Luiz A. Rocha

Luiz A. Rocha, U.S. ichthyologist.

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, United States of America.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Weaver D.C. & Rocha, L.A. 2007. A New Species of Halichoeres (Teleostei: Labridae) from the Western Gulf of Mexico. Copeia 2007(4): 798–807. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[798:ANSOHT]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR, ResearchGate Reference page.
Wirtz, P., Ferreira, C.E.L., Floeter, S.R., Fricke, R., Gasparini, J.L. Iwamoto, T., Rocha, L.A., Sampaio, C.L.S. & Schliewen, U. 2007. Coastal fishes of São Tomé and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (eastern Atlantic Ocean) – an update. Zootaxa 1523: 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1523.1.1 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

Fernandez-Silva, I., Randall, J.E., Coleman, R.R., DiBattista, J.D., Rocha, L.A., Reimer, J.D., Meyer, C.G. & Bowen, B.W. 2015. Yellow tails in the Red Sea: phylogeography of the Indo-Pacific goatfish Mulloidichthys flavolineatus reveals isolation in peripheral provinces and cryptic evolutionary lineages. Journal of Biogeography 42: 2402–2413. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12598 Reference page.

Anderson, W.D. Jr., Greene, B.D. & Rocha, L.A. 2016. Grammatonotus brianne, a new callanthiid fish from Philippine waters, with short accounts of two other Grammatonotus from the Coral Triangle. Zootaxa 4173(3): 289–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.3.7. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Pinheiro, H.T., Bernardi, G. & Rocha, L.A. 2016. Pempheris gasparinii, a new species of sweeper fish from Trindade Island, southwestern Atlantic (Teleostei, Pempheridae). ZooKeys 561: 105–115. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.561.7263.Reference page.
Coleman, R.R., Eble, J.A., DiBattista, J.D., Rocha, L.A., Randall, J.E., Berumen, M.L. & Bowen, B.W. 2016. Regal phylogeography: Range-wide survey of the marine angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus reveals evolutionary partitions between the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 243–253. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.005 Reference page.
DiBattista, J.D., Whitney, J., Craig, M.T., Hobbs, J.-P.A., Rocha, L.A., Feldheim, K.A., Berumen, M.L. & Bowen, B.W. 2016. Surgeons and suture zones: Hybridization among four surgeonfish species in the Indo-Pacific with variable evolutionary outcomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 101: 203–215. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.036 Reference page.

Rocha, L.A., Pinheiro, H.T., Wandell, M., Rocha, C.R. & Shepherd, B. 2017. Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. ZooKeys 709: 127–134. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.709.20404. Reference page.

Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C. & Rocha, L.A. 2018. Tosanoides aphrodite, a new species from mesophotic coral ecosystems of St. Paul’s Rocks, Mid Atlantic Ridge (Perciformes, Serranidae, Anthiadinae). ZooKeys 786: 105–115. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.786.27382 Reference page.
Shepherd, B., Phelps, T., Pinheiro, H.T., Pérez-Matus, A. & Rocha, L.A. 2018. Plectranthias ahiahiata, a new species of perchlet from a mesophotic ecosystem at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae). ZooKeys 762: 105–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.762.24618 Reference page.

Arango, B.G., Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C., Greene, B.D., Pyle, R.L., Copus, J.M., Shepherd, B. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. Zookeys, 835: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.835.27528 Reference page.
Pinheiro, H.T., Shepherd, B., Greene, B.D. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Liopropoma incandescens sp. nov. (Epinephelidae, Liopropominae), a new species of basslet from mesophotic coral ecosystems of Pohnpei, Micronesia. Zookeys, 863: 97–106. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.863.33778 Reference page.
Tea, Y-K., Pinheiro, H.T., Shepherd, B. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Cirrhilabrus wakanda, a new species of fairy wrasse from mesophotic ecosystems of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa (Teleostei, Labridae). Zookeys, 863: 85–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.863.35580 Reference page.

McFarland, E.P., Baldwin, C.C., Robertson, D.R., Rocha, L.A. & Tornabene, L. 2020. A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae). ZooKeys, 1008: 107–138. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1008.58805 Reference page.
Shepherd, B., Phelps, T.A.Y., Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C.R. & Rocha, L.A. 2020. Two new species of Plectranthias (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems in the tropical Central Pacific. ZooKeys, 941: 145–161. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.941.50243 Reference page.
Tea, Y.-K., Pyle, R.L. & Rocha, L.A. 2020. A New Species of Fairy Wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae: Cirrhilabrus) from Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of the Verde Island Passage, Philippiness. Copeia 108(1) 91–102. DOI: 10.1643/CI-19-297 Online with link to PDF. Reference page.

Shepherd, B., Pinheiro, H.T., Phelps, T.A.Y., Pérez-Matus, A. & Rocha, L.A. 2021. Pseudanthias hangapiko, a new anthiadine serranid (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from Rapa Nui (Easter Island). 2021. ZooKeys 1054: 1–13. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1054.64508 Reference page.

Tea, Y-K., Najeeb, A., Rowlett, J. & Rocha, L.A. 2022. Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa (Teleostei, Labridae), a new species of fairy wrasse from the Maldives, with comments on the taxonomic identity of C. rubrisquamis and C. wakanda. ZooKeys 1088ː 65–80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1088.78139 Reference page.