Check List 10(6): 1387-1400, doi: 10.15560/10.6.1387
Fish fauna from Río Pilcomayo National Park and Ramsar Site and its surroundings, Formosa, Argentina
Florencia Brancolini‡, Priscilla Minotti§, Lucila Protogino‡, Hugo López|, Claudio Baigún¶‡ Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Limnología “Dr. Raúl A. Ringuelet”, Argentina§ Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina| Museo de La Plata, División Zoología Vertebrados, Argentina¶ Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto Nacional de Biotecnología e Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Chascomús, Argentina
Corresponding author: Florencia Brancolini ( florencia.brancolini@gmail.com ) © 2017 Florencia Brancolini, Priscilla Minotti, Lucila Protogino, Hugo López, Claudio Baigún. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Brancolini F, López H, Minotti P, Protogino L, Baigún C (2014) Fish fauna from Río Pilcomayo National Park and Ramsar Site and its surroundings, Formosa, Argentina. Check List 10(6): 1387-1400. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.6.1387 |  |
Abstract
The first list of fish species from the Río Pilcomayo National Park and Ramsar Site (RPNP), located in the Wet Chaco plains of northern Argentina is presented here. Samplings were carried out bimonthly from December 2006 to January 2008 in sites representative of the different landscapes, in both dry and wet seasons. A total of 77 species were collected, belonging to 23 families and eight orders and covering 54% of the province ichthyofauna. New records to the Province of Formosa are Brachyhypopomus gauderio Giora & Malabarba, 2009; Cyanocharax sp. and Hypophthalmus edentatus Spix & Agassiz, 1829.
Keywords
ichthyofauna; Wet Chaco plains; fishes; biodiversity; Río Pilcomayo National Park