Tatiane C. Mariguela

TL;DR: A monophyletic assemblage strongly supported in all the authors' phylogenetic analysis is herein defined as the Characidae, which includes the characiform species lacking a supraorbital bone and with a derived position of the emergence of the hyoid artery from the anterior ceratohyal.

TL;DR: The most important general patterns are that larger seeded plant species are mainly eaten by terrestrial mammals (rodents, ungulates, primates, and carnivores) and that birds are the main consumers of fruits with a high concentration of lipids.

TL;DR: This library is a first step to better know the molecular diversity of marine fish species from São Paulo, providing a basis for further studies of this fauna and setting the stage for a better understanding of interactions among species, calibrating the estimations about species composition and richness in an ecosystem.

TL;DR: Molecular analyses using partial sequences of the mitochondrial gene Cytochrome Oxidase I from specimens of the new species and specimens belonging to morphologically similar species demonstrated that thenew species is easily differentiated by their high genetic distance and by their position in the phylogenetic hypothesis obtained through the Maximum Parsimony methodology.

TL;DR: A new species of Tetragonopterus is described from the rio Jari, a tributary to the left margin of rio Amazonas, at the border between Amapa and Para States, northern Brazil, with a significant genetic distance between the new species and its congeners.