Check List 13(3): e19732, doi: 10.15560/13.3.2130
Fish fauna in tributaries of the Suiá-Miçú River (upper Xingu river basin), in the Cerrado-Amazon transition zone, eastern state of Mato Grosso, Brazil
Luciano B. Lima‡, Aline J. Santos‡, Dilermando P. Lima Junior§‡ Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Brazil§ Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil
Corresponding author: Luciano Lima ( lucianobeneditolima@gmail.com ) © 2017 Luciano Lima, Aline Santos, Dilermando Lima Junior. 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:
Lima L, Santos A, Lima D (2017) Fish fauna in tributaries of the Suiá-Miçú River (upper Xingu river basin), in the Cerrado-Amazon transition zone, eastern state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Check List 13(3): 2130. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.3.2130 |  |
Abstract
Studies on the fish fauna of the Xingu river basin are mainly concentrated in the main channel of the river or its large tributaries, due to requirements all faunal surveys in hydroelectric power plant projects. Our goal was to conduct a survey of the composition of fish fauna in headwater streams (lotic environments) and small reservoirs (artificial lentic environments) built on these streams in the upper Xingu River region. Fish were sampled in the dry period, July 2013, using active sampling methods in a 100 meter-section at each sampling site. We recorded the occurrence of 33 species of five orders and 16 families. Characiformes was the most species-rich order, with 19 species, followed by Siluriformes, Gymnotiformes and Perciformes, with four species each.
Keywords
streams; checklist; diversity; deforestation; Neotropical region