Keyword

Characiformes

Description: An order of ray-finned freshwater fishes, including many species native to rivers and lakes in the Americas and Africa.

Primary topic: Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (53%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q217458

OpenAlex ID: keywords/characiformes

Patterns of variation in life history among South American fishes in seasonal environments

1989 · Kirk O. Winemiller · Oecologia · 654

Interrelationships of the ostariophysan fishes (Teleostei)

1981 · SARA V. FINK, WILLIAM L. FINK · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 635

Global diversity of fish (Pisces) in freshwater

2007 · C. Lévêque, T. Oberdorff, et al. · Hydrobiologia · 519

Continuous and Arrested Morphological Diversification in Sister Clades of Characiform Fishes: a Phylomorphospace Approach

2008 · Brian Sidlauskas · Evolution · 456

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Phylogeny of the family Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes): from characters to taxonomy

2010 · Juan Marcos Mirande · Neotropical Ichthyology · 379

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Molecular Systematics of Fishes

1998 · Rob Wood, Thomas D. Kocher, et al. · Copeia · 377

Characoids of the world

1977 · J Géry · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 377

Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling

2011 · Claudio Oliveira, Gleisy S Avelino, et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 362

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The so-called cheirodontin fishes of Central America with descriptions of two new species (Pisces: Characidae)

1974 · William L. Fink, Stanley H. Weitzman · Smithsonian contributions to zoology · 351

Can DNA barcoding accurately discriminate megadiverse Neotropical freshwater fish fauna?

2013 · Luiz HG Pereira, Robert Hanner, et al. · BMC Genetics · 330

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Weighted parsimony phylogeny of the family Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes)

2009 · J. Marcos Mirande · Cladistics · 321

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Historical biogeography of South American freshwater fishes

2006 · Nicolas Hubert, Jean‐François Renno · Journal of Biogeography · 321

Geographical Distribution of Central American Freshwater Fishes

1966 · Robert Rush Miller · Copeia · 308

Genera Incertae sedis in Characidae

2003 · Flávio C. T. Lima, Luiz Roberto Malabarba, et al. · 256

Niche partitioning among frugivorous fishes in response to fluctuating resources in the Amazonian floodplain forest

2013 · Sandra Bibiana Correa, Kirk O. Winemiller · Ecology · 245

Energy Sources for Detritivorous Fishes in the Amazon

1986 · Carlos A. R. M. Araujo-Lima, Bruce R. Forsberg, et al. · Science · 243

Relationships among characiform fishes inferred from analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences

2005 · Daniela Calcagnotto, Scott A. Schaefer, et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 225

The Systematics and Evolution of the Moinidae

1968 · Clyde E. Goulden · Transactions of the American Philosophical Society · 223

Evolutionary history of Otophysi (Teleostei), a major clade of the modern freshwater fishes: Pangaean origin and Mesozoic radiation

2011 · Masanori Nakatani, Masaki Miya, et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 220

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Intestine length in the fishes of a tropical stream: 2. Relationships to diet — the long and short of a convoluted issue

1995 · Donald L. Kramer, Michael J. Bryant · Environmental Biology of Fishes · 216

Miniaturization in South American freshwater fishes; an overview and discussion

1988 · Weitzman, Stanley H., Vari, Richard P. · Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) · 213

Structure and function in the catfish

1966 · R. McN. Alexander · Journal of Zoology · 207

The Radiation of Characiform Fishes and the Limits of Resolution of Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA Sequences

1997 · Guillermo Ortí, Axel Meyer · Systematic Biology · 200

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Mitochondrial Genomics of Ostariophysan Fishes: Perspectives on Phylogeny and Biogeography

2003 · Kenji Saitoh, Masaki Miya, et al. · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 198

A massive invasion of fish species after eliminating a natural barrier in the upper rio Paraná basin

2009 · Horácio Ferreira Júlio Júnior, Claudenice Dei Tós, et al. · Neotropical Ichthyology · 184

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Citation count: 34,600