Luis M. da Costa 🐟
@ldacosta.bsky.social
Ichthyology, Systematics, Taxonomy, African freshwater fishes at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Tervuren, Belgium)
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Freshwater fish community assessment using eDNA metabarcoding vs. capture-based methods: Differences in efficiency and resolution coupled to habitat and ecology
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has revolutionized ecological and environmental research by describing communities without relying on direct ob…
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March 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Free download for 50 days to everyone, don't miss out!
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A wonderful collaboration with friend Andre Padial and other Brazilian colleagues. We explored changes in biogeographic patterns in global fish diversity caused by the spread of non-native species, teasing apart the geographic and taxonomic drivers of change.
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Non-native species drive the global loss of freshwater fish beta-diversity
Freshwater ecosystems are facing mounting challenges. The widespread introduction of non-native species, for example, has resulted in the loss of native species and the substantial reconfiguration of ...
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February 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A wonderful collaboration with friend Andre Padial and other Brazilian colleagues. We explored changes in biogeographic patterns in global fish diversity caused by the spread of non-native species, teasing apart the geographic and taxonomic drivers of change.
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1266...
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1266...
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Another new cavefish just dropped!
Barbodes klapanunggalensis, a new species of blind subterranean fish (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) from Klapanunggal karst area, West Java, Indonesia, with notes on its conservation
Wibowo et al. 2025
HT Daniel Lumbantobing
Barbodes klapanunggalensis, a new species of blind subterranean fish (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) from Klapanunggal karst area, West Java, Indonesia, with notes on its conservation
Wibowo et al. 2025
HT Daniel Lumbantobing
February 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Another new cavefish just dropped!
Barbodes klapanunggalensis, a new species of blind subterranean fish (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) from Klapanunggal karst area, West Java, Indonesia, with notes on its conservation
Wibowo et al. 2025
HT Daniel Lumbantobing
Barbodes klapanunggalensis, a new species of blind subterranean fish (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) from Klapanunggal karst area, West Java, Indonesia, with notes on its conservation
Wibowo et al. 2025
HT Daniel Lumbantobing
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A new species of the rib-degenerated loach, genus Protocobitis (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae), from Guangxi, China
Qin et al. 2025 ZooKeys
Always love seeing new weird cavefishes: this one was found in a polluted habitat in China.
HT @thegarfather.bsky.social
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/131341
Qin et al. 2025 ZooKeys
Always love seeing new weird cavefishes: this one was found in a polluted habitat in China.
HT @thegarfather.bsky.social
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/131341
February 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A new species of the rib-degenerated loach, genus Protocobitis (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae), from Guangxi, China
Qin et al. 2025 ZooKeys
Always love seeing new weird cavefishes: this one was found in a polluted habitat in China.
HT @thegarfather.bsky.social
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/131341
Qin et al. 2025 ZooKeys
Always love seeing new weird cavefishes: this one was found in a polluted habitat in China.
HT @thegarfather.bsky.social
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/131341
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🔗 to paper, for those finterested: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #killifish
January 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🔗 to paper, for those finterested: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #killifish
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A reminder: If you hear about an earthquake and want to know more about the seismotectonics of an area, you can check our interactive map to see if we've written about it! Faster than waiting for the newest post.
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December 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
A reminder: If you hear about an earthquake and want to know more about the seismotectonics of an area, you can check our interactive map to see if we've written about it! Faster than waiting for the newest post.
kyleedwardbradley.github.io/earthquake_i...
kyleedwardbradley.github.io/earthquake_i...
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Led by the Iroro Tanshi for the @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social
Announcing a special issue in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society titled:
"Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South"
I am a guest editor, learn more below...
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Announcing a special issue in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society titled:
"Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South"
I am a guest editor, learn more below...
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Mobilizing Natural History Collections in the Global South
Abstract Natural History Collections (NHCs) are vital repositories of information about Earth's history, underpinning key developments in biological thought fr
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December 3, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Led by the Iroro Tanshi for the @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social
Announcing a special issue in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society titled:
"Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South"
I am a guest editor, learn more below...
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
Announcing a special issue in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society titled:
"Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South"
I am a guest editor, learn more below...
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
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Our latest paper on European catfish #silurus in Portugal. We looked at environmental influence on depth occupation and activity patterns of this invasive fish and at its burst movements (proxy of predatory behaviour) with the usage of Hurdle models. #MARE
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Behaviour of the Apex Predator European Catfish (Silurus glanis) on a Recently Invaded Reservoir
The European catfish (Silurus glanis L.) is a large, non-native, invasive freshwater species known for its high fecundity, long lifespan and significant predatory potential, possibly threatening nati...
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December 2, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Our latest paper on European catfish #silurus in Portugal. We looked at environmental influence on depth occupation and activity patterns of this invasive fish and at its burst movements (proxy of predatory behaviour) with the usage of Hurdle models. #MARE
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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November 28, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Congratulations to my former student Pedro Brandão that perservered to get his MSc thesis published after a couple of years of back and forth with journals: "Trends in fish diversity in Portuguese estuaries in the past decades and predictions in face of global changes" doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
November 25, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Congratulations to my former student Pedro Brandão that perservered to get his MSc thesis published after a couple of years of back and forth with journals: "Trends in fish diversity in Portuguese estuaries in the past decades and predictions in face of global changes" doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
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THE INFLATABLE #blenny
Triplespot blenny (Crossosalarias macrospilus)
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Triplespot blenny (Crossosalarias macrospilus)
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November 19, 2024 at 4:16 PM
THE INFLATABLE #blenny
Triplespot blenny (Crossosalarias macrospilus)
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Triplespot blenny (Crossosalarias macrospilus)
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The @ipbes.bsky.social IAS assessment provides unequivocal evidence of the growing threat of invasive alien species alongside ambitious but realistic approaches to manage biological invasions. 🧪🌍
Now published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective highlights the global consensus on the urgency and growing threat of invasive alien species, and management needs, as found by the 2023 report on invasive alien species conducted by t...
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June 12, 2024 at 7:56 AM
The @ipbes.bsky.social IAS assessment provides unequivocal evidence of the growing threat of invasive alien species alongside ambitious but realistic approaches to manage biological invasions. 🧪🌍
Now published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One of our weird discoveries: 1st field-documented case of a zebra mussel attached to a fish (lake chub). This phoretic association could facilitate 1) within-basin spread of zebra mussels via fish migration & 2) overland transport by anglers moving baitfish. redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...
November 15, 2024 at 3:14 AM
One of our weird discoveries: 1st field-documented case of a zebra mussel attached to a fish (lake chub). This phoretic association could facilitate 1) within-basin spread of zebra mussels via fish migration & 2) overland transport by anglers moving baitfish. redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...
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Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen!
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🦀🦑🧪
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August 1, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen!
academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
🦀🦑🧪
academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
🦀🦑🧪
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Bluesky has VIDEO now?!
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
September 13, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Bluesky has VIDEO now?!
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
Here's one of my favorite fish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, eating a worm in the lab 😍
Two new fish species description from the Congo River basin
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Hidden species diversity in the Enteromius Cope, 1867 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Aruwimi basin (Middle Congo) in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Two new African minnow species, Enteromius cerinus sp. nov. and Enteromius ruforum sp. nov., are described for science from the Angadiko River, a left-bank sub-affluent of first order of the Nepoko R...
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November 16, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Two new fish species description from the Congo River basin
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