Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson
Manager Ichthyology
Queensland Museum

Jeff Johnson manages the Ichthyology (fish) Collection of the Queensland Museum.

The collection is fully databased and includes about 40,000 lots of preserved fishes from all over the world, but mainly represents the 2,700+ fish species that are known from Queensland waters. Jeff provides a specimen identification and general fish information advisory service to the public, the scientific community and private consultants.

Expert knowledge on the classification and distribution of Indo-Pacific, Australian and particularly Queensland fishes is also available through response to inquiries, media interviews, reports, articles, identification guides and scientific papers.

A keen diver and fisherman, he has published a comprehensive checklist on the fishes of Moreton Bay, which currently includes 778 species, and has recently named new species of stargazer, sweetlip, unicornfish, velvetfish and sandperch. Research interests are mainly on fishes of the families Aploactinidae (velvetfishes) and Pinguipedidae (sandperches), and generally on biogeography of Australian marine fishes.  

The comprehensive checklist on the fishes of Moreton Bay will be available through a link on the QM website at a later date.

Jeff is kindly assisting in the identification of the fish on this website, particularly the ones that aren’t easily found in reference material.

Jeff conducting specimen identification at the microscope 

Below are a few of the new species of fish which Jeff has named:

 
Patchwork Velvetfish, Cocotropus microps Johnson, 2004 from Southport seaway

 
Longfin Velvetfish, Pseudopataecus taenianotus Johnson, 2004, from off Burnett Heads.

Snyder's sandperch, Parapercis snyderi, Jordan & Starks, 1905, from Great Barrier Reef, off Townsville

Jeff’s contact details:

Jeff Johnson
Manager Ichthyology
Queensland Museum
PO Box 3300
South Brisbane QLD 4101
AUSTRALIA

Ph: + 61-7-38407720
Fax: + 61-7-38461226
jeff.johnson@qm.qld.gov.au