Title
An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Melo B.
Benine R.
Gama C.
Oliveira C.
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
The Amazon Basin occupies a vast portion of northern South America and contains some of the highest species richness in the world. The northern Brazilian state of Amapá is delimited by the Amazonas River to the south, the Oyapock River to the northern boundary with French Guyana, and the Atlantic northeastern coast to Amazon estuary. Despite several expeditions to the Amazon in recent decades, little is known about the freshwater ichthyofauna from Amapá, with records limited to local inventories and species descriptions. This paper presents a compilation of the freshwater fish diversity sampled in fifteen sites covering two major Amapá ecoregions during the dry season of 2015. 120 species representing eight orders and 40 families are reported upon in this work. Eight species appear for the first time in the Brazilian territory providing new information for future conservation status evaluations.
Start page
127
End page
140
Volume
2016
Issue
606
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
IngenierĂ­a marina, naves EcologĂ­a
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84978999307
Source
ZooKeys
ISSN of the container
1313-2989
DOI of the container
10.3897/zookeys.606.9297
Sponsor(s)
We thank the Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá (IEPA) for local assistance in the field expeditions. Thanks to Brandon T. Waltz, Francisco Langeani, Gabriel S.C. Silva, José L.O. Birindelli, Marina V. Loeb, Maxwell J. Bernt, Nadayca T.B. Mateussi, and Victor A. Tagliacollo for helping on the identifications, and to Benjamin W. Frable for English review and valuable suggestions on the manuscript. We also thank Javier Maldonado, Francisco Langeani and an anonymous reviewer for improving the manuscript. Authors received support from FAPESPFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo grants 2014/26508-3 (BFM and CO), 2011/00269-4 (RB) and CNPq PDJ 40258/2014-7 (BFM).
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