Chec List Fishes from the Middle Cubatão River Drainage São Paulo
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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). January to March (austral summer) originally covered 12% of Brazil, occurring along the is the highest rainfall period and July to August (winter) eastern coast. Because of its location, it has been extensively the least, not experiencing a real dry season. The average exploited and displaced by growing urban centers or temperature is 24.8°C, the warmest month (February) agricultural land use. Currently this biome is a cluster of 28.3°C and coldest month (July) 20.7°C (EMBRAPA, 2012). forest patches in different successional stages, occupying The Cubatão River is located in the “Baixada Santista” a total area of less than 8% of the national territory and region, being approximately 35 km long. It occupies an area still subject to varying levels of disturbance (INPE 2014). of 175.55 km2 According to Menezes et al. (2007) there are about 300 of 8.09 m3/s (CETEC 2000); it is inserted in the Serra do Mar State Park (Parqueand has Estaduala stream da flow Serra long-term do Mar—PESM), average Atlantic Forest, with about 80% of them being endemic andspecies 15% of endangered, fishes found while in the the rivers ecology and and streams conservation of the status of many species are still unknown. inItutinga-Pilões tributaries, threecenter. from the left bank (1, 2 and 3), two The Cubatão River is located along the “Serra do Mar”, fromFor the this right study bank we (4 selected and 8) andeight three sampling in the sites, Cubatão five a mountain range that occurs along the Brazilian southern River main stem (5, 6 and 7) (Figure 1). The geographical and southeastern coastline in the Atlantic Forest area, with coordinates are shown in Table 1. its spring in the municipality of São Bernardo do Campo The sites 1, 2 and 3 have waterfalls and present rocky and its mouth feeding into the ocean near the municipality bottom, with dense vegetation cover. The site 4 has sandy of Cubatão, both in São Paulo State. This river is of great bottom, with a predominance of low vegetation on the socioeconomic importance to the city of Cubatão. It is shore and lentic waters. The site 5 and 6 had substrate composed primarily of gravel and boulders, moderately et al. fast water and riparian low vegetation. Site 7, is formed by 2002),an important mainly ofsource the chemical, of water petrochemical supply, receiving and effluentsfertilizer a rapid, with rocky bottom and dense vegetation around industriesfrom nearly (CETESB all industries 2001). Theof Cubatão aim of this(Luiz-Silva study was to preserved. Finally, section 8 is located inside a pineapple plantation, with few marginal vegetation, moderately fast Cubatão River (area which is not affected by industry). water and bottom composed of sand and gravel. inventory the species of fish in the middle section of the Materials and Methods Data collection Study site Two samplings were done, one in the rainy season The inland waters of the State of São Paulo are (January 2011) and another in the dry season (July concentrated in four watersheds: Alto Paraná, Paraíba do 2011). Authorization for the collections were issued by Sul, Ribeira de Iguape and a set of small drainages located the Instituto Florestal—Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Ocean and form a region denominated Coastal Drainages or Coastalin a narrow Basins coastal (Oyakawa belt that and flowsMenezes directly 2011). to Thethe Atlanticclimate Estado de São Paulo (license #260108-010.534/260108- 010.525/260108-010.517). Fishes were captured by electrofishing using a SAMUS 725M electric shock device 1031 Abreu-Santos et al. | Fishes from the Cubatão River Figure 1. Map showing the sampling sites in the middle Cubatão River drainage. Table 1. 2). The most representative families were Loricariidae, GEOGRAPHICAL STREAM ELEVATION Characidae and Heptapteridae, both with three species SITE GeographicalNAME coordinates of the sampled sites. Datum: WGS 84. COORDINATES ORDER (m) each (20%). The other orders were represented by one 1 Rio sem nome 2 90 family each (Figure 2). 23°55′52″ S, Phalloceros reisi was the most frequent species 2 Rio sem nome 46°31′05″ W 2 63 among the streams studied, occurring in all locations. 23°54′36″ S, Rhamdioglanis frenatus and Hollandichthys multifasciatus 3 Rio sem nome 46°28′53″ W 2 65 occurred in four sites and Acentronichthys leptos in three 23°53′57″ S, 4 Rio sem nome 46°29′35″ W 2 45 sites (Figure 2). Geophagus brasiliensis and Rineloricaria 23°54′03″ S, sp. were the only species that occurred in only one site 5 Rio Cubatão 46°29′30″ W 4 39 (Cubatão River) (Table 2). 23°55′16″ S, The Cubatão River had the highest species richness (15 6 Rio Cubatão 46°30′01″ W 3 46 spp.) followed by T1 (10 spp.) and T3 (5 spp.) (Table 2). 23°55′49″ S, 7 Rio Cubatão 46°31′10″ W 3 88 23°54′40″ S, Discussion 8 Rio sem nome 46°29′19″ W 2 79 The Siluriformes and Characiformes predominance, 23°54′09″ S, 46°29′26″ W in many places of the Atlantic Forest waterbodies (Sabino andtypical Castro of Neotropical 1990; Aranha streams et al(Castro 1999), it’s recorded outputs for two dip nets with three passages in an area of et al. 50(direct meters. current, 650W, 12V, 99Hz, 8.0 λ, 12s), recording . 1998; Uiedaet and al. 2007;Uieda The specimens captured were anesthetized in a solution Serra2001; etEsteves al. 2007; and Ferreira Lobón-Cervia and Petrere 2001; Jr., Oyakawa2009). Surveys 2006; Ribeiro et al. 2006; Sarmento-Soares to 70% alcohol. The voucher specimens were deposited distributed in 11 families (Costa 1987; Aranha et al. 1998; of benzocaine, fixed in 10% formalin and later transferred in the Atlantic Forest streams found 15-26 fish species Cervia 2001; Vilella et al et al. Oyakawain Museu deet al.Zoologia (2006) da when Universidade necessary, de comparedSão Paulo. withThe 2007),Mazzoni a resultand Lobón-Cerviathat was observed 2000; in thisEsteves study. and Lobón- species were identified according to Géry (1977) and In the Coastal Basin region. 2004; of São Sarmento-Soares Paulo state, Oyakawa followed Reis et al. (2003) and Eschmeyer (2013). and Menezes (2010) reported 57 species, of which 15 samples deposited in MZUSP. The species’ nomenclature were found in this study, being the equivalent of a 26.3% Results of the total of that basin. We collected a total 1,598 specimens belonging to In Jurubatuba River, the study by Mattox and Iglesias six orders, nine families and 15 species, of which 53% (2010), there were 19 freshwater species captured were Siluriformes and 20% were Characiformes (Table belonging to the same orders of middle Cubatão. Seven 1032 Abreu-Santos et al. | Fishes from the Cubatão River Table 2. Order, family, species, voucher number and their respective occurrences at sampling sites. ORDER/FAMILY SPECIES VOUCHER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Characiformes/ Characidae Deuterodon iguape Eigenmann, 1907 X X Bryconamericus microcephalus (Miranda Ribeiro, 1908) X X X MZUSP 113617 / 113630 - - - - - - Hollandichthys multifasciatus X X X X MZUSP 113619 / 113637 - - - - - Siluriformes/ Callichthyidae Scleromystax barbatus X X X X (Eigenmann & Norris, 1900) MZUSP 113633 - - - - Siluriformes/ Heptapteridae Rhamdia quelen X X X (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) MZUSP 113615 / 113623 - - - - Rhamdioglanis frenatus Ihering, 1907 X X X X (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) MZUSP 113634 - - - - - Acentronichthys leptos X X X MZUSP 113627 / 113635 - - - - Siluriformes/ Loricaridae Ancistrus multispinis (Regan, 1912) X Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 MZUSP 113621 / 113628 - - - - - Schizolecis guntheri (Miranda Ribeiro, 1918) X X MZUSP113624 113636 - - - - - - - MZUSP 113618 / 113620 / - - - - - - Rineloricaria sp. X X Siluriformes/ Trichomycteridae Trichomycterus alternatus (Eigenmann, 1917) X X MZUSP 113622 / 113625 - - - - - - Gymnotus pantherinus (Steindachner, 1908) X X X MZUSP 113638 - - - - - - Cyprinodontiformes/ Poecilidae Phalloceros cf. reisi Lucinda, 2008 X X X X X X X X Gymnotiformes/ Gymnotidae MZUSP 113616 / 113632 - - - - - Labriformes/ Cichlidae Geophagus brasiliensis X X MZUSP 113612 / 113626 Synbranchiformes/ Synbranchidae Synbranchus marmoratus (Bloch, 1897) X X X (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) MZUSP 113614 / 113631 - - - - - - TOTAL 1 2 5 10 8 7 7 4 MZUSP 113639 / 133613 - - - - - of these were found in both surveys (Hollandichthys Bertaco, V.A.