Title
Ichthyofauna of the Aguaytía River Basin, Ucayali, Perú
Other title
Ictiofauna de la cuenca del río Aguaytía. Ucayali. Perú
Date Issued
01 December 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
An annotated species fish list recorded in the Aguaytía River basin is presented Fishes were collected between 1942 and 2009 in different years and seasons. This is the first inventories in Aguaytía river Basin, and for the Cordillera Azúl National Park. Fishes were mainly collected using seines of 10×3 m and of 5×2 m and 6 mm mesh. Forfixation and preservation of samples were used 10% formaldehyde solution and 70% ethanol. respectively. Samples are in the Ichthyological Collection (MUSM) of the Museum of Natural History of San Marcos University. We analized 9917 specimens and recorded a total of 211 species of 28 families and nine orders.
Start page
331
End page
342
Volume
24
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología Acuicultura
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85039712239
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
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