title: An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from Amapá highlighting the occurrence of eight new records for Brazil.
abstract: The Amazon Basin occupies a vast portion of northern South America and contains some of the highest species richness in the world. The northern Brazilian state of Amapá is delimited by the Amazonas River to the south, the Oyapock River to the northern boundary with French Guyana, and the Atlantic northeastern coast to Amazon estuary. Despite several expeditions to the Amazon in recent decades, little is known about the freshwater ichthyofauna from Amapá, with records limited to local inventories and species descriptions. This paper presents a compilation of the freshwater fish diversity sampled in fifteen sites covering two major Amapá ecoregions during the dry season of 2015. 120 species representing eight orders and 40 families are reported upon in this work. Eight species appear for the first time in the Brazilian territory providing new information for future conservation status evaluations.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rubião Jr. s/n. 18618-689, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
authors.forename: Bruno F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rubião Jr. s/n. 18618-689, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ricardo C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Benine
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rubião Jr. s/n. 18618-689, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil; Laboratorio de Acuacultura, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica de Machala, Av. Panamericana Km. 4½ Vía Machala-Pasaje, 070150, Machala, El Oro, Ecuador.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Britzke
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá, Av. Feliciano Coelho, 1509, Trem, 68900-260, Macapá, Amapá, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cecile S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Gama
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rubião Jr. s/n. 18618-689, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Oliveira
keywords: Amazon; French Guyana; Neotropical; South America; Teleostei