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Adriano B. Kury is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on taxonomy and biodiversity, with a significant contribution to the study of arachnids, particularly harvestmen (Opiliones).

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches (2021), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • WCO-Lite version 1.1: an online nomenclatural catalogue of harvestmen of the world (Arachnida, Opiliones) curated in TaxonWorks (2021), Zootaxa
  • Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae) (2021), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil: Setting the baseline knowledge on the animal diversity in Brazil (2024), Zoologia (Curitiba)
  • A new subfamily of Gonyleptidae formed by false Discocyrtus Holmberg, 1878 from Brazil, with revalidation of Pachylobos Piza, 1940 and description of a new genus (2020), Zoologischer Anzeiger

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Miguel Medrano
  • Rafael N. Carvalho
  • Osvaldo Villarreal
  • Amanda Cruz Mendes
  • Andrés F. García

Adriano B. Kury has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Zootaxa
  • Zoologischer Anzeiger
  • Journal of Arachnology
  • Journal of Natural History
  • European Journal of Taxonomy

Their contributions include book publications, notably a work published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the WCO-Lite project, which catalogs valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and publication dates up to 2018.

Their main fields of study are Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these disciplines, they focus on several subfields:

  • Paleontology
  • Oceanography
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Genetics
  • Ecology

The central topics explored in their research encompass:

  • Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation

Best Publications

  • Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Zhi-Qiang Zhang;John Na Hooper;Rob Wm Van Soest;Andrzej Pisera

  • Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World: (Arachnida, Opiliones)

    Adriano B. Kury

  • A multilocus approach to harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) phylogeny with emphasis on biogeography and the systematics of Laniatores

    Gonzalo Giribet;Lars Vogt;Abel Pérez González;Prashant Pradeep Sharma

  • The prickly blade mapped: establishing homologies and a chaetotaxy for macrosetae of penis ventral plate in Gonyleptoidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores)

    Adriano B. Kury;M Osvaldo Villarreal

  • Order Opiliones Sundevall, 1833. In : Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

    Adriano Brilhante Kury

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Review of terminology for the outline of dorsal scutum in Laniatores (Arachnida, Opiliones).

    Adriano B. Kury;Miguel Medrano

  • Characterization of Platymessa with redescription of the type species and a new generic synonymy (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae)

    Miguel Medrano;Adriano B. Kury

  • Taxonomic revision of the Andean harvestman genus Rhaucus Simon, 1879 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae).

    Andrés F. García;Adriano B. Kury

  • The short-legged Andean cosmetids revisited: the genus Libitia Simon, 1879 with description of two new species (Opiliones, Cosmetidae)

    Miguel Medrano;Ludson Neves de Ázara;Adriano Brilhante Kury

  • Early lineages of Gonyleptidae (Arachnida Opiliones Laniatores)

    Adriano B. Kury

  • Taxonomic revision of the Andean genus Eulibitia Roewer, 1912 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae), with the description of five new species

    Miguel Medrano;Adriano B. Kury

  • Contributions to the taxonomy of some Amazonian Stygnidae (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea).

    Osvaldo Villarreal;Adriano B. Kury;Pío A. Colmenares

  • Why does the Tricommatinae position bounce so much within Laniatores? A cladistic analysis, with description of a new family of Gonyleptoidea (Opiliones, Laniatores)

    Adriano B. Kury

  • A whiter shade of pale: anchoring the name Paecilaema C. L. Koch, 1839 onto a neotype (Opiliones, Cosmetidae).

    Adriano B Kury;Miguel Medrano

  • On Spinopilar from Rio de Janeiro state with description of three new species (Opiliones, Laniatores, Cryptogeobiidae).

    Adriano B. Kury;Débora C. Araujo

  • A new genus and eight new species of Amazonian cosmetines (Opiliones, Laniatores, Cosmetidae)

    Adriano B Kury;Carla Ml Barros

  • A new species of Lacronia Strand, 1942 from the highlands of Rio de Janeiro (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae, Pachylinae)

    Adriano B. Kury;Victor G.D. Orrico

  • A review of Roquettea, with description of three new Brazilian species and notes on Gryne (Opiliones, Cosmetidae, Discosomaticinae).

    Cláudio P. Ferreira;Adriano B. Kury

  • PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF SANTINEZIA WITH DESCRIPTION OF FIVE NEW SPECIES (OPILIONES, LANIATORES, CRANAIDAE)

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Adriano B. Kury

  • REDESCRIPTION OF THE TYPE SPECIES OF CYNORTA (ARACHNIDA, OPILIONES, COSMETIDAE)

    Adriano Brilhante Kury;Osvaldo Villarreal Manzanilla;Cristiano Sampaio

  • Further dismemberment of Discocyrtus with description of a new Amazonian genus and a new subfamily of Gonyleptidae (Opiliones, Laniatores)

    Rafael N. Carvalho;Adriano B. Kury

  • Addenda and corrigenda to the "Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones)"

    Adriano B. Kury;Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga

  • Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II—Araneae

    Thiago Da Silva Moreira;Renner L. C. Baptista;Adriano B. Kury;Alessandro P. L. Giupponi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha Universidade de São Paulo
David C. Lees
David C. Lees Natural History Museum
Uwe Fritz
Uwe Fritz American Museum of Natural History
Don E. Wilson
Don E. Wilson National Museum of Natural History
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum
Hans Klompen
Hans Klompen The Ohio State University
Jean-François Trape
Jean-François Trape Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
D. Christopher Rogers
D. Christopher Rogers Northeastern State University
William A. Shear
William A. Shear American Museum of Natural History
Gilberto J. de Moraes
Gilberto J. de Moraes Universidade de São Paulo

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