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Dr Penny Berents

Scientific Officer (Collection Manager)
BSc, MSc, PhD

Research interests

  1. Systematics of cerapodine Amphipod Crustaceans.
  2. Interactive key systems (using DELTA) for crustaceans

Address:
Marine Invertebrates
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Australian Museum
6 College Street
Sydney NSW 2010
Australia

Phone:
(+612) 9320 6134

Fax:
(+612) 9320 6042

Email:
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Research publications

a) Publications in Refereed Journals

Hutchings, P.A. & P.B. Weate, 1977. Distribution and abundance of cryptofauna from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Marine Research in Indonesia 17: 99-112.

Hutchings, P.A. & P.B. Weate, 1978. Comments on the technique of acid dissolution of coral rock to extract endo-cryptolithic fauna. The Australian Zoologist 19(3): 315-320.

Hutchings, P.A.& P.B.Weate, 1979. Experimental recruitment of endo-cryptolithic communities at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef: Preliminary Results. New Zealand DSIR Information Series 137(1): 239-257.

Berents, P.B., 1983. The Melitidae of Lizard Island and Adjacent Reefs, The Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 101-143.

Berents, P.B., 1985. Warragaia rintouli n.gen., n.sp. (Amphipoda: Urohaustoriidae) from New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 36: 253-258.

Lowry, J.K. & P.B. Berents, 1989. A re-description of Cerapus tubularis Say, 1817, based on the material of the first reviewer, S.I. Smith, 1880. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophioidea). Journal of Natural History 23: 1341-1352.

Lowry, J.K. & P.B. Berents, 1996. The Ericthonius group, a new perspective on an old problem (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophioidea). Records of the Australian Museum 48(1): 75-109.

b) Publications in Non Refereed Journals and Reports

Weate, P.B., 1975. A study of the wetlands of the Myall River. Operculum 4(3-4): 105-113.

Weate, P.B. & P.A. Hutchings, 1977. Gosford Lagoons environmental study - the benthos. Operculum 5(3): 137-143.

Hutchings, P.A., J. Pickard, H.F. Recher & P.B. Weate, 1977. A survey of mangroves at Brooklyn, Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. Operculum 5(3): 105-108.

Berents, P.B. 1996. Wetlands and benthos study. Homebush Bay Ecological Studies 1993 - 1995, Olympic Coordination Authority.

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