edu.ph

Education:
Ph.D. Zoology, University of Florida

Research Interests:
Marine invertebrate biology, ecology, systematics, & evolution; phylogeography; phylogenetics; speciation; collections-based research; resource management and conservation.

Selected Publications:
*graduate mentee

• Cabebe-Barnuevo, RA, DFA Penuela*, H Motomura, RP Babaran, EAA Obar, and MCD Malay. 2023. Two new records of moray eels under genera Gymnothorax and Strophidon (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from the Philippines. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 53:217–226. https://doi.org/10.3897/aiep.53.108838
• Felix Jr., LR*, MACL Malingin*, KS Ebreo*, WL Campos, and MCD Malay. 2023. A new record of the hermit crab Dardanus callichela Cook, 1989 (Paguroidea: Calcinidae) from the Visayan Sea, Philippines. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 103, e1, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315422001059
• Cabebe-Barnuevo, RA, ES Delloro, DFA Penuela*, MCD Malay, H Motomura, and RP Babaran. 2022. New record of anthiadine fish, Plectranthias yamakawai (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Philippines. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 52(4): 299–307. https://doi.org/10.3897/aiep.52.96112
• Komai, T, AK Miller, and MCD Malay. 2022. A new species of the diogenid hermit crab genus Pseudopaguristes McLaughlin, 2002 from the Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia. Zootaxa, 5175 (5): 570-582. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.6
• Malay, MCD, KCS Ebreo*, LR Felix*, JN Domingo*, and JT Gerona*. 2022. Anchialine pool shrimps from Guimaras, Philippines: A re-assessment after four decades and discovery of a second epigeal pool. Journal of Crustacean Biology 42(1): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruab077
• Malay, MCD, AK Miller, and T Komai. 2021. Hermit crabs of the Northern Marianas, including new records and an updated checklist. Micronesica 2021-01: 1-29. https://micronesica.org/sites/default/files/malayetal2021chsm.pdf
• Malay, MCD and DML Rañises*. 2019. Observations on the habitat, color polymorphism, and sexual system of the semi-terrestrial shrimp Merguia oligodon (De Man, 1888) (Decapoda: Caridea: Merguiidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 39: 764-769. https://doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruz065     
• Malay, MCD, DL Rahayu, and TY Chan. 2018. Hermit crabs of the genera Calcinus Dana, Clibanarius Dana, and Dardanus Paul’son, from the PANGLAO 2004 Philippine expedition, with description of a new species and a checklist of the hermit crabs of the Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66: 23-65. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4503028
• Baarli, BG, MCD Malay, A Santos, CM da Silva, J Meco, ME Johnson, M Cachão, and EJ Mayoral. 2017. Miocene to Pleistocene transatlantic dispersal of Ceratoconcha coral-dwelling barnacles and North Atlantic island biogeography. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 468: 520-528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.046 
• Malay, MCD and F Michonneau. 2014. Phylogenetics and morphological evolution of coral dwelling barnacles (Pyrgomatidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 162-179. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12315
• Bowen, BW, K Shanker, N Yasuda, MCD Malay, S von der Heyden, G Paulay, LA Rocha, KA Selkoe, PH Barber, ST Williams, HA Lessios, ED Crandall, G Bernardi, CP Meyer, KE Carpenter, RJ Toonen. 2014. Phylogeography Unplugged: Comparative geographic surveys in the genomic era. Bulletin of Marine Science 90: 13-46. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2013.1007
• Malay, MCD and G Paulay. 2010. Peripatric speciation drives diversification and distributional patterns of reef hermit crabs (Decapoda: Diogenidae: Calcinus). Evolution 64: 634-662. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00848.x