First record of Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792) (Perciformes, Centropomidae), Common Snook, in the Patos Lagoon estuary, in southern Brazil

By

Da Silveira Borges, Samanta
Dumont, Luiz Felipe Cestari
Garcia, Alexandre M.
Lemos, Valéria Marques

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-10-6

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

19

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

703--708

Subjects

Juvenile snooks , occurrence , poleward expansion , Western Atlantic

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/19.5.703

 

Abstract

We report the first record of Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792), Common Snook, in the Patos Lagoon estuary (32°S), Brazil. Two specimens were caught in April and May 2021 as bycatch in the fyke nets fish-ery for shrimp. Centropomus undecimalis was previously known to occur south to 29° S. We hypothesize that the intensification of the warm Brazilian Current has being promoted an expansion southward of this fish species along the Brazilian coast.