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| Area: Vertebrates (Herpetology) |
| Position: Researcher |
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South Australian Museum
Science Centre
Morgan Thomas Lane (off Kintore Avenue)
Adelaide, South Australia 5000 |
| Phone: +61 8 8207 7461 |
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| Fax: +61 8 8207 74222 |
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| Email: mark.hutchinson@samuseum.sa.gov.au |
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| Biography: |
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Mark Hutchinson was educated at La Trobe University in Melbourne where he gained a BSc(Hons) degree in 1977 and a PhD in 1984. He spent two and a half years in the United States on postdoctoral study at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and the University of Illinois (Urbana). .
While at La Trobe University he carried out work including biochemical systematic studies of lizards and speciation of the cold-adapted lizards of south eastern Australia and Tasmania. He also collaborated with palaeontologist Anne Warren on a series of studies of early fossil amphibians. While in the USA he worked on the evolutionary relationships among Australia’s frogs, establishing some of the first hypotheses of relationship for these animals based on interpretations of molecular evolution.
He has been at the South Australian Museum since 1990, His research interests have mostly centred on the classification and evolution of lizards and snakes, many carried out with long-time collaborator Steve Donnellan. Currently he is participating in multidisciplinary research sorting out the species level classification of Australian lizards, and using fossil evidence and DNA sequencing to look at the evolutionary history of the major Australian lizard groups. Another long-term interest has been in the conservation and distribution of reptiles in South Australia, the centrepiece of which has been research into the conservation of the critically endangered pygmy bluetongue lizard.
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| Major Publications: (Top 5) |
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Hutchinson, M., Swain, R. & Driessen, M. (2001). ‘Snakes And Lizards Of Tasmania’. Fauna Of Tasmania Handbook No. 9. Fauna Of Tasmania Committee, Hobart.
Hutchinson, M. N. (1997). The first fossil pygopod (Squamata: Gekkota), and a review of mandibular variation in living species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41: 355-366.
Hutchinson, M. N. (1993) Scincidae. Pp. 261-279 in Glasby, C. J., Ross, G. J. B. & Beesley, P. L. (eds) Fauna of Australia. Vol. 2A Amphibia and Reptilia. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
Hutchinson, M. N., Donnellan, S. C., Baverstock, P., Krieg, M., Simms, S.& Burgin, S. (1990) Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 535-554.
Hutchinson, M. N. & Maxson, L. R. (1987) Albumin evolution and the relationships of the Australian hylid frogs (Hylidae: Pelodryadinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 35: 343
Link to Herpetology Collections page |
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