Patricia J. Kailola is a noted ichthyologist. Her primary focus is in tropical Indo-Pacific fishes. She has worked in the Marine Studies program at the University of the South Pacific since 1995 and is an Australian Museum Research Associate. Among her numerous publications are listed several books covering tropical fish. She also has written texts on catfish. As of April 2006, she was working on a textbook on Western Indian Ocean fishes. She has assisted the Australian Museum in confirmation of species identification among their collection. Worldcat.org lists 27 works in 57 publications in 1 language and 603 library holdings.
Kailola graduated in 1990 from the University of Adelaide with a PhD in zoology titled "The catfish family Ariidae (Teleostei) in New Guinea and Australia: relationships, systematics and zoogeography".
She has been involved in studies of the following fish:
- Himantura
- Glossolepis
- Lake Wanam rainbowfish
- Amissidens hainesi
- Aspistor
- Paraplagusia
- Hortle's whipray
- Ilisha (genus)
- Cochlefelis
- Hemiarius
- Neoarius
- Plicofollis
- Sciades
- Paracaesio
- Branchiostegus
- Ozichthys
Taxon described by her
Taxon named in her honor
- The Whipfin sea catfish, Netuma patriciae Y. Takahashi, Seishi Kimura & Motomura, 2019, is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae found in the Western Pacific Ocean from the Philippines.
- The Kailola's sea catfish, Cathorops kailolae Marceniuk & Betancur-R., 2008. It is a tropical fresh and saltwater catfish which occurs in Central America
References
- "Collaborator Profile - Kailola, Patricia". www.fishbase.se. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- "Patricia Kailola - Australian Museum". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- "Collaborator Profile - Kailola, Patricia".
- "Kailola, Patricia J. [WorldCat Identities]". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- Kailola, Patricia J (1990), The catfish family Ariidae (Teleostei) in New Guinea and Australia: relationships, systematics and zoogeography, retrieved 11 March 2022
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CLARIIDAE, HETEROPNEUSTIDAE, ANCHARIIDAE and ARIIDA". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family ARIIDAE Bleeker 1858 (Sea Catfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
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