Sébastien Lavoué
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Present position, address and contact:

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Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia
11800, Penang, Malaysia
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Email: microceb "at "  hotmail "dot " com

Research interests:

 Fish diversity, Evolution and Biogeography. Ongoing projects include:
  1. Systematics and biogeography of freshwater sardines (Clupeiformes)[USM-funded].
  2. Taxonomy and evolution of the African weakly electric fish genus Petrocephalus (Mormyridae).
  3. Evolutionary history of bony-tongue fishes (Osteoglossomorpha).

Selected recent publications:

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Lavoué S. (2020) Origins of Afrotropical freshwater fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188: 345-411. (doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz039(doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz039)

Hata H., Lavoué S., and Motomura H. (2020) Taxonomic status of seven nominal species of the anchovy genus Stolephorus described by Delsman (1931), Hardenberg (1933), and Dutt and Babu Rao (1959), with redescriptions of Stolephorus tri (Bleeker 1852) and Stolephorus waitei Jordan and Seale 1926 (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae). Ichthyological Research. 67(1): 7–38. (doi:10.1007/s10228-019-00697-7)

Hilton, E.J. and Lavoué S. (2018) A review of the systematic biology of fossil and living bony-tongue fishes, Osteoglossomorpha (Actinopterygii, Teleostei). Neotropical Ichthyology, 16(3): e180031 

​Lavoué S. (2016) Was Gondwanan breakup the cause of the intercontinental distribution of the Osteoglossiformes? A time-calibrated phylogenetic test combining molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 99, 34-43. (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.008) 

​​​Sullivan J.P., Lavoué S., and Hopkins C.D. (2016) Cryptomyrus: a new genus of Mormyridae (Teleostei) with two new species from Gabon, West-Central Africa. Zookeys, 561: 117-150. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.561.7137)





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