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Education

Ph.D. 1960, Cornell University
B.S. 1956, Cornell University

Recent Publications

Collette, B.B. and Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. 2008. Southernmost occurrence of the slender tuna, Allothunnus fallai, off Tierra del Fuego, South Atlantic Ocean, Ichthyological Research, 55(1):95-96

Reznick, D., Meredith, R. and Collette, B.B. 2007. Independent evolution of complex life history adaptations in two families of fishes, live-bearing halfbeaks (Zenarchopteridae, Beloniformes) and Poeciliidae (Cyprinodontiformes), Evolution, 61(11):2570-2583

Tibbetts, I.R., Collette, B.B., Isaac, R. and Kreiter, P. 2007. Functional and phylogenetic implications of the vesicular swimbladder of Hemiramphus and Oxyporhamphus convexus (Beloniformes: Teleostei), Copeia, 2007(4):808-817

Orrell, T.M., Collette, B.B. and Johnson, G.D. 2006. Molecular data support separate scombroid and xiphioid clades, Bulletin of Marine Science, 79(3):505-519

van der Straten, K.M., Collette, B.B., Leung, L.K. and Johnston, S.D. 2006. Sperm morphology of the black marlin (Makaira indica) differs from scombroid sperm, Bulletin of Marine Science, 79(3):839-845

Collette, B.B., McDowell, J.R. and Graves, J.E. 2006. Phylogeny of Recent billfishes (Xiphioidei), Bulletin of Marine Science, 79(3):455-468

Collette, B.B., Greenfield, D.W. and Costa, J.L. 2006. Are there one or two species of Halobatrachus toadfishes (Teleostei: Batrachoidiformes)in the eastern Atlantic?, Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, 57(31):937-943

Ho, J., Collette, B.B. and Madinabeitia, I. 2006. Host specificity of Lepeophtheirus crassus (Wilson and Bere) (Copepoda: Caligidae) parasitic on the marlin sucker Remora osteochir (Cuvier) in the Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Parasitology, 92(5):1113-1115

Collette, B.B. and Smith, D.G. 2005. Obituary: William Ralph Taylor, 1919-2004, Copeia, 2005(3):709-711

Hardy, J.D.,Jr. and Collette, B.B. 2005. "Chapter 76. Scomberesocidae: sauries". Pp. 905-907 in Early stages of Atlantic fishes: an identification guide for the western central North Atlantic (Richards, W.J.). CRC Press

Collette, B.B. 2005. "Chapter 51. Batrachoidiformes, Batrachoididae: toadfishes". Pp. 759-767 in Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic (Richards, W.J.). CRC Press

Aschliman, N.C., Tibbetts, I.R. and Collette, B.B. 2005. Relationships of sauries and needlefishes (Teleostei: Scomberesocoidea) to the internally fertilizing halfbeaks (Zenarchopteridae) based on the pharyngeal jaw apparatus, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 118(2):416-427

Collette, B.B. and Smith, D.G. 2005. William Ralph Taylor - 1919-2004 - Obituary, Copeia, (3):709-711

Collette, B.B. and Parin, N.V. 2005. Sphyraena acus Lacepède, 1803 (currently Tylosurus acus) (Teleostei, BELONIDAE): proposed reinstatement, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62(4):232-236

Collette, B.B. 2005. "Belonidae: needlefishes". Pp. 909-931 in Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic (Richards, W.J.). CRC Press

Collette, B.B. 2005. "Hemiramphidae: halfbeaks". Pp. 933-953 in Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic (Richards, W.J.). CRC Press

Collette, B.B. 2005. "Chapter 75. Order Beloniformes". Pp. 903 in Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic (Richards, W.J.). CRC Press

Collette, B.B. 2005. Is the east-west division of haplotypes of the three-spot seahorse along Wallace's Line novel among marine organisms? A response to Lourie and Vincent, Journal of Biogeography, 32(7):1286