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Website "VerteGo" under construction on the comparative gonad morphology of vertebrates.

Education

Ph.D. Biology, 1980, City University of New York
B.S. Biological Sciences, 1975, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Interests

Systematics, Phylogeny and Biogeography of Tropical Freshwater and Coastal Marine Fishes; Comparative Teleost Anatomy, Development and Reproduction, especially applying neglected character sets; Theory and Methods of Historical Biogeography.

Selected Publications

Parenti, L. R. 1981. A phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of cyprinodontiform fishes (Teleostei, Atherinomorpha). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History,168(4):335 557, 99 figures, 3 tables. [Download from http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/]

Parenti, L. R. 1984. A taxonomic revision of the Andean killifish genus Orestias (Cyprinodontiformes, Cyprinodontidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 178(2): 107 214, 72 figures, 12 tables. [Download from http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/]

Stiassny, M. L. J., L. R. Parenti & G. D. Johnson (eds). 1996. Interrelationships of Fishes. Academic Press, San Diego. 497 pages.

Humphries, C. J. & L. R. Parenti. 1999. Cladistic biogeography: interpreting patterns of plant and animal distributions, Second edition. Oxford University Press. 187 pages, 84 figures, 11 tables.

Claro, R., K. C. Lindeman & L. R. Parenti (eds.). 2002. Ecology of the Marine Fishes of Cuba. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. xv + 253 pages. [Dated 2001].

Parenti, L. R. & H. J. Grier. 2004. Evolution and phylogeny of gonad morphology in bony fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 44(5):333-348, 4 figures, 1 table.
Parenti, L. R. &. B. Soeroto. 2004. Adrianichthys roseni and Oryzias nebulosus, two new ricefishes (Atherinomorpha: Beloniformes: Adrianichthyidae) from Lake Poso, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Ichthyological Research, 51(1):10-19, 8 figures, 6 tables.

Parenti, L. R. 2005. The phylogeny of atherinomorphs: evolution of a novel reproductive system. Pp. 13-30, 11 figures, 1 table, In: Viviparous Fishes. Proceedings of the I and II International Symposia. M. del. C. Uribe & H. J. Grier (eds.). New Life Publications, Homestead, FL.

Parenti, L. R. & K. K. P. Lim. 2005. Fishes of the Rajang Basin, Sarawak, Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement no. 13:175-208, 11 figures, 2 appendices.

Parenti, L.R. 2006. Common cause and historical biogeography. Pp. 61-82, 5 figures, In: Biogeography in a Changing World, M. C. Ebach and R. Tangney, eds. Fifth Biennial Conference of the Systematics Association, UK. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.