Raphaël Covain

Raphaël Covain (born 1975), French ichthyologist.

• Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève, Département d’herpétologie et d’ichtyologie, Route de Malagnou 1, 1208 Genève, Switzerland.

Taxon names authored

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• 16 taxon names authored by Raphaël Covain

Publications

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2006

• Covain, R., Le Bail, P.-Y., Sagnes, P. & Fisch-Muller, S. 2006. Les espèces du genre Harttia (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) en Guyane française: morphologie, taxinomie et distribution. Cybium Vol. 30 (no. 1): 3–18. DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2006-301-001 Reference page. 

2012

• Fisch-Muller, S., Montoya-Burgos, J.I., Le Bail, P.Y. & Covain, R. 2012. Diversity of the Ancistrini (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Guianas: the Panaque group, a molecular appraisal with descriptions of new species. Cybium 36(1): 163–193. Reference page. 

2015

• Covain, R., Fisch-Muller, S., Oliveira, C., Mol, J.H., Montoya-Burgos, J.I. & Dray, S. 2015. Molecular phylogeny of the highly diversified catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) reveals incongruences with morphological classification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94 (Pt. B): 492–517. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.018 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2016

• Cardoso, Y.P., Brancolini, F., Paracampo, A., Lizarralde, M., Covain, R. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I. 2016. Hypostomus formosae, a new catfish species from the Paraguay River Basin with redescription of H. boulengeri (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 27(1): 9–23. PDF. Reference page. 

2017

• Silva, G. de S. da C., Covain, R., Oliveira, C. & Roxo, F.F. 2017. Description of two new species of Lithoxus (Hypostominae: Loricariidae) from rio Jari and rio Amapá basins, Brazilian Guiana Shield. Zootaxa 4347(1): 151–168. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.9. 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.