Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía
<abstract language="eng">The Cabo Pulmo reef is the most important coral formation of the Gulf of California; however, its ichthyological fauna has not been poorly studied. To produce a systematic list with data on relative abundance and frequency, and biogeographical affinities, we...
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Vicerractoría Investigación
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| author | Antonio Villarreal-Cavazos Héctor Reyes-Bonilla Benito Bermúdez-Almada Oscar Arizpe-Covarrubias |
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| description | <abstract language="eng">The Cabo Pulmo reef is the most important coral formation of the Gulf of California; however, its ichthyological fauna has not been poorly studied. To produce a systematic list with data on relative abundance and frequency, and biogeographical affinities, we relied on visual census, field observations, analysis of commercial and sport fisheries (from 1986 to 1998), and the literature. A total of 236 species have been recorded at Cabo Pulmo (155 genera and 60 families). This number doubles previous compilations and represents 65.1% of all reef fishes known from the Gulf of California, and about 35% of its entire shallow-water fishes. Of the total species number, 68.3% are from the Panamic Province, 11.0% Indo Pacific colonizers and the same percentage gulf endemics, 7.6% are circumtropical, 1.7% Atlantic and 0.5% cosmopolitan; none are endemic to the reef. The most abundant taxa are the labrids Thalassoma lucasanum, T. grammaticum and the pomacentrid Chromis atrilobata. Only eleven species (4.7% of total) appeared in 75% to 100% of census, and 36 (15.3% of total) had high levels of both abundance and frequency, evidencing that the community is dominated by few taxa. Local species richness exceeds the number reported for most rocky or coral reefs of the Pacific coast of México, and indicates that Cabo Pulmo is a key area in the gulf and the entire Mexican Pacific, from the ichthyological point of view. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-10a188ff13c94252a069ac51c48b81d42023-09-02T22:09:21ZengVicerractoría InvestigaciónRevista de Biología Tropical0034-77442215-20752000-06-01482-3413424Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografíaAntonio Villarreal-CavazosHéctor Reyes-BonillaBenito Bermúdez-AlmadaOscar Arizpe-Covarrubias<abstract language="eng">The Cabo Pulmo reef is the most important coral formation of the Gulf of California; however, its ichthyological fauna has not been poorly studied. To produce a systematic list with data on relative abundance and frequency, and biogeographical affinities, we relied on visual census, field observations, analysis of commercial and sport fisheries (from 1986 to 1998), and the literature. A total of 236 species have been recorded at Cabo Pulmo (155 genera and 60 families). This number doubles previous compilations and represents 65.1% of all reef fishes known from the Gulf of California, and about 35% of its entire shallow-water fishes. Of the total species number, 68.3% are from the Panamic Province, 11.0% Indo Pacific colonizers and the same percentage gulf endemics, 7.6% are circumtropical, 1.7% Atlantic and 0.5% cosmopolitan; none are endemic to the reef. The most abundant taxa are the labrids Thalassoma lucasanum, T. grammaticum and the pomacentrid Chromis atrilobata. Only eleven species (4.7% of total) appeared in 75% to 100% of census, and 36 (15.3% of total) had high levels of both abundance and frequency, evidencing that the community is dominated by few taxa. Local species richness exceeds the number reported for most rocky or coral reefs of the Pacific coast of México, and indicates that Cabo Pulmo is a key area in the gulf and the entire Mexican Pacific, from the ichthyological point of view.http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442000000200013Systematic listAbundanceBiogeographyFishesCabo Pulmo reefGulf of California |
| spellingShingle | Antonio Villarreal-Cavazos Héctor Reyes-Bonilla Benito Bermúdez-Almada Oscar Arizpe-Covarrubias Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía Revista de Biología Tropical Systematic list Abundance Biogeography Fishes Cabo Pulmo reef Gulf of California |
| title | Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía |
| title_full | Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía |
| title_fullStr | Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía |
| title_full_unstemmed | Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía |
| title_short | Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía |
| title_sort | los peces del arrecife de cabo pulmo golfo de california mexico lista sistematica y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografia |
| topic | Systematic list Abundance Biogeography Fishes Cabo Pulmo reef Gulf of California |
| url | http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442000000200013 |
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