Dr Philip A Hastings
Professor of Marine Biology and Curator of Marine Vertebrates
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California San Diego
9500 Gillman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0208 USA
Phone: (858) 822-2913; Fax: (858) 534-7313; Email: phastings@ucsd.edu
Street Address: 8750 Biological Grade, 201 Vaughan Hall, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA

Related links:

Marine Vertebrate Collection
Laboratory of Ichthyology

I am a systematist in the broad sense, seeking to document patterns of biodiversity and understand the evolutionary and ecology processes producing and maintaining diversity. I work in four research areas: systematics and phylogeny of fishes, behavioral ecology and behavioral evolution, marine biogeography, and conservation biology. I am most interested in marine fishes and for a number of years have focused on a family of reef fishes, the tube blennies (Chaenopsidae). In my work on this group, I explore the interacting roles of phylogeny, development, ecology, and behavior in bringing about morphological evolution and clade diversification. My work on biogeography is focused on the tropical eastern Pacific, while my conservation work is directed at the Gulf of California and more recently southern California. Further details are available at the Laboratory of Ichthyology web site.


Acanthemblemaria mangognatha,
a recently described tube blenny endemic to
Islas Revillagigedos, Mexico.
Photo: D R Robertson