Mark Allen Technical Officer (Fishes) Aquatic Zoology BSc., Ph.D. Contact +61 (8) 9212 3743 mark.allen@museum.wa.gov.au Mark has spent the majority of his life chasing fishes throughout the Australasian region and has co-authored numerous fish identification guides including “A Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia”. Mark’s primary research interests are the ecology, biology and taxonomy of freshwater fishes of Australia-New Guinea, having completed his Ph.D. on anthropogenic impacts on fish migration in freshwater systems of south-western Australia in 2016. He previously worked at Murdoch University in the Freshwater Fish Group & Fish Health Unit before joining the Aquatic Zoology team at the Western Australian Museum in 2015. Mark is responsible for the day-to-day management of the State’s fish collection and associated databases. He also contributes to field expeditions, public outreach, and educational programs. Selected Publications Mark’s full publication list can be found here. 2016-present Allen, M.G., Morgan, D.L., Close, P.G. and Beatty, S.J. (2020). Too little but not too late? Biology of a recently discovered and imperiled freshwater fish in a drying temperate region and comparison with sympatric fishes. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 30: 1412–1423. Richards, Z.T., Garcia, R., Moore, G., Fromont, J., Kirkendale, L., Bryce, M., Bryce, C., Hara, A., Ritchie, J., Gomez, O., Whisson, C., Allen, M. and Wilson, N. (2019). A tropical Australian refuge for photosymbiotic benthic fauna. Coral Reefs 38: 669–676. Shelley, J.J., Morgan, D.L., Hammer, M.P., Le Feuvre, M.C., Moore, G.I., Gomon, M.F., Allen, M.G. and Saunders, T. (2018). A field guide to the freshwater fishes of the Kimberley. Murdoch University Print Production Team, Perth. Allen, G.R., Moore, G.I. and Allen, M.G. (2017). Neopomacentrus aktites, a new species of damselfish (Pisces: Pomacentridae) from Western Australia. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 29: 1–10. Allen, M., Beatty, S. and Morgan, D. (2017). Aquatic Fauna Refuges in Margaret River and the Cape to Cape region of Australia's Mediterranean-climatic Southwestern Province. FiSHMED Fishes in Mediterranean Environments 2017.002: 2–26. Beatty, S., Allen, M., Lymbery, A., Jordaan, M.S., Morgan, D., Impson, D., Marr, S., Ebner, B. and Weyl, O.L.F. (2017). Rethinking refuges: Implications of climate change for dam busting. Biological Conservation 209: 188–195. Beatty, S.J., Allen, M.G., Whitty, J.M., Lymbery, A.J., Keleher, J.J., Tweedley, J.R., Ebner, B.C. and Morgan, D.L. (2017). First evidence of spawning migration by goldfish (Carassius auratus); implications for control of a globally invasive species. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 26: 444–455. Morgan, D.L., Ebner, B.C., Allen, M.G., Gleiss, A.C., Beatty, S.J. and Whitty, J.M. (2017). Habitat use and site fidelity of neonate and juvenile green sawfish Pristis zijsron in a nursery area in Western Australia. Endangered Species Research 34: 235–249. Rowland, F., Close, P.G., Beatty, S.J., Allen, M.G., Gill, H.S., Berkelaar, J.S. and Morgan, D.L. (2017). Larval development and dietary ontogeny of a critically endangered galaxiid within a Mediterranean climatic zone of Australia. FiSHMED Fishes in Mediterranean Environments 2017.001: 1–14. Morgan, D.L., Beatty, S.J., Close, P.G., Allen, M.G., Unmack, P.J., Hammer, M.P. and Adams, M. (2016). Resolving the taxonomy, range and ecology of biogeographically isolated and critically endangered populations of an Australian freshwater galaxiid, Galaxias truttaceus. Pacific Conservation Biology 22: 350–359. Morgan, D.L., Wueringer, B.E., Allen, M.G., Ebner, B.C., Whitty, J.M., Gleiss, A.C. and Beatty, S.J. (2016). What is the fate of amputee sawfish? Fisheries 41: 71–73. Richards, Z., Kirkendale, L., Moore, G., Hosie, A., Huisman, J., Bryce, M., Marsh, L., Bryce, C., Hara, A., Wilson, N., Morrison, S., Gomez, O., Ritchie, J., Whisson, C., Allen, M., Betteridge, L., Wood, C., Morrison, H., Salotti, M., Hansen, G., Slack-Smith, S. and Fromont, J. (2016). Marine biodiversity in temperate Western Australia: multi-taxon surveys of Minden and Roe Reefs. Diversity 8: 7. Selected publications (pre-2016) Morgan, D.L., Allen, M.G., Beatty, S.J., Ebner, B.C. and Keleher, J.J. (2014). A guide to the freshwater fishes of Western Australia’s Pilbara Province. Freshwater Fish Group & Fish Health Unit, Murdoch University, Perth. Morgan, D.L., Unmack, P.J., Beatty, S.J., Ebner, B.C., Allen, M.G., Keleher, J.J., Donaldson, J.A. and Murphy, J. (2014). An overview of the ‘freshwater fishes’ of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 97: 263–278. Morgan, D.L., Beatty, S.J., Klunzinger, M.W., Allen, M.G. and Burnham, Q.F. (2011). A field guide to the freshwater fishes, crayfishes and mussels of south-western Australia. SERCUL, Perth. Allen, M., Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. (2005). Distribution, zoogeography and biology of the Murchison River hardyhead (Craterocephalus cuneiceps Whitley, 1944), an atherinid endemic to the Indian Ocean (Pilbara) Drainage Division of Western Australia. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 14: 209–224. Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. and Allen, M. (2002). Field guide to the freshwater fishes of Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth.