Ichthyology Research Associate Douglas J. Long

M. Okamoto, C.C. Baldwin and D.J. Long (2024) Two new species of the deepwater cardinalfish genus Epigonus (Epigonidae) from deep reefs off Curaçao, southern Caribbean. Ichthyological Research 71 (1), 10.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-024-00948-2

Sternes, P.C., P.L. Jambura, J, Türtscher, J. Kriwet, M. Siversson, I. Feichtinger, G. J.P. Naylor, A. P. Summers, J. G. Maisey, T. Tomita, J. K. Moyer, T. E. Higham, J.P.C.B. da Silva, H. Bornatowski, D. J. Long, V. J. Perez, A. Collareta, C. Underwood, D. J. Ward, R. Vullo, G. González-Barba, H. M. Maisch IV, M. L. Griffiths, M. A. Becker, J. J. Wood, and K. Shimada. (2024). White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae). Palaeontologia Electronica, 27 (1) a7.
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5079-megalodon-body-form

Long, D.J. and J.E. Smith. 2023. Otospermophilus douglasii (Rodentia: Sciuridae) Mammalian Species 55 (1034), 1-13.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375521118_Otospermophilus_douglasii_Rodentia_Sciuridae#fullTextFileContent

Grove, J.S., D.J. Long, B. Victor and D.R. Robertson. (2022). List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Sciences Foundation 9:14-22.
https://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf39c.pdf

Long, D.J., D.A. Ebert, J. Tavera, P. Acero, and H.R. Robertson. (2021). Squatina mapama n. sp., a new cryptic species of angel shark (Elasmobranchii: Squatinidae) from the southwestern Caribbean Sea. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 38: 113-130.

Long, D.J. (2020). Birds of the Klein Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa. Klein Karoo Biosphere Reserves 1:1-3.
https://kleinkaroobiosphere.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/birds-of-the-klein-karoo/

R.W. Boessenecker, D.J. Ehret, D.J. Long, M Churchill, E. Martin and S.J. Boessenecker. (2019). The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088.

Wiseman, K.D., H.W. Greene, M.S. Koo and D.J. Long. (2019). Feeding ecology of a generalist predator, the California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae): Why rare prey matter. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 14 (1): 1-30.

Powell, C.W., R.W. Boessenecker, N.A. Smith, R.J. Fleck, S.J. Carlson, JR Allen, D.J. Long, A.M. Sarna-Wojcicki and R.B. Guruswami-Naidu. (2019). Geology and paleontology of the late Miocene Wilson Grove formation at Bloomfield Quarry, Sonoma County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2019–5021. 77 pp.

Smith, J.E., D.J. Long, I.D. Russell, K.L. Newcomb and V.D. Munoz. (2016). Otospermophilus beecheyi (Rodentia: Sciuridae). Mammalian Species 48 (939): 91-108.

​Concha, F. J., D. A. Ebert, D. J. Long (2016) Notoraja martinezi sp. nov., a new species of deepwater skate and the first record of the genus Notoraja Ishiyama, 1958 (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4098 (1): 179-190.

Vásquez, V. E., D. A. Ebert, D. J. Long (2015) Etmopterus benchleyi n. sp., a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the central eastern Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 17: 43-55.

Shimada, K., E. V. Popov, M. Siversson, B. J.Welton, and D. J. Long. (2015). A new clade of putative plankton-feedingsharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.981335.

Walovich, K.A., D.A. Ebert, D.J. Long & D.A. Didier (2015) Redescription of Hydrolagus africanus (Gilchrist, 1922) (Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), with a review of southern African chimaeroids and a key to their identification. African Journal of Marine Science, 37:2, 157-165, DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2015.1033012

Long, D.J., E. Sala, E. Ballesteros, J.E. Caselle, A.M. Friedlander, A. Klapfer, S. Blum, and H.B. Constable. 2014. Summary of South American records of the smalltooth sand tiger shark Odontaspis ferox (Chondrichthyes: Odontaspidae), with the first record from Chilean waters. Marine Biodiversity Records 7 (e67):1-4. DOI:10.1017/S1755267214000700

Shimada, K., B.J. Welton, and D.J. Long. 2014. A New fossil megamouth shark (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae) from the Oligocene-Miocene of the western United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):281-290.

McCosker, J.E., D.J. Long and C.C. Baldwin. 2012. Description of a new species of deepwater catshark, Bythaelurus giddingsi sp. nov., from the Galápagos Islands (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes:Scyliorhinidae). Zootaxa 3221:48–59.

Long, D.J., J.E. McCosker, S. Blum, & A. Klapfer. 2011. Tropical Eastern Pacific Records of the Prickly Shark, Echinorhinus cookei (Chondrichthyes: Echinorhinidae). Pacific Science 65(4):433-440.

Chandler, R.M., P. Pyle, M. Flannery, D.J. Long, S.N.G. Howell. 2010. Flight feather molt of Turkey Vultures (Cathartes aura). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 122(2):354-360

James, K.C., D.A. Ebert, D.J. Long, and D.A. Didier. 2009. A new species of Chimera Hydrolagus melanophasma sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae) from the eastern North Pacific. Zootaxa 2218:59-68

Pyle, P., D.J. Long, & R.N. Lea and J. Roletto. 2008. Appendix IIIE: Species List, pp. 409-425 in Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Final Management Plan. Vol. II. Joint Management Plan Review (JMPR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Sanctuary Program, 451 pp.

Pyle, P., D.J. Long, & R.N. Lea. 2008. Appendix IIIE: Species List, pp. 227-240 in Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Final Management Plan, vol. I. Joint Management Plan Review (JMPR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Sanctuary Program.

Quaranta, K.I., D.A. Didier, D. J. Long, & D.A. Ebert. 2006. A new species of Chimaeroid, Hydrolagus alphus sp. nov. (Chimaeriformes, Chimaeridae) from the Galápagos Islands. Zootaxa 1377:33-45.

Barnett, L.A.K., D.A. Didier, D. J. Long & D. A. Ebert. 2006. Hydrolagus mccoskeri sp. nov., a new species of chimaeroid fish from the Galápagos Islands (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae). Zootaxa 1328: 27-38.

Pyle, P. & D.J. Long. 2006. Appendix III - Species List, Vertebrates. Pp. 399-414 in Ecosystem Protection Implementation Plan, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Draft Management Plan. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Report, pp. 299-428.

Pyle, P., D.J. Long, & R.N. Lea. 2006. Appendix III - Species List, Vertebrates. Pp. 231-241 in Program Area Overview Matrices, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Draft Management Plan. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Report, p. 157-242.

Pyle, P., D.J. Long, J. Schonewald, R.E. Jones and J. Roletto. 2001. Historical and Recent Colonization of the South Farallon Islands, California, by Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus). Marine Mammal Science 17(2):397-402.

Pyle, P. & D.J. Long. 2001. Species Lists for the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Appendix to the State of the Sanctuary Report: 2001. Vertebrates. Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Annual Report 2001, Appendix Pp. 1-6.

Long, D.J., & J.D. Stilwell. 2000. Fish remains from the Eocene of Mt. Discovery, Antarctica. Pp. 349-353 in J.D. Stilwell & R.M. Feldmann (eds.) Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks, Mc Murdo Sound, East Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union. 76.

Long, D.J., & J.E. McCosker. 1999. A new species of deepwater skate, Rajella eisenhardti, (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) from the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 112(1): 45-51.

Bradbury, M.G., J.E. McCosker & D.J. Long. 1999. Batfishes of the Galápagos Islands with descriptions of two new species of Dibranchus (Teleostei; Ogcocephalidae). Revue Française d'Aquariologie 25 (3-4): 79-88. Long, D. J. 1999. Common Intertidal Fishes. Pp. 65-77 in D.R. Conradson and V.B. Welch (eds.) The Natural History of the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Friends of Fitzgerald Marine Life Refuge, Moss Beach, California.

Long, D.J. & J.E. McCosker. 1998. A new species of the morid genus Gadella (Teleostei: Gadiformes) from the Galápagos Islands. Ichthyological Research 45(1): 1-5.

Eschmeyer, W.N., C.J. Ferraris, Jr., M. D. Hoang, & D.J. Long. 1998. Part I. Species of Fishes. Pp. 25-1820 In W.N. Eschmeyer (ed.) Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Eschmeyer, W.N., M. D. Hoang, C.J. Ferraris, Jr., & D.J. Long. 1998. Part V. Literature Cited. Pp. 2501-2846 In W.N. Eschmeyer (ed.) Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Long, D.J. 1997. First account of the Birdbeak Dogfish shark, Deania calcea, (Chondrichthyes; Squalidae) from the northern coast of Peru. Revista de Biologia Tropical 45(2): 937.

Long, D.J. & J.A. Seigel. 1997. A crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Selachii: Lamniformes) from pelagic waters off Baja California, Mexico. Oceanides 12(1): 61-63.

McCosker, J.E. & D.J. Long. 1997. A new species of the deepwater cardinalfish Epigonus (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from the Galápagos Islands. Ichthyological Research 44(2): 125-129.

McCosker. J.E., G. Merlen, D.J. Long, R.G. Gilmore & C. Villon. 1997. Deepslope fishes collected during the 1995 eruption of Isla Fernandina, Galápagos. Noticias de Galápagos 58: 22-26.

Long, D.J. & L. Gilbert. 1997. California sea lion predation on chicks of the Common Murre. Journal of Field Ornithology 68(1): 152-154.

Hanni, K., D.J. Long, R.E. Jones, P. Pyle & L. Morgan. 1997. Sightings and strandings of Guadelupe Fur Seals in central California, 1988-1995. Journal of Mammalogy 78(2): 684-690.

Long, D.J. 1996. A Pacific fat sleeper, Dormitator latifrons (Perciformes: Eleotrididae), from Lake Merritt, San Francisco Bay, California. California Fish and Game 82(4): 192-194.

Long, D.J. 1996. First confirmed record of teleost predation on a shark egg case. California Fish and Game 82(1): 103-104

Long, D.J. & B.M. Waggoner 1996. Evolutionary relationships of the white shark: a phylogeny of Lamniform sharks based on dental morphology. Pp. 37-47 in A.P. Klimley & D. Ainley (eds.) Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias. Academic Press, San Diego.

Long, D.J., P. Pyle, K. Hanni, R.E. Jones, J. Roletto, and R. Bandar. 1996. White Shark Predation on Four Pinniped Species in Central California Waters: Geographic and Temporal Patterns Inferred from Wounded Carcasses. Pp. 263-274 in A.P. Klimley & D. Ainley (eds.) Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias. Academic Press, San Diego.

Long, D.J. & R.E. Jones. 1996. White Shark Predation and Scavenging on Cetaceans in the North Eastern Pacific Ocean. Pp. 293-307 in A.P. Klimley & D. Ainley (eds.) Great White Sharks: Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias. Academic Press, San Diego.

Long, D.J. 1996. Records of white shark-bitten leatherback sea turtles along the central California coast. Pp. 317-319 in A.P. Klimley & D. Ainley (eds.) Great White Sharks: The Biology of Carcharodon carcharias. Academic Press, San Diego.

Long, D.J. & M. Langer. 1995. Nassariid gastropods as destructive agents in preservation and fossilization of marine fishes. Experientia 51: 85-89.

Seigel, J., D.J. Long, J.M. Rounds, & J.J. Hernandez. 1995. The tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri, in coastal southern California waters. California Fish and Game 81(4): 163-166.

Long, D.J. & C. Spencer. 1995. Cowsharks (Chondrichthyes, Hexanchidae) as Predators on the Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi) in San Francisco Bay, California. Chondros 6(2):9.

Long, D.J. 1994.Historical Biogeography of Sharks from the Eastern North Pacific Ocean. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 371 pp.

Long, D.J. 1994. First records of the combtooth dogfish shark, Centroscyllium nigrum, (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) from the Pacific subantarctic of Chile. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 40(4): 478-481.

Long, D.J. 1994. Quaternary colonization or Paleogene persistence?: historical biogeography of skates (Condrichthyes: Rajidae) in the Antarctic Ichthyofauna. Paleobiology 20(2): 215-228.

Long, D.J. 1994. The Pacific burrfish, Chilomycterus affinis Gunther (Tetraodontiformes: Diodontidae) in the Northern Gulf of California. Revista de Biologia Tropical 42(1/2): 390-391.

Langer, M. & D.J. Long. 1994. Association of benthic foraminifera with a gammarid amphipod on tidal flats of San Francisco Bay, California. Journal of Coastal Research 10 (4): 877-883.

Ainley, D.G., R.E. Jones, G.W. Page, D.J. Long, L.T. Jones, L.E. Stenzel, R.L. LeValley, & L.B. Spear. 1994. Beached Marine Birds and Mammals of the North American West Coast: A Revised Guide to their Census and Identification, with Supplemental Keys to Beached Turtles and Sharks. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Report 1443-CX-8140-93-003, 236pp.

Long, D.J. 1993. Late Miocene and early Pliocene fish assemblages from the north-central coast of Chile. Tertiary Research 14(3): 117-126.

Long, D.J. 1993. Preliminary list of the marine fishes and other vertebrate remains from the late Pleistocene Palos Verdes Sand Formation at Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. PaleoBios 15(1): 9-13.

Dundas, R.G. & D.J. Long (eds.). 1993. New Additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of California. PaleoBios 15(1-4): 1-80.

Long, D.J., M.A. Murphy, & P.U. Rodda. 1993. A New World occurrence of Notidanodon lanceolatus (Chondrichthyes: Hexanchidae) and comments on hexanchid shark evolution. Journal of Paleontology 67: 655-659.

Long, D.J. & B.M. Waggoner. 1993. The ectoparasitic barnacle Anelasma (Thoracica: Lepadomorpha) on the shark Centroscyllium nigrum (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) from the Pacific sub-Antarctic. Journal of Systematic Parasitology 26: 133-136.

Long, D.J. 1992. Confirmation of the northern record of the snubnose sculpin, Orthonopias triacis. California Fish and Game 78(4): 160-162.

Long, D.J. 1992. Paleoecology of Eocene Antarctic sharks. Pp. 131-139 in J.P. Kennett & D.A. Warnke (eds) The Antarctic Paleoenvironment: A Perspective on Global Change. Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union. 56.

Long, D.J. 1992. Sharks from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(1): 11-32.

Long, D.J. 1992. An Eocene wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from Seymour Island. Antarctic Science: 4(2):235-237.

Long, D.J. 1991. Apparent Predation by a White shark Carcharodon carcharias on a Pygmy Sperm Whale Kogia breviceps. Fishery Bulletin 89: 538-540.

Long, D.J. 1991. Fossil cutlassfish (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) teeth from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene) Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. PaleoBios 13: 3-6.

Long, D.J. 1990. Systematics and Paleoecology of Sharks from the La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica. M.A. Thesis, Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 97 pp.

 

Currently:

Research Associate, Departments of Ichthyology and Ornithology & Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/ichthyology/dlong

Board of Directors, Eastern Pacific Corridor Alliance Foundation https://epcafoundation.org/

Director of Research, Klein karoo Biosphere Reserves https://kleinkaroobiosphere.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/birds-of-the-klein-karoo/

Education

Post-doctorate: 1996-1997; Taxonomy, ecology, and biogeography of deepwater fishes from the Galapagos Islands. Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences (w/ Dr. John McCosker)

Post-doctorate:1996-1996; Catalog of Fishes: Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (w/ Dr. Bill Eschmeyer).

Ph.D. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1994 Dissertation: Historical Biogeography of Sharks from the Eastern North Pacific.

M.A. (with honors) Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1990 Thesis: Systematics and Paleoecology of Sharks from the La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica.

B.S. (with honors) Biological Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, 1988).

Previous Research Positions

Curator of Natural History (2019-2023) Museum of Riverside.

Chief Curator of Natural Sciences (2007-2014), Museum of Oakland.

Chairman, Department of Ornithology & Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences (2000-2003).

Senior Collections Manager Department of Ornithology & Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, 2004-2005.

Collections Manager Department of Ornithology & Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences (1998-2004).

Scientific Research Associate, The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California (1993-1996).

Curatorial Assistant, University of California Museum of Paleontology (1993-1996).

Teaching Experience (earth & ocean sciences, biological sciences) Special Lecturer, University of California, Riverside (2023)

Adjunct Associate Professor, St. Mary's College (1994-2019)

Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology (1998-2009)

Lecturer, Sonoma State University, Dept. of Biology (1997, 2006)

Lecturer, San Francisco State University, Dept. of Geosciences (2003)

Graduate Student Instructor, University of California Berkeley (1989-1994)

Field Researcher, California Academy of Sciences Research Expeditions China, Myanmar, Sao Tome & Principe, South Africa

Leader, California Academy of Sciences Travel Program Alaska, Argentina, Cambodia, Canadian Arctic, Chile, Ecuador & Galapagos Islands, Mexico, Myanmar, Peru