DMITRY L. PITRUK

TITLES:

Researcher, Laboratory of ichthyology, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.

EDUCATION:

M.S., Ichthyology, Far East State University, Vladivostok, Russia, 1984.

Ph.D., Ichthyology, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1988.

POSITIONS:

Probationer-Researcher, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1984-1986.

Laboratory Assistant, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1986-1987.

Post-graduate student, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1987-1990.

Junior Researcher, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1990-1993.

Researcher, Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1993-present.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Numerous field expeditions since 1983 in freshwater and marine habitats, in the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, and Kuril Islands; marine expedition aboard Russian and Japanese research vessels: Bering Sea, 1983, 1985; Okhotsk S ea, 1984, 1992; joint Russian and Japanese, coastal marine and freshwater fish collecting, Amur River region, 1994.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1988, 11 scientific publications on the morphology, systematics, development, distribution, and zoogeography of marine fishes, especially the snailfishes, family Liparididae.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• PITRUK, D. L. 1990. A preliminary list and distribution of species of fishes of the family Liparididae in the Okhotsk Sea. Proc. Zool. Inst., St. Petersburg, 213:35-45.

• PITRUK, D. L. 1991. Pseudonotoliparis rassi gen. et sp. nov. (Scorpaeniformes, Liparididae), a new liparidid fishes from bathyal depths of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. Vopr. Ichthy., 31(5):717-725.

• PITRUK, D. L. 1991. Peculiarities of morphology of the sensory system of the fishes of the family Liparididae (Scorpaeniformes). Proc. Zool. Inst., St. Petersburg, 235:37-49.

• PITRUK, D. L., and V. V. Fedorov. 1993. On the validity of the genus Elassodiscus Gilbert and Burke, 1912 (Scorpaeniformes, Liparididae), with the description of a new species from the Okhotsk Sea. Vopr. Ichthy., 33(2):165-175.

• PITRUK, D. L., and V. V. Fedorov. 1993. Squaloliparis gen. et sp. nov. (Scorpaeniformes, Liparididae), a new genus of liparidid fishes from bathyal depths of the Okhotsk Sea. Vopr. Ichthy., 33(5):602-608.