A graduate in Biology from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1988), Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from City University of New York/American Museum of Natural History (1993) and Free Docent from Universidade de São Paulo (2000). Presently Full Professor of the Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo. Research activities on zoology, with emphasis on ichthyology, especially on the systematics and phylogeny of Siluriformes and Clupeiformes. Some activity also on theoretical systematics and the popularization of evolutionary theory. Currently Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History (New York) and Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC). Was Visiting Professor and Researcher at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, paris, in 2014-2015. Also serves as Associate Editor for the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, and Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia and on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Ichthyology and Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project aims at incorporating so-called Vulcano entomological collection into the official holdings of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo. The collection was built along a major portion of the 20th century, in the course of the long career of researcher Maria Aparecida Vulcano (in memoriam) and is currently in custody of her family. The collection includes unique and …
This request for use of the Institutional technical reserve refers to the purchase of computer equipment and services to support the research lines of the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo. MZ's administration, along with the Research Committee and with the assent of your Board, defined as priority purchase computer equipment and some structural reforms, whose absence negat…
This project will apply comparative data from morphology and nucleotidic sequences to elucidate the systematics (taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships) of three different subgroups of neotropical siluriforms the trichomycterid subfamily Copionodontinae, the family Cetopsidae and the heptapterid genus Pimelodella. The common thread of the study is to integrate data from distinct sources …
The genus Spatuloricaria was originally proposed to include a single species, S. phelpsi from Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela. Later, eight species formerly in Loricaria were transferred to Spatuloricaria, and currently the genus comprises 12 nominal species. The genus is poorly studied and several questions remain about the validity of its species. Spatuloricaria has been diagnosed by a combi…
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The historical origins of the Neotropical fauna have fascinated generations of evolutionary biologists, however it has been only in the last decades that ichthyologists have come to appreciate the antiquity of many lineages, including those of the order Characiformes. This proposal aims to investigate historical gradients of clade richness in the Neotropics by integrating data on evolutio…
This project aims to study the diversity of one of the major taxonomic bottlenecks of the Neotropical ichthyofauna, the genus Trichomycterus (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae), with 184 nominal species distributed throughout mainly of South America cis- and trans-Andina. Nowadays, the taxonomy of Trichomycterus is both incomplete and confusing, with many species not described and a multipli…
The Neotropical catfish Cetopsidae is a family of Siluriformes that includes five genera and 42 recognized species, distributed throughout northern and central regions of South America, to both sides of the Andean cordilleras. The monophyly of the family is supported by several previous studies, however its internal relations require further clarification because there are not monophyleti…
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The genus Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) is one of the largest taxonomic bottlenecks in Neotropical fishes. The genus comprises 184 nominal species spread throughout South America. Taxonomic studies on Trichomycterus continue to this date, with many new species described yearly. Despite that, non-described species still abound and a multiplicity of validly-published names…
The aim of this project is to undertake a thorough descriptive analysis of the central neuroanatomy of Cetopsidae species based on shape, relative position, and volume of the main subdivisions of the brain. This study will provide a broader context for understanding the main evolutionary transformations which shaped the cetopsid brain. Results from the comparative study will be coded as d…
Pimelodella Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1888, is the richest Heptapteridae genus, composed of 77 valid species distributed thoroughly Neotropical drainages, in trans- and cis-Andean rivers, from Panamá to Argentina. Due to its conservative morphology, high species-richness, wide distribution and absence of extensive phylogenetic studies, Pimelodella contributes to a great number of taxonomic a…
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