P. Alexander Hulley

Percy Alexander Hulley
Born (1941-02-23) 23 February 1941 (age 83)
Nationality South African
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Known forDescribing the taillight shark
SpouseJane Charlotte Roberts[1]
Children3[1]
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
Ichthyology
Theses

Percy Alexander Hulley (born 23 February 1941) is a South African zoologist and ichthyologist.[2] He is a research associate at the South African Museum and has described many species of fish including the taillight shark.[3]

Biography

Hulley completed his MSc in 1967 from the University of Cape Town with a thesis entitled: Studies on the anatomy of some South African Mytilidae (Bivalvia) with notes on their ecology and distribution. He submitted his PhD thesis in 1971 entitled: The origin, interrelationship and distribution of Southern African Rajidae (Chondrichthyes, Batoidei)

He has worked at the South African Museum since 1965, where he was deputy director (research) and curator of fishes at the South African Museum until 2005. From 2006, Hulley has worked at the South African Museum in an honorary capacity as a research associate.[4]

The comprehensive Mesopelagic Fish Collection of the South African museum was assembled primarily by Hulley. The collection contains fish that live between 200m and 1 000m below the surface. Mesopelagic fish constitutes 95% of the world’s fish biomass.[5]

Selected publications

Hulley has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles, reports and chapters for academic works, including:

  • Polidoro, Beth A.; Ralph, Gina M.; Strongin, Kyle; Harvey, Michael; Hulley, Percival A.; et al. (15 February 2017). "The status of marine biodiversity in the Eastern Central Atlantic (West and Central Africa)". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 27 (5). Wiley: 1021–1034. Bibcode:2017ACMFE..27.1021P. doi:10.1002/aqc.2744. ISSN 1052-7613.
  • Duhamel, Guy; Belchier, Mark; Hulley, P. Alexander; et al. (January 2014). "BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF FISH. THE BIOGEOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN". doi:10.13140/2.1.1828.3203. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Koubbi, Philippe; Hulley, P.; Raymond, B; et al. (2011). Estimating the biodiversity of the subantarctic Indian part for ecoregionalisation: Part I. Pelagic realm of CCAMLR areas 58.5.1. and 58.6. Report of the CCAMLR WS-MPA, Brest, France.
Arctic skate, Amblyraja hyperborea, a member of the genus Cruriraja, family Rajidae

Taxa named in his honor

Hulley is honoured in the naming of a legskate and other fishes:[3]

Taxa described by him

Hulley discovered and named several other sharks and fish, amongst others:

References

  1. ^ a b "Family Group Sheet for Percy Alexander Hulley / Jane Charlotte Roberts (F20224): British 1820 Settlers to South Africa". British 1820 Settlers to South Africa. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  2. ^ Pietsch, Theodore W.; Anderson, William Dewey (1997). Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. p. 129. ISBN 9780935868913. Retrieved 9 July 2011. Accompanied by Stehmann and P. Alexander Hulley (Table 1), Krefft used the opportunity to complement his former Atlantic midwater transects by conducting two more transects along 50° W and 40° W from the latitude of Montevideo to the ...
  3. ^ a b c Watkins, M.; Beolens, B. (2015). Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78427-037-7. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Marine vertebrates/fishes". dev.iziko.org.za. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

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