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An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil
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 A...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27551225 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.606.9297 |
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author | Melo, Bruno F. Benine, Ricardo C. Britzke, Ricardo Gama, Cecile S. Oliveira, Claudio |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-49780142016-08-22 An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil Melo, Bruno F. Benine, Ricardo C. Britzke, Ricardo Gama, Cecile S. Oliveira, Claudio Zookeys Research Article 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. Pensoft Publishers 2016-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4978014/ /pubmed/27551225 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.606.9297 Text en Bruno F. Melo, Ricardo C. Benine, Ricardo Britzke, Cecile S. Gama, Claudio Oliveira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Melo, Bruno F. Benine, Ricardo C. Britzke, Ricardo Gama, Cecile S. Oliveira, Claudio An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil |
title | An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil |
title_full | An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil |
title_fullStr | An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil |
title_short | An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil |
title_sort | inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for brazil |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27551225 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.606.9297 |
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