Infrastructure development and overfishing in the Amazon make it imperative to define
adequate scales for the ecosystem‐based management of commercial fisheries and the …

Evidence that migration prevents population structure among Neotropical characiform fishes
has been reported recently but the effects upon species diversification remain unclear …

Arapaima, pirarucu or paiche (Arapaima gigas) is one of the largest freshwater fish in the
world, and has a long history of commercial exploitation in the Amazon region. To estimate …

Market transparency is in strong demand by consumers, and the authentication of species is
an important step for seafood traceability. In this study, a simple molecular strategy, COIBar …

Brycon amazonicus is widely distributed in the Amazon basin. The species has traditionally
been the focus of subsistence and commercial fisheries, and recently has become an …

The black prochilodus, Prochilodus nigricans, is an important food fish distributed
throughout aquatic habitats of the Ecuadorian Amazon. We sampled gonad weight, body …

Geographically, widespread Neotropical fish lineages offer opportunities to reconstruct
historical biogeography patterns and infer processes leading to modern ichthyological …

Abstract The Neotropical fish genus Prochilodus includes five species occurring in the main
drainages of the eastern Brazilian Shield: P. argenteus, P. costatus, P. lineatus, P. harttii …

The migratory catfish Brachyplatystoma vaillantii is one of the most important fishery
resources in the Amazon. Intense capture occurs associated to its life cycle. In order to know …

The black prochilodus (Prochilodus nigricans) is one of the most landed scaled fish species
of the middle and upper parts of the Putumayo River, in the tri-national area between …