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Publications (25)      

1. Bond, Jason E. & Paul E. Marek. 2003 Rhinocricidae Systematics I: The taxonomic placement of the species of Zipyge Chamberlin, 1925 and Oxypygides Chamberlin, 1922 (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Rhinocricidae: Oxypyginae). Zootaxa 292: 1-8.
2. Harrison, G. T., Howard P. Dunleavy, Luisa F. Vasquez-Valverde, Alejandro I. D. Pozo-Valdivia, Kaloyan Ivanov & Paul E. Marek. 2024 Arthropod diversity in shallow subterranean habitats of the Appalachian Mountains Subterranean Biology 49: 75-95.
3. Hennen, Derek A., Jackson C. Means & Paul E. Marek. 2022 A revision of the wilsoni species group in the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae) ZooKeys 1096: 17-118.
4. Marek, Paul E. & Jason E. Bond. 2007 A reassessment of apheloriine millipede phylogeny: additional taxa, Bayesian inference, and direct optimization (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Zootaxa 1610: 27-39.
5. Marek, Paul E., Bruno A. Buzatto, William A. Shear, Jackson C. Means, Dennis G. Black, Mark S. Harvey & Juanita Rodriguez. 2021 The first true millipede—1306 legs long Scientific Reports 11(23126): 1–8.
6. Marek, Paul E., Charity L. Hall, Cedric Lee, James Bailey, Matt C. Berger, Matt T. Kasson & William Shear. 2023 A new species of Illacme from southern California (Siphonophorida, Siphonorhinidae) ZooKeys 1167: 265-291.
7. Marek, Paul E., Jackson C. Means & Derek A. Hennen. 2018 Apheloria polychroma, a new species of millipede from the Cumberland Mountains (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae) Zootaxa 4375(3): 409–425.
8. Marek, Paul E., Jason E. Bond & Petra Sierwald. 2003 Rhinocricidae Systematics II: A species catalog of the Rhinocricidae (Diplopoda: Spirobolida) with synonymies. Zootaxa 308: 1-108.
9. Marek, Paul E., Jean K. Krejca & William A. Shear. 2016 A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida) ZooKeys 626: 1-43.
10. Means, Jackson C., Derek A. Hennen & Paul E. Marek. 2021 A revision of the minor species group in the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae) ZooKeys 1030: 1–180.
11. Means, Jackson C., Derek A. Hennen, Tsutomu Tanabe & Paul E. Marek. 2021 Phylogenetic systematics of the millipede family Xystodesmidae Insect Systematics and Diversity.
12. Nguyen, Anh D., Petra Sierwald & Paul E. Marek. 2019 The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae) Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67: 260-297.
13. Shear, William A. & Paul E. Marek. 2019 Urochordeumatidae Silvestri, 1909, a millipede family endemic to Washington State, USA (Chordeumatida, Striariidea, Striarioidea) Zootaxa 4657(2): 352–360.
14. Shear, William A. & Paul E. Marek. 2021 Three new genera and eighteen new species of miniature polydesmid millipedes from the northwestern United States (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae) Zootaxa 4975(1): 81-126.
15. Shear, William A. & Paul E. Marek. 2022 The milliped family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. V. Stegostriaria dulcidormus, n. gen., n. sp., Kentrostriaria ohara, n. gen., n. sp., and the convergent evolution of exaggerated metazonital crests (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea) Zootaxa 5094(3): 461-472.
16. Shear, William A. & Paul E. Marek. 2022 The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VI. Six new genera and thirteen new species from western North America (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea) Zootaxa 5205(6): 501-531.
17. Shear, William A. & Paul E. Marek. 2023 The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VIII. Three new genera and four new species of minute millipedes from Oregon and Washington, USA(Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea) Zootaxa 5264(3): 323-340.
18. Shear, William A. & Paul E. Marek. 2024 Additions to the millipede family Caseyidae Verhoeff, 1909. III. Proposal of the new subfamily Ochrogrammatinae, new records of Vasingtona irritans (Chamberlin, 1910), established species of Ochrogramma Gardener and Shelley, 1989, a new species of Ochrogramma from Washington state, USA (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Striariidea), and observations on spermatozoa and spermatophores Insecta Mundi(1090).
19. Shear, William A. & Paul E. Marek. 2024 The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. IX. The identity of Striaria californica Cook, 1899, and the new genus Bayaria for Striaria nana Loomis, 1936, with a key to genera and an annotated checklist of the Striariidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea) Zootaxa 5463(4): 524-544.
20. Shear, William A., Paul E. Marek, Jason E. Bond & Thomas Wesener. 2022 The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VII. Petra sierwaldae, n. gen., n. sp., a minute millipede from Idaho, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) Zootaxa 5213(3): 287-293.
21. Shear, William A., Philip Nosler & Paul E. Marek. 2017 The identity of Amplaria nazinta (Chamberlin, 1910): a century-old millipede mystery resolved (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) Zootaxa 4311(2): 233–240.
22. Shear, William A., Philip Nosler & Paul E. Marek. 2022 The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. IV. Amplaria oedipus, n. sp., with a secondary sexual modification of males unique among millipedes (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea) Zootaxa 5099(1): 137-145.
23. Shear, William A., Rodrigo L. Ferreira, Luiz F. M. Iniesta & Paul E. Marek. 2016 A millipede missing link: Dobrodesmidae, a remarkable new polydesmidan millipede family from Brazil with supernumerary rings (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), and the establishment of a new suborder Dobrodesmidea Zootaxa 4178(3): 371–390.
24. Shorter, Patricia L., Derek A. Hennen & Paul E. Marek. 2018 Cryptic diversity in Andrognathus corticarius Cope, 1869 and description of a new Andrognathus species from New Mexico (Diplopoda, Platydesmida, Andrognathidae) ZooKeys 786: 19-41.
25. Vasquez-Valverde, Luisa F. & Paul E. Marek. 2022 Phylogenetic review of the millipede genus Cherokia Chamberlin, 1949 (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae) ZooKeys 1106: 141-163.