Miniature Characiformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi): evolution, diversity and biogeography

• Grant number: 17/09321-5
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Young Investigators Grants
• Duration: March 01, 2018 - October 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Manoela Maria Marinho Koh
• Grantee: Manoela Maria Marinho Koh
• Host Institution: Museu de Zoologia (MZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Aléssio Datovo da Silva ; Angela Maria Zanata ; Fernando Cesar Paiva Dagosta ; Fernando Rogério de Carvalho ; George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox ; James Hanken ; Marcelo de Bello Cioffi ; Mônica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo ; Murilo Nogueira de Lima Pastana ; Naercio Aquino Menezes ; Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa ; Priscila Camelier de Assis Cardoso ; Ralf Britz
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/16041-4 - Taxonomic revision and osteology of the species complex Hemigrammus geisleri Zarske & Géry (Characiformes: Characidae), BP.MS; 18/23354-6 - Phylogenetic relationships in Xenurobrycon Myers & Miranda-Ribeiro and discussion on miniaturization in the genus (Stervardiinae: Characidae: Characiformes), BP.MS; 18/11415-0 - Miniature Characiformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi): evolution, diversity and biogeography, AP.BTA.JP

Abstract

Eighty-seven species of miniature Characiformes, those not surpassing 26 mm of standard length, are listed. Miniature species are commonly associated to reductive morphological characters, such as bone absences and simplifications, probably due to heterochronic processes involved in the evolution of miniaturization. Paedomorphosis may be the best interpretation to those morphological, but this can only be corroborated by ontogenetic studies. In general, miniature fish fauna is underexploited and poorly known. There are several undescribed species and others with taxonomical problems, including some threatened species from São Paulo State. Furthermore, there are no studies on habitat and distribution of such fishes. The lack of knowledge of such diverse and unexplored fauna is the reason of this project that encompasses three components to contemplate the various aspects to be investigated: evolutionary, taxonomic and biogeographic. The first aims to elucidate the processes that lead to the evolution of small-sized lineages within the Characiformes, by studies on comparative anatomy of miniature fishes and of ontogenetic series of related larger-sized species. The taxonomic component aims to describe new species and to perform taxonomic reviews including molecular and cytogenetic analysis as additional tools to morphology, as well as field inventory. In the biogeographic component, distributional data of miniature species will be associated to historical and geomorphological data, in order to detect distributional patterns and to comprehend which environment had favored the evolution of small-sized lineages. This integrative study is pioneer in understanding the evolution and diversity and the conservation of this freshwater fish fauna. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SASSI, FRANCISCO DE M. C.; HATANAKA, TERUMI; DE MORAE, RENATA LUIZA R.; TOMA, GUSTAVO A.; DE OLIVEIRA, EZEQUIEL A.; LIEHR, THOMAS; RAB, PETR; BERTOLLO, LUIZ A. C.; VIANA, PATRIK F.; FELDBERG, ELIANA; et al. An Insight into the Chromosomal Evolution of Lebiasinidae (Teleostei, Characiformes). GENES, v. 11, n. 4, APR 2020. (17/09321-5, 18/22033-1, 18/24235-0)

TOMA, GUSTAVO AKIRA; ROSA DE MORAES, RENATA LUIZA; CAVALCANTE SASSI, FRANCISCO DE MENEZES; CARLOS BERTOLLO, LUIZ ANTONIO; DE OLIVEIRA, EZEQUIEL AGUIAR; RAB, PETR; SEMBER, ALEXANDR; LIEHR, THOMAS; HATANAKA, TERUMI; VIANA, PATRIK FERREIRA; et al. Cytogenetics of the small-sized fish, Copeina guttata (Characiformes, Lebiasinidae): Novel insights into the karyotype differentiation of the family. PLoS One, v. 14, n. 12, DEC 19 2019. (18/22033-1, 18/24235-0, 17/09321-5)

ABRAHAO, VITOR PIMENTA; PASTANA, MURILO; MARINHO, MANOELA. On a remarkable sexual dimorphic trait in the Characiformes related to the olfactory organ and description of a new miniature species of Tyttobrycon Gery (Characiformes: Characidae). PLoS One, v. 14, n. 12, DEC 18 2019. (14/11397-1, 17/17957-7, 15/26804-4, 12/22685-2, 17/09321-5, 16/19075-9)

SEMBER, ALEXANDR; DE OLIVEIRA, EZEQUIEL AGUIAR; RAB, PETR; BERTOLLO, LUIZ ANTONIO CARLOS; DE FREITAS, NATALIA LOURENCO; VIANA, PATRIK FERREIRA; YANO, CASSIA FERNANDA; HATANAKA, TERUMI; MARINHO, MANOELA MARIA FERREIRA; DE MORAES, RENATA LUIZA ROSA; et al. Centric Fusions behind the Karyotype Evolution of Neotropical Nannostomus Pencilfishes (Characiforme, Lebiasinidae): First Insights from a Molecular Cytogenetic Perspective. GENES, v. 11, n. 1, JAN 2020. (17/09321-5, 18/24235-0)

DARLIM, GUSTAVO; MARINHO, MANOELA M. F.. Moenkhausia lepidura (Kner, 1858) (Characiformes, Characidae): osteology and relationships. Biota Neotropica, v. 18, n. 4, 2018. (17/09321-5)

CAVALCANTE SASSI, FRANCISCO DE MENEZES; DE OLIVEIRA, EZEQUIEL AGUIAR; CARLOS BERTOLLO, LUIZ ANTONIO; NIRCHIO, MAURO; HATANAKA, TERUMI; FERREIRA MARINHO, MANOELA MARIA; MOREIRA-FILHO, ORLANDO; AROUTIOUNIAN, ROUBEN; LIEHR, THOMAS; AL-RIKABI, AHMED B. H.; et al. Chromosomal Evolution and Evolutionary Relationships of Lebiasina Species (Characiformes, Lebiasinidae). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, v. 20, n. 12, JUN 2 2019. (17/09321-5, 18/22033-1, 18/24235-0)

ROSA DE MORAES, RENATA LUIZA; SEMBER, ALEXANDR; CARLOS BERTOLLO, LUIZ ANTONIO; DE OLIVEIRA, EZEQUIEL AGUIAR; RAB, PETR; HATANAKA, TERUMI; FERREIRA MARINHO, MANOELA MARIA; LIEHR, THOMAS; AL-RIKABI, AHMED B. H.; FELDBERG, ELIANA; et al. Comparative Cytogenetics and Neo-Y Formation in Small-Sized Fish Species of the Genus Pyrrhulina (Characiformes, Lebiasinidae). FRONTIERS IN GENETICS, v. 10, AUG 2 2019. (15/26322-0, 17/09321-5)

VITA, GEORGE; CAMELIER, PRISCILA; ZANATA, ANGELA M.. Ichthyofauna of the remarkably crystalline rio Pratinha, upper rio Paraguacu basin, Chapada Diamantina, Brazil: inventory and conservation status. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, v. 56, n. 2, p. 124-134, MAY 4 2021. (17/09321-5, 16/19075-9)

ANGELA MARIA ZANATA; RAFAEL BURGER; GEORGE VITA; PRISCILA CAMELIER. A new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio de Contas basin, Bahia, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 17, n. 3, 2019-10-24. (16/19075-9, 17/09321-5)

FERREIRA MARINHO, MANOELA MARIA; OHARA, WILLIAN MASSAHARU; PAIVA DAGOSTA, FERNANDO CESAR. A new species of Moenkhausia (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio Madeira basin, Brazil, with comments on the evolution and development of the trunk lateral line system in characids. Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 19, n. 2, 2021. (11/50282-7, 17/09321-5, 13/22473-8, 16/19075-9)

FERNANDO CESAR PAIVA DAGOSTA; THOMAZ JEFREY SEREN; ANDERSON FERREIRA; MANOELA MARIA FERREIRA MARINHO. The emerald green tetra: a new restricted-range Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from the upper rio Juruena, Chapada dos Parecis, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 20, n. 1, 2022-03-28. (18/11415-0, 16/19075-9, 17/09321-5)

DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; DE PINNA, MARIO; PERES, CARLOS A.; TAGLIACOLLO, VICTOR A.. Existing protected areas provide a poor safety-net for threatened Amazonian fish species. AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, v. 31, n. 5, SI, p. 1167-1189, MAY 2021. (15/26804-4, 17/09321-5, 16/07246-3, 18/20806-3, 16/19075-9)

CARINE CAVALCANTE CHAMON; JANE PITON SERRA; PRISCILA CAMELIER; ANGELA MARIA ZANATA; ILANA FICHBERG; MANOELA MARIA FERREIRA MARINHO. Construindo conhecimento para salvar espécies: 20 anos de estudos ictiológicos na bacia do rio Tocantins-Araguaia. Biota Neotropica, v. 22, n. 2, 2022-06-13. (11/50282-7, 16/19075-9, 17/09321-5)

ZANATA, ANGELA M.; OHARA, WILLIAN M.; OYAKAWA, OSVALDO T.; DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.. A new rheophilic South American darter (Crenuchidae:Characidium) from the rio Juruena basin, Brazil, with comments on morphological adaptations to life in fast-flowing waters. Journal of Fish Biology, v. 97, n. 5, p. 1343-1353, NOV 2020. (16/19075-9, 13/22473-8, 17/09321-5, 16/07246-3)

MENEZES, NAERCIO A.; MARINHO, MANOELA M. F.. A new species of Knodus Eigenmann (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) with comments on nuptial tubercles and gill gland in characiform fishes. PLoS One, v. 14, n. 7, JUL 10 2019. (16/19075-9, 17/09321-5, 11/50282-7)

VITA, GEORGE; ZANATA, ANGELA MARIA; DATOVO, ALESSIO. Anatomy and ontogenetic changes of the facial and gular musculature of the tetraAstyanax brucutu: A remarkable case of adaptation to durophagy. Journal of Anatomy, v. 237, n. 6, JUL 2020. (17/09321-5, 16/19075-9)

MELO, BRUNO F.; ALBERT, JAMES S.; DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; TAGLIACOLLO, VICTOR A.. Biogeography of curimatid fishes reveals multiple lowland-upland river transitions and differential diversification in the Neotropics (Teleostei, Curimatidae). ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, v. 11, n. 22, NOV 2021. (18/20806-3, 16/19075-9, 11/08374-1, 16/11313-8, 14/26508-3, 17/09321-5)

REIS, ROBERTO E.; BRITSKI, HERALDO A.; BRITTO, MARCELO R.; BUCKUP, PAULO A.; CALEGARI, BARBARA B.; CAMELIER, PRISCILA; DELAPIEVE, MARIA LAURA S.; LANGEANI, FRANCISCO; LEHMANN, PABLO A.; LUCINDA, PAULO H. F.; et al. Poor taxonomic sampling undermines nomenclatural stability: A reply to Roxo et al. (2019). Zootaxa, v. 4701, n. 5, p. 497-500, DEC 2 2019. (17/09321-5, 16/19075-9)