Alan James Drummond Tennyson

Alan James Drummond Tennyson, New Zealand ornithologist and palaeontologist.

• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand.
• E-mail: alant@tepapa.govt.nz

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 18 taxon names authored by Alan James Drummond Tennyson

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2001

• Imber, M.J. & Tennyson, A.J.D. 2001. A new petrel species (Procellariidae) from the south-west Pacific. Emu 101(2): 123–127. DOI: 10.1071/MU00067. Reference page. 

2003

• Palma, R.L., Worthy, T.H. & Tennyson, A.J.D. 2003. Resolution of the status of the taxon Apteryx maxima. Tuhinga 14: 1–9. full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Tennyson, A.J.D., Palma, R.L., Robertson, H.A., Worthy, T.H. & Gill, B.J. 2003. A new species of kiwi (Aves, Apterygiformes) from Okarito, New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Museum 40: 55–64. Reference page. 

2007

• Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Jones, C., McNamara, J.A. & Douglas, B.J. 2007. Miocene waterfowl and other birds from Central Otago, New Zealand. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(1): 1–39. DOI: 10.1017/S1477201906001957 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2009

• King, C.M., Roberts, C.D., Bell, B.D., Fordyce, R.E., Nicoll, R.S., Worthy, T.H., Paulin, C.D., Hitchmough, R.A., Keyes, I.W., Baker, A.N., Stewart, A.L., Hiller, N., McDowall, R.M., Holdaway, R.N., McPhee, R.P., Schwarzhans, W.W., Tennyson A.J.D., Rust, S. & McCadie, I. 2009. Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. Pp. 431–551 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2009. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8 Reference page. 

2010

• Gill, B.J., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., & Worthy, T.H. 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. 4th ed. Te Tapa Press, Wellington, New Zealand: 500 pp. ISBN 978-1-877385-59-9. ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Worthy, T.H., Hand, S.J., Nguyen, J.M.T., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P., Boles, W.E. & Archer, M. 2010. Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an Early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2): 479–498. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003618033 Reference page. 

2011

• Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2011. Fossils reveal an early Miocene presence of the aberrant gruiform Aves: Aptornithidae in New Zealand. Journal of Ornithology 152(3): 669–680. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-011-0649-6 ResearchGate. Reference page. 

2012

• Schwarzhans, W., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P. & Worthy, T.H. 2012. Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2): 319–350. DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0127 Reference page. 

2013

• Hand, S.J., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6): 1442–1448. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.775950 Reference page. 
• Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Scofield, R.P. & Hand, S.J. 2013. Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 43(4): 211–230. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2013.825300 Reference page. 
• Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Salisbury, S.W., Hand, S.J. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves. Pp. 63-80 in: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.), Paleornithological Research 2013: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Vienna, 2013. ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. A bittern (Aves: Ardeidae) from the early Miocene of New Zealand. Paleontological journal 47(11): 1331-1343. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030113110154 Reference page. 

2017

• Mayr, G., Scofield, R.P., De Pietri, V.L. & Tennyson, A.J.D. 2017. A Paleocene penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes. Nature Communications 8 Art. 1927. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01959-6 Reference page. 
• Schodde, R., Tennyson, A.J.D., Groth, J.G., Lai, J., Scofield, P. & Steinheimer, F.D. 2017. Settling the name Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 for the Wandering Albatross by neotypification. Zootaxa 4236(1): 135–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.1.7. Reference page. 

2018

• Hand, S.J., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M., Simmons, N.B., Gunnell, G.F., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., De Pietri, V.L., Salisbury, S.W. & Worthy, T.H. 2018. A New, Large-bodied Omnivorous Bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals Lost Morphological and Ecological Diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand. Scientific Reports 8: 235. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w Reference page. 

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