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Website "VerteGo" under construction on the comparative gonad morphology of vertebrates.

Education

Ph.D. Biology, 1980, City University of New York
B.S. Biological Sciences, 1975, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Interests

Systematics, Phylogeny and Biogeography of Tropical Freshwater and Coastal Marine Fishes; Comparative Teleost Anatomy, Development and Reproduction, especially applying neglected character sets; Theory and Methods of Historical Biogeography.

Recent Publications

Parenti, Lynne R. and Ebach, Malte C. 2013. Evidence and hypothesis in biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 40(5): 813-820. doi:10.1111/jbi.12069

Uribe, Mari C., Grier, Harry J. and Parenti, Lynne R. 2012. Ovarian Structure and Oogenesis of the Oviparous Goodeids Crenichthys baileyi (Gilbert, 1893) and Empetrichthys latos Miller, 1948 (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes). Journal of Morphology, 273(4): 371-387. doi:10.1002/jmor.11028

Parenti, Lynne R. 2012. Poeciliid Biology: The Next Generation. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 45(1): 75-78. doi:10.1080/10236244.2012.659430

Kottelat, Maurice, Baird, Ian, Kullander, Sven, Ng, Hek Hee, Parenti, Lynne R., Rainboth, Walter and Vidthayanon, Chavalit 2012. The status and distribution of freshwater fishes of Indo-Burma. In: Allen, David J., Smith, K. G. and Darwall, W. R. T., The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Indo-Burma. Cambridge (UK) and Gland (Switzerland): IUCN, pp.38-64.

Parenti, Lynne R. 2011. Endemism and Conservation of the Native Freshwater Fish Fauna of Sulawesi, Indonesia. In: Simanjuntak et al., Proceedings of the VIth National Seminar and 3rd Congress of the Indonesian Society of Ichthyologists. Cibinong, Indonesia: Indonesian Society of Ichthyologists, pp.1-10.

de Bruyn, M., Parenti, Lynne R. and Carvalho, G. R. 2011. Successful extraction of DNA from archived alcohol-fixed white-eye fish specimens using an ancient DNA protocol. Journal of fish biology, 78: 2074-2079.

Parenti, Lynne R. and Hartel, Karsten E. 2011. Osteology Identifies Fundulus capensis Garman, 1895 as a Killifish in the Family Fundulidae (Atherinomorpha: Cyprinodontiformes). Copeia, 2011(2): 242-250.

Parenti, Lynne R. 2010. Review of: Reproductive Biology And Phylogeny Of Fishes (Agnathans And Bony Fishes). Edited By B. G. M. Jamieson. Journal of fish biology, 76(10): 2599-2600.

Parenti, Lynne R., LoNostro, F. L. and Grier, Harry J. 2010. Reproductive histology of Tomeurus gracilis Eigenmann, 1909 (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Poeciliidae) with comments on evolution of viviparity in atherinomorph fishes. Journal of Morphology, 271(11): 1399-1406.

Parenti, Lynne R. and Ebach, Malte C. 2010. Wallacea Deconstructed. In: Williams, David M. and Knapp, Sandra, Beyond Cladistics: The Branching of a Paradigm. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.303-318.

Parenti, Lynne R. and Hadiaty, Renny K. 2010. A new, remarkably colorful, small ricefish of the genus Oryzias (Beloniformes, Adrianichthyidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Copeia, 2010(2): 268-273.

Parenti, Lynne R. 2009. [Letter from Lynne Parenti]. In: Knapp, S. and Wheeler, Q., Letters to Linnaeus. London: The Linnean Society of London, pp.163-167.

Parenti, Lynne R., Viloria, Angel L., Ebach, Malte C. and Morrone, Juan J. 2009. On the International Code of Area Nomenclature (ICAN): a reply to Zaragueta-Bagils et al.. Journal of Biogeography, 36(8): 1619-1621. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02171.x

Parenti, Lynne R. and Ebach, Malte C. 2009. Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 295 pages.