Luiz A. Rocha

Luiz A. Rocha, U.S. ichthyologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Weaver D.C. & Rocha, L.A. 2007. A New Species of Halichoeres (Teleostei: Labridae) from the Western Gulf of Mexico. Copeia 2007(4): 798–807. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[798:ANSOHT]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR, ResearchGate Reference page.
Wirtz, P., Ferreira, C.E.L., Floeter, S.R., Fricke, R., Gasparini, J.L. Iwamoto, T., Rocha, L.A., Sampaio, C.L.S. & Schliewen, U. 2007. Coastal fishes of São Tomé and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (eastern Atlantic Ocean) – an update. Zootaxa 1523: 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1523.1.1 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

Luiz, O.J., Jr., Ferreira, C.E.L. & Rocha, L.A. 2009. Halichoeres sazimai, a new species of wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from the Western South Atlantic. Zootaxa 2092(1): 37–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2092.1.3 Reference page.

Fernandez-Silva, I., Randall, J.E., Coleman, R.R., DiBattista, J.D., Rocha, L.A., Reimer, J.D., Meyer, C.G. & Bowen, B.W. 2015. Yellow tails in the Red Sea: phylogeography of the Indo-Pacific goatfish Mulloidichthys flavolineatus reveals isolation in peripheral provinces and cryptic evolutionary lineages. Journal of Biogeography 42: 2402–2413. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12598 Reference page.

Anderson, W.D. Jr., Greene, B.D. & Rocha, L.A. 2016. Grammatonotus brianne, a new callanthiid fish from Philippine waters, with short accounts of two other Grammatonotus from the Coral Triangle. Zootaxa 4173(3): 289–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.3.7. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Pinheiro, H.T., Bernardi, G. & Rocha, L.A. 2016. Pempheris gasparinii, a new species of sweeper fish from Trindade Island, southwestern Atlantic (Teleostei, Pempheridae). ZooKeys 561: 105–115. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.561.7263.Reference page.
Coleman, R.R., Eble, J.A., DiBattista, J.D., Rocha, L.A., Randall, J.E., Berumen, M.L. & Bowen, B.W. 2016. Regal phylogeography: Range-wide survey of the marine angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus reveals evolutionary partitions between the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 243–253. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.005 Reference page.
DiBattista, J.D., Whitney, J., Craig, M.T., Hobbs, J.-P.A., Rocha, L.A., Feldheim, K.A., Berumen, M.L. & Bowen, B.W. 2016. Surgeons and suture zones: Hybridization among four surgeonfish species in the Indo-Pacific with variable evolutionary outcomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 101: 203–215. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.036 Reference page.

Rocha, L.A., Pinheiro, H.T., Wandell, M., Rocha, C.R. & Shepherd, B. 2017. Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. ZooKeys 709: 127–134. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.709.20404. Reference page.

Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C. & Rocha, L.A. 2018. Tosanoides aphrodite, a new species from mesophotic coral ecosystems of St. Paul’s Rocks, Mid Atlantic Ridge (Perciformes, Serranidae, Anthiadinae). ZooKeys 786: 105–115. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.786.27382 Reference page.
Shepherd, B., Phelps, T., Pinheiro, H.T., Pérez-Matus, A. & Rocha, L.A. 2018. Plectranthias ahiahiata, a new species of perchlet from a mesophotic ecosystem at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae). ZooKeys 762: 105–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.762.24618 Reference page.

Arango, B.G., Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C., Greene, B.D., Pyle, R.L., Copus, J.M., Shepherd, B. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. Zookeys, 835: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.835.27528 Reference page.
Pinheiro, H.T., Shepherd, B., Greene, B.D. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Liopropoma incandescens sp. nov. (Epinephelidae, Liopropominae), a new species of basslet from mesophotic coral ecosystems of Pohnpei, Micronesia. Zookeys, 863: 97–106. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.863.33778 Reference page.
Tea, Y-K., Pinheiro, H.T., Shepherd, B. & Rocha, L.A. 2019. Cirrhilabrus wakanda, a new species of fairy wrasse from mesophotic ecosystems of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa (Teleostei, Labridae). Zookeys, 863: 85–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.863.35580 Reference page.

McFarland, E.P., Baldwin, C.C., Robertson, D.R., Rocha, L.A. & Tornabene, L. 2020. A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae). ZooKeys, 1008: 107–138. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1008.58805 Reference page.
Shepherd, B., Phelps, T.A.Y., Pinheiro, H.T., Rocha, C.R. & Rocha, L.A. 2020. Two new species of Plectranthias (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems in the tropical Central Pacific. ZooKeys, 941: 145–161. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.941.50243 Reference page.
Tea, Y.-K., Pyle, R.L. & Rocha, L.A. 2020. A New Species of Fairy Wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae: Cirrhilabrus) from Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of the Verde Island Passage, Philippiness. Copeia 108(1) 91–102. DOI: 10.1643/CI-19-297 Online with link to PDF. Reference page.

Shepherd, B., Pinheiro, H.T., Phelps, T.A.Y., Pérez-Matus, A. & Rocha, L.A. 2021. Pseudanthias hangapiko, a new anthiadine serranid (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from Rapa Nui (Easter Island). 2021. ZooKeys 1054: 1–13. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1054.64508 Reference page.

Tea, Y-K., Najeeb, A., Rowlett, J. & Rocha, L.A. 2022. Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa (Teleostei, Labridae), a new species of fairy wrasse from the Maldives, with comments on the taxonomic identity of C. rubrisquamis and C. wakanda. ZooKeys 1088ː 65–80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1088.78139 Reference page.

Rocha, L.A., Pinheiro, H.T., Najeeb, A., Rocha, C.R. & Shepherd, B. 2024. Chromis abadhah (Teleostei, Pomacentridae), a new species of damselfish from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Maldives. ZooKeys 1219: 165–174. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1219.126777 Reference page.