Dr. A.V. Balushkin
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1979 - Kandidat of Science (Biol.) (Ph.Dr.), Leningrad;
1997 - Doctor of Sciences (Biol.), St.Petersburg;
Faculty appointments:
1977-1985 - Junior sci. worker, Zoological Institute USSR Academy of Science, Leningrad;
1985-1997 - Senior sci. worker, Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Science, St.Petersburg;
1997 -1998 - Leading sci. worker, Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Science, St.Petersburg;
From 1998 - Head of the Laboratory of the Ichthyology, Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Science, St.Petersburg.
Awards and honors:
- Scientific Award, Russian Academy of Science and Pleiades Publishing Inc. For the best scientific publications in the Russian academic journals in 1996, 1997;
- Scientific Award, Zool. Inst. Acad. Sci, 1989;
- Scientific Award, Zool. Inst. Acad. Sci, 1980;
- Honorary Diploma, Sov. Hydrobiol. Society, 1979.
Memberships:
- St.Petersburg Society of Naturalists;
- Board of the journal "Voprosy Ikhtiologii" (Moscow);
- Capitza's Fellowship, Royal Society (London).
Balushkin A.V. 1990. Morphological bases of the systematics and phylogeny of the nototheniid fishes. A.A.Balkema Press. Rotterdam. 153 pp.
Balushkin A.V. 1993. Patagonotothen thompsoni sp.n. a new Patagonian notothen from the Strait of Magellan, South America (Osteichthyes, Perciformes, Nototheniidae) // Arch. FischWiss.V.41. N3. P.223-229.
Balushkin A.V., Stehmann M. 1993. Results of the research cruises of FRV 'Walther Herwig' to South America. LXXII. Patagonotothen kreffti sp.nov., a new Patagonian notothen from the Burdwood Bank (Osteichthyes, Perciformes, Nototheniidae) // Arch. FischWiss. V.41. N3. P.211-221.
Stehmann M., Balushkin A.V. 1993. Results of the research cruises of FRV 'Walther Herwig' to South America. LXXI. A first record of the Antarctic fish Lindbergichthys nudifrons (Lonnberg, 1905) from the Beagle Canal, Tierra del Fuego (Osteichthyes, Perciformes, Nototheniidae) // Arch. FischWiss. V.41. N3. P.203-210.
Skòra K.E., Balushkin A.V. 1993. On the record of Notolepis annulata (Paralepididae) in the Bellinshausen Sea (Antarctic) // Vopr. Ikhtiol. V.33. N5. P.713-714.
Balushkin A.V. 1994. A fossil notothenioid, but not gadiform, fish Proeleginops grandeastmanorum gen. et sp. nov. (Perciformes, Notothenioidei, Eleginopsidae) from Late Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica // Vopr.Ikhtiol. V.34. N 3. P.298-307.
Balushkin A.V., Voskoboinikova O.S. 1995. Classification and phylogeny of dragonfishes of the family Bathydraconidae (Notothenioidei, Perciformes) // Vopr. Ikhtiol. V.35. N2. P.147-155.
Balushkin A.V. 1996. Similarity of fish of the family Channichthyidae (Notothenioidei, Perciformes), with remarks on the species composition of the family, and the description of a new species off the Kerguelen Archipelago // Vopr.Ikhtiol. Vol. 36. N.1. P.5-14. (Transl.: J. Ichthyol. 36(1): 1-10).
Balushkin A.V. 1996. A new genus and species of liparid fish Palmoliparis beckeri from the Northern Kurile Islands (Scorpaeniformes, Liparidae) with consideration of phylogeny of the family // Vopr.Ikhtiol. Vol.36. N.3. P.293-299 (Transl.: J. Ichthyol. 36(4): 281-287).
Balushkin A.V. 1996. Structure and evolution of trunk lateral lines of the Notothenioidei (Perciformes) // Vopr.Ikhtiol. Vol.36. N.4. P.437-447. (Transl.: J.Ichthyol. 36(6): 419-429).
Balushkin A.V., Merrett N.R. 1996. Re-examination of type-specimens of the Notothenia ramsayi Regan, 1913 (Nototheniidae; Perciformes) and the subdivision of them into two species: Patagonotothen ramsayi (Regan, 1913) and P.kreffti Balushkin et Stehmann, 1993// Vopr.Ikhtiol. V. 36. N 5. P.543-545. (Transl.: J. Ichthyol. 36(7): 533-535).
Balushkin A.V. 1997. Morphology, classification and evolution of notothenioid fishes of the Southern Ocean // Doctor of Sci. Diss. St.Petersburg. Zool.Inst. Russian Acad. Sci. Publ. 53 pp.
Balushkin A.V. 1997. Topography of unpaired fins with respect to the vertebrae and similarities among icefishes of the family Channichthyidae // Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Vol. 118A. N4. P.1079-1083.
Balushkin A.V., Eakin R. 1998. A new toad plunderfish Pogonophryne fusca sp. nova (Artedidraconidae, Notothenioidei), with notes on species composition and species groups in the genus Pogonophryne Regan // Voprosy Ikhtiol. V.38. N 5. P.598-603 ( Tranls.: J. Ichthyology, 1998 . No. 8 . P.574-579).
Voskoboinikova O.S., Balushkin A.V. 1998. Morphological characters and distribution of Bathydraco joannae (Bathydraconidae, Notothenioidei), with description of juveniles off Kerguelen Island // Voprosy Ikhtiol. V.38. N 5. P.697-700.
Eakin R., Balushkin A.V. 1998. A new toad plunderfish Pogonophryne orangiensis sp. n. ( Fam. Artedidraconidae, Notothenioidei) from Weddell Sea (Antarctic ) // Voprosy Ikhtiol. V.38. N 6. P. 830-833.
Balushkin A.V., Kononova I.V. 1998. Composition of axial metameric structure and similarities among fishes of the family Lotidae. P. 17-19. // Actual problems of fish taxonomy. St.Petersburg, St.Petersburg Univ. Press. 71 pp.
Balushkin A.V. 1999. Pogonophryne eakini sp.n. (fam. Artedidraconidae; Notothenioidei), a new species of toad plunderfishes from Antarctic // Voprosy Ikhtiol. V.39. N 6. P. 837-840.
Eakin R.R., Balushkin A.V. 2000. A new species of Pogonophryne (Pisces, Perciformes, Artedidraconidae) from East Antarctica // Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. T.113. N 1. P.264-268.
Balguerias E., Morales-Nin B., Voskoboinikova O.S., Balushkin A.V. 2000. Biodiversity of the Weddell Sea: macrozoobenthic species (demersal fish included) sampled during the expedition ANT XIII/3 (EASIZ 1) with RV "Polarstern". Pisces // Ber. Polarforsch. N 372. P. 98-103.
Balushkin A.V. 2000. Morphology, classification, and evolution of notothenioid fishes of the Southern Ocean (Notothenioidei, Perciformes) // J.Ichthyol. V.40. Suppl.1. P. 74-109.
More than 420 publications in : VINITI's JOURN. PUBL. Vol.04C (BIOLOGY, ICHTHYOLOGY), 1982-1992.
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