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Dr Thomas Munroe
Tom Munroe holding a Tongue Sole from the Australian Museum fish collection. Photo: M. McGrouther © Australian Museum. View larger image.
An 80 mm SL Tongue Sole, Paraplagusia unicolor, from the Australian Museum Fish Collection (AMS I.41267-005). Photo: A. Hay © Australian Museum. View larger image.
Dr Tom Munroe works for the National Marine Fisheries Service National Systematics Laboratory at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Tom is one of the world's experts on the systematics of flatfishes especially the families Cynoglossidae and Soleidae.
He visited the Australian Museum on a Collection Fellowship to work on Tongue Soles of the genera Paraplagusia, Cynoglossus, and Symphurus and the sole genus Soleichthys.
Among some of the samples he examined was a specimen of P. unicolor collected by the U.S. Fisheries Commission in Batemans Bay, New South Wales in 1906. The U.S. Fisheries Commission is the predecessor agency of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service.
Tom visited the Australian Museum from 17 May 2007 until 22 June 2007 then traveled to Taiwan to examine specimens. He resumed work at the Australian Museum between 9 to 17 July 2007.
Related links
- View the Soles list
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Page researched and compiled by
M. McGrouther & T. Munroe, July 2007.
