The Fish Department - Research
Collection Management
Collection Manager: Mark McGrouther
Collection management involves the overall maintenance and development of the collection, primarily the storage, documentation and usage of the specimens. Specimens are used for many reasons, one of the most important being to aid in the scientific work of researchers in museums, universities and other research institutions worldwide. The fish collection is also used regularly to help identify specimens for the public.
An integral part of collection management is administration and improvement of the computer databases which contain the data associated with each specimen and supplying the information to stakeholders in electronic, hard copy and verbal form. Questions Addressed range from providing lists of fishes found in particular areas for environmental consulting to queries about our holdings of rare species.
Publications From This Project
- Paxton, J.R. & M. McGrouther. 1991. Why so many specimens? Muse (Aust. Mus. News & Events) Aug -Sept. 1991:4, 11, 2 figs.
- Paxton, J.R. & M.A. McGrouther. 1997. A history of the fish collection at the Australian Museum (1860-1968), with a summary of current Australian fish collections. in Pietsch, T.W. & W. Anderson (Eds) Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology. Special Publication of the American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology. 183-205 pp, 14 figs.
- Leis, J.M. & M.A. McGrouther. 1994. Regional Larval Fish Archives: Preservation of an important Fisheries Resource. Australian Society for Fish Biology newsletter. Vol. 24 no. 2.
- Leis, J.M. & M.A. McGrouther. 1996. Regional Larval Fish Archives now in operation: Availability of an important Fisheries Resource. Australian Society for Fish Biology newsletter. Vol. 26 no.2.
- Ferraris, C.J, McGrouther, M.A. & K.L. Parkinson. 2000. A Critical Review of the Types and Putative Types of Southern Asian Marine and Freshwater Fish Species in the Australian Mseum Named by Francis Day. Records of the Australian Museum. Vol. 52: 289-306.
