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Publications (23)      

1. Espinasa, Jordi & Luis Espinasa. 2024 Cavefish dorsoventral axis angle during wall swimming: laterality asymmetry Subterranean Biology 49: 11-19.
2. Espinasa, Luis & Aidan Pech. 2023 The Refugio Cave aquatic community is most closely related to the Pachón cave community: Astyanax cavefish Oca2 and Mysid shrimp H3 Subterranean Biology 46: 77-86.
3. Espinasa, Luis & Graeme B. Smith. 2023 “Nicoletia” tergata Mills, 1940 rediscovered in Florida and confirmed as the first species of the Coletiniinae (Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) in North America Zootaxa 5228(3): 337-350.
4. Espinasa, Luis & Kayla-Ann Lewis. 2023 Eye convergence is evoked during larval prey capture (LPC) without visual stimulus and in blind cavefish Subterranean Biology 46: 47-60.
5. Espinasa, Luis, Abrianna Gutierrez, Amata Hinkle & Matthew L. Niemiller. 2024 A new genus and species of nicoletiid silverfish (Insecta, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae) from caves of northern Alabama, USA Subterranean Biology 49: 1-17.
6. Espinasa, Luis, Alex McCahill, Amber Kavanagh, Jordi Espinasa, Alyssa M. Scott & Amy Cahill. 2015 A troglobitic amphipod in the Ice Caves of the Shawangunk Ridge: Behavior and resistance to freezing Subterranean Biology 15: 95–104.
7. Espinasa, Luis, Drake M. Smith & Julianna M. Lindquist. 2021 The Pennsylvania grotto sculpin: population genetics Subterranean Biology 38: 47-63.
8. Espinasa, Luis, Emily Collins, Anthony Finocchiaro, Joseph Kopp, Jenna Robinson & Jennifer Rutkowski. 2016 Incipient regressive evolution of the circadian rhythms of a cave amphipod Subterranean Biology 20: 1–13.
9. Espinasa, Luis, Emily Collins, C. P. O. García, Sylvie Rétaux, Nicolas Rohner & Jennifer Rutkowski. 2022 Divergent evolutionary pathways for aggression and territoriality in Astyanax cavefish Subterranean Biology 43: 169-183.
10. Espinasa, Luis, Jenna Robinson, Daphne Soares, Geoffrey Hoese, Theofilos Toulkeridis & Rickard Toomey III. 2018 Troglomorphic features of Astroblepus pholeter, a cavefish from Ecuador, and possible introgressive hybridization Subterranean Biology 27: 17-29.
11. Espinasa, Luis, Laurent Legendre, Julien Fumey, Maryline Blin, Sylvie Rétaux & Monika Espinasa. 2018 A new cave locality for Astyanax cavefish in Sierra de El Abra, Mexico Subterranean Biology 26: 39-53.
12. Espinasa, Luis, Marie Pavie & Sylvie Rétaux. 2022 Protocol for lens removal in embryonic fish and its application on the developmental effects of eye regression Subterranean Biology 45: 39-52.
13. Espinasa, Luis, Natalie Bonaroti, Jae Wong, Karen Pottin, Erik Queinnec & Sylvie Rétaux. 2017 Contrasting feeding habits of post-larval and adult Astyanax cavefish Subterranean Biology 21: 1-17.
14. Espinasa, Luis, Nicole D. Bartolo & Solomon Sloat. 2015 A new epigean species of genus Anelpistina (Insecta: Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Sierra de El Abra, Taninul, Mexico. European Journal of Taxonomy(156): 1-7.
15. Espinasa, Luis, Nicole D. Bartolo, Danielle M. Centone, Charisse S. Haruta & James R. Reddell. 2016 Revision of genus Texoreddellia Wygodzinsky, 1973 (Hexapoda, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae), a prominent element of the cave-adapted fauna of Texas Zootaxa 4126(2): 221–239.
16. Espinasa, Luis, Peter S. Sprouse, Kara Posso, Andrew Mitchell, Monika Espinasa & Jonathan Lin. 2023 Erratum: LUIS ESPINASA, PETER SPROUS, KARA POSSO, ANDREW MITCHELL, MONIKA ESPINASA & JONATHAN LIN (2023) Miocene divergence for Texoreddellia? An important component of the cave-adapted fauna of Texas and northern Mexico. Zootaxa, 5256 (3): 267–278. Zootaxa 5296(4): 600-600.
17. Espinasa, Luis, Peter S. Sprouse, Kara Posso, Andrew Mitchell, Monika Espinasa & Jonathan Lin. 2023 Miocene divergence for Texoreddellia? An important component of the cave-adapted fauna of Texas and northern Mexico Zootaxa 5256(3): 267-278.
18. Espinasa, Luis, Radha Garvey, Jordi Espinasa, Christina A. Fratto, Steven J. Taylor, Theofilos Toulkeridis & Aaron Addison. 2015 Cave dwelling Onychophora from a Lava Tube in the Galapagos Subterranean Biology 15: 1-10.
19. Espinasa, Luis, Ruth Diamant, Marylena Mesquita, Julianna M. Lindquist, Adrianna M. Powers & James Helmreich. 2022 Laterality in cavefish: Left or right foraging behavior in Astyanax mexicanus Subterranean Biology 44: 123-138.
20. Kopp, Joseph, Shristhi Avasthi & Luis Espinasa. 2018 Phylogeographical convergence between Astyanax cavefish and mysid shrimps in the Sierra de El Abra, Mexico Subterranean Biology 26: 75-84.
21. Legendre, Laurent, Luis Espinasa, Jean-Louis Lacaille-Múzquiz, Gabriel Alaniz-Garfía, Claudia P. Ornelas-García & Sylvie Rétaux. 2023 First record of a freshwater cave sponge (Porifera, unknown gen. and sp.) in a cave inhabited by Astyanax cavefish in the Sierra de El Abra, San Luis Potosí, Mexico Subterranean Biology 45: 187-198.
22. Miranda-Gamboa, Ramsés, Luis Espinasa, María de l. A. Verde-Ramírez, Jorge Hernández-Lozano, Jean L. Lacaille, Monika Espinasa & Claudia P. Ornelas-García. 2023 A new cave population of Astyanax mexicanus from Northern Sierra de El Abra, Tamaulipas, Mexico Subterranean Biology 45: 95-117.
23. Smith, Graeme B., Andrew Mitchell, Timothy R. C. Lee & Luis Espinasa. 2019 DNA barcoding and integrative taxonomy of the Heterolepisma sclerophylla species complex (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae: Heterolepismatinae) and the description of two new species Records of the Australian Museum 71(1): 1-32.