Marion Anstis

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

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]

Bibliography

  • Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia (2002)
  • Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia (2007)
  • Tadpoles And Frogs Of Australia (2013)

References

  1. ^ a b c "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. OCLC 876663208. Retrieved 18 December 2018 – via Worldcat.
  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.