History

The Fish Morphological and Molecular Biotaxonomy Research Group was created based on the need to update and improve the knowledge of the taxonomy and systematics of Argentine fish. This is achieved through studies in traditional systematics, geometric morphometrics, and molecular taxonomy, analyzing their biological characteristics, the relationships between species and with their environment, and the implications these studies have from a systematic-phylogenetic perspective. The research group aims to study fish that, due to their biological characteristics and relationship with their environment, are distributed across a wide region of varied hydrological structure—from the marine environment to estuarine regions and freshwater environments, including Antarctic regions.

The objectives of this group are:

To update and improve the knowledge of the taxonomy and systematics of Argentine fish.

To link taxonomic groups with their environment, relating their biological characteristics to changes in environmental parameters.

To apply morphological, geometric morphometric studies, along with molecular tools for the precise identification of fish.

To contribute to the conservation and management of fish resources as sustainable units of biodiversity.

To provide information for discussing phylogenetic relationships and life histories of fish, offering valuable data for biodiversity studies.