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Dr Tony Gill

Manonichthys winterbottomi

False midnight dottyback, Manonichthys winterbottomi Gill, 2004 (painting by A.C. Gill).

Dr Gill’s research interests are mostly in fish taxonomy: in the anatomy and classification of acanthomorph (spiny-finned) fishes - particularly percoids (perches and their relatives) and gobioids (gobies and gudgeons) - and taxonomy and historical biogeography of Indo-Pacific fishes - particularly of the Pseudochromidae (dottybacks). He is also interested in the history of natural history collections, particularly as it pertains to the works of Sir William John Macleay and his collaborators.

Selected recent publications

  • Gill, A.C., G.R. Allen & M.V. Erdmann. 2012. Two new species of striped Pseudochromis from the Philippine Islands and Indonesia, with a redescription of P. colei (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae). Zootaxa 3165: 25-38.
  • Gill, A.C. & R.D. Mooi. 2010. Character evidence for the monophyly of the Microdesminae, with comments on relationships to Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 2442: 51-59.
  • Gill, A.C. & R.D. Mooi. 2012. Thalasseleotrididae, new family of marine gobioid fishes from New Zealand and temperate Australia, with a revised definition of its sister taxon, the Gobiidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha). Zootaxa 3266: 41-52.
  • Gill, A.C. & J.T. Williams. 2011. Description of two new species of Pseudochrominae from northern Palawan and Mindoro, Philippine Islands (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pseudochromidae). Zootaxa 3140: 49-59.
  • Gill, A.C. & U. Zajonz. 2011. Pseudochromine and pseudoplesiopine dottyback fishes from the Socotra Archipelago, Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species of Pseudochromis Rüppell (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae). Zootaxa 3106: 1-23.
  • Mooi, R.D. & A.C. Gill. 2010. A transitional state or harmful mutation of systematic ichthyology? A reply to Chakrabarty. Copeia 2010(3): 516-519.
  • Mooi, R.D. & A.C. Gill. 2010. Phylogenies without synapomorphies, a crisis in fish systematics: it’s time to show some character. Zootaxa 2450: 26-40.
  • Mooi, R.D., D.M. Williams & A.C. Gill. 2011. Numerical cladistics, an unintentional refuge for phenetics: a reply to Wiley et al. Zootaxa 2946: 17-28.
  • Pethiyagoda, R. & A.C. Gill. 2012. Description of two new species of sea bass (Teleostei: Latidae: Lates) from Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 3314: 1-16.
  • Russell, B.C. & A.C. Gill. 2012. The status of Pseudolabrus psittaculus (Richardson) and use of the name Pseudolabrus rubricundus (Macleay) for this species. Cybium 36: 353-356.

Other selected publications

  • Gill, A.C. 1996. Comments on an intercalar path for the glossopharyngeal (cranial IX) nerve as a synapomorphy of the Paracanthopterygii and on the phylogenetic position of the Gobiesocidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha). Copeia 1996(4): 1022-1029.
  • Gill, A.C. 2004. Revision of the Indo-Pacific dottyback fish subfamily Pseudochrominae (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae). Smithiana Monograph 1: ii + 1-214, pls 1-12.
  • Gill, A.C. & A.J. Edwards. 1999. Monophyly, interrelationships and description of three new genera in the dottyback fish subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pseudochromidae). Records of the Australian Museum 51: 141-160.
  • Gill, A.C. & A.J. Edwards. 2004. Revision of the Indian Ocean dottyback fish genera Chlidichthys and Pectinochromis (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae). Smithiana Buletin 3: 1-47, 3 pls.
  • Gill, A.C. & R. Fricke. 2001. Revision of the western Indian Ocean fish subfamily Anisochrominae (Perciformes, Pseudochromidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London, Zoology Series 67(2): 191–207.
  • Gill, A.C. & J.M. Kemp. 2002. Widespread Indo-Pacific shore-fish species: a challenge for taxonomists, biogeographers, ecologists, and fishery and conservation managers. Environmental Biology of Fishes 65: 165-174.
  • Gill, A.C. & R.D. Mooi. 2002. Phylogeny and systematics of fishes. Pp. 15-42. In: P.J.B. Hart & J.D. Reynolds (eds). Handbook of Fish Biology and Fisheries. Volume 1. Fish Biology. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
  • Mooi, R.D. & A.C. Gill. 1995. Association of epaxial musculature with dorsal-fin pterygiophores in acanthomorph fishes, and its phylogenetic significance. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London, Zoology Series 61(2): 121–137.
  • Mooi, R.D. & A.C. Gill. 2002. Historical biogeography of fishes. Pp. 43-68. In: P.J.B. Hart & J.D. Reynolds (eds). Handbook of Fish Biology and Fisheries. Volume 1. Fish Biology. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
  • Mooi, R.D. & A.C. Gill. 2004. Notograptidae, sister to Acanthoplesiops Regan (Teleostei: Plesiopidae: Acanthoclininae), with comments on biogeography, diet and morphological convergence with Congrogadinae (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 141: 179-205.