Name: Rich and underreported: First integrated assessment of the diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic
License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Here, we provide the first integrative study of the biodiversity of mesopelagic fishes of the southwestern Tropical Atlantic (SWTA), based on two expeditions in northeastern Brazil in 2015 and 2017. A full list of mesopelagic fishes of the region is provided, including rare species and new records for the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone and the indication of potentially new species in groups such as the Stomiiformes and Beryciformes.

Citation: Eduardo L N, Bertrand A, Lucena-Frédou F, Villarins B T, Martins J R, Afonso G V F, Pietsch T W, Frédou T, Di Dario F, Mincarone M M, Earl C (2023). Rich and underreported: First integrated assessment of the diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/kr0wqx

Published: October 19, 2023 at 02:03

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=brazilian-islands-eduardo-2022

Contacts:

Leandro Nolé Eduardo
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE)

Arnaud Bertrand
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE)

Flávia Lucena-Frédou
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE)

Bárbara Teixeira Villarins
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Júlia Rodrigues Martins
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Gabriel Vinícius Felix Afonso
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Theodore Wells Pietsch
University of Washington

Thierry Frédou
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE)

Fabio Di Dario
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Michael Maia Mincarone
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

OBIS Secretariat
OBIS

Chandra Earl
UNESCO

328

occurrence records

200

taxa

180

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	328		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	328		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		328	100.0%

Rich and underreported: First integrated assessment of the diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data