Annotated list of freshwater fishes of the Limoncocha Lagoon, Napo river basin, northern Amazon region of Ecuador

By

Valdiviezo-Rivera, Jonathan
Carrillo-Moreno, Carolina
Gea-Izquierdo, Enrique

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-1-5

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

14

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

55--75

Subjects

Amazonian basin , ichthyofauna , Limoncocha Biological Reserve , Neotropical fauna

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/14.1.55

 

Abstract

An annotated list of the freshwater fishes of the Limoncocha Lagoon, in the Limoncocha Biological Reserve in the northern Amazon region of Ecuador is presented. Fishes were captured between March and July of 2012, and we combined these results with previous studies to provide a comprehensive list of fishes in the Limoncocha Biological Reserve. Thirty-three species belonging to 14 families distributed in 7 orders were collected. The most representative orders in number of species and specimens were Characiformes, Siluriformes, and Perciformes, respectively, being Characiformes as the most important in terms of richness and abundance of species. Characidae (Characiformes) exhibited the greatest abundance and broadest distribution in our samples. A short morphological description and morphometric measurements of each species are also presented.