Luiz Antônio Wanderley Peixoto

Luiz Antônio Wanderley Peixoto, ichthyologist.

• Programa de Pesquisa em Pós-graduação em Zoologia do convênio Universidade Federal do Pará e Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Caixa Postal 399, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil;
• E-mail: luizwp@yahoo.com.br

Taxon names authored

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• 9 taxon names authored by Luiz Antônio Wanderley Peixoto

Publications

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2015

• Peixoto, L.A.W., Dutra, G.M. & Wosiacki, W.B. 2015. The Electric Glass Knifefishes of the Eigenmannia trilineata species-group (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae): monophyly and description of seven new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2): 384–414. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12274 Reference page. 

2016

• Mendonça, M.B., Peixoto, L.A.W., Dutra, G.M. & Netto-Ferreira, A.L. (2016): A new miniature of Xenurobryconini (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio Tapajós basin, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 14(1): e150057. DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20150057 Reference page. 
• Peixoto, L.A.W. & Wosiacki, W.B. 2016. Eigenmannia besouro, a new species of the Eigenmannia trilineata species-group (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from the rio São Francisco basin, northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4126(2): 262–270. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.6 Reference page. 

2018

• Dutra, G.M., Peixoto, L.A.W., de Santana, C.D. & Wosiacki, W.B. 2018. A new species of Eigenmannia Jordan & Evermann (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from Río Ventuari, Venezuela. Zootaxa 4422(1): 132–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.8 Reference page. 

2019

• de Santana, C.D., Crampton, W.G.R., Dillman, C.B., Frederico, R.G., Sabaj, M.H., Covain, R., Ready, J.S., Zuanon, J.A.S., Oliveira, R.R. de, Mendes-Júnior, R.N., Bastos, D.A., Teixeira, T. F., Mol, J.H., Ohara, W.M., Castro e Castro, N., Peixoto, L.A.W., Nagamachi, C., Sousa, L.M., Montag, L.F.A., Ribeiro, F.R.V., Waddell, J.C., Piorsky, N.M., Vari, R.P. & Wosiacki, W.B. 2019. Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator. Nature communications 10: 4000. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11690-z Reference page.