International Journal |
| 1. Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Carlos A. Santamaria, Jayanthi D/O Puniamoorthy & Jose Christopher E. Mendoza (2025), Description of a new species of Ligia Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ligiidae) from Samoa based on morphological and molecular data, with notes on L. vitiensis Dana, 1853 , RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 73: 276–292. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2025-0020 |
| 2. MOHAMMAD SALARI, VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY, MOHAMMAD SHARIF RANJBAR, ADNAN SHAHDADI (2025), New host and locality record for the parasitic isopod Ceratothoa carinata (Bianconi, 1869) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with molecular insights into its phylogeography , Zootaxa 5621 (2): 262–272 |
| 3. Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty & Manal Abdulrahman Al-Kandari (2024), The first report of two new janiroid isopod species (Asellota, Janiroidea) from the western Indian Ocean , ZooKeys 1219: 233–248. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.130895 |
| 4. Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty & Manal Abdulrahman Al-Kandari (2023), Three new species of temporary fish parasite, Gnathiid Isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoida) from Kuwait , |
| 5. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V. & Gagno J. (2023), Illustrated catalogue of sphaeromatoid isopods (Crustacea, Malacostraca) in the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) , Zoosystematics and Evolution, 99 (2), 375–389 | DOI 10.3897/zse.99.103682 |
| 6. Farzaneh Momtazi, Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty & MEHDI GOLESTANINASAB (2023), Pseudaeginella makranensis sp. nov., a new species of caprellid (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Iranian coasts of Gulf of Oman , Zootaxa 5271 (3): 579–588 |
| 7. Khojasteh Malekmohammad, Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Hamzeh Oraei, Seyedeh Narjes Tabatabaei (2022), Identifying closely related species of the genus Gammarus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) using geometric morphometrics , Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB) Vol.17, No.2, 137-146 |
| 8. Arian, N. and Khalaji-pirbalouty, V. * (2022), First record of the genus Paraimene Javed & Ahmed, 1988 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from Iranian coast of the Gulf of Oman, with a revised diagnosis to the genus , Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB) Vol.17, No.2, 131-136 |
| 9. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V.; Oraie, H.; Santamaria C.; Wägele, J. W. (2022), Redescription of Tylos maindroni Giordani Soika, 1954 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) based on SEM and molecular data , ZooKeys 1087: 123–139. |
| 10. Manal Abdulrahman Al-Kandari, Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Hadeel Abdulkhaliq, Weizhong Chen (2022), Diversity and distribution of the Isopoda (Crustacea, Peracarida) of Kuwait, with an updated checklist , ZooKeys 1080: 107–133. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1080.71370 |
| 11. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V., Bruce. N. (2021) , Redescription of the type species of the genus Cassidinidea Hansen, 1905 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae), with notes on geographic distribution of the New World species , Marine Biology Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2021.1990958 |
| 12. Azadi M, Hemmati R, Homaei A, Khalaji-Pirbalouty V (2021) , A psychrophilic caseinolytic aspartic protease from the freshwater amphipod Gammarus bakhteyaricus for application in milk coagulation LWT , Food Science and Technology 153:112536-112536 |
| 13. Khalaji-PIebalouty, V. & Gagnon, Jean-Marc (2021), A new species of Dynoides Barnard, 1914 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Sphaeromatidae) from Canada, with notes on geographic distribution of the north-eastern Pacific Ocean species , Marine Biology Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2021.1892766 |
| 14. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V (2018), Redescription of Cerceis biforamina Javed & Yousuf, 1996 from the Gulf of Oman (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) with remarks on the status of Cymodoce insolita Yousuf , 2011 ZOOTAXA 4472:375-384 |
| 15. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V, Fatemi , Malek-Hosseini , Kuntner (2018), A new species of Stenasellus Dollfus, 1897 from Iran, with a key to the western Asian species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Stenasellidae) , ZooKeys 766:39-50 |
| 16. Hurtado LA , Mateos1 M, Wang C, Santamaria C, Jung J, Khalaji-Pirbalouty V, Kim W (2018), Out of Asia: mitochondrial evolutionary history of the globally introduced supralittoral isopod Ligia exotica , PeerJ 6:1-25 |
| 17. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V, J Raupach M (2016), DNA barcoding and morphological studies confirm the occurrence of three Zootaxa 4200:153-173 , |
| 18. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V (2018), Redescription of Cerceis biforamina Javed & Yousuf, 1996 from the Gulf of Oman (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) with remarks on the status of Cymodoce insolita Yousuf, 2011 ZOOTAXA 4472:375-384 , |
| 19. Torki A, Khalaji-Pirbalouty V, Lorigooini Z, Rafieian-Kopaei M, (2018), Anchusa italica extract: phytochemical and neuroprotective evaluation on global cerebral ischemia and reperfusion Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 54:1-9 , |
| 20. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V, Fatemi , Malek-Hosseini , Kuntner (2018), A new species of Stenasellus Dollfus, 1897 from Iran, with a key to the western Asian species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Stenasellidae) ZooKeys 766:39-50 , |
| 21. Hurtado LA , Mateos1 M, Wang C, Santamaria C, Jung J, Khalaji-Pirbalouty V, Kim W, Out of Asia: mitochondrial evolutionary history of the globally introduced supralittoral isopod Ligia exotica (2018) , |
| 22. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V., A new species of Cymodoce from Iran (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) with remarks on the status of Cymodoce manorii (Nooruddin, 1965) comb. nov. and Cymodoce spinula Yousuf & Javed, 2001 , Zootaxa 4084 (2): 267–276, 2016 |
| 23. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V., Naderloo R., Keykhosravi, A., Atarbolana makranensis, a new species of Cirolanidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) from Makran, Iranian coast of the Gulf of Oman , ZooKeys 522: 129-140, 2015 |
| 24. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. & Bruce, N , A review of the genus Heterodina Kensley & Schotte, 2005 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) with description of a new species from Iran , Zootaxa 3887 (3): 494–500, 2014 |
| 25. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. & Raupach, M. J., A new species of Cymodoce Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) based on morphological and molecular data, with a key to the Northern Indian Ocean species , Zootaxa, 3826 (1): 230–254, 2014 |
| 26. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V., Bruce, N. L, & Wägele, J. W. , The genus Cymodoce
Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) in the Persian Gulf with description of a new species
, Zootaxa, 3686 (5): 501-533, 2013 |
| 27. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. , The morphology, arrangement, and ultrastructure of a new type of microtrich sensilla in marine isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda) , Zoological Studies, 53:1-7, 2014 |
| 28. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. & Wägele, J. W. , Two new species of cirolanid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from Qeshm and Kish Islands in the Persian Gulf) , Zootaxa, 2930: 33-46, 2011 |
| 29. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. & Wägele, J. W. , A new record of Sphaeroma annandalei Stebbing, 1911 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from the Persian Gulf, and description of a new related species (Sphaeroma silvai nov. sp.) from the South Atlantic Ocean, , Zootaxa, 2508: 30-44, 2010 |
| 30. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. & Wägele, J. W. , Two new species of Ligia Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ligiidae) from coasts of the Persian and Aden gulfs , Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 10: 135-145, 2010 |
| 31. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. & Wägele, J. W. , A new species and a new record of Sphaeroma Bosc, 1802 (Sphaeromatidae: Isopoda: Crustacea) from intertidal marine habitats of the Persian Gulf , Zootaxa, 2631: 1–18, 2010 |
| 32. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V. & Wägele, J. W. , Two new species of Sphaerompsis (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from Persian Gulf , Zootaxa, 2305: 33-50, 2009 |
| 33. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V. & Sari A. , Description of Gammarus baloutchi n. Sp. (Amphipoda: Grammarian) from Iran, based on light and electron microscopy , Zool. Med. Leiden, 8: 91-100, 2006 |
| 34. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V. & Sari A., Biography of amphipods (Crustacean: Amphipoda: Grammarian) from the central Zagros Mountains, Iran with description of two new species , Journal of Natural History, 38: 2425–2445. 2004 |
Research Journal |
| ٣٥. Pirali-Kheirabadi, K., Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V, Jazaeri, A., & Dhghani-Samani, A. , Geographical distribution of the scorpion fauna of Chaharmahal Va Bakhteyari province, Iran , Pajouhesh Va Sazandegi: 103, 44-51, 2014 |
| 36. Khalaji-Pirbalouty, V , Redescription of Annina mesopotamica Ahmed, 1971 (Crustacea, Cirolanidae, Isopoda) from Basrah, Iraq , Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB): 9(2), 109-115, 2013 |
Promotion Journal |
| ٣٧. Khalaji-Pirbalouty V , Methods of Animal classification. , Journal of Roshd, Biology Education.19, (2), 41–44 (in Persian). 2005 |
National Conference |
| 38. Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Carlos A. Santamaria, Jayanthi D/O Puniamoorthy & Jose Christopher E. Mendoza (2025), Description of a new species of Ligia Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ligiidae) from Samoa based on morphological and molecular data, with notes on L. vitiensis Dana, 1853 , RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 73: 276–292. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2025-0020 |