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About Leslie Christidis
- Leslie Christidis (born 30 May 1959), also simply known as Les Christidis, is an Australian ornithologist.
- His main research field is the evolution and systematics of birds.
- He has been director of Southern Cross University National Marine Science Centre since 2009.
- He was assistant director at Sydney's Australian Museum from 2004 to 2009. Leslie Christidis graduated as Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne in 1980.
- In 1985 he required his Ph.D.
- at the Australian National University where he studied the evolutionary genetics of Australian finches. During his research studies, where he first worked as a CSIRO post-doctoral fellow and then as the recipient of Queen Elizabeth II fellowship, he demonstrated that 4500 species of the world's songbirds had its origin in Australia.
- Les Christidis was Senior Curator of Ornithology at the Museum Victoria from 1987 to 1996. Les Christidis was author or co-author of over 100 scientific papers and books on the taxonomy and evolutionary genetics of birds, bats, marsupials, bryozoans and more recently on cultural intangible heritage.
- Together with Walter E.
- Boles he published The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and Its Territories, with several revisions on Australasian birds including the family Acanthizidae.
- Together with Richard Schodde he described Amytornis barbatus diamantina, a subspecies of the grey grasswren, in 1987.
- He further described two subfamilies, Amalocichlinae and Pachycephalopsinae, and a genus, Cryptomicroeca in 2012.He was awarded with the W.
- Roy Wheeler Medallion in 2005.
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