Staff Profile Dr Teresa Darbyshire
Senior Curator: Invertebrate Biodiversity (Marine Invertebrates)
Contact Details
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3222
Staff Name
Job Title
Areas of Responsibility:
Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
- BSC (Hons) Marine Biology (Bangor);
- MSc Marine Resource Development & Protection (Heriot-Watt);
- PhD Ocean Sciences (Bangor University; Title: Taxonomy & Biogeography of the Polychaetes of the Falkland Islands)
- Member (Natural Sciences Collections Association, NatSCA)
- Bulletin design/typesetting & Member (Porcupine Marine Natural History Society)
Research Interests
The taxonomy of all groups of polychaete annelids with a particular interest in the South Atlantic, utilising both morphological and molecular techniques. Recent projects have centred on the Nereididae, Chrysopetalidae and Arenicolidae. Other research involves studies on the diversity and distribution of seabed life in the temperate Irish Sea, tropical Seychelles, and temperate/subantarctic Falkland Islands.
Currently working on projects in the Falkland Islands and the UK to improve polychaete identification and taxonomy.
Keywords
Taxonomy, Annelida, Polychaeta, collections, curation, access management, databases, Wales, Falkland Islands, molecular systematics, benthos, diversity, distributions, mapping, SCUBA diving, photography, illustration, editorial, publishing.Links
Selected Publications
Holmes, A.M., Darbyshire, T., Mortimer, K. & Mackie, A.S.Y. (2017) Proceedings of the 12th International Polychaete Conference, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1-5 August 2016. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 97(5):829-1209
Darbyshire, T. & Brewin, P. Three new species of Dysponetus Levinsen, 1879 (Polychaeta: Chrysopetalidae) from the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean, with a re-description of Dysponetus bulbosus Hartmann-Schröder, 1982. Zootaxa.
Brind, C. & Darbyshire T. 2015. Investigations of the black lugworm (Arenicola defodiens) in South Wales. Bulletin of the Porcupine Marine Natural History Society, 3, 48-52.
Darbyshire, T. 2014. Intertidal and nearshore Nereididae (Annelida) of the Falkland Islands, southwestern Atlantic, including a new species of Gymnonereis. ZooKeys, 427, 75-108.
Darbyshire, T. 2013. A new species of Micromaldane (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) from the Falkland Islands, southwestern Atlantic, with notes on reproduction. Zootaxa, 3683, 439-446.
James, J.W.C., Mackie, A.S.Y., Rees, E.I.S. & Darbyshire, T. 2012. Sand wave field habitats: The OBel Sands, Bristol Channel, U.K. In P.T. Harris and E.K. Baker (eds), Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHab Atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic. Elsevier, London, 227-239.
Robinson, K.A., Mackie, A.S.Y., Lindenbaum, C., Darbyshire, T., van Landeghem, K.J.J. & Sanderson, W.G. 2012. Seabed habitats of the southern Irish Sea. In P.T. Harris and E.K. Baker (eds), Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHab Atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic. Elsevier, London, 523-537.
Darbyshire, T. 2012. Marine collections supporting taxonomy in Wales. Natur Cymru, 44, 46.
Darbyshire, T. 2012. Re-description of Dysponetus joeli Olivier et al., 2012 (Polychaeta, Chrysopetalidae), with a new key to species of the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy, 27, 1-9.
Darbyshire, T. & Mackie, A.S.Y. 2011. Review of Uncispionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) with the description of a new species of Uncispio. Proceedings of the 10th International Polychaete Conference, Lecce, Italy 2010. Italian Journal of Zoology,78 (S1) 65-77.
Darbyshire, T. 2011. A new species of bristleworm from west of Anglesey. Natur Cymru, 41, 47.
Mackie, A.S.Y., Darbyshire,T., Bamber, R.N. & Turner, J.A. 2010. Notes on new benthic invertebrates from the southern Irish Sea. Porcupine Marine Natural History Society Newsletter, 27, 24-27.
Darbyshire, T. & Mackie, A.S.Y. 2009. Two new species of Diplocirrus (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae) from the southern Irish Sea and South Africa. In N.J. Maciolek & J.A. Blake (eds), Proceedings of the 9th International Polychaete Conference, Portland, Maine 2007. Zoosymposia, 2, 91-103.
Mackie, A.S.Y., James, J.W.C., Rees, E.I.S., Darbyshire, T., Philpott, S.L. Mortimer, K., Jenkins, G.O. & Morando, A., 2006. The Outer Bristol Channel Marine Habitat Study. Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Systematics from the National Museum of Wales. BIOMÔR Reports, 4, 1-249 & A1-A227, + DVD-ROM (2007).
Mackie, A.S.Y., Oliver, P. G., Darbyshire, T. & Mortimer, K. 2005. Shallow marine benthic invertebrates of the Seychelles Plateau: high diversity in a tropical oligotrophic environment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A,363, 203–228.
Darbyshire, T. 2004. Reports from the Porcupine field visit to Northumberland 28th August to 1st September 2003: A report on the Polychaeta. Porcupine Marine Natural History Society Newsletter, 14, 31-35.
Darbyshire, T. & Mackie, A.S.Y. 2003. Species of Litocorsa (Polychaeta: Pilargidae) from the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. Proceedings of the Seventh International Polychaete Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2001. Hydrobiologia, 496 (1-3) 63-73.
Darbyshire, T., Mackie, A.S.Y., May, S. J. & Rostron, D. 2002. A macrofaunal survey of Welsh sandbanks. Countryside Council for Wales CCW Report, 539, 113 pp.
Mackie, A., Oliver, P.G., Darbyshire, T. & Mortimer, K. 2001. Benthic faunal studies in the Seychelles. In J.C. Burnett, J.S. Kavanagh & T. Spencer (eds), Shoals of Capricorn Field Report 1998-2001: Marine Science, training and education in the western Indian Ocean. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), p. 37.