Gustavo A. Ballen

Gustavo A. Ballen, ichthyologist.

• Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
• Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Panamá.
• Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.

Taxon names authored

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• 2 taxon names authored by Gustavo A. Ballen

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2012

• Ballen, G.A. & Vari, R. P. 2012. Review of the Andean armored catfishes of the genus Dolichancistrus Isbrücker (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Neotropical Ichthyology 10(3): 499–518. (PDF) Reference page. 

2014

• Ballen, G.A. & Mojica, J.I. 2014. A new trans-Andean stick catfish of the genus Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with the first record of the genus for the río Magdalena Basin in Colombia. Zootaxa 3765(2): 134–142. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.2 Reference page. 

2016

• Ballen, G.A., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. 2016. Description of a new species of the genus Chaetostoma from the Orinoco River drainage with comments on Chaetostoma milesi Fowler, 1941 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Zootaxa 4105(2): 181–197. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.2.6. Reference page. 

2018

• Urbano-Bonilla, A., Ballen, G.A., Herrera-R., G.A., Zamudio, J., Herrera-Collazos, E.E., DoNascimiento, C., Prada-Pedreros, S. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. 2018. Fishes of the Cusiana River (Meta River basin, Colombia), with a key to its species. ZooKeys 733: 65–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.733.20159. Reference page. 

2019

• Ballen, G.A. 2019. Nomenclature of the Sphyraenidae (Teleostei: Carangaria): A synthesis of fossil- and extant-based classification systems. Zootaxa 4686(3): 397–408. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.3.5 Reference page.