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Raphaël Covain
Researcher at American Museum of Natural History
Publications - 35
Citations - 670
Raphaël Covain is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Loricariidae & Freshwater fish. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 32 publications receiving 500 citations.
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The genera of the Neotropical armored catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a practical key and synopsis
TL;DR: The subfamily Loricariinae belongs to the Neotropical mailed catfish family LoricARIidae and is recognized by their long and flattened caudal peduncle and absence of an adipose fin.
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A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin
Céline Jézéquel,Pablo A. Tedesco,Rémy Bigorne,Javier A. Maldonado-Ocampo,Hernán Ortega,Max Hidalgo,Koenraad Martens,Koenraad Martens,Gislene Torrente-Vilara,Jansen Zuanon,Astrid Acosta,Edwin Agudelo,Soraya Barrera Maure,Douglas A. Bastos,Juan Bogotá Gregory,Fernando Gonçalves Cabeceira,André Luiz C. Canto,Fernando M. Carvajal-Vallejos,Lucélia Nobre Carvalho,Ariana Cella-Ribeiro,Raphaël Covain,Carlos DoNascimiento,Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria,Cleber Duarte,Efrem J. G. Ferreira,André Vieira Galuch,Tommaso Giarrizzo,Rafael P. Leitão,John G. Lundberg,Mabel Maldonado,José Iván Mojica,Luciano Fogaça de Assis Montag,Willian M. Ohara,Tiago H. S. Pires,Marc Pouilly,Saúl Prada-Pedreros,Luiz Jardim de Queiroz,Lúcia H. Rapp Py-Daniel,Frank Raynner V. Ribeiro,Raúl Ríos Herrera,Jaime Sarmiento,Leandro M. Sousa,Lis F. Stegmann,Jonathan Valdiviezo-Rivera,Francisco Villa,Takayuki Yunoki,Thierry Oberdorff +46 more
TL;DR: This database, including 2,406 validated freshwater native fish species, 232,936 georeferenced records, results from an extensive survey of species distribution including 590 different sources, represents a highly valuable source of information for further studies on freshwater fish biodiversity, biogeography and conservation.
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Phylogenomic reappraisal of the Neotropical catfish family Loricariidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using ultraconserved elements
Fábio F. Roxo,Luz E. Ochoa,Mark H. Sabaj,Nathan K. Lujan,Raphaël Covain,Gabriel S. C. Silva,Bruno F. Melo,James S. Albert,Jonathan Chang,Fausto Foresti,Michael E. Alfaro,Claudio Oliveira +11 more
TL;DR: This study lays a strong foundation for future research to focus on relationships among species and the macroevolutionary processes affecting loricariid diversification rates and patterns by generating a genome-scale data set for 140 species spanning 75 genera and five of six previously proposed subfamilies.
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Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator.
C. David de Santana,William G. R. Crampton,Casey B. Dillman,Casey B. Dillman,Renata G. Frederico,Mark H. Sabaj,Raphaël Covain,Jonathan Stuart Ready,Jansen Zuanon,Renildo Ribeiro de Oliveira,Raimundo Nonato Gomes Mendes-Júnior,Douglas A. Bastos,Tulio F. Teixeira,Tulio F. Teixeira,Jan A. Mol,Willian M. Ohara,Willian M. Ohara,Natália Castro e Castro,Luiz Antônio Wanderley Peixoto,Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi,Leandro M. Sousa,Luciano Fogaça de Assis Montag,Frank Raynner V. Ribeiro,Joseph C. Waddell,Nivaldo M. Piorsky,Richard P. Vari,Wolmar Benjamin Wosiacki +26 more
TL;DR: It is shown that there are three major lineages of Electrophorus distributed across Greater Amazonia and described two new species, one with a much stronger electric discharge than was previously known, making it the strongest living bioelectricity generator.
Updated checklist of the freshwater and estuarine fishes of French Guiana
Pierre-Yves Le Bail,Raphaël Covain,Michel Jégu,Sonia Fisch-Muller,Régis Vigouroux,Philippe Keith +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an updated checklist of fishes of French Guiana, including all of this new information, which contains 416 species, 367 of which are strictly freshwater.