Francisca Cunha Almeida

Francisca Cunha Almeida, Brazilian evolutionary biologist.

• Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires – CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (2014–)
• Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona, Spain. (2009–2012)
• Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

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• 9 taxon names authored by Francisca Cunha Almeida

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2005

• Gonçalves, P.R., Almeida, F.C. & Bonvicino, C.R. 2005. A new species of Wiedomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Brazilian Cerrado. Mammalian Biology 70(1): 46–60. DOI: 10.1078/1616-5047-00175 Reference page. 

2006

• Giannni, N.P., Almeida, F.C., Simmons, N.B. & DeSalle, R. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic harpy fruit bat, Harpyionycteris (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). American Museum Novitates 3533: 1–12. hdl: 2246/5811 Reference page. 

2008

• Giannini, N.P., Almeida, F.C., Simmons, N.B. & Helgen, K.M. 2008. The systematic position of Pteropus leucopterus and its bearing on the monophyly and relationships of Pteropus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Acta Chiropterologica 10(1): 11–20. DOI: 10.3161/150811008X331054 Reference page. 

2009

• Giannini, N.P., Almeida, F.C. & Simmons, N.B. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of harpyionycterine mega-bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331: 183–205. hdl: 2246/6035 Reference page. 
• Almeida, F.C., Giannini, N.P., DeSalle, R. & Simmons, N.B. 2009. The phylogenetic relationships of cynopterine fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Cynopterinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53(3): 772–783. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.035 Reference page. 

2011

• Almeida, F.C., Giannini, N.P., DeSalle, R. & Simmons, N.B. 2011. Evolutionary relationships of the old world fruit bats (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae): Another star phylogeny? BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 1–17. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-281 Reference page. 

2014

• Almeida, F.C., Giannini, N.P., Simmons, N.B. & Helgen, K.M. 2014. Each flying fox on its own branch: A phylogenetic tree for Pteropus and related genera (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 83–95. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.009 Reference page. 

2016

• Almeida, F.C., Giannni, N.P. & Simmons, N.B. 2016. The Evolutionary History of the African Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Acta Chiropterologica 18(1): 73–108. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.003 Reference page. 

2018

• Amador, L.I., Arévalo-Moyers, R.L., Almeida, F.C., Catalano, S.A. & Giannni, N.P. 2018. Bat systematics in the light of unconstrained analyses of a comprehensive molecular supermatrix. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 25: 37–70. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-016-9363-8 Reference page. 

2020

• Almeida, F.C., Simmons, N.B. & Giannni, N.P. 2020. A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae. American Museum Novitates 3950: 24 pp. hdl: 2246/7111 BHL Reference page.