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Phone: 55-11-818 7575
Fax: 55-11-818 7416
email: mdpinna@usp.br
Address: Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11461, São Paulo-SP 05422-970, Brazil
Mário de Pinna , Assistant Professor, teaches Vertebrate Zoology, Systematics and Biogeography. He took his Bachelor's Degree in Biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1988, and received his Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from the American Museum of Natural History/City University of New York in 1992. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) and at the Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History. He joined the Department of Zoology at USP in 1995.
His research interests are on systematic ichthyology and the study of evolutionary patterns in general. Within ichthyology, his activities are mainly on the phylogeny and taxonomy of catfishes, especially from South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. A good portion of his papers are on the parasitic catfishes, family Trichomycteridae. Currently he is also working on some higher-level problems within teleosts. Dr. de Pinna also has an interest in theoretical systematics, in particular on questions related to homology, rooting, character optimization and ontogeny. He serves as advisor for graduate students in vertebrate systematics.
Dr. de Pinna is currently Vice-President of the Willi Hennig Society, and will be hosting the Society's 1998 annual meeting in São Paulo.
Selected Publications:
de Pinna, M.C. 1988. A new genus of trichomycterid catfish (Siluroidei, Glanapteryginae), with comments on its phylogenetic relationships. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 95 (1): 113128.
de Pinna, M.C. 1989. A new sarcoglanidine catfish, phylogeny of its subfamily, and an appraisal of the phyletic status of the Trichomycterinae (Teleostei, Trichomycteridae). American Museum Novitates 2950, 39pp.
de Pinna, M.C. 1989. Redescription of Glanapteryx anguilla, with notes on the phylogeny of Glanapteryginae (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 141: 361374.
de Pinna, M.C. & L.O. Salles. 1990. Cladistic tests of adaptational hypotheses: a reply to Coddington. Cladistics (1990) 6(4): 373-377.
de Pinna, M.C. & W. Starnes. 1990. A new genus and species of Sarcoglanidinae from the Rio Mamoré, Amazon Basin, with comments on subfamilial phylogeny. Journal of Zoology, London. 222: 75-88.
de Pinna, M.C. & H. A. Britski. 1991. Megalocentor, a new genus of parasitic catfish from the Amazon basin: the sister group of Apomatoceros. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Munich, 2(2): 113-128.
de Pinna, M.C. 1991. Concepts and tests of homology in the cladistic paradigm. Cladistics 7(4): 367-394.
de Pinna, M.C. 1992. Trichomycterus castroi, a new species of trichomycterid from the Rio Iguaçu of Southeastern Brazil. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Munich, 3(1): 89-95.
de Pinna, M.C.; P. Escalante; & G. Nelson. 1992. La Búsqueda del Método Natural [Review of], by J. Llorente. Systematic Zoology 41(2): 268.
de Pinna, M.C. 1992. A new subfamily of Trichomycteridae, lower loricarioid relationships, and a discusion on the impact of additional taxa for phylogenetic analysis (Teleostei, Siluriformes). 55 pp. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London, 106: 175-229.
de Pinna, M.C. & C. Ferraris. 1992. Anatomy and systematics of Bagridae (Teleostei), and Siluroid phylogeny, by Tiampei Mo [Review of]. Copeia 1992(4): 1132-1134.
de Pinna, M. C. C. 1994. Ontogeny, rooting and polarity. In: Models in Phylogeny Reconstruction (eds.: R. Scotland, D. Siebert, and D. Williams), pp. 157-172, The Systematics Association Special Volume no. 52, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Stiassny, M. L. & M. C. C. de Pinna. 1994. Basal taxa and the role of cladistic patterns in the evaluation of conservation priorities: a view from freshwater. In: Systematics and Conservation Evaluation (eds.: P. Forey, C. Humphries, & R. Vane-Wright), pp. 235-249. The Systematics Association Special Volume no. 50, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
de Pinna, M. C. C. & R. P. Vari. 1995. Monophyly and phylogenetic diagnosis of the family Cetopsidae, with synonymization of the Helogenidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology no. 571, 26pp., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Nico, L. & M. C. C. de Pinna. 1995. Confirmation of Glanapteryx anguilla in the Orinoco basin, with data on the distribution and ecology of Glanapteryginae (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 6(4): 1-6.
de Pinna, M. C. C. 1996. A phylogenetic analysis of the Asian catfish families Sisoridae, Akysidae and Amblycipitidae, with a hypothesis on the relationships of the neotropical Aspredinidae (Teleostei, Ostariophysi). Fieldiana, Zoology: 1-82.
de Pinna, M. C. C. 1996 [in press]. Teleostean monophyly. In: Interrelationships
of Fishes (eds.: M. Stiassny, L. Parenti & D. Johnson). Academic Press,
NewYork.
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