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Fish collection of the universidade federal de rondônia: Its importance to the ...
Ohara, Willian Massaharu; Queiroz, Luiz Jardim de; Zuanon, Jansen; Torrente-Vilara, Gislene; Vieira, Fabíola Gomes; Dória, Carolina Rodrigues da CostaBiological collections preserve the biodiversity of a nation. The fish collection of the Universidade Federal de Rondônia, recently established, contains about 41% of freshwater fish species known to occur in Brazil, and 24% of South America. The biological material is distributed into 1,067 species, 21,963 lots and 149,192 specimens, gathered during five years of work. From this collection, 99% of the lots hav...
Ichthyofaunal survey of stretches of the Guariba and Rooselvelt Rivers, in Guar...
Pedroza, Wellington Silva; Ribeiro, Frank Raynner Vasconcelos; Teixeira, Túlio Franco; Ohara, Willian Massaharu; Py-daniel, Lúcia RappThe fishes presented herein were collected in small streams, in channel of lagoons and in the main channel of the Guariba River, as well as in one tributary of the right bank of the Roosevelt River, both clear-water tributaries of Aripuanã River, Madeira River basin. Field work was carried out in November 2008, during the low water season. Sampling resulted in 3924 specimens belonging to 160 species distributed...
Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the stronge...
Santana, Carlos David de; Crampton, William Gareth Richard; Dillman, Casey B.; Frederico, Renata Guimarães; Sabaj, Mark Henry; Covain, RaphaelIs there only one electric eel species? For two and a half centuries since its description by Linnaeus, Electrophorus electricus has captivated humankind by its capacity to generate strong electric discharges. Despite the importance of Electrophorus in multiple fields of science, the possibility of additional species-level diversity in the genus, which could also reveal a hidden variety of substances and bioele...
Fishes of Cuniã Lake, Madeira River Basin, Brazil
Queiroz, Luiz Jardim de; Torrente-Vilara, Gislene; Vieira, Fabíola Gomes; Ohara, Willian Massaharu; Zuanon, Jansen; Dória, Carolina Rodrigues da CostaThis study presents an inventory of the ichthyofauna of Cuniã Lake, situated in the floodplain of the Madeira River in Rondônia State, Brazil. A total of 11,949 specimens representing eight orders, 34 families, and 189 species were sampled with gill, seine, and hand nets during the dry and wet seasons between 2008 and 2012. Most of the species recorded in Cuniã Lake are commonly found in other locations in the ...
Jupiaba citrina, a new species from rio Aripuanã, rio Madeira basin, Amazonas a...
Zanata, Angela Maria; Ohara, Willian MassaharuA new species of Jupiaba Zanata is described from tributaries of the rio Aripuanã, rio Madeira basin, Amazonas and Mato Grosso States, Brazil. The new species can be diagnosed from its congeners (except J. abramoides, J. anteroides, and J. poranga) by having two vertically-elongated humeral blotches, the anterior usually with a darker median portion forming an horizontally-elongated trace pointed anteriorly, an...
Fish collection of the Universidade Federal de Rondônia: its importance to the ...
Ohara, Willian Massaharu; Queiroz, Luiz Jardim de; Zuanon, Jansen; Torrente-Vilara, Gislene; Vieira, Fabíola Gomes; Doria, Carolina da CostaBiological collections preserve the biodiversity of a nation. The fish collection of the Universidade Federal de Rondônia, recently established, contains about 41% of freshwater fish species known to occur in Brazil, and 24% of South America. The biological material is distributed into 1,067 species, 21,963 lots and 149,192 specimens, gathered during five years of work. From this collection, 99% of the lots hav...