Bemis, Katherine Elliott
Research Zoologist, NOAA National Systematics Lab and Curator of Fishes
0000-0002-7471-9283
Bemis, Katherine Elliott
Research Zoologist, NOAA National Systematics Lab and Curator of Fishes
Systematics, biology, and morphology of marine fishes, in particular Tetraodontiformes.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- Ph.D., College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences , Fisheries Science, Dissertation title: Studies on the Anatomy of Teleosts 2016 - 2019
- B.S. in Natural Resources and Marine Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University , Honors thesis title: Deepwater dragonets (Teleostei: Callionymidae: Foetorepus) of the Mid Atlantic Bight: A little-known genus from the edge of the continental shelf 2011 - 2015
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Kiser, Helen, Skufca, Katie, Bemis, Katherine E., and Baeza, J. A. 2024. "Comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of Smoothhound sharks provide insight into the phylogenetic relationships within the family Triakidae." Gene Reports, 36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genrep.2024.101957. 2024
- Troyer, Emily M., Evans, Kory M., Goatley, Christopher, Friedman, Matt, Carnevale, Giorgio, Nicholas, Benjamin, Kolmann, Matthew, Bemis, Katherine E., and Arcila, Dahiana. 2024. "Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives." Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae127. 2024
- Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2024. "History of the Monographic Series Fishes of the Western North Atlantic." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 112, (3). https://doi.org/10.1643/t2023102. 2024
- Schmitter-Soto, Juan, Bemis, Katherine E., Dowling, Thomas E., Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor S., Findley, Lloyd T., Gilbert, Carter R., Hartel, Karsten E., Lea, Robert N., Mandrak, Nicholas E., Neighbors, Margaret A., Walker,H. J., J., and Page, Lawrence M. 2024. "How Many Fish Species Are in North America?" Ichthyology & Herpetology, 112, (4). https://doi.org/10.1643/i2023047. 2024
- Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., and Bemis, Katherine E. 2024. "New species of redbait from the Philippines (Teleostei, Emmelichthyidae, Emmelichthys)." ZooKeys, 1196 95–109. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1196.111161. 2024
- Fahimi, Neda, Bemis, Katherine E., and Baeza, J. A. 2024. "The mitochondrial genome of the Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch, 1791) (Perciformes: Lutjanidae)." Journal of Natural History, 58, (33-36) 1321–1335. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2388290. 2024
- Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth S., Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald, Kenneth S., Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. "Biodiversity of Philippine marine fishes: A DNA barcode reference library based on voucher specimens." Scientific Data, 10, (1) 411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02306-9. 2023
- Bemis, Katherine E., Tyler, James C., Kaneko, Atsushi, Matsuura, Keiichi, Murakumo, Kiyomi, Espíndola, Vinicius C., Justine, Jean-Lou, Tyler, Diane M., Girard, Matthew G., and Bemis, William E. 2023. "Pelvic-Fan Flaring and Inflation in the Three-Tooth Puffer, Triodon macropterus (Tetraodontiformes: Triodontidae), with Additional Observations on Their Behavior in Captivity." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 111, (2). https://doi.org/10.1643/i2022022. 2023
- Page, Lawrence M., Bemis, Katherine E., Dowling, Thomas E., Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor S., Findley, Lloyd T., Gilbert, Carter R., Hartel, Karsten E., Lea, Robert N., Mandrak, Nicholas E., Neighbors, Margaret A., Schmitter-Soto, Juan, and Walker, Harold J. 2023. "The Eighth Edition of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes." Fisheries, 48, (12) 497–498. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.11015. 2023
- Cady, Tabitha, Bemis, Katherine E., and Baeza, J. Antonio. 2023. "The mitochondrial genome of the endangered Spiny Butterfly Ray Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus 1758) (Myliobatiformes: Gymnuridae) provides insights into cryptic lineages." Mitochondrial Dna Part a, https://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2023.2251577. 2023
- Policarpo, Maxime, Bemis, Katherine E., Laurenti, Patrick, Legendre, Laurent, Sandoz, Jean-Christophe, Rétaux, Sylvie, and Casane, Didier. 2022. "Coevolution of the olfactory organ and its receptor repertoire in ray-finned fishes." Bmc Biology, 20, (1) 195–195. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01397-x. 2022
- Hoban, Mykle L., Whitney, Jonathan, Collins, Allen G., Meyer, Christopher, Murphy, Katherine R., Reft, Abigail J., and Bemis, Katherine E. 2022. "Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing." PeerJ, 10. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13790. 2022
- Hilton, Eric J., Bauer, Aaron M., Bemis, Katherine E., Sabaj, Mark H., Smith, David G., and Watkins-Colwell, Gregory. 2021. "A Common Love of Science: The One-Hundredth Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109, (3). https://doi.org/10.1643/t2021071. 2021
- Policarpo, Maxime, Bemis, Katherine E., Tyler, James C., Metcalfe, Cushla J., Laurenti, Patrick, Sandoz, Jean-Christophe, Rétaux, Sylvie, and Casane, Didier. 2021. "Evolutionary Dynamics of the OR Gene Repertoire in Teleost Fishes: Evidence of an Association with Changes in Olfactory Epithelium Shape." Molecular biology and evolution, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab145. 2021
- Hegde, Shanthi, Tyler, James C., Stearns, Walt, and Bemis, Katherine E. 2021. "Live Coloration and Schooling Behavior of Juvenile Sharptail Mola, Masturus lanceolatus (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae), Off South Florida." Southeastern Naturalist Notes, 20, (4) N102–N107. 2021
- Bemis, Katherine E., Tyler, James C., Psomadakis, Peter N., Ferris, Lauren Newell, and Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju. 2020. "Review of the Indian Ocean spikefish genus Mephisto (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthodidae)." Zootaxa, 4802, (1) 82–98. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.5. 2020
- Bemis, Katherine E., Tyler, James C., and Arcila, Dahiana. 2019. "Life history, distribution and molecular phylogenetics of the Upward-Mouth Spikefish Atrophacanthus japonicus (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthodidae)." Journal of fish biology, 94, (4) 578–584. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13923. 2019
- Bemis, Katherine E., Tyler, James C., Bemis, William E., Kumar, Kishor, Rana, Rajendra Singh, and Smith, Thierry. 2017. "A gymnodont fish jaw with remarkable molariform teeth from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37, (6). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1369422. 2017
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Chapter
- Bemis, Katherine E., Tyler, James C., Hilton, Eric J., and Bemis, William E. 2021. "Overview of the Anatomy of Ocean Sunfishes (Molidae: Tetraodontiformes)." In The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology, and Conservation. Thys, Tierney M., Hays, Graeme C., and Houghton, Jonathan D. R., editors. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429343360-4. 2021
- Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2019. "Family Belonidae, needlefishes." In Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes. Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., editors. 5–77. Yale University Press. In Fishes of the western North Atlantic (part 10). 2019
- Parin, N. V., Shakhovskoy, I., Bemis, Katherine E., and Collette, Bruce B. 2019. "Family Exocoetidae, flyingfishes." In Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes. Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., editors. 149–239. Yale University Press. In Fishes of the western North Atlantic (part 10). 2019
- Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2019. "Family Hemiramphidae, halfbeaks." In Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes. Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., editors. 89–147. Yale University Press. In Fishes of the western North Atlantic (part 10). 2019
- Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2019. "Family Scomberesocidae, sauries." In Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes. Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., editors. 79–88. Yale University Press. In Fishes of the western North Atlantic (part 10). 2019
- Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2019. "Order Beloniformes." In Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes. Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E., editors. 1–4. Yale University Press. In Fishes of the western North Atlantic (part 10). 2019
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Dataset
- Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] Color field photographs of voucher specimens. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23185373.V1. 2023
- Bemis, Katherine E., Girard, Matthew G., Santos, Mudjekeewis D., Carpenter, Kent E., Deeds, Jonathan R., Pitassy, Diane E., Flores, Nicko Amor L., Hunter, Elizabeth Sage, Driskell, Amy C., Macdonald,Kenneth S., III, Weigt, Lee A., and Williams, Jeffrey T. 2023. [Dataset] DNA sequences. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.23284901.V1. 2023
- Bemis, Katherine E. 2023. [Dataset] Unverified specimen records. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.22582450.V2. 2023
- Bemis, Katherine E. 2023. [Dataset] Verified specimen records. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.22582453.V2. 2023
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Report
- Galbraith, John K., Bemis, Katherine E., Bemis, William E., Cook, Heath S., and Wuenschel, Mark J. 2022. Identifications, distributions, and life history of four species of Seriola (Carangiformes: Carangidae) in the western North Atlantic based on contemporary and historical data. 22. NOAA. In NOAA Professional Papers NMFS 22. https://doi.org/10.7755/PP.22. 2022
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Review
- Bemis, Katherine E. 2021. [Book review] "Frogfishes: Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109, (3), 925–927. https://doi.org/10.1643/t2021054. 2021
Editor Of
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Book
- Baldwin, Carole C. and Bemis, Katherine E., editors. 2022. Tributes to Victor G. Springer In celebration of his 94th birthday. Washington, DC: Division of Fishes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.5479/10088/114290. 2022
- Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., editors. 2019. Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes. Yale University Press. In Fishes of the western North Atlantic (part 10). 2019
Affiliation
Member Of
- NMNH - Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology Curator of Fishes 2019 -
- National Systematics Lab of NOAA's Fisheries Research Zoologist 2019 -
- National Museum of Natural History
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
Mailing Address
- Mail: NOAA National Systematics Lab, P.O. Box 37012, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 0153, Washington, DC 20013
Shipping Address
- Courier: NOAA National Systematics Lab, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 0153, 1001 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560
