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Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
28
Citations
2984
World Ranking
2682
National Ranking
118

Overview

Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research spans multiple fields, including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. The subfields engaged in by this scientist include Molecular Biology, Paleontology, Microbiology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

Their work addresses a wide range of topics, notably:

  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
  • Microbial infections and disease research
  • Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha has published extensively in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Zootaxa, Systematic Biology, Biota Neotropica, and PeerJ.

Their recent research publications include:

  • "Phylogenomics of Scorpions Reveal Contemporaneous Diversification of Scorpion Mammalian Predators and Mammal-Active Sodium Channel Toxins", 2022, Systematic Biology
  • "The Phylogeny and Evolution of the Flashiest of the Armored Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones)", 2020, Systematic Biology
  • "Morphological and molecular phylogeny of Epiperipatus (Onychophora: Peripatidae): a combined approach", 2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Mischonyx Bertkau, 1880, with taxonomic changes and three new species description (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae)", 2021, PeerJ
  • "Natural history museums and zoological collections of São Paulo State", 2022, Biota Neotropica

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jairo A. Moreno-González
  • Jonas Eduardo Gallão
  • Alípio Rezende Benedetti
  • Caio Gueratto
  • Daniel Castro-Pereira

Best Publications

  • Harvestmen: the biology of Opiliones

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Glauco Machado;Gonzalo Giribet

  • FAUNISTIC SIMILARITY AND HISTORIC BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE HARVESTMEN OF SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEASTERN ATLANTIC RAIN FOREST OF BRAZIL

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Márcio Bernardino da Silva;Cibele Bragagnolo

  • Harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) species distribution along three Neotropical elevational gradients: an alternative rescue effect to explain Rapoport's rule?

    Mário Almeida‐Neto;Glauco Machado;Ricardo Pinto‐da‐Rocha;Ariovaldo A. Giaretta

  • Bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae, Nycteribiidae) parasitic on bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) at Parque Estadual da Cantareira, São Paulo, Brazil: parasitism rates and host-parasite associations.

    Patrícia Beloto Bertola;Caroline Cotrim Aires;Sandra Elisa Favorito;Gustavo Graciolli

  • Systematic review of the neotropical family stygnidae: (opiliones, laniatores, gonyleptoidea)

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

  • Harvestmen in an Atlantic forest fragmented landscape: Evaluating assemblage response to habitat quality and quantity

    Cibele Bragagnolo;André A. Nogueira;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Renata Pardini

  • Phylogeny of harvestmen family Gonyleptidae inferred from a multilocus approach (Arachnida: Opiliones)

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Cibele Bragagnolo;Fernando P. L. Marques;Manuel Antunes Junior

  • A protocol for the delimitation of areas of endemism and the historical regionalization of the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest using harvestmen distribution data

    Marcio Bernardino DaSilva;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Adriano Medeiros DeSouza

  • Systematic review and cladistic analysis of the brazilian subfamily Caelopyginae (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae)

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

  • Patterns of Species and Lineage Diversity in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

    Elen A. Peres;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Lúcia G. Lohmann;Fabián A. Michelangeli

  • Three new species of Cosmetidae C.L. Koch, 1839 from South America (Opiliones: Cosmetidae).

    M Conchita Pinzón;Brittany Damron;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha

  • Revision of the southern Andean genus Sadocus Sørensen, 1886 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae, Pachylinae).

    Marília Pessoa-Silva;Marcos Ryotaro Hara;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

  • Two new Colombian harvestmen of the genus Quindina Roewer, 1914 (Opiliones: Nomoclastidae).

    Conchita A Pinzón Morales;Ricardo Pinto-DA-Rocha

  • Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Metalibitia Roewer, 1912 (Opiliones, Cosmetidae, Cosmetinae)

    Amanda Coronato-Ribeiro;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha

  • Description of two new species of Progonyleptoidellus (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae), with a cladistic analysis of the genus, an overview of relationships in the K92 group, and taxonomic notes on Deltaspidium.

    Alípio R. Benedetti;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha

  • Description of two new species of Magnispina and a new hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships for Heteropachylinae (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae)

    Caio Gueratto;Amanda Cruz Mendes;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha

  • Two new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 from Brazil with biological notes (Arachnida; Amblypygi; Charinidae)

    Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha;Glauco MacHado;Peter Weygoldt

  • Lines of defense in the harvestman Hoplobunus mexicanus (Arachnida: Opiliones): Aposematism, stridulation, thanatosis, and irritant chemicals

    Armando Mateus Pomini;Glauco Machado;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez

  • POPULATION DYNAMICS OF AN ISOLATED POPULATION OF THE HARVESTMAN ILHAIA CUSPIDATA (OPILIONES, GONYLEPTIDAE), IN ARAUCARIA FOREST (CURITIBA, PARANÁ, BRAZIL)

    Luiz Augusto Macedo Mestre;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

  • SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF THE NEOTROPICAL CLUB-TAILED SCORPIONS, PHYSOCTONUS, RHOPALURUS, AND TROGLORHOPALURUS, REVALIDATION OF HETEROCTENUS, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW GENERA AND THREE NEW SPECIES (BUTHIDAE: RHOPALURUSINAE)

    Lauren A. Esposito;Humberto Y. Yamaguti;Cláudio A. Souza;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha

  • Revision of Thaumatocranaus Roewer, 1932, with description of two new species (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea).

    Marcos R. Hara;Cibele Bragagnolo;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha

  • Historical relationships of areas of endemism of the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest: a cladistic biogeographic analysis of harvestman taxa (Arachnida: Opiliones)

    Marcio B. DaSilva;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Juan J. Morrone

  • Systematic review and cladistic analysis of the genus Eusarcus Perty 1833 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae)

    Marcos Ryotaro Hara;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha

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

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Adriano B. Kury

  • A Comparative Cytogenetic Analysis of 2 Bothriuridae Species and Overview of the Chromosome Data of Scorpiones

    Marielle C. Schneider;Adilson A. Zacaro;Ricardo Pinto-Da-Rocha;Denise M. Candido

  • Phylogenetics and phylogeography of a long-legged harvestman (Arachnida : Opiliones) in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest reveals poor dispersal, low diversity and extensive mitochondrial introgression

    Cibele Bragagnolo;Cibele Bragagnolo;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Manuel Antunes;Ronald M. Clouse;Ronald M. Clouse

  • Taxonomic review of Bourguyiinae, cladistic analysis, and a new hypothesis of biogeographic relationships of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest (Arachnida: Opiliones, Gonyleptidae)

    Humberto Yoji Yamaguti;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

  • Systematic review and cladistic analysis of the Hernandariinae (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae)

    Marcio Bernardino DaSilva;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

  • Litter size, effects of maternal body size, and date of birth in South American scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones)

    Sabrina Outeda-Jorge;Thayná Mello;Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha

  • Systematic revision of the neotropical club-tailed scorpions, Physoctonus, Rhopalurus, and Troglorhopalurus, revalidation of Heteroctenus, and descriptions of two new genera and three new species (Buthidae, Rhopalurusinae). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 415)

    Lauren A. Esposito;Humberto Y. Yamaguti;Cláudio A. Souza;Ricardo. Pinto-da-Rocha

Frequent Co-Authors

Adriano B. Kury
Adriano B. Kury Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Glauco Machado
Glauco Machado Universidade de São Paulo
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta
Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta Federal University of Uberlândia
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Ana Carolina Carnaval
Ana Carolina Carnaval City University of New York
Arlei Marcili
Arlei Marcili Universidade de São Paulo
Pedro Marcos Linardi
Pedro Marcos Linardi Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Gustavo Graciolli
Gustavo Graciolli Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul

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