Fish, Taquara river basin, northern of the state of Paraná, Brazil

By

Galves, Wanner
Shibatta, Oscar Akio
Jerep, Fernado Camargo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2007-8-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

3

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

253--259

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/3.3.253

 

Abstract

Taquara River is situated in an agriculturist region, on the northern portion of the Tibagi river basin, state of Paraná. Fish fauna was collected in five stretches of the Taquara River and in nine headwaters of its tributaries, in the period of May to December 2006. Six orders, 22 families, and 74 species were collected, in a sum of 2,389 individuals. The orders Characiformes and Siluriformes were dominant.