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Anthony Gill

Curator, natural history

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BSc (Hons) PhD UNE

Tony Gill has had more than 40 years of experience volunteering or working in natural history museums, beginning with an internship at the Australian Museum in 1981. Prior to joining the Macleay Museum in 2010, he was a researcher of shallow marine fishes for the Natural History Museum, London, and museum curator in the School of Life Sciences and assistant director for collections in the International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State University.

Tony received his PhD from the University of New England in 1991 based on research conducted at the Australian Museum. He was later a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. and Lerner-Gray Research Fellow in the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Current projects

  • Identification of butterfly type specimens in the Macleay Collections with A.L. Viloria, M. Huan and J. Philp.
  • Fishes of the Chevert Expedition.
  • Taxonomic review of the fish genus Hypoplectrodes and of New Zealand Zalanthias and Plectranthias with Dr C.D. Roberts (Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa).
  • Taxonomy of Australian barramundi with Dr M. Campbell.
  • Taxonomy of the dottyback subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae, with Professor A.J. Edwards (University of Newcastle, U.K.)
  • Identification of fish type specimens in the Macleay Collections
  • Extinct and threatened bird specimens in the Macleay Collections and the Australian Museum, with Dr L. Tsang.
  • Generic classification and relationships of anthiadine serranid fishes
  • Classification and relationships of gobioid fishes, with Dr R.D. Mooi (Manitoba Museum, Canada)
  • Type specimens of coral species described by Julian Tenison-Woods in the Macleay Collections, with Dr S.D. Cairns (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution).
  • Taxonomic reviews of various Australian anthiadine fish genera, with J. Pogonoski (Australan National Fish Collection, Hobart), F. Walsh (Kuranda, Queensland) and Dr M. Hammer (Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin).

  • Co-curator, Australian Seashores, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney, August 2022 – April 2023.
  • Co-curator, Natural Selections, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney, November 2020 – present. View the catalogue.
  • Co-curator, Stuffed, stitched and studied: Taxidermy in the 19th century, Macleay Museum, the University of Sydney, November 2014 – May 2015. Exhibition catalogue.
  • Co-curator, The meaning of life: Celebrating 50 years of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney, Macleay Museum, the University of Sydney, 28 September 2012 – 8 March 2013

  • Fujiwara, K., A.C. Gill, H. Endo, K. Shibukawa, & H. Motomura. 2025. ‘Taxonomic review of the dottyback genus Pseudoplesiops in Japanese waters, with descriptions of two new species (Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae)’. Ichthyological Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-025-01036-9
  • Williams, D.M. & A.C. Gill. 2025. ‘Norman Platnick, the development of cladistics, ‘integrative’ taxonomy and modern monography’. Pp.14–41. In: Q.D. Wheeler & D.M. Williams (eds). The New Taxonomy: A Science Reimagined. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
  • Tea, Y.K., T. Sih, F. Walsh, T. Bennett, L.A. Rocha, G. Bardout, A. Hay, K. Parkinson, S. Reader, I. Riley, J.J. Pogonoski, J.W. Johnson, G.I. Moore, A.C. Gill, G.F. Galbraith, B.J. Cresswell, A.S. Hoey, B.W. Frable, B. Brooke & R.J. Beaman. 2025. ‘New records of fishes from the Coral Sea Marine Park, Australia’. Coral Reefs https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-025-02664-3
  • McCurry, M.R., A.C. Gill, V. Baranov, L. Hart, C. Slayter & M. Frese. 2025. ‘The paleobiology of a new osmeriform fish species from Australia’. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2445684. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2445684
  • Viloria, A.L., M. Huan, A.C. Gill & J. Philp. 2024. ‘World entomological treasure in Australia’. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 66(3): 128–129.
  • Gill, A.C. 2024. ‘Compsanthias, new genus of Pacific Anthiadidae (Teleostei)’. Zootaxa 5463(3): 360–374.
  • Mo, M., A.C. Gill & A. Hay. 2024. ‘Piscivory in the comb-crested jacana Irediparra gallinacea’. Australian Field Ornithology 41: 1–3.
  • Viloria, A.L., M. Huan, A.C. Gill & J. Philp. 2023. ‘Hallazgo entomológico en Australia’. Anartia 37: 56–58.
  • Gill, A.C. 2023. ‘Taxonomic identity of the enigmatic Western Australian fish species Stigmatonotus australis Peters, 1877 (Teleostei)’. Zootaxa 5296(4): 551–560.
  • Gill, A.C. In press. Taxonomic identity of the enigmatic Western Australian fish species Stigmatonotus australis Peters, 1877 (Teleostei).
  • Gill, A.C. & C.N. Tang. 2022. ‘Odontanthias grahami Randall & Heemstra, a junior synonym of Anthias xanthomaculatus Fourmanoir and Rivaton (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae)’. Zootaxa 5222(2): 145–154.
  • Gill, A.C. & R. Winterbottom. 2022. ‘Family Pseudochromidae’. Pp. 115. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
  • Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Subfamily Anisochrominae’. Pp. 116–117, pl. 36. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
  • Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae’. Pp. 124–131, pls 36–38, 40, 45. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
  • Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Subfamily Pseudochrominae’. Pp. 131–146, pls 40–45. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 3, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
  • Gill, A.C. 2022. ‘Family Xenisthmidae’. In: P.C. Heemstra, E. Heemstra, D. Ebert, W. Holleman & J.E. Randall (eds). Coastal Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean, Volume 5, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
  • Parnaby, H. & A.C. Gill. 2021. ‘Mammal type specimens in the Macleay Collections, University of Sydney’. Zootaxa 4975(2): 201–252.
  • Gill, A.C., J.J. Pogonoski, G.I. Moore & J.W. Johnson. 2021. ‘Review of Australian species of Plectranthias Bleeker and Selenanthias Tanaka (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with description of four new species’. Zootaxa 4918(1): 1–116. 
  • Pogonoski, J.J. & A.C. Gill. 2021. ‘Taxonomy of Dactylanthias Bleeker (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae)’. Zootaxa 4926(3): 417–430.
  • Gill, A.C., J.J. Pogonoski, J.W. Johnson &Y.K. Tea. 2021. ‘Three new species of Australian anthiadine fishes, with comments on the monophyly of Pseudanthias Bleeker (Teleostei: Serranidae)’. Zootaxa 4996(1): 49–82.
  • Gill, A.C., K.E.S. Sorgon, V. Brun & Y.K. Tea. 2021. New records and redescription of Labracinus atrofasciatus (Herre 1933) (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69: 438–447.
  • Tea, Y.K., G.R. Allen, C.H.R. Goatley, A.C. Gill & B.W. Frable. 2021. ‘Redescription of Conniella apterygia Allen and its reassignment in the genus Cirrhilabrus Temminck and Schlegel (Teleostei: Labridae), with comments on cirrhilabrin pelvic morphology’. Zootaxa 5061(3): 493–509.

  • See Muse Magazine for  popular articles on the collections by Anthony Gill.

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Email: anthony.c.gill@sydney.edu.au

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Revision of the dottyback fish subfamily Pseudoplesiopinae

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