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Publications (11)      

1. Caixeta, Heloísa De C., Claudio de Oliveira & Marcelo R. S. Melo. 2024 Another piece of the living fossil puzzle: a new species of Polymixia Lowe, 1836 (Polymixiiformes: Polymixiidae) from the western South Atlantic Deep-Sea Research, Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 205: 104249.
2. Junior, Nelson F., Flávio C. T. Lima, Francisco A. Machado & Marcelo R. S. Melo. 2020 A new species of Characidium Reinhardt (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) with a unique mid-water behavior from the upper rio Madeira basin, Brazil. Zootaxa 4816(3): 350–360.
3. Lemes, Paola C. R., Marina V. Loeb, César Santificetur & Marcelo R. S. Melo. 2016 Redescription of Urophycis brasiliensis (Kaup 1858), a senior synonym of Urophycis latus Miranda Ribeiro 1903 (Gadiformes: Phycidae) Zootaxa 4084(4): 507–518.
4. Melo, Marcelo R. S. 2017 A review of the genus Dysalotus (Percomorphacea: Chiasmodontidae), with the description of Dysalotus pouliulii sp. nov. Journal of Fish Biology: 1-17.
5. Melo, Marcelo R. S. & Rodrigo A. Caires. 2016 On the taxonomic status of three eels (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) described from Leptocephali by Tommasi (1960) Zoologia 33(5): e20160021 [1/5].
6. Melo, Marcelo R. S. & Vinicius Espindola. 2016 Description of a new species of Characidium Reinhardt, 1867 (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the Chapada Diamantina plateau, Bahia, and the redescription of Characidium bimaculatum Fowler, 1941 Zootaxa 4196(4): 552–568.
7. Melo, Marcelo R. S., Amanda A. Gomes, Peter D. R. Møller & Jørgen G. Nielsen. 2021 A new species of the rare deep-sea genus Sciadonus Garman, 1899 (Teleostei, Bythitidae) from off Brazil, with a discussion of the evolution of troglomorphism and miniaturization in the aphyonid clade Deep-Sea Research, Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.
8. Melo, Marcelo R. S., Bárbara B. Bouquerel, Flávia T. Masumoto, Rayane D. S. De França & André L. Netto-Ferreira. 2021 A new species of Characidium (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goiás, Brazil Neotropical Ichthyology 19(2): e200152.
9. Melo, Marcelo R. S., H. J. Walker, Jr. & Cynthia Klepadlo. 2007 Two new species of Pseudoscopelus (Teleostei: Chiasmodontidae), with a new diagnosis for the genus. Zootaxa 1605: 33-46.
10. Melo, Marcelo R. S., Mauro C. L. De B. Ribeiro & Flávio C. T. Lima. 2021 A new, narrowly distributed, and critically endangered species of Characidium (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the Distrito Federal, Central Brazil Neotropical Ichthyology 19(1): e200061, 18 p.
11. Melo, Marcelo R. S., Paulo A. Buckup & Osvaldo T. Oyakawa. 2016 A new species of Characidium Reinhardt, 1867 (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest Atlantic Forest in Paraná State, Southern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 14(3): e160014.