Fishes from the Itapecuru River basin, State of Maranhão, northeast Brazil

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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Main Authors:	MC Barros, EC Fraga, JLO Birindelli
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:	Brazilian Journal of Biology
Subjects:	taxonomy biodiversity freshwater fishes
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842011000300006&lng=en&tlng=en

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