Ronald Eric Johnstone
Encyclopedia
Ronald Eric Johnstone is an Australia
n ornithologist who worked for the Western Australian Museum
for many years. The bat
species Otomops johnstonei
is named in his honour.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n ornithologist who worked for the Western Australian Museum
Western Australian Museum
The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia.The Western Australian Museum has seven main sites: two in Perth within the Perth Cultural Centre, two in Fremantle , and one each in Albany, Geraldton, and Kalgoorlie-Boulder...
for many years. The bat
Bat
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
species Otomops johnstonei
Otomops johnstonei
Johnstone's Mastiff Bat Otomops johnstonei is a species of bat in the Molossidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.-Source:* Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. . Downloaded on 30 July 2007....
is named in his honour.
Publications
- Johnstone, R. E. (1988) Ben Island, Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia. Corella, vol.12 no.3 (October 1988), p.89-90
- Johnstone, R. E. (1990) Mangroves and mangrove birds of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement, No. 32, 1990,
- Johnstone, R. E. and G.M. Storr (1998-2004) Handbook of Western Australian birds Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Museum, 1998-2004.ISBN 0730712087 (v. 1) ISBN 1920843116 (v. 2)
- Johnstone, R. E. (2001) Checklist of the birds of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement, No. 63, p. 75-90
- Coate, Kevin H. and Johnstone, R.E. (2007) Seabirds and shipwrecks : exploring the Houtman Abrolhos Archipelago Perth, W.A. : Dept. of Environment and Conservation, 2007. Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, 11 - 18 December 2007 Expedition was offered by Landscope, the Department of Environment and Conservation's (DEC's) quarterly magazine in association with UWA Extension, The University of Western Australia."