Marion Anstis Explained

Marion Anstis is an Australian herpetologist. Her work focuses on frogs and Tadpoles found in Australia.

Career

Anstis was a music teacher for 31 years before retiring in 2001. Before her retirement, she published 11 papers in scientific journals.^[1]

In 2002, she published a book called Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia which won a Whitley Award.^[2] Anstis published a children's book, Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia in 2007.^[3]

She submitted her book, Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia as her PhD thesis at Newcastle University in 2012.^[4] It was then published in 2013 by New Holland Publishers.^[5] It won her another Whitley Award in 2014.^[6]

She received grants from the Australian Biological Resources Study in 1999 and in 2006-7 and from WWF in 2003. She was shortlisted for a Eureka Prize in 2003.

A genus of West Australian frog, Anstisia, was named in honor of her in 2022.^[7]

Bibliography

• Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia (2002)
• Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia (2007)
• Tadpoles And Frogs Of Australia (2013)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr Marion Anstis . The Australian Museum . 17 December 2018 . en.
2. Web site: Marion Anstis . Radio National . 17 December 2018 . en-AU . 14 February 2014.
3. Web site: Frogs and tadpoles of Australia . National Library of Australia . 18 December 2018 . English . 2007.
4. Book: Anstis . Marion . Tadpoles and frogs of Australia . Worldcat . 18 December 2018 . English . 2012. 876663208 .
5. Web site: Tadpoles and frogs of Australia . National Library of Australia . New Holland Publishers . 18 December 2018 . 2013.
6. Web site: rzsnsw1 Whitley Award Winners . Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales . 18 December 2018 . en.
7. Webster . Grant N. . Bool . Ian . 2022-06-14 . A new genus for four myobatrachid frogs from the South Western Australian Ecoregion . Zootaxa . en . 5154 . 2 . 127–151 . 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.2 . 36095631 . 249699025 . 1175-5334. free .