Patricia J. Kailola

Patricia J. Kailola is a noted ichthyologist. Her primary focus is in tropical Indo-Pacific fishes. She is an Australian Museum Research Associate. Among her numerous publications are listed several books covering tropical fish. She also has written texts on catfish. As of April 2006, she was working on a textbook on Western Indian Ocean fishes. She has assisted the Australian Museum in confirmation of species identification among their collection. Worldcat.org lists 27 works in 57 publications in 1 language and 603 library holdings.

She has been involved in studies of the following fish:

• Himantura
• Glossolepis
• Lake Wanam rainbowfish
• Amissidens hainesi
• Aspistor
• Paraplagusia
• Hortle's whipray
• Ilisha (genus)
• Cochlefelis
• Hemiarius
• Neoarius
• Plicofollis
• Sciades
• Paracaesio
• Branchiostegus
• Ozichthys