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Publications From Whalefish Research

Research Fellow: Dr John Paxton

  1. Paxton, J.R. 1973. Families Mirapinnidae, Eutaeniophoridae, Cetomimidae and Ateleopodidae. In J.C. Hureau and T. Monod (Eds) Checklist of the Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean. Paris :UNESCO. Pp. 212-215.
  2. Paxton, J.R. 1974. Morphology and distribution patterns of the whalefishes of the family Rondeletiidae. In G. Silas (Ed) Symposium on the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas. Marine Biological Association of India Journal, 15 (1):175-188.
  3. Paxton, J.R. & D.J. Bray. 1986. Order Cetomimiformes, families Cetomimidae, Rondeletiidae and Barbourisiidae. In M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra (Eds) Smiths' Sea Fishes. Johannesburg: Macmillan. Pp. 433-434.
  4. Paxton, J.R. 1986. Families Cetomimidae, Rondeletiidae and Ateleopodidae. In P.J.P. Whitehead et al. (Eds) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Vol. II, pp. 524-529. Paris : UNESCO. Vol. II, pp. 524-529.
  5. Yang, Y.R., B.G. Zeng & J.R. Paxton. 1988. Additional specimens of the deepsea fish Hispidoberyx ambagiosus (Hispidoberycidae, Beryciformes) from the South China Sea, with comments on the family relationships. UO, 38:3-8.
  6. Balushkin, A.V., V.V. Fedorov & J.R. Paxton. 1989. A new genus and species of whalefish Notiocetichthys trunovi gen et sp nov (Cetomimidae) from the Lazarev Sea, Antarctica. Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 29(1):155-157. (In Russian)
  7. Paxton, J.R. 1989. Synopsis of the whalefishes (family Cetomimidae) with descriptions of four new genera. Records of the Australian Museum, 41(2):135-206.
  8. Paxton, J.R. 1990. Whalefishes: little fish with big mouths. Australian Natural History, 23(5):378-385.
  9. Paxton, J.R. & O. Gon. 1990. Cetomimidae, whalefishes. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (Eds) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. Grahamstown: J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. Pp. 222-225.
  10. Paxton, J.R. 1999. Rondeletiidae, Barbourisiidae, Cetomimidae, Mirapinnidae, Megalomycteridae. In K.E. Carpenter & V.H. Niem (Eds) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome : FAO. Vol. 4: 2204-2211.
  11. Colgan , D.C. , C.-G. Zhang & J.R. Paxton. 2000. Phylogenetic investigations of the Stephanoberyciformes and Beryciformes, particularly whalefishes (Euteleostei: Cetomimidae), based on partial 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 17(1): 15-25.
  12. Paxton, J.R., G.D. Johnson & T. Trnski. 2001. Larvae and juveniles of the deepsea ‘whalefishes’ Barbourisia and Rondeletia (Stephanoberyciformes: Barbourisiidae, Rondeletiidae) with comments on family relationships. Records of the Australian Museum, 53(3): 407-425 .
  13. Paxton, J.R. 2003. Barbourisiidae, Cetomimidae, Mirapinnidae. In K.E. Carpenter (Ed), The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Rome: FAO & American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Vol. 2: 1170-1175.
  14. Paxton, J.R. & T. Trnski. 2003. Rondeletiidae, Megalomycteridae. In K.E. Carpenter (Ed), The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Rome: FAO & American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Vol. 2: 1168-1169, 1176-77.
  15. Paxton, J.R. & G.D. Johnson. 2005. Rondeletiidae: Redmouth whalefishes; Barbourisiidae: Redvelvet whalefish; Cetomimidae: Whalefishes; Mirapinnidae: Tapetails & hairyfish; Megalomycteridae: Bignose fishes. In W.J. Richards (Ed) Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes. An identification guide for the Western Central North Atlantic. Boca Raton: CRC Press . Vol 1: 1079-1102.

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