Biography
- Areas Of Focus
Kyle Luckenbill is a 2002 graduate of the Scientific Illustration program at Arcadia and has worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University since 2003. Kyle serves as a Collection Manager in the Ichthyology Department at the Academy, helping to care for the 1.6 million specimens in the collection. Part of caring for the collection includes increasing the accessibility of the specimens to researchers and the community, which often requires various forms of imaging. As a result, Kyle has captured thousands of photographs and x-rays of specimens from the Academy’s collections and captures MicroCT scans to help view internal structures in three dimensions. In addition to his work with fishes, Kyle also produces illustrations and 3-D surface scans for the Vertebrate Paleontology Department, contributes to projects for the Exhibits Department, participates in museum education programs and serves as the Production Editor for Scientific Publications, where he is responsible for managing figure submissions and creating layouts for manuscripts. Kyle’s illustrations and images have appeared in journals such as The Proceeding of the Academy of Natural Sciences, The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ichthyology and Herpetology (formerly Copeia) and Nature. Kyle’s current research centers around using virtual dissections of models created from CT scans to explore the skeletal morphology of various groups of catfishes to aid in describing new species.
- Education
Arcadia University
2002
Scientific Illustration
Bachelor of Arts
Publications
Lewis L.A. and R. M. McCourt. 2004. Green algae and the origin of land plants. American
Journal of Botany 91(10):1535-1556.2005.
Rodiles-Hernández, R., D.A. Hendrickson, J.G. Lundberg & J.M. Humphries. 2005. Lacantunia
enigmatica (Teleostei:Siluriformes) a new and phylogenetically puzzling freshwater fish from
Mesoamerica. Zootaxa 1000: 1-24.
Gaffney, E. S., H. Tong and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the families
Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of
Natural History 300: 196-199, 250-253, 219, 513.
Daeschler, E. B., N. H. Shubin and F. A. Jenkins, Jr. 2006. A Devonian tetrapodlike fish
and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 440:757-763.
Claeson, K. M., J. W. Hagadorn, K. Luckenbill, and J. G. Lundberg. 2008. Skeletal morphology
of Sarcoglanis simplex and a cladistic analysis of the Sarcoglaninae. Paleontologica Electronia,
11:6A:11p; http://palaeo-electronica.org/2008_2/130/index.html
Daeschler, E. B., J. A. Clack and N. H. Shubin. 2009. Late Devonian tetrapod remains
from Red Hill, Pennsylvania, USA: how much diversity? Acta Zoologica 90 (suppl.
1):306-317.
Luckenbill, K. R. & J. G. Lundberg. 2009. CAT scan-based images of the skeleton of the Asian
catfish Cranoglanis (Siluriformes:Cranoglanididae). Proceeding of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia 158: 297-299.
Parisi, B. M. & J.G. Lundberg. 2009. Pimelabditus moli, a new genus and new species of
pimelodid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from the Maroni River basin of northeastern South
America. Notulae Naturae 480: 1-11.
Downs, J.P., E.B. Daeschler, F.A. Jenkins, Jr., and N.H. Shubin. 2011. A new species of
Laccognathus (Sarcopterygii, Porolepiformes) from the Late Devonian of Ellesmere
Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(5):981-996.
Cummings, K. S. and D. L. Graf. 2014. Mollusca:Bivalvia In: J. Throp & D. C. Rogers
(eds.), Ecology and General Biology: Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates,
Academic Press-Elsevier, New York. pp. 423-506.
Lundberg, J. G., K. R. Luckenbill, K. K. S. Babu & H. H. Ng. 2014. A tomographic osteology of
the taxonomically puzzling catfish Kryptoglanis shajii (Siluriformes, Siluroidei, incertae sedis):
description a first phylogenetic interpretation. Proceeding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia 163: 1-41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBqndwVdnrc
Lundberg, J. G. & K. R. Luckenbill. 2015. The Extraordinary Occipito-Vertebral Skeleton and
Swim Bladder of South American Hypophthalmus Catfishes (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae):
Improved Illustration, Description, and Interpretation. Copeia 103 (4): 806-820.
Ng, H.H., R. K. Hadiaty, J. G. Lundberg & K. R. Luckenbill, K.R. (2015): A new genus and
species of bagrid catfish from northern Sumatra (Siluriformes: Bagridae). Proceedings of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 164: 149-157.
Vanscoy, T., J. G. Lundberg & K. R. Luckenbill. 2015 . Bony ornamentation of the catfish
pectoral-fin spine: comparative and developmental anatomy, with an example of fin-spine
diversity using the Tribe Brachyplatystomini (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae). Proceedings of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 164: 177-212.
Jason P. Downs, Edward B. Daeschler, Valentina E. Garcia & Neil H. Shubin. 2016. A
new large-bodied species of Bothriolepis (Antiarchi) from the Upper Devonian of
Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI:
10.1080/02724634.2016.1221833
Lundberg, J.G., D.A. Hendrickson, K.R. Luckenbill & M. Arce H. 2017. Satan's skeleton
revealed: a tomographic and comparative osteology of Satan eurystomus, the subterranean
Widemouth Blindcat (Siluriformes, Ictaluridae), Proceedings of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia 165(1), 117-173.
Netto-Ferreira, A.L. & K.R. Luckenbill. 2017, The Use of Ultraviolet Light as a Non-destructive
Method for Revealing Fragments of Lost Pigmentation in Faded Alcohol-preserved Collection
Specimens, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 165(1), 221-229.
Daeschler, E. B. and J. P. Downs. 2018. New description and diagnosis of Hyneria
lindae (Sarcopterygii, Tristichopteridae) from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation in
Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI:
10.1080/02724634.2018.1448834
Downs, J. P. and E. B. Daeschler. 2020. A New Species of Megalichthys (Sarcopterygii,
Megalichthyidae) from the Upper Devonian (Famennian) of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and a
Report on the Cosmine-Covered Osteolepiform Fossils of the Catskill Formation,
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(2). DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1774771
Professional Experience
Arcadia University
Glenside, PA
Collections Manager/Imaging Specialist Ichthyology Department
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Production Editor/Scientific Publications
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
