title: Reply to Vitule et al. (2017): Comment on 'Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America by Reis et al. (2016)'.
authors.affiliation: PUCRS, Laboratory of Vertebrate Systematics, Av. Ipiranga, 6681, 90619-900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.affiliation: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, 70504-2451, U.S.A.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Albert
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Núcleo em Ecologia e Desenvolvimento Socioambiental de Macaé (NUPEM), Grupo de Sistemática e Biologia Evolutiva, Caixa Postal 119331, 27910-970, Macaé, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Di Dario
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Núcleo em Ecologia e Desenvolvimento Socioambiental de Macaé (NUPEM), Grupo de Sistemática e Biologia Evolutiva, Caixa Postal 119331, 27910-970, Macaé, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Mincarone
authors.affiliation: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, U.S.A.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Petry
authors.affiliation: The Nature Conservancy and Section of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA, 94118, U.S.A.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Rocha