Fish, Itupararanga Reservoir, Sorocaba River Drainage, São Paulo, Brazil

By

Smith, Welber Senteio
Petrere Júnior, Miguel, 1948-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2007-5-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

3

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

131--136

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/3.2.131

 

Abstract

The Itupararanga Reservoir is located at the Sorocaba River Basin, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Five cities use the waters of this reservoir for human consumption. Despite this intensive use of the water resource, no study has been undertaken, to investigate the ichthyofauna of this reservoir. Overall, 22 species of fishes were sampled, including 7 orders and 12 families. Characiformes and Siluriformes were the most representative with respectively 9 and 5 species. Among the families, Characidae and Pimelodidade are noticed, both with respectively 5 and 3 collected species.