Education
2007- B.S. Biological Engineering & B.A. English. Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao, China.
2012 - Ph.D., Marine Biology. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China. & Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Supervisor: Prof. Ruiyu LIU (J. Y. Liu) (Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences) & Prof. Fengshan XU.
Professional Memberships
Thematic editor of WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species)
Review Editor of Frontiers in Marine Science
Committee Member of Chinese Society of Malacology
Committee Member of Marine Benthological Society of China
Editorial Board of The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society
Member of the Russian Far East Malacological Society
Research Interests
Marine Ecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Morphology, Macrobenthos, Mollusca, Bivalve, Polyplacophora (chiton), Deep-sea, Seamount.
Selected Publications
1. Junlong Zhang, Fengshan Xu, Ruiyu Liu. 2012. Community structure changes of macrobenthos in the South Yellow Sea. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 30 (2): 248–255.
2. Junlong Zhang, Fengshan Xu, Ruiyu Liu. 2012. The Myidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from Chinese waters with description of a new species, Zootaxa, 3383: 39–60.
3. Junlong Zhang, Huafeng Shi, Fengshan Xu, Zhongli Sha. 2014. Are Acila divaricata and Acila mirabilis One Species or Two Distinct Species? Evidence from COI Mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Ocean University of China, 13 (2): 283-289.
4. Junlong Zhang, Fengshan Xu. 2014. Chapter 11: The biogeography of cold water bivalves in the Yellow and Bohai Seas. In: Sun Song, Andrey V. Adrianov, Konstantin A. Lutaenko, Sun Xiaoxia, eds. Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the North-Western Pacific Ocean. Science Press, Beijing, 189-193.
5. Junlong Zhang, Suping Zhang. 2014. A new species of Nassarius (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) from the China seas. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 610–614.
6. Junlong Zhang, Shuqian Zhang, Fengshan Xu, Suping Zhang. 2014. Introduction to the history of malacology in China, The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society, 18: 107–119.
7. Eugene V. Coan, Konstantin A. Lutaenko, Junlong Zhang* & Qimeng Sun. 2015. The Molluscan taxa of A. W. Grabau & S. G. King (1928) and their types. Malacologia. 57(2).
8. Junlong Zhang*, Ning Xiao, Suping Zhang, Fengshan Xu, Shuqian Zhang. 2016. A comparative study on the macrobenthic community over a half century in the Yellow Sea, China. Journal of Oceanography, 72(2): 189-205.
9. Junlong Zhang*, Suping Zhang, Shuqian Zhang, Yongfen Du, Fengshan Xu. 2016. What has happened to the benthic mollusks of the Yellow Sea in the near half century? Comparison on molluscan biodiversity between 1959 and 2007. Continental Shelf Research, 113: 21–29.
10. Junlong Zhang, Peng Wei, Suping Zhang. 2018. A new species of Calliostoma (Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae) from Weizhou Island, South China Sea. The Nautilus, 132(2):58–64.
11. Junlong Zhang*, Olga V. Yurchenko, Konstantin A. Lutaenko, Alexander V. Kalachev, Ivan O. Nekhaev, Robert Aguilar, Zifeng Zhan*, Matthew B. Ogburn. 2018. A tale of two soft-shell clams: an integrative taxonomic analysis confirms Mya japonica as a valid species distinct from Mya arenaria (Bivalvia: Myidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 184 (3): 605-622.
12. Sirenko B I, Zhang J*. 2019. Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of Hainan Island and vicinity, South China Sea. Zootaxa, 4564 (1): 1-40.
13. Suping Zhang, Junlong Zhang, Zhiyun Chen, Fengshan Xu. 2016. Mollusks of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. Beijing, Science Press, pp. 421.
14. Xu Fengshan, Zhang Junlong. 2018. Fauna Sinica, Invertrbrata Vol. 57, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Tellinidae Semelidae. Science Press, Beijing. pp. 236.