Telton Pedro Anselmo Ramos‡, Yuri Gomes Ponce de Carvalho Rocha§, Silvia Yasmin Lustosa Costa|, José Etham de Lucena Barbosa‡Corresponding author: Telton Pedro Anselmo Ramos ( telton@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Mariangeles Arce H. © Telton Pedro Anselmo Ramos, Yuri Gomes Ponce de Carvalho Rocha, Silvia Yasmin Lustosa Costa, José Etham de Lucena Barbosa. 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:
Ramos TPA, Carvalho Rocha YGP, Lustosa Costa SY, Barbosa JEL (2020) First record of non-native platyfish, Xiphophorus maculatus (Günther, 1866) (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae), in the Jaguaribe River basin, northeastern Brazil. Check List 16(5): 1159-1164. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1159 |  |
We provide the first record of Xiphophorus maculatus (Günther, 1866) in a river basin in the northeastern Brazil. Specimens were collected in the Jaguaribe River basin, João Pessoa, Paraíba state, Brazil. Two hundred eighty-one specimens, corresponding to 143 males and 138 females of X. maculatus, were collected at nine sites along the basin, from 2017 to 2019. Specimens total length ranged from 17.5 to 26.6 mm in males and from 11.7 to 32.7 mm in females. Introduction of non-native species greatly threatens the biological diversity worldwide. When introduced into a new habitat, X. maculatus usually decreases microcrustacean, macroinvertebrate and native fish populations.