Species-level phylogeny of 'Satan's perches' based on discordant gene trees (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Satanoperca Günther 1862)

SC Willis, H López-Fernández, CG Montaña… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2012 - Elsevier
Neotropical rivers are home to the largest assemblage of freshwater fishes, but little is
known about the phylogeny of these fishes at the species level using multi-locus molecular …

A new genus and species of Heroini (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the early Eocene of southern South America

PA Perez, MC Malabarba, C del Papa - Neotropical Ichthyology, 2010 - SciELO Brasil
The Lumbrera Formation is the uppermost unit of the Salta Group, which crops out in
northwestern Argentina. The paleoenvironment of the Lumbrera Formation is interpreted as …

[HTML][HTML] A new mouth brooder species of Gymnogeophagus with hypertrophied lips (Cichliformes: Cichlidae)

A Turcati, WS Serra-Alanis, LR Malabarba - Neotropical Ichthyology, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
ABSTRACT A new mouth breeder species of Gymnogeophagus is described from a tributary
of the río Uruguay. It is distinguished from most species of the genus by the presence of …

Phylogeographic analysis of genus Herichthys (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with descriptions of Nosferatu new genus and H. tepehua n. sp.

M De la Maza-Benignos, CP Ornelas-García… - Hydrobiologia, 2015 - Springer
The genus Herichthys is widely considered to be the monophyletic representative of
Cichlidae in northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. It is also the northernmost distributed …

A new species of Geophagus (Teleostei: Cichlidae): Naming a cichlid species widely known in the aquarium hobby as 'Geophagus sp. Tapajos red head'

J Chuctaya, P Nitschke, MC Andrade… - Journal of Fish …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A new species of Geophagus sensu stricto is described from the Tapajos River basin, Brazil,
elevating the number of species of the genus to 21. The new species is of commercial …

Patterns of pelagic fish diversity in floodplain lakes of whitewater and blackwater drainage systems within the central Amazon River basin of Brazil

FK Siqueira-Souza, LE Hurd, KC Yamamoto… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Amazon River Basin, one of the world's most threatened ecosystems, has an enormous
diversity of fish species, a result of temporally and spatially complex habitat containing …

Evolutionary trends in encephalic morphology among Geophagini cichlid fish: phylogenetic insights and associations with ecological and behavioral traits

RC de Oliveira, WJ da Graça - Hydrobiologia, 2024 - Springer
The gross encephalic morphology of representatives from 17 genera within the Geophagini
tribe is comprehensively characterized, compared, and analyzed into a previously proposed …

Species tree estimation and the historical biogeography of heroine cichlids

CD Hulsey, BP Keck, PR Hollingsworth Jr - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Heroine cichlids are major components of the fish faunas in both Central America and the
Caribbean. To examine the evolutionary patterns of how cichlids colonized both of these …

Dirt-sifting devilfish: winnowing in the geophagine cichlid Satanoperca daemon and evolutionary implications

HI Weller, CD McMahan, MW Westneat - Zoomorphology, 2017 - Springer
Winnowing is a foraging strategy common in geophagine cichlids (Cichlidae), in which
sediment is sifted for food in the oral cavity. Geophagines have modified pharyngeal …

On the Eocene cichlids from the Lumbrera Formation: additions and implications for the Neotropical ichthyofauna

MC Malabarba, LR Malabarba… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Lumbrera Formation is an Eocene unit cropping out in northwestern
Argentina from which three cichlid species were recently described and represent the oldest …