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A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin

Céline Jézéquel 1 Pablo Tedesco 2 Remy Bigorne 1 Javier Maldonado-Ocampo 3 Hernan Ortega 4 Max Hidalgo 4 Koen Martens 5 Gislene Torrente-Vilara 6 Jansen Zuanon 7 Astrid Acosta 8 Edwin Agudelo 8 Soraya Barrera Maure 9 Douglas Bastos 7 Juan Bogotá Gregory 8 Fernando Cabeceira 10 André Canto 11 Fernando Carvajal-Vallejos 12 Lucélia Carvalho 10 Ariana Cella-Ribeiro 13 Raphaël Covain 14 Carlos Donascimiento 15 Carolina Doria 16 Cleber Duarte 7 Efrem Ferreira 7 André v. Galuch 7 Tommaso Giarrizzo 17 Rafael Leitão 18 John Lundberg 19 Mabel Maldonado 12 José Mojica 20 Luciano Montag 21 Willian Ohara 16 Tiago Pires 7 Marc Pouilly 2 Saúl Prada-Pedreros 3 Luiz de Queiroz 22 Lucia Rapp Py-Daniel 7 Frank Ribeiro 11 Raúl Ríos Herrera 23 Jaime Sarmiento 9 Leandro Sousa 21 Lis Stegmann 7 Jonathan Valdiviezo-Rivera 24 Francisco Villa 25 Takayuki Yunoki 26 Thierry Oberdorff 1
1 EDB - Evolution et Diversité Biologique
2 BOREA - Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques
3 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
4 UNMSM - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
5 Universiteit Gent [Ghent]
6 Universidade Federal de São Paulo
7 INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
8 Instituto Amazonico de Investigaciones Cientificas
9 Museo Nacional de Historia Natural La Paz
10 UFMT - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
11 UFOPA - Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará [Santarém]
12 UMSS - Universidad Mayor de San Simón [Cochabamba, Bolivie]
13 Centro Universitário Aparício Carvalho
14 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève
15 IMT AvH - Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt"
16 UNIR - Universidade Federal de Rondônia [Brésil]
17 Federal University of Para - Universidade Federal do Para [Belem - Brésil]
18 UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais [Belo Horizonte]
19 Drexel University
20 UNAL - Universidad Nacional de Colombia [Bogotà]
21 UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná
22 UNIGE - Université de Genève
23 Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural [Cali, Colombie]
24 INABIO - Instituto Nacional De Biodiversidad
25 Universidad del Tolima
26 Universidad Autonoma del Beni
Abstract : The Amazon Basin is an unquestionable biodiversity hotspot, containing the highest freshwater biodiversity on earth and facing off a recent increase in anthropogenic threats. The current knowledge on the spatial distribution of the freshwater fish species is greatly deficient in this basin, preventing a comprehensive understanding of this hyper-diverse ecosystem as a whole. Filling this gap was the priority of a transnational collaborative project, i.e. the AmazonFish project - https://www.amazon-fish.com/. Relying on the outputs of this project, we provide the most complete fish species distribution records covering the whole Amazon drainage. The database, including 2,406 validated freshwater native fish species, 232,936 georeferenced records, results from an extensive survey of species distribution including 590 different sources (e.g. published articles, grey literature, online biodiversity databases and scientific collections from museums and universities worldwide) and field expeditions conducted during the project. This database, delivered at both georeferenced localities (21,500 localities) and sub-drainages grains (144 units), represents a highly valuable source of information for further studies on freshwater fish biodiversity, biogeography and conservation.
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Céline Jézéquel, Pablo Tedesco, Remy Bigorne, Javier Maldonado-Ocampo, Hernan Ortega, et al.. A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin. Scientific Data , Nature Publishing Group, 2020, 7 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41597-020-0436-4⟩. ⟨ird-02558001⟩

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