Publications

2025

Alcázar-Treviño, J., Korneliussen, R., Escánez, A. & Aguilar de Soto, N. (2025). Evening choruses in deep waters are associated with mesopelagic diel vertical migrations. Marine Environmental Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107440 

Gleadall, I. G., Villanueva, R., Barord, G. J., Doubleday, Z., Aguado-Giménez, F., Akiyama, N., ...Escánez, A.,.... & Zoral, M. A. (2025). A balanced approach to the potential of octopus aquaculture. Marine Policy, 179, 106682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106682 

Íñiguez E., Sambolino, A., Escánez, A., Marrero, J., Reis, D., Pimentel, A., Weyn, M., Fernandez, M., Cordeiro, N., Pérez, J. A., Dinis, A., Rodríguez, C., Alves, F. (2025) Intraspecific variation in the feeding habits of short-finned pilot whales based on blubber fatty acid profiles. Marine Environmental Research 106974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.106974 

2024

Albaladejo Robles, G., Escánez, A. & Perera-Castro, A.V. (2024) Interspecific relationships in a suboptimal habitat, an unexpected ally for the survival of the threatened Tenerife speckled lizard (Gallotia intermedia). European Journal of Wildlife Research 70, 123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01870-8 

Gueroun, S.K.M., Moura, C.J., Almansa, E., Escánez, A. (2024) Cassiopea andromeda (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) in the subtropical eastern Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 104, e92, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315424000882   

Escánez, A., Marrero, J., Dromby, M., Pimentel-Gozález, A., Dias, E., García-Pastor, E.M., Weyn, M., Ferreira, R., Montañes-Pérez, A., Fernández, M., Dinis, A., Alves, F. (2024). Isotope-based inferences of the trophic niche of short-finned pilot whales in the Webbnesia. Marine Environmental Research, Vol. 201, 106700.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106700 

Redaelli, L., Alcázar-Treviño, J., Escánez, A., Fernández, M., Aguilar de Soto, N., Alves, F., Hernández, D., Dinis, A. (2024). Acoustic mimicry of plastics with the prey of deep-diving cetaceans: An experimental approach. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Vol.46, Pt.1 https://doi.org/10.25144/22244 

Amanda Luna, Alejandro Escánez, Jacobo Marrero, Eva Iñiguez, José A. Pérez, Pilar Sánchez (2024). Early prey intake of a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846, Cetacea: Delphinidae) in the Canary Islands. Ecology & Evolution, 14(2). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11139 

Alejandro Escánez & Cristina Camacho-Puerta (2024). Northernmost record of the Cape Verde blenny Parablennius salensis Bath,1990 (Teleostei, Blenniiformes, Blennidae). Spixiana, Vol. 46 (2), 227-228. https://pfeil-verlag.de/publikationen/spixiana-zeitschrift-fuer-zoologie-band-46/  

2023

Diego Deville, Souta Mori, Kentaro Kawai, Alejandro Escánez, Armando Macali, Fedor Lishchenko, Heather Braid, Jean Githaiga-Mwicigi, Kolliyil S. Mohamed, Kathrin S. R. Bolstad, Kazutaka Miyahara, Chikatoshi Sugimoto, Fernando Á. Fernández-Álvarez & Gustavo Sanchez (2023). Cryptic biodiversity in the commercial diamondback squid Thysanoteuthis rhombus Troschel 1857. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-023-09813-3

ICES (2023): Working Group on Cephalopod Fisheries and Life History (WGCEPH; Outputs from 2022 meeting). ICES Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.21976718.v1 (Technical report).   

2022

Alejandro Escánez, David Lugo, David Hernández-Teixidor (2022). New record of Opisthoteuthis massyae (Grimpe, 1920) from Canary Islands, Spain. Spixiana, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pp: 13-16. https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SPX_45-1_05_ES.pdf 

Alejandro Escánez, Ángel Guerra, Rodrigo Riera, Aeljandro Ariza, Ángel F. González & Natacha Aguilar de Soto (2022). New contribution to the knowledge of the mesopelagic cephalopod community off the western Canary Islands slope. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 102572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2022.102572    

2021

Alejandro Escánez, Enrique Lozano-Bilbao, Soraya Paz, et al. (2021) Assessments of metallic contents in rare cephalopods from the Canary Islands: relationships with depth habitat and body size. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, 54161-54169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15916-w 

2020

Roger Villanueva, Vladimir Laptikhovsky, Stuart Piertney, Fernándo A. Fernández-Álvarez, Martin A. Collins, Jonathan D. Ablett, Alejandro Escánez. (2020) Extended Pelagic Life in a Bathybenthic Octopus. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.561125 

Alejandro Escánez, Ángel Guerra, Rodrigo Riera, Francisco J. Rocha. (2020) Revised species records reveal the Canary Islands as a cephalopod biodiversity hotspot. Regional Studies in Marine Science 41, 101541  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2020.101541 

2019

Tiago de Moraes, Alejandro Escánez, Ricardo Tur, Araceli Delgado, Carmen Évora, Eduardo Almansa (2019) First attempts of the use of intake tracers in encapsulated diets with chitosan for octopus paralarvae. Aquaculture Research. pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/are.14234 

Sergio Moreno, Alejandro Escánez, Alberto Brito (2019) First occurrence of the blackspot conger, Paraconger macrops (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Congridae), in the waters of the Canary Islands: Acomparative study of eastern Atlantic Paraconger species. Acta ichthyologica et piscatoria. 49 - 1, pp. 89-93. DOI:10.3750/AIEP/02518

2018

Alejandro Escánez, Álvaro Roura, Rodrigo Riera, Ángel F. González; Ángel Guerra (2018) New Data on the Systematics of Comb-fin Squids Chtenopteryx spp. (Cephalopoda: Chtenopterygidae) from the Canary Islands. Zoological Studies. 57 - 40, pp. 1 -11. http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/57/57-40.html 

Alejandro Escánez, Sergio Rodríguez, Rodrigo Riera, Francisco Rocha, Alberto Brito. (2018) Octopods of the Canary Islands. New records and biogeographic relationships (2018) Molluscan Research. 39-1, pp. 1 - 12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2018.1527970

Alejandro Escánez, Ángel Guerra, Francisco Rocha, Fernando Lozano-Soldevilla (2018) New records of the scaled squid, Lepidoteuthis grimaldii Joubin, 1895 in the Canary Islands, Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Spixiana. 40-1, pp. 7-12. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Spixiana_040_0007-0012.pdf

Enrique Lozano-Soldevilla, Ángel J. Gutiérrez, Arturo Hardisson, Carmen Rubio, Dailos González, Natacha Aguilar, Alejandro Escánez, José M. Espinosa, Paula Canales, Gonzalo Lozano (2018) Influence of the submarine volcanic eruption off El Hierro (Canary Islands) on the mesopelagic cephalopod's metal content. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 129-2, pp. 474-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.017 

Alejandro Escánez, Sergio Moreno, Felipe Ravina, Sandra Raredon (2018) First Case of morphological abnormality in common angel aharks Squatina squatina (Chondrichthyes: Squatinidae), from the Canary Islands. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 19 - 3, pp. 267 - 270. http://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v19_3_10 

Maria A. Peña, Roger Villanueva, Alejandro Escánez, Alejandro Vicente (2018) Opportunistic acoustic recordings of (potential) orangeback flying squid Sthenoteuthis pteropus in the Central Eastern Atlantic. Journal of Marine Systems. 179, pp. 31 - 37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2017.11.003 

2017 

Alejandro Escánez, Catalina Perales-Raya (2017) First record of an adult Taningia danae (Cephalopoda: Octopoteuthidae) in the Canary Islands (central-east Atlantic). Arquipelago. Life and Marine Sciences. 34, pp. 55 - 59. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/4473 

Alberto Brito, Sergio Moreno, Alejandro Escánez, José María Falcón, Rogelio Herrera (2017) New records of Actinopterygian fishes from the Canary Islands: tropicalization as the most important driving force increasing fish diversity. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias. 29, pp. 31 - 44.

Alejandro Escánez, Jesús Rubio, Rodrigo Riera, Eduardo Almansa (2017) Assessment of Various Anesthetic Agents on Octopus vulgaris Paralarvae. Journal of the world aquaculture society. pp. 1 - 7. https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.12444 

2016 

Alejandro Ariza, José M. Landeira, Alejandro Escánez, Rupert Wienerroither, Natacha Aguilar, Anders Rostad, Stein Kaartvedt, Santiago Hernández-León (2016) Vertical distribution, composition and migratory patterns of acoustic scattering layers in the Canary Islands. Journal of Marine Systems. 157, pp. 82 - 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.01.004 

Alejandro Escánez, Ana Crespo, Sara Rodríguez, Marina Oñate, Jacobo Marrero (2016) Estudio del primer área de cría del Angelote (Squatina squatina) descubierta en Canarias. Chronica naturae, 6, pp. 50-62. http://www.hombreyterritorio.org/chronica_naturae/num6/archivos/chronicanaturae6_50_2016.pdf 

2015

Tsiamis, K., Aydogan, Ö., Bailly, N., Balistreri, P., Bariche, M., Carden-Noad, S., ...A. Escánez,...  & Yapici, S. (2015). New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2015). Mediterranean Marine Science, 16(2), 472-488. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1440 

M. Carmen Mingorance, Fernando Lozano, J. Maria Espinosa, Alejandro Escánez, Natacha Aguilar (2015) First record of the oceanic hyperiid Platyscelus armatus (Amphipoda: Platyscelidae) in the Canary Islands (subtropical north-eastern Atlantic). Marine Biodiversity Records. 7 - 62. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755267214000694 

2014

Marta Tobeña, Alejandro Escánez, Yasmina Rodríguez, Cataisa López, Fabian Ritter, Natacha Aguilar (2014) Inter-Islands movements of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus Montagu,1821) among the Canary Islands: Online catalogues and implications for conservation and management. African Journal of Marine Science. 36 - 1, pp. 137 - 141. https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2013.873738 

2013

Marta Tobeña, Alejandro Escánez (2013) Registro de una agregación de Pyrosoma atlanticum Perón 1804, (Thaliacea, Tunicata) en aguas de la isla de El Hierro.Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias. 25 - 1, pp. 35 - 43. 

2012

Alejandro Escánez, Rodrigo Riera, Ángel F. González, Ángel Guerra (2012) On the occurrence of egg masses of the diamond-shaped squid Thysanoteuthis rhombus Troschel, 1857 in the subtropical eastern Atlantic (Canary Islands). A pontential commercial species?. Zookeys. 222 - 222, pp. 69 - 76. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.222.2835 

Alejandro Escánez, Rodrigo Riera, Lorenzo Márquez, Alí Skalli, Beatriz Felipe, Irma García-Herrero, Diana Reis, Covadonga Rodríguez, Eduardo Almansa (2012) A general survey of the feasibility of culturing the mysid Gastrosaccus roscoffensis (Peracarida, Mysida): Growth, survival, predatory skills, and lipid composition.Ciencias Marinas. 38 - 3, pp. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v38i3.1989 

2011

Alberto Brito, Alejandro Escánez. First record of the midwater scorpionfish Ectreposebastes imus (Scorpaeniformes: Setarchidae) in the subtropical eastern Atlantic (Canary Islands).Marine Biodiversity Records. 4 - 78, pp. 1 - 3. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000704