Axel Makay Katz

Axel Makay Katz, Brazilian ichthyologist.

Laboratório de Sistemática e Evolução de Peixes Teleósteos, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Barbosa, M.A. & Katz, A.M. 2016. A New Species of the Catfish Genus Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Paranaíba Basin, Central Brazil. Vertebrate Zoology 66(3): 261–265. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

de Brito, P.S., Guimarães, E.C., Katz, A.M., Piorski, N.M. & Ottoni, F.P. 2018. Taxonomic status of Aphyocharax avary Fowler, 1913, Aphyocharax pusillus Günther, 1868 and Chirodon alburnus Günther, 1869 (Characiformes, Characidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 393–399. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.28201 Reference page.
Katz, A.M., Barbosa, M.A., Mattos, J.L. de O. & da Costa, W.J.E.M. 2018. Multigene analysis of the catfish genus Trichomycterus and description of a new South American trichomycterine genus (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 557–566. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.29872 Reference page.

Ottoni, F.P., Mattos, J.L.O., Katz, A.M. & Bragança, P.H.N. 2019. Phylogeny and species delimitation based on molecular approaches on the species of the Australoheros autrani group (Teleostei, Cichlidae), with biogeographic comments. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95: 49–64. DOI: 10.3897/zse.95.31658 Reference page.

Costa, W.J.E.M., Feltrin, C.R.M., Katz, A.M. 2020. A new species from subtropical Brazil and evidence of multiple pelvic fin losses in catfishes of the genus Cambeva (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 90(2): 133–146. DOI: 10.3897/zse.96.56247 Reference page.
Costa, W.J.E.M., Henschel, E. & Katz, A.M. 2020. Multigene phylogeny reveals convergent evolution in small interstitial catfishes from the Amazon and Atlantic forests (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Zoologica Scripta 49(2): 159–173. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12403 Reference page.

Costa, W.J.E.M., Feltrin, C.R.M., Katz, A.M. 2021. Filling distribution gaps: Two new species of the catfish genus Cambeva from southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97(1): 147-159. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.61006 Reference page.
Costa, W.J.E.M. & Katz, A.M. 2021. Comparative Morphology, Phylogeny, Classification and Evolution of Interstitial Habits in Microcambevine Catfishes (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Taxonomy. 1(4): 313–344. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy1040025 . Reference page.

Costa, W.J.E.M., Sampaio, W.M.S., Giongo, P., Almeida, F.B., Azevedo-Santos, V.M. & Katz, A.M. 2022. An enigmatic interstitial trichomycterine catfish from south-eastern Brazil found at about 1000 km away from its sister group (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 297: 85–96. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2022.02.007 Reference page.
Costa, W.J.E.M., Mattos, J.L.O., Sampaio, W.M.S., Giongo, P., Almeida, F.B.de, Katz, A.M. 2022. Phylogenetic relationships of a new catfish of the genus Trichomycterus (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from the Brazilian Cerrado, and the role of Cenozoic events in the diversification of mountain catfishes. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 98(1): 151–164. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.83109 Reference page.
Deprá, G.deC., Aguilera, G., Faustino-Fuster, D.R., Katz, A.M., Azevedo-Santos, V.M. 2022. Redefinition of Heptapterus (Heptapteridae) and description of Heptapterus carmelitanorum, a new species from the upper Paraná River basin in Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 98(2): 327–343. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.89413 Reference page.
Costa, W.J.E.M., Mattos, J.L.O., Vilardo, P.J., Amorim, P.F., Katz, A.M. 2022. Perils of Underestimating Species Diversity: Revisiting Systematics of Psammocambeva Catfishes (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Rio Paraíba do Sul Basin, South-Eastern Brazil. Taxonomy 2(4): 491–523. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy2040032 . Reference page.

Costa, W.J.E.M., Feltrin, C.R.M., Mattos, J.L.O., Katz, A.M. 2024. Monophyly or Homoplasy? The Relationships of a Rare New Species of Cambeva (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest with a Bicolored Caudal Pattern. Taxonomy 4(2): 341–353. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy4020017 . Reference page.