Check List 12(2): e19481, doi: 10.15560/12.2.1879
Stream fish fauna from the tributaries of the upper Itapetininga River, upper Paranapanema River basin, state of São Paulo, Brazil
expand article infoVitor Loreno de Almeida Cerqueira‡, Mauricio de Proença Carvalho§, Rodrigo da Silva Almeida|, Fabio Cop Ferreira, Mauricio Cetra|, Welber Senteio Smith‡
‡ Universidade Paulista Universidade de Sorocaba, Brazil§ Universidade Paulista, Brazil| Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil¶ Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

Corresponding author: Vitor Cerqueira ( vitor_loreno21@hotmail.com )

© 2017 Vitor Cerqueira, Mauricio Carvalho, Rodrigo Almeida, Fabio Ferreira, Mauricio Cetra, Welber Smith.
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Citation: Cetra M, Cerqueira V, Carvalho M, Ferreira F, Almeida R, Smith W (2016) Stream fish fauna from the tributaries of the upper Itapetininga River, upper Paranapanema River basin, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Check List 12(2): 1879. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.2.1879
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Abstract
The study area, which is located in urban and rural areas within the upper Paranapanema River basin, is undergoing several types of anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic impacts, such as chemical alterations, habitat disruption, and biological invasions. The aim of this study is to describe the fish faunal composition from tributaries of the Itapetininga River, upper Paranapanema River basin, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Herein, we include a list of 49 fish species, belonging to seven orders, 19 families and 35 genera, captured from September 2009 to November 2013. Thus, the present study fills part of the knowledge gap about the fish fauna from tributaries of the Paranapanema basin by adding data from small tributaries not studied so far. Moreover, our findings can help inform future conservational and/or management strategies within the upper Paranapanema basin.
Keywords
Neotropical ichthyology; species inventory; ichthyofaunal diversity