A. AllisonA Allison

collected 1974–2023

19,169 specimens, collected between 1974 and 2023 on 116 collecting days, now held in 6 departments. Identified 14,888 specimens for others.

On the labels as A Allison, Allison, A., Allen Allison, A. Allison, Allison.

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Specimens: 19,169
Type specimens: 573
Years in the field: 50
Islands: 28
Species: 761
Identifications: 14,888
In the Library: 12
Named after: 6

Where Allison collected

Specimens by decade

1970s2020s

Earliest: Drimys piperita, 1974 (New Guinea). Latest: Euglandina rosea, 2023.

In the Library

Publications in the Library whose author line carries this name.

2024
Systematics and biogeography of a Sunda-Papuan snake lineage (Natricidae: Tropidonophis Jan, 1863)
Roberts, J.R., F. Kraus, A. Allison, S.J. Richards, B. Iova, B. Tjaturadi, S. Ruane, and C.C. Austin · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Museum research publication
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2024
Gold in the mountains: striking new species of Papuascincus (Sphenomorphini, Scincidae) from New Guinea
Slavenko, A., S.J. Richards, S.C. Donnellan, A. Allison, and P.M. Oliver · Vertebrate Zoology
Museum research publication
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2023
Testing geology with biology: Plate tectonics and the diversification of microhylid frogs in the Papuan region
Hill, E.C., D.F. Gao, D.A. Polhemus, C.J. Fraser, B. Iova, A. Allison, and M.A. Butler · Integrative Organismal Biology
Museum research publication
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2023
Diversity gradients of terrestrial vertebrates – substantial variations about a common theme: Richness patterns of terrestrial vertebrates
Raz, T., A. Allison, L.L.J. Avila, A.A.M. Bauer, M.M. Böhm, G.G.H.H. de Oliveira O. Caetano, G.G. Colli, T.M. Doan, P. Doughty, L. Grismer, Y. Itescu, F. Kraus, M. Martins, M. Morando, G. Murali, Z.T. Nagy, C. de C. Nogueira, M. Novosolov, P.M. Oliver, P. Passos, D. Pincheira-Donoso, R. Sindaco, A. Slavenko, O. Torres-Carvajal, P. Uetz, P. Wagner, A. Zimin, U. Roll, and S. Meiri · Journal of Zoology
Museum research publication
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2023
Skinks of Oceania, New Guinea, and Eastern Wallacea: an underexplored biodiversity hotspot
Slavenko, A., A. Allison, C. Austin, A. Bauer, R. Brown, R. Fisher, I. Ineich, B. Iova, B. Karin, F. Kraus, M. O'Shea, S. Mecke, S. Meiri, C. Morrison, P. Oliver, J. Richmond, G. Shea, O. Tallowin, and D. Chapple · Pacific Conservation Biology
Museum research publication
DOI
2023
Molecular and phylogenetic datasets for the Asterophryinae frogs of New Guinea with additional data on lifestyle, geography, and elevation
Hill, E.C., M.J. Jarman, C.J. Fraser, D.F. Gao, E.R. Henry, A.R. Fisher, B. Iova, A. Allison, and M.A. Butler · Data in Brief
Museum research publication
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2022
Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna
Oliver, P.M., D.S. Bower, P.J. McDonald, F. Kraus, J. Luedtke, K. Neam, L. Hobin, A.L.M. Chauvenet, A. Allison, E. Arida, S. Clulow, R. Günther, E. Nagombi, B. Tjaturadi, S.L. Travers, and S.J. Richards · Communications Biology
Museum research publication
DOI
2022
Resolving the deep phylogeny: Implications for early adaptive radiation, cryptic, and present-day ecological diversity of Papuan microhylid frogs
Hill, E.C., C.J. Fraser, D.F. Gao, M.J. Jarman, E.R. Henry, B. Iova, A. Allison, and M.A. Butler · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Museum research publication
DOI
2001
Baseline survey of amphibians and reptiles of Kahului Airport, Maui, Hawaii
Allison, A. · Report prepared for Edward K. Noda and Associates, Inc. and State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation, Airports Division. 18 pp.
Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey
2000
Hawaii Biological Survey: museum resources in support of conservation
Allison, Allen & Scott E. Miller · In: P.H. Raven and Tania Williams, eds., Nature and human society: the quest for a sustainable world, p. 281-290. National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey
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1995
Hawaii Biological Survey, p
Allison, A., Miller, S.E. & Nishida, G.M. · 362. In: La Roe, E.T., et al., eds., Our living resources. U.S. Department of Interior. National Biological Service, Washington, D.C.
Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey
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1995
Hawaii Biological Survey: a model for the Pacific Region, p
Allison, A., S.E. Miller & G.M. Nishida · 349-56. In: Maragos, J.E. et al., Marine and coastal biodiversity of the tropical island Pacific region. Volume 1. Species systematics and information management. Program on Environment, East-West Center, Honolulu.
Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

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Named for Allison

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Allison. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

From the field

As a determiner

14,888 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: