Judith E. King

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Judith Eveleigh King (* 1926 in Essex ; † May 2010 in Maitland , New South Wales ), also known as Judith Marlow after her marriage , was a British-Australian mammal login . Her main interest was the anatomy and taxonomy of seals (Pinnipedia).

Life

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of London in 1948, King became an assistant in the osteological department of the British Museum of Natural History . In 1957 she became a research assistant. During her time as a museum, King worked for several years with the whale researcher Francis Charles Fraser (1903–1978). In October 1968 she left the Natural History Museum. From 1969 to 1984 she was a lecturer at the Zoological School of the University of New South Wales , where she taught the subjects "vertebrates" and "skeleton preparation". She later became a research assistant at the Australian Museum .

In 1964 King published her first book Seals of the World , which was published in 1983 in a revised and expanded edition. In 1965 followed in collaboration with Richard John Harrison (1920-1999) the work Marine Mammals , which is based on functional anatomy studies. King has published several scientific articles on the functional anatomy of live seals, including monk seals , Australian sea lions and New Zealand sea lions, and the horse seal . In 1961 she examined the teeth and dentition of the crab eater , which is the only seal dentition equipped with a sieve mechanism for krill . In 1966 she published a study on the folding hats and the elephant seals , in which she explained that the two taxa are not closely related to one another and that the common subfamily Cystophorinae is therefore obsolete. In 1967 King carried out a study of the southern fur seals ( Arctocephalos ) on the South Australian coast. At that time it was not sufficiently researched whether there were one, two or three species. By examining skull features, King was able to show that they are the New Zealand fur seals ( Arctocephalos forsteri ) and the Australian fur seals ( Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus ). During the research project in Australia, King met her future husband Basil Marlow (1920–1993), then curator of mammals at the Australian Museum, who convinced her to move to Australia.

In 2002, in collaboration with W. Christopher Wozencraft , she wrote the chapter on the predators in The Encyclopedia of Mammals (German: Enzyklopädie der Tierwelt: Säugetiere) by Edwin Gould and George McKay.

In December 1987 she became a member of the Zoological Society of New South Wales . In 2000 she became an honorary member of the Society of Marine Mammalogists.

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  1. ↑ JE King: The monk seal genus Monachus. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 3, 1956, pp. 203-256
  2. ^ JE King: Sea-lions of the genera Neophoca and Phocarctos. Mammalia 24, 1960, pp. 445-456
  3. ↑ JE King: Some aspects of the anatomy of the Ross seal, Ommatophoca rossi (Pinnipedia: Phocidae). British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports 63, 1969, pp. 1-54
  4. ↑ JE King: The feeding mechanism and jaws of the crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus). Mammalia 25, 1961, pp. 462-466
  5. ^ JE King: Relationships of the hooded and elephant seals (genera Cystophora and Mirounga). Journal of Zoology, London 148, 1966, pp. 385-398
  6. ^ JE King: On the identity of the fur seals of Australia. Nature 219, 1968, pp. 632-633
  7. ^ JE King: The identity of the fur seals of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 17, 1969, pp. 841-853
personal data
SURNAME King, Judith E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Judith Eveleigh (full name); Marlow, Judith (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian mom login
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Essex
DATE OF DEATH May 2010
Place of death Maitland , New South Wales