David de Santana

• Ph.D. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
• M.S. Universidade Católica de Pernambuco 
• B.S. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Principal investigator for the project "Diversity and evolution of Gymnotiformes"

Freshwater fish diversity across multiple hierarchical scales. My biodiversity research program is based on collections, fieldwork, training and outreach.

Journal Article

• Dutra, Guilherme Moreira, Peixoto, Luiz Antônio Wanderley, Donin, Laura Modesti, de Santana, Carlos David, and Menezes, Naercio Aquino. 2024. "Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of the glass knifefish genus Eigenmannia Jordan & Evermann, 1896 (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from the Rio Branco basin, Brazil." Journal of fish biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15794.
• Robillard, Alexander J., Trizna, Michael G., Ruiz-Tafur, Morgan, Panduro, Edgard Leonardo Davila, de Santana, C. David, White, Alexander E., Dikow, Rebecca B., and Deichmann, Jessica L. 2023. "Application of a deep learning image classifier for identification of Amazonian fishes." Ecology and Evolution, 13, (5). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9987.
• Peixoto, Luiz A. W., Campos-da-Paz, Ricardo, Menezes, Naercio A., de Santana, C. David, Triques, Mauro, and Datovo, Alessio. 2022. "Systematics of Neotropical electric knifefish Tembeassu (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae)." Systematics and Biodiversity, 20, (1) 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2022.2032460.
• Bastos, Douglas A., Zuanon, Jansen, Rapp Py-Daniel, Lúcia, and de Santana, Carlos David. 2021. "Social predation in electric eels." Ecology and Evolution, 11, (3) 1088–1092. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7121.
• Dutra, Guilherme Moreira, Wanderley Peixoto, Luiz Antonio, de Santana, Carlos David, Datovo, Alessio, and Menezes, Naercio Aquino. 2021. "The Description of a Rare and Critically Endangered Species of Ghost Knifefish from the Amazon Basin (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae)." Ichthyology and Herpetology, 109, (4) 1002–1009. https://doi.org/10.1643/i2020157.
• de Santana, C. David, Parenti, Lynne R., Dillman, Casey B., Coddington, Jonathan A., Bastos, Douglas A., Baldwin, Carole C., Zuanon, Jansen, Torrente-Vilara, Gislene, Covain, Raphaël, Menezes, Naércio A., Datovo, Aléssio, Sado, T., and Miya, M. 2021. "The critical role of natural history museums in advancing eDNA for biodiversity studies: a case study with Amazonian fishes." Scientific Reports, 11, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97128-3.
• Peixoto, Luiz Antonio Wanderley, Datovo, Alessio, Menezes, Naercio Aquino, and de Santana, Carlos David. 2021. "A new species of sexually dimorphic and rheophilic ghost knifefish (Apteronotidae: Gymnotiformes) from the Amazon basin." Journal of fish biology, 98, (3) 803–816. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14629.
• Dutra, Guilherme Moreira, Peixoto, Luiz Antônio Wanderley, Ochoa, Luz Eneida, Ohara, Willian Massaharu, de Santana, Carlos David, Menezes, Naércio Aquino, and Datovo, Aléssio. 2021. "A new species of Amazonian bluntnose knifefish Brachyhypopomus (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae), with comments on its phylogenetic position." Systematics and Biodiversity, https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2021.1877844.
• Souza-Shibatta, Lenice, Ferreira, Dhiego G., Santos, Katia F., Galindo, Bruno A., Shibatta, Oscar A., Sofia, Silvia H., Giacomin, Renata M., Bastos, Douglas A., Mendes-Junior, Raimundo N. G., and de Santana, Carlos David. 2020. "Electric eels galore: microsatellite markers for population studies." Neotropical Ichthyology, 18, (4) 200081–200081. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2020-0081.
• Campos-da-Paz, Ricardo and de Santana, Carlos David. 2019. "A New Species of the Electric Knifefish Gymnotus Linnaeus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) from Northeastern Brazil." Copeia, 107, (1) 144–151. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-18-141.
• de Santana, C. David, Crampton, William G. R., Dillman, Casey B., Frederico, Renata G., Sabaj, Mark H., Covain, Raphaël, Ready, Jonathan, Zuanon, Jansen, de Oliveira, Renildo R., Mendes-Júnior, Raimundo N., Bastos, Douglas A., Teixeira, Tulio F., Mol, Jan, Ohara, Willian, Castro, Natália Castro e., Peixoto, Luiz A., Nagamachi, Cleusa, Sousa, Leandro, Montag, Luciano F. A., Ribeiro, Frank, Waddell, Joseph C., Piorsky, Nivaldo M., Vari, Richard P., and Wosiacki, Wolmar B. 2019. "Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator." Nature Communications, 10, (1) Article 4000. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11690-z.
• Peixoto, Luiz A. W., Datovo, Aléssio, Campos-da-Paz, Ricardo, de Santana, Carlos D., and Menezes, Naércio A. 2019. "Anatomical, taxonomic, and phylogenetic reappraisal of a poorly known ghost knifefish, Tembeassu marauna (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes), using X-ray microcomputed tomography." PloS One, 14, (11) Article 0225342. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225342.
• Dutra, Guilherme Moreira, Wanderley Peixoto, Luiz Antonio, de Santana, Carlos David, and Wosiacki, Wolmar Benjamin. 2018. "A new species of Eigenmannia Jordan & Evermann (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from Rio Ventuari, Venezuela." Zootaxa, 4422, (1) 132–140. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.8.
• Dutra, Guilherme Moreira, de Santana, Carlos David, and Wolmar, Benjamin Wosiacki. 2017. "A New Species of the Glass Electric Knifefish Genus Eigenmannia Jordan and Evermann (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from Río Tuíra Basin, Panama." Copeia, 105, (1) 85–91. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-16-439.
• Ferraris, Carl J., Jr., de Santana, Carlos David, and Vari, Richard P. 2017. "Checklist of Gymnotiformes (Osteichthyes: Ostariophysi) and catalogue of primary types." Neotropical Ichthyology, 15, (1). https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20160067.
• Crampton, William G. R., de Santana, Carlos D., Waddell, Joseph C., and Lovejoy, Nathan R. 2016. "A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical electric fish genus Brachyhypopomus (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae), with descriptions of 15 new species." Neotropical Ichthyology, 14, (4). https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20150146.
• Crampton, William G. R., de Santana, Carlos David, Waddell, Joseph C., and Lovejoy, Nathan R. 2016. "Phylogenetic Systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology of the Electric Fish Genus Brachyhypopomus (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes)." Plos One, 11, (10) 1–66. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161680.
• Dutra, Guilherme Moreira, Jerep, Fernando C., Vari, Richard P., and de Santana, Carlos David. 2015. "The pseudotympanum in the Gymnotiformes (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Otophysi): homology and evolution of a previously unexplored system in Neotropical electric fishes." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174, (1) 114–129. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12221.
• de Santana, Carlos David and Vari, Richard P. 2013. "Brown ghost electric fishes of the Apteronotus leptrorhynchus species-group (Ostariophysi, Gymnnotiformes); monophyly, major clades, and revision." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 168, (3) 564–596. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12022.
• de Santana, Carlos David, Vari, Richard P., and Wosiacki, Wolmar B. 2013. "The Untold Story of the Caudal Skeleton in the Electric Eel (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Electrophorus)." PLoS ONE, 8, (7) e68719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068719.
• Peixoto, Luiz Antônio Wanderley, Dutra, Guilherme Moreira, de Santana, Carlos David, and Wosiacki, Wolmar Benjamin. 2013. "A New Species of the Electric Fish Genus Hypopygus (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae) from the Lower Amazon Basin, Brazil." Copeia, 2013, (2) 232–237. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-12-087.
• de Santana, Carlos David and Vari, Richard P. 2012. "New species of Adontosternarchus (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) from the Rio Purus basin, Brazil." Copeia, 2012, (3) 535–540. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-11-135.
• Vari, Richard P., de Santana, Carlos David, and Wosiacki, Wolmar B. 2012. "South American electric knifefishes of the genus Archolaemus (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes): undetected diversity in a clade of rheopiles." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 165 670–699. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00827.x.
• de Santana, Carlos David and Crampton, William G. R. 2010. "A Review of the South American Electric Fish Genus Porotergus (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) with the Description of a New Species." Copeia, (1) 165–175. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-05-136.
• de Santana, Carlos David and Vari, Richard P. 2010. "Electric fishes of the genus Sternarchorhynchus (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); phylogenetic and revisionary studies." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 159, (1) 223–371. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00588.x.
• de Santana, Carlos David and Vari, Richard P. 2010. "New rheophilic species of electric knifefish from the rapids and waterfalls of the lower Rio Xingu, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae)." Copeia, 2010, (1) 160–165. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-09-068.
• de Santana, Carlos David and Vari, Richard P. 2009. "The South America electric fish genus Platyurosternarchus (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae)." Copeia, 2009, (2) 233–244. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-08-082.
• Turner, Cameron R., Derylo, Maksymilian, de Santana, Carlos David, ves-Gomes, Jose A., and Smith, G. Troy. 2007. "Phylogenetic comparative analysis of electric communication signals in ghost knifefishes (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae)." Journal of Experimental Biology, 210, (23) 4104–4122. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.007930.