RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Reef-fish Fauna of the Northern Patagonian Gulfs, Argentina, South-western Atlantic
David E. Galván*, 1, Leonardo A. Venerus1, Alejo J. Irigoyen1
Centro Nacional Patagónico (CONICET). Boulevard Brown 2825, (U9120ACF) Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 2
First Page: 90
Last Page: 98
Publisher Id: TOFISHSJ-2-90
DOI: 10.2174/1874401X00902010090
Article History:
Received Date: 13/06/2008Revision Received Date: 06/02/2009
Acceptance Date: 09/02/2009
Electronic publication date: 16/12/2009
Collection year: 2009
© 2009 E. Galván et al.
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A checklist containing 29 species of reef fishes recorded at the gulfs San José and Nuevo in Argentina (~42º– 43ºS) is provided. The reef-fish assemblages of the San José and Nuevo gulfs are a mix of warm-temperate fauna from the South-western Atlantic Province, and cold-temperate species from the South-American Province; however, warm-temperate fishes dominated in both gulfs. The presence of the families Bovichtidae, Eleginopidae, Nototheniidae, Congiopodidae, Sebastidae and Moridae distinguished the Patagonian region from the rest of the Atlantic coast.
Keywords: Reef-fish assemblages, Argentina, warm-temperate, cold-temperate, zoogeography.
