Dianne Joy Bray
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Museum Victoria
GPO Box 666E
Melbourne, Vic 3001

2000-

Natnl telephone:      03 8341 7448
Fax:      03 8341 7442
Internatl telephone:  +613 8341 7448
Fax:  +612 8341 7442

 

Email: dbray@museum.vic.gov.au

 

Research interests:  Current studies: Publications:
BScDipEd Macquarie University, 1975
MSc Macquarie University, 1988

Research interests:

    Taxonomy:

    Systematics of Zeiforme fishes

    Description of a new species of Zenopsis (Zeidae)

    Catalogue of Australian Fishes (with Hoese, Paxton & Allen)

    Type status of historic material in Museum Victoria Fish Collections

     

Current studies:

    Systematics of Zeidae

    Description of a new species of Zenopsis (Zeidae)

    Description of a new species of Pentaceros (Pentacerotidae)

    Systematics of larvae of citharid flatfishes (with Leis & Moser)

    Catalogue of Australian Fishes (with Hoese, Paxton & Allen)

     

Publications:

Journal articles

    Bray, D.J. 1984. Family Grammicolepididae, 3 pp. In: W. Fischer & G. Bianchi (Eds.). FAO Species Identification Sheets, Western Indian Ocean (Fishing Area 51). Rome: FAO.

    Paxton, J.R. & D.J. Bray. 1986. Order Cetomimiformes, families Cetomimidae, Rondeletiidae and Barbourisiidae, pp. 433-434, 4 figs. In: M.M. Smith & P.C Heemstra (Eds.). Smiths' Sea Fishes. Johannesburg, Macmillan.

    Paxton, J.R. & D.J. Bray. 1990. Families Barbourisiidae, Cetomimidae and Rondeletiidae, pp. 606-609. In: J.C. Quero et al. (Eds.). Checklist of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic. Paris: UNESCO. Vol. 2.

    Bray, D.J. 1994. Order Zeiformes, pp. 416-427. In: Gomon, M.F., C.J.M. Glover & R.H. Kuiter (Eds.). The fishes of Australia's South Coast. State Print, Adelaide. 992 pp.

    Leis, J.M. & D.J. Bray. 1995. Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Paradicichthyinae (Pisces): the genera Symphorus and Symphorichthys. Bull. Mar. Sci. 56(2): 418-433

    Leis, J.M., S. Bullock, D.J. Bray & K. Lee. 1997. Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Apsilinae (Pisces): the genus Paracaesio. Bull. Mar. Sci. 61(3): 697-742

    McGrouther, M.A., D.F. Hoese, J.R. Paxton, S.E. Reader, D.J. Bray, D.E. Brown & J.M. Leis. 1998. Types of the Australian Museum Fish Collection [online] URL: http://www.amonline.net.au/science/division/vert/ichth/types/

    Leis, J.M., Bray, D.J., Bullock, S. & Lee, K. 1998. Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Apsilinae (Pisces): The genus Paracaesio. Bull. Mar. Sci. 62(1): 697-742.

    D.J. Bray & Leis, J.M. Citharidae, pp. 714-719. In Leis, J.M. & Carson-Ewart, B.M. (eds). 2000. The larvae of Indo-Pacific coastal fishes. E.J. Brill, Leiden.850pp + 217 plates.

    D.J. Bray & Leis, J.M. Poecilopsettidae. In Leis, J.M. & Carson-Ewart, B.M. (eds). 2000. The larvae of Indo-Pacific coastal fishes. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 850 pp + 217 plates.

    D.J. Bray, Leis, J.M. & Trnski, T. Samaridae. In Leis, J.M. & Carson-Ewart, B.M. (eds). 2000. The larvae of Indo-Pacific coastal fishes. E.J. Brill, Leiden. 850 pp + 217 plates.

    Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Allen, G.R., Allen, C., Cross, N. & Paxton, J.R. In press. Pisces. Vol. 2. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Department of Fauna & Flora, Canberra, 775 mspp

    Nakabo, T., Fujii, E. & Bray, D.J. In press. A new species of Zenopsis (Pisces: Zeidae). Copeia

Reports

    Trnski, T., D.J. Bray, J.M. Leis, M.A. McGrouther & S.E. Reader. 1993. Survey of the fishes of Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland. A report to the Commonwealth Commission of Inquiry, Shoalwater Bay, Capricornia Coast, Queensland. Australian Museum, Sydney. 29 pp.

    Bray, D.J. 1997. Fish survey of Box Creek, Murray River system, New South Wales. A report for Murray Irrigation Limited. Australian Museum, Sydney. 14 pp.

Handbooks

    Bray, D.J. 1993. Why do we depend on estuaries? An environmental educational resource. NSW Fisheries. 97 pp.