Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil
The Itapecuru is a relatively large river in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão. During several expeditions to this basin, we collected 69 fish species belonging to 65 genera, 29 families and 10 orders. Characiformes and Siluriformes were the orders with the largest number of species and C...
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| description | The Itapecuru is a relatively large river in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão. During several expeditions to this basin, we collected 69 fish species belonging to 65 genera, 29 families and 10 orders. Characiformes and Siluriformes were the orders with the largest number of species and Characidae, Loricariidae, Cichlidae, Auchenipteridae and Pimelodidae were the richest families. About 30% of the fish fauna of the Itapecuru basin is endemic or restricted to northeastern Brazil. Just over a fifth (22%) of the species is also known to occur in the Amazon basin and only a few are more widely distributed in South American. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0044833e372d4d2e84ddf1be50bb3e762022-12-22T01:41:11ZengInstituto Internacional de EcologiaBrazilian Journal of Biology1678-437571237538010.1590/S1519-69842011000300006S1519-69842011000300006Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast BrazilMC Barros0EC Fraga1JLO Birindelli2Universidade Estadual do MaranhãoUniversidade Estadual do MaranhãoUniversidade de São PauloThe Itapecuru is a relatively large river in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão. During several expeditions to this basin, we collected 69 fish species belonging to 65 genera, 29 families and 10 orders. Characiformes and Siluriformes were the orders with the largest number of species and Characidae, Loricariidae, Cichlidae, Auchenipteridae and Pimelodidae were the richest families. About 30% of the fish fauna of the Itapecuru basin is endemic or restricted to northeastern Brazil. Just over a fifth (22%) of the species is also known to occur in the Amazon basin and only a few are more widely distributed in South American.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842011000300006&lng=en&tlng=entaxonomybiodiversityfreshwater fishes |
| spellingShingle | MC Barros EC Fraga JLO Birindelli Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil Brazilian Journal of Biology taxonomy biodiversity freshwater fishes |
| title | Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil |
| title_full | Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil |
| title_short | Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil |
| title_sort | fishes from the itapecuru river basin state of maranhao northeast brazil |
| topic | taxonomy biodiversity freshwater fishes |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842011000300006&lng=en&tlng=en |
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