Amanda "Mandy" Louise Reid is an Australian taxonomist and malacologist. She held the position of collection manager of malacology at the Australian Museum from 2010 to 2023. She is a published researcher and author. Her research has resulted in the description of many species of velvet worms and cephalopods.^[1]

Career

Neorossia leptodons, a species of bobtail squid described by Reid in 1992

Euperipatoides rowelli, a species of velvet worm described by Reid in 1996

Reid is an alumna of Macquarie University, a public research university in Sydney, Australia, where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984. She completed a Master of Science degree in 1990, with a thesis titled Taxonomic review of the Australian Rossiinae (Cephalopoda : Sepiolidae).^[2] She completed a PhD in 1996, with a thesis titled A systematic review of the Peripatopsidae (Onychophora) in Australia.^[3]

Reid has an interest in cephalopods, particularly bobtail or bottletail squids (Sepiolidae), cuttlefishes (Sepiidae), and pygmy squids (Idiosepiidae). She has authored two books,^[4] and her research has been published in a number of scientific journals, including Invertebrate Taxonomy, Bulletin of Marine Science, Australian Natural History, Zootaxa, and others.^[5]

Reid is member of the Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA), the Cephalopod International Advisory Council, and Sustainable Population Australia.^[1]

Books authored

• Norman M., Reid A. (2000) A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopuses of Australasia (The Gould League of Australia and CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).
• Reid A. (2016) Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).

See also

• List of Macquarie University people
• Partial list of taxa described by Amanda Reid

References

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