Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences

Department of Environmental Management & Ecology

	Dr Peter Pridmore
	Lecturer
	PO Box 821, Wodonga VIC 3689
	Tel: (02) 6024 9887
	Fax: (02) 6024 9888
	Email: p.pridmore@latrobe.edu.au

Dr Peter Pridmore

Peter Pridmore is currently a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Management and Ecology at the Albury-Wodonga Campus of La Trobe University. His major research interest is in the ecomorphology of Australian vertebrates. He is particularly interested in determining the way in which the anatomy and behavioural capabilities of animals influence habitat use.

Peter Pridmore is a graduate of Monash University: B.Sc (Hons) – 1970, MSc – 1978 and The University of Michigan; PhD - 1987. His MSc investigations were concerned with the locomotion and evolution of monotremes. In his PhD studies he examined the locomotor capabilities of several South and Central American marsupials and the relation between these abilities and habitat use.

In the past two decades he has been involved in studies of the aerial capabilities of the feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) and some members of the genus Petaurus, of the swimming and sensory abilities of fossil and living lungfishes, of the affinities of conodonts, of the fossil remains of the Pleistocene giant rat-kangaroo (Propleopus oscillans), of the climbing abilities of living dasyurid marsupials, of the feeding and locomotor behaviour of Murray-Darling Basin fishes, and of the ecology of Victorian wild dogs, and involved in the analysis of a Cretaceous humerus, which is evidently that of a stem-group monotreme.

Aside from a strong interest in the functional morphology of vertebrates, he maintains interests in the origins and evolution of vertebrates and in the flora of Australia and New Guinea.

Recent publications include:

Tonkin, Z.D., Humphries, P. and Pridmore, P.A. (2006). Ontogeny of feeding in two native and one alien fish species from the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Environmental Biology of Fishes 76: 303-315.

Pridmore, P.A., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P. and Gambaryan, P.P. (2005). A tachyglossid-like humerus from the Early Cretaceous of south-eastern Australia . Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12: 359-378

Ride, W.D.L., Pridmore, P.A., Barwick, R.E., Wells, R.T. and Heady, R. (1997). Towards a biology of Propleopus oscillans (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea ). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S.W . 117: 243-328.

Pridmore, P.A., Barwick, R.E. and Nicoll, R.S. (1997). Soft anatomy and the affinities of conodonts. Lethaia 29: 317-328