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Department ofVertebrate Zoology

Division of Fishes

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Carl Hansen
© Smithsonian Institution
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    Lynne R. Parenti
    Curator

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  • E-mail: parentil[at]si.edu

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Website "VerteGo" under construction on the comparative gonad morphology of vertebrates.

Education

Ph.D. Biology, 1980, City University of New York
B.S. Biological Sciences, 1975, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Interests

Systematics, Phylogeny and Biogeography of Tropical Freshwater and Coastal Marine Fishes; Comparative Teleost Anatomy, Development and Reproduction, especially applying neglected character sets; Theory and Methods of Historical Biogeography.

Recent Publications

Parenti, Lynne R. and Ebach, Malte C. 2013. Evidence and hypothesis in biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 40(5): 813-820. doi:10.1111/jbi.12069

Parenti, Lynne R. 2013. Light at the Museum. In: Collins Goodyear, Anne and Weitekamp, Margaret A., Analyzing Art and Aesthetics. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,(Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) pp.278-279.

Kottelat, Maurice, Baird, Ian, Kullander, Sven, Ng, Hek Hee, Parenti, Lynne R., Rainboth, Walter and Vidthayanon, Chavalit 2012. The status and distribution of freshwater fishes of Indo-Burma. In: Allen, David J., Smith, K. G. and Darwall, W. R. T., The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Indo-Burma. Cambridge (UK) and Gland (Switzerland): IUCN, pp.38-64.

Parenti, Lynne R. 2012. The Biology of Gobies. Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology, 18(4): 239-240.

Uribe, Mari C., Grier, Harry J. and Parenti, Lynne R. 2012. Ovarian Structure and Oogenesis of the Oviparous Goodeids Crenichthys baileyi (Gilbert, 1893) and Empetrichthys latos Miller, 1948 (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes). Journal of Morphology, 273(4): 371-387. doi:10.1002/jmor.11028

Parenti, Lynne R. 2012. Poeciliid Biology: The Next Generation. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 45(1): 75-78. doi:10.1080/10236244.2012.659430

de Bruyn, M., Parenti, Lynne R. and Carvalho, G. R. 2011. Successful extraction of DNA from archived alcohol-fixed white-eye fish specimens using an ancient DNA protocol. Journal of fish biology, 78: 2074-2079.

Parenti, Lynne R. and Hartel, Karsten E. 2011. Osteology Identifies Fundulus capensis Garman, 1895 as a Killifish in the Family Fundulidae (Atherinomorpha: Cyprinodontiformes). Copeia, 2011(2): 242-250.

Parenti, Lynne R. 2011. Endemism and Conservation of the Native Freshwater Fish Fauna of Sulawesi, Indonesia. In: Simanjuntak et al., Proceedings of the VIth National Seminar and 3rd Congress of the Indonesian Society of Ichthyologists. Cibinong, Indonesia: Indonesian Society of Ichthyologists, pp.1-10.

Parenti, Lynne R. and Hadiaty, Renny K. 2010. A new, remarkably colorful, small ricefish of the genus Oryzias (Beloniformes, Adrianichthyidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Copeia, 2010(2): 268-273.

Parenti, Lynne R. 2010. Review of: Reproductive Biology And Phylogeny Of Fishes (Agnathans And Bony Fishes). Edited By B. G. M. Jamieson. Journal of fish biology, 76(10): 2599-2600.

Parenti, Lynne R., LoNostro, F. L. and Grier, Harry J. 2010. Reproductive histology of Tomeurus gracilis Eigenmann, 1909 (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Poeciliidae) with comments on evolution of viviparity in atherinomorph fishes. Journal of Morphology, 271(11): 1399-1406.

Parenti, Lynne R. and Ebach, Malte C. 2010. Wallacea Deconstructed. In: Williams, David M. and Knapp, Sandra, Beyond Cladistics: The Branching of a Paradigm. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.303-318.

Parenti, Lynne R., Viloria, Angel L., Ebach, Malte C. and Morrone, Juan J. 2009. On the International Code of Area Nomenclature (ICAN): a reply to Zaragueta-Bagils et al.. Journal of Biogeography, 36(8): 1619-1621. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02171.x

Parenti, Lynne R. and Ebach, Malte C. 2009. Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 295 pages.

Parenti, Lynne R. 2009. [Letter from Lynne Parenti]. In: Knapp, S. and Wheeler, Q., Letters to Linnaeus. London: The Linnean Society of London, pp.163-167.

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