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Ichthyology

Giorgio Carnevale


Giorgio Carnevale

Research Associate

carnevale@dst.unipi.it

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. Earth Sciences. 2004. 
Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Laurea degree cum laude. 1999. 
Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Giorgio Carnevale

PUBLICATIONS

  • CARNEVALE G. & RINDONE A. (submitted). The teleost fish Paravinciguerria praecursor Arambourg, 1954 in the Cenomanian of north–eastern Sicily. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana.

  • DALLA VECCHIA, F.M. & CARNEVALE, G. (in review). Ceratodontoid (Dipnoi) calvarial bones from the Triassic of Fusea, Carnic Alps: The first Italian lungfish. Italian Journal of Geosciences.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & PIETSCH, T.W. (in press). †Caruso, a new genus of anglerfishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, with a comparative osteology and phylogeny of the family Lophiidae (Teleostei: Lophiiformes). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

  • PIETSCH, T.W. & CARNEVALE, G. (in review). A new genus and species of lophiid anglerfish (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy. Copeia.

  • CARNEVALE, G., GODFREY, S.J. & PIETSCH, T.W. (in review). Stargazer (Teleostei, Uranoscopidae) cranial remains from the Miocene Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, U.S.A. (St. Marys Formation, Chesapeake Group). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & PIETSCH, T.W. (in press). Batfishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca. Geological Magazine.

  • CARNEVALE, G., LANDINI, W., RAGAINI, L., CANTALAMESSA, G. & DI CELMA, C. (in review). Taphonomic and paleoecological analyses (mollusks and fishes) of the Sua Member condensed shellbed (Early Pliocene, Onzole Formation, Ecuador). Palaios.

  • BANNIKOV, A.F., CARNEVALE, G., PARIN, N.V. (2011). The new family Caucasinichthyidae (Pisces, Perciformes) from the Eocene of North Caucasus. Paleontological Journal.

  • BANNIKOV, A.F. & CARNEVALE, G. (2011). Enigmatic spiny–rayed fish from the Eocene of Monte Bolca. Geological Journal.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & PIETSCH, T.W. (2010). Eocene handfishes from Monte Bolca, with description of a new genus and species, and a phylogeny of the family Brachionichthyidae (Teleostei: Lophiiformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & TYLER, J.C. (2010). Review of the fossil pufferfish genus Archaeotetraodon (Teleostei, Tetraodontidae), with description of three new taxa from the Miocene of Italy. Geobios, 43, 283–304.

  • BANNIKOV, A.F. & CARNEVALE, G. (2010). Bellwoodilabrus landinii, a new genus and species of labrid fish (Teleostei: Perciformes) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca. Geodiversitas, 32, 201–220.

  • BANNIKOV, A.F. & CARNEVALE, G. (2009). A new percoid fish from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy: Hendrixella grandei gen. & sp. nov. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102, 481–488.

  • VASILYAN, D., REICHENBACHER, B. & CARNEVALE, G. (2009). A new fossil Aphanius species from the Upper Miocene of Armenia (Eastern Paratethys). Palaontologische Zeitschrift, 83, 511–519.

  • SANTINI, F., HARMON, L.J., CARNEVALE, G. & ALFARO, M.E. (2009). Did genome duplication drive the origin of teleosts? A comparative study of diversification in ray–finned fishes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9, 194.

  • ALFARO, M.E., SANTINI, F., BROCK, C., ALAMILLO, H., DORNBURG, A., RABOSKY, D.L., CARNEVALE, G. & HARMON, L.J. (2009). Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 13410–13414.

  • BANNIKOV, A.F., CARNEVALE, G. & LANDINI, W. (2009). A new Early Miocene genus of the family Sciaenidae (Teleostei, Perciformes) from the eastern Paratethys. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 8, 535–544.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & PIETSCH, T.W. (2009). An Eocene frogfish from Monte Bolca, Italy: the earliest skeletal record for the family. Palaeontology, 52, 745–752.

  • CAPUTO, D., CARNEVALE, G. & LANDINI, W. (2009). Fish otoliths from the Messinian of Strada degli Archi (Tuscany, Italy) – Taxonomy and paleoecology. Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Papers in honour of Dr. Ortwin Schultz), 111A, 257–280.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & PIETSCH, T.W. (2009). The deep–sea anglerfish genus Acentrophryne (Teleostei, Ceratioidei, Linophrynidae) in the Miocene of California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29, 372–378.

  • CARNEVALE, G., CAPUTO, D. & LANDINI, W. (2008). A leerfish (Teleostei, Carangidae) from the Messinian evaporites of the Vena del Gesso basin (Romagna Apennines, Italy): Paleogeographical and paleoecological implications. Bollettino della Societa' Paleontologica Italiana (Special volume Messinian Palaeontology 2008), 47, 169–176.

  • CARNEVALE, G., PIETSCH, T.W., TAKEUCHI, G.T. & HUDDLESTON, R.W. (2008). Fossil ceratioid anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) from the Miocene of the Los Angeles Basin, California. Journal of Paleontology, 82, 996–1008.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2008). Middle Pleistocene gurnard (Teleostei, Triglidae) remains from the Crotone Basin, Southern Italy. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 47, 7–12.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2008). Miniature deep–sea hatchetfish from the Miocene of Italy. Geological Magazine, 145, 73–84.

  • CARNEVALE, G., LONGINELLI, A., CAPUTO, D., BARBIERI, M. & LANDINI, W. (2008). Did the Mediterranean marine reflooding precede the Mio–Pliocene boundary? Paleontological and geochemical evidence from upper Messinian sequences of Tuscany, Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, 257, 81–105.

  • CARNEVALE, G., MARSILI, S., MALDUCA, A. & LANDINI, W. (2007). Catalogue of recent fishes in the Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio, Università di Pisa. I. Hyperotreti, Hyperoartia, Chondrichthyes. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie, serie B, 114, 99–106.

  • BANNIKOV, A.F. & CARNEVALE, G. (2007). The Eocene "Dules" temnopterus from Monte Bolca, and the problem of classifying fossil percoid fishes. Palaeontographia Italica, 91, 68–85.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2007). Fossil fishes from the Serravallian (Middle Miocene) of Torricella Peligna, Italy. Palaeontographia Italica, 91, 1–67.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & SANTINI, F. (2007). Record of the slender mola, genus Ranzania (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes), in the Miocene of the Chelif Basin, Algeria. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 6, 321–326.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2007). New gadiform fishes (Teleostei, Gadiformes) from the Miocene of Algeria. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 47, 95–111.

  • MARSILI, S., CARNEVALE, G., DANESE, E., BIANUCCI, G. & LANDINI, W. (2007). Early Miocene vertebrates from Montagna della Maiella, Italy. Annales de Paléontologie, 93, 27–66.

  • CARNEVALE, G., MARSILI, S., CAPUTO, D. & EGISTI, L. (2006). The Silky Shark Carcharhinus falciformis (Bibron, 1841) in the Pliocene of Cava Serredi (Fine Basin, Italy). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhadlungen, 242, 357–370.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & SANTINI, F. (2006). †Archaeotetraodon cerrinaferoni sp. nov. (Teleostei: Tetraodontidae) from the Miocene (Messinian) of Chelif Basin, Algeria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26, 815–821.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & PIETSCH, T.W. (2006). Filling the gap: a fossil frogfish, genus Antennarius (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennariidae), from the Miocene of Algeria. Journal of Zoology, 270, 448–457.

  • CARNEVALE, G., CAPUTO, D. & LANDINI, W. (2006). Late Miocene fish otoliths from the Colombacci Formation (Northern Apennines, Italy): Implications for the Messinian Lago–mare event. Geological Journal, 41, 537–555.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & BANNIKOV, A.F. (2006). Description of a new stromateoid fish from the Miocene of St. Eugène, Algeria. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 51, 489–497.

  • CARNEVALE, G., BANNIKOV, A.F., LANDINI, W. & SORBINI, C. (2006). Volhynian (Early Sarmatian s.l.) fishes from Tsurevsky, North Caucasus (Russia). Journal of Paleontology, 80, 684–699.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2006). A new snake mackerel from the Miocene of Algeria. Palaeontology, 49, 391–403.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2006). Morphology and biology of the Miocene butterflyfish Chaetodon ficheuri (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 146, 251–267.

  • CARNEVALE, G., LANDINI, W. & SARTI, G. (2006). Mare versus Lago–mare. Marine fishes and the Mediterranean environment at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163, 75–80.

  • LANDINI, W., BIANUCCI, G., BISCONTI, M., CARNEVALE, G. & SORBINI, C. (2005). Il Plio–Pleistocene: I vertebrati marini. In Bonfiglio, L. (ed.): Paleontologia dei Vertebrati in Italia. Evoluzione biologica, significato ambientale e paleogeografia. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, sezione Scienze della Terra, 6, 171–182.

  • LANDINI, W., BIANUCCI, G., BISCONTI, M., CARNEVALE, G., SORBINI, C. & VAROLA, A. (2005). Il Miocene: I vertebrati marini. In Bonfiglio, L. (ed.): Paleontologia dei Vertebrati in Italia. Evoluzione biologica, significato ambientale e paleogeografia. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, sezione Scienze della Terra, 6, 145–154.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2004). The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae). Geological Magazine 141, 573–582.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2004). New species of sand lance (Teleostei. Ammodytidae) from the Miocene of Algeria. Geodiversitas 26, 297–307.

  • CARNEVALE, G., LEVI, N. & OTTRIA G. (2003). Oligocene macrofossil assemblage from the Middle Vobbia Valley, Eastern Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Northern Apennines). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, 106, 65–71.

  • CARNEVALE, G., SORBINI, C., LANDINI, W. (2003). †Oreochromis lorenzoi sp. nov., a new species of Tilapiine Cichlid from the late Miocene of Central Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23, 508–516.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2003). Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of Argyropelecus logearti (Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Sternoptychidae) with a brief review of fossil Argyropelecus. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 109: 63–76.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2002). A new barbeled dragonfish (Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Stomiidae) from the Miocene of Torricella Peligna, Italy: Abruzzoichthys erminioi gen. & sp. nov. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, 95: 471–479.

  • GRIFONI CREMONESI, R., IACOPINI, A., TARANTINI, M., BISCONTI, M., CARNEVALE, G. & MARCOLINI, F. (2002). Analisi informatizzata di una paleosuperficie epigravettiana della Grotta Continenza (Trasacco–AQ), pp. 83–99. In: Peretto C. (ed.), Analisi informatizzata e trattamento dati delle strutture di abitato di età preistorica e protostorica in Italia, Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Ferrara.

  • LANDINI, W., CARNEVALE, G. & SORBINI, C. (2002). Biogeographical significance of northern extraprovincial fishes in the Pliocene of Ecuador. Geobios, M.S., 24: 120–129.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (2002). Boops roulei ARAMBOURG in the Messinian of Central Italy, with comments on systematics, paleoecology and zoogeography. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 12: 725–736.

  • BERNINI, F., CARNEVALE, G., BAGNOLI, G. & STOUGE, S. (2002). An Early Ordovician oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) from the island of Öland, Sweden. In Bernini, F., Nannelli, R., Nuzzaci, G. & De Lillo, E. (Eds.): Acarid Phylogeny and Evolution: Adaptation in Mites and Ticks pp. 45–49.

  • LANDINI, W., BIANUCCI, G., CARNEVALE, G., RAGAINI, L., SORBINI, C., VALLERI, G., BISCONTI, M., CANTALAMESSA, G., DI CELMA, C. (2002). Late Pliocene fossils of Ecuador and the evolution of the Panamic Bioprovince after closure of the Central American Isthmus. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39: 27–41.

  • CARNEVALE, G., SORBINI, C., LANDINI, W. & VAROLA, A. (2002). Makaira cf. M. nigricans Lacépède, 1802 (Teleostei: Perciformes: Istiophoridae) from the Pietra Leccese, Late Miocene, Apulia, Southern Italy. Palaeontographia Italica, 88: 63–75.

  • CANTALAMESSA, G., DI CELMA, C., BIANUCCI, G., CARNEVALE, G., LANDINI, W., RAGAINI, L., SORBINI, C. & VALLERI, G. (2001). New observations on the sediments of Jama Formation, northwestern Ecuador. In Proceedings of XI Congreso Latinoamericano de Geología, Montevideo, pp. 255–258.

  • CANTALAMESSA, G., DI CELMA, C., BIANUCCI, G., CARNEVALE, G., COLTORTI, M., DELFINO, M., FICCARELLI, G., MORENO ESPINOSA, M., NALDINI, D., PIERUCCINI, P., RAGAINI, L., ROOK, L., ROSSI, M., TITO, G., TORRE, D., VALLERI, G. & LANDINI, W. (2001). A new vertebrate fossiliferous site from the Late Quaternary at San José on the north coast of Ecuador: preliminary note. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 14: 331–334.

  • BISCONTI, M., LANDINI, W., BIANUCCI, G., CANTALAMESSA, G., CARNEVALE, G., RAGAINI, L. & VALLERI, G. (2001). Biogeographic relationships of the Galapagos terrestrial biota: parsimony analyses of endemicity based on reptiles, land birds and Scalesia land plants. Journal of Biogeography, 28: 495–510.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & LANDINI, W. (2001). On the first occurrence of the genus Lates Cuvier & Valenciennes in the pre–evaporitic Messinian of the Mediterranean. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 25: 73–79.

  • CARNEVALE, G., LANDINI, W. & SARTI, G. (2000). An Upper Messinian Ichthyofauna from Serredi quarry (Tuscany, Italy). Memorie dell'Accademia Lunigianese di Scienze G. Capellini, 70: 105–115.

  • CARNEVALE, G. & LANDINI, W. (2000). A fossil damselfish (Pisces, Pomacentridae) from the Late Miocene of Central Italy. Biological and biogeographical considerations. Palaeontographia Italica, 87: 67–72.

  • CARNEVALE, G. (1999). Osservazioni preliminari sulla biogeografia degli Oplegnathidae (Pisces, Perciformes). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, 106: 33–38.