Pitassy, Diane
Museum Specialist
My professional responsibilities in collection management include data management, specimen preservation, and scientific imaging. I provide technical field and data management support to the scientific staff in the Division of Fishes. My areas of taxonomic specialization include Tetraodontiformes and Scorpaeniformes.
Positions
- Museum Specialist, National Museum of Natural History 1998 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
- M.S. in Conservation Biology, University of Maryland, College Park 2000 - 2002
- B.S. in Biology, Wake Forest University 1993 - 1997
Credentials
- Scientific Diver, 2006
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- 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
- Araujo, Gabriel S., Kurtz, Yan R., Sazima, Ivan, Carvalho, Pedro Hollanda, Floeter, Sergio R., Vilasboa, Anderson, Rotundo, Matheus M., Ferreira, Carlos E. L., Barreiros, João Pedro, Pitassy, Diane E., and Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo. 2023. "Evolutionary history, biogeography, and a new species of Sphoeroides (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae): how the major biogeographic barriers of the Atlantic Ocean shaped the evolution of a pufferfish genus." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad055. 2023
- Brandl, Simon J., Weigt, Lee A., Pitassy, Diane E., Coker, Darren J., Patrick, Christopher J., Luchese, Matheus H., Berumen, Michael L., Buskey, Edward J., Casey, Jordan M., Di Domenico, Maikon, Soeth, Marcelo, Topor, Zachary M., Duffy, J. Emmett, Baldwin, Carole C., Hagedorn, Mary, and Parenti, Lynne R. 2023. "Using standardized fish-specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) to quantify cryptobenthic fish communities." Methods in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14085. 2023
- Bouwmeester, Jessica, Daly, Jonathan, Henley, E. Michael, Parenti, Lynne R., Pitassy, Diane E., and Hagedorn, Mary. 2022. "Conservation of coral reef fishes: a field-hardy method to cryopreserve spermatogonial cells." Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02268-1. 2022
- Parenti, Lynne R., Pitassy, Diane E., Jaafar, Zeehan, Vinnikov, Kirill, Redmond, Niamh E., and Cole, Kathleen S. 2020. "Fishes collected during the 2017 MarineGEO assessment of Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 100, (4) 607–637. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420000417. 2020
- Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee, and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2020. "Misidentification of Bellator gymnostethus (Gilbert, 1892) as Prionotus ruscarius Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae)." Zootaxa, 4852, (1) 142. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.8. 2020
- Delrieu-Trottin, Erwan, Williams, Jeffrey T., Pitassy, Diane, Driskell, Amy, Hubert, Nicolas, Viviani, Jérémie, Cribb, Thomas H., Espiau, Benoit, Galzin, René, Kulbicki, Michel, Lison, de Loma, Meyer, Christopher, Mourier, Johann, Mou-Tham, Gérard, Parravicini, Valeriano, Plantard, Patrick, Sasal, Pierre, Siu, Gilles, Tolou, Nathalie, Veuille, Michel, Weigt, Lee, and Planes, Serge. 2019. "A DNA barcode reference library of French Polynesian shore fishes." Scientific Data, 6, (1) 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0123-5. 2019
- Robertson, D. Ross, Angulo, Arturo, Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane E., Driskell, Amy, Weigt, Lee A., and Navarro, Ignacio J. F. 2017. "Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNA-barcoded checklist." Zootaxa, 4348, (1) 1–125. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4348.1.1. 2017
- Baldwin, Carole C., Pitassy, Diane E., and Robertson, D. Ross. 2016. "A new deep-reef scorpionfish (Teleostei, Scorpaenidae, Scorpaenodes) from the southern Caribbean with comments on depth distributions and relationships of western Atlantic members of the genus." ZooKeys, 606 141–158. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.606.8590. 2016
- Jawad, L. A. and Pitassy, Diane E. 2015. "Record of lattice blaasop, Takifugu oblongus (Bloch, 1786) from the Sea of Oman." Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 31, (1) 199–200. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.12640. 2015
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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
Affiliation
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
Mailing Address
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Museum Support Center
4210 Silver Hill Rd, MRC 534
Suitland, MD 20746
Shipping Address
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Museum Support Center
4210 Silver Hill Rd
Suitland, MD 20746
