Team

Alessio Datovo

PI, Associate Professor, Curator of Fishes

Research interests:

Evolutionary morphology of fishes, with emphasis in skeletal musculature
Phylogenetic systematics of bony fishes, especially ostariophysans and percomorphs
Taxonomy of Neotropical fishes
Ontogeny of musculoskeletal system in bony fishes

E-mail: adatovo@usp.br

Murilo Pastana

PI, Assistant Professor, Curator of Fishes

Research interests:

Evolutionary morphology of acanthomorph fishes
Phylogenetic systematics of pelagic fishes
Taxonomy of Neotropical fishes
Ontogeny and morphology of the lateral-line system in ray-finned fishes

E-mail: mpastana@usp.br

Thiago Loboda

Postdoctoral fellow

Research interests:

Systematics of Chondrichthyes
Evolutionary morphology of Chondrichthyes
Taxonomy of Neotropical freshwater stingrays

E-mail: loboda_bio@yahoo.com.br

George Vita

PhD student

Research interests:

Comparative morphology of bony fishes, with emphasis in skeletal musculature
Phylogenetic systematics of Neotropical fishes, especially piranhas and their allies (Characiformes)
Taxonomy of Neotropical fishes, with emphasis in tetras and their allies (Characiformes)
Geometric morphometrics

E-mail: george.vitao@gmail.com

Paulo Presti

PhD student

Research interests:

Comparative morphology of bony fishes, with emphasis in skeletal musculature
Phylogenetic systematics of percomoprhs (Percomorphacea)
Taxonomy of percomorph fishes, with emphasis in threadfins (Polynemidae) and flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes)
Ontogeny of musculoskeletal system in percomorphs
Scientific illustration

E-mail: presti.paulo@gmail.com

João Pedro Trevisan

PhD student

Research interests:

Comparative morphology of bony fishes
Phylogenetic systematics of percomoprhs, especially gobies (Gobiiformes)
Taxonomy of percomorph fishes, with emphasis in gobies (Gobiiformes)

E-mail: joao.trevisan.santos@gmail.com

Nonato Mendes Jr

PhD student

Research interests:

Integrative taxonomy of electric eels
Evolutionary morphology of electric eels
Phylogeny of Neotropical electric fishes

E-mail: eelectricus@yahoo.com.br

Vinicius Cardoso

MSc student

Research interests:

Integrative taxonomy of Neotropical electric fishes
Phylogeny of Neotropical electric fishes

E-mail: viniciusc.cardoso@yahoo.com.br

Alumni

Gabriela Moraes

Universidade Paulista, Brazil

Joao Gabriel Genova

Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Luiz AW Peixoto

Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil

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