Heok Hui Tan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Heok Hui Tan is a Singaporean ichthyologist at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum of the National University of Singapore. Dr. Tan's main interest lies in the systematics of Southeast Asian freshwater fishes, encompassing taxonomy, ecology and biogeography. His primary areas of research focus on neglected and de novo habitats such as peat swamp forests, swamp forests, and rapids.
Heok Hui Tan's Published Works
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- Evolution of miniaturization and the phylogenetic position of Paedocypris, comprising the world's smallest vertebrate (2007) (146)
- Families of Cobitoidea (Teleostei; Cypriniformes) as revealed from nuclear genetic data and the position of the mysterious genera Barbucca, Psilorhynchus, Serpenticobitis and Vaillantella. (2007) (101)
- Freshwater fishes of Southeast Asia: potential for the aquarium fish trade and conservation issues (1997) (90)
- Molluscs for Sale: Assessment of Freshwater Gastropods and Bivalves in the Ornamental Pet Trade (2016) (85)
- Mitigating the impact of oil‐palm monoculture on freshwater fishes in Southeast Asia (2015) (79)
- Dammed rivers: impoundments facilitate fish invasions (2016) (73)
- AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE NON-NATIVE FRESHWATER FISH SPECIES IN THE RESERVOIRS OF SINGAPORE (2010) (71)
- Paleo-drainage basin connectivity predicts evolutionary relationships across three Southeast Asian biodiversity hotspots. (2013) (70)
- Global extinctions of freshwater fishes follow peatland conversion in Sundaland (2012) (61)
- EVOLUTION OF MOUTHBROODING AND LIFE‐HISTORY CORRELATES IN THE FIGHTING FISH GENUS BETTA (2004) (61)
- Barcoding snakeheads (Teleostei, Channidae) revisited: Discovering greater species diversity and resolving perpetuated taxonomic confusions (2017) (57)
- Land-use change is associated with a significant loss of freshwater fish species and functional richness in Sabah, Malaysia (2018) (35)
- The catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) of central Sumatra (2000) (32)
- Marine fishes recorded from the Anambas and Natuna Islands, South China Sea (2004) (29)
- Predictor complexity and feature selection affect Maxent model transferability: Evidence from global freshwater invasive species (2020) (26)
- Ornamental trade as a pathway for Australian redclaw crayfish introduction and establishment (2011) (25)
- The Most Developmentally Truncated Fishes Show Extensive Hox Gene Loss and Miniaturized Genomes (2017) (24)
- Snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) diversity and the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot (2020) (24)
- The biological, ecological and conservation significance of freshwater swamp forest in Singapore (2018) (20)
- Urban stormwater ponds in Singapore: potential pathways for spread of alien freshwater fishes (2013) (16)
- SOME CICHLID FISHES RECORDED IN SINGAPORE (2012) (16)
- Stingers in a strange land: South American freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) in Singapore (2010) (15)
- Phylogeny of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish genus Pangio (Cypriniformes; Cobitidae). (2011) (15)
- The introduction, origin and life-history attributes of the non-native cichlid Etroplus suratensis in the coastal waters of Singapore. (2010) (14)
- Bottom‐up influences on tropical freshwater food web structure support the “environmental filtering” hypothesis (2018) (12)
- Genomic consequences of domestication of the Siamese fighting fish (2021) (12)
- The availability of freshwater fish resources is maintained across a land-use gradient in Sabah, Borneo (2018) (12)
- Resilience of tropical, freshwater fish (Nematabramis everetti) populations to severe drought over a land-use gradient in Borneo (2019) (12)
- RECENT INTRODUCTION OF THE BROWN ANOLE NOROPS SAGREI (REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: DACTYLOIDAE) TO SINGAPORE (2012) (11)
- Diet of the smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata ( Geoffroy , 1826 ) at natural and modified sites in Singapore (2016) (10)
- Loss of endemic fish species drives impacts on functional richness, redundancy and vulnerability in freshwater ecoregions of Sundaland (2019) (10)
- ACARICHTHYS HECKELII (MÜLLER & TROSCHEL), AN INTRODUCED CICHLID FISH IN SINGAPORE (2008) (9)
- Not in the Least Concern: anthropogenic influences on a South-east Asian apple snail Pila scutata (Ampullariidae) (2018) (9)
- Scientific Results of the Kumejima Marine Biodiversity Expedition—KUMEJIMA 2009—Editorial* (2012) (9)
- REVIEW OF STIPHODON (GOBIIDAE: SICYDIINAE) FROM WESTERN SUMATRA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES (2013) (9)
- A NEW SPECIES OF FRESHWATER GOBY (TELEOSTEI: GOBIIDAE: STIPHODON) FROM PULAU TIOMAN, PAHANG, PENINSULAR MALAYSIA (2005) (8)
- Native richness and species level trophic traits predict establishment of alien freshwater fishes (2016) (8)
- The fish fauna of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore (2019) (7)
- Ecology and origin of the introduced cichlid Acarichthys heckelii in Singapore’s fresh waters—first instance of establishment (2014) (7)
- Fishes of the Eastern Johor Strait (2015) (7)
- Antigen receptor repertoires of one of the smallest known vertebrates (2021) (7)
- Contrasting changes in freshwater fish assemblages and food webs follow modification of tropical waterways (2018) (6)
- Shoaling behaviour in the pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys collettei ( Beloniformes : Zenarchopteridae ) : comparing populations from contrasting predation regimes (2015) (6)
- THREE NEW SPECIES OF FRESHWATER HALFBEAKS (TELEOSTEI: ZENARCHOPTERIDAE: HEMIRHAMPHODON) FROM BORNEO (2013) (6)
- FISH DIVERSITY BEFORE AND AFTER CONSTRUCTION OF THE PUNGGOL AND SERANGOON RESERVOIRS, SINGAPORE (2013) (5)
- Morphological traits mediate fish occurrences in oil palm‐impacted tropical streams (2020) (5)
- Native and introduced fish community structure in a freshwater swamp forest: Implications for conservation and management (2018) (5)
- ADDITION OF THREE CYPRINID FISHES TO THE ESTABLISHED ALIEN FAUNA OF SINGAPORE (2011) (4)
- A NEW SPECIES OF ELLOPOSTOMA (TELEOSTEI: CYPRINIFORMES: BALITORIDAE) FROM PENINSULAR THAILAND (2002) (4)
- A SIGHTING OF A STINKHORN FUNGUS, DICTYOPHORA SPECIES (2008) (4)
- Silurichthys ligneolus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern Borneo, Indonesia (2011) (4)
- An update to the Inland Fishes of Pulau Tioman, Malaysia (2015) (4)
- Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos, a new species of loach from southern Borneo (Teleostei: Cobitidae) (2008) (4)
- Redescription of Betta anabatoides Bleeker, and a new species of Betta from West Kalimantan, Borneo (Teleostei: Osphronemidae) (2009) (4)
- BREVIBORA CHEEYA, A NEW SPECIES OF CYPRINID FISH FROM MALAY PENINSULA AND SUMATRA (2011) (4)
- Land-use change erodes trophic redundancy in tropical forest streams: evidence from amino acid stable isotope analysis. (2021) (4)
- Three new species of Gastromyzon (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from southern Sarawak (2006) (3)
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE BLACK POMFRET, PARASTROMATEUS NIGER (TELEOSTEI: PERCIFORMES: CARANGIDAE) (2009) (3)
- FIRST RECORD IN SINGAPORE OF A NEPENTHIPHILOUS CRAB , GEOSESARMA PERRACAE ( CRUSTACEA : DECAPODA : SESARMIDAE ) (2008) (3)
- Redescription of Betta picta (Teleostei: Osphronemidae) and description of B. falx sp. n. from central Sumatra (1998) (3)
- ADDITION OF FISH SPECIES TO THE ESTABLISHED ALIEN FAUNA OF SINGAPORE: AMBLYPHARYNGODON CHULABHORNAE AND BRACHYGOBIUS SABANUS (2012) (2)
- Scientific Results of the Kumejima Marine Biodiversity Expedition (2012) (2)
- A Roadkill Record of a Hairy-Nosed Otter (Lutra sumatrana) from Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia (2015) (2)
- A new species of Encheloclarias from Sumatra (2000) (2)
- Chelidoperca flavolineata, a new species of perchlet (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Indonesia and the first Indonesian record of C. maculicauda (2020) (2)
- Phylogenetic relationships of loach fishes of the superfamily Cobitoidea ( Teleostei : Cypriniformes ) based on molecular data analyses (2008) (1)
- Pseudecheneis maurus, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Central Vietnam (2007) (1)
- A new, uniquely patterned spiny eel (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae) from southern Borneo, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia. (2020) (1)
- THE FISH FAUNA OF BUKIT BROWN , SINGAPORE (2013) (1)
- Betta Bleeker, 1850 (Osteichthyes, Perciformes): Proposed Conservation Of Specific Names By The Suppression Of Micracanthus Marchei Sauvage, 1879 (2000) (1)
- Three new species of Gastromyzon (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the Temburong River basin, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo (2006) (1)
- Ecology and origin of the introduced cichlid Acarichthys heckelii in Singapore’s fresh waters—first instance of establishment (2013) (0)
- Elusive riverine fishes of Sundaland (2019) (0)
- Additional fishes observed at Bishan Park (2015) (0)
- Betta nuluhon, a new species of fighting fish from western Sabah, Malaysia (Teleostei: Osphronemidae). (2020) (0)
- A NEW LOCALITY OF DULITICOLA HOISENI WONG IN SINGAPORE (2008) (0)
- OP-GBEV180059 1088..1103 (2018) (0)
- Native richness and species level trophic traits predict establishment of alien freshwater fishes (2016) (0)
- A new species of glass-perch from Belitung Island, Indonesia (Teleostei: Ambassidae: Gymnochanda ) (2011) (0)
- The invasion and impacts of the African sharptooth catfish (Clariidae: Clarias gariepinus ) in the Malay Peninsula (2022) (0)
- A NEW LOCALITY OF DULITICOLA HOISENI WONG IN SINGAPORE (2008) (0)
- Pogoneleotris heterolepis (Teleostei: Eleotridae), a rare fish from Borneo: biological data and remarks on the type locality and type material (2018) (0)
- Molecular systematics and phylogeography of the genus Rasbora and related genera (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) (2010) (0)
- Cover image (2019) (0)
- A new species of Lobocheilos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. (2018) (0)
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