Fishes of Paranaguá Estuarine Complex, South West Atlantic

Authors

  • Ana Carolina dos Passos Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro de Estudos do Mar, Departamento de Ciências da Terra
  • Riguel Feltrin Contente Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Oceanográfico, Laboratório de Ecologia Reprodutiva
  • Ciro Colodetti Vilar de Araujo Universidade Federal do Paraná, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação
  • Felippe Alexandre Lisboa de Miranda Daros Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro de Estudos do Mar, Departamento de Ciências da Terra
  • Henry Louis Spach Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro de Estudos do Mar, Departamento de Ciências da Terra
  • Vinícius Abilhôa Prefeitura Municipal de Curitiba, Secretaria Municipal do Meio Ambiente, Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia
  • Luis Fernando Fávaro Universidade Federal do Paraná, Laboratório de Reprodução e Comunidade de Peixes

Keywords:

ichthyofauna, species list, Paraná, West Atlantic

Abstract

The objective of this work was to present an updated checklist of the currently known fishes in the Paranaguá Estuarine Complex (PEC) and provides comments on conservation status for the treated species. We used a large dataset derived from a pool of studies which have been conducted within there along the last 30 years. Each study was based on monthly samplings and conducted in several estuarine habitat; thus, the pool covers practically all estuarine habitats and takes into account the seasonal cycle in the system. The PEC ichthyofauna represents a mixture between that fauna typical from the tropical Brazilian coast and that with affinities of temperate Argentinean and Uruguayan zones. The PEC harbors a rich fish fauna of 213 species, inserted in the families that are common along the Brazilian coast. Only a minor part (8%) of the PEC fish fauna was evaluated as regards the conservation status, mostly because of the lack of basic biological and ecological information for most species. Despite part of the among-estuaries differences are due to different and incomplete sampling efforts, the richness in the PEC is surprisingly higher than other systems in Brazil and around world, which emphasize the importance of the region for global biodiversity conservation.

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Published

2012-09-01

How to Cite

Passos, A. C. dos, Contente, R. F., Araujo, C. C. V. de, Daros, F. A. L. de M., Spach, H. L., Abilhôa, V., & Fávaro, L. F. (2012). Fishes of Paranaguá Estuarine Complex, South West Atlantic. Biota Neotropica, 12(3). Retrieved from //www.biotaneotropica.org.br/BN/article/view/1002

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