Naércio Aquino de Menezes

Naércio Aquino de Menezes (born 1937) is a Brazilian ichthyologist and university professor.

Career

Naércio Aquino de Menezes graduated in 1962 with a degree in Natural History from the University of São Paulo (USP) and earned his doctorate in Biology in 1968 at Harvard University.

He is a full professor in the Department of Zoology at the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo and serves as a senior researcher and lecturer at the same university, also teaching at the Museum of Zoology (Ichthyology Laboratory) of the University of São Paulo.

Menezes is a specialist in zoology, focusing on systematics, biogeography, and evolution of fishes, particularly the marine fish species of the Brazilian coast and Neotropical freshwater fishes.

He is a member of the Brazilian Society of Ichthyology.

Together with his colleague Mário César Cardoso de Pinna, he described the new species Pristigaster whiteheadi.

Described taxa (selection)

• Acestrorhynchus grandoculis
• Acestrorhynchus isalineae
• Amphiarius
• Carlarius
• Chrysobrycon
• Knodus nuptialis
• Mimagoniates rheocharis
• Mimagoniates sylvicola
• Mugil margaritae
• Oligosarcus varii
• Pristigaster whiteheadi

Selected publications

• Menezes, N. A. & Weitzman, S. H. (1990): "Two new species of Mimagoniates (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae), their phylogeny and biogeography and a key to the glandulocaudin fishes of Brazil and Paraguay". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(2): 380–426.
• Menezes, N. A. & Weitzman, S. H. (2009): "Systematics of the Neotropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)". Neotropical Ichthyology 7 (3): 295–370. (Abstract).
• Arcila, D., Vari, R. P. & Menezes, N. A. (2014): "Revision of the Neotropical Genus Acrobrycon (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae) with Description of Two New Species". Copeia 2013 (4) [2014]: 604–611.
• Loeb, M. V. & Menezes, N. A. (2015): "Taxonomic status of Engraulis nattereri Steindachner, 1880 (Osteichthyes: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae)". Zootaxa 3941 (2): 299–300.
• Menezes, N. A., Nirchio, M., De Oliveira, C. & Siccharamirez, R. (2015): "Taxonomic review of the species of Mugil (Teleostei: Perciformes: Mugilidae) from the Atlantic South Caribbean and South America, with integration of morphological, cytogenetic and molecular data". Zootaxa 3918 (1): 1–38. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.1.1
• Menezes, N. A., Zanata, A. M. & Camelier, P. (2015): "Nematocharax costai Bragança, Barbosa & Mattos a junior synonym of Nematocharax venustus Weitzman, Menezes & Britski (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)". Zootaxa 3920 (3): 453–462.
• Ribeiro, A. C. & Menezes, N. A. (2015): "Phylogenetic relationships of the species and biogeography of the characid genus Oligosarcus Günther, 1864 (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Characidae)". Zootaxa 3949 (1): 41–81.
• Menezes, N. A. & Ribeiro, A. C. (2015): "A new species of the lowland Oligosarcus Günther species group (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characidae)". Neotropical Ichthyology 13 (3): 541–546.
• Ferreira, K. M., de Faria, E., Ribeiro, A. C., Santana, J. C. O., Quagio-Grassioto, I. & Menezes, N. A. (2018): "Gephyrocharax machadoi, a new species of Stevardiinae (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Rio Paraguai basin, central Brazil". Zootaxa 4415 (1): 161–172.
• Menezes, N. A. & Marinho, M. M. F. (2019): "A new species of Knodus Eigenmann (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) with comments on nuptial tubercles and gill gland in characiform fishes". PLoS ONE 14 (7): e0217915.

Author abbreviation

The abbreviation Menezes is used to indicate Naércio Aquino de Menezes as the authority for species descriptions and taxonomy in zoology.

References

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