Marion Anstis

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Marion Anstis is an Australian herpetologist. Her work focuses on frogs and Tadpoles found in Australia.

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Career

Anstis was a music teacher for 31 years before retiring in 2001. Before her retirement, she published 11 papers in scientific journals. [1]

In 2002, she published a book called Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia which won a Whitley Award. [2] Anstis published a children's book, Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia in 2007. [3]

She submitted her book, Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia as her PhD thesis at Newcastle University in 2012. [1] [4] It was then published in 2013 by New Holland Publishers. [5] It won her another Whitley Award in 2014. [6]

She received grants from the Australian Biological Resources Study in 1999 and in 2006-7 and from WWF in 2003. She was shortlisted for a Eureka Prize in 2003. [1]

A genus of West Australian frog, Anstisia , was named in honor of her in 2022. [7]

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Related Research Articles

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Anstisia is a genus of frogs in the family Myobatrachidae. These frogs are endemic to southern Western Australia.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr Marion Anstis". The Australian Museum. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. "Marion Anstis". Radio National. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  3. "Frogs and tadpoles of Australia". National Library of Australia. 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  4. Anstis, Marion (2012). Tadpoles and frogs of Australia. Worldcat. OCLC   876663208 . Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  5. "Tadpoles and frogs of Australia". National Library of Australia. New Holland Publishers. 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  6. "rzsnsw1 | Whitley Award Winners". Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  7. Webster, Grant N.; Bool, Ian (14 June 2022). "A new genus for four myobatrachid frogs from the South Western Australian Ecoregion". Zootaxa. 5154 (2): 127–151. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.2 . ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   36095631. S2CID   249699025.