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A redescription of deep-channel ghost knifefish, Sternarchogiton preto (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with assignment to a new genus
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Bernt,Maxwell J.; Fronk,Aaron H.; Evans,Kory M.; Albert,James S.
ABSTRACT From a study of morphological and molecular datasets we determine that a species originally described as Sternarchogiton preto does not form a monophyletic group with the other valid species of Sternarchogiton including the type species, S. nattereri. Previously-published phylogenetic analyses indicate that this species is sister to a diverse clade comprised of six described apteronotid genera. We therefore place it into a new genus diagnosed by the presence of three cranial fontanels, first and second infraorbital bones independent (not fused), the absence of an ascending process on the endopterygoid, and dark brown to black pigments over the body surface and fins membranes. We additionally provide a redescription of this enigmatic species with...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Amazonia; Neotropics; Sexual dimorphism; Systematics; Taxonomy.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252020000100216

Systematics and biogeography of Sternarchellini (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae): Diversification of electric fishes in large Amazonian rivers
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Ivanyisky III,Stephen J.; Albert,James S.
The Sternarchellini (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) is a clade of 10 electric fish species that inhabit deep river channels of the Amazon and Orinoco basins, attain moderate adult body sizes (15-50 cm TL), and have a predatory life style. Here we trace the evolutionary origin and diversification of Sternarchellini using standard phylogenetic and biogeographic procedures and a dataset of 70 morphological characters. The main results are: 1) the genus Sternarchellaincludes both species currently assigned to the genus Magosternarchus; and 2) neither of the multi-species assemblages of Sternarchellini in the Amazon and Orinoco basins are monophyletic. Historical biogeographic analysis suggests that sternarchelline evolution was linked to the large-scale river...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Ecological specialization; Evolution; Historical Biogeography; Neotropical; Osteology.
Ano: 2014
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252014000300565

The changing course of the Amazon River in the Neogene: center stage for Neotropical diversification
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Albert,James S.; Val,Pedro; Hoorn,Carina.
ABSTRACT We review geological evidence on the origin of the modern transcontinental Amazon River, and the paleogeographic history of riverine connections among the principal sedimentary basins of northern South America through the Neogene. Data are reviewed from new geochronological datasets using radiogenic and stable isotopes, and from traditional geochronological methods, including sedimentology, structural mapping, sonic and seismic logging, and biostratigraphy. The modern Amazon River and the continental-scale Amazon drainage basin were assembled during the late Miocene and Pliocene, via some of the largest purported river capture events in Earth history. Andean sediments are first recorded in the Amazon Fan at about 10.1-9.4 Ma, with a large increase...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Biostratigraphy; Geochronology; Landscape Evolution Model; River capture; Transcontinental Amazon.
Ano: 2018
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252018000300306

Genetic differentiation through dispersal and isolation in two freshwater fish species from coastal basins of Northeastern Brazil
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Abreu,João Marcelo S.; Waltz,Brandon T.; Albert,James S.; Piorski,Nivaldo M.
Abstract The coastal basins in Northeastern Brazil used in this study make up two different ecoregions for freshwater fishes (Amazonas estuary and coastal drainages, and Parnaiba) and two areas of endemism for Characiformes (Maranhão and Parnaíba), and exhibits a diversified yet poorly explored freshwater fish fauna. The population structure and biogeography of two migratory freshwater fish species that are commercially exploited from Maranhão and Parnaíba regions were herein analyzed. Molecular sequence data and statistical analyses were used to estimate haplotypes networks and lineage divergence times and correlated with hydrographic history of drainage and paleodrainages of the region. A total of 171 sequences was produced for both species, Schizodon...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Characiformes; Headwater capture; Paleodrainages; Phylogeography; Sea-level change.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252020000300206

Redescription and phylogenetic position of the enigmatic Neotropical electric fish Iracema caiana Triques (Gymnotiformes: Rhamphichthyidae) using x-ray computed tomography
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Carvalho,Tiago P.; Albert,James S.
We redescribe Iracema caiana, a monotypic genus of the gymnotiform electric fish family Rhamphichthyidae. Iracema is known only from the type series (holotype and three paratypes) collected from the rio Jauaperi, affluent to the rio Negro in the Amazon basin, and was never collected again. Previous morphological studies were limited to features of external morphology. To study the osteology of Iracema we examined two specimens of different sizes using high-resolution x-ray computed tomography, a non-invasive and non-destructive technique to visualize internal anatomical structures. We describe and illustrate the osteology of Iracema caiana, and present data on morphometrics and external morphology. Contrary to previous hypotheses we propose that Iracema is...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Biodiversity; Guiana Shield; Osteology; Rare fish; Rhamphichthys.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252011000300001

A new species of Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) from the Fitzcarrald Arch of southeastern Peru
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Maxime,Emmanuel L.; Albert,James S.
Herein Gymnotus chaviro is described from the Alto Yuruá (upper rio Juruá) of southeastern Peru, where it is locally abundant in terra firme streams and floodplain oxbow lakes, and occurs sympatrically and syntopically with the type species of the genus G. carapo. The new species is diagnosed by a unique combination of morphometric, meristic, and osteological traits, and a characteristic color pattern in which the dark band-pairs are unbranched and incompletely separated, and the pale inter-bands rarely reach to the dorsal mid-line on the anterior half of the body, being crescent-shaped in abdominal area. Gymnotus chaviro is a member of the G. carapo species group, with which it shares the presence of two pores in the dorsolateral portion of the...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Biodiversity; Electric fish; Neotropical fish.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252009000400004

Monophyly of Heterandriini (Teleostei: Poeciliidae) revisited: a critical review of the data
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Morales-Cazan,Alfy; Albert,James S.
The systematics and taxonomy of poeciliid fishes (guppies and allies) remain poorly understood despite the relative importance of these species as model systems in the biological sciences. This study focuses on testing the monophyly of the nominal poeciliine tribe Heterandriini and the genus Heterandria, through examination of the morphological characters on which the current classification is based. These characters include aspects of body shape (morphometrics), scale and fin-ray counts (meristics), pigmentation, the cephalic laterosensory system, and osteological features of the neurocranium, oral jaws and suspensorium, branchial basket, pectoral girdle, and the gonopodium and its supports. A Maximum Parsimony analysis was conducted of 150 characters...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Fish diversity; Heterandria; Ichthyology; Osteology; Pseudoxiphophorus; Systematics.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252012000100003

Historical biogeography of fishes from coastal basins of Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Abreu,João Marcelo S.; Craig,Jack M.; Albert,James S.; Piorski,Nivaldo M.
ABSTRACT The Amazonian ichthyofauna is one of the most diverse in the world, yet fishes from the adjacent coastal basins of Maranhão State in Northeastern Brazil remain poorly known. We use phylogeographic, community phylogenetic and phylogenetic beta diversity methods to study the biogeographic history of fishes from the coastal basins of Maranhão State. We report a total of 160 fish species from the basins of the Maranhão region, representing a 93% increase over results of previous studies. All the fish species assemblages from Maranhão are polyphyletic, with only a few putative sister species pairs inhabiting the region. The modern watershed divides among Maranhão basins do not form substantial barriers to dispersal for freshwater fish species, and are...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Community phylogenetics; Paleogeography; Phylogenetic beta diversity; Phylogeography.
Ano: 2019
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252019000200203

Taxonomic revision of the deep channel electric fish genus Sternarchella (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with descriptions of two new species
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Evans,Kory M.; Crampton,William G. R.; Albert,James S.
ABSTRACT This paper provides a taxonomic revision of the Neotropical electric fish genus Sternarchella, with redescriptions of seven valid species and descriptions of two new species. A maximum parsimony analysis of 76 morphological characters from seven ingroup and seven outgroup taxa recovered a non-monophyletic Sternarchella, in which a clade comprising two species with a ventral mouth (S. orinoco + S. sima) is the sister group to a clade comprising seven species that possess a terminal or superior mouth. Nested within this higher-diversity clade is the genus Magosternarchus (recognized herein as a junior synonym of Sternarchella) comprising M. duccis and M. raptor. The Magosternarchus clade forms a polytomy with S. orthos and S. schotti. Sternarchella...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Evolution; Geometric morphometrics; Identification key; Magosternarchus.
Ano: 2017
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252017000200210

Using community phylogenetics to assess phylogenetic structure in the Fitzcarrald region of Western Amazonia
Provedor de dados: 83
Autores: Craig,Jack M.; Carvalho,Tiago P.; Chakrabarty,Prosanta; Derouen,Valerie; Ortega,Hernán; Petry,Paulo; Reis,Roberto E.; Tagliacollo,Victor A.; Albert,James S.
ABSTRACT Here we explore the use of community phylogenetics as a tool to document patterns of biodiversity in the Fitzcarrald region, a remote area in Southwestern Amazonia. For these analyses, we subdivide the region into basin-wide assemblages encompassing the headwaters of four Amazonian tributaries (Urubamba, Yuruá, Purús and Las Piedras basins), and habitat types: river channels, terra firme (non-floodplain) streams, and floodplain lakes. We present a robust, well-documented collection of fishes from the region including 272 species collected from 132 field sites over 63 field days and four years, comprising the most extensive collection of fishes from this region to date. We conduct a preliminary community phylogenetic analysis based on this...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Biogeography; Community phylogenetics; Phylogenetic structure.
Ano: 2020
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252020000200216