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According to Wikipedia, Melanie Lisa Jane Stiassny is the Axelrod Research Curator of Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research interests focus on freshwater biodiversity documentation and systematic ichthyology in the Old World tropics, including tropical Africa and Madagascar. She has published broadly on the biogeography conservation and systematics of teleosts.

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Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges (2006) (5486)
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation (2008) (1393)
Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong (2016) (1058)
Global diversity of fish (Pisces) in freshwater (2007) (458)
Interrelationships of fishes (1997) (431)
So Many Fishes, So Little Time: An Overview of Recent Ichthyological Discovery in Continental Waters (2000) (263)
Can We Defy Nature's End? (2001) (254)
Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment (2005) (201)
Taxonomic Impediment or Impediment to Taxonomy? A Commentary on Systematics and the Cybertaxonomic-Automation Paradigm (2007) (194)
Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the tree of life (2017) (183)
Specimen collection: an essential tool. (2014) (181)
Cichlids of the Rift Lakes (1999) (141)
Labroid intrarelationships revisitedc morphological complexityc key innovationsc and the study of comparative diversity (1987) (126)
The status and distribution of freshwater fishes (2011) (101)
The Quiet Crisis (1999) (97)
A review of the pelvic girdle of acanthomorph fishes, with comments on hypotheses of acanthomorph intrarelationships (1992) (95)
Conserving Madagascar's Freshwater Biodiversity (2003) (94)
The Phyletic Status of the Family Cichlidae (Pisces, Perciformes): a Comparative Anatomical Investigation (1980) (86)
An overview of labeonin relationships and the phylogenetic placement of the Afro‐Asian genus Garra Hamilton, 1922 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), with the description of five new species of Garra from Ethiopia, and a key to all African species (2007) (86)
The Freshwater Fishes of Madagascar: A Study of an Endangered Fauna with Recommendations for a Conservation Strategy (1991) (80)
An Overview of Freshwater Biodiversity: With Some Lessons from African Fishes (1996) (69)
Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan Fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non‐Monophyly of Characiformes (2017) (59)
The freshwater biodiversity crisis: the case of the Ethiopian fish fauna (1998) (55)
Morphology, molecules, and character congruence in the phylogeny of South American geophagine cichlids (Perciformes, Labroidei) (2005) (54)
Atavisms, Phylogenetic Character Reversals, and the Origin of Evolutionary Novelties (1991) (54)
Notes on the anatomy and relationships of the bedotiid fishes of Madagascar : with a taxonomic revision of the genus Rheocles (Atherinomorpha, Bedotiidae). American Museum novitates ; ; no. 2979. (1990) (53)
Freshwater ecoregions of the world (2008) (51)
Genetic isolation and morphological divergence mediated by high-energy rapids in two cichlid genera from the lower Congo rapids (2010) (47)
Cichlid familial intrarelationships and the placement of the neotropical genus Cichla (Perciformes, Labroidei) (1987) (45)
Incorporating DNA barcodes into a multi-year inventory of the fishes of the hyperdiverse Lower Congo River, with a multi-gene performance assessment of the genus Labeo as a case study (2011) (45)
What are grey mullets (1993) (44)
The limits and relationships of the acanthomorph teleosts (2009) (41)
Phylogenetic versus convergent relationship between piscivorous cichlid fishes from Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika (1981) (41)
Chapter 15 – Basal Ctenosquamate Relationships and the Interrelationships of the Myctophiform (Scopelomorph) Fishes (1996) (40)
Congo River Basin (2016) (38)
A PHYLOGENETIC OVERVIEW OF THE LAMPROLOGINE CICHLIDS OF AFRICA (TELEOSTEI,CICHLIDAE) : A MORPHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE (1997) (38)
Are characiform Fishes Gondwanan in Origin? Insights from a Time-Scaled Molecular Phylogeny of the Citharinoidei (Ostariophysi: Characiformes) (2013) (36)
Phylogenetic relationships and the temporal context for the diversification of African characins of the family Alestidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes): evidence from DNA sequence data. (2011) (34)
Digitization of museum collections holds the potential to enhance researcher diversity (2017) (34)
Environment. Can we defy nature's end? (2001) (33)
Genomewide SNP data reveal cryptic phylogeographic structure and microallopatric divergence in a rapids‐adapted clade of cichlids from the Congo River (2017) (33)
Molecular phylogeny of Oreochromis (Cichlidae: Oreochromini) reveals mito-nuclear discordance and multiple colonisation of adverse aquatic environments. (2019) (30)
Revision of the Congo River Lamprologus Schilthuis, 1891 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species (2004) (26)
Accelerated Diversification Explains the Exceptional Species Richness of Tropical Characoid Fishes. (2021) (25)
The relationships of the neotropical genus Cichl. (Perciformes, Cichlidae): a phyletic analysis including some functional considerations (1982) (23)
Systematics of Damselfishes (2021) (23)
Molecular phylogenetics reveals convergent evolution in lower Congo River spiny eels (2015) (22)
Multiple independent colonizations into the Congo Basin during the continental radiation of African Mastacembelus spiny eels (2017) (22)
The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution (2001) (20)
A taxonomic revision of the African genus Tylochromis (Labroidei, Cichlidae); with notes on the anatomy and relationships of the group (1989) (19)
Tylochromis : relationships and the phylogenetic status of the African Cichlidae. American Museum novitates ; no. 2993 (1990) (19)
The identification of larval Parasudis (Teleostei, Chlorophthalmidae); with notes on the anatomy and relationships of aulopiform fishes (1986) (16)
Two new sympatric Sarotherodon species (Pisces: Cichlidae) endemic to Lake Ejagham, Cameroon, west-central Africa, with comments on the Sarotherodon galilaeus species complex (2011) (16)
Fishes of the Salonga National Park (Congo basin, central Africa): a list of species collected in the Luilaka, Salonga, and Yenge Rivers (Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo) (2013) (16)
Revision of Sauvagella Bertin (Clupeidae; Pellonulinae; Ehiravini) with a Description of a New Species from the Freshwaters of Madagascar and Diagnosis of the Ehiravini (2002) (16)
DNA barcoding reveals novel insights into pterygophagy and prey selection in distichodontid fishes (Characiformes: Distichodontidae) (2014) (15)
Neolamprologus devosi sp. n . , a new riverine lamprologine cichlid (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from the lower Malagarasi River, Tanzania (2003) (14)
Population Genetic Structure of the Dwarf Seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) in Florida (2015) (14)
DNA barcoding uncovers extensive cryptic diversity in the African long-fin tetra Bryconalestes longipinnis (Alestidae: Characiformes). (2019) (14)
Phylogeny and Taxonomic Revision of the Endemic Malagasy Genus Ptychochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with the Description of Five New Species and a Diagnosis for Katria, New Genus (2006) (13)
Fishes in the desert: mitochondrial variation and phylogeography of Danakilia (Actinopterygii: Cichlidae) and Aphanius (Actinopterygii: Cyprinodontidae) in the Danakil Depression of northeastern Africa (2018) (13)
Fishes of the N’sele River (Pool Malebo, Congo basin, Central Africa): a list of species collected in the main channel and affluent tributaries, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (2013) (13)
Water resources, forests and ecosystem goods and services (2009) (11)
Comparative ocular anatomy in a blind African cichlid fish, Lamprologus lethops. (2010) (11)
Review of the smiliogastrin cyprinids of the Kwilu River (Kasai Basin, central Africa), revised diagnosis for Clypeobarbus (Cyprinidae: Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini) and description of a new species. (2016) (11)
A new species of Danakilia (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Lake Abaeded in the Danakil Depression of Eritrea (East Africa) (2010) (11)
The Congo River Basin (2016) (11)
Fishes of the Kwilu River (Kasai basin, central Africa): A list of species collected in the vicinity of Kikwit, Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (2011) (11)
The parental care behaviour ofParatilapia polleni (Perciformes, Labroidei), a phylogenetically primitive cichlid from Madagascar, with a discussion of the evolution of maternal care in the family Cichlidae (1992) (10)
Taxonomic Redefinition of the Species of Acestrorhynchus of the microlepis Group with the Description of Acestrorhynchus apurensis , a New Species from Venezuela ( Ostariophysi : Characiformes : Characidae ) (2004) (10)
Notes on a small collection of fishes from the Parc National de Marojejy, Northeastern Madagascar, with a description of a new species of the endemic genus Bedotia (Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae) (2000) (10)
Micralestes (Characiformes, Alestidae) of the lower Congo River, with a description of a new species endemic to the lower Congo River rapids in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2007) (9)
A New Small Barb (Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini) from the N'sele and Mayi Ndombe Rivers in the Lower Reaches of the Middle Congo Basin (Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa) (2016) (9)
Fishes of the Du Chaillu Massif, Niari Depression, and Mayombe Massif (Republic of Congo, west-central Africa): a list of species collected in tributaries of the upper Ogowe and middle and upper Kouilou-Niari River basins (2012) (8)
Phylogenetics of Teleogramma, a Riverine Clade of African Cichlid Fishes, with a Description of the Deepwater Molluskivore—Teleogramma obamaorum— from the Lower Reaches of the Middle Congo River (2015) (8)
Egg attachment systems in the family Cichlidae (Perciformes, Labroidei) : with some comments on their significance for phylogenetic studies. American Museum novitates ; no. 3058 (1993) (8)
Rheocles derhami, a new species of freshwater rainbowfish (Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae) from the Ambomboa River in northeastern Madagascar (2001) (8)
A new species of Nanochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Mai Ndombe, central Congo Basin, Democratic Republic of Congo (2006) (7)
A New Small Barb (Cyprininae: Smiliogastrini) from the Louesse, Lekoumou (Upper Niari Basin), and Djoulou (Upper Ogowe Basin) Rivers in the Republic of Congo, West-Central Africa (2018) (7)
Congochromis, a New Cichlid Genus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Central Africa, with the Description of a New Species from the Upper Congo River, Democratic Republic of Congo (2007) (7)
Chapter 6 – Skeletal System* (2000) (7)
Phylogenetic diagnosis of the African cyprinid genus Clypeobarbus (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae), with the rehabilitation of Clypeobarbus bomokandi (2008) (7)
Rosemary Lowe-McConnell, obituary (2015) (7)
Description of a new species of Labeo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the lower Congo River (2006) (7)
Genomic Analysis of the Only Blind Cichlid Reveals Extensive Inactivation in Eye and Pigment Formation Genes (2020) (6)
A new species of Ptychochromis from northeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with an updated phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the genus (2010) (6)
The Prophet Elijah in the Development of Judaism (1978) (6)
Cichlids of the Rift Lakes The extraordinary diversity of cichlid fishes challenges entrenched ideas of how quickly new species can arise (1999) (6)
Diagnosis of Asian Raiamas (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Chedrina) with comments on chedrin relationships and previously proposed diagnostic characters for Opsaridium and Raiamas (2012) (6)
Pattern and timing of diversification in the African freshwater fish genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae) (2019) (6)
A new ectoparasitic distichodontid of the genus Eugnathichthys (Characiformes: Citharinoidei) from the Congo basin of central Africa, with a molecular phylogeny for the genus. (2013) (6)
A New Species of Raiamas (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Lower Congo River, with a Phylogenetic Assessment of the Generic Limits of the Predatory Cyprinid Genera Opsaridium, Raiamas, and Leptocypris (2006) (5)
A Survey of Fishes of the Geebo – Dugbe River Confluence, Sinoe County, Liberia, with an Emphasis on Tributary Creeks (2016) (5)
Rheocles vatosoa, a new species of freshwater rainbowfish (Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae) from the Lokoho river basin in Northeastern Madagascar (2002) (5)
Rhabdalestes aeratis, new species (Characiformes : Alestidae): first occurrence of the genus from the Middle Congo River basin (2005) (5)
Lamprologus markerti, a new lamprologine cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) endemic to the lower Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, west-central Africa. (2014) (5)
Description ofa NewSpecies ofRheocles (Atherinomorpha, Bedotiidae) fromthe Nosivolo Tributary, Mangoro River, Eastern Malagasy Republic (1992) (5)
Evolution in the Fast Lane: Diversity, Ecology, and Speciation of Cichlids in the Lower Congo River (2021) (4)
Rehabilitation of the Malagasy Endemic Kuhlia Sauvagii Regan, 1913 (Teleostei: Perciformes), with the Designation of a Neotype for Centropomus rupestris lacépéde, 1802 (2007) (4)
Mastacembelus simbi , a new dwarf spiny eel (Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae) from the lower Congo River. (2016) (4)
Report on a small collection of fishes from the Wologizi Mountains of Liberia, West Africa : with a description of two new species of Barbus (Ostariophysi, Cyprinidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 3015 (1991) (4)
The GEO Biodiversity Observation Network. GEO BON Concept document (2008) (3)
Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation (Fish and Aquatic Resources Series 9, series ed. T.J. Pitcher) (2006) (3)
Gordon John Howes 1938-2013 (fish systematist). (2013) (3)
Functional diversity of afrotropical fish communities across river gradients in the Republic of Congo, west central Africa (2022) (3)
Following the Mangroves: diversification in the banded lampeye Aplocheilichthys spilauchen (Duméril, 1861) (Cyprinodontiformes: Procatopodidae) along the Atlantic coast of Africa (2021) (3)
A diversified kettle of fish: phenotypic variation in the endemic cichlid genus Danakilia of the Danakil Depression of northeastern Africa (2018) (3)
A New Alestes (Characiformes, Alestidae) from the Mpozo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2009) (2)
Description of a new species of Rheocles (Atherinomorpha, Bedotiidae) from the Nosivolo tributary, Mangoro River, eastern Malagasy Republic. American Museum novitates ; no. 3031 (1992) (2)
Two New Phenacogrammus (Characoidei; Alestidae) from the Ndzaa River (Mfimi-Lukenie Basin) of Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (2021) (2)
Chapter 7 – Muscular System* (2000) (2)
A new species of Varicorhinus (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae) from West-Central Africa (2004) (2)
Challenges for freshwater biodiversity research: science plan and implementation strategy (2006) (2)
Review of the cichlid genus Thysochromis (Teleostei: Ovalentaria) with the description of a new species from the Kouilou Province in the Republic of Congo, west-central Africa. (2020) (2)
Fishes of the Mfimi River in the central Congo basin of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kasai ecoregion or part of the Cuvette Centrale? (2021) (2)
Can an eel be a flatfish? Observations on enigmatic asymmetrical heterenchelyids from the Guinea coast of West Africa. (2017) (2)
Evolutionary Convergence in Body Shape Obscures Taxonomic Diversity in Species of the African Labeo forskalii-group: case study of Labeo parvus Boulenger 1902 and L. ogunensis Boulenger 1910. (2022) (2)
Exon-based phylogenomics and the relationships of African cichlid fishes: tackling the challenges of reconstructing phylogenies with repeated rapid radiations. (2022) (1)
Molecular phylogenetics reveals convergent evolution in lower Congo River spiny eels (2015) (1)
An Unexpected New Poropanchax (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae) from the Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (2019) (1)
Riverscape genomics of cichlid fishes in the lower Congo: Uncovering mechanisms of diversification in an extreme hydrological regime (2021) (1)
Fishes of the Lower Lulua River (Kasai Basin, Central Africa): A Continental Hotspot of Ichthyofaunal Diversity under Threat (2021) (1)
Rosemary Helen Lowe-McConnell (1921–2014), Honorary Foreign Member in Ichthyology (2016) (1)
Three new Parananochromis species (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Gabon and Cameroon, Central Africa (2003) (1)
A New Species of Air-Breathing Catfish (Clariidae: Clarias) from Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2022) (1)
Something borrowed, something new (1998) (1)
A new Alestopetersius (Characiformes: Alestidae) from the Kwilu River (Kasai basin) of central Africa; with a phylogeny for the genus and synonymy of Duboisialestes (2012) (1)
Comparative Ocular Anatomy In Troglomorphic Fish: Sensory Compensation For Reduced Vision (2011) (0)
Diagnosis of Asian Raiamas (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Chedrina) with comments on chedrin relationships and previously proposed diagnostic characters for Opsaridium and Raiamas (2012) (0)
Xenocharax crassus Pellegrin, 1900 (Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Congo River basin, central Africa: in need of revalidation (2016) (0)
Systematic Review and Cranial Osteology of Petersius with Redescription of P. conserialis (Teleostei: Alestidae) from the Rufiji and Ruvu Rivers of Tanzania (2022) (0)
WIENER, Aharon, The Prophet Elijah in the Development of Judaism, A Depth-Psychological Study, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization - London, Henley and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, 248 p. £ 5.00 (1979) (0)
The Evolution of Extreme Phenotypic Convergence across Fish Lineages in the Hyper-Diverse Lower Congo River. (2019) (0)
Tylochromis, Relationships andthePhylogenetic Status oftheAfrican Cichlidae (1990) (0)
Functional diversity of stream fish communities in the Republic of Congo: do Afrotropical freshwater systems conform to mainstream lotic conceptual models (2018) (0)
Rehabilitation of Xenocharax crassus (Teleostei: Distichodontidae), a species endemic to the Congo basin in central Africa (2016) (0)
Rosemary Lowe-McConnell, obituary (2015) (0)
Taxonomy and systematics of South American Cichlidae: the other cichlids (2004) (0)
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Report on a SmallCollection ofFishes fromthe Wologizi Mountains ofLiberia, WestAfrica, witha Description ofTwoNewSpecies of Barbus (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae) (1991) (0)
Digitization of museum collections holds the potential to enhance researcher diversity (2017) (0)
Information on colonization of insular freshwaters is beginning to document the importance of speciation and extinction as critical ecological and evolutionary processes. Understanding how different freshwater species assemble and evolve on islands of different ages, locations, and types is relevant (2009) (0)
Awards from the Jordan Endowment (2004) (0)
Gene genealogy interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant phylogenies (2017) (0)
Fishes: A Guide to their Diversity. — Philip A. Hastings, Harold Jack Walker Jr., Grantly R. Galland, editors. (2016) (0)

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