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Papers and Reports

  1. Leis, J M, Trnski, T, Harmelin-Vivien, M, Renon, J-P, Dufour, V, El Moudni, M K and Galzin, R (1991) High concentrations of tuna larvae (Pisces: Scombridae) in near-reef waters of French Polynesia (Society and Tuamotu Islands). Bulletin of Marine Science 48(1): 150-158.
  2. Trnski, T (ed.) (1992) A Preliminary Guide to the Fish Larvae of Temperate Australia. Australian Museum.
  3. Trnski, T (1992) Review of McGoodwin, J R (1990) Crisis in the World's Fisheries: people, problems, and policies. Stanford University Press. Australian Natural History 24(4): 63.
  4. Trnski, T (1992) Review of Wright, P (1992) The NPA Guide to the National Parks of Northern New South Wales. National Parks Association of New South Wales. Australian Natural History 24(4): 65.
  5. Trnski, T and Leis, J M (1992) A beginner's guide to illustrating fish larvae, pp 198-202 in: Hancock, D A (ed.) 1992, Larval Biology. Australian Society for Fish Biology Workshop, Hobart, 20 August 1991, Bureau of Rural Resources Proceedings No. 15, AGPS, Canberra.
  6. Leis, J M, Hoese, D F and Trnski, T (1993) Larval development in two genera of the Indo-Pacific Gobioid fish family Xenisthmidae: Allomicrodesmus and Xenisthmus. Copeia 1993(1): 186-196.
  7. Trnski, T (1993) Battered Fish: Australian Fisheries in Crisis. Muse June-July 1993: 9-11.
  8. Trnski, T (1997) Review of Kuiter, R H (1993) Coastal Fishes of south-eastern Australia. Crawford House Press. Nature Australia 24(11): 70.
  9. Trnski, T, Bray, D J, Leis J M, McGrouther, M A and Reader, S E (1994) Survey of Fishes of Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland in: Commonwealth Commission of Inquiry, Shoalwater Bay, Capricornia Coast, Queensland, Research Report no. 5, Vol. A, pp 235-281.
  10. Trnski, T (1997) Review of Edgar, G J (1997) Australian Marine Life: the plants and animals of temperate waters. Reed Books. Nature Australia 25(10): 72.
  11. Trnski, T and McGrouther, M A (1997) Results of the survey of reef fishes of the far northern section of the Great Barrier Reef north of Raine Island, adjacent Coral Sea Reefs and Torres Strait. Australian Museum, Sydney. 22 pp.
  12. Leis, J M, Trnski, T, Doherty, P J and Dufour, V (1998) Replenishment of fish populations in the enclosed lagoon of Taiaro Atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia): evidence from eggs and larvae. Coral Reefs 17: 1-8.
  13. Paxton, J R, Johnson, G D and Trnski, T (2001) Larvae and juveniles of the deepsea "whalefishes" Barbourisia and Rondeletia (Stephanoberyciformes: Barbourisiidae, Rondeletiidae), with comments on family relationships. Records of the Australian Museum 53: 407-425.
  14. Trnski, T (2001) Diel and tidal abundance of fish larvae in a barrier estuary channel in New South Wales. Marine and Freshwater Research 52: 995-1006.
  15. Leis, J M, Trnski, T and Beckley, L E (2002) Larval development of Pagellus natalensis and what larval morphology indicates about relationships in the perciform fish family Sparidae (Teleostei). Marine and Freshwater Research 53: 367-376.
  16. Trnski, T (2002) Behaviour of settlement-stage larvae of fishes with an estuarine juvenile phase: in situ observations in a warm-temperate estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series 242: 205-214.
  17. Trnski, T (2003) Physical and behavioural determinants of settlement in fishes that use estuaries as juvenile nurseries. PhD thesis, University of Technology, Sydney. 136 pp.
  18. Leis, J M, Trnski, T, Dufour V, Harmelin-Vivien M, Renon J-P and Galzin R (2003). Local completion of the pelagic larval stage of coastal fishes in coral-reef lagoons of the Society and Tuamotu Islands. Coral Reefs 22: 271-290.
  19. Trnski, T, Hay, A C and Fielder, D S (2005) Larval development of estuary perch (Macquaria colonorum) and Australian bass (M. novemaculeata) (Perciformes: Percichthyidae), with comments on their life history. Fishery Bulletin 103: 183-194.
  20. Clark, D L, Leis, J M, Hay, A C and Trnski, T (2005) Swimming ontogeny of larvae of four temperate marine fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 292: 287-300.
  21. Leis, J M, Hay, A C and Trnski, T (2006) In situ ontogeny of behaviour in pelagic larvae of three temperate, marine, demersal fishes. Marine Biology 148: 655-669.
  22. Knight, J T and Trnski, T (in prep) Early developmental ontogeny and morphology of the endangered Oxleyan pygmy perch Nannoperca oxleyana Whitley.

Books

  1. Leis, J M and Trnski, T (1989). The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Shorefishes. New South Wales University Press, Kensington. 372 pp.
  2. Neira, F J, Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (1998) The Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: a laboratory guide for larval fish identification. University of Western Australia Press, Perth. 474 pp.

Book Chapters

  1. Leis, J M and Trnski T (1989) 39 chapters: Clupeidae, Engralididae, Chanidae, Antennariidae, Belonidae, Hemiramphidae, Caproidae, Solenostomidae, Triglidae, Acropomatidae, Ambassidae, Carangidae, Cepolidae, Drepaneidae, Echeneididae, Ephippididae, Kuhliidae, Leiognathidae, Leptobramidae, Malacanthidae, Menidae, Opistognathidae, Plesiopidae, Scatophagidae, Sciaenidae, Sillaginidae, Sparidae, Symphysanodontidae, Terapontidae, Mugilidae, Polynemidae, Uranoscopidae, Ammodytidae, Amblyopinae, Trichiuridae, Cynoglossidae, Pleuronectidae, Soleidae, Triacanthidae, in: Leis, J M and Trnski, T (eds) (1989). The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Shorefishes. New South Wales University Press, Kensington.
  2. Russell, D J, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (1989) Centropomidae, in: Leis, J M and Trnski, T (eds) (1989). The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Shorefishes. New South Wales University Press, Kensington.
  3. Trnski, T, Leis, J M and Wirtz, P (1989) Pholidichthyidae: Convict Blennies, Engineerfishes, pp 259-262 in: Leis, J M and Trnski, T (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Shorefishes. New South Wales University Press, Kensington.
  4. Miskiewicz, A G, Bruce, B D and Trnski, T (1998) Family Berycidae, in: Neira, F J, Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (eds) The Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: a laboratory guide for larval fish identification. University of Western Australia Press, Perth.
  5. Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (1998) 3 chapters: Enoplosidae, Gempylidae, Girellidae, in: Neira, F J, Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (eds) The Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: a laboratory guide for larval fish identification. University of Western Australia Press, Perth.
  6. Trnski, T (1998) Carangidae, in: Neira, F J, Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (eds) The Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: a laboratory guide for larval fish identification. University of Western Australia Press, Perth.
  7. Trnski, T and Miskiewicz, A G (1998) 2 chapters: Callanthiidae, Trichiuridae, in: Neira, F J, Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (eds) The Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: a laboratory guide for larval fish identification. University of Western Australia Press, Perth.
  8. Trnski, T and Neira, F J (1998) 2 chapters: Scombridae, Terapontidae, in: Neira, F J, Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (eds) The Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: a laboratory guide for larval fish identification. University of Western Australia Press, Perth.
  9. Trnski, T, Neira, F J and Miskiewicz, AG (1998) Family Pomatomidae, in: Neira, F J, Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (eds) The Larvae of Temperate Australian Fishes: a laboratory guide for larval fish identification. University of Western Australia Press, Perth.
  10. Bray, D J, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) Samaridae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  11. Cavalluzzi, M R, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) 2 chapters: Drepaneidae, Ephippidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  12. Gago, F J, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) Trichiuridae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  13. Konishi, Y, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) Malacanthidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  14. Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) 19 chapters: Clupeinae, Dussumieriinae, Pellonulinae, Engraulidae, Chirocentridae, Pristigasteridae, Chanidae, Caproidae, Cepolidae, Symphysanodontidae, Polynemidae, Sciaenidae, Opistognathidae, Plesiopidae, Carangidae, Amblyopinae, Soleidae, Cynoglossidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  15. Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (2000) 2 chapters: Berycidae, Hoplichthyidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  16. Okiyama, M, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) Ammodytidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  17. Richards, W J, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) Triglidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  18. Trnski, T (2000) Isonidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  19. Trnski, T and Leis J M (2000) 18 chapters: Belonidae, Mugilidae, Solenostomidae, Acropomatidae, Ambassidae, Centrogeniidae, Latidae, Leiognathidae, Leptobramidae, Menidae, Sillaginidae, Kuhliidae, Terapontidae, Sparidae, Echeneidae, Uranoscopidae, Scatophagidae, Triacanthidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  20. Trnski, T, Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (2000) Hemiramphidae in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  21. Trnski, T, Leis, J M and Rennis, D S (2000) Platycephalidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  22. Trnski, T, Leis, J M and Wirtz, P (2000) Pholidichthyidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  23. Watson, W, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) Antennariidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae. Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, 2. Brill, Leiden.
  24. Paxton, J R and Trnski, T (2003a) Rondeletiiidae: redmouth whalefishes. Pp 1168-1169 in: Carpenter, K (ed) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 2: bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication 5. FAO, Rome.
  25. Paxton, J R and Trnski, T (2003b) Megalomycteridae: bignose fishes. Pp 1176-1177 in: Carpenter, K (ed) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 2: bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication 5. FAO, Rome.

Web Publications

  1. Trnski, T and Miskiewicz, A G (2005) Monodactylidae: Diamondfishes, fingerfishes. Australian Museum Larval Fishes Website. www.australianmuseum.net.au/larval_fishes/descriptions/monodactylidae.htm
    Hay A C, Trnski, T and Miskiewicz, A G (2005) Monodactylidae Schuettea scalaripinnis (Steindachner, 1866). Australian Museum Larval Fishes Website. www.australianmuseum.net.au/larval_fishes/descriptions/schuettea-scalaripinnis.htm

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