JMIH 2011 abstracts

[Suckermouth]

Hey all, below is a list of links with abstracts of talks and posters at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists this year that may be of interest to you all. As the JMIH has a very broad audience, I took the time to pick out the titles and authors of catfish-related abstracts (that I remembered) and listed them below, some with my own notes in parentheses. These abstracts are usually yet-to-be published results, and a number of abstracts include only preliminary results, but you can get a glance at some of the scientific papers that you can look forward to be published within the next couple years.

http://www.dce.k-state.edu/conf/jointmeeting/abstracts

A-E:

Alberto Akama
Damming the Amazon: Impacts on Fish Fauna
( This talk was not focused on catfishes but is something of interest to people here )

Flávio Bockmann, Roberto Reis
Two New, Beautifully-Colored Species of the Neotropical Catfish Cetopsorhamdia Eigenmann and Fisher, 1916 (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae) from Western Brazil, with a Cladistic Analysis of the Genus

Mario de Pinna
Structure and Relationships of Primitive Loricarioid Catfishes (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae and Nematogenyidae): Effects of Long-branches and Taxonomic Density in Lower Loricarioid Phylogeny

Vinícius Espíndola, Marcelo Britto
A New Synapomorphy of the Clade II in the Subfamily Corydoradinae

F-K:
Melissa Gibbs
Stetson University, DeLand, FL, USA
Age and Growth Patterns of the Loricariid Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus, in Volusia Blue Spring, Florida

Pedro Hollanda Carvalho, Sergio Lima, Claudio Zawadzki, Claudio Oliveira, Mario Pinna
Speciation in the Upper Parana River as Exemplified by the Hypostomus ancistroides (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) Complex

L-Q:
Chenhong Li, J. Andrés López, Tuuli Makinen, Richard Broughton, Guillermo Ortí
Ostariophysan Phylogeny: Characiformes and Siluriformes are Sister Taxa

Masaki Miya, Masanori Nakatani, Kohji Mabuchi, Kenji Saitoh, Mutsumi Nishida
Evolutionary History of Otophysi (Teleostei), a Major Clade of the Modern Freshwater Fishes: Pangaean Origin and Mesozoic Radiation
( This poster presented the results of the paper posted in a prior thread )

R-Z:

Mark Sabaj Pérez, José Birindelli, Leandro Sousa, André Netto-Ferreira, Nathan Lujan
Piscatorial Travelogue of the 2007 ACSI-PIPE Expedition to Serra do Cachimbo, Brazil
( This talk did not focus on catfishes, but showed off an expedition funded by the All Catfish Species Inventory )

C. Keith Ray, Jonathan Armbruster
Redescription and Morphometric Analysis of Isorineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
( Isorineloricaria is the H. emarginatus group sensu Armbruster 2004 )

Roberto Reis, Pablo Lehmann
A New Genus and Five New Species of Cascudinhos of the Subfamily Hypoptopomatinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Northern South America

Alexandre C. Ribeiro, Flávio C.T. Lima, Édson H.L. Pereira
A New Genus and Species of a Minute Suckermouth Armored Catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Tocantins Drainage, Central Brazil
( This poster was cancelled and was not actually presented at the meetings )

Michael Sandel
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Comparative Phylogeography of Coastal Plain Fishes and Amphibians
( This talk did not focus specifically on catfishes, but included phylogenetic analysis of Noturus gyrinus )

Milton Tan
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Molecular Phylogenetics of Hypancistrus (Loricariidae: Siluriformes)
( The abstract is an early one and is inaccurate; I only presented a phylogeny based on cytochrome b )

Alfred Thomson
Molecular Phylogenetics of the African Catfish Family Amphiliidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes)

Jeremy Wright
Adaptive Significance of Venom Glands in the Tadpole Madtom (Noturus gyrinus)

Jeremy Wright, Reeve Bailey
Systematic Revision of the Formerly Monotypic Genus Tanganikallabes (Siluriformes: Clariidae)

[racoll]

How did your presentation go? Any good feedback?

The Zootaxa special issue on fish systematics (morphology vs. molecules) was published on the 8th, actually during the meeting (no accident I am sure).

Judging by the tone of some of those letters, I imagine there were a few "interesting" discussions on those evenings.

[Suckermouth]

How did your presentation go? Any good feedback?

It went well! I just did a poster. I got some positive feedback and comments, and I have a pretty clear idea of my next steps. I'm actually going with S7, I met a guy who developed primers that he's gotten to work in both trichs and plotosids, so unless loricariids are really weird I'm pretty confident those will work.

Judging by the tone of some of those letters, I imagine there were a few "interesting" discussions on those evenings.

Maybe I wasn't in the right circles but I didn't hear about those papers until after coming back from the meetings! But Smith's presentation and response to Mooi & Gill was mellow compared to Conway and Britz's response to Mayden & Chen's Paedocypris/Cypriniformes study. Those presentations were on the last day of the meeting, though, so there wasn't much chance for people to discuss those!