T. Wongratana’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

... Genera and species represented in this study are arranged in alphabetical order by species name. Nomenclature and identification of PMBC specimens generally followed Whitehead (1985), Whitehead et al. (1988), Munroe et al. (1999a;1999b;1999c) and Wongratana et al. 26211, 2 specimens, 54.7-56.0 mm SL, PMBC 26212, 1 specimen, 66.8 mm SL. ...

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CLUPEIFORMES FISH (ACTINOPTERYGII: TELEOSTEI) IN THE REFERENCE COLLECTION OF PHUKET MARINE BIOLOGICAL CENTER

... The anchovy genus Stolephorus Lacépède, 1803 comprises 47 valid species inhabiting coastal waters in tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean (Wongratana 1983(Wongratana , 1987Whitehead et al. 1988;Wongratana et al. 1999;Kimura et al. 2009;Hata & Motomura 2018a, b, c, d, e, 2021a, b, c, 2022a, b, 2023a, b, 2024aHata et al. 2019Hata et al. , 2020aHata et al. , b, 2021Hata et al. , c, 2023aGangan et al. 2020). Although some species of the genus, such as Stolephorus balinensis (Bleeker, 1849), are abundantly caught and consumed as food fish or used as fish bait in tropical areas (Talwar & Kacker 1984;Whitehead et al. 1988;Wongratana et al. 1999;Yoshino 2005;White et al. 2013;Hata 2019Hata , 2020, several species are seemingly rare, only known from few specimens with little information known about their distributional ranges, ecology, morphology, or phylogeny (e.g., Stolephorus advenus Wongratana, 1987, Stolephorus leopardus Hata & Motomura, 2021c, Stolephorus ronquilloi Wongratana, 1983Hata & Motomura 2021c. ...

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Enhanced data on Stolephorus grandis and Stolephorus waitei (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae), two species endemic to the Sahul Shelf, western Pacific Ocean