Miquel Pontes
(picture by Albert Ollé i Callau)
Professionally a computer systems engineer, he’s also an underwater photographer and amateur naturalist. Diver since 1994, he has logged hundreds of dives in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Red seas, and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
He has participated and participates in all kinds of divulgative projects (books, magazines, websites, conferences, exhibitions …) as a way to spread his main interest: to protect the seas and their creatures.
- 1996-Founder of M@re Nostrum Studies Group
- 2010-Founding partner of Group for Research on Opisthobranchs in Catalonia
- 2012-Founding partner of VIMAR (Marine Life)
He discovered the amazing world of opisthobranchs in 1997 introduced by his diving buddies and since then it has been a continuous line of work, providing underwater pictures, observations in the environment, and IT support for the divulgation of these contents. He contributes with underwater pictures and he is the webmaster of this web site.
Research Papers
Ballesteros, M., E. Madrenas, and M. Pontes. 2016. First record of the gastropod Philinopsis wildpretii (Ortea, Bacallado and Moro, 2003) (Cephalaspidea, Aglajidae) in the Iberian Peninsula. Marine Biodiversity · September 2016.
Ballesteros, M., M. Pontes, and E. Madrenas. 2019. Els nudibranquis del mar català. Brau Edicions, Figueres.
Ballesteros, M., M. Pontes, and E. Madrenas. 2015. Opisthobranch from Medes Islands (Marine Protected Area, Costa Brava, Catalonia, NE Spain): 40 years of study.
Ballesteros, M., E. Madrenas, and M. Pontes. 2016. Actualización del catálogo de los moluscos opistobranquios (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) de las costas catalanas. Spira. 6: 1–28.
Ballesteros, M., E. Madrenas, and M. Pontes. 2023. OPK - Opistobranquis. (https://opistobranquis.info/).
Camps, J., M. Ballesteros, R. Trobajo, M. Pontes, and P. Prado. 2020. Not all nudibranchs are carnivorous: trophic ecology of Polycerella emertoni in the Ebro Delta. Marine Ecology Progress Series 645: 67-82.
Camps, J., M. Ballesteros, R. Trobajo, M. Pontes, and P. Prado. 2021. Are all nudibranchs carnivorous? Feeding behaviour of the cryptic nudibranch Polycerella emertoni associated with the pseudo-indigenous bryozoan Amathia verticillata.
Crocetta, F., and M. Pontes. 2017. Bursatella leachii in Cyprus [in] Lipej et al. (2017) New Mediterranean Biodiversity records (March 2017). Medit. Mar. Sci., 18/1, 2017, 198.
Dacosta, J. M., M. Pontes, A. Ollé i Callau, and L. Aguilar. 2009. Seguiment de mol·luscs opistobranquis a la platja des Caials (Cadaqués, Alt Empordà). Contribució al catàleg del Parc Natural de Cap de Creus. Annals de l’Institut d’Estudis Empordanesos. 40: 107–130.
Furfaro, G., C. Schreier, E. Trainito, M. Pontes, E. Madrenas, P. Girard, and P. Mariottini. 2022. The Sea Slug Doriopsilla areolata Bergh, 1880 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Mediterranean Sea: Another Case of Cryptic Diversity. Diversity. 14: 1–17.
Korshunova, T., B. Picton, G. Furfaro, P. Mariottini, M. Pontes, J. Prkić, K. Fletcher, K. Malmberg, K. Lundin, and A. Martynov. 2019. Multilevel fine-scale diversity challenges the ‘cryptic species’ concept. Scientific Reports. 9: 6732.
Lipej, L., L. Acevedo, E. H. Kh. Akel, A. Anastosopoulou, A. Angelidis, E. Azzurro, L. Castriota, M. Celik, L. Cilenti, F. Crocetta, A. Deidun, A. Dogrammatzi, M. Falautano, F. A. Fernández-Álvarez, R. Gennaio, G. Insacco, S. Katsanevakis, J. Langeneck, B. M. Lombardo, G. Mancinelli, CH. Mytilenou, L. Papa, V. Pitacco, M. Pontes, D. Poursanidis, E. Prato, S. I. Rizkalla, P. C. Rodríguez Flores, C. Stamouli, J. Tempesti, F. Tiralongo, S. Tirnetta, K. Tsirintanis, C. Turan, D. Yaglioglu, G. Zaminos, and B. Zava. 2017. New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (March 2017). Medit. Mar. Sci., 18/1, 2017, 179-201.
Orfanidis, S., A. Alvito, E. Azzurro, A. Badreddine, J. Ben Souissi, M. Chamorro, F. Crocetta, C. Dalyan, A. Fortic, L. Galanti, K. Geyran, R. Ghanem, A. Goruppi, D. Grech, S. Katsanevakis, E. Madrenas, F. Mastrototaro, F. Montesanto, M. Pavicic, D. Pica, L. Pola, M. Pontes, M. Ragkousis, A. Rosso, L. Sánchez Tocino, J. M. Tierno de Figueroa, F. Tiralongo, V. Tirelli, S. Tsioli, S. Tunçer, D. Vrdoljak, V. Vuletin, J. Zaouali, and A. Zenetos. 2021. New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (March 2021). Mediterranean Marine Science. 22: 180–198.
Parera, A., M. Pontes, X. Salvador, and M. Ballesteros. 2020. Sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia): the other inhabitants of the city of Barcelona (Spain). Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, 84: 75-100.
Pontes, M., and M. Ballesteros. 2012. VIMAR - Vida Marina. (https://vidamarina.info).
Pontes, M., and E. Madrenas. 2021. First records of the NE Atlantic nudibranch Okenia picoensis Paz-Sedano, Ortigosa & Pola, 2017 (Gastropoda, Goniodorididae) in the Mediterranean Sea [in] Orfanidis et al. (2021) New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (March 2021). Mediterranean Marine Science. 22: 186–187.
Pontes, M., X. Salvador, A. Parera, G. Álvarez, and M. Ballesteros. 2021. Biodiversity in anthropized marinas. The case of the Barcelona Forum bathing area (Spain), Monografies de la Societat Catalana d’Història Natural. Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, Barcelona.
Pontes, M., J. M. Dacosta, A. Ollé i Callau, and L. Aguilar. 2023. M@re Nostrum. (http://marenostrum.org/).
Ragkousis, M., N. Abdelali, E. Azzurro, A. Badreddine, M. Bariche, G. Bitar, F. Crocetta, F. Denitto, M. Digenis, R. El Zrelli, A. Ergenler, A. Fortic, V. Gerovasileiou, S. Grimes, S. Katsanevakis, C. Koçak, C. Licchelli, E. Loudaros, F. Mastrototaro, B. Mavric, S. Mavruk, A. Miliou, F. Montesanto, P. Ovalis, M. Pontes, L. Rabaoui, N. Sevingel, A. Spinelli, F. Tiralongo, A. Tsatiris, C. Turan, D. Vitale, F. Yalhin, S. Yapici, and A. Zenetos. 2020. New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October 2020). Mediterranean Marine Science, 21(3), 631-652.
Sánchez-Tocino, L., F. Hidalgo-Puertas, and M. Pontes. 2007. Primera cita de Fistularia commersonii Ruppell, 1838 (Osteichtyes: Fistulariidae) en aguas mediterráneas de la Península Ibérica. Zool. baetica, 18:79-84.
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