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Anthony Gill
Curator, natural history
BSc (Hons) PhD UNE
Tony Gill has had more than 40 years of experience volunteering or working in natural history museums, beginning with an internship at the Australian Museum in 1981. Prior to joining the Macleay Museum in 2010, he was a researcher of shallow marine fishes for the Natural History Museum, London, and museum curator in the School of Life Sciences and assistant director for collections in the International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State University.
Tony received his PhD from the University of New England in 1991 based on research conducted at the Australian Museum. He was later a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. and Lerner-Gray Research Fellow in the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
- Taxonomy of the dottyback fish subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae, with Professor A.J. Edwards (University of Newcastle, U.K.)
- Identification of fish type specimens in the Macleay Collections
- Extinct and threatened bird specimens in the MAcleay Collections and the Australian Museum, with Dr L. Tsang (Australian Museum).
- Generic classification and relationships of anthiadine serranid fishes
- Classification and relationships of gobioid fishes, with Dr R.D. Mooi (Manitoba Museum, Canada)
- Type specimens of coral species described by Julian Tenison-Woods in the Macleay Collections, with Dr S.D. Cairns (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution).
- Taxonomic reviews of various Australian anthiadine fish genera, with J. Pogonoski (Australan National Fish Collection, Hobart), F. Walsh (Kuranda, Queensland) and Dr M. Hammer (Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin).
- Review of New Zealand species of Plectranthias (Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with Dr C.D. Roberts (Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa).
- Co-curator, Australian Seashores, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney, August 2022 – April 2023.
- Co-curator, Natural Selections, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney, November 2020 – present
- Co-curator, Stuffed, stitched and studied: Taxidermy in the 19th century, Macleay Museum, the University of Sydney, November 2014 – May 2015. Exhibition catalogue.
- Co-curator, The meaning of life: Celebrating 50 years of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney, Macleay Museum, the University of Sydney, 28 September 2012 – 8 March 2013
In Press
- Gill, A.C. In press. Taxonomic identity of the enigmatic Western Australian fish species Stigmatonotus australis Peters, 1877 (Teleostei).
2022
- Gill, A.C. & C.N. Tang. 2022. ‘Odontanthias grahami Randall & Heemstra, a junior synonym of Anthias xanthomaculatus Fourmanoir and Rivaton (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae)’. Zootaxa 5222(2): 145–154.
- Gill, A.C. & R. Winterbottom. 2022. ‘Family Pseudochromidae’. Pp. 115. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
- Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Subfamily Anisochrominae’. Pp. 116–117, pl. 36. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
- Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae’. Pp. 124–131, pls 36–38, 40, 45. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
- Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Subfamily Pseudochrominae’. Pp. 131–146, pls 40–45. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
- Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Family Xenisthmidae’. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 5, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
2021
- Parnaby, H. & A.C. Gill. 2021. ‘Mammal type specimens in the Macleay Collections, University of Sydney’. Zootaxa 4975(2): 201–252.
- Gill, A.C., J.J. Pogonoski, G.I. Moore & J.W. Johnson. 2021. ‘Review of Australian species of Plectranthias Bleeker and Selenanthias Tanaka (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with description of four new species’. Zootaxa 4918(1): 1–116.
- Pogonoski, J.J. & A.C. Gill. 2021. ‘Taxonomy of Dactylanthias Bleeker (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae)’. Zootaxa 4926(3): 417–430.
- Gill, A.C., J.J. Pogonoski, J.W. Johnson &Y.K. Tea. 2021. ‘Three new species of Australian anthiadine fishes, with comments on the monophyly of Pseudanthias Bleeker (Teleostei: Serranidae)’. Zootaxa 4996(1): 49–82.
- Gill, A.C., K.E.S. Sorgon, V. Brun & Y.K. Tea. 2021. New records and redescription of Labracinus atrofasciatus (Herre 1933) (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69: 438–447.
- Tea, Y.K., G.R. Allen, C.H.R. Goatley, A.C. Gill & B.W. Frable. 2021. ‘Redescription of Conniella apterygia Allen and its reassignment in the genus Cirrhilabrus Temminck and Schlegel (Teleostei: Labridae), with comments on cirrhilabrin pelvic morphology’. Zootaxa 5061(3): 493–509.
2020
- Gill, A.C. & S. Michalski. 2020. ‘Osteological evidence for monophyly of the Leiognathidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha: Acanthuriformes)’. Zootaxa 4732(3): 409–421.
- Gill, A.C. & C.D. Roberts. 2020. ‘Plectranthias cruentus, a new species of anthiadine perchlet (Teleostei: Serranidae) from the Lord Howe Rise, Tasman Sea’. Zootaxa 4750(4): 560–566.
- Tea, Y.K. & A.C. Gill. 2020. ‘Systematic reappraisal of the anti-equatorial fish genus Microcanthus Swainson (Teleostei: Microcanthidae), with redescription and resurrection of Microcanthus joyceae Whitley’. Zootaxa 4802(1): 41–60.
- Tea, Y.K., A.C. Gill & H. Senou. 2020. ‘Two new species of Pseudojuloides from Western Australia and southern Japan, with a redescription of Pseudojuloides elongatus (Teleostei: Labridae)’. Copeia 108(3): 551–569.
- Tea, Y.K., B.D. Greene, J.L. Earle & A.C. Gill. 2020. ‘Two new species of pencil wrasses (Teleostei: Labridae: Pseudojuloides) from Micronesia and the Marquesan Islands’. Copeia 108(3): 679–691.
2019
- Gill, A.C., W.D. Anderson Jr & J.T. Williams. 2019. 'Anthias albofasciatus Fowler & Bean, 1930, a junior synonym of Tosana niwae Smith & Pope, 1906 (Serranidae: Anthiadinae)'. Zootaxa, 4614(3): 566–574.
- Gill, A.C. & J.M. Leis. 2019. 'Phylogenetic position of the fish genera Lobotes, Datnioides and Hapalogenys, with a reappraisal of acanthuriform composition and relationships based on adult and larval morphology'. Zootaxa, 4680(1): 1–81.
- Tea, Y.K., C. Van Der Wal, W.B. Ludt, A.C. Gill, N. Lo, S.Y.W. Ho. 2019. ‘Boomeranging around Australia: historical biogeography and systematics of the anti-equatorial fish Microcanthus strigatus (Teleostei: Microcanthidae)’. Molecular Ecology 28: 3771–3785.
- Gill, A.C. & B.C. Russell. 2019. 'Redescription of Anthias xanthomaculatus Fourmanoir and Rivaton, and its reassignment in the genus Odontanthias Bleeker (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae)'. Zootaxa 4568(1): 177–184.
- Tea, Y.K., A.C. Gill & H. Senou. 2019. 'Chromis tingting, a new species of damselfish from mesophotic coral ecosystems of southern Japan, with notes on C. mirationis Tanaka (Teleostei: Pomacentridae)'. Zootaxa 4586(2): 249–260.
- Gill, A.C., S.V. Bogorodsky & A.O. Mal. 2019. 'Description of a second species of Gymnoxenisthmus from the Red Sea (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)'. Zootaxa 4590(1): 177–183.
2018
- Tea, Y.K., B.W. Frable & A.C. Gill. 2018. 'Cirrhilabrus cyanogularis, a new species of fairy wrasse from the Philippines and Indonesia (Teleostei: Labridae)'. Zootaxa 4418(6): 577–587.
- Gill, A.C. & P.N. Psomadakis. 2018. 'Pseudanthias emma new species, with notes on a collection of anthiadine serranid fishes from off Myanmar (eastern Indian Ocean)'. Zootaxa 4455(3): 525–536.
- Gill, A.C., B.C. Russell & G. Nelson. 2018. 'F.L. Castelnau’s Norman River fishes housed in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney'. Zootaxa 4459(3): 565–574.
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