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Barton, Diane

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About

Current activities

Parasites of hammerhead sharks in Australian and Indonesian waters

Parasites of tropical marine fish across northern Australia

Background

Parasite taxonomist and ecologist with experience in a wide range of host types.

Academic qualifications

PhD Zoology (JCU)

Membership of key national committees

Stories

9 March 2019

Young hammerhead sharks like staying close to home

27 October 2015

Why is a predator perfected by millions of years suddenly unfit for the sea?

Projects

Project A5 - Defining the connectivity of Australia’s hammerhead sharks

Publications

Marine Biodiversity Hub publications by: Barton, Diane

Examination of connectivity of hammerhead sharks in northern Australia (2020)

M.R. Heupel; C. Simpfendorfer; A. Chin; S.A. Appleyard; D. Barton; M. Green; G. Johnson; R. McAuley; W. White
Description and genetic characterisation of Pulchrascaris australis n. sp. in the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini (Griffin & Smith) in Australia (2020)

S. Shamsi; D. Barton; X. Zhu
Description of Piscicapillaria bursata sp. nov. (Capillariidae) and Redescription of Parascarophis sphyrnae Campana-Rouget, 1955 (Cystidicolidae), Two Nematode Parasites of Hammerhead Sharks (Sphyrna spp.) off Australia (2019)

F. Moravec; D. Barton
Description and characterisation of Terranova pectinolabiata n. sp. (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in great hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837), in Australia (2019)

S. Shamsi; D. Barton; X. Zhu
Acanthocephalans from Australian elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes) with a description of a new species in the genus Gorgorhynchus Chandler, 1934 (Rhadinorhynchidae) (2019)

L.R. Smales; D. Barton; L.A. Chisholm