PJP Whitehead’s scientific contributions

... One such species, Platanichthys platana (Regan, 1917), is the Clupeidae found in Brazil (Menni, 2004;Oliveira, 1997), whose typelocality is the Río de La Plata. This species inhabits coastal, freshwater, and brackish waters in the lagoons, estuaries, and rivers of southeastern South America, specifically from the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro to the La Plata region of Argentina, and Uruguay (Di Dario et al., 2011;Fialho et al., 2000;Nanini-Costa et al., 2016;Whitehead, 1985). Initial surveys of P. platana were conducted in the upper Rio Paraná basin in 2007 , but this species was not observed in the upper Rio Paraná floodplain (URPF)the only stretch of the Rio Paraná in Brazil that remains free of dams (Ota et al., 2018)-until 2012. ...

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The mitochondrial gene COI reveals the origin of the introduction of Platanichthys platana (Regan, 1917) (Clupeiformes, Clupeidae) in a Neotropical floodplain