Area of general interest: Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of teleost fishes.
Main group of interest: Gymnotiformes.
Education
PhD (in progress) in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (zoology), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Institute of Biology), 2014- present. Dissertation: “Sistemática do Complexo de espécies Gymnotus pantherinus (Steindachner, 1908) (Gymnotiformes; Gymnotidae)”.
M.Sc. degree in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (zoology), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Institute of Biology), 2014. Dissertation: “Variação Morfológica e Taxonomia do Complexo Gymnotus pantherinus (Gymnotiformes; Gymnotidae)”.
B.S. in Biology (Zoology), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Institute of Biology), 2012. Dissertation: “Descrição deuma nova espécie de peixe elétrico da bacia do Rio de Contas, Bahia, Brasil (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae)”.
Papers Published In Scientific Journals:
Rangel-Pereira, F. S. . Gymnotus capitimaculatus, a new species of electric fish from rio Jucuruçu basin, northeastern Brazil (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae). Vertebrate Zoology, v. 64, p. 169-175, 2014.
Rangel-Pereira, F. S. . Gymnotus interruptus, a new species of electric fish from the Rio de Contas basin, Bahia, Brazil (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae). Vertebrate Zoology, v. 62, p. 363-370, 2012.
Field Experience ( All Include Fish Collections)
East of Brazil (2010-2014); over 40 field trips to coastal and main river basins).
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Speaking knowledge of Portuguese, English; reading knowledge of Spanish.
Technical Skills
Expertise in dissections and preparation of cleared and stained material of small vertebrates for osteological studies.
Familiarity with several digital imaging and phylogenetic analysis programs.
Scientific Visits To Museum Collections
Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Ichthyology collection, Porto Alegre (February 2013).
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Ichthyology collection, São Paulo (April 2013).
Experience in academic classes
Invited professor of “General and Aplied Ichthyology- Laboratory Techniques, Gymnotiformes and Ostariophysi sections”, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2012; 2013.
Social Projects
Conservação na escola: protegendo o mundo do peixe-de-nuvem [Conservation at the school: protecting the cloud-fish world], directed to school children of poor tropical regions of South America and Africa (primarily Brazil and Mozambique), to teach about diversity and conservation of cloud-fishes (endangered aplocheiloid killifishes), from 2012 to the present.