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Mr James Maclaine

Mr James Maclaine

Senior Curator, Fish

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Vertebrates Division
Specialisms: Vertebrates, Fish
Team: James Maclaine, Oliver Crimmen
Phone: 0207 942 5761

Summary

My principal role is to curate and manage the Fish Collection and the associated digital catalogue and to assist people wishing to use them.

Areas of responsibility and expertise include:

• Wet Preservation, including fixation, clearing and staining, transferring from formalin to alcohol, re-spiriting and re-hydration.

• Identification of midwater fishes.

• Organisation and History of the Fish Collection.

• Databasing and Digitisation. Maintaining and enhancing the Fish Collection catalogue (in KE EMu) and creating and adding digital images (x-rays, CT scans, photographs).

• Auditing. I am currently auditing the type specimens held in the Fish Collection (over 12000 lots) in order to create an accurate catalogue.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • Aquatic Bioscience BSc (Hons), Glasgow University, Scotland, 1989 - 1993

Employment history

    Academic

  • Curator, Natural History Museum, Zoology/Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2004 - ongoing
  • Assistant Curator, National Museum of Scotland, Zoology, Scotland, 1998 - 1998
  • Assistant Biologist, The Tweed Foundation, Scotland, 1991 - 1997

Publications

NETTO-FERREIRA AL, ITO PMM, WILLISTON A, MACLAINE JS, CATANIA DB (null) Deciphering a hundred-year-old puzzle: the type series of Bryconamericus exodon (Characiformes: Characidae). Zootaxa, 5060 (2) : 146 - 150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.2.9

Agbesi MPK, Borsuk HS, Hunt JN, Maclaine JS, Abel RL, Sykes D, Ramsey AT, Wang Z, Cox JPL (2016) Motion-driven flow in an unusual piscine nasal region. Zoology, 119 (6) : 500 - 510. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.06.008

PUSEY BJ, FISHER C, MACLAINE J (null) On the nature of Scleropages leichardti Günther, 1864 (Pisces: Osteoglossidae). Zootaxa, 4173 (1) : 75 - 75. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.1.7

Agbesi MPK, Naylor S, Perkins E, Borsuk HS, Sykes D, Maclaine JS, Wang Z, Cox JPL (2016) Complex flow in the nasal region of guitarfishes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 193 : 52 - 63. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.12.007

Maclaine JS (2015) Hippocampus hippocampus - The saga of the short-snouted seahorse. 1 - 2.

Zogaris S, Maclaine J, Koutsikos N, Chatzinikolaou Y (2015) Does the river blennySalaria fluviatilis(Asso, 1801) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) still survive on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus?. Journal of Natural History, 49 (5-8) : 347 - 357. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2013.836761

Howard LE, Holmes WM, Ferrando S, Maclaine JS, Kelsh RN, Ramsey A, Abel RL, Cox JPL (2013) Functional nasal morphology of chimaerid fishes. Journal of Morphology, 274 (9) : 987 - 1009. doi: 10.1002/jmor.20156

Iwatsuki Y, Maclaine J (2013) Validity of Crenidens macracanthus Günther 1874 (Pisces: Sparidae) from Chennai (Madras), India, with taxonomic statuses of the congeners. Ichthyological Research, 60 (3) : 241 - 248. doi: 10.1007/s10228-013-0342-2

Maclaine JS (2013) Appearance on Nature’s Weirdest Events, BBC1, 1/1/2013. :

Abel RL, Maclaine JS, Cotton R, Xuan VB, Nickels TB, Clark TH, Wang Z, Cox JPL (2010) Functional morphology of the nasal region of a hammerhead shark. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 155 (4) : 464 - 475. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.10.029

Britz R, Maclaine J (2007) A review of the eel-loaches, genus Pangio, from Myanmar (Teleostei : Cypriniformes : Cobitidae). ICHTHYOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF FRESHWATERS, 18 (1) : 17 - 30.

Smith GW, Campbell RNB, MacLaine JS (1998) null. Hydrobiologia, 371/372 : 117 - 121. doi: 10.1023/a:1017095409731

Introduction

Summary

My principal role is to curate and manage the Fish Collection and the associated digital catalogue and to assist people wishing to use them.

Areas of responsibility and expertise include:

• Wet Preservation, including fixation, clearing and staining, transferring from formalin to alcohol, re-spiriting and re-hydration.

• Identification of midwater fishes.

• Organisation and History of the Fish Collection.

• Databasing and Digitisation. Maintaining and enhancing the Fish Collection catalogue (in KE EMu) and creating and adding digital images (x-rays, CT scans, photographs).

• Auditing. I am currently auditing the type specimens held in the Fish Collection (over 12000 lots) in order to create an accurate catalogue.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • Aquatic Bioscience BSc (Hons), Glasgow University, Scotland, 1989 - 1993

Employment history

    Academic

  • Curator, Natural History Museum, Zoology/Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2004 - ongoing
  • Assistant Curator, National Museum of Scotland, Zoology, Scotland, 1998 - 1998
  • Assistant Biologist, The Tweed Foundation, Scotland, 1991 - 1997
Publications

Publications

NETTO-FERREIRA AL, ITO PMM, WILLISTON A, MACLAINE JS, CATANIA DB (null) Deciphering a hundred-year-old puzzle: the type series of Bryconamericus exodon (Characiformes: Characidae). Zootaxa, 5060 (2) : 146 - 150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.2.9

Agbesi MPK, Borsuk HS, Hunt JN, Maclaine JS, Abel RL, Sykes D, Ramsey AT, Wang Z, Cox JPL (2016) Motion-driven flow in an unusual piscine nasal region. Zoology, 119 (6) : 500 - 510. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.06.008

PUSEY BJ, FISHER C, MACLAINE J (null) On the nature of Scleropages leichardti Günther, 1864 (Pisces: Osteoglossidae). Zootaxa, 4173 (1) : 75 - 75. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.1.7

Agbesi MPK, Naylor S, Perkins E, Borsuk HS, Sykes D, Maclaine JS, Wang Z, Cox JPL (2016) Complex flow in the nasal region of guitarfishes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 193 : 52 - 63. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.12.007

Maclaine JS (2015) Hippocampus hippocampus - The saga of the short-snouted seahorse. 1 - 2.

Zogaris S, Maclaine J, Koutsikos N, Chatzinikolaou Y (2015) Does the river blennySalaria fluviatilis(Asso, 1801) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) still survive on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus?. Journal of Natural History, 49 (5-8) : 347 - 357. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2013.836761

Howard LE, Holmes WM, Ferrando S, Maclaine JS, Kelsh RN, Ramsey A, Abel RL, Cox JPL (2013) Functional nasal morphology of chimaerid fishes. Journal of Morphology, 274 (9) : 987 - 1009. doi: 10.1002/jmor.20156

Iwatsuki Y, Maclaine J (2013) Validity of Crenidens macracanthus Günther 1874 (Pisces: Sparidae) from Chennai (Madras), India, with taxonomic statuses of the congeners. Ichthyological Research, 60 (3) : 241 - 248. doi: 10.1007/s10228-013-0342-2

Maclaine JS (2013) Appearance on Nature’s Weirdest Events, BBC1, 1/1/2013. :

Abel RL, Maclaine JS, Cotton R, Xuan VB, Nickels TB, Clark TH, Wang Z, Cox JPL (2010) Functional morphology of the nasal region of a hammerhead shark. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 155 (4) : 464 - 475. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.10.029

Britz R, Maclaine J (2007) A review of the eel-loaches, genus Pangio, from Myanmar (Teleostei : Cypriniformes : Cobitidae). ICHTHYOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF FRESHWATERS, 18 (1) : 17 - 30.

Smith GW, Campbell RNB, MacLaine JS (1998) null. Hydrobiologia, 371/372 : 117 - 121. doi: 10.1023/a:1017095409731