Invertebrate Zoology Staff
Cheryl (Lewis) AmesResearch Assistant
- Phone: 202-633-1295
- Fax: 202-357-2986
- E-mail: amesc@si.edu
- Mailing Address:
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012, MRC 163
Washington, DC 20013-7012 - Courier Delivery Address:
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
10th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20560-0163
Responsibilities: Research Assistant, Deep-Sea and Mid-water Invertebrates
Education:
Queen’s University, CANADA, B.S.
University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, JAPAN, M.S.
Research Interests: Jellyfish reproduction and behavior, and mid-water cephalopods
Professional Activities: Participant in Cnidarian Tree of Life Project, Japan 2006
Selected Publications:
Lewis, Cheryl, Migita, Masao, Hashimoto, Hiroshi and Collins, Allen G. 2012. On the occurrence of freshwater jellyfish in Japan 1928–2011: eighty-three years of records of mamizu kurage (Limnomedusae, Olindiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(2): 165-179. doi:10.2988/11-31.1
Bentlage, B., Cartwright, P., Yanagihara, A. A., Lewis, C. Richards, G.A, Collins, A.G. 2009. Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Lewis, C. & Bentlage, B. 2009 Clarifying the identity of the Japanese Habu-kurage, Chironex yamaguchii, sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida). Zootaxa, 2030, 59-65.
Lewis, C., Kubota, S., Migotto, A. E. & Collins, A. G. 2008 Sexually dimorphic cubomedusa Carybdea sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) in Seto, Wakayama, Japan. Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab. 40, 1-8.
Lewis, C. & Long, T.A.F., 2005. Courtship and reproduction in Carybdea sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa). Marine Biology, 147, 477-483.
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