Specific responsibility: Preparation of animal specimens for study and basic curation of vertebrates.

Research interests: Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of Central American lower vertebrates and insects.

Selected publications

Mortier G.G., Black S., Kitchener A.C., Sainsbury K.A., McDonald R.A, Hantke G., et al. 2025. The blood-sucking tick Ixodes hexagonus reveals dietary stable isotope signatures of mammalian hosts. PLoS One20 (7): e0327245. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327245

Elder, A., Evans, E., Brassey, C., Kitchener, A.C., Hantke, G. & Grant, R. 2024. Describing the musculature of mystacial pads in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) using diceCT. Journal of Anatomy. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14158

Plint T., ten Doeschate M.T.I., Brownlow A.C., Davison N.J., Hantke G., Kitchener A.C., Longstaffe F.J., McGill R.A.R., Simon-Nutbrown C. and Magill C.R. 2023. Stable isotope ecology and interspecific dietary overlap among dolphins in the Northeast Atlantic. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1111295. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1111295

Kitchener, A.C., Herman, J.S., ten Doeschate, M., Davison, N.J., Brownlow, A., Schwarz, T., Kinze, C.C., Hantke, G. 2023. The prevalence of vestigial teeth in two beaked whale species from the North Atlantic. Mammalia. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2022-0099

Kitchener, A.C., Hantke, G., Penrose, R.S., Perkins, M.W. & Deaville, R. 2022. First recorded stranding of a short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, in Britain. Mammal Communications 8: 15-22.

Lesch R., Kitchener A.C., Hantke G., Kotrschal K., Fitch WT. 2022. Cranial volume and palate length of cats, Felis spp., under domestication, hybridization and in wild populations. Royal Society Open Science9: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210477

Plint, T., Hantke, G., Schwarz, T. Kitchener, A.C. 2021. Dental Anomaly Causing Severe Maxillary Lesions in a Male Sowerby’s Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon bidens Sowerby, 1804) Aquatic Mammals47 (6): 521-529. https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.47.6.2021.521

Clauss, M., Trümpler, J., Ackermans, N.L., Kitchener, A.C., Hantke, G., Stagegaard, J., Takano, T., Shintaku, Y. and Matsuda, I. 2020. Intraspecific macroscopic digestive anatomy of ring‑tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), including a comparison of frozen and formalin‑stored specimens. Primates. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00873-8

Kitchener, A.C., Hantke, G., Herman, J.S., ten Doeschate, M. and Brownlow, A.C. 2020. First record of True’s beaked whale, Mesoplodon mirus, in Britain. Mammal Communications6: 29-33.

Heald, K-A., Millins, C., Kitchener, A.C., Banyard, A.C., Hantke, G., Sainsbury, K.A., McDonald, M., Meredith, A. 2020. Investigating infectious disease threats to the recovery of the European polecat in Britain. Mammalian Biology: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-020-00046-6

For further publications see the National Museums Scotland Research Repository.