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A New Species of Halichoeres (Teleostei: Labridae) from the Western Gulf of Mexico

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Adult habitat preferences, larval dispersal, and the comparative phylogeography of three Atlantic surgeonfishes (Teleostei: Acanthuridae).

scientific article published on February 2002

After continents divide: comparative phylogeography of reef fishes from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean

article by Joseph D. DiBattista et al published 7 January 2013 in Journal of Biogeography

Angelfishes, Paper Tigers, and the Devilish Taxonomy of the Centropyge flavissima Complex

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Blinded by the bright: a lack of congruence between colour morphs, phylogeography and taxonomy for a cosmopolitan Indo-Pacific butterflyfish,Chaetodon auriga

Brazilian aquatic biodiversity in peril

scientific article published in November 2015

Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa (Teleostei, Labridae), a new species of fairy wrasse from the Maldives, with comments on the taxonomic identity of C. rubrisquamis and C. wakanda

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Cirrhilabrus wakanda, a new species of fairy wrasse from mesophotic ecosystems of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa (Teleostei, Labridae)

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Cleaning service gaps in Bermuda, North Atlantic

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Comparative phylogeography of Atlantic reef fishes indicates both origin and accumulation of diversity in the Caribbean

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Comparative phylogeography of reef fishes from the Gulf of Aden to the Arabian Sea reveals two cryptic lineages

Comparative transcriptomics of sympatric species of coral reef fishes (genus: )

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Conservation status of the southernmost reef of the Amazon Reef System: the Parcel de Manuel Luís

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Corrigenda: A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae). ZooKeys 1008: 107–138. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.58805

scientific article published on 10 May 2021

Deep reef fishes in the world’s epicenter of marine biodiversity

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Distinct patterns of hybridization across a suture zone in a coral reef fish (Dascyllus trimaculatus)

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Ecological Links between Pelagic and Mesophotic Reef Fishes in an Oceanic Archipelago of the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological insights from environmental disturbances in mesophotic coral ecosystems

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes

scientific article published in March 2005

Ecological traits influencing range expansion across large oceanic dispersal barriers: insights from tropical Atlantic reef fishes

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Ecology of Prognathodes obliquus, a butterflyfish endemic to mesophotic ecosystems of St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Ephemeral aggregation of the benthic ctenophore Lyrocteis imperatoris on a mesophotic coral ecosystem in the Philippines

scholarly article by Bart Shepherd et al published 1 January 2018 in Bulletin of Marine Science

Evolution of pygmy angelfishes: recent divergences, introgression, and the usefulness of color in taxonomy

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Expansion of an invasive coral species over Abrolhos Bank, Southwestern Atlantic

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First Record of Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans) for the Brazilian Coast ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America.

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Fish biodiversity of the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, southwestern Atlantic: an updated database

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Fishes that rule the world: circumtropical distributions revisited

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Fishing groupers towards extinction: a global assessment of threats and extinction risks in a billion dollar fishery

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Genomic signatures of geographic isolation and natural selection in coral reef fishes

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Geographic variation in reef-fish assemblages along the Brazilian coast

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Grammatonotus brianne, a new callanthiid fish from Philippine waters, with short accounts of two other Grammatonotus from the Coral Triangle

scientific article (publication date: 4 October 2016)

High prevalence of dermal parasites among coral reef fishes of Curaçao

Historical biogeography and speciation in the reef fish genus Haemulon (Teleostei: Haemulidae).

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Ice ages and butterflyfishes: Phylogenomics elucidates the ecological and evolutionary history of reef fishes in an endemism hotspot

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

Introduction to virtual issue on Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean biogeography

scholarly article by Michael L. Berumen et al published 23 June 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Introgression and selection shaped the evolutionary history of sympatric sister-species of coral reef fishes (genus: Haemulon).

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Invasive lionfish preying on critically endangered reef fish

scholarly article by Luiz A. Rocha et al published 14 April 2015 in Coral Reefs

Island biogeography of marine organisms

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Lack of science support fails Brazil

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Large and remote marine protected areas in the South Atlantic Ocean are flawed and raise concerns: Comments on Soares and Lucas (2018)

Large-scale invasion of western Atlantic mesophotic reefs by lionfish potentially undermines culling-based management

article by Dominic A. Andradi-Brown et al published 26 December 2016 in Biological Invasions

Liopropoma incandescens sp. nov. (Epinephelidae, Liopropominae), a new species of basslet from mesophotic coral ecosystems of Pohnpei, Micronesia

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Living in the past: phylogeography and population histories of Indo-Pacific wrasses (genus Halichoeres) in shallow lagoons versus outer reef slopes

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Mesophotic coral ecosystems are threatened and ecologically distinct from shallow water reefs

scientific article published in Science

Mesophotic ecosystems at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil (South-western Atlantic), reveal unique ichthyofauna and need for conservation

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Mesophotic fishes of the Abrolhos Shelf, the largest reef ecosystem in the South Atlantic.

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Mitochondrial DNA and Color Pattern Variation in Three Western Atlantic Halichoeres (Labridae), with the Revalidation of Two Species

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New Species of Emblemaria (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae) from Northern Brazil

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New Species of Haemulon (Teleostei: Haemulidae) from the Northeastern Brazilian Coast

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New records of fishes for the Vitória-Trindade Chain, southwestern Atlantic ⬇️

On the origin of endemic species in the Red Sea

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Origins of species richness in the Indo-Malay-Philippine biodiversity hotspot: evidence for the centre of overlap hypothesis

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Patterns of distribution and processes of speciation in Brazilian reef fishes

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Pempheris gasparinii, a new species of sweeper fish from Trindade Island, southwestern Atlantic (Teleostei, Pempheridae)

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Phylogenetics and geography of speciation in New World Halichoeres wrasses

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Phylogeography of Indo-Pacific reef fishes: sister wrasses Coris gaimard and C. cuvieri in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

article by Pauliina A. Ahti et al published 1 February 2016 in Journal of Biogeography

Phylogeography of the manybar goatfish, Parupeneus multifasciatus, reveals isolation of the Hawaiian Archipelago and a cryptic species in the Marquesas Islands

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Phylogeography of the reef fish Cephalopholis argus (Epinephelidae) indicates Pleistocene isolation across the Indo-Pacific Barrier with contemporary overlap in The Coral Triangle

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Phylogeography of two closely related Indo-Pacific butterflyfishes reveals divergent evolutionary histories and discordant results from mtDNA and microsatellites

scientific article published on 11 August 2012

Phylogeography unplugged: comparative surveys in the genomic era

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Phylogeography, population structure and evolution of coral-eating butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodontidae, genus Chaetodon , subgenus Corallochaetodon )

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Plectranthias ahiahiata, a new species of perchlet from a mesophotic ecosystem at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae).

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Population genomic response to geographic gradients by widespread and endemic fishes of the Arabian Peninsula

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Pseudanthias hangapiko, a new anthiadine serranid (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Recent dispersal and diversification within the clingfish genus Acyrtus (Actinopterygii: Gobiesocidae), with the description of a new western Atlantic species

scientific article published in 2022

Recent invasion of the tropical Atlantic by an Indo-Pacific coral reef fish

scientific article published on November 2005

Regal phylogeography: Range-wide survey of the marine angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus reveals evolutionary partitions between the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean

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Reply to Vitule et al. (2017): Comment on 'Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America by Reis et al. (2016)'.

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Response to Delrieu-Trottin et al.: Hybrids, Color Variants and the Consistently Devilish Taxonomy of Pygmy Angelfishes

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Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines

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Scientific diving in Brazil: history, present and perspectives

scientific article published in 2023

Shallow mtDNA coalescence in Atlantic pygmy angelfishes (genus Centropyge) indicates a recent invasion from the Indian Ocean.

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Shifting seas: the impacts of Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations on the evolution of tropical marine taxa

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Skipping across the tropics: the evolutionary history of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus).

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South-western Atlantic reef fishes: Zoogeographical patterns and ecological drivers reveal a secondary biodiversity centre in the Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published in 2018

Specimen collection: an essential tool

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Sponge-dwelling Fishes of Northeastern Brazil

SubCAS: A Portable, Submersible Hyperbaric Chamber to Collect Living Mesophotic Fishes

Surgeons and suture zones: Hybridization among four surgeonfish species in the Indo-Pacific with variable evolutionary outcomes

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The first complete mitochondrial genomes of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: <i>Prionurus</i>)

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

The likelihood of extinction of iconic and dominant herbivores and detritivores of coral reefs: the parrotfishes and surgeonfishes

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

The origins of tropical marine biodiversity.

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The recent colonization of south Brazil by the Azores chromis Chromis limbata.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines ⬇️

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Tosanoides aphrodite, a new species from mesophotic coral ecosystems of St. Paul’s Rocks, Mid Atlantic Ridge (Perciformes, Serranidae, Anthiadinae)

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Twisted sister species of pygmy angelfishes: discordance between taxonomy, coloration, and phylogenetics

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Two new species of Plectranthias (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems in the tropical Central Pacific

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

When biogeographical provinces collide: hybridization of reef fishes at the crossroads of marine biogeographical provinces in the Arabian Sea

scholarly article by Joseph D. DiBattista et al published 27 April 2015 in Journal of Biogeography

Whole-genome assembly of the coral reef Pearlscale Pygmy Angelfish (Centropyge vrolikii).

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Yellow tails in the Red Sea: phylogeography of the Indo-Pacific goatfishMulloidichthys flavolineatusreveals isolation in peripheral provinces and cryptic evolutionary lineages

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