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List of works by Melanie L. J. Stiassny

A New Bathyaethiops (Characiformes: Alestidae) from the Lékoumou River (Kouilou-Niari Basin) in the Republic of Congo; First Record of the Genus in the Lower Guinean Ichthyofaunal Province

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

A New Small Barb (Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini) from the Louesse, Lekoumou (Upper Niari Basin), and Djoulou (Upper Ogowe Basin) Rivers in the Republic of Congo, West-Central Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

A New Small Barb (Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini) from the N'sele and Mayi Ndombe Rivers in the Lower Reaches of the Middle Congo Basin (Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa) ⬇️

scholarly article by Melanie L.J. Stiassny et al published 4 February 2016 in American Museum Novitates

A New Species of Air-Breathing Catfish (Clariidae: Clarias) from Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 August 2022

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

scientific article published in September 2006

A diversified kettle of fish: phenotypic variation in the endemic cichlid genus Danakilia of the Danakil Depression of northeastern Africa

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

A new ectoparasitic distichodontid of the genus Eugnathichthys (Characiformes: Citharinoidei) from the Congo basin of central Africa, with a molecular phylogeny for the genus

scientific article (publication date: 31 July 2013)

A new species of varicorhinus (ostariophysi: cyprinidae) from West-Central Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in 2004

A sexually dimorphic species of Chrysichthys (Siluriformes: Claroteidae) from Lac Mai-Ndombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo

scientific article published in June 2008

Accelerated Diversification Explains the Exceptional Species Richness of Tropical Characoid Fishes

scientific article published on 01 December 2021

An Unexpected New Poropanchax (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae) from the Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of Congo ⬇️

scientific article published in 2019

Are characiform fishes Gondwanan in origin? Insights from a time-scaled molecular phylogeny of the Citharinoidei (Ostariophysi: Characiformes)

scientific article published in 2013

Atavisms, Phylogenetic Character Reversals, and the Origin of Evolutionary Novelties

scientific article published in 1991

Book Reviews

Can an eel be a flatfish? Observations on enigmatic asymmetrical heterenchelyids from the Guinea coast of West Africa

scientific article

Cichlids of the Rift Lakes

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Comparative ocular anatomy in a blind African cichlid fish, Lamprologus lethops

scientific article

Congochromis, a New Cichlid Genus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Central Africa, with the Description of a New Species from the Upper Congo River, Democratic Republic of Congo ⬇️

scientific article published on 2 July 2007

DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT. Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

scientific article published in January 2016

DNA barcoding reveals novel insights into pterygophagy and prey selection in distichodontid fishes (Characiformes: Distichodontidae).

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

DNA barcoding uncovers extensive cryptic diversity in the African long-fin tetra Bryconalestes longipinnis (Alestidae: Characiformes)

scientific article published on 07 June 2019

Description of a new species of Rheocles (Atherinomorpha, Bedotiidae) from the Nosivolo tributary, Mangoro River, eastern Malagasy Republic ⬇️

scientific article published in 1992

Diagnosis of Asian Raiamas (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Chedrina) with comments on chedrin relationships and previously proposed diagnostic characters for Opsaridium and Raiamas

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

Digitization of museum collections holds the potential to enhance researcher diversity

scientific article published on 01 December 2017

Egg attachment systems in the family Cichlidae (Perciformes, Labroidei) : with some comments on their significance for phylogenetic studies ⬇️

article by Melanie L. J. Stiassny et al published 1993 in American Museum Novitates

Etia nguti, a new genus and species of cichlid fish from the River Mamfue, Upper Cross River basin in Cameroon, West-Central Africa

scientific article published in March 2003

Exceptional levels of species discovery ameliorate inferences of the biogeography and diversification of an Afrotropical catfish family ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2023

Fishes in the desert: mitochondrial variation and phylogeography of Danakilia (Actinopterygii: Cichlidae) and Aphanius (Actinopterygii: Cyprinodontidae) in the Danakil Depression of northeastern Africa

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Fishes of the Du Chaillu Massif, Niari Depression, and Mayombe Massif (Republic of Congo, west-central Africa): a list of species collected in tributaries of the upper Ogowe and middle and upper Kouilou-Niari River basins ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2012

Fishes of the Kwilu River (Kasai basin, central Africa): A list of species collected in the vicinity of Kikwit, Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo ⬇️

scientific article published in September 2011

Fishes of the Mfimi River in the central Congo basin of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kasai ecoregion or part of the Cuvette Centrale?

scientific article published in 2021

Fishes of the N’sele River (Pool Malebo, Congo basin, Central Africa): a list of species collected in the main channel and affluent tributaries, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo ⬇️

Fishes of the Salonga National Park (Congo basin, central Africa): a list of species collected in the Luilaka, Salonga, and Yenge Rivers (Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo) ⬇️

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

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Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges

scientific article published on 12 December 2005

Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the tree of life

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Genomewide SNP data reveal cryptic phylogeographic structure and microallopatric divergence in a rapids-adapted clade of cichlids from the Congo River

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Genomic analysis of the only blind cichlid reveals extensive inactivation in eye and pigment formation genes

scientific article published on 11 July 2020

Global diversity of fish (Pisces) in freshwater

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Gordon John Howes 1938-2013 (fish systematist).

scientific article

Incorporating DNA barcodes into a multi-year inventory of the fishes of the hyperdiverse Lower Congo River, with a multi-gene performance assessment of the genusLabeoas a case study ⬇️

scientific article published on February 8, 2011

Interrelationships of Fishes

Lamprologus markerti, a new lamprologine cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) endemic to the lower Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, west-central Africa

scientific article (publication date: 15 August 2014)

Mastacembelus simbi, a new dwarf spiny eel (Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae) from the lower Congo River

scientific article published in September 2009

Molecular phylogenetics reveals convergent evolution in lower Congo River spiny eels

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny of Oreochromis (Cichlidae: Oreochromini) reveals mito-nuclear discordance and multiple colonisation of adverse aquatic environments

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Morphology, molecules, and character congruence in the phylogeny of South American geophagine cichlids (Perciformes, Labroidei)

scholarly article by Hernan Lopez-Fernandez et al published November 2005 in Zoologica Scripta

Neolamprologus devosi sp. n., a new riverine lamprologine cichlid (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from the lower Malagarasi River, Tanzania

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2003)

Pattern and Timing of Diversification in the African Freshwater Fish Genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Pattern and Timing of Diversification in the African Freshwater Fish Genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Pattern and Timing of Diversification in the African Freshwater Fish Genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Pattern and Timing of Diversification in the African Freshwater Fish Genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Pattern and timing of diversification in the African freshwater fish genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae)

scientific article published on 26 April 2020

Phylogenetic relationships and the temporal context for the diversification of African characins of the family Alestidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes): evidence from DNA sequence data

scientific article

Phylogenetics ofTeleogramma, a Riverine Clade of African Cichlid Fishes, with a Description of the Deepwater Molluskivore—Teleogramma obamaorum— from the Lower Reaches of the Middle Congo River ⬇️

scholarly article by Melanie L.J. Stiassny et al published 21 April 2015 in American Museum Novitates

Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-monophyly of Characiformes

scientific article

Population Genetic Structure of the Dwarf Seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) in Florida

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Rehabilitation of Xenocharax crassus (Teleostei: Distichodontidae), a species endemic to the Congo basin in central Africa

scientific article published in December 2016

Report on a small collection of fishes from the Wologizi Mountains of Liberia, West Africa : with a description of two new species of Barbus (Ostariophysi, Cyprinidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1991

Review of the cichlid genus Thysochromis (Teleostei: Ovalentaria) with the description of a new species from the Kouilou Province in the Republic of Congo, west-Central Africa

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

Review of the smiliogastrin cyprinids of the Kwilu River (Kasai Basin, central Africa), revised diagnosis for Clypeobarbus (Cyprinidae: Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini) and description of a new species

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Revision of Sauvagella Bertin (Clupeidae; Pellonulinae; Ehiravini) with a Description of a New Species from the Freshwaters of Madagascar and Diagnosis of the Ehiravini

scientific article published in February 2002

Revision of the Madagascan genus Ptychochromoides (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with description of a new species

scientific article published in March 1997

Rheocles vatosoa, a new species of freshwater rainbowfish (Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae) from the Lokoho River basin in Northeastern Madagascar ⬇️

scientific article published in 2002

Rosemary Helen Lowe-McConnell (1921–2014), Honorary Foreign Member in Ichthyology

scientific article published in July 2016

Systematics of Damselfishes

scientific article published on 05 May 2021

Taxonomic Impediment or Impediment to Taxonomy? A Commentary on Systematics and the Cybertaxonomic-Automation Paradigm

The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution

scientific article published in August 2001

The limits and relationships of the acanthomorph teleosts

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Three new Parananochromis species (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Gabon and Cameroon, Central Africa

scientific article (publication date: 8 June 2003)

Two New Phenacogrammus (Characoidei; Alestidae) from the Ndzaa River (Mfimi-Lukenie Basin) of Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 November 2021

Tylochromis : relationships and the phylogenetic status of the African Cichlidae ⬇️

scientific article published in 1990

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