Darrell Kitchener

{{Short description|Australian zoologist}}

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Darrell John Kitchener (born 1943) is a biologist who has been active in mammalian research in Western Australia and Indonesia. He is the author of over one hundred papers, published while employed as the senior research biologist at the Western Australian Museum, and described many new species of mammals during his 28 years in that position. Kitchener was born on 9 June 1943 in Victoria, Australia. He obtained degrees in botany and zoological sciences at the University of Tasmania and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Western Australia.{{cite web |last1=Kitchener |first1=Darrell John |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/business/forestry/documents/DarrellJ.KitchenerCV03.pdf |website=rainforest-alliance.org |publisher=Rainforest Alliance |accessdate=13 November 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051102064433/http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/programs/forestry/smartwood/documents/DarrellJ.KitchenerCV03.pdf |archivedate=2 November 2005}} His works include contributions to the Australian Museum's Complete book of Australian mammals.{{cite encyclopedia | last = Kitchener | first = D.J. | author-link = D.J. Kitchener | editor-last = Strahan | editor-first = Ronald | editor-link = Ronald Strahan | encyclopedia = Complete book of Australian mammals | title = Contributors | trans-title = | url = | access-date = | language = | edition = | year = 1983 | publisher = Angus and Robertson | series = Australian Museum: the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife | volume = | location = Sydney | id = | isbn = 0207144540 | oclc = | doi = | pages = vii–viii | quote = }}

The specific epithet for the free-tailed bat Mormopterus kitcheneri — found in the Southwest Australia ecoregion and first described in 2014 — commemorates Kitchener "for his prolific contribution to elucidating the systematics of Indo-Australian mammals, especially bats".{{cite journal|doi=10.1071/ZO13082|title=A molecular and morphological investigation of species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships in Australian free-tailed bats Mormopterus (Chiroptera : Molossidae)|journal=Australian Journal of Zoology|volume=62|issue=2|pages=109|year=2014|last1=Reardon|first1=T. B|last2=McKenzie|first2=N. L|last3=Cooper|first3=S. J. B|last4=Appleton|first4=B|last5=Carthew|first5=S|last6=Adams|first6=M|doi-access=free|hdl=10536/DRO/DU:30070309|hdl-access=free}}