Commissioners
Dr
Nina G. Bogutskaya
Overview:
Since the start of her scientific career, Nina
Bogutskaya has chiefly been focused on cypriniform fishes (Teleostei:
Cypriniformes), which make up a major clade of freshwater fishes
(over 3,200 species) with an almost continuous distribution across
North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, and addressed their
morphology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic relationships with special
interest in the cyprinid subfamilies Leuciscinae and Barbinae
worldwide. She has described a number of new species and genera
of cyprinids, and dealt with the phylogenetic relationships of
the subfamily Leuciscinae in particular detail and proposed the
establishment of five (new) tribes. Many other groups of cypriniform
fishes are currently under investigation, with the main emphasis
on anatomy and ontogenetic development to resolve questions of
taxonomy and systematics. She is also interested in the freshwater
fishes of Eurasia; the distribution, and delineation of biological ‘ecoregions’;
freshwater fish assemblages of the great river drainages and
lake basins of the world; fish biodiversity and human impacts
on it; and the zoogeography of the Palaearctic and East Asia.
A major aspect of her research has been building a database that
focuses on taxonomy, nomenclature, distribution, bibliography
and collections of fishes of continental waters of Russia (http://www.zin.ru/animalia/pisces)
and the whole Palaearctic Realm and neighbouring regions. Among
her contributions is the publication (together with A. Naseka)
of Catalogue of agnathans and fishes of fresh and brackish waters
of Russia with comments on nomenclature and taxonomy.
Summary of Research & Education:
Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1958, Nina Bogutskaya
was educated at Leningrad University (Diploma in Biology, equivalent
of MSc, in 1981). She got her Candidate of Sciences degree
(equivalent of PhD) at Leningrad University and Zoological
Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1988 under the
guidance of Anatole Svetovidov being the last student of this
famous Russian ichthyologist. She had worked since then in
the latter institution as a researcher in Laboratory of Ichthyology
until she got a position of the Scientific Secretary of the
Zoological Institute in 1997. The Institute (including its
Museum) holds the largest zoological collection (some 60 million
specimens) in Russia and is internationally recognised for
its collection, including an extensive number of nomenclatural
types. Over the past 6 years she has lectured in Systematic
Ichthyology (a half-year
course amounting to 48 hours) at St. Petersburg State University.
Currently, Nina Bogutskaya is in collaboration with the FishBase
project (http://www.fishbase.org), Cypriniformes
Tree of Life (http://bio.slu.edu/mayden/cypriniformes/)
and FishBoL (http://www.fishbol.org)
projects, and has been the principal investigator of a variety
of research projects and the head of many expeditions supported
by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
Contact details:
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
University emb. 1
St. Petersburg 199034
Russia
Tlf. +7-812-3280311
Fax +7-812-3282941
E-mail: office (at) zin (dot) ru
http://www.zin.ru/animalia/pisces
