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List of works by Ralf Britz

A diminutive new species of Glyptothorax (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from the upper Irrawaddy River basin, Myanmar, with comments on sisorid and erethistid phylogenetic relationships

scientific article published in December 2005

A new species of the Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from Myanmar (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Erethistidae)

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2003)

A note on Muraena alba Zuiew, 1793 (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)

scientific article

A review of the eel-loaches, genus Pangio, from Myanmar (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae)

scientific article published in March 2007

Aenigmachannidae, a new family of snakehead fishes (Teleostei: Channoidei) from subterranean waters of South India

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Amblyceps accari, a new species of torrent catfish (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from the Western Ghats of India

scientific article

Aspects of the reproduction and development of Indostomus paradoxus (Teleostei: Indostomidae)

scientific article published in December 2000

Barcoding snakeheads (Teleostei, Channidae) revisited: Discovering greater species diversity and resolving perpetuated taxonomic confusions

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Carinotetraodon imitator, a new freshwater pufferfish from India (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes)

Channa andrao, a new species of dwarf snakehead from West Bengal, India (Teleostei: Channidae)

scientific article (publication date: 30 October 2013)

Channa auroflammea, a new species of snakehead fish of the Marulius group from the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia (Teleostei: Channidae)

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Channa ornatipinnis and C. pulchra, two new species of dwarf snakeheads from Myanmar (Teleostei: Channidae)

scientific article published in December 2007

Channa pseudomarulius, a valid species of snakehead from the Western Ghats region of peninsular India (Teleostei: Channidae), with comments on Ophicephalus grandinosus, O. theophrasti and O. leucopunctatus

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Channa rara , a new species of snakehead fish from the Western Ghats region of Maharashtra, India (Teleostei: Labyrinthici: Channidae)

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Clarification of the Occipito-Vertebral Region of Arapaima gigas (Osteoglossomorpha: Osteoglossidae) through Developmental Osteology

scientific article published on 28 February 2007

Cromeria nilotica and C. occidentalis, two valid species of the African freshwater fish family Kneriidae (Teleostei: Gonorynchiformes)

scientific article published in March 2006

Cyanogaster noctivaga, a remarkable new genus and species of miniature fish from the Rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characidae)

scientific article published in March 2013

Danionella dracula, an escape from the cypriniform Bauplan via developmental truncation?

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

Danionella mirifica, a new species of miniature fish from Upper Myanmar (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae)

scientific article published in October 2003

Dario huli, a new species of badid from Karnataka, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

scientific article (publication date: 16 January 2015)

Dario kajal, a new species of badid fish from Meghalaya, India (Teleostei: Badidae)

scientific article (publication date: 31 October 2013)

Dario neela, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

scientific article

Description of Danio absconditus, new species, and redescription of Danio feegradei (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the Rakhine Yoma hotspot in south-western Myanmar

scientific article (publication date: 21 April 2015)

Descriptive Osteology of the Family Chaudhuriidae (Teleostei, Synbranchiformes, Mastacembeloidei), with a Discussion of Its Relationships

scientific article published in 2003

Different on the inside: extreme swimbladder sexual dimorphism in the South Asian torrent minnows

scientific article

EVOLUTION OF MOUTHBROODING AND LIFE-HISTORY CORRELATES IN THE FIGHTING FISH GENUS BETTA

article published in 2004

Egg structure and larval development of Pantodon buchholzi (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha), with a review of data on reproduction and early life history in other osteoglossomorphs

scientific article published in September 2004

Egg surface structure and larval cement glands in nandid and badid fishes, with remarks on phylogeny and biogeography

scholarly article by Ralf Britz published 1997 in American Museum Novitates

Egg surface structure of the freshwater toadfish Thalassophryne amazonica (Teleostei: Batrachoididae) with information on its distribution and natural habitat

article by Ralf Britz & Mônica Toledo-Piza published September 2012 in Neotropical Ichthyology

Evolution and Developmental Diversity of Skin Spines in Pufferfishes

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Evolution of miniaturization and the phylogenetic position of Paedocypris, comprising the world's smallest vertebrate

scientific article

Evolution of mouthbrooding and life-history correlates in the fighting fish genus Betta

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Evolutionary and biogeographic patterns of the Badidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data

scientific article

Extreme evolutionary shifts in developmental timing establish the miniature Danionella as a novel model in the neurosciences

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Fangfangia spinocleithralis, a new genus and species of miniature cyprinid fish from the peat swamp forests of Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

scientific article

First record from the wild of Carinotetraodon imitator in Peninsular India (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae)

scientific article published in October 2012

Homology of intermuscular bones in acanthomorph fishes

scientific article published in 1998

Larval attachment organs in six species of ostariophysan teleosts

scientific article published on 9 February 2019

Leis' conundrum: homology of the clavus of the ocean sunfishes. 1. Ontogeny of the median fins and axial skeleton of Monotrete leiurus (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae).

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Leis' conundrum: homology of the clavus of the ocean sunfishes. 2. Ontogeny of the median fins and axial skeleton of Ranzania laevis (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes, Molidae).

scientific article

Macrognathus orthosemos, a new species of spiny eel from southern Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae)

scientific article published in May 2020

Miniatures, morphology and molecules: Paedocypris and its phylogenetic position (Teleostei, Cypriniformes)

scientific article published on 08 September 2017

Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary diversification of labyrinth fishes (Perciformes: Anabantoidei).

scientific article

Molecular systematics of the Asian torrent minnows (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data

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Monopterus luticolus, a new species of swamp eel from Cameroon (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)

scientific article published in December 2016

Monopterus rongsaw, a new species of hypogean swamp eel from the Khasi Hills in Northeast India (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae)

scientific article published in October 2018

Morphological novelty and modest developmental truncation in Barboides, Africa's smallest vertebrates (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).

scientific article

New insights into the complex structure and ontogeny of the occipito-vertebral gap in barbeled dragonfishes (Stomiidae, Teleostei)

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Nomenclatural remarks on Cyanogaster Oken 1823 and Cyanogaster Blainville 1825 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pleurobranchaeidae)

scientific article (publication date: 2 July 2013)

Occipito-vertebral fusion in ocean sunfishes (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) and its phylogenetic implications

scientific article published in October 2005

On the ecology of Cromeria occidentalis (Teleostei: Gonorynchiformes)

scientific article published in June 2006

On the homology of the posteriormost gill arch in polypterids (Cladistia, Actinopterygii)

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On the identity of Mastacembelus dayi with notes on M. alboguttatus (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae)

scientific article published in August 2017

On the reproduction and early development of Erpetoichthys calabaricus, Polypterus senegalus, and Polypterus ornatipinnis (Actinopterygii: Polypteridae)

scientific article published in November 1998

Ontogeny and homology of the claustra in otophysan Ostariophysi (Teleostei).

scientific article published in August 2006

Ontogeny and homology of the skeletal elements that form the sucking disc of remoras (Teleostei, Echeneoidei, Echeneidae).

scientific article

Ontogeny of the catfish pectoral-fin spine (Teleostei: Siluriformes)

scientific article published on 22 January 2019

Ontogeny of the ethmoidal region and hyopalatine arch in Macrognathus pancalus (Percomorpha, Mastacembeloidei) : with critical remarks on mastacembeloid inter- and intrarelationships

scientific article published in 1996

Ophichthys desilvai, a poorly known synbranchid eel from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Ophichthys fossorius, a poorly known South Indian swamp eel (Teleostei: Synbranchidae)

scientific article published on 5 November 2021

Osteology of Paedocypris, a miniature and highly developmentally truncated fish (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae).

scientific article

Osteology of Priocharax and remarkable developmental truncation in a miniature Amazonian fish (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae).

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Osteology of ‘Monopterus’ roseni with the description of Rakthamichthys, new genus, and comments on the generic assignment of the Amphipnous Group species (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes)

scientific article published in August 2020

Osteology of Kryptoglanis shajii, a stygobitic catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Peninsular India with a diagnosis of the new family Kryptoglanidae

scientific article published in March 2014

Paedocypris carbunculus , a new species of miniature fish from Borneo ( Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)

scientific article published in 2008

Paedocypris, a new genus of Southeast Asian cyprinid fish with a remarkable sexual dimorphism, comprises the world's smallest vertebrate

scientific article

Pangio ammophila, a new species of eel-loach from Karnataka, southern India (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae)

scientific article published in June 2012

Pangio bhujia , a new, peculiar species of miniature subterranean eel loach lacking dorsal and pelvic fins from India (Teleostei: Cobitidae)

scientific article published on 7 October 2019

Pangio longimanus, a miniature species of eel-loach from Central Laos (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae)

scientific article published in December 2009

Parasphaerichthys lineatus, a new species of labyrinth fish from southern Myanmar (Teleostei: Osphronemidae)

scientific article published in November 2002

Pectoral fin loss in the Mastacembelidae: a new species from Lake Tanganyika

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Phylogenetic systematics of leaffishes (Teleostei: Polycentridae, Nandidae)

scholarly article by Rupert A. Collins et al published 25 June 2015 in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Phylogeny of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish genus Pangio (Cypriniformes; Cobitidae).

scientific article published on 16 August 2011

Pillaia kachinica, a new chaudhuriid fish from Myanmar, with observations on the genus Garo (Teleostei: Chaudhuriidae)

scientific article published in December 2000

Pillaiabrachia siniae, a new species of earthworm eel from northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Chaudhuriidae)

scientific article published in April 2016

Polypterus teugelsi, a new species of bichir from the Upper Cross River system in Cameroon (Actinopterygii: Cladistia: Polypteridae)

scientific article published in June 2004

Poor groundwater governance threatens ancient subterranean fishes

scientific article

Priocharax nanus, a new miniature characid from the rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with an updated list of miniature Neotropical freshwater fishes

scientific article published in 2014

Pseudolaguvia lapillicola, a new species of catfish from Peninsular India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)

scientific article published in March 2013

Psilorhynchus olliei, a new species of torrent minnow from eastern Myanmar (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae)

scientific article published in December 2014

Rasbora simonbirchi, a new species of cyprinid fish from Central Kalimantan, Borneo

scientific article published in October 2018

Replacing the first-generation dentition in pufferfish with a unique beak

scientific article

Review of Freshwater Fishes of México by R. R. Miller et al

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Revision of the extant Polypteridae (Actinopterygii: Cladistia)

scientific article published in August 2019

Revision of the family Badidae (Teleostei: Perciformes), with description of a new genus and ten new species

scientific article published in December 2002

Revisiting the taxonomic impediment

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

STUDY OF THE DORSAL GILL-ARCH MUSCULATURE OF TELEOSTOME FISHES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ACTINOPTERYGII

scientific article published in May 2006

Skeletal development and ossification sequence of the characiform Salminus brasiliensis (Ostariophysi: Characidae)

scientific article published in September 2014

Snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) diversity and the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2019

Spatially restricted dental regeneration drives pufferfish beak development

scientific article

Species of the Macrognathus aculeatus group in Myanmar with remarks on M. caudiocellatus (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae)

scientific article published in December 2009

Spectacular morphological novelty in a miniature cyprinid fish, Danionella dracula n. sp

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2009)

Sundasalanx mekongensis, a new species of clupeiform fish from the Mekong basin (Teleostei: Sundasalangidae)

scientific article published in December 1999

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

The Anabantoid Genera Ctenops, Luciocephalus, Parasphaerichthys, and Sphaerichthys(Teleostei: Perciformes) as a Monophyletic Group. Evidence from Egg Surface Structure and Reproductive Behaviour.

scientific article published in 1995

The Most Developmentally Truncated Fishes Show Extensive Hox Gene Loss and Miniaturized Genomes.

scientific article

The emerging vertebrate model species for neurophysiological studies is Danionella cerebrum, new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

scientific article

The genus Betta – monophyly and intrarelationships, with remarks on the subfamilies Macropodinae and Luciocephalinae (Teleostei: Osphronemidae)

scientific article published in December 2001

The identity of Aplocheilus andamanicus (Köhler, 1906) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes), an endemic Killifish from the Andaman Islands, with notes on Odontopsis armata van Hasselt

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

The most developmentally truncated fishes show extensive Hox gene loss and miniaturized genomes

article

The myth of dorsal ribs in gnathostome vertebrates

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2003)

The snakehead fish Channa aurolineata is a valid species (Teleostei: Channidae) distinct from Channa marulius

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

The subterranean Aenigmachanna gollum, a new genus and species of snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) from Kerala, South India

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

The type locality of Tor mosal (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Trichopodus poptae, a new anabantoid fish from Borneo (Teleostei: Osphronemidae)

scientific article published in August 2014

Two new miniature species of the fish genus Priocharax from the Rio Tapajós and Amazonas drainages, Pará, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)

scientific article published in 2024

Two new species of gasterosteiform fishes of the genus Indostomus (Teleostei: Indostomidae)

scientific article published in December 1999

Two new species of Mastacembelus from Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae)

scientific article published in September 2007

Unexpected species diversity within Sri Lanka’s snakehead fishes of the Channa marulius group (Teleostei: Channidae)

scientific article

Unraveling a 146 years old taxonomic puzzle: validation of Malabar snakehead, species-status and its relevance for channid systematics and evolution

scientific article published in 2011