Lynne R. Parenti

Lynne Rosemary Parenti (born August 6, 1954 in Manhattan , New York City ) is an American ichthyologist at the National Museum of Natural History .

Life

From September 1973 to July 1975 Parenti worked as a research assistant in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University . In 1975 she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Life Sciences from Stony Brook University. In 1980, she received her PhD with the dissertation A phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of cyprinodontiform fishes in biology from the City University of New York . From September 1975 to May 1980 she was a part-time teacher in the Department of Biology at City College, City University of New York. From August 1980 to August 1981, the postdoctoral phase followed at the Department of Fish of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution . From September 1981 to January 1983 she carried out research at the Natural History Museum in London as part of a NATO grant from the National Science Foundation .

From January to August 1983 she was a research fellow in the ichthyological department of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and from August 1983 to March 1984 she was a research fellow in the ichthyological department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . From April 1984 to December 1989 she was a researcher in the Department of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences . In 1987 she was visiting professor at the graduate seminar on cladistics at San Francisco State University . In 1988 she was an assistant professor at San Francisco State University. Since January 1990 she has been a curator in the Fish Department at the National Museum of Natural History.

Parenti is a specialist in the systematics and historical biogeography of ear fish relatives (Atherinomorphae), egg-laying tooth carps and gobies . Her publications include monographs on relations between Killifischgattungen, the lineage history of the genre of orestias ( Orestias ), comparative anatomy and systematics of phallostethidae (Phallostethidae) and sicydiinae (Sicydiinae) as well as the theory and methodology of cladistic biogeography.

Parenti's research focuses on the systematics and biogeography of bony fish , the use of reproductive biology in researching bony fish phylogenesis, and the theory and methodology of biogeography. She collected freshwater and coastal fish in Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Malay Peninsula, and Singapore, Taiwan, China, Hawaii, Tasmania, and New Zealand, as well as in Cuba and other areas of the Neotropicals. Parenti has authored over 100 scientific publications, including the books Cladistic Biogeography: Interpreting Patterns of Plant and Animal Distributions (1986 and 1999), Interrelationships of Fishes (1996), Ecology of the Marine Fishes of Cuba (2002) and Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth (Species and Systematics) (2009).

In 2005 Parenti was elected the first female president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists . She is also an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , an honorary member of the California Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Indonesian Ichthyological Society. In addition to G. David Johnson , Maurice Kottelat , Richard L. Mayden and Mutsumi Nishida , Parenti was a lecturer at the Petrus Artedi Tricentennial Symposium on Systematic Ichthyology, which took place in Stockholm in 2005 .

literature

• Curriculum Vitae (as of January 2017)
• Matthew C. Perry (Ed.): The Washington Biologists' Field Club: Its Members and its History (1900-2006) . Washington Biologists' Field Club, Washington, DC 2007, ISBN 978-0-615-16259-1 , pp. 221-222 ( researchgate.net ).
• Short biography Lynne R. Parenti (PDF)

Web links

• Bibliography by Lynne R. Parenti at Google Scholar