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D-Index
25
Citations
2873
World Ranking
2943
National Ranking
228

Rony Huys publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rony Huys sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 155 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Rony Huys D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rony Huys sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 25 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rony Huys is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their research work spans primarily across Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several related subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Biomaterials.

Their main research topics include Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine and fisheries research, and Diatoms and Algae Research.

The scientist has published extensively, with a notable presence in the journal Zootaxa where they have contributed to 11 publications. Other frequent publication venues include Trends in Parasitology, Scientific Reports, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, and the Journal of Crustacean Biology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Parasites, pathogens, and other symbionts of copepods" (2021, Trends in Parasitology)
  • "Diversity, habitat endemicity and trophic ecology of the fauna of Loki's Castle vent field on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge" (2024, Scientific Reports)
  • "Johnwellsia, a new intertidal genus of Parastenheliidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Taiwan Strait, China, including a review of the family and key to genera" (2021, Zootaxa)
  • "New records of Pseudotachidiidae from South Korea, including a key to species of the Pseudomesochrinae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida)" (2021, Zootaxa)
  • "Discovery of a new species and host record of Holophryxus Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Dajidae) from the central Arctic: a model of enhanced descriptive standards for epicaridean isopods" (2023, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Alexandra S. Savchenko
  • Fanghong Mu
  • Serdar Sak
  • Süphan Karaytuğ
  • David Bass

The body of work by Rony Huys illustrates a significant engagement with the study of marine organisms, their ecological interactions, and taxonomy, especially focusing on copepods and parasitic relationships within marine systems.

Best Publications

  • Extraordinary host switching in siphonostomatoid copepods and the demise of the Monstrilloida: integrating molecular data, ontogeny and antennulary morphology.

    Rony Huys;Julia Llewellyn-Hughes;Sophie Conroy-Dalton;Peter D. Olson

  • Sexual dimorphism in calanoid copepods: morphology and function

    Susumu Ohtsuka;Rony Huys

  • Small subunit rDNA and Bayesian inference reveal Pectenophilus ornatus (Copepoda incertae sedis ) as highly transformed Mytilicolidae, and support assignment of Chondracanthidae and Xarifiidae to Lichomolgoidea (Cyclopoida)

    Rony Huys;Julia Llewellyn‐Hughes;Peter D. Olson;Kazuya Nagasawa

  • Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda)

    Rony Huys

  • Crustaceans from bitumen clast in Carboniferous glacial diamictite extend fossil record of copepods.

    Paul A. Selden;Paul A. Selden;Rony Huys;Michael H. Stephenson;Alan P. Heward

  • Johnwellsia, a new intertidal genus of Parastenheliidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Taiwan Strait, China, including a review of the family and key to genera.

    Rony Huys;Fanghong Mu

  • New tantulocarid, Stygotantulus stocki, parasitic on harpacticoid copepods, with an analysis of the phylogenetic relationships within the Maxillopoda.

    Geoffrey A Boxshall;Rony Huys

  • Evolution of the bomolochiform superfamily complex (Copepoda: Cyclopoida): New insights from ssrDNA and morphology, and origin of umazuracolids from polychaete-infesting ancestors rejected

    Rony Huys;Farrah Fatih;Susumu Ohtsuka;Julia Llewellyn-Hughes

  • The Tantulocaridan life cycle: the circle closed?

    Rony Huys;Geoffrey A. Boxshall;Roger J. Lincoln

  • Parasites, pathogens, and other symbionts of copepods.

    David Bass;David Bass;David Bass;Sonja Rueckert;Rowena Stern;Alison C. Cleary

  • A new species of Helmutkunzia Wells amp; Rao, 1976 from an intertidal sandy beach in Xiamen, China and proposal of Pseudobalucopsylla gen. nov. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Miraciidae).

    Fanghong Mu;Rony Huys

  • New Tantulocarid, Stygotantulus stocki, Parasitic on Harpacticoid Copepods, with an Analysis of the Phylogenetic Relationships within the Maxillopoda

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  • New records of Pseudotachidiidae from South Korea, including a key to species of the Pseudomesochrinae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida).

    Jong Guk Kim;Jimin Lee;Rony Huys

  • Description of two new species of Neotachidius Shen & Tai, 1963 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tachidiidae) from Korean brackish waters and proposal of a new genus for Tachidius (Tachidius) vicinospinalis Shen & Tai, 1964

    Rony Huys;Susumu Ohtsuka;Sophie Conroy‐Dalton;Yoshiaki Kikuchi

  • Harpacticoid copepods—their symbiotic associations and biogenic substrata: a review

    Rony Huys

  • Splanchnotrophid Systematics: A Case of Polyphyly and Taxonomic Myopia

    Rony Huys

  • Description of a new species of Nannopus Brady, 1880 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Nannopodidae) from Argentinean waters, including an updated key to species.

    Michel Sciberras;Néstor J. Cazzaniga;Rony Huys

  • Proposal of Marbefia, gen. n. and Inermiphonte, gen. n., including updated keys to the species of Pseudonychocamptus Lang, 1944 and Paralaophonte Lang, 1948 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontidae)

    Rony Huys;Wonchoel Lee

  • Taxonomy, biology and phylogeny of Miraciidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida)

    Rony Huys;Ruth Böttger-Schnack

  • Early Miocene amber inclusions from Mexico reveal antiquity of mangrove-associated copepods.

    Rony Huys;Eduardo Suárez-Morales;María de Lourdes Serrano-Sánchez;Elena Centeno-García

  • Seasonal fluctuations in vertical distribution and breeding activity of a subtidal harpacticoid community in the southern bight, North sea

    R. Huys;R.L. Herman;C. Heip

  • A redescription of the presumed associated Caligopsyllus primus Kunz, 1975 (Harpacticoida, Paramesochridae) with emphasis on its phylogenetic affinity with Apodopsyllus Kunz, 1962

    Rony Huys

  • Cancrincolidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) associated with land crabs: a semiterrestrial leaf of the ameirid tree.

    Rony Huys;Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds;Julia Llewellyn-Hughes

  • Echinoderes higginsi sp.n. (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) from the southern North Sea with a key to the genus Echinoderes Claparède

    Rony Huys;August Coomans

  • Taxonomy of Oncaeidae (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida) from the Red Sea. III. Morphology and phylogenetic position of Oncaea subtilis Giesbrecht, 1892

    Ruth Böttger-Schnack;Rony Huys

Frequent Co-Authors

Susumu Ohtsuka
Susumu Ohtsuka Hiroshima University
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen University of Copenhagen
Magda Vincx
Magda Vincx Ghent University
David Bass
David Bass Natural History Museum
John D. D. Bishop
John D. D. Bishop Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Michaela Schratzberger
Michaela Schratzberger Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Pedro Martínez Arbizu
Pedro Martínez Arbizu Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Karline Soetaert
Karline Soetaert Utrecht University
Paul A. Selden
Paul A. Selden University of Kansas
David Thistle
David Thistle Florida State University

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