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Books:
in prep. Stiassny,
M.L.J. Anatomy of Fishes: the musculoskeletal system.
John Wiley and Sons, New York
2007. M.L.J. Stiassny, G. G. Teugels,
and C.D. Hopkins. The Fresh and Brackish Water
Fishes of Lower Guinea, West-Central Africa Poissons
d'eux douces et saumâtres de Basee Guinée l'Afrique
Ouest-Central. volumes 1 (800pp) and 2 (603pp), IRD Éditions, Paris.
2005. Thieme,
M.L., R.A. Abell, M.L.J. Stiassny, P.H. Skelton and B.
Lehner. Freshwater ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A
conservation assessment. 431pp. Island Press, Washington,
DC, USA. (ISBN 1-55963-365-4).
1996 Stiassny, M.L.J., L.R. Parenti and G.D. Johnson
(Eds). Interrelationships of Fishes. Academic Press, San
Diego, 496 pp. (ISBN 0-12-670950-5)
Papers
and Book Chapters:
2008
Conway, K. W., and M.L.J. Stiassny. Phylogenetic diagnosis of the African
cyprinid genus Clypeobarbus Fowler, with the rehabilitation of C.
bomokandi (Myers) and note on included species. Ichthyological Research 55: 260-266.
2008
Abell,R. et al. Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation. BioScience 58 (5): 403-414.
2008. Lévêque, C., T. Oberdorff, D. Paugy,
M.L.J. Stiassny and P.A. Tedesco. Global diversity of fish (Pisces) in
freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:545-567.
(Teleostei, Alestidae) of the Lower Congo River, with a description of a
new species endemic to the Lower Congo River rapids in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Zootaxa 1614:17-29.
2007. Stiassny, M.L.J and V. Mamonekene. Micralestes
(Teleostei, Alestidae) of the Lower Congo River, with a description of a
new species endemic to the Lower Congo River rapids in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Zootaxa 1614:17-29.
2007. Carvalho, M.R. de, and 28 co-authors. Taxonomic impediment or
impediment to taxonomy? A commentary on systematics and the cybertaxonomy-automation
paradigm. Evolutionary Biology 34:140-143.
2007 Loiselle, P.V. and M.L.J. Stiassny.
Rehabilitation of the Malagasy endemic, Kuhlia
sauvagii Regan, 1913 (Teleostei: Perciformes), with
the designation of a neotype for Centropomus rupestris
Lacépéde, 1802. American Museum Novitates. 3561:1-13.
2007. Stiassny, M.L.J and A. Getahun. 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. Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society. 150:41-83.
2007. Stiassny, M.L.J. and U.K.
Schliewen. 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. American
Museum Novitates. 3576:1-14
2007.
Sparks, J. S., and M.L.J. Stiassny. Introduction aux
poissons d’eaux douces. Pp.1-28. In: S. M. Goodman and J. P.
Benstead (eds.), Histoire Naturelle de Madagascar. Museum
National de Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris.
2006a 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. Freshwater biodiversity:
importance, threats, status and conservation
challenges. Biological Reviews (online Dec. 12, 2005):
1-20.
2006b Stiassny, M.L.J. (review of)
Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation. Fish and
Fisheries, 7:73-74
2006c Schliewen, U.K. & M.L.J.
Stiassny. A new species of Nanochromis
(Teleostei: Cichlidae)
from Lake Mai Ndombe, central Congo Basin, Democratic
Republic of Congo. Zootaxa 1169:33-46.
2006d Stiassny, M.L.J and J.S. Sparks.
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. American Museum Novitates
3535:1-55.
2006e Stiassny, M.L.J., R.C. Schelly and
U.K. Schliewen. 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.
2006f 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.
2005a López-Fernández, H., R.L. Honeycutt,
M.L.J. Stiassny & K.O. Winemiller. Morphology,
Molecules, and Character Congruence in the Phylogeny
of South American Geophagine Cichlids (Perciformes,
Labroidei). Zoologica Scripta. 34(6): 627-651.
2005b Stiassny, M.L.J. & S.A.
Schaefer. New species of Rhabdalestes
Hoedeman, 1951
(Characiformes: Alestidae): first occurrence of the
genus from the Middle Congo River basin.
Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwater. 16(3):
271-278.
2005c Sparks, J.S. & M.L.J. Stiassny.
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.
2005d Stiassny, M.L.J. (review of)
Freshwater Fishes of Britain: The Species and their
Distribution. Fish and Fisheries, 6:160-164.
2004a Schelly, R & M.L.J. Stiassny.
Revision of the Congo River Lamprologus Schilthuis,
1891 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with description of two
new species. American Museum Novitates. 3451, 40pp.
2004b Stiassny, M.L.J., Wiley, E.O., G.D.
Johnson and M.R. de Carvalho. Gnathostome fishes. 42
ms. pages. In:
M.J. Donaghue & J. Cracraft (eds). Assembling the
Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
2004c Getahun, A., Stiassny, M.L.J. &
G.G. Teugels. Description of a new species of
Varicorhinus
(Ostariophysi:
Cyprinidae) from West-Central Africa. Cybium
28(2):159-162.
2003a Schliewen, U.R. & M.L.J.
Stiassny. Etia
nguti, a new
genus and species of cichlid fish from the River
Mamfue, Upper Cross River basin, Cameroon, Central
Africa. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, 14(1): 61-72
2003b Stiassny, M.L.J. Atavism. In: Hall,
B.K. and W.M. Olsen (eds). Keywords and Concepts in
Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Pp. 10-14, Harvard
Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
2003c Lamboj, A. and M.L.J. Stiassny.
Three new Parananochromis
species (Teleostei,
Cichlidae) from Gabon and Cameroon, Central Africa.
Zootaxa 209: 1-19.
2003d Benstead, J.P., DeRham, P.H.,
Gattolliat, J.-L., Gibbon, F.-M., Loiselle, P.V.,
Sartori, M., Sparks, J.S. & M.L.J. Stiassny.
Conserving Madagascar’s freshwater biodiversity.
Bioscience 53(11): 1101-1111.
2003e Schelly, R., M.L.J. Stiassny &
L.Seegers. Neolamprologus
devosi sp.
n. a new riverine lamprologine cichlid (Teleostei:
Cichlidae) from the lower Malagarasi River, Tanzania.
Zootaxa 373: 1-11.
2003f Stiassny, M.L.J. (review of)
Freshwater Fish Distribution, Tim M. Berra. 2001.
Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Journal of Fish
Biology, 63: 1061-1064.
2003g Stiassny, M.L.J. Polymixiiformes. In:
Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. 5, Fishes II,
p.3, Gale Group Publications
2003h Sparks, J.S. & M.L.J. Stiassny
The freshwater fishes of Madagascar: Introduction to
the Freshwater Fishes. Chapter 9, 849-863. In: The
Natural History of'Madagascar. S. M. Goodman and J. P.
Benstead (eds), Chicago University Press.
2002a Stiassny, M.L.J., D.M. Rodriguez
& P.V. Loiselle. Rheocles
vatosoa, a
new species of freshwater rainbowfish (Atherinomorpha:
Bedotiidae) from the Lokoho River basin in
northeastern Madagascar. Cybium 261: 71-77.
2002b Stiassny, M.L.J. Bony Fishes. In:
Eldredge, N. (ed.). Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution. Pp. 192-197.
ABI-CLIO Press, Santa Barbara, CA.
2002c Stiassny, M.L.J. Water blindness.
SGI Quarterly 27: 14-15.
2002d Stiassny, M.L.J. Conservation of
freshwater fish biodiversity: the knowledge
impediment. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für
Ichthyologie, 3, 2002: 7-18.
2001a Stiassny, M.L.J., Chakrabarty, P.
and P.V. Loiselle. Relationships of the Madagascan
cichlid genus Paretroplus
Bleeker 1868, with a
description of a new species from the Betsiboka River
drainage of northwestern Madagascar. Ichthyol. Explor.
Freshwaters 12(1): 29-40.
2001b Stiassny, M.L.J. & D.M
Rodriguez. Rheocles
derhami, a
new species of freshwater rainbow (Atherinomorpha:
Bedotiidae) from the Amboaboa River in northeastern
Madagascar. Ichthyol.Explor. Freshwaters 12(2):
97-104.
2001c Stiassny, M.L.J. (review of) The
cichlid fishes: nature’s grand experiment in
evolution. Copeia
2001d Stiassny, M.L.J. Revision of
Sauvagella
Bertin (Clupeidae;
Pellonulinae; Ehiravini) with a description of a new
species from the freshwaters of Madagascar and
diagnosis of the Ehiravini. Copeia 2002(1): 67-76.
2001e Gardiner, N., M. Stiassny, J.M. Cardoso Da Silva,
G. Fonseca and S. Saatchi. Enhancing freshwater
conservation and science with geoinformatics. Concept
Paper from Conservation International Center for Applied
Biodiversity Science Conference on Biological
fingerprinting: using remote sensing for improved
modeling and monitoring of biodiversity.
2000a Benstead, J.P., M.L.J. Stiassny, P.N. Loiselle,
K.J. Riseng, and N.Raminosoa. River conservation in
Madagascar. Pages 205-231. In Global Perspectives on
River Conservation: Science,Policy and Practice (Eds P.J.
Boon, B.R. Davies, and G.E. Petts), John Wiley &
Sons, Chichester, U.K.
2000b Lundberg, J.G., Kottelat, M., Smith,
G.R., Stiassny, M.L.J. and Gill, A.C. (2000). So many
fishes, so little time: an overview of recent
ichthyological discoveries in freshwaters. Annls.
Miss. Bot. Gdns., 87(1): 26-62.
2000c Stiassny, M.L.J. and I.J. Harrison. (2000). Notes
on a small collection of fishes from the Réserve
Naturelle Intégrale de Marojejy, Northeastern Madagascar,
with a description of a new species of the endemic
genus Bedotia (Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae).
Fieldiana, Zoology, new series, 97:143-156.
2000d Stiassny, M.L.J. Gross Functional Anatomy: Skeletal
System. Chapter 6: 109-118 In: Bullock, G. and Bunton,
T.E. (eds), The Handbook of Experimental Animals;
Laboratory Fish, Academic Press, London.
2000e Stiassny, M.L.J. (2000). Gross Functional Anatomy:
Muscular System. Chapter 7: 119-128 In: Bullock, G. and
Bunton, T.E. (eds), The Handbook of Experimental Animals;
Laboratory Fish, Academic Press, London.
1999a Stiassny, M.L.J. and A. Meyer. Cichlids of the Rift
Lakes. Scientific American (Feb. 1999), 64-69.
1999b Harrison, I.J. and M.L.J. Stiassny.
The quiet crisis: a preliminary listing of freshwater
fishes of the World that are either extinct or
“missing in action”. In: MacPhee, R.D.E
(ed), Extinctions in Near Time:Causes, Contexts, and
Consequences, pp. 271-331, Plenum Press, New York and
London.
1999c Stiassny, M.L.J. The medium is the message:
freshwater biodiversity in peril. Pp. 53-71. In:
Cracraft, J. and Griffo, F. (Eds), The Living Planet in
Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy, Columbia
University Press.
1998a Greenwood, P.H. and M.J.L. Stiassny. Cichlids. In:
Paxton, J.R. and W.N. Eschmeyer (eds), Encyclopedia of
Fishes, second edition, Academic Press, San Diego
:200-206.
1998b Stiassny, M.L.J. Something borrowed, something new.
Env. Biol. Fishes., 53: 231-233.
1998c Getahun, A. and M.L.J. Stiassny (1998). The
freshwater biodiversity crisis: the case of the Ethiopian
fish fauna. SINET: Ethiop. J. Sci., 21: 207-230.
1997a Reinthal, P.N. and M.L.J. Stiassny. Revision of the
Madagascan genus Ptychochromoides
(Teleostei: Cichlidae),
with a description of a new species. Ichthyol. Explor.
Freshwaters 7(3-4): 353-368.
1997b Stiassny, M.L.J. (1997) Systematics and
conservation. In: An Introduction to Conservation
Biology. (Eds) Gary K. Meffe and C. Ron Carroll, Sinauer
Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts., Second Edition.
1997c Stiassny, M.L.J. Scopelomorpha: Blackchins and
Lanternfishes. In: Tree of Life, Maddison, D. and W.
Maddison
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/david/scopelomorpha/scopelomorpha.html
1997d Stiassny, M.L.J. (1997) A phylogenetic overview of
the lamprologine cichlids of Africa (Teleostei,
Cichlidae): a morphological perspective. South African J.
Sci., 98: 513-523.
1996a Stiassny, M.L.J., L.R. Parenti and G.D. Johnson.
Preface. In: Stiassny et al. (Eds), Interrelationships of
Fishes, Academic Press, San Diego, 498 pp.
1996b Stiassny, M.L.J. Basal ctenosquamate relationships
and the intrarelationships of myctophiform (scopelomorph)
fishes. : 405-426. In: Stiassny et al. (Eds)
Interrelationships of Fishes, Academic Press, San Diego.
1996c Stiassny, M.L.J. An overview of freshwater
biodiversity: with some lessons from African fishes.
Fisheries 21(9): 7-13.
1996d Stiassny, M.L.J.. Lake Victoria cichlids In: A.
Rockman and M. Dion (eds), Concrete Jungle, Juno/Research
Publications (reprint of 1993 Biomass versus biodiversity
article)
1996e Stiassny, M.L.J. Notes on a little known cichlid
from West Africa, Sarotherodon
caudomarginatus (Boulenger, 1916), with some thoughts
on the genus. The Cichlids Yearbook, 6: 53-57.
1994a Stiassny, M.L.J. and M.C.C. DePinna. Basal taxa and
the role of cladistic patterns in the evaluation of
conservation priorities: a view from freshwater.: 235-
249. In: Systematics and Conservation Evaluation,
Systematics Association Special Volume,Oxford University
Press. (Eds). P. Forey, C. J. Humphreys & R.
I.Vane-Wright.
1994b Stiassny, M.L.J. Systematics and conservation. In:
An Introduction to Conservation Biology. (Eds) Gary K.
Meffe and C. Ron Carroll, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland,
Massachusetts. 1994.
1994c Stiassny, M.L.J. A tangled web: cichlids and their
relatives. The Cichlids Yearbook, 4: 91-94.
1994d Stiassny, M.L.J. and N. Raminosoa. The fishes of
the inland waters of Madagascar. Biological Diversity in
African Fresh- and Brackish Water Fishes. Geographical
overviews. Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Centr., Zool., 275: 133-149.
1993a Stiassny, M.L.J. What are grey mullets? Bull. Mar.
Sci. 52(2): 197-219.
1993b Stiassny, M.L.J. and J. Mezey. Egg
attachment systems in the family Cichlidae
(Perciformes: Labroidei), with some comment on their
significance for phylogenetic studies. Am. Mus. Novit.
3058: 1-11.
1993c Stiassny, M.L.J. Taxonomy and systematics of South
American Cichlidae: the other cichlids. Env. Biol. Fish.
36: S105-107.
1993d Stiassny, M.L.J. Cichlids are different! Tropical
Fish Hobbyist Magazine, (March): 84-98.
1993e Stiassny, M.L.J. What is a cichlid? Tropical Fish
Hobbyist Magazine, (November): 141-146.
1993f Loiselle, P.V. and M.L.J. Stiassny. How many
Marakely? Buntbarsche Bulletin, 157: 2-8.
1992a Stiassny, M.L.J. and J.A. Moore. A review of the
pelvic girdle of acanthomorph fishes, with comments on
hypotheses of acanthomorph intrarelationships. Zool. J.
Linn. Soc. 104: 209-242.
1992b Stiassny, M.L.J. Phylogenetic analysis and the role
of systematics in the biodiversity crisis.: 109-120.In:
Systematics, Ecology and the Biodiversity Crisis, (Ed.)
N. Eldredge., Columbia Univ. Press. 220pp.
1992c Stiassny, M.L.J. and P.N. Reinthal.
Description of a new species of Rheocles (Atherinomorpha, Bedotiidae) from
the Nosivolo tributary of the Mangoro River, Eastern
Madagascar.) Am. Mus. Novit., 3031: 1-8.
1992d Stiassny, M.L.J. and C.L. Gerstner. The parental
care behaviour of Paratilapia polleni
Bleeker, 1868 (Perciformes,
Labroidei) a phylogenetically primitive cichlid from
Madagascar, with a discussion of the evolution of
maternal care in the family Cichlidae. Env. Biol. Fish.
34:219-233.
1992e Stiassny, M.L.J., U.K. Schliewen and W.J. Dominey.
A new species flock of cichlid fishes from Lake Bermin,
Cameroon with a description of eight new species
of Tilapia (Labroidei; Cichlidae). Ichthyol.
Explor. Freshwaters 3(4): 311-346.
1992f Stiassny, M.L.J. Atavisms, phylogenetic character
reversals, and the origin of evolutionary novelties.
Neth. J. Zool. 42 (2-3): 260-276.
1991a Stiassny, M.L.J. Phylogenetic intrarelationships of
the family Cichlidae: an overview. : 1-35, In. Cichlid
Fishes: behaviour, ecology and evolution. (Ed.) M.H.A.
Keenleyside, Chapman Hall, London.
1991b Reinthal, P.N. and M.L.J. Stiassny. The freshwater
fishes of Madagascar: a study of an endangered fauna with
recommendations for a conservation strategy. Conserv.
Biol. 5(2): 231-243.
1991c Stiassny, M.L.J. Report on a small
collection of fishes from the Wologozi Mountains of
Liberia, West Africa, with a description of two new
species of Barbus (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae). Amer.
Mus. Novit., 3015: 1-9.
1991d Stiassny, M.L.J. Tylochromis.: 526-533. In: Checklist of the
freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). Vol. 4. (Eds).
Daget, J., Gosse, J.-P., and D. F. E. Thys v.d.
Audenaerde. ORSTOM, Paris.
1990a Stiassny, M.L.J. Notes on the
anatomy and relationships of the bedotiid fishes of
Madagascar, with a taxonomic revision of the
genus Rheocles (Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae). Amer.
Mus. Novit., 2979: 1-33.
1990b Stiassny, M.L.J. Tylochromis, relationships and the phylogenetic
status of the African Cichlidae. Amer. Mus. Novit.,
2993: 1-13.
1989 Stiassny, M.L.J. A taxonomic revision of the African
genus Tylochromis
(Labroidei, Cichlidae),
with notes on the evolutionary history of the group.
Annls Mus. r. Afr. Centr. Zool., 258:1-161.
1987a Stiassny, M.L.J. Cichlid familial relationships and
the placement of the neotropical genus
Cichla
(Perciformes, Labroidei).
J. Nat. Hist., 21: 1311-1331.
1987b Stiassny, M.L.J. and J. S. Jensen. Labroid
intrarelationships revisited: morphological complexity,
key innovations, and the study of comparative diversity.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 151(5): 269-319.
1986a Hartel, K.E. and M.L.J. Stiassny. The
identification of larval Parasudis (Teleostei, Chlorophthalmidae); with
notes on the anatomy and relationships of aulopiform
fishes. Brevioria 487: 1-23.
1986b Stiassny, M.L.J. The limits and relationships of
the acanthomorph teleosts. J. Zool. Lond., (B), 1:
411-460.
1981a Stiassny, M.L.J. The phyletic status of the family
Cichlidae (Pisces, Perciformes): a comparative anatomical
investigation. Neth. J. Zool. 31(2): 275-314.
1981b Stiassny, M.L.J. Phylogenetic versus convergent
relationship between piscivorous cichlid fishes from
Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika. Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist.
(Zool.) 40(3): 67-101.