Fish fauna from the estuaries of Ceará state, Brazil: a checklist in support of conservation of the Brazilian semiarid coast

By

Gurgel-Lourenço, Ronaldo César
Silva De Medeiros, Lucas
Mesquita Pinto, Leonardo
Alves De Sousa, Wallace
Braga Pereira, Felipe
Ramos, Telton Pedro Anselmo
Lima, Sergio Maia Queiroz
Sánchez-Botero, Jorge Iván

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-2-13

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

19

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

63--90

Subjects

Caatinga , estuarine fishes , ichthyofauna , inventory , mangrove , northeastern Brazil

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/19.1.63

 

Abstract

We provide extensive surveys in eight estuaries along the coast of Ceará State in Northeastern Brazil, including local samples and data compiled from online data bases and literature. Samplings resulted in a checklist of the estuarine fish fauna, which recorded 126 fish species, and provides original information of some estuaries. Most of the sampled marine species are widely distributed and many are important commercial species for the artisanal fisheries. The addition of records from existing inventories and online collections increases the number of species to 245, of which 11 are threatened (critically endangered or vulnerable) and six are introduced. Our study provides an updated list of fish species of the estuaries along the semiarid coast of Brazil and is intended as a subsidy for further research, conservation and management efforts.