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Introduction

Roberto Reis holds a PhD in Zoology from the University of São Paulo (1994). He was a Visiting Schoolar at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1995-1996) and University of Central Florida, Orlando (2013). Currently, he is the Regional Chair of the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group of IUCN for South America. He is a Founder Member and twice Past-President of the Brazilian Society of Ichthyology, and Member of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH). In 2021 he received the Robert H. Gibbs Award for the outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology from the ASIH. He is an editor of the journals Ichthyology & Herpetology and PlosONE. His top edited books are Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes (1998), Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America (2003), and Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes (2011). He has extensive experience in the area of ichthyology, mainly systematics, taxonomy and conservation of Neotropical fishes, especially catfishes. Key interests include the discovery, documentation and description of biodiversity, the study of phylogenetic relationships using phenotypic and molecular evidence, biogeography, and the conservation and assessment of extinction risk of fishes. He has so far discovered and described with coauthors and students 12 new genera and 141 new species of fishes.