Check List 10(5): 1031–1035, 2014 © 2014 Check List and Authors Chec List ISSN 1809-127X (available at www.checklist.org.br) Journal of species lists and distribution Fishes from the middle Cubatão River drainage São Paulo PECIES S State, Brazil OF 1*, Pedro Delmonte Tarrago Corrêa 1, Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa 2, João Alberto ISTS 1 1 L Paschoa dos Santos and João Marcos Miragaia Schmiegelow Bruno Abreu-Santos 1 Universidade Santa Cecília, Laborató
[email protected] de Peixes Continentais - LAPEC, Rua Oswaldo Cruz 266, CEP 11045-907, Santos, SP, Brazil 2 Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Seção de Peixes, Avenida Nazaré 481, CEP 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. * Corresponding author: E-mail: Abstract: This study aimed to survey the fish fauna of Cubatão River and its tributaries on the Atlantic Coast of São 725MPaulo State,electric Brazil. shock For device, this study in a 50 we meters captured area. the Two fishes samplings in eight sampledwere done sites: in rainy three and in the dry Cubatão season River(2011). itself A total (points of six 5, orders,6 and 7) nine and families five in its and tributaries, 15 species, three of which on the 53% left were bank Siluriformes (1, 2 and 3) and 20%two onwere the Characiformes. right bank (4 and The 8) number using anof speciesSAMUS collected in the middle Cubatão River basin represents 26.3% of the total richness recorded for coastal basins in the State of São Paulo (about 600 km of coastline). DOI: 10.15560/10.5.1037 Introduction is tropical rainy with an annual mean precipitation of 3.207 The Atlantic Forest, known in Brazil as “Mata Atlântica”, mm (EMBRAPA 2012).