Marion Anstis

Marion Anstis (born October 18, 1948 ) is an Australian herpetologist . Her research focuses on Australian frogs and their tadpoles .

Life

Anstis was a high school music teacher for 31 years , but in her spare time she studied tadpoles and their identification at species level. Before she gave up teaching in 2001, she published eleven articles in scientific journals.

Her first book was published in 2002, entitled Tadpoles of South-eastern Australia: A guide with keys , which won a Whitley Award from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales . She also published a further 15 papers on reproductive biology and taxonomy of amphibians and the children's book Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia , which was published by New Holland Publishers in 2007 .

She submitted her book Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia in 2012 as a Ph.D. -Dissertation at the University of Newcastle . It was then published by New Holland Publishers in 2013. In 2014 she won another Whitley Award with it.

Anstis received grants from the Australian Biological Resources Study in 1999 and from 2006 to 2007 and from the WWF in 2003 . In 2003 she was shortlisted as one of three finalists at the Eureka Science Awards .

Anstis works with the Australian Museum on the systematics and taxonomy of Australian frogs and the morphology of tadpoles. She is one of the first to describe the frog species Ranoidea subglandulosa (1983, in collaboration with Michael J. Tyler ), Litoria staccato (2007), Crinia fimbriata (2009), Litoria aurifera (2010), Crinia flindersensis (2012), Uperoleia mahonyi and Cyclorama occidentalis (both 2016).

Anstis is a member of the Australian Society of Herpetologists .

Web links

• Portrait and bibliography at the Australian Museum
• Literature by and about Marion Anstis in the bibliographic database WorldCat