Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

In-review

Burns, E.; Wang, K.; Bradley, D.; D’Costa, N.; Feitosa, L.; Schiller, L.; Worm, B.; Gephart, J.; McDonald, G. The impact of shark finning regulations on the trade of shark products. Nature Communications.

Published

Alvarenga, M.; Bunholi, I.; Adachi, A. C. L. ; Merten Cruz, M.; Manir Feitosa, L.; V. de Jesus, E.; Leda Lopes, M.; Povil, C.; Souza, D.; Torres, Y.; Solé-Cava, A.; Rodrigues Domingues, R.; Charvet, P.; Paes da Cruz, V. Rapid DNA/eDNA-based ID tools for improved Chondrichthyes monitoring and management. Molecular Ecology Resources, 25:e70044 link.

Gupta, T., Bashyal, R., Anagnostou, M.; Dhanda, S.; Djagoun, J.; Manir Feitosa, L.; Hatten, C.; Hunter, S.; Mutezo, T.; Nurbandi, W.; Pizarro, A.; Sackey, H.; Milner-Gulland, E.J.; Oldfield, T.; Challender, D. (2025). Resolving uncertainties in the legality of wildlife trade to support better outcomes for wildlife and people. Conservation Letters, 18, e13110. link

Feitosa, L. M., Caughman, A. M., D’Costa, N. G., Orofino, S., Burns, E. S., Schiller, L., Worm, B., Bradley, D. (2025). Retention bans are beneficial but insufficient to stop shark overfishing. Fish and Fisheries, 26(3), 473-487. link

Feitosa, L. M. & Lessa, R. P. T. (2025). Brazilian Amazon Coast is an essential habitat for threatened and evolutionarily distinct sharks and rays. Marine Biology, 172(2), 1-13. link

Feitosa, L. M., Burgess, M. G., Free, C., Gaines, S. D. (2024). Synergies between price and life history enhance extinction risk in open-access fisheries. Fish and Fisheries, 25(6), 972-984. link

Queiroz, A. P. B., Feitosa, L. M., Santana, F. M., Lessa, R. P. T. (2024) Stable isotopes and vertebrae microchemistry reveal crucial habitats for three heavily fished coastal stingrays in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 309, 108961. link

Worm, B., Orofino, S., Burns, E., D’Costa, N., Feitosa, L. M., Palomares, D., Schiller, L., Bradley, D. (2024). Global shark fishing mortality still rising despite widespread regulatory change. Science, 383, 225-230. link

da Costa, J. A., Martins, A. P. B., Feitosa, L. M., Júnior, V. H., Carvalho, I. E. M., & Nunes, J. L. S. (2021). Acidentes causados pela arraia fluvial Potamotrygon motoro em comunidades lacustres em Território do bioma Oriental da Amazônia. Saúde e meio ambiente: revista interdisciplinar, 10, 254-265. link

Feitosa, L. M., Queiroz, A. P. N., Labonne, M., Dressler, V. L., Lessa, R. P. (2021). Habitat use and nursery evaluation of the longnose stingray Hypanus guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) using vertebral microchemistry. Journal of Fish Biology, 99(5), 1538-1549. link

Raoult, V., Grant, M. I., Barbosa Martins, A. P., Feitosa, L. M., Braccini, M., Cardeñosa, D., Carlson, J., Chin, A., Curtis, T., Carvalho-Costa, L. F., Rodrigues-Filho, L. F., Giarrizzo, T., Nunes, J. L. S., Sales, J. B. L., Williamson, J. E., Simpfendorfer, C. A. (2021). Assigning shark fin origin using species distribution models needs a reality check. Biology Letters, 17(7), 20200907. link

Santana, F. M., Feitosa, L. M., Lessa, R. P. (2020). From plentiful to critically endangered: Demographic evidence of the artisanal fisheries impact on the smalltail shark (Carcharhinus porosus) from Northern Brazil. PloS ONE, 15(8), e0236146. link

Feitosa, L. M., Nunes, J. L. S. (2020). New record of Carcharhinus leucas in an Amazonian River system. Boletim do Laboratório de Hidrobiologia, 30, 62-67. link

Feitosa, L. M., Dressler, V., Lessa, R. P. T. (2020). Identification of a nursery area for an endangered coastal shark with vertebrae microchemistry: the case study of the smalltail shark Carcharhinus porosus. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 1-12. link

Feitosa, L. M., Pereira, L. M., Souza-Junior, L. A., Lessa, R. P. T. (2020). Potential distribution and population trends of the smalltail shark Carcharhinus porosus inferred from species distribution models and historical catch data. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 30, 882-891. link

Rodrigues-Filho, L.F.S., Feitosa, L. M., Nunes, J. L., Palmeira, A. R. O., Martins, A. P. B., Giarrizzo, T., Costa, L. F. C., Monteiro, I. L. P., Gemaque, R. Gomes, F., Souza, R. F. C., Sampaio, I. (2020). Molecular identification of ray species traded along the Brazilian Amazon coast. Fisheries Research, 223, 105407. link

Wosnick, N., Nunes, A. R. O. P., Feitosa, L. M., Coelho, K. K. F., Brito, R. M. S., Martins, A. P. B., Rincon, G., Nunes, J. L. S. Revisão sobre a diversidade, ameaças e conservação dos elasmobrânquios do Maranhão. In: José Max Barbosa de Oliveira Junior; Lenize Batista Calvão. (Org.). Tópicos Integrados de Zoologia. 1ed. Ponta Grossa: Atena Editora, 2019, p. 44-54. link

Guimarães, E. C., De Brito, P. S., Feitosa, L. M., Carvalho-Costa, L. F., Ottoni, F. P. (2019). A new cryptic species of Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes, Characidae) from the Eastern Amazon, revealed by integrative taxonomy. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 95(2), 345-360. link

Feitosa, L. M., Martins, A. P. B., Lessa, R. P. T., Barbieri, R., Nunes, J. L. S. (2019). Daggernose shark: an elusive species from Northern South America. Fisheries, 44(3), 144-147. link

Feitosa, L. M., Martins, A. P. B., Giarrizzo, T., Macedo, W., Monteiro, I. L., Gemaque, R., Nunes, J. L. S., Gomes, F., Schneider, H., Sampaio, I., Souza, R., Sales, J. B., Rodrigues-Filho, L. F., Tchaicka, L., Carvalho-Costa, L. F. (2018). DNA-based identification reveals illegal trade of threatened shark species in a global elasmobranch conservation hotspot. Scientific Reports, 8, 3347. link

Martins, A. P. B., Feitosa, L. M., Lessa, R. P. T., Almeida, Z. S., Heupel, M., Silva, W. M., Tchaicka, L., Nunes, J. L. S. (2018). Analysis of the supply chain and conservation status of sharks (Elasmobranchii: Superorder Selachimorpha) based on fisher knowledge. PLoS ONE, 13, e0193969. link

Guimarães, E. C., De Brito, P. S., Feitosa, L. M., Carvalho-Costa, L. F., Ottoni, F. P. (2018). A new species of Hyphessobrycon Durbin from northeastern Brazil: evidence from morphological data and DNA barcoding (Characiformes, Characidae). ZooKeys, 765, 79-101. link

Feitosa, L. M., Martins, A. P. B., Nunes, J. L. S. 2017. Sawfish (Pristidae) records along the Eastern Amazon coast. Endangered Species Research, 34, 229-234. link

Feitosa, L. M., Martins, A. P. B., Nunes, J. L. S. 2016. New record of Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) in an equatorial river system. Marine Biodiversity Records, 9, 87. link

Martins, A. P. B., Filho, E. S., Feitosa, L. M., Silva, L. P. N., Almeida, Z. S., Nunes, J. L. S. 2015. Sexual dimorphism of sharks from the Amazonian Equatorial Coast. Universitas Scientiarum, 20, 297-304. link