James S. Albert

James S. Albert, US ichthyologist.

Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Albert, J.S. 2001. Species diversity and phylogenetic systematics of American knifefishes (Gymnotiformes, Teleostei). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 190: i–vi + 1–127. PDF download Reference page.

Albert, J.S.; Crampton, W.G.R. 2009: A new species of electric knifefish, genus Compsaraia (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) from the Amazon River, with extreme sexual dimorphism in snout and jaw length. Systematics and Biodiversity, 7(1): 81–92. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200008002934 Reference page.

Carvalho, T.P. & Albert, J.S. 2015. A New Species of Rhamphichthys (Gymnotiformes: Rhamphichthyidae) from the Amazon Basin. Copeia 2015: 34–41. DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-066 Reference page.
Tagliacollo, V.A., Bernt, M.J., Craig, J.M., Oliveira, C. & Albert, J.S. 2016. (Online 2015). Model-based Total Evidence phylogeny of Neotropical electric knifefishes (Teleostei, Gymnotiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 95: 20–23. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.11.007 Reference page.

Craig, J.M., Crampton, W.G.R. & Albert, J.S. 2017. Revision of the polytypic electric fish Gymnotus carapo (Gymnotiformes, Teleostei), with descriptions of seven subspecies. Zootaxa 4318(3): 401–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.1. Reference page.

Bernt, M.J., Crampton, W.G.R., Orfinger, A.B. & Albert, J.S. 2018. Melanosternarchus amaru, a new genus and species of electric ghost knifefish (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) from the Amazon Basin. Zootaxa 4378(4): 451–479. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.4.1 Reference page.
Craig, J.M., Malabarba, L.R., Crampton, W.G.R. & Albert, J.S. 2018. Revision of Banded Knifefishes of the Gymnotus carapo and G. tigre clades (Gymnotidae Gymnotiformes) from the Southern Neotropics. Zootaxa 4379(1): 47–73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.1.3 Reference page.
Craig, J.M., Correa-Roldán, V., Ortega, H., Crampton, W.G.R. & Albert, J.S. 2018. Revision of Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) from the Upper Madeira Basin of Bolivia and Peru, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 4413(1): 111–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.1.3 Reference page.
Waltz, B.T. & Albert, J.S. 2018. New species of glass knifefish Eigenmannia loretana (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from the Western Amazon. Zootaxa 4399(3): 399–411. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.3.9 Reference page.

Bernt, M.J., Fronk, A.H., Evans, K.M. & Albert, J.S. 2020. A redescription of deep-channel ghost knifefish, Sternarchogiton preto (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with assignment to a new genus. Neotropical Ichthyology 18(1): e190126. DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-2019-0126 Reference page.