Dianne Bray

Museum Victoria · Department of Sciences

Sexual ornaments found only in females are a rare occurrence in nature. One expla- nation for this is that female ornaments are costly to produce and maintain and, therefore, females must trade-off resources related to reproduction to promote or- nament expression. Here, we investigate whether a trade-off exists between female ornamentation and f...

The deepest systematic collection of benthic fishes in Australian waters (108 species from 48 families in 200–3000 m depths) was taken by beam trawl during two surveys in the central Great Australian Bight (GAB) in 2015. All samples were on sediment habitats, but some were in close proximity to volcanic seamounts and outcropping rocky seabed in sub...

Sexual ornaments found only in females are a rare occurrence in nature. One explanation for this is that female ornaments are costly to produce and maintain and, therefore, females must trade-off resources related to reproduction to promote ornament expression. Here, we investigate whether a trade-off exists between female ornamentation and fecundi...

Nakabo T., Bray D.J. and Yamada U. 2006. A new species of Zenopsis (Zeiformes: Zeidae) from the South China Sea, East China Sea and off Western Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63(1): 91–96. Zenopsis stabilispinosa sp. nov. is described from the South China Sea, East China Sea and off Western Australia. It differs from other species of Zenopsi...

Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Apsilinae is described and illustrated from specimens captured with plankton nets and midwater trawls in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Series were assembled using body shape, fin-spine morphology, head spination, scale formation and counts, gill-raker counts, and pigment patterns. Identifications (mostl...

Larval development in the two species of the lutjanid subfamily Paradicichthyinae is described and illustrated from field specimens captured with plankton nets, midwater trawls and light traps in the eastern Indian Ocean and western Coral Sea. Series were assembled using fin-spine morphology, fin-ray counts, head spination and pigment patterns. Ide...