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HASTINGS, PHILIP

Professor of Marine Biology/

Curator of Marine Vertebrates

Degrees:

• B.A., University of South Florida
• M.S., University of West Florida
• Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research Interests:

• Systematics & evolution of fishes
• Biogeography
• Evolution of behavior
• Marine conservation
• Behavioral ecology of fishes

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 132: Introduction to Marine Biology
• SIO 294: Biology Of Fishes
• SIO 296: Special Topics/Marine Biology
• SIO132: Introduction to Marine Biology
• SIO294: Biology Of Fishes
• SIO296: Special Topics/Marine Biology
• SIO297: Marine Biology Seminar

Mentoring:

• Aburto, Octavio (Post Doc; 2009-)
• Bowlin, Noelle (Graduate; 2009-)
• Paredes, Gustavo (Post Doc; 2009-)
• Erisman, Brad (Post Doc; 2008-)
• Galland, Grantly (Graduate; 2007-)
• Aburto , Octavio (Graduate; 2004-2009)
• Lin, Hsiu-Chin (Graduate; 2004-2009)
• Erisman, Brad (Graduate; 2003-2008)
• Hyde, John (Graduate; 2001-2007)
• Craig, Matt (Graduate; 2000-2005)

Hastings, P. A. & V. G. Springer. 2009. Recognizing diversity in blennioid fish nomenclature (Teleostei:Blennioidei). Zootaxa 2120:3-14.

Lin, H.C., C. Sánchez-Ortiz & P. A. Hastings. 2009. Colour variation is incongruent with mitochondrial lineages: cryptic speciation and subsequent diversification in a Gulf of California reef fish (Teleostei: Blennioidei). Molecular Ecology 18:2476-2488.

Erisman, B. E., M. C. Craig & P. A. Hastings. 2009. A Phylogenetic Test of the Size-Advantage Model: Evolutionary Changes in Mating Behavior Influence the Loss of Sex Change in a Fish Lineage. American Naturalist 174:E83-E99.

MacPherson, E., P. Hastings & D. R. Robertson. 2009. Macroecological patterns among marine fishes. In: Witman, J. and K. Roy (eds). Marine Macroecology. University of Chicago Press (in press).

Patzner, R. A., E. J. Gonçlaves, P. A. Hastings & B. G. Kapoor (eds). 2009. The Biology of Blennies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire. 482 pp.

Hastings, P. A. & V. G. Springer. 2009. Systematics of the Blennioidei and the included families Dactyloscopidae, Chaenopsidae, Clinidae and Labrisomidae. Pp. 3-30, In: Patzner, R. A., E. J. Gonçlaves, P. A. Hastings & B. G. Kapoor (eds). The Biology of Blennies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.

Hastings, P. A. & V. G. Springer. 2009. Systematics of the Blenniidae (Combtooth Blennies). Pp. 69-91, In: Patzner, R. A., E. J. Gonçlaves, P. A. Hastings & B. G. Kapoor (eds). The Biology of Blennies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.

Hastings, P. A. 2009. Biogeography of New World Blennies. P. 95-118, In: Patzner, R. A., E. J. Gonçlaves, P. A. Hastings & B. G. Kapoor (eds). The Biology of Blennies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.

Patzner, R. A., P.A. Hastings, V. G. Springer, P. Wirtz & E. J. Gonçalves. 2009. List of valid species of blennies. Pp. 443-473, In: Patzner, R. A., E. J. Gonçlaves, P. A. Hastings & B. G. Kapoor (eds). The Biology of Blennies. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.

Hastings, P.A., L.T. Findley & A. van der Heiden. 2009. Fishes of the Gulf of California. In: R. Brusca (ed). The Gulf of California: Biodiversity and Conservation. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press & University of Arizona Press. In press.

Erisman, B.E., J. A. Rosales Casian & P. A. Hastings. 2008. Evidence of gonochorism in a grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea, from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Environmental Biology of Fishes 82:23-33.

Erisman, B., M. Buckhorn & P. Hastings. 2007. Spawning behavior and periodicity in the leopard grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea, from the central Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Biology 151:1849-1861.

Hastings, P.A. & L.T. Findley. 2007. Fishes of the Biosphere Reserve, Northern Gulf of California. pp. 364-387, In: Felger, R. & W. Broyles (eds). Dryborders: Great Natural Areas of the Gran Desierto and Upper Gulf of California. Univ. Utah Press, Salt Lake City

Craig, M.T. & P.A. Hastings. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of the groupers (Serranidae) with a reclassification of the Epinephelinae. Ichthyological Research 54(1):1-17.

Craig, M.T., P.A. Hastings, D.J. Pondella II, D.R. Robertson & J.A. Rosales-Casian. 2006. Phylogeography of the flag cabrilla Epinephelus labriformis (Serranidae): implications for the biogeography of the Tropical Eastern Pacific and the early stages of speciation in a marine shore fish. J. Biogeogr. 33:969-979.

Hastings, P.A. & H.J. Walker, Jr. 2003. Lumpenopsis clitella, a new species of prickleback (Teleostei: Stichaeidae) from southern California. Copeia 2003: 803-809.

Hastings, P.A. 2002. Evolution of morphological and behavioral ontogenies in females of a highly dimorphic clade of blennioid fishes. Evolution 56(8):1644-1654.

Hastings, P.A. & D.R. Robertson. 2001. (Editor) Systematics of tropical eastern Pacific fishes. Revista de Biologia Tropical 49(Suppl. 1)198 pp.

Hastings, P.A. 2000. Biogeography of the tropical Eastern Pacific: Distribution and phylogeny of chaenopsid blennies. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: 128(3):319-335.

Hastings, P.A. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of the Coralliozetus clade of chaenopsid blennies, with description of a new genus (Teleostei, Blennioidei). Bulletin of Marine Science 61(3):743-761.

Emerson, S.A.& P.A. Hastings. 1998. Morphological correlations in evolution: Consequences for phylogenetic analysis. Quarterly Review of Biology 73(2):141-162.