Check List 8(1): 77-82, doi: 10.15560/8.1.077
The fish fauna of the Corrientes stream basin, Patos lagoon system, state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil
expand article infoMatheus Vieira Volcan‡, Luis Esteban Krause Lanés§, Ândrio Cardozo Gonçalves‡, Alinca Peres da Fonseca|, Maximiano Pinheiro Cirne
‡ Instituto Pró-Pampa Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil§ Instituto Pró-Pampa Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil| Instituto Pró-Pampa, Brazil¶ Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil

Corresponding author: Matheus Volcan ( matheusvolcan@hotmail.com )

© 2017 Matheus Volcan, Luis Lanés, Ândrio Gonçalves, Alinca Fonseca, Maximiano Cirne.
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Citation: Volcan M, Fonseca A, Lanés L, Gonçalves Â, Cirne M (2012) The fish fauna of the Corrientes stream basin, Patos lagoon system, state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Check List 8(1): 77-82. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.1.077
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Abstract
The fish sampled in this study were captured in seasonal collections samplings, conducted between May 2006 and February 2007 in 15 stretches of the Corrientes stream basin, Patos lagoon system, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. A total of 8088 specimens were collected, belonging to nine orders, 24 families and 68 species. In general, the ichthyofauna in this basin has the same pattern recognized for Neotropical rivers with predominance of Characiformes and Siluriformes orders and a high representative of the Characidae and Loricariidae families.
Keywords
ichthyofauna; Brazil