Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa (born in 1958)Costa, Wilson J. E. M. (Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da), 1958.
Database of the National Library of the Czech Republic. is a Brazilian

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...

and taxon authority. He is a professor at the Institute of Biology at the

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (, UFRJ) is a public university, public research university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the country and is one of the Brazilian centers of excellence in teaching and r ...

, with a degree in biological sciences (UFRJ) and a PhD in

zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

(USP). Costa is a reviewer for several international journals in the areas of ichthyology, zoology and

evolution Evolution is the change in the heritable Phenotypic trait, characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, re ...

, and has written more than 250 journal papers himself. Furthermore he has discovered and described more than 160

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

fish A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can ...

. The

pencil catfish Trichomycteridae is a family of catfishes commonly known as pencil catfishes or parasitic catfishes. This family includes the candiru fish (''Vandellia cirrhosa''), feared by some people for its alleged habit of entering into the urethra of hum ...

'' Listrura costai'' , 2012 was named in honor of da Costa.

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Curriculum Vitæ
– Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

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Brazilian taxonomists Brazilian ichthyologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Zoologist-stub

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