Armando Ortega Lara

Dr. Armando Ortega Lara


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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 September 2015 in Copeia
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CHCarmen Liliana Hernández
Carmen Liliana Hernández
ALArmando Ortega Lara
Armando Ortega Lara
GSGian Carlo Sánchez-Garcés
Gian Carlo Sánchez-Garcés
MAMac H. Alford
Mac H. Alford
A recent taxonomic revision of the Neotropical catfish genus Rhamdia (Pisces: Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) reduced a number of described species to synonymy, especially under a broadly circumscribed R. quelen. Evidence is presented here from DNA sequence data, external morphology, and morphometrics that argues for the recognition of R. guatemalensis in Central and northern South America and R. saijaensis and R. cinerascens in the Pacific drainages of Colombia and Ecuador, respectively. The DNA data indicate that all trans-Andean samples form a monophyletic group, within which there are separate clades corresponding to R. laticauda and the synonymized R. guatemalensis, R. saijaensis, and R. cinerascens. The morphometric data substantiate the phylogenetic groupings, and in external morphology, each putative species has diagnostic characters. Rhamdia guatemalensis is characterized by insertion of the adipose fin closer to the dorsal fin than to the caudal fin and presence of a conspicuous lateral longitudina... En la más reciente revisión taxonómica de los bagres neotropicales del género Rhamdia (Pisces: Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) se redujo el número de especies descritas a sinónimos principalmente de la especie R. quelen. Presentamos aquí nueva evidencia a partir de datos de secuencias de ADN, morfología externa y morfometría que soporta el reconocimiento como especies válidas de R. guatemalensis con una distribución amplia que va desde Centroamérica hasta el norte de Suramérica y R. saijaensis y R. cinerascens en el Pacífico colombiano y ecuatoriano respectivamente. Los datos de ADN indican que todas las muestras transandinas forman un grupo monofilético, dentro del cual hay clados separados correspondientes a R. laticauda y las sinonimizadas R. guatemalensis, R. saijaensis y R. cinerascens. Los datos morfométricos corroboran los clados al demostrar las diferencias en forma entre las especies, así como la morfología externa permite establecer para cada especie una combinación de caracteres diferenciales. Rha...


1 January 2020 in Neotropical Ichthyology
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LOLuz E. Ochoa
Luz E. Ochoa
BMBruno Melo
Bruno Melo
JGJorge E. García-Melo
Jorge E. García-Melo
JMJavier A. Maldonado-Ocampo
Javier A. Maldonado-Ocampo
CSCamila de Souza
Camila de Souza
COClaudio Oliveira
Claudio Oliveira
Catfishes of the family Astroblepidae form a group composed by 82 valid species of the genus Astroblepus inhabiting high-gradient streams and rivers throughout tropical portions of the Andean Cordillera. Little has been advanced in the systematics and biodiversity of astroblepids other than an unpublished thesis, a single regional multilocus study and isolated species descriptions. Here, we examined 208 specimens of Astroblepus that apparently belong to 16 valid species from several piedmont rivers from northern Colombia to southern Peru. Using three single-locus approaches for species delimitation in combination with a species tree analysis estimated from three mitochondrial genes, we identified a total of 25 well-delimited lineages including eight valid and 17 potential undescribed species distributed in two monophyletic groups: the Central Andes Clade, which contains 14 lineages from piedmont rivers of the Peruvian Amazon, and the Northern Andes Clade with 11 lineages from trans- and cis-Andean rivers of Colombia and Ecuador, including the Orinoco, Amazon, and Magdalena-Cauca basins and Pacific coastal drainages. Results of species delimitation methods highlight several taxonomical incongruences in recently described species denoting potential synonymies.

1 July 2012 in Biota Colombiana
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ALArmando Ortega Lara
Armando Ortega Lara
OLOscar M. Lasso-Alcalá
Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá
CLCarlos A. Lasso
Carlos A. Lasso
GPGlenys Andrade de Pasquier
Glenys Andrade de Pasquier
JBJuan D. Bogotá-Gregory
Juan D. Bogotá-Gregory
Registros de literatura, complementados con la revisión de ejemplares de colección de referencia de peces del Instituto Humboldt - IAvH-P (Colombia), Estación Biológica de Rancho Grande - EBRG y Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Guanare - MCNG (Venezuela), muestran que 109 especies nativas de agua dulce y 14 de origen marino y estuarino habitan la subcuenca el río Catatumbo, constituyéndose en el sistema con mayor diversidad de especies de peces de la cuenca del Lago de Maracaibo. Estas especies pertenecen a 10 órdenes, 39 familias y 91 géneros. Los órdenes con mayor número de familias, géneros y especies fueron Siluriformes con 12 familias, 42 géneros y 60 especies, y Characiformes 11 familias, 24 géneros y 32 especies. Las familias con mayor riqueza fueron Loricariidae (16 géneros y 25 especies), Characidae (13 géneros y 18 especies) y Pimelodidae (6 géneros y 8 especies); presentando las restantes 37 familias entre una y cinco especies. De las 123 especies registradas, 69 fueron capturadas y catalogadas como resultados de los muestreos durante el presente estudio y 11 corresponden a nuevos registros para Colombia. Para el río Catatumbo se registraron 61 especies de las 68 consideradas endémicas para la cuenca del Lago de Maracaibo y se establecieron como especies pesqueras 40, de las cuales seis fueron marino-estuarinas y 34 dulceacuícolas. Se discute las variaciones del número de especies registradas en los diferentes listados y sus implicaciones en la riqueza de especies para la subcuenca del Catatumbo.

1 January 2011 in Neotropical Ichthyology
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ALArmando Ortega Lara
Armando Ortega Lara
NMNadia Milani
Nadia Milani
CDCarlos DoNascimiento
Carlos DoNascimiento
FNFrancisco Antonio VILLA NAVARRO
Francisco Antonio VILLA NAVARRO
JMJavier Alejandro Maldonado-Ocampo
Javier Alejandro Maldonado-Ocampo
Two new species of Imparfinis are described from the trans-Andean region of Colombia. Imparfinis timana is diagnosed by having longer anal fin base (12.4-15.5% in SL), in combination with long adipose fin (24.6-31.3% in SL), 5-6 gill rakers on the first ceratobranchial, 42-43 vertebrae and additional measurements. Imparfinis usmai is distinguished by the combination of first ray of dorsal fin longest, but not projected as a long filament, long adipose fin (21.1-27.0% in SL), maxillary barbel exceeding pelvic-fin base, 39-40 vertebrae, upper caudal-fin lobe pointed and longer than lower lobe, lower lobe rounded, 7-8 gill rakers on the first ceratobranchial, as well as additional measurements. Imparfinis timana is only known from río Guarapas, a small tributary of the upper course of the río Magdalena. Imparfinis usmai is broadly distributed in the upper basin of ríos Cauca and Magdalena, and in the lower Patía river basin. The restricted distribution of I. nemacheir to trans-Andean drainages (Atrato, Magdalena, and Lago de Maracaibo) is also discussed.

1 May 2020 in Zootaxa
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HAHenry D. Agudelo-Zamora
Henry D. Agudelo-Zamora
ALArmando Ortega Lara
Armando Ortega Lara
DTDonald Taphorn
Donald Taphorn
Characidium chancoense new species, is described from the transandean upper Río Cauca drainage in Colombia. It can be distinguished from all congeners by its pigmentation pattern that consists of 7–12 vertical bars, most of which are cuneate-shaped with the vertex ending on or just below the lateral-line scale series, except for the last 1–4, which are dorsoventrally elongate rectangular bars that extend well below the lateral line. Characidium chancoense is sympatric with C. caucanum Eigenmann, C. phoxocephalum Eigenmann, C. cf. zebra Eigenmann and C. cf. boavistae Steindachner. Unlike C. caucanum and C. cf. boavistae, C. chancoense does not appear to be sexually dimorphic.