Publications
Journal Articles/Book Chapters
45. Schluessel V,Leo V, Bawolt M, Kreuter N (submitted) Serial reversal learning in sharks and cichlids – there is a rule as to who follows the rule. Manuscript available.
44. Schluessel V, Biehn J, Laukens L (submitted) Not slow at all: When it comes to cognition, turtles are definitely in the fast lane. Manuscript available
43. Pardo S, Bennett MB, Meyers E, Schluessel V (submitted) A Bayesian biphasic model to improve age and growth estimates of the Ocellated Eagle Ray, Aetobatus ocellatus, a species with limited data access. Marine and Freshwater Research (Manuscript available).
42. Calvo R, Hofmann MH, Schluessel V (2023) Brain areas activated during visual learning in the cichlid fish Pseudotropheus zebra. Brain Structure and Function.
41. Brown C, Schluessel V (2023) Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition. Animal Cognition 26: 175-188.
40. Poppelier T, Bonsberger J, Berkhout BW, Pollmanns R, Schluessel V (2022) Frequency discrimination in the grey bamboo shark Chiloscyllium griseum. Scientific Reports 2:6520
39. Schluessel V, Kreuter N, Gosemann I, Schmidt E (2022) Cichlids and stingrays can add and subtract ‘one’ in the number space from one to five. Scientific Reports 12:3894
38. Kreuter N, Christophzik N, Niederbremer C, Bolle J, Schluessel V (2021) Counting on numbers – Numerical abilities in grey bamboo sharks and ocellate river stingrays. Animals 11, no. 9:2634
37. Calvo R, Schluessel V (2021) Neural substrates involved in the cognitive information processing in fish. Animal Cognition 24: 923–946
36. Schluessel V, Rick I, Seifert F, Baumeister C, Davies W (2021) Not just shades of grey – stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro) live life in colour. Journal of Experimental Biology 224 (9): jeb226142
35. Daniel M, Alvermann L, Böök I, Schluessel V (2021) Visual discrimination and resolution in freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 207: 43-58 (Editors Choice Award JCPA 2021)
34. Fuss T, John L, Schluessel V (2021) Same or different? Abstract concept learning in cichlids and sharks. Current Zoology 67: 279-292
33. Schluessel V (2020) Magnetoreception in fishes. In: The Senses - A comprehensive Reference, 2nd Edition, Elsevier
32. Daniel M and Schluessel V (2020) Serial reversal learning in freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro). Animal Cognition 23:109-119
31. Schluessel and Ober (2018) How to get out of a maze? Stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro) prefer directional to landmark information when provided with both in a spatial task. Evolutionary Ecology Research 19: 619-637
25. Schluessel V, Kortekamp N, Ortiz Cortes J, Klein A, Bleckmann H (2015) Perception and discrimination of movement and biological motion patterns in fish. Animal Cognition 18: 1077-1091
24. Schluessel V, Herzog H, Scherpenstein M (2015) Seeing the forest before the tree - spatial orientation in freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro) in a hole-board task. Behavioural Processes 119:105-115
23. Schluessel V, Düngen D (2015) Irrespective of size, scales, color or body shape all fish are just fish: object categorization in the grey bamboo shark Chiloscyllium griseum. Animal Cognition 18: 497-507
22. Fuss T and Schluessel V (2015) Something worth remembering: Visual discrimination in sharks. Animal Cognition 18: 463-471
21. Schluessel V, Giles J, Kyne PK (2015) Notes on Female Reproductive Biology and Embryos of Rhinobatos schlegeli from the Penghu Islands, Taiwan. Ichthyological Research 62:347-350
20. Schluessel V (2015) Who would have thought that ‘Jaws’ also has brains? Cognitive functions in elasmobranchs. Animal Cognition 18: 19-37
19. Schluessel V, Rick IP, Plischke K (2014) No rainbow for grey bamboo sharks: evidence for the absence of colour vision in sharks from behavioural discrimination experiments. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 200: 939-947
10. Schluessel V, Fricke G, Bleckmann H (2012) Visual discrimination and object categorization in the cichlid Pseudotropheus sp. Animal Cognition 15: 525-537
9. Schluessel V, Bleckmann H (2012) Spatial learning and memory retention in the grey bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium griseum). Zoology 115:346-353
8. Schluessel V, Bleckmann H, Northcutt RG, Hofmann MH (2010) Morphometric comparison of telencephalic areas in selected vertebrates in relation to function. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 75: 313
7. Schluessel V, Bennett MB & Collin SP (2010). Aspects of diet and reproduction in the white spotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) from Queensland, Australia and the Penghu Islands, Taiwan. Marine and Freshwater Research 61:1278-1289
6. Schluessel V, Broderick D, Collin SP & Ovenden J (2010). Evidence for extensive population structure in the white spotted eagle ray within the Indo-Pacific inferred from mitochondrial genes sequence. Journal of Zoology 281: 46-55
5. Schluessel V, Bennett MB, Bleckmann H & Collin SP (2010). The role of olfaction throughout development: functional adaptations in elasmobranchs. Journal of Morphology 271: 451-461
4. Schluessel V, Bennett MB, Bleckmann H, Blomberg S & Collin SP (2008). Morphometric and ultrastructural comparison of the olfactory system in elasmobranchs: the significance of structure-function relationships based on phylogeny and ecology. Journal of Morphology 269: 1365–1386
3. Schluessel V, Bleckmann H (2005). Spatial Memory and Orientation Strategies in the Elasmobranch Potamotrygon motoro. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191: 695-706
2. Barker MJ, Schluessel V (2005). Managing Global Shark Fisheries: Suggestions for Prioritising Management Strategies. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 15: 325-347
1. Barker MJ, Gruber SH, Newman S, Schluessel V (2005). Spatial and Ontogenetic Variation in Growth of Nursery-bound Juvenile Lemon Sharks, Negaprion brevirostris: A Comparison of Two Age-assigning Techniques’. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72 (3): 343-355
Secondary Literature