The upper rio Paraná basin drains the most developed and environmentally degraded
region in South America: the Brazilian southeast. While it is one of the most well-known …

An alternative hypothesis concerning the paleoecological and paleoenvironmental
depositional conditions of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte (CKL), Crato Formation, Aptian …

É apresentada uma síntese sobre os peixes do Alto Paraná, com base em dados de
coleções, dados de literatura e novas coletas. Trezentas e dez espécies, de 11 ordens e 38 …

Comprising extant species, Macrobrachium is the most speciose caridean genus in
Palaemonidae. It is generally considered as a monophyletic clade that lives exclusively in …

Aim Patterns of genetic variation within freshwater fish populations may reflect the historical
impact of climate change on either sea‐level or environmental conditions. Past sea‐level …

Background and aims: Considering the promising use of DNA barcoding for species
identification, the importance of the freshwater fish fauna of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin …

Continental freshwaters are among the most species‐dense ecosystems on Earth, with~ 6%
of all described species compressed into~ 0.8% of the world's surface area and~ 0.01% of …

Understanding how assemblages are structured in space and the factors promoting their
distributions is one of the main goals in Ecology, however, studies regarding the distribution …

The systematics of the Glandulocaudinae is reviewed in detail and justification for the
recognition of the group as a subfamily is discussed. The subfamily Glandulocaudinae …

Paleo-drainage connections and headwater stream-captures are two main historical
processes sha** the distribution of strictly freshwater fishes. Recently, bathymetric-based …