Artículos científicos

Galindo-Arana, E., Cruz-Escalona, V., Morales-Zárate, V., Tavera, J., Salinas-Zavala, C., López-García, J., Navia. A. (2025). Spatio-temporal patterns and drivers of intraspecific trophic variation of tropical coastal fishes. Biotropica. 57:e13411.

Puentes-Sayo, A., Ossa, N., Rivas, N., Tavera, J., & Acero-P., (2024). A. Fish biodiversity of courtown cays, Seaflower biosphere reserve (colombian Caribbean): new records and an annotated checklist. Frontiers in Marine Science. Volume 11 – 2024. fmars.2024.1327438.

Puentes, V., Barragán-Barrera, D.C., Do Amaral, K. B., Escobar, F.D., Zapata, L., Zambrano, E., Breto, C.G., Tavera, J., Polo, C.J., Altamar, J., Moreno, A.S., & Benavides, I. (2023). Descriptive and Spatial Tuna Purse-Seine Fishery Bycatch Analysis in the Colombian Pacific Ocean with an Elasmobranch Approach. Ocean and Coastal Research 2024, v72:e24038

Rojas-Velez, S., Tavera, J., & Acero, A. (2023). Is Lionfish ontogenetic dietary change mediated by morphological functionality? Hydrobiologia (2024) 851:447–456

Acero A,, Nieto, L., & Tavera, J. (2023). Chanos chanos (Gonorhynchiformes: Chanidae) también llegó al Caribe: primer registro de aguas colombianas. Caldasia 45(2)

Acero, A. P & Tavera, J. (2023). Morphology and a large gap in the distribution of the bronzestripe grunt (Lutjaniformes: Haemulidae) hints at a new subspecies in the Gulf of Mexico. Boletín Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela 62(2) 02-10.

Nachman, M. W., Beckman, E. J., Bowie, R. C., Cicero, C., Conroy, C. J., Dudley, R., Tavera, J... & Zink, R. M. (2023). Specimen collection is essential for modern science. 2023. Plos Biology.

Forero-Bastidas, O., Vasquez-Chaparro, A., Garzón-Rodriguez, L., Ortiz-Oyola D., Nieto-Alvarado, L., Tavera, J., Sanjuan-Muñoz, A., y Polo-Silva, C. (2023). Evidencia del tiburón limón, Negaprion brevirostris (poey, 1868), (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) en el Golfo de Salamanca, Caribe colombiano. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras 52 (1), 201-204.

Portilla, J., Summers, A., & Tavera, J. (2023). A coral snake Micrurus mipartitus (Duméril,  Bibron  &  Duméril,  1854) ate a caecilian, Caecilia nigricans (Boulenger 1902) in the intertidal of Gorgona Island, Colombia. Herpetology Notes, volume 16: 791-793.

López-Victoria, M., Herrera M., Muñoz-López V., Rodríguez-Moreno M., Puentes-Sayo A., Torres-Rodríguez J., Torres O., Chasqui L., Tavera J. & Arturo Acero. (2023). Fish species richness of a coral reef under suboptimum conditions: the case of Varadero (Cartagena Bay, Colombia). Acta Biológica Colombiana, 28(1) 108 – 117.

Rojas-Velez, S., Tavera, J., & Acero P. A. (2023). Aplatophis zorro (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), a rare fish from the eastern Pacific: morphometric data and distribution expansion. Revista de Biología marina y Oceanografía. Vol 57 (3). 

Acosta, J. A., & Tavera, J. J. (2023). Diversidad íctica dulceacuícola en una isla del pacifico oriental tropical: PNN Isla Gorgona, Colombia. Caldasia, 45(1):124-135

Tavera, J., & Acero P., A. (2023). ¿Y para qué dos mares?. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 47(182), 181–184.

Castillo, M.A, & Tavera. J.J. (2022). Disruptive coloration and behavior facilitate camouflage of blue-spotted cornetfish against complex coral reef bottoms. Marine Ecology. Vol 43(6) e12731

Aroca, A., & Tavera, J. (2022). Molecular and morphological evaluation of the Bonnethead Shark complex Sphyrna tiburo (Carcharhiniformes:Sphyrnidae). Environmental biology of fishes. 105, 1643–1658.

Rivas, N., Tavera, J.J & Acero A. (2022). Spatial variation of parrotfish assemblages at oceanic islands in the western Caribbean: Evidence of indirect effects of fishing? PeerJ 10:e14178

Carvalho-Filho A., Oliveira C., Maximiano L., Tavera J., Acero P. A & Marceniuk A.P. (2022). Review of the Pareques acuminatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) species complex, with revalidation of Pareques lineatus (Cuvier, 1830) from the Western Atlantic (Percomorphacea: Sciaenidae). Zootaxa. Vol. 5195 No. 5: 401-418.

Palacios, P., Narvaez-Rodriguez, S., & Tavera J. (2022). Unexpected coexistence of two species of garden eels (Heteroconger klausewitzi and Heteroconger pellegrini) in a colony at Gorgona Island, Colombia. Environmental Biology of fishes. 105, 1549–1556.

Puentes V., Mejía-Falla P., Ramirez J., Manjarres-Martínez L.,
Rodriguez-Baron J., Zapata L., Tavera J. Gomez-Delgado F.,Barreto C., Zambrano E., Villa A., & Navia A. (2022). Sharks and marine batoids management in Colombia: Policy instruments, management duty and implications for their populations and stakeholders. Marine Policy 145 (2022) 105264

Tavera, J., Schärer-Umpierre, M. T., & Acero, A. (2022). A new species of deep-sea grunt, Rhonciscus pauco (Lutjaniformes: Haemulidae), from Puerto Rico. PeerJ, 10, e13502.

Velasco-Montoya, D. A., Millán-Márquez, A. M., & Tavera, J. (2022). Genetic connectivity in Sparisoma aurofrenatum (redband parrotfish): an unexpected journey. Hydrobiologia, 849(8), 1727-1741.

Long, D. J., Ebert, D. A., Tavera, J., & Acero, P. A. & Robertson, DR. (2021). Squatina mapama n. sp., a new cryptic species of angel shark (Elasmobranchii: Squatinidae) from the southwestern Caribbean Sea. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 38, 113-130.

Tavera, J., Rojas-Vélez, S., & Londoño-Cruz, E. (2021). A new species of the genus Acyrtus on the eastern Pacific: A cornerstone for the evolution and biogeography of the genus. Journal of Fish Biology, 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14860

Pombo-Ayora L and Tavera J (2021). Are Feeding Modes Concealing Morphofunctional Diversity? The Case of the New World Parrotfishes. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:634046. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.634046. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2021.634046 

Tavera, J. (2021). A new species of pikeblenny (Blenniiformes: Chaenopsidae: Chaenopsis) from the tropical eastern Pacific and a key to all species. Journal of Fish Biology, 1– 8. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14775 

Tavera J.J. y Wainwright, P. (2018). Geography of speciation affects the rate of trait divergence in haemulid fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. sometido.

Riascos J. M., Aguirre W., Hopfe C., Morales, D., Navarrete A., and Tavera J. (2018). Floating nurseries? Scyphozoan jellyfish, their food and their rich symbiotic fauna in a tropical estuary. PeerJ

Tavera J.J, Acero P. A, y Wainwright, P. (2018). Multilocus phylogeny, divergence times, and a major role for the benthic-to-pelagic axis in the diversification of grunts (Haemulidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121. 212-223.

Roman, C., Tavera, J.J, and Castañeda, R. (2018). When did anoles diverge? An analysis of multiple dating strategies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127. 655–668.

Tavera J.J. y Rojas-Velez, S. (2017). Seeing the invisible: Chriolepis lepidota (Gobiidae), literally as never seen before. BMC Biodiversity records. 10:23

Ceron J. Rojas-Velez, S. y Tavera J.J. (2017). Morfometría, ampliación de rango de distribución y record de talla de la especie endémica colombiana Daector gerringi (Actinopterygii: Batrachoididae - Thalassophryninae). Caldasia 39 (2):406-410.

Rojas-Velez, S. y Tavera J.J. (2017). Primer registro del Tamboril Narigón (Sphoeroides lobatus: Tetraodontidae) en Isla Malpelo, Pacífico colombiano. Bol.Invest. Mar.Cost. 46 (1) 191-195.

Arturo Acero P., José J. Tavera, Rafael Anguila and Luis Hernández. (2016). A New Southern Caribbean Species of Angel Shark (Chondrichthyes, Squaliformes, Squatinidae), Including Phylogeny And Tempo Of Diversification Of American Species. Copeia sometido.

Vergara-Solana F.J, García-Rodríguez F.J, Tavera J.J, De Luna E. and De La Cruz-Agüero, J. (2014). Molecular and morphometric systematics of Diapterus (Perciformes, Gerreidae). Zoologica Scripta. 43(4), pp. 338–350.

Tavera J.J. and Acero A. (2013). Description of a new species of Hypoplectrus (Perciformes:Serranidae) from the Southern Gulf of Mexico. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 19 (1) pp. 29-38.

Tavera J.J., Acero A., Balart E. F., & Bernardi G. (2012). Molecular phylogeny of grunts (Teleostei, Haemulidae), with an emphasis on the ecology, evolution, and speciation history of New World species. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12:57

Price S. A., Tavera J.J., Near T.J & Wainwright P. W. (2012). Elevated rates of morphological and functional diversification in reef-dwelling haemulid fishes. Evolution. Article first published online: 4 SEP 2012. Volume 67 (2): 417–428, February 2013.

Palacios-Salgado D.S., Burnes-Romo L.A., Tavera J.J., & Ramirez-Valdez A. (2012). Endemic fishes of the Cortez biogeographic province (Eastern Pacific Ocean). Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria 42 (3): 153–164