AMNH
Department of Ichthyology
72+ Publications between 2005 -
Present
2007
and In Press - 35+ publications
Chakrabarty, P.
2007. (review of) An Atlas of Michigan Fishes with keys
and illustrations for their identification. Copeia 2007:
238-239.
Chakrabarty, P. in press. A morphological phylogenetic
analysis of Neotropical cichlids in the section
‘Nandopsis’ sensu Regan, Miscellaneous
Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan.
Chakrabarty, P., and J.S. Sparks. in press. Phylogeny and
taxonomic revision of Nuchequula
Whitley 1932
(Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with the description of a new
species, American Museum Novitates.
Chakrabarty, P., and J.S. Sparks. in press. Relationships
of the New World cichlid genus Hypsophrys
Agassiz 1859
(Teleostei: Cichlidae), with diagnoses for the genus and
its species, Zootaxa
Fernandez,
L. & G. Miranda. A catfish of the genus
Trichomycterus
from a
thermal stream in southern South America (Teleostei,
Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae), with comments on
relationships within of the genus. J. Fish Biol.
Fernandez, L. & R.A. Quispe Chuquihuamani. A new
species of Trichomycterus
(Siluriformes:
Trichomycteridae) from the Andean Cordillera of Perú,
with comments on relationships within the genus.
Zootaxa.
Harrison, I., M.
Nirchio, C. Oliviera, E. Ron and J. Gaviria. in press. A
new species of mullet (Teleostei: Mugilidae) from
Venezuela, with a discussion on the taxonomy of
Mugil
gaimardianus. J. Fish Biol.
Harrison, I.J. in press. Mugilidae. In: G.G. Teugels,
M.L.J. Stiassny, and C. Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux
Douces et de La Region Ichthogéographique de la Basse
Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris; MRAC, Tervuren.
Harrison, I.J., P.J. Miller, and F. Pezold. in press.
Gobiidae. In: G.G. Teugels, M.L.J. Stiassny, and C.
Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux Douces et de La Region
Ichthogéographique de la Basse Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris;
MRAC, Tervuren.
Harrison, I.J., P.J. Miller, and F. Pezold. in press.
Microdesmidae. In: G.G. Teugels, M.L.J. Stiassny, and C.
Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux Douces et de La Region
Ichthogéographique de la Basse Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris;
MRAC, Tervuren.
Loiselle, P.V. and
M.L.J. Stiassny. 2007. Rehabilitation of the Malagasy
endemic, Kuhlia
sauvagii Regan, 1913 (Teleostei:
Perciformes), with the designation of a neotype for
Centropomus rupestris Lacépéde, 1802. Amer. Mus. Novitat.
3561:1-13.
Pezold, F., I.J. Harrison, and P.J. Miller. in press.
Eleotridae. In: G.G. Teugels, M.L.J. Stiassny, and C.
Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux Douces et de La Region
Ichthogéographique de la Basse Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris;
MRAC, Tervuren.
Pezold, F. and I.J.
Harrison. in press. Gobioidei. In: B. Burr, D. Neely, and
R. Mayden (eds.), North American Freshwater Fishes :
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior.
Elsevier.
Pezold, F. and I.J.
Harrison. in press. The Anatomy and Identification of
North American Freshwater Fishes (section on Gobioidei.)
In: B. Burr, D. Neely, and R. Mayden (eds.), North
American Freshwater Fishes : Evolution, Ecology, and
Behavior. Elsevier.
Schelly, R.C. in press. Kneriidae. In: G.G. Teugels,
M.L.J. Stiassny, and C. Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux
Douces et de La Region Ichthogéographique de la Basse
Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris; MRAC, Tervuren.
Schelly,
R.C. and M.R. de Carvalho. in press. Tetraodontidae. In:
G.G. Teugels, M.L.J. Stiassny, and C. Hopkins (eds.),
Poissons d'Eaux Douces et de La Region Ichthogéographique
de la Basse Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris; MRAC, Tervuren.
Schelly, R.C. and M.L.J. Stiassny. in press. Cichlidae.
In: The living marine resources of the Eastern Central
Atlantic. Carpenter, K. (ed.). FAO Species Identification
Guide for Fishery Purposes. Rome, FAO.
Smith, W.L.
in press.
Chiasmodontidae. In: The living marine resources of the
Eastern Central Atlantic. Carpenter, K. (ed.). FAO
Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. Rome,
FAO.
Smith, W.L. in press. Pinguipedidae.
In: The living marine resources of the Eastern Central
Atlantic. Carpenter, K. (ed.). FAO Species Identification
Guide for Fishery Purposes. Rome, FAO.
Smith, W.L. in press. Trachinidae.
In: The living marine resources of the Eastern Central
Atlantic. Carpenter, K. (ed.). FAO Species Identification
Guide for Fishery Purposes. Rome, FAO.
Smith, W.L. in press. Uranoscopidae.
In: The living marine resources of the Eastern Central
Atlantic. Carpenter, K. (ed.). FAO Species Identification
Guide for Fishery Purposes. Rome, FAO.
Smith,
W.L. and M.T. Craig. 2007.
Casting the percomorph net widely: The importance of
broad taxonomic sampling in the search for the placement
of serranid and percid fishes. Copeia
2007:35-55.
Smith, W.L. and J.S. Sparks. in press.
Gobius
lagocephalus: The World's most
widespread nomen dubium. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.
Smith, W.L., and J.S.
Sparks. in press. Gobius
lagocephalus: Pallas 1770
(currently Sicyopterus
lagocephalus: Teleostei, Gobiidae):
Proposed suppression of the specific name. Bull. Int.
Code Zool. Nomen.
Sparks,
J.S. in press. Phylogeny of the cichlid subfamily
Etroplinae and taxonomic revision of the Malagasy cichlid
genus Paretroplus
(Teleostei:
Cichlidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.
Sparks,
J.S. 2007. (review of) Coastal Fishes. Copeia 2007:238.
Sparks, J.S., and P. Chakrabarty. in press. A new species
of ponyfish (Teleostei:Leiognathidae: Photoplagios)
from the Philippines, with a discussion on the status
of Equula
berbis Valenciennes, Copeia
Sparks, J.S., and M.L.J.
Stiassny. in press. Introduction aux poissons
d’eaux douces. In: S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead
(eds.), Histoire Naturelle de Madagascar. Museum
National de Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris.
Stiassny,
M.L.J and A. Getahun. 2007. On overview of labeonin
relationships and the phylogenetic placement of the
Afro-Asian genus Garra Hamilton, 1922 (Teleostei:
Cyprinidae), with the description of five new species
of Garra
from
Ethiopia and a key to all African species. Zool. J. Linn.
Soc. Lond. 150:41-83.
Stiassny, M.L.J. and C.D. Hopkins. in press.
Introduction. In: G.G. Teugels, M.L.J. Stiassny, and C.
Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux Douces et de La Region
Ichthogéographique de la Basse Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris;
MRAC, Tervuren.
Stiassny, M.L.J., A. Lamboj, D. DeWeirdt, and G.G.
Teugels. in press. Cichlidae. In: G.G. Teugels, M.L.J.
Stiassny, and C. Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux Douces
et de La Region Ichthogéographique de la Basse Guinée.
ORSTOM, Paris; MRAC, Tervuren.
Stiassny, M.L.J. and
U.K. Schliewen. 2007. Congochromis,
a new cichlid genus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from central
Africa, with a description of a new species from the
upper Congo River, Democratic Republic of Congo. Amer.
Mus. Novitat.
Stiassny,
M.L.J., G.G. Teugels, and C.D. Hopkins. in press. The
Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of Lower Guinea,
west-Central Africa: Poissons d’Eaux Douces et
Saumâtres de Basse Guinée, l’Afrique
Ouest-Centrale: IRD Éditions, Paris. 3576:1-14.
Vreven,
E. and M.L.J. Stiassny. in press. Practical key to the
families of Lower Guinea. In: G.G. Teugels, M.L.J.
Stiassny, and C. Hopkins (eds.), Poissons d'Eaux Douces
et de La Region Ichthogéographique de la Basse Guinée.
ORSTOM, Paris; MRAC, Tervuren.
Vreven, E., T. Musschoo, G. Boden, and M.L.J. Stiassny.
in press. Introduced or alien species of Lower Guniea.
In: G.G. Teugels, M.L.J. Stiassny, and C. Hopkins (eds.),
Poissons d'Eaux Douces et de La Region Ichthogéographique
de la Basse Guinée. ORSTOM, Paris; MRAC, Tervuren.
Chakrabarty, P.,
Oldfield, R.G., and H.H. Ng. 2006.
Nandus
prolixus, a new species of leaf
fish from northeastern Borneo (Teleostei: Perciformes:
Nandidae), Zootaxa, 1328:51-61.
Dudgeon, D., A.H. Arthington, M.O. Gessner, Z. Kawabata,
D.J. Knowler, C. Leveque, R.J. Naiman, A.-H.,
Prieur-Richard, D. Soto, M.L.J. Stiassny & C.A.
Sullivan. 2006. Freshwater biodiversity: importance,
threats, status and conservation challenges. Biol. Rev.
1-20.
Harrison,
I.J. and M.L.J. Stiassny. 2006. La biodiversitá negli
ambienti d’acqua dolce: minacce e prospettive. In
Convegno. “La Conservazione ed il Recupero della
Fauna Ittica e degli Ambienti delle Acque Interne.”
Ragusa 28 Maggio 2004. p. 59-83. Provincia Regionale de
Raguasa, Assessorato Territorio e
Ambiente.
Lamboj, A. and R.C. Schelly. 2006. Nanochromis
teugelsi, a new cichlid species
(Teleostei, Cichlidae) from the Kasai Region and central
Congo Basin. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters 17:247-254.
Pezold, F., T. Iwamoto,
and I.J. Harrison. 2006. The California Academy of
Sciences Gulf of Guinea Expedition (2001). V.
Multivariate analysis of sicydiines of Sao Tome &
Principe with redescription of Sicydium
brevifile and S.
bustamantei (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
and a key to West African sicydiines. Proc. Cal. Acad.
Sci. 57: 965-979.
Schaefer, S.A. 2006. (review of) Morphological evolution,
aptations, homoplasies, constraints, and evolutionary
trends: Catfishes as a case study on general phylogeny
and macroevolution. Quart. Rev. Biol. 71:276-278.
Schelly, R.C., W.
Salzburger, S. Joblmüller, N. Duftner, and C. Sturmbauer.
2006. Phylogenetic relationships of the lamprologine
cichlid genus Lepidiolamprologus
(Teleostei:
Perciformes) based on mitochondrial and nuclear
sequences, suggesting introgressive hybridization, Mol.
Phylogenet. Evol. 38:426-438.
Schliewen, U.K. and
M.L.J. Stiassny. 2006. A new species of
Nanochromis
(Teleostei:
Cichlidae) from Lake Mai Ndombe, central Congo Basin,
Democratic Republic of Congo. Zootaxa 1169:33-46.
Smith, W.L. and W.C. Wheeler. 2006. Venom evolution
widespread in fishes: A road map for the bioprospecting
of piscine venoms. J. Hered. 97:206-217.
Sparks, J.S. 2006. A new
species of ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae:
Photoplagios) from Madagascar, with a phylogeny
for Photoplagios
and comments
on the status of Equula
lineolata Valenciennes. Amer. Mus.
Novitates. 3526:1-20.
Sparks, J.S. 2006. Leiognathus
longispinis (Valenciennes in Cuvier
and Valenciennes, 1835), a senior synonym of
Leiognathus
smithursti (Ramsay and Ogilby,
1886) (Teleostei: Leiognathidae). Copeia 2006: 539-543.
Sparks, J.S. 2006. Editor and Consultant, Scientific
content. Oceans: The world’s last wilderness
revealed, Dorling-Kindersley, London, 1-512.
Sparks, J.S. and W.L.
Smith 2006. Sicyopterus
lagocephalus: Widespread species,
species complex, or neither? A critique on the use of
molecular data for species identification. Mol.
Phylogenet. Evol. 49:900-902.
Stiassny, M.L.J. 2006. (review of) Flatfishes: Biologoy
and Exploitation. Fish Fisher. 7:73-74.
Stiassny, M.L.J., R.C.
Schelly and U.K. Schliewen. 2006. A new species of
Raiamas
(Teleostei:
Cyprinidae) from the Lower Congo River, with a
phylogenetic assessment of the generic limits of the
predatory cyprinid genera Opsaridium,
Raiamas
and
Leptocypris.
Copeia 2006:370-377.
Stiassny, M.L.J. and
J.S. Sparks. 2006. Phylogenetic and taxonomic revision of
the endemic Malagasy genus Ptychochromis
(Teleostei:
Cichlidae), with description of five new species and a
diagnosis for Katria,
New Genus. Amer. Mus. Novitat. 3535:1-55.
Tshibwabwa, S.M., M.L.J. Stiassny and R.C. Schelly. 2006.
Description of a new species of Labeo
(Teleostei:
Cyprinidae) from the Lower Congo River. Zootaxa,
1224:33-44.
Webb, J.F., W.L. Smith,
and D.R. Ketten. 2006. The laterophysic connection and
swim bladder of butterflyfishes in the genus
Chaetodon
(Perciformes:
Chaetodontidae). J. Morph. 267:1338-1355.
Wheeler, W.C., L. Aagesen, C.P. Arango, J. Faivovich, T.
Grant, C. D'Haese, D. Janies, Smith, W.L., A. Varon, and
G. Giribet. Dynamic Homology and Phylogenetic
Systematics: A Unified Approach using POY. AMNH, New
York, ISBN 0-913424-58.7.
Calcagnotto, D., S.A.
Schaefer, and R. DeSalle. 2005. Relationships among
characiform fishes inferred from analysis of nuclear and
mitochondrial gene sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.
36:135-153.
Fernández,
L., and S.A. Schaefer. 2005. New Trichomycterus
(Siluriformes:
Trichomycteridae) from an offshore island of Colombia.
Copeia, 2005(1):68-76.
López-Fernández, H., R.L. Honeycutt, M.L.J. Stiassny and
K.O. Winemiller. 2005. Morphology, Molecules, and
Character Congruence in the Phylogeny of South American
Geophagine Cichlids (Perciformes, Labroidei). Zool.
Scripta. 34(6): 627-651.
Ng, H. H., and J. S. Sparks. 2005. Revision of the
endemic Malagasy catfish family Anchariidae (Teleostei:
Siluriformes), with descriptions of a new genus and three
new species. Ichthyol. Explor.
Freshwaters, 16: 303-323.
Schaefer, S.A., Provenzano, F., de Pinna, M.C.C., and
Baskin, J.N. 2005. New and noteworthy Venezuelan
glanapterygine catfishes (Siluriformes,
Trichomycteridae), with a discussion of their
biogeography and psammophily. Amer. Mus. Novitat.
3496:1-27.
Sparks, J. S. 2005. Madagascar eastern lowlands. Pp.
218-219 in: M. L. Thieme, R. Abell, M. L. J. Stiassny, B.
Lehner, P. Skelton, G. Teugals, E. Dinerstein, A. Kamdem
Toham, N. Burgess, and D. Olson (eds.), Freshwater
ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar. A conservation
assessment. Island Press, Washington, D. C.
Sparks, J. S. 2005. Madagascar eastern highlands. Pp.
252-254 in: M. L. Thieme, R. Abell, M. L. J. Stiassny, B.
Lehner, P. Skelton, G. Teugals, E. Dinerstein, A. Kamdem
Toham, N. Burgess, and D. Olson, (eds.), Freshwater
ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar. A conservation
assessment. Island Press, Washington, D. C.
Sparks, J. S. 2005. Madagascar northwestern basins. Pp.
307-308 in: M. L. Thieme, R. Abell, M. L. J. Stiassny, B.
Lehner, P. Skelton, G. Teugals, E. Dinerstein, A. Kamdem
Toham, N. Burgess, and D. Olson (eds.), Freshwater
ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar. A conservation
assessment. Island Press, Washington, D. C.
Sparks, J. S. 2005. Madagascar western basins. Pp. 309
in: M. L. Thieme, R. Abell, M. L. J. Stiassny, B. Lehner,
P. Skelton, G. Teugals, E. Dinerstein, A. Kamdem Toham,
N. Burgess, and D. Olson (eds.), Freshwater ecoregions of
Africa and Madagascar. A conservation assessment. Island
Press, Washington, D. C.
Sparks, J. S. 2005. Madagascar southern basins. Pp.
343-344 in: M. L. Thieme, R. Abell, M. L. J. Stiassny, B.
Lehner, P. Skelton, G. Teugals, E. Dinerstein, A. Kamdem
Toham, N. Burgess, and D. Olson (eds.), Freshwater
ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar. A conservation
Assessment. Island Press, Washington, D. C.
Sparks, J. S., P. V. Dunlap, and W. L. Smith. 2005.
Evolution and diversification of a sexually dimorphic
luminescent system in ponyfishes (Teleostei:
Leiognathidae), including diagnoses for two new
genera. Cladistics,
21: 305-327.
Sparks, J. S., and K. J. Riseng. 2005. Water quality and
chemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and zooplankton
communities of the Consuelo and Warany Regions of the
Pastaza River, Ecuador: limnological survey. In: P. W.
Willink, B. Chernoff, and J. McCullough (eds.), A rapid
biological assessment of the aquatic ecosystems of the
Pastaza River Basin, Ecuador and Peru. Conservation
International and the Aquatic Rapid Assessment Program
(AquaRap), Washington, D. C. Bulletin of Biological
Assessment 33: 56-62, appendixes 5-6: 140-143.
Sparks, J. S., and L. M. R. Rush. 2005. A new rainbowfish
(Teleostei: Melanotaenioidei: Bedotiidae) from the
southeastern highlands of Madagascar, with comments on
the biogeography of Bedotia.
Zootaxa,
1051: 39-54.
Sparks, J. S., and W. L. Smith. 2005. Freshwater fishes,
dispersal ability, and non-evidence: "Gondwana Life
Rafts" to the rescue. Syst. Biol. 53: 11-19.
Sparks, J.S. and M.L.J. Stiassny. 2005.
Madagascar’s Freshwater Fishes: An imperiled
treasure. In: Thieme et al. (eds). Freshwater ecoregions
of Africa: A conservation assessment. 62-70 pp.
Island Press, Washington, DC, USA.
Stiassny, M.L.J. (review of) Freshwater Fishes of
Britain: The Species and their Distribution. Fish and
Fisheries, 6:160-164.
Stiassny, M.L.J. and S.A. Schaefer. 2005. New species
of Rhabdalestes
Hoedeman,
1951 (Characiformes: Alestidae): first occurrence of the
genus from the Middle Congo River basin. Ichthyol.
Explor. Freshwater. 16(3): 271-278.
Thieme, M.L., R.A.
Abell, M.L.J. Stiassny, P.H. Skelton and B. Lehner. 2005.
Freshwater ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A
conservation assessment. 431pp. Island Press,
Washington, DC, USA. (ISBN 1-55963-365-4).