Check List 19(5): 703-708, doi: 10.15560/19.5.703
First record of Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792) (Perciformes, Centropomidae), Common Snook, in the Patos Lagoon estuary, in southern Brazil
expand article infoSamanta da Silveira Borges‡, Luiz Felipe Cestari Dumont‡, Alexandre Miranda Garcia‡, Valéria Marques Lemos‡
‡ Universidade Federal de Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil

Corresponding author: Samanta da Silveira Borges ( samantadas.borges@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Hudson Tercio Pinheiro
© Samanta da Silveira Borges, Luiz Felipe Cestari Dumont, Alexandre Miranda Garcia, Valéria Marques Lemos.
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Citation: Silveira S, Dumont LFC, Garcia AM, Lemos VM (2023) First record of Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792) (Perciformes, Centropomidae), Common Snook, in the Patos Lagoon estuary, in southern Brazil. Check List 19(5): 703-708. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.5.703
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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.
Keywords
Juvenile snooks, occurrence, poleward expansion, Western Atlantic