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Henrik Enghoff is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, each encompassing 40 publications. Environmental Science is also a significant area of study with 24 publications attributed to their work.

The principal subfields of Enghoff's research include Paleontology, Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change. Within these domains, their work particularly addresses topics such as subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, spider taxonomy and behavior studies, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, Orthoptera research and taxonomy, amphibian and reptile biology, genetic diversity and population structure, and slime mold and myxomycetes research.

Enghoff has contributed to numerous scholarly articles published in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • European Journal of Taxonomy
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Zootaxa
  • ZooKeys
  • Invertebrate Systematics

Their recent papers cover diverse topics within invertebrate systematics and zoology, including:

  • Integrative taxonomy of the new millipede genus Coxobolellus, gen. nov. (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pseudospirobolellidae), with descriptions of ten new species (2020), published in Invertebrate Systematics
  • The first Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota, Laboulbeniomycetes) from an American millipede, discovered through social media (2020), published in MycoKeys
  • Atlas of European millipedes 3: Order Chordeumatida (Class Diplopoda) (2021), published in European Journal of Taxonomy
  • Complete mitochondrial genomes from museum specimens clarify millipede evolution in the Eastern Arc Mountains (2022), published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Temporal and spatial dynamics of arthropod groups in terrestrial subsurface habitats in central Portugal (2021), published in Zoology

Henrik Enghoff frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Piyatida Pimvichai
  • Thierry Backeljau
  • Аnа Sofiа P. S. Reboleirа
  • Somsak Panha
  • Ruttapon Srisonchai

In addition to articles, Enghoff has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Princeton University Press titled The New Natural History of Madagascar (2022).

Best Publications

  • Patterns of animal dispersal, vicariance and diversification in the Holarctic

    Isabel Sanmartín;Henrik Enghoff;Fredrik Ronquist

  • Anamorphosis in millipedes (Diplopoda)—the present state of knowledge with some developmental and phylogenetic considerations

    Henrik Enghoff;Wolfgang Dohle;J. Gordon Blower

  • New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy

    Benoît Fontaine;Kees van Achterberg;Miguel Angel Alonso-Zarazaga;Rafael Araujo

  • Ranking protected areas in the Azores using standardised sampling of soil epigean arthropods

    Paulo A. V. Borges;Carlos Aguiar;João Amaral;Isabel R. Amorim

  • Diplopoda — taxonomic overview

    Henrik Enghoff;Sergei Golovatch;Megan Short;Pavel Stoev

  • Phylogeny of millipedes ― a cladistic analysis

    H. Enghoff

  • Historical biogeography of the holarctic: Area relationships, ancestral areas, and dispersal of non-marine animals

    Henrik Enghoff

  • A New Dimension in Documenting New Species: High-Detail Imaging for Myriapod Taxonomy and First 3D Cybertype of a New Millipede Species (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae).

    Nesrine Akkari;Henrik Enghoff;Brian D. Metscher

  • Phylogenetic biogeography of a Holarctic group: the julidan millipedes. Cladistic subordinateness as an indicator of dispersal

    Henrik Enghoff

  • The millipede family Nemasomatidae. With the description of a new genus, and a revision of Orinisobates (Diplopoda: Julida)

    Henrik Enghoff

  • Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three genera of 'fire millipedes' (Diplopoda)

    Thomas Wesener;Henrik Enghoff;Petra Sierwald

  • Catalogue of the type material in the entomological collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark: basal hexapods.

    Rita Eusébio;Alberto Sendra;Henrik Enghoff;Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira

  • A new East African genus of spirostreptid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae), with notes on their fungal ectoparasite Rickia gigas .

    Henrik Enghoff

  • A mountain of millipedes I: An endemic species-group of the genus Chaleponcus Attems, 1914, from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae)

    Henrik Enghoff

  • Three new species of Dolichoiulus millipedes from the underground of Gran Canaria, with notes on the circumscription of the genus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)

    Henrik Enghoff

  • A mountain of millipedes VII: The genus Eviulisoma Silvestri, 1910, in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, and related species from other Eastern Arc Mountains. With notes on Eoseviulisoma Brolemann, 1920, and Suohelisoma Hoffman, 1963 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

    Henrik Enghoff

  • Four colorful new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, from northern Thailand (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

    Ruttapon Srisonchai;Henrik Enghoff;Natdanai Likhitrakarn;Somsak Panha

  • A mountain of millipedes VIII. The genus Aquattuor Frederiksen, 2013 revisited – a new species from the Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania, another from the Nguru Mts and introduction of the first pair of male legs as a source of taxonomic characters (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae)

    Henrik Enghoff

  • A new genus and species of Haplobainosomatidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) from the MSS of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, central Spain.

    José D. Gilgado;Enrique Ledesma;Henrik Enghoff;Jean-Paul Mauriès

  • A revision of dragon millipedes III: the new genus Gigaxytes gen. nov., with the description of three new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

    Ruttapon Srisonchai;Henrik Enghoff;Natdanai Likhitrakarn;Somsak Panha

Frequent Co-Authors

Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
Joaquín Hortal
Joaquín Hortal Spanish National Research Council
Kostas A. Triantis
Kostas A. Triantis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
Thierry Backeljau
Thierry Backeljau Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Colin Fontaine
Colin Fontaine French National Centre for Scientific Research
Maria Balsamo
Maria Balsamo University of Urbino
Louis Deharveng
Louis Deharveng French National Museum of Natural History
Hendrik Segers
Hendrik Segers Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum

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