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Bernard Picton, Curator of Marine Invertebrates

Bernard Picton, Curator of Marine Invertebrates Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Northern Ireland
153 Bangor Road
Cultra
Holywood
Co. Down, BT18 0EU
Telephone: (44)(0)28 9039 5266
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Responsible for: Marine invertebrate collections

Deals with enquiries regarding: Marine zoology

Research interests: Sponges, Cnidarians, nudibranch Molluscs, Echinoderms, Tunicates, identification, underwater photography, digital imaging and the storage and dissemination of biological knowledge using digital technologies

Selected publications:

Erwin, D.G., Picton, B.E., Connor, D.W., Howson, C.M., Gilleece, P. & Bogues, M.J. 1990. Inshore Marine Life of Northern Ireland. HMSO: Belfast, 148pp.
Ackers, R.G., Moss, D. & Picton, B.E. 1992. Sponges of the British Isles (Sponge V) - a colour guide and working document. Marine Conservation Society. 175pp
Picton, B.E. 1993. Echinoderms of the British Isles. Immel Publishing Ltd. London.
Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. 1993. Nudibranchs of the British Isles. Immel Publishing Ltd. London.
Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E.(eds) 1997. The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum and The Marine Conservation Society, Belfast and Ross-on-Wye.

Bernard E. Picton - Publications

Academic:

Brown, G.H. & Picton, B.E. 1976. Trapania maculata Haefelfinger, a doridacean nudibranch new to the British fauna. J.Conch. 28 pp.63-65
Picton, B.E. & Brown, G.H. 1978. A new species of Cuthona from the British Isles. J.Conch. 29 pp.345-348.
Picton, B.E. 1978. A review of the genus Doto in the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean. Porcupine Newsletter 1 pp.71-77.
Picton, B.E. 1978. The biology and taxonomy of Coryphella species in the British Isles. Haliotis 9 p.66
Picton, B.E. 1978. The marine fauna of Lundy - Prosobranchia. Rep.Lundy Fld.Soc. 29 pp.38-45
Picton, B.E. 1979. Caloria elegans (Alder & Hancock) Comb. Nov., an interesting rediscovery from S.W. England. J.Moll.Stud. 45 pp.125-130
Picton, B.E., 1980. A new species of Coryphella from the British Isles. Ir.Nat.J. 20 pp.15-19
Picton, B.E., O'Connor, B. & Costelloe, J. 1980. Thyone roscovita, an Echinoderm new to Ireland. Ir.Nat.J. 20 p.125
Picton, B.E. & Brown, G.H. 1981. Four nudibranch Gastropods new to the fauna of Great Britain and Ireland including a new species of Doto Oken. Ir.Nat.J. 20 pp.261-308
Rostron, D. & Picton, B.E. 1982. Hancockia uncinata, a nudibranch new to Ireland with notes on its distribution and ecology. Ir. Nat.J. 20 pp.491- 493
Picton, B.E., Howson, C.M., Connor, D.W. & Williams, A. 1982. Sub-littoral survey of Scarba, Lunga and the Garvellachs. Nature Conservancy Council, limited circulation report. 56pp.
Wilson, K. & Picton, B.E. 1983. A list of the Opisthobranchia - Mollusca of Lough Hyne nature reserve, Co. Cork, with notes on distribution and nomenclature. Ir.Nat.J. 21 pp.69-72
Holmes, J.M.C., McGrath, D., Picton, B.E. & Mulligan, N. 1983. Records of some interesting crabs from the coast of Ireland. Ir.Nat.J. 21 pp.79-81
Erwin, D.G., Brachi, R., Elliot, R.C.A. & Picton, B.E. 1983. A diving survey of the substrates and benthic fauna of Dundrum Bay, Northern Ireland. Progress in Underwater Science 8 pp.21-48
Picton, B.E. & Wilson, K. 1984. Cuthona genovae (O'Donoghue, 1926), an aeolid nudibranch new to the fauna of the British Isles. J.Conch. 31 pp.349-352
Erwin, D.G., Connor, D.W., Gilleece, P., Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E. 1985. The Northern Ireland Sublittoral Survey : methodology and early results. Progress in Underwater Science 10 pp.27-37
Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E. 1985. A Sublittoral Survey of St. Kilda. Report to the Nature Conservancy Council, limited circulation report. 21pp.
Picton, B.E., & Manuel, R.L. 1985. Arachnanthus sarsi Carlgren, 1912, a redescription of a cerianthid anemone new to the British Isles. Zool.J.Linn.Soc. 83 pp.343-349
Picton, B.E. 1985. Anthozoans (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) new to Ireland and new records of some rarely recorded species. Ir.Nat.J 21 pp.484-488
Buehr, M. & Picton, B.E. 1985. Basic Underwater Photography for Divers. in Underwater Photography & Television for Scientists ed. J.D.George, G.I.Lythgoe & J.N.Lythgoe, Oxford University Press.
Erwin, D.G., Picton, B.E., Connor, D.W., Howson, C.M., Gilleece, P. & Bogues, M.J. 1986. The Northern Ireland sublittoral survey. Ulster Museum, limited circulation report. 127pp.
Rasmont, P., Speight, M.C.D. & Picton, B.E. 1986. A computer programme for conversion of Irish Transverse Mercator Projection to the Universal Transverse Mercator Projection. Ir.Nat.J. 22 pp.45-50
Picton, B.E. 1986. Scientific collecting methods. In Underwater Expeditions Ed. Palmer, R. Royal Geographic Society.
Picton, B.E. 1991. Cumanotus beaumonti (Eliot, 1906), a nudibranch adapted for life in a shallow sandy habitat? Proceedings 9th International Malacological Congress, Malacologia 32(2):219-222.
Picton, B. E., 1991. The sessile fauna of the sublittoral cliffs. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Lough Hyne. 139-142 Royal Irish Academy, Special publication.
Morrow, C. C., Thorpe, J. P. & Picton, B. E. (1992). Genetic divergence and cryptic speciation in two morphs of the common subtidal nudibranch Doto coronata (Opisthobranchia: Dendronotacea: Dotoidae) from the northern Irish Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 84: 53-61.
Picton, B.E., 1996. The Species Directory Marine Database: a hierarchical taxonomic database for species-oriented biological recording in the marine environment. in Xth Workshop on Atlanto-Mediterranean Sponge Taxonomy - Biodiversity databases and Identification Systems. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Biologie, 66 Supplement: 49-61.
Soest, R.W.M. van, Schalk, P. H., Smith, K., Picton, B. E., Brugman, M., Diaz, M. C., Sanders, M. L., Weerdt, W. H. de & Rutzler, K. POR-LINNAEUS : The application of interative multimedia software for species data storage and computer assiated identification of Porifera. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Biologie, 66 Supplement: 63-72.
Morrow, C.C. & Picton, B.E. 1996. An aplysillid sponge Hexadella racovitzai Topsent, 1896, new to the British Isles with notes on its habitat and distribution. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 25 218-221.
Costello, M.J., Emblow, C.S. & Picton, B.E. 1996. Long term trends in the discovery of marine species new to science which occur in Britain and Ireland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 76 255-257.
Kelly, K.S., Picton, B.E., McFadden, Y. & Costello, M.J. 1996. BioMarLit Version 1.0: a computerised database of marine related papers published in The Irish Naturalists' Journal 1925-1994. Environmental Sciences Unit, Trinity College, and the Irish Marine Data centre.
Goodwin, C. E., & Picton, B. E. 2007. The red blenny Parablennius ruber in the British Isles, with notes on field identification characteristics and ecology. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK, 87 1309-1313.
Picton, B. E., & Goodwin, C. E. 2007. Sponge biodiversity of Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK, 87 1441-1458.
C.E. Goodwin & B.E. Picton, 2009. Demosponges of the genus Hymedesmia (Hymedesmidae, Poecilosclerida) from Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland with a description of six new species. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 156 896-912.