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Bemis, Katherine Elliott

Research Zoologist, NOAA National Systematics Lab and Curator of Fishes

Systematics, biology, and morphology of marine fishes, in particular Tetraodontiformes.

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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

• article

  • 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
  • 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

• 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, edited by Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., 5-77. Yale University Press. 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, edited by Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., 149-239. Yale University Press. 2019
  • Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2019. "Family Hemiramphidae, halfbeaks." in Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes, edited by Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., 89-147. Yale University Press. 2019
  • Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2019. "Family Scomberesocidae, sauries." in Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes, edited by Collette, Bruce B., Bemis, Katherine E., Parin, Nicolay V., and Shakhovskoy, Ilia B., 79-88. Yale University Press. 2019
  • Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E. 2019. "Order Beloniformes." in Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes, edited by Collette, Bruce B. and Bemis, Katherine E., 1-4. Yale University Press. 2019

• review

  • Bemis, Katherine E. 2021. [Book review] "Frogfishes: Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavioral Ecology." Ichthyology & Herpetology, 109 (3) 925–927. Miami, Florida: The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH). https://doi.org/10.1643/t2021054. 2021

editor of

• book

  • Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes 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

Other

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