Check List 11(4): e19287, doi: 10.15560/11.4.1688
Brazilian tropical fishes in their southern limit of distribution: checklist of Santa Catarina’s rocky reef ichthyofauna, remarks and new records
expand article infoAntônio Batista Anderson‡, Alfredo Carvalho-Filho§, Renato Araujo Morais‡, Lucas Teixeira Nunes‡, Juan Pablo Quimbayo‡, Sergio Ricardo Floeter‡
‡ Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil§ Fish Bizz Ltda., Brazil

Corresponding author: Sergio Floeter ( sergio.floeter@ufsc.br )

© 2017 Antônio Anderson, Alfredo Carvalho-Filho, Renato Morais, Lucas Nunes, Juan Quimbayo, Sergio Floeter.
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Citation: Floeter S, Nunes L, Carvalho-Filho A, Anderson A, Quimbayo J, Morais R (2015) Brazilian tropical fishes in their southern limit of distribution: checklist of Santa Catarina’s rocky reef ichthyofauna, remarks and new records. Check List 11(4): 1688. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1688
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Abstract
We present a checklist of 278 species of reef fishes recorded along the coastline of Santa Catarina state, the southernmost limit of distribution of tropical ichthyofauna on the coast of Brazil. Twelve new species records for this state are presented: Acanthurus coeruleus, Acanthurus monroviae, Apogon americanus, Cantherhines macrocerus, Chaetodon sedentarius, Chromis flavicauda, Clepticus brasiliensis, Decapterus punctatus, Gymnothorax vicinus, Herpetoichthys regius, Muraena retifera and Stegastes partitus. Stegastes partitus and H. regius are reported for the first time, respectively, from the Southwestern Atlantic and for the coastal part of this region, while Acanthurus monroviae is reported for the second time for the Southwestern Atlantic. We present habitat distribution, trophic structure and comment on biogeographic affinities of this transitional region, discussing both remarkable species presences and absences.
Keywords
rocky reefs; Southwestern Atlantic Shelf; Teleostei; Elasmobranchii; Atlantic Subtropical Convergence; upwelling