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Reef fish assemblage and zoogeographic affinities of a scarcely known region of the western equatorial Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2014

João Eduardo Pereira Freitas  and
Tito Monteiro Cruz Lotufo Open the ORCID record for Tito Monteiro Cruz Lotufo [Opens in a new window]
João Eduardo Pereira Freitas*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciências do Mar – LABOMAR – UFC, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Av. Abolição 3207, CEP 60165-082Fortaleza, CE, Brasil
Tito Monteiro Cruz Lotufo
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciências do Mar – LABOMAR – UFC, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Av. Abolição 3207, CEP 60165-082Fortaleza, CE, Brasil
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Correspondence should be addressed to: J.E.P. Freitas, Instituto de Ciências do Mar – LABOMAR – UFC, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Av. Abolição 3207, CEP 60165-082, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Based on data from 151 underwater surveys (scuba) between 2002 and 2007, the present study assessed the reef fish fauna from a scarcely known region on the north-eastern Brazilian coast (Ceará State). A checklist of 179 taxa is provided and the zoogeographic patterns are analysed and discussed, including six other localities. Based only on assemblage composition, the reef fish fauna from Ceará showed a strong resemblance (73%) with the reefs of Risca do Zumbi (RN) and Paraiba (PB). The data from the visual censuses including abundance values corroborate the evaluation based only on composition and suggest ecological factors as the main drivers of the fish assemblages in the region.

Keywords

marine biogeographyfish zoogeographymarine fishesbiodiversitynorth-east Brazil
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 95 , Issue 3 , May 2015 , pp. 623 - 633
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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