Dr Leigh Winsor ~ Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Leigh’s current projects include on-going taxonomic revisions of the terrestrial flatworms of Australia and the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand; continuing collaboration with Professor J-L Justine, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, and Prof Romain Gastineau , University of Szczecin, Poland, on invasive land planarians in France and in French Territories, and the iNaturalist project “Land planarians of the World”. Leigh uses traditional morphological techniques including histology to identify and classify species. This is an essential component of the total evidence approach to taxonomy and systematics of land flatworms where these traditional morphological methods are combined with the molecular analyses undertaken by his colleagues in Europe, with whom he collaborates on this research.

 

Leigh was awarded his PhD from James Cook University in 2004 for a thesis entitled “Studies on the systematics and biogeography of terrestrial flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Terricola) of the Australian Region.”

Previously Leigh was a senior technical officer, then later a scientific officer in the School of Biological Sciences at James Cook University 1974-1996 where in 1991 he completed his MSc on “Taxonomic studies on free-living flatworms”, the latter including studies on the highly invasive terrestrial flatworm Platydemus manokwari. From 1996 – 2011 Leigh was Manager of Health and Safety at James Cook University, a position from which he retired in 2011, finally able to return to his zoological taxonomic research interests in an adjunct capacity.

 

Research Disciplines

• Bioinformatics and computational biology (3102)
• Zoology (3109)
• Ecological applications (4102)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Terrestrial systems and management (1806)
• Expanding knowledge (2801)
• environmental management (1899)

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Journal Articles

• Soo O, Gastineau R, Verdon G, Winsor L and Justine J (2023) Rediscovery of Bipalium admarginatum de Beauchamp, 1933 (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in Malaysia, with molecular characterisation including the mitogenome. Zootaxa, 5277 (3). pp. 585-599
• Fourcade Y, Winsor L and Justine J (2022) Hammerhead worms everywhere? Modelling the invasion of bipaliin flatworms in a changing climate. Diversity and Distributions, 28 (4). pp. 844-858
• Gastineau R, Winsor L and Justine J (2022) The complete mitogenome of the potentially invasive flatworm Australopacifica atrata (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae) displays unusual features common to other Rhynchodeminae. ZooKeys, 1110. pp. 121-133
• Justine J, Marie A, Gastineau R, Fourcade Y and Winsor L (2022) The invasive land flatworm Obama nungara in La Reunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, the first report of the species for Africa. Zootaxa, 5154 (4). pp. 469-476
• Justine J, Gastineau R, Gros P, Gey D, Ruzzier E, Charles L and Winsor L (2022) Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipaliinae): mitochondrial genomes and description of two new species from France, Italy, and Mayotte. PeerJ, 10.
• Justine J, Gey D, Vasseur J, Thevenot J, Collis M and Winsor L (2021) Presence of the invasive land flatworm Platydemus manokwari (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae) in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint Martin (French West Indies). Zootaxa, 4951 (2). pp. 381-390
• Mori E, Magoga G, Panella M, Montagna M, Winsor L, Justine J, Menchetti M, Schifani E, Melone B and Mazza G (2021) Discovering the Pandora’s box: the invasion of alien flatworms in Italy. Biological Invasions, 24. pp. 205-216
• Justine J, Winsor L, Gey D, Gros P and Thévenot J (2020) Obama chez moi! The invasion of metropolitan France by the land planarian Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae). PeerJ, 2020 (2).
• Justine J, Théry T, Gey D and Winsor L (2019) First record of the invasive land flatworm Bipalium adventitium (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae) in Canada. Zootaxa, 4656 (3). pp. 591-595
• Justine J, Lemarcis T, Gerlach J, Winsor L and (2018) First report of the land planarian Endeavouria septemlineata (Hyman, 1939) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola, Geoplanidae) in French Polynesia. Zootaxa, 4450 (2). pp. 297-300
• Justine J, Winsor L, Gey D, Gros P and Thévenot J (2018) Giant worms chez moi! Hammerhead flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae, Bipalium spp., Diversibipalium spp.) in metropolitan France and overseas French territories. PeerJ, 6.
• Justine J, Winsor L, Barriére P, Fanai C, Gey D, Han A, La Quay-Velázquez G, Lee B, Lefevre J, Meyer J, Philippart D, Robinson D, Thévenot J and Tsatsia F (2015) The invasive land planarian Platydemus manokwari (Platyhelminthes, Geoplanidae): records from six new localities, including the first in the USA. PeerJ, 3. pp. 1-20

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