Richard P. Vari

Richard P. Vari (August 24, 1949 – January 15, 2016), U.S. ichthyologist.

Curator of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 24 taxon names authored by Richard P. Vari

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• Variichthys Allen, 1993

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1978

• Vari, R.P. 1978. The genus Leptagoniates (Pisces: Characoidei) with a description of a new species from Bolivia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91(1): 184-190. BHL Reference page. 

1980

• Vari, R.P. & Géry, J. 1980. Cheirodon ortegai, a new markedly sexually dimorphic cheirodontine (Pisces: Characoidea) from the Río Ucayali of Peru. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93(1): 75–82. BHL Reference page. 

1983

• Vari, R. P. 1983. Phylogenetic relationships of the families Curimatidae, Prochilodontidae, Anostomidae, and Chilodontidae (Pisces: Characiformes). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 378: 1–60. Reference page. 

1987

• Weitzman, S.H. & Vari, R.P. 1987. Two new species and a new genus of miniature characid fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from northern South America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100(3): 640–652. BHL Reference page. 

1991

• Vari, R.P. & Howe, J.C. 1991. Catalog of type specimens of Recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 1. Characiformes (Teleostei, Ostariophysi). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 517: 1–52. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.517 Reference page. 

1995

• Vari, R. P. 1995. The neotropical fish family Ctenoluciidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes): supra and intrafamilial phylogenetic relationships, with a revisionary study. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology no. 564: iv + 97 pp. (PDF)

2000

• Fernández, L. & Vari, R.P. 2000. New Species of Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) Lacking a Pelvic Fin and Girdle from the Andes of Argentina. Copeia 2000(4): 990–996. Abstract

2003

• Castro, R.M.C. & Vari, R.P. in Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & C.J. Ferraris, Jr. 2003. Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America.: i–xi + 1–729. (PDF)

2004

• Castro, R.M.C. & Vari, R.P. 2004. Detritivores of the South American fish family Prochilodontidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes): a phylogenetic and revisionary study. Smithsonian contributions to zoology (622)

2005

• Zanata, A.M. & Vari, R.P. 2005. The family Alestidae (Ostariophysi, Characiformes): a phylogenetic analysis of a trans-Atlantic clade. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145: 1–144. PDF.

2006

• Vari, R.P. & Chang, F. 2006. Cyphocharax derhami, a new species (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Curimatidae) from northeastern Peru. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 17(1): 93–96 (PDF)

2007

• Ferraris, C.J., Jr. & Vari, R.P. 2007. Copeia 2007(4): 866–885 [1]

2009

• Lucinda, P.H.F & Vari, R.P. 2009. New Steindachnerina species (Teleostei: Characiformes: Curimatidae) from the Rio Tocantins Drainage. Copeia 2009(1): 142–147 PDF.

2010

• de Santana, C. D. & Vari, R. 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.
• de Santana, C. D. & Vari, R. P. 2010. New Rheophilic Species of Electric Knifefish from the Rapids and Waterfalls of the Lower Rio Xingu, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Copeia 2010(1): 160–164.
• Vari, R.P., Zanata, A.M. & Camelier, P. 2010. New species of Cyphocharax (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Curimatidae) from the Rio de Contas drainage, Bahia, Brazil. Copeia 2010 (3): 382–387. Print ISSN: 0045-8511. Abstract

2011

• Oliveira, C., Avelino, G.S., Abe, K.T., Mariguela, T.C., Benine, R.C., Orti, G., Vari, R.P. & Correa e Castro, R.M. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 275. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-275
• Ferraris, C.J., Jr., Vari, R.P. & Skelton, P.H. 2011. A new genus of African loach catfish (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae) from the Congo River basin, the sister-group to all other genera of the Doumeinae, with the description of two new species. Copeia 2011 (4): 477–489. DOI: 10.1643/CI-11-005
• Sidlauskas, B.L., J.H. Mol & Vari, R.P. 2011. Dealing with allometry in linear and geometric morphometrics: a taxonomic case study in the Leporinus cylindriformis group (Characiformes: Anostomidae) with description of a new species from Suriname. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162: 103–130.

2012

• Vari, R.P., Ferraris, C.J., Jr. & Skelton, P.H. 2012. New species of Congoglanis (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae) from the southern Congo River basin. Copeia, 2012 (4): 626–630. DOI: 10.1643/CI-12-029 Reference page. 
• Ballen, G.A. & Vari, R. P. 2012. Review of the Andean armored catfishes of the genus Dolichancistrus Isbrücker (Siluriformes: Loricariidae). Neotropical Ichthyology 10(3): 499–518. (PDF) Reference page. 
• Fernández, L. & Vari, R.P. 2012. New Species of Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from the Andean Cordillera of Argentina and the Second Record of the Genus in Thermal Waters. Copeia 2012 (4): 631–636.
• Vari, R.P., Sidlauskas, B.L. & Le Bail, P.Y. 2012. New species of Cyphocharax (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Curimatidae) from Suriname and French Guiana and a discussion of curimatid diversity on the Guiana Shield. Cybium 36(1): 63–69.
• Vari, R.P. & R.K. Hadiaty 2012. The endemic Sulawesi fish genus Lagusia (Teleostei: Terapontidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60(1): 157–162. (PDF)
• Ferraris, C.J. Jr. & Vari, R.P. 2012. Review of the African catfish genus Andersonia (Teleostei: Siluriformes). Zootaxa 3210: 39–49. Preview (PDF) (PDF)

2014

• Arcila, D., Vari, R.P. & Menezes, N.A. 2014. Revision of the Neotropical Genus Acrobrycon (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae) with Description of Two New Species. Copeia 2013 (4) [2014]: 604–611. Reference page. 

2015

• Dillman, C.B., Sidlauskas, B.L. & Vari, R.P. 2016 (online 2015). A morphological supermatrix-based phylogeny for the Neotropical fish superfamily Anostomoidea (Ostariophysi: Characiformes): phylogeny, missing data and homoplasy. Cladistics 32(3): 276–296. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12127 Reference page. 

2016

• Melo, B.F., Vari R.P. & Oliveira, C. 2016. Curimatopsis maculosa, a new species from the Rio Tapajós, Amazon basin, Brazil (Teleostei: Curimatidae). Ichthyological Eexploration of Freshwaters 27(4): 303–308. Reference page. 
• Vari, R.P., Melo, B.F. & Oliveira, C. 2016. Protocheirodon, a new genus of Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes) with the redescription of the poorly known Protocheirodon pi. Neotropical Ichthyology 14(2): e150154. DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20150154 Reference page. 
• Melo, B.F., Sidlauskas, B.L., Hoekzema, K., Frable, B.W., Vari, R.P. & Oliveira, C. 2016. Molecular phylogenetics of the Neotropical fish family Prochilodontidae (Teleostei: Characiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102: 189–201. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.037 Reference page. 
• Melo, B.F., Ochoa, L.E., Vari, R.P. & Oliveira, C. 2016. Cryptic species in the Neotropical fish genus Curimatopsis (Teleostei, Characiformes). Zoologica Scripta 45(6): 650–658. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12178 . Reference page. 

2019

• de Santana, C.D., Crampton, W.G.R., Dillman, C.B., Frederico, R.G., Sabaj, M.H., Covain, R., Ready, J.S., Zuanon, J.A.S., Oliveira, R.R. de, Mendes-Júnior, R.N., Bastos, D.A., Teixeira, T. F., Mol, J.H., Ohara, W.M., Castro e Castro, N., Peixoto, L.A.W., Nagamachi, C., Sousa, L.M., Montag, L.F.A., Ribeiro, F.R.V., Waddell, J.C., Piorsky, N.M., Vari, R.P. & Wosiacki, W.B. 2019. Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator. Nature communications 10: 4000. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11690-z Reference page. 

Links

• Research, Division of Fishes, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, NMNH.
• Fisch-Muller, S., Mol, J.H., Le Bail, P.Y., Sidlauskas, B.L. & Covain R. 2016. In Memoriam Dr Richard P. Vari (1949–2016). Cybium 40(2): 107. Online.