• Premise of the study: The clusioid clade includes five families (ie, Bonnetiaceae,
Calophyllaceae, Clusiaceae ss, Hypericaceae, and Podostemaceae) represented by 94 …

Base‐line data were collected to examine the possible effects of the aquarium trade on
Amazon fish populations in differentially‐fished locations in the Departmento of Loreto, Peru …

Premise of research. The clusioid clade is a member of the large rosid order Malpighiales
and contains∼ 1900 species in five families: Bonnetiaceae, Calophyllaceae, Clusiaceae …

Abstract The Neotropical freshwater stingray Potamotrygom orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855), and
other similar" reticulated" species occurring in northern South American basins, were …

A new species of Neotropical freshwater stingray, family Potamotrygonidae, is described
from the Río Nanay in the upper Río Amazonas basin of Peru. Potamotrygon tigrina, n. sp., is …

The last decade or so has witnessed a surge in expeditions to both ichthyologically familiar
and virgin waters in southeastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana …

Extant Doras are newly diagnosed among Doradidae by the unique combination of
maxillary barbels long and fimbriate; mesethmoid with anterior lateral margins converging …

The Caura National Park encompasses the entire basin of the River Caura, one of the most
biodiverse hydrographic systems of Venezuela, yet the ichthyofauna, particularly in the …

Field Museum and Conservation International, surveyed the Río Caura basin, Bolívar State,
Vene-zuela in November-December, 2000. The impe-tus for the survey was the …

The Amazon River basin hosts the most diverse freshwater ichthyofauna in the world, and
yet huge areas of the basin remain unexplored. This is the case for the upper tributaries of …