Check List 10(1): 106–121, 2014 © 2014 Check List and Authors Chec List ISSN 1809-127X (available at www.checklist.org.br) Journal of species lists and distribution Fish larvae from the Gulf of California to Colima, Mexico: PECIES S An update OF Raymundo Avendaño-Ibarra 1,2*, Gerardo Aceves-Medina 2 1 ISTS 1,2 2 2 3 L and Carlos J. Robinson , Enrique Godínez-Domínguez , Roxana De Silva-Dávila , S. Patricia A. Jiménez-Rosenberg , Homero Urias-Leyva 1 Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur (CUCSUR), Depto. de Estudios para el Desarrollo Sustentable de la Zona Costera, Av. V. Gómez Farías 82, CP 48980, San Patricio Melaque, Jalisco, México. 2 Instituto Politécnico Nacional. CICIMAR. Departamento de Plancton y Ecología Marina, Av. IPN s/n, Fracc. Playa Palo de Sta. Rita, CP 23096, La MéPaz,xico. BCS, México. * 3 CorrInstitutespondingo de Ciencias author. del E-mail: Mar y
[email protected]ía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Cd. México, Distrito Federal, 04500, Abstract: of 579 taxa belonging to 119 families, 256 genera, and 423 species were recorded. The list was compiled using 14 publications An updated taxonomic list of marine fish larvae from the Gulf of California to Colima, Mexico is presented. A total oceanographic cruises made from the Gulf of California to Bahía de Banderas, Mexico, from 2003 to 2007 (this study). The moston fish important larvae research families (1974-2012), in this study and were the the fish Myctophidae larvae identified (28.3%), from Engraulidae 315 samples (25.0%), collected and with Clupeidae Bongo nets (15.4%).