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712
National Ranking
226

Overview

John E. Randall was affiliated with the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in the United States. Their research focused primarily on environmental science, with particular attention to subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, molecular biology, and aquatic science.

Their main topics of work were varied within marine and biological sciences. These included ichthyology and marine biology, marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, identification and quantification in food, fish biology and ecology studies, marine and coastal plant biology, and fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

John E. Randall authored several scientific papers during their career. Selected recent publications include:

  • Johnston Atoll: Reef Fish Hybrid Zone between Hawaii and the Equatorial Pacific, 2020, Diversity
  • Etelis boweni sp. nov., a new cryptic deepwater eteline snapper from the Indo-Pacific (Perciformes: Lutjanidae), 2021, Journal of Fish Biology
  • The triggerfish Abalistes filamentosus from New Caledonia, a first record for the South Pacific, 2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Acropoma musorstom, a new lanternbelly (Acropomatidae) from the South Pacific and the first record of Acropoma splendens from the Andaman Sea off southwestern Thailand, 2021, Ichthyological Research
  • Guest editorial: managing our soils: learning from the past to help feed a growing world population, 2022, The Journal of Agricultural Science

Their frequent coauthors throughout the recent works included Phillip S. Lobel, Lisa Kerr Lobel, Kimberly R. Andrews, Iria Fernández-Silva, and Hsuan-Ching Ho.

John E. Randall published in several venues reflecting a focus on biological and environmental sciences. These venues included:

  • Diversity
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • Ichthyological Research
  • The Journal of Agricultural Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea

    John E. Randall;Gerald R. Allen;Roger C. Steene

  • Coastal Fishes of Oman

    John E. Randall;John P. Hoover

  • Caribbean Reef Fishes

    John E. Randall

  • Reef Fishes of the East Indies

    Gerald R. Allen;Mark V. Erdmann;John E. Randall;Patrick Ching

  • FAO species catalogue. v. 16: Groupers of the world (Family Serranidae, Subfamily Epinephelinae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the grouper, Rockcod, Hind, Coral grouper and Lyretail species known to date

    P.C. Heemstra;J.E. Randall

  • Grazing Effect on Sea Grasses by Herbivorous Reef Fishes in the West Indies

    Joh N E. Randall

  • Contributions to the biology of the queen conch, Strombus gigas

    J. E. Randall

  • Red Sea Reef Fishes

    John E. Randall

  • ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF SHORE FISHES OF THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION

    J. E. Randall

  • Reef and Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands

    John E. Randall

  • Sponge-feeding fishes of the West Indies

    J. E. Randall;J. E. Randall;W. D. Hartman;W. D. Hartman;W. D. Hartman

  • Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific: New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands

    John E. Randall

  • Contribution to the Biology of the Convict Surgeonfish of the Hawaiian Islands, Acanthurus triostegus sandvicensis

    John E. Randall

  • NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF THE ECHINOID DIADEMA ANTILLARUM

    John E. Randall

  • An annotated checklist of the species of the labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae

    P. Parenti;J.E. Randall

  • Overgrazing of algae by herbivorous marine fishes

    John E. Randall

  • A Review of the Labrid Fish Genus Labroides, with Descriptions of Two New Species and Notes on Ecology

    John E. Randall

  • Revision of Indo-Pacific groupers (perciformes:serranidae: epinephelinae) with descriptions of five new species

    J.E. Randall;P.C. Heemstra

  • A Review of Mimicry in Marine Fishes

    John E. Randall

  • Annotated checklist of the fishes of Lord Howe Island

    Gerald R. Allen;Douglass F. Hoese;John R. Paxton;John E. Randall

  • An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the grouper, Rockcod, Hind, Coral grouper and Lyretail species known to date

    P.C. Heemstra;J.E. Randall

  • A review of hybridization in marine angelfishes (Perciformes: Pomacanthidae)

    Richard L. Pyle;John E. Randall

  • Toxicity of the Surgeonfishes

    Takeshi Yasumoto;Yoshiro Hashimoto;Raymond Bagnis;John E. Randall

  • FAO species catalogue. v. 16: Groupers of the world (Family Serranidae, Subfamily Epinephelinae)

    P.C. Heemstra;J.E. Randall

  • Size of the Great White Shark (Carcharodon)

    John E. Randall

  • A Revision of the Surgeon Fish Genus Acanthurus

    John E. Randall

  • Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea

    John E. Randall;Gerald R. Allen;Roger C. Steene

  • A revision of the parrotfishes (family Scaridae) of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia with description of a new species

    J. Howard Choat;John E. Randall

  • Observations on the Spawning of Surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae) in the Society Islands

    John E. Randall

  • GRAMMISTIN, THE SKIN TOXIN OF SOAPFISHES, AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE GRAMMISTIDAE

    John E. Randall;Katsumi Aida;Takashi Hibiya;Nobuhiro Mitsuura

  • Food habits of the giant humphead wrasse,Cheilinus undulatus (Labridae)

    John E. Randall;Stephen M. Head;Adrian P. L. Sanders

  • Review of the sharpnose pufferfishes (subfamily Canthigasterinae) of the Indo-Pacific

    Gerald R. Allen;John E. Randall

  • New Records of Fishes from Johnston Atoll, with Notes on Biogeography

    Randall K. Kosaki;Richard L. Pyle;John E. Randall;Darby K. Irons

  • Comparative ecology of the gobies Nes longus and Ctenogobius saepepallens, both symbiotic with the snapping shrimp Alpheus floridanus

    John E. Randall;Phillip S. Lobel;Christine W. Kennedy

  • A Review of the Goatfishes of the Genus Upeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from New Caledonia and the Chesterfield Bank, with a New Species and Four New Records

    John E. Randall;Michel Kulbicki

  • FAO species catalogue. Vol. 16. Groupers of the world (Family Serranidae, Subfamily Epi- Authors nephelinae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the grouper, rockcod, hind, coral grouper and lyretail species known to date.

    P. C. Heemstra;J. E. Randall

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph D. DiBattista
Joseph D. DiBattista Griffith University
Luiz A. Rocha
Luiz A. Rocha California Academy of Sciences
Brian W. Bowen
Brian W. Bowen University of Hawaii at Manoa
Phillip S. Lobel
Phillip S. Lobel Boston University
Katsumi Aida
Katsumi Aida University of Tokyo
Bruce Collette
Bruce Collette National Museum of Natural History
Michel Kulbicki
Michel Kulbicki Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Michael L. Berumen
Michael L. Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Stephen J. Newman
Stephen J. Newman Government of Western Australia
Daniel Golani
Daniel Golani Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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