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Peter Middelfart
Project Officer - Terrestrial Zoology

 

Qualifications

MSc, PhD (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Project

Conservation systematics of Western Australian subterranean fauna: taxonomy of subterranean pseudoscorpions. WABSI. (Terrestrial Zoology)  

Research 

  • Systematics of subterranean pseudoscorpions (as Project Officer, Terrestrial Zoology).
  • Blue swimmer crab larval plankton (as Research Associate, Aquatic Zoology).
  • World-wide revisions of Galeommatoidea, Bivalvia (as Research Associate, Aquatic Zoology).

Selected Publications

Middelfart, P. & Lützen, J. 2021. Description of Arculus hyllebergi n. sp. (Bivalvia: Galeommatoidea: Lasaeidae), a commensal on Dolicholana porcellana (Barnard, 1936) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin. 78. 139-145. 10.14456/pmbcrb.2021.10.

Kirkendale, L. & ter Poorten, J. & Middelfart, P. & Carter, J. 2021. A new photosymbiotic marine bivalve with window shell microstructure (Cardiidae: Fraginae). Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin. 78. 125-138. 10.14456/pmbcrb.2021.9.

Middelfart, P. & Kirkendale, L. & Bryce, C. 2020. Smaller molluscs from a multi-taxon survey (2012–2014) of the shallow marine environments of the tropical Kimberley region, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement. 85. 117. 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.85.2020.117-183.

Layton, K. & Middelfart, P. & Tatarnic, N. & Wilson, N. 2019. Erecting a new family for Spirostyliferina, a truncatelloidean microgastropod, and further insights into truncatelloidean phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta. 48. 10.1111/zsc.12374.