Valter Monteiro de Azevedo-Santos

Valter Monteiro de Azevedo-Santos (born 1989), Brazilian ichthyologist.

Author abbreviation: Azevedo-Santos

E-mail: valter.ecologia@gmail.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Azevedo-Santos, V.M., Rigolin-Sá, O. & Pelicice, F.M. 2011. Growing, losing or introducing? Cage aquaculture as a vector for the introduction of non-native fish in Furnas Reservoir, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Neotropical ichthyology 9(4): 915–919.

Barbosa, M.A. & Azevedo-Santos, V.M. 2012. A new species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the rio Paraná basin, southeastern Brazil. Vertebrate zoology 62(3): 357–362.

Azevedo-Santos, V.M. & Roxo, F.F. 2015. A new species of the genus Pareiorhina (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3937(2): 377–385. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.8 Reference page.

Azevedo-Santos, V.M. & Benine, R.C. 2016. A new species of Moenkhausia (Characiformes, Characidae) from the Içá River, Amazon Basin, northern Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(2): 203–209. DOI: 10.3897/zse.92.10049 Reference page.
Petrolli, M.G., Azevedo-Santos, V.M. & Benine, R.C. 2016. Moenkhausia venerei (Characiformes: Characidae), a new species from the rio Araguaia, Central Brazil. Zootaxa 4105(2): 159–170. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.2.4 Reference page.

Soares, I.M., de Azevedo-Santos, V.M. & Benine, R.C. 2017. Redescription of Moenkhausia megalops (Eigenmann, 1907), a widespread tetra from the Amazon basin (Characiformes, Characidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(2): 255–264. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.10837 Reference page.

Thomson, S.A., Pyle, R.L., Ahyong, S.T., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Ammirati, J., Araya, J.F., et al. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLOS Biology 16(3): e2005075. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 Reference page.
Deprá, G.C., Azevedo-Santos, V.M., Vitorino Júnior, O.B., Dagosta, F.C.P., Marinho, M.M.F. & Benine, R.C. 2018. Moenkhausia goya (Characiformes: Characidae): a new species from the upper rio Tocantins basin, Central Brazil. Zootaxa 4514(1): 87–96. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.7 Reference page.

Rheindt, F.E., Ahyong, S.T., Azevedo-Santos, V.M., Bertling, M., Bouchard, P., Evenhuis, N., Harvey, M., Irham, M., Krell, F.T., Pape, T., Peterson, A.T., Prawiradilaga, D.M., Pyle, R.L., Rasmussen, P., Welter-Schultes, F. & Winker, K. 2021. Response to O’Connell et al. (2020): There are multiple ways to adapt taxonomy to conservation goals. Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 249–251.

Azevedo-Santos, V.M., Rodrigues-Filho, J.L., Fearnside, P.M., Lovejoy, T.E. & Brito, M.F.G. 2021. Conservation of Brazilian freshwater biodiversity: Thinking about the next 10 years and beyond. Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 235–241.

Costa, W.J.E.M., Sampaio, W.M.S., Giongo, P., Almeida, F.B., Azevedo-Santos, V.M. & Katz, A.M. 2022. An enigmatic interstitial trichomycterine catfish from south-eastern Brazil found at about 1000 km away from its sister group (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 297: 85–96. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2022.02.007 Reference page.
Deprá, G.deC., Aguilera, G., Faustino-Fuster, D.R., Katz, A.M., Azevedo-Santos, V.M. 2022. Redefinition of Heptapterus (Heptapteridae) and description of Heptapterus carmelitanorum, a new species from the upper Paraná River basin in Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 98(2): 327–343. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.89413 Reference page.