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Leigh Winsor
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
815 Points

Contributions by role

Author 675
Reviewer 140

Contributions by subject area

Agricultural Science
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Taxonomy
Zoology
Environmental Sciences
Soil Science
Biogeography
Histology
Animal Behavior
Ecology
Genetics
Molecular Biology

Leigh Winsor

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

A national and international authority on the identification and classification of terrestrial and marine flatworms. Current research Interests include the taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of terrestrial flatworms of the Australian zoogeographic region, identification of invasive species of terrestrial flatworms world-wide, functional anatomy of the copulatory organs of terrestrial flatworms, free-living marine and freshwater flatworms, and support of citizen science initiatives.

Histology Taxonomy Zoology

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

James Cook University of North Queensland

Work details

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

James Cook University
College of Marine and Environmental Biology

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 5
  • Reviewed 4
February 1, 2022
Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipaliinae): mitochondrial genomes and description of two new species from France, Italy, and Mayotte
Jean-Lou Justine, Romain Gastineau, Pierre Gros, Delphine Gey, Enrico Ruzzier, Laurent Charles, Leigh Winsor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12725 PubMed 35178290
February 6, 2020
Obama chez moi! The invasion of metropolitan France by the land planarian Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae)
Jean-Lou Justine, Leigh Winsor, Delphine Gey, Pierre Gros, Jessica Thévenot
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8385 PubMed 32071801
May 22, 2018
Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories
Jean-Lou Justine, Leigh Winsor, Delphine Gey, Pierre Gros, Jessica Thévenot
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4672 PubMed 29844951
June 23, 2015
The invasive land planarian Platydemus manokwari (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae): records from six new localities, including the first in the USA
Jean-Lou Justine, Leigh Winsor, Patrick Barrière, Crispus Fanai, Delphine Gey, Andrew Wee Kien Han, Giomara La Quay-Velázquez, Benjamin Paul Yi-Hann Lee, Jean-Marc Lefevre, Jean-Yves Meyer, David Philippart, David G. Robinson, Jessica Thévenot, Francis Tsatsia
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1037 PubMed 26131377
March 4, 2014
The invasive New Guinea flatworm Platydemus manokwari in France, the first record for Europe: time for action is now
Jean-Lou Justine, Leigh Winsor, Delphine Gey, Pierre Gros, Jessica Thévenot
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.297 PubMed 24688873

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October 2, 2020
A new species of alien terrestrial planarian in Spain: Caenoplana decolorata
Eduardo Mateos, Hugh D. Jones, Marta Riutort, Marta Álvarez-Presas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10013 PubMed 33062435
December 4, 2018
Coming out in a harsh environment: a new genus and species for a land flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) occurring in a ferruginous cave from the Brazilian savanna
Ana M. Leal-Zanchet, Alessandro Damasceno Marques
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6007 PubMed 30533305
October 6, 2015
A taste for exotic food: Neotropical land planarians feeding on an invasive flatworm
Piter K. Boll, Ilana Rossi, Silvana V. Amaral, Ana Leal-Zanchet
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1307 PubMed 26500817
June 10, 2014
Diversity of introduced terrestrial flatworms in the Iberian Peninsula: a cautionary tale
Marta Álvarez-Presas, Eduardo Mateos, Àngels Tudó, Hugh Jones, Marta Riutort
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.430 PubMed 24949245