Key Publications
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2023
Robillard A. J., Trizna M., Tafur K. M. R., Panduro E. L. D., de Santana C. D., White A. E., Dikow R. B., Deichmann J. L. Application of a Deep Learning Image Classifier for Identification of Amazonian Fishes. Ecology and Evolution
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2022
. Peixoto L. A., Campos-da-Paz R., Menezes N. A. & de Santana C. D., Triques M. L., Datovo A. Systematics of Neotropical electric knifefish Tembeassu (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae). Systematics and Biodiversity, 20: 1-19.
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2021
. de Santana C. D., Parenti L., Dillman C. D., Coddington J. A., Bastos D. A., Baldwin C. C., Zuanon J., Torrente-Vilara G., Covain R., Menezes N. A., Datovo A., Sado T., & Miya M. The critical role of natural history museums in advancing eDNA for biodiversity studies: a case study with Amazonian fishes. Scientific Reports, 11: 18159.
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. Dutra M. G., Peixoto L. A., Abrahão V. P., Wosiacki W., Menezes N. A., & de Santana C. D. Morphology-based phylogeny of Eigenmanniinae Mago-Leccia, 1978 (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae), with a new classification. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
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. Peixoto L. A., Dutra M. G., Datovo A., Menezes N. A. & de Santana C. D. The description of a rare species of ghost knifefish from the Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Copeia 2021
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. Bastos D. A., Zuanon J., Py-Daniel L. R. & de Santana C. D. Social Predation in Electric Eels. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7121
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. Peixoto L. A., Datovo A., Menezes N. A. & de Santana C. D. A new species of sexually dimorphic and rheophilic ghost knifefish. Journal of Fish Biology, 98: 803-816
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2020
. Souza- Shibatta L., Ferreira D. G., Santos K. F., Galindo BA, Shibatta O.A., Sofia S.H., Giacomin R. M., Bastos D. A., Mendes-Júnior R. N. G. & de Santana C. D. Electric eels galore: microsatellite markers for population studies. Neotropical Ichthyology, 2020: 18(4):e200081. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2020-0081.
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2019
· de Santana C. D., et al. Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator. Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-019-11690-z
· Peixoto L. A., Datovo A., Campos-da-Paz R., de Santana C. D. & Menezes N. A. Anatomical, taxonomic, and phylogenetic reappraisal of a poorly known ghost knifefish Tembeassu marauna (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes) using X-ray microcomputed tomography. PlosOne, 14: 0225342.
2016
· Crampton W. G. R., de Santana C. D., Waddell J. C., & Lovejoy N. R. The Neotropical electric fish genus Brachyhypopomus (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae): taxonomy and biology, with descriptions of 15 new species. Neotropical Ichthyology, 14: 639-790.
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· Crampton W. G. R., de Santana C. D.,Waddell J. C., & Lovejoy N. R. Phylogenetic Systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology of the Electric Fish Genus Brachyhypopomus (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes). PlosOne: 11 (10), e0161680.
2015
· Dutra M. G., Jerep F., Vari R. P., & de Santana C. D*. The pseudotympanum in the Gymnotiformes (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Otophysi): homology and evolution of a previously unexplored system in Neotropical electric fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: 1-16. *Corresponding Author.
2013
· de Santana C. D., Vari R. P., & Wosiacki W. The untold story of the caudal skeleton in the Electric Eel (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Electrophorus). Plos One, 8: e68719.
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· de Santana C. D. & Vari R. P. 2013. Brown ghost electric fishes of the Apteronotus leptorhynchus species-group (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); monophyly, major clades and revision. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168: 564-596.
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2012
· Vari R. P.*, de Santana C. D.*, & Wosiacki W. South American electric knifefishes of the genus Archolaemus (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); Undetected diversity in a clade of rheophiles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 165: 670-699. *Equal contribution.
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2011
· de Santana C. D. & Crampton W. G. R. Phylogenetic interrelationships, taxonomy and reductive evolution in the Neotropical electric fish genus Hypopygus (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 163: 1096-1156.
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2010
· de Santana C. D. & Vari R. P. Electric fishes of the genus Sternarchorhynchus (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); phylogenetic and revisionary studies. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 159: 223-371.
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· de Santana C. D. & Crampton W. G. R. A review of the South American electric fish genus Porotergus (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) with the description of a new species. Copeia, 2010: 165-175.
2009
de Santana C. D., Vari R. P. The South American electric fish genus Platyurosternarchus (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Copeia, 2009: 233-244.
​2007
· Turner C. R., Detylo M., de Santana C. D., Alves-Gomes J., & Smith G. T. Phylogenetic comparative analysis of electric communication signals in ghost knifefishes (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology, 210: 4104-4122.
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· de Santana C. D., Crampton W. G. R. Revision of the deep-channel electric fish genus Sternarchogiton (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Copeia, 2007: 387-402.