People:
Luiz Rocha


Luiz Rocha

Ichthyology
California Academy of Sciences  (United States of America)







Research interests
Publications

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

Ecology and Zoogeography of Deep-Reef Fishes in Northeastern Brazil | article
Feitoza BM, Rosa RS, Rocha LA (2005)
Bull Mar Sci 76:725-742
Fish Biodiversity of the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, Southwestern Atlantic: An Updated Database | article
Pinheiro HT, Mazzei E, Moura RL, Amado-Filho GM, Carvalho-Filho A, Braga AC, Costa PAS, Ferreira BP, Ferreira CEL, Floeter SR, Francini-Filho RB, Gasparini JL, Macieira RM, Martins AS, Olavo G, Pimentel CR, Rocha LA, Sazima I, Simon T, Teixeira JB, Xavier LB, Joyeux J-C (2015)
PLoS ONE 10:e0118180

Mesophotic fishes of the Abrolhos Shelf, the largest reef ecosystem in the South Atlantic | article
Simon T, Pinheiro HT, Moura RL, Carvalho-Filho A, Rocha LA, Martins AS, Mazzei E, Francini-Filho RB, Amado-Filho GM, Joyeux J-C (2016)
J Fish Biol 89:990-1001

Grammatonotus brianne, a new callanthiid fish from Philippine waters, with short accounts of two other Grammatonotus from the Coral Triangle | article
Anderson WD, Greene BD, Rocha LA (2016)
Zootaxa 4173:289-295

Large-scale invasion of western Atlantic mesophotic reefs by lionfish potentially undermines culling-based management | article
Andradi-Brown DA, Vermeij MJA, Slattery M, Lesser M, Bejarano I, Appeldoorn R, Goodbody-Gringley G, Chequer AD, Pitt JM, Eddy C, Smith SR, Brokovich E, Pinheiro HT, Jessup ME, Shepherd B, Rocha LA, Curtis-Quick J, Eyal G, Noyes TJ, Rogers AD, Exton DA (2017)
Biol Invasions 19:939–954

Upper and lower mesophotic coral reef fish communities evaluated by underwater visual censuses in two Caribbean locations | article
Pinheiro HT, Goodbody-Gringley G, Jessup ME, Shepherd B, Chequer AD, Rocha LA (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:139-151

Ephemeral aggregation of the benthic ctenophore Lyrocteis imperatoris on a mesophotic coral ecosystem in the Philippines | article
Shepherd B, Pinheiro HT, Rocha LA (2018)
Bull Mar Sci 94:101-102

Mesophotic coral ecosystems are threatened and ecologically distinct from shallow water reefs | article
Rocha LA, Pinheiro HT, Shepherd B, Papastamatiou YP, Luiz OJ, Pyle RL, Bongaerts P (2018)
Science

Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines | article
Rocha LA, Rocha LA, Pinheiro HT, Wandell M, Rocha CR, Shepherd B (2017)
Zookeys 709:127-134

Sponge-dwelling fishes of northeastern Brazil | article
Rocha LA, Rosa IL, Feitoza BM (2000)
Environ Biol Fish 59:453-458

Adult habitat preferences, larval dispersal, and the comparative phylogeography of three Atlantic surgeonfishes (Teleostei: Acanthuridae) | article
Rocha LA, Bass AL, Robertson DR, Bowen BW (2002)
Mol Ecol 11:243-252

Patterns of distribution and processes of speciation in Brazilian reef fishes | article
Rocha LA (2003)
Biogeography 30:1161-1171

Plectranthiasahiahiata, a new species of perchlet from a mesophotic ecosystem at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) | article
Shepherd B, Phelps T, Pinheiro HT, Pérez-Matus A, Rocha LA (2018)
Zookeys 762:105-116

SubCAS: A Portable, Submersible Hyperbaric Chamber to Collect Living Mesophotic Fishes | article
Shepherd B, Wandell1 M, Pinheiro HT, Rocha LA (2018)
Front Mar Sci 5:187

Two new species of Plectranthias (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems in the tropical Central Pacific | article
Shepherd B, Phelps TAY, Pinheiro HT, Rocha CR, Rocha LA (2020)
Zookeys 941:145-161

Fishes: Biodiversity | chapter
Pyle RL, Kosaki RK, Pinheiro HT, Rocha LA, Whitton RK, Copus JM (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019) by Yossi L, Puglise KA, Bridge T
Mesophotic ecosystems at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil (South-western Atlantic), reveal unique ichthyofauna and need for conservation | article
Pimentel CR, Rocha LA, Shepherd B, Phelps TAY, Joyeux JC, Martins AS, Stein CE, Teixeira JB, Gasparini JL, Reis-Filho JA, Garla RC, Francini-Filho RB, Delfino SDT, Mello TJ, Giarrizzo T, Pinheiro HT (2020)
Neotrop Ichthyol 18:e200050

Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines | article
Arango BG, Pinheiro HT, Rocha C, Greene BD, Pyle RL, Copus JM, Shepherd B, Rocha LA (2019)
Zookeys 835:1-15

Tosanoides aphrodite, a new species from mesophotic coral ecosystems of St. Paul’s Rocks, Mid Atlantic Ridge (Perciformes, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) | article
Pinheiro HT, Rocha C, Rocha LA (2018)
Zookeys 786:105-115

Brazil | chapter
Francini-Filho RB, Márquez Velásquez V, da Silva MB, Rosa MR, Rosa MR, Sumida PYG, Pinheiro HT, Rocha LA, Ferreira CEL, Francini CLB, Rosa RdS (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
Pseudanthiashangapiko, a new anthiadine serranid (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) | article
Shepherd B, Pinheiro HT, Phelps TA, Pérez-Matus A, Rocha LA (2021)
Zookeys 1054:1-13

Liopropoma incandescens sp. nov. (Epinephelidae, Liopropominae), a new species of basslet from mesophotic coral ecosystems of Pohnpei, Micronesia | article
Pinheiro HT, Shepherd B, Greene BD, Rocha LA (2019)
Zookeys 863:97 - 106

Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa (Teleostei, Labridae), a new species of fairy wrasse from the Maldives, with comments on the taxonomic identity of C. rubri... | article
Tea YK, Najeeb A, Rowlett J, Rocha LA (2020)
Zookeys 1088:65-80

Cirrhilabrus wakanda, a new species of fairy wrasse from mesophotic ecosystems of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa (Teleostei, Labridae) | article
Tea YK, Pinheiro HT, Shepherd B, Rocha LA (2019)
Zookeys 863:85-96

A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) | article
McFarland EP, Baldwin CC, Robertson DR, Rocha LA, Tornabene L (2020)
Zookeys 1008:107-138

Terelabrus toretore sp. nov. (Perciformes: Labridae), a New Species of Striped Hogfish from Tahiti, with Range Extensions for Two Congeners | article
Shepherd B, Pinheiro HT, Phelps TAY, Siu G, Rocha LA (2023)
Zool Stud 62:e8

Lessons from the invasion front: Integration of research and management of the lionfish invasion in Brazil | article
Soares MO, Pereira PH, Feitosa CV, Maggioni R, Rocha RS, Bezerra LE, Duarte OS, Paiva SV, Noleto-Filho E, Silva MQ, Csapo-Thomaz M (2023)
J Environ Manage 340:117954

Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems | article
Bongaerts P, Perez-Rosales G, Radice VZ, Eyal G, Gori A, Gress E, Hammerman NM, Hernandez-Agreda A, Laverick J, Muir P, Pinheiro H, Pyle RL, Rocha L, Turner JA, Booker R (2019)
Database (Oxford)

assembly rules of coral reef fish communities along the depth gradient | article
Pinheiro HT, MacDonald C, Quimbayo JP, Shepherd B, Phelps TA, Loss AC, Teixeira JB, Rocha LA (2023)
Curr Biol 33:1421-1430

Genetic diversity patterns of lionfish in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean reveal a rapidly expanding stepping‑stone bioinvasion process | article
Maggioni R, Rocha RS, Viana JT, Giarrizzo T, Rabelo EF, Ferreira CE, Sampaio CL, Pereira PH, Rocha LA, Rocha LA, Tavares TC, Soares MO (2023)
Sci Rep 13:13469

Genetic diversity patterns of lionfish in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean reveal a rapidly expanding stepping‑stone bioinvasion process | article
Maggioni R, Rocha RS, Viana JT, Giarrizzo T, Rabelo EF, Ferreira CE, Sampaio CL, Pereira PH, Rocha LA, Rocha LA, Tavares TC, Soares MO (2023)
Sci Rep 13:13469

Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs | article
Pinheiro HT, MacDonald C, Santos RG, Ali R, Bobat A, Cresswell BJ, Francini-Filho R, Freitas R, Galbraith GF, Musembi P, Phelps TA, Quimbayo JP, Quiros TEAL, Shepherd B, Stefanoudis PV, Talma S, Teixeira JB, Woodall LC, Rocha LA (2023)
Nature 619:311-316

Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines | article
Rocha LA, Rocha LA, Pinheiro HT, Wandell M, Rocha CR, Shepherd B (2017)
Zookeys 709:127-134

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