Check List 17(6): 1515-1520, doi: 10.15560/17.6.1515
New records of two teleost species from two insular areas of the western equatorial Atlantic
Rodrigo Xavier Soares‡, Karlla Danielle Jorge Amorim‡, Amanda Torres Borges‡, Wagner Franco Molina§, José Garcia Júnior|‡ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal - RN, Brazil| Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte, Currais Novos, Brazil
Corresponding author: Rodrigo Xavier Soares ( roxsoares@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Arturo Angulo © Rodrigo Xavier Soares, Karlla Danielle Jorge Amorim, Amanda Torres Borges, Wagner Franco Molina, José Garcia Júnior. 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:
Soares RX, Amorim KDJ, Borges AT, Molina WF, Garcia Júnior J (2021) New records of two teleost species from two insular areas of the western equatorial Atlantic. Check List 17(6): 1515-1520. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.6.1515 |  |
Abstract
We report the first record of two teleost species from two archipelagos in the western equatorial Atlantic. We recorded the occurrence of Cantherhines pullus (Ranzani, 1842) (Monacanthidae, Tetraodontiformes) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, a group of volcanic islands 345 km off the northeastern coast of Brazil. We also report the first regional record of Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hemiramphidae, Beloniformes) from the Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Archipelago, which is a small and isolated group of rocky islands 520 km from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Keywords
Brazil, Fernando de Noronha Archipelago; ichthyofauna; Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Archipelago