Check List 13(3): e19720, doi: 10.15560/13.3.2118
New locality for Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger, 1837 (Dipnoi: Lepidosirenidae) in Argentina
Evelyn Romina Vallone‡‡ Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción, Argentina
Corresponding author: Evelyn Vallone ( evelynvallone@gmail.com ) © 2017 Evelyn Vallone. 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:
Vallone E (2017) New locality for Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger, 1837 (Dipnoi: Lepidosirenidae) in Argentina. Check List 13(3): 2118. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.3.2118 |  |
Abstract
In this study has document a new locality and thus a southern extension of the distribution of the lungfish Lepidosiren paradoxa to the coast of the Entre Rios Province in the lower Paraná River. This finding increases the range of L. paradoxa by approximately 500 km and represents the third southern record of this species on the south of South America. Additionally, as this region has been relatively well sampled both during past decades and currently, I discuss possible reasons why this range extension has been observed only recently.
Keywords
South American lungfish; Entre Ríos; Paraná River; Range extension