Fish Department - Research Associates
Dr Walter Ivantsoff
Australian Museum Research Associate Dr Walter Ivantsoff, August 2007. Photo © W. Ivantsoff. View larger image.
B.Sc., Ph.D.
- Employed by Macquarie University from 1968 to 2000.
- Presently Senior Research Fellow of the University
Walter Ivantsoff’s association with the Australian Museum began in the early 1970's when the then Director, Dr. Frank Talbot agreed to supervise his Ph.D. candidature.
Walter had joined many expeditions conducted by the Museum’s Fish Department to collect fish in many parts of Australia. He had also helped to teach a course called Biology of Fishes with Dr. John Paxton, (Senior Research Scientist, the Australian Museum) first and then took over the course from him at Macquarie University. He has also made contributions of fish he collected to the Museum.
Walter’s has mostly worked on atherinids, blue-eyes, flowers of the wave and to a lesser extent on their relatives such as the rainbowfishes and sailfin silversides.
Research Interests
- Australian marine and freshwater Atherinidae- Craterocephalus
- Pacific atherinids of the genera Atherinomorus, Hypoatherina, Stenatherina
- Atherinidae
- Isonidae
Contact details
Address:
Department of Biological ScienceS
Macquarie University
NSW 2109
Or
P.O. Box 3753
Marsfield NSW 2112
E-mail: wivantso@rna.bio.mq.edu.au
Phone: (612) 041 299 3912
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Copyright © Australian Museum, 2006
Page researched and compiled by
W. Ivantsoff & M. McGrouther, October 2007.
