Curriculum Vitae and Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Tiago Pinto Carvalho
Department of Biology University of Louisiana at Lafayette P.O. Box 42451, Lafayette, LA 70504 Email: tiagobio2002@yahoo.com.br
Current Position.
Graduate student (Ph.D.), August 2008- present. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. NSF research assistantship. Advisor: Dr. James Albert.
Education History
Undergraduate - Biological Sciences at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2002-2005.
Graduate - Master in Zoology at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2006-2008.(CNPq shoolarship)
Refereed Publications and Book Chapters:
Carvalho, T. P., S. June Tang, Julia I. Fredieu, Roberto Quispe, Isabel Corahua, Hernana Ortega, James S. Albert. 2009. Lists of Species: Fishes from the upper Yuruá, Amazon Basin, Peru.
Carvalho, T. P. and Reis, R. E.. 2009. Four new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Uruguay, southeastern South America, with a review of the genus in the rio Uruguay basin. Zootaxa 2113, 1-40.
Carvalho, T. P., A. Lehmann, and R. E. Reis 2008. Gymnotocinclus anosteos, a new uniquely-plated genus and species of loricariid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from the upper rio Tocantins basin, central Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 6:329-338.
Carvalho, T. P. 2008. A new species of Corumbataia (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from upper Rio Tocantins basin, central Brazil. Copeia 2008: 552-557.
Carvalho, T. P., P. A. Lehmann, E. H. L. Pereira, and R. E. Reis. 2008. A new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the Laguna dos Patos basin, southern Brazil. Copeia 2008:510-516.
Buhrheim, C. M., Carvalho, T. P., Malabarba, L. R., and Weitzmann, S. H. 2008. A new genus and species of characid fish from the Amazon basin - the recognition of a relictual lineage of characid fishes. Neotropical Ichthyology 6, 663-678.
Carvalho, T. P. 2007. Distributional patterns of freshwater fishes in coastal atlantic drainages of eastern Brazil: a preliminary study applying parsimony analysis of endemism. Darwiniana 45:65-67. In: Reunion Argentina de Cladistica y Biogeografia. San Isidro.
Reis R. E. and T. P. Carvalho. 2007. Hypoptopomatinae, p. 83-84. In: Catalogo das especies de peixes de agua doce do Brasil. P. A. Buckup, N. A. Menezes and M. S. Ghazzi (eds.). Museu Nacional (Serie Livros), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Carvalho, T. P. and V. A. Bertaco, 2006. Two new species of Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characidae) from upper rio Tapajos basin on Chapada dos Parecis, Central Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 4:301-308.
Bertaco, V. A. and T. P. Carvalho, 2005. New characid fish, Hemigrammus skolioplatus (Characiformes: Characidae) from upper rio Tapajos drainage, Central Brazil. ComunicacSes do Museu de Ciencias e Tecnologia da PUCRS, Serie zoologia 18:141-150.
Bertaco, V. A. and T. P. Carvalho, 2005. A new characid fish, Hyphessobrycon hexastichos (Characiformes: Characidae) from Chapada dos Parecis, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 3:439-443.
Abstract presented in meetings: Oral.
Historical biogeography of neotropical freshwaters using brooks parsimony analysis supports neogene fragmentation of the sub-andean foreland basin. In: Encocntro Brasileiro de Ictiologia 2009. Cuiaba.
Taxonomic review of the species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Uruguay Basin and the Laguna dos Patos System. In: Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists., 2008, Montreal.
Uma nova especie de Spintherobolus (Teleostei: Characidae: Cheirodontinae) da bacia Amazonica. In: VI Sal5o de Iniciacao Cientifica da PUCRS. Porto Alegre. (Best presentation prize awarded).
Received Grants
All Catfish Species Inventory (NSF DEB #0315963). Description of four new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from rio Uruguay basin and laguna dos Patos system in Southern Brazil and redescription of three species.
Deep Fin student exchange program. (NSF). Osteology of the monotypic Iracema caiana (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Rhamphichthyidae) using high resolution X-ray computed tomography.
Complete curriculum vitae (Lattes) can be accessed at:http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4776903Z1