Diane Pitassy

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Department / Division

Education

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

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

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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.

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