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Diane Pitassy
Acting Collection ManagerDepartment / 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.
Research Interests
Areas of taxonomic specialization include Tetraodontiformes and Scorpaeniformes.
Publications
- Bouwmeester, Jessica, Daly, Jonathan, Henley, E. M., 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.