Diane Pitassy

• B.S., Wake Forest University, Biology
• M.S., University of Maryland, Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development

Responsibilities in collection management include data management, transaction management, specimen preservation, scientific imaging, and technical field support  in the Division of Fishes.

Areas of taxonomic specialization include Tetraodontiformes and Scorpaeniformes. 

Journal Article

• Brandl, Simon J., Weigt, Lee A., Pitassy, Diane E., Coker, Darren J., Patrick, Christopher J., Luchese, Matheus H., Berumen, Michael L., Buskey, Edward J., Casey, Jordan M., Di Domenico, Maikon, Soeth, Marcelo, Topor, Zachary M., Duffy, J. Emmett, Baldwin, Carole C., Hagedorn, Mary, and Parenti, Lynne R. 2023. "Using standardized fish-specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) to quantify cryptobenthic fish communities." Methods in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14085.
• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth S., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. "Biodiversity of Philippine marine fishes: A DNA barcode reference library based on voucher specimens." Scientific Data, 10, (1) 411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02306-9.
• Araujo, Gabriel S., Kurtz, Yan R., Sazima, Ivan, Carvalho, Pedro Hollanda, Floeter, Sergio R., Vilasboa, Anderson, Rotundo, Matheus M., Ferreira, Carlos E. L., Barreiros, João Pedro, Pitassy, Diane E., and Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo. 2023. "Evolutionary history, biogeography, and a new species of Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): how the major biogeographic barriers of the Atlantic Ocean shaped the evolution of a pufferfish genus." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad055.
• Bouwmeester, Jessica, Daly, Jonathan, Henley, E. Michael, Parenti, Lynne R., Pitassy, Diane E., and Hagedorn, Mary. 2022. "Conservation of coral reef fishes: a field-hardy method to cryopreserve spermatogonial cells." Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02268-1.
• Parenti, Lynne R., Pitassy, Diane E., Jaafar, Zeehan, Vinnikov, Kirill, Redmond, Niamh E., and Cole, Kathleen S. 2020. "Fishes collected during the 2017 MarineGEO assessment of Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 100, (4) 607–637. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420000417.
• Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee, and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2020. "Misidentification of Bellator gymnostethus (Gilbert, 1892) as Prionotus ruscarius Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae)." Zootaxa, 4852, (1) 142. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.8.
• Delrieu-Trottin, Erwan, Williams, Jeffrey T., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Hubert, Nicolas, Viviani, Jérémie, Cribb, Thomas H., Espiau, Benoit, Galzin, René, Kulbicki, Michel, Lison, de Loma, Meyer, Christopher, Mourier, Johann, Mou-Tham, Gérard, Parravicini, Valeriano, Plantard, Patrick, Sasal, Pierre, Siu, Gilles, Tolou, Nathalie, Veuille, Michel, Weigt, Lee, and Planes, Serge. 2019. "A DNA barcode reference library of French Polynesian shore fishes." Scientific Data, 6, (1) 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0123-5.
• Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane E., Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee A., and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2017. "Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNA-barcoded checklist." Zootaxa, 4348, (1) 1–125. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4348.1.1.
• Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane E., and Robertson, D. Ross. 2016. "A new deep-reef scorpionfish (Teleostei, Scorpaenidae, Scorpaenodes) from the southern Caribbean with comments on depth distributions and relationships of western Atlantic members of the genus." ZooKeys, 606 141–158. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.606.8590.
• Jawad, L. A. and Pitassy, Diane E. 2015. "Record of lattice blaasop, Takifugu oblongus (Bloch, 1786) from the Sea of Oman." Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 31, (1) 199–200. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.12640.
• Thorington, Richard W., Jr., Schennum, C. E., Pappas, L. A., and Pitassy, Diane E. 2005. "The Difficulties of Identifying Flying Squirrels (Sciuridae: Pteromyini) in the Fossil Record." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25, (4) 950–961.
• Thorington, Richard W., Jr., Pitassy, Diane E., and Jansa, S. A. 2002. "Phylogenies of Flying Squirrels (Pteromyinae)." Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 9 99–135.

Dataset

• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] Color field photographs of voucher specimens. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23185373.V1.
• Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] DNA sequences. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23284901.V1.