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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Zoologia (MZ) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences (2004), a Master's Degree (2006) and a Ph.D. (2011) in Comparative Biology, a Postdoctoral Degree (2014) and a Habilitation (2021) from the University of São Paulo. He is currently Associate Professor and Curator of the Ichthyological Collection at the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo. He is a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC, USA), where he also held a Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023) and other fellowships (2009, 2010, 2024). He has teaching and research experience in Vertebrate Zoology and Phylogenetic Systematics. He works mainly in the field of Fish Evolution and Diversity. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool for morphological studies. It allows differential visualization of any tissue, cell, or molecule that has been labeled with fluorescent compounds. This technique has led to major advances in morphology and has been used in biomedical research for decades. However, its use by anatomists and systematists studying biodiversity is still incipient, es…
Despite the plethora of studies on the evolutionary osteology of bony vertebrates (Osteichthyes), the deep-time evolution of their cranial muscles remains largely unknown. Moreover, a preliminary analysis of an African coelacanth and an Australian lungfish revealed that the scant existing knowledge about this topic is surprisingly imprecise. An exploratory analysis incorporating these new…
Why study neotropical electric fishes? A comprehensive inventory of Gymnotiformes is essential in order to completely understand the full breadth of diversity from all lineages of primary freshwater fishes in the Ostariophysi. In addition, Gymnotiformes are an excellent group to study processes underlying continental scale diversity due to their endemicity, monophyly and asymmetric specie…
Cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) are among the oldest surviving vertebrate lineages. Although their anatomy has been studied for centuries, the knowledge on the evolution of their cranial muscles remains poorly understood. These muscles are involved in vital processes such as feeding and respiration, and show a wide variation among the major gnathostome groups. The present project ai…
The family Potamotrygonidae currently comprises two subfamilies, five genera, and 40 species, being the second family with the greatest diversity in the order Myliobatiformes. In the last 10 years, the family is no longer a clade that embraces only the South American freshwater stingrays (subfamily Potamotrygoninae). Two species of the genus Styracura (subfamily Styracuninae) that occurs …
Gymnotus sylvius Albert, Fernandes-Matioli & Almeida-Toledo is a Neotropical electric fish species described from a restricted region of southeastern Brazil. Since then, this name has been applied to several populations with a similar color pattern to that reported for the species, considerably expanding its original distribution. Additionally, recent works that addressed molecular and cy…
Pleuronectiformes is a fish order with about 800 globally distributed species, arranged in 123 genera and 14 families. Flatfishes, the representatives of the order, present one of the most intriguing known morphological transformations: the migration of one eye towards the opposite side of the body. Although the monophyletism of the order has sometimes been contested, more recent molecula…
Despite constituting valuable source of phylogenetic information, skeletal musculature in the Gymnotiformes has been poorly explored by systematists. Less than 2% of all morphological characters employed in the major phylogenetic analyses with the order derive from the myology. All remaining publications on the musculature of the Gymnotiformes are primarily descriptive and include only a …
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Proposing to elucidate one of the great taxonomic obstacles of the neotropical electric fishes, this project focuses on Gymnotus carapo, a widely distributed in South America species described by Linnaeus in 1758. The present proposal aims to provide detailed comparative internal and external morphological analysis using traditional taxonomic practices combined with technologies such as C…
Pleuronectiformes is a fish order with about 800 globally distributed species, arranged in 123 genera and 14 families. Flatfishes, the representatives of the order, present one of the most intriguing known morphological transformations: the ontogenetic migration of one eye towards the opposite side of the body. Most of the previous morphological studies have only addressed the skeleton, w…
Polynemidae is a family of primarily marine fishes with eight genera and 41 extant species distributed throughout the globe. Some species can reach up to two meters long and have economic importance in specific regions where their abundance is higher. The phylogenetic allocation of polynemids within Percomorphacea is uncertain and their internal relationships have never been explicitly te…
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