Anna Murray

Senior Fellow

Key Info

  • Position Title
    Senior Fellow, Marine Invertebrates
  • Section
    Marine Invertebrates Collection
    Branch
    Life and Geosciences
    Division
    Australian Museum Research Institute
  • ORCID iD
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-1286
  • 40+ years of experience in field collection and identification of Australian marine, estuarine and aquatic benthic invertebrate species, including polychaetes, molluscs and crustaceans (specializing in polychaetes and amphipods); use of SCUBA and remote benthic samplers.
  • Extensive experience in benthic community and population ecology, especially in the Hawkesbury Estuary and Botany Bay, including long-term baseline monitoring research programs, species life-history research, literature reviews, statistical analysis, experimental design, and development of methods and equipment for research programs.
  • Skilled scientific illustration, mostly of polychaetes and molluscs.
  • Knowledge and extensive experience of methods of Museum Collection management, including collection and preservation techniques, specimen curation and registration, loan procedures, database information input and retrieval in Emu, movement and handling of fragile specimens

Current research projects include:

  1. The relationship of Australian deep-sea polynoid polychaetes with shallow water polynoids and other world abyssal polynoids, in collaboration with Dr Robin Wilson, Museum Victoria.
  2. Collaboration with Dr Robin Wilson, Museum Victoria, on an interactive key to species of world scale worm families – Polynoidae, Sigalionidae, Aphroditidae, Acoetidae.
  3. Taxonomy of some abyssal and deep-sea polychaeta of eastern Australia including Sabellidae, Polynoidae, Sigalionidae and Acoetidae.
  4. Taxonomy of Acoetidae polychaetes of the Australasian region, in collaboration with Dr Pat Hutchings of AMRI.
  5. Revision and taxonomy of several genera of sabellid polychaetes from Australia, in collaboration with Dr Maria Capa of University of Balearic Islands, Spain.

Qualifications

BSc

Publications

  • Aguado, M.T., Murray, A. & Hutchings, P.A. (2015). Syllidae (Annelida, Phyllodocida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4019 (1): 035–060.
  • Capa, M., & Murray, A. (2009). Review of the genus Megalomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in Australia with description of three new species, new Records and notes on certain features with phylogenetic implications. Rec. Aust. Mus. 61:201-224.
  • Capa, M., & Murray, A. (2015). Integrative taxonomy of Parasabella and Sabellomma (Sabellidae: Annelida) from Australia: description of new species, indication of cryptic diversity and translocations of some species out of their natural distribution range. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175: 764–811.
  • Capa, M., & Murray, A. (2016). Combined morphological and molecular data unveils relationships of Pseudobranchiomma (Sabellidae, Annelida) and reveals higher diversity of this intriguing group of fanworms in Australia, including potentially introduced species. Zookeys 622: 1–36. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.622.9420
  • Capa, M., & Murray, A. (2015). A taxonomic guide to the fanworms (Sabellidae, Annelida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, including new species and new records. Zootaxa 4019 (1): 098–167.
  • Hutchings, P.A., & Murray, A. (1982). Patterns of recruitment to coral substrates at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef - an experimental approach. Aust. J. Mar. Freshw. Res. 33: 1029 - 1037.
  • Hutchings, P.A., & Murray, A. (1984). Taxonomy of polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of NSW, Australia. Rec. Aust. Mus. 37(Suppl. 3): 1 -118.
  • Jones, A.R., Murray, A., Lasiak, T.A., & Marsh, R.E. (2008). The effects of beach nourishment on the sandy-beach amphipod Exoediceros fossor: impact and recovery in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Marine Ecology 29: 28-36.
  • Jones, A.R., Murray, A., & Marsh, R.E. (1991). Patterns of abundance of Exoedicerotid amphipods on sandy beaches near Sydney, Australia. Hydrobiologia 223:119 -126.
  • Jones, A.R., Murray, A., & Marsh, R.E. (1998). A method for sampling sandy beach amphipods that tidally migrate. Mar. Freshwater Res. 49: 863 - 865
  • Jones, A.R., Murray, A., & Skilleter, G.A. (1988). Aspects of life history and population biology of Notospisula trigonella (Bivalvia:Mactridae) from the Hawkesbury Estuary, south-eastern Australia. The Veliger 30: 267-277.
  • Jones, A.R., Murray, A., & Tzioumis, V. (in prep). Pattern and variation in the life history of Exoediceros fossor, an exoedicerotid amphipod living in sandy beaches near Sydney, Australia.
  • Jones, A.R., Watson-Russell, C., & Murray, A. (1986). Spatial patterns in the macrobenthic communities of the Hawkesbury Estuary, NSW. Aust. J. Mar. Freshw. Res. 37(4): 521 - 543.
  • Lee, A., Capa, M., Dafforn, K.A., Hutchings, P.A., & Murray, A. (in review). New records of unidentified, non-indigenous Branchiomma and Parasabella species (Sabellidae: Annelida) in South Australia highlights the need for taxonomy. J. Nat. History.
  • MacIntosh, H., Franziska Althaus, F., Williams, A., Tanner, J.E., Alderslade, P., Ahyong, S., Criscione, F., Crowther, A., Farrelly, C., Finn, J., Goudie, L., Gowlett-Holmes, K., Hosie, A.M., Kupriyanova, E., Mah;, C., McCallum, A., Merrin, K., Miskelly, A., Mitchell, M.L., Murray, A., O'Hara, T., O'Loughlin, P.M., Paxton, H., Staples, D., Reid, A.L., Walker-Smith, G., Whitfield, E., Wilson, R.S. (2018). Invertebrate diversity in the deep Great Australian Bight (200-4600 m). Marine Biodiversity Records 11: Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-018-0158-x.
  • Murray, A., & Hutchings, P.A. (in prep). Revision of Acoetidae species from Australasian coasts (Polychaeta).
  • Murray, A., Hutchings, P.A., & Pillai, T.G. (2010). Notes on Hydroides malleolaspinus from the Kimberleys of Western Australia (Polychaeta: Serpulidae). Rec. Aust. Mus. 62: 393–394.
  • Murray, A., & Keable, S.J. (2013). First Report of Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Botany Bay, New South Wales, a northern range extension for the invasive species within Australia. Zootaxa 3670 (3): 394–395.
  • Murray, A., & Rouse, G. (2007). Two new species of Terebrasabella (Annelida: Sabellidae: Sabellinae) from Australia. Zootaxa 1434: 51-68.
  • Murray, A., Wong, E. & Hutchings, P.A. (2015). Nephtyidae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4019 (1): 414–436.
  • O'Hara, T.D., Williams, A., Ahyong, S.T., Alderslade, P., Alvestad, T., Bray ,D., Burghardt, I., Budaeva, N., Criscione, F., Crowther, A.L., Ekins, M., Eléaume, M., Farrelly, C.A., Finn, J.K., Georgieva, M.N., Graham, A., Gomon, M., Gowlett-Holmes, K., Gunton, L.M., Hallan, A., Hosie, A.M., Hutchings, P., Kise, H., Köhler, F., Konsgrud, J.A., Kupriyanova, E., Lu, C-C., Mackenzie, M., Mah, C., MacIntosh, H., Merrin, K.L., Miskelly, A., Mitchell, M., Moore, K., Murray, A., O'Loughlin, P.M., Paxton, H., Pogonoski, J.J., Staples, D., Watson, J.E., Wilson, R.S., Zhang, J., & Bax, N.J. (in press). The lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor fauna of eastern Australia. Marine Biodiversity Records.
  • Roach, A.C., Jones, A.R., & Murray, A. (2000). Using benthic recruitment to assess the significance of contaminated sediments: the influence of taxonomic resolution. Environmental Pollution 112: 1-13.
  • San Martín, G., Aguado, M.T., & Murray, A. (2007). A new genus and species of Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Australia with unusual morphological characters and uncertain systematic position. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 120(1): 39-48.
  • Schoeman, D.S., Schlacher, T.A., Olds, A.D., Huijbers, C., Connolly, R.M., Murray, A., & Jones, A.R. (2015). Edging along a warming coast: a range extension for a common sandy beach crab. PLOS ONE. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0141976.
  • Wilson, G.D.F., Ahyong, S.T., Alderslade, P., Arango, C., Capa, M., Glasby, C.J., Gerken, S., Hutchings, P.A., Larson, H., Murray, A., O’Hara, T.D., Ponder, W.F., Springthorpe, R., Stoddart, H.E., Willan, R.C. & Wilson, R.S. 2006. Taxonomic Results. Arafura Sea Biological Survey, Report on Benthic Fauna collected during R/V Southern Surveyor Voyage 05-2005 (30 April - 28 May 2005). Department of the Environment and Heritage-Marine Division and Australian Museum, Sydney.
  • Winberg, P.C., Lynch, T.P., Murray, A., Jones, A.R., & Davis, A.R. (2006). The importance of spatial scale for conservation of tidal flat macrobenthos: an example from New South Wales, Australia. Biological Conservation, 134 (3), p.310-320, Jan 2007.