Jane McRae
Senior Taxonomist
Jane is a founding member of Bennelongia and has been with the company since 2007.
She worked at the Australian Museum and volunteering at the British Museum of Natural History prior to joining the Department of Parks and Wildlife from 1995 to 2007. Jane has specialized in the identification of aquatic invertebrates for the past 30 years working on the taxonomy of polychaete worms, isopods, copepods, ostracods, scorpions, beetles, silverfish, cockroaches and hemipterans. She has extensive knowledge of the invertebrate fauna of Western Australia having done most of the identifications for DBCA’s regional surveys of aquatic invertebrates of wetlands and rivers across the state.
For the past nineteen years has undertaken most of Bennelongia’s identifications of stygofauna and troglofauna species, as well as identifying some SRE taxa. Jane has been an author of many taxonomic publications and is widely regarded for her exceptional identification skills. As the laboratory manager she is also responsible for providing keys and training aids to the junior staff and assisting them in invertebrate identification.
Email Address: jane.mcrae@bennelongia.com.au