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Diane Pitassy
Museum Specialist & Assistant to the Chair for CollectionsDepartment / Division
Education
- B.S., Wake Forest University, Biology
- M.S., University of Maryland, Conservation Biology & Sustainable Development
Collections Areas
Responsibilities in collection management include data management, transaction management, specimen preservation, scientific imaging, and technical field support to the scientific staff in the Division of Fishes. Departmental responsibilities involve assistance to the Chair in matters of collection management.
Research Interests
Areas of taxonomic specialization include Tetraodontiformes and Scorpaeniformes.
Publications
Article
- 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.