Author: Palacios-Salgado Deivis S. Moreno-Sanchez Xchel G. Abitia-Cardenas Leonardo A. Gutierrez-Sanchez Francisco J. Rodriguez-Romero Jesus
Publisher: Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
ISSN: 1734-1515
Source: Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria, Vol.42, Iss.3, 2012-09, pp. : 177-191
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Abstract
Background. The San Jose and San Francisquito Islands and El Pardito Islet are important for recreational tourism, sport fishing, and commercial fishing. They are part of an “Area Natural Protegida and “Area Prioritaria Marina; however, studies on the composition and diversity of their marine floral and faunal communities are limited. To provide information vital for management and conservation of these islands, a check-list of the ichthyofauna was compiled based on original data and the data extracted from other sources. Materials and methods. Field methodology involved direct collecting of the specimens using a gill net or a charalera net and/or visual censuses. Records of fish present near the islands were either directly solicited from museum curators of national and international scientific collections or obtained by using online database collections. Additionally, an exhaustive literature search for fish records was carried out, including scientific articles, books, and theses. Finally, the preferential habitat and zoogeographic affinity of fishes were analyzed. Results. The data yielded 298 species representing 201 genera and assigned to 86 families, 36 orders, and two fish classes. The most numerous families in terms of the species number were Serranidae (23 species), Gobiidae (15 species), and Carangidae (14 species). The most numerous genera were