Publications

eimeria galateai sp. n. from the paradise kingfisher, and eimeria duncani sp. n. from the sacred kingfisher in papua new guinea.	eimeria galateai sp. n. from the paradise kingfisher (tanysiptera galatea gray) and eimeria duncani sp. n. from the sacred kingfisher (halcyon sancta vigors & horsfield) have been described from papua new guinea. four of 11 paradise kingfishers were infected with e. galateai oocysts, measuring 13 (11-16) x 9 (8-11) micron. the oocysts were ovoid with nipple-like protrusion at one pole. micropyle and polar granule were absent, while oocyst residuum (5 x 4 micron) was present. sporocysts, measurin ...	1977	881649
rapid diversification and secondary sympatry in australo-pacific kingfishers (aves: alcedinidae: todiramphus).	todiramphus chloris is the most widely distributed of the pacific's 'great speciators'. its 50 subspecies constitute a species complex that is distributed over 16 000 km from the red sea to polynesia. we present, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of this enigmatic radiation of kingfishers. ten pacific todiramphus species are embedded within the t. chloris complex, rendering it paraphyletic. among these is a radiation of five species from the remote islands of eastern ...	2015	26064600
descriptions of two new species of quasithelazia maplestone, 1932 (spirurida: acuariidae) and a redescription of alinema sturni jögis, 1968 from birds in australia.	quasithelazia minuta n. sp. and quasithelazia pearsoni n. sp. (spirurida: acuariidae) are described from todiramphus sanctus (vigors & horsfield) (coraciiformes: alcedinidae) in australia. alinema sturni jögis, 1968 from sturnus vulgaris (l.) (passeriformes: sturnidae) in europe, is considered to belong in the subfamily schistorophinae travassos, 1918 (and not in the seuratiinae chitwood & wehr, 1932, where it has previously been placed) on the basis of the number of the pairs of precloacal papi ...	2016	27307167
molecular identification of todiramphus chloris subspecies on the arabian peninsula using three mitochondrial barcoding genes and issr markers.	the collared kingfisher (todiramphus chloris) is widely distributed across the indian and western pacific oceans and consists of about 50 subspecies. two different subspecies of t. chloris occur in the arabian peninsula: t. c. abyssinicus from the red sea coast and t. c. kalbaensis from the arabian sea coast in the united arab emirates and oman. the aim of this study was to determine the molecular relationship between the two arabian subspecies and to establish the first dna barcodes from the ar ...	2020	31889874