The deep sea teleost fish fauna of the Brazilian North Coast

Abstract Data on the deep sea fishes found off the northern Brazilian coast are restricted to the results of the surveys of the RV Oregon, a research vessel of the North American National Marine Fisheries Service, and the REVIZEE Program. The REVIZEE Score-Norte Program focused on commercial fish species and natural resources with potential for exploitation on the continental shelf and slope off the northern coast of Brazil. In this sense, the REVIZEE Score-Norte Program generated little information on species of no commercial value, did not catalog its inventory in zoological collections, and did not publish species lists. Given this considerable knowledge gap on the deep-sea fish found off the North coast of Brazil, we compiled all the available data on the deep-sea fish of this region and also retrieved photographic records from the REVIZEE Score-Norte Program, including the PRODEMERSAL and PROTUNA projects. Considering the published records, specimens deposited in zoological collections, and the interpretation of photographic records, we compiled a list of 63 species of deep-sea fish from the North coast of Brazil. An additional 30 species were found in the published records from the PRODEMERSAL and PROTUNA, but were considered to be doubtful or pending confirmation.

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Conhecimento e conservação dos peixes marinhos e estuarinos (Chondrichthyes e Teleostei) da costa norte do Brasil

Biota Neotropica ◽

10.1590/s1676-06032013000400022 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 251-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Alexandre Pires Marceniuk ◽

Rodrigo Antunes Caires ◽

Wolmar Benjamin Wosiacki ◽

Fabio Di Dario

Keyword(s):

Economic Value ◽

Fish Fauna ◽

North Coast ◽

Marine Biodiversity ◽

Brazilian Coast ◽

Marine Biota ◽

Estuarine Fishes ◽

The North ◽

Scientific Collections

The tropical western South Atlantic, which includes a substantial portion of the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone, is a region of endemism broadly recognized as being of prime importance for the conservation of the marine biodiversity. The north coast of Brazil, which comprises the states of Amapá, Pará and Maranhão from the mouth of the rio Oiapoque to the mouth of the rio Parnaíba, harbors the largest continuous mangrove in the world, with approximately 8,900 km2. The high discharge of freshwater and continental sediments in the delta of the Amazonas affects the regime of tides, ocean currents, and several oceanographic processes of the north coast, with direct impact on the composition of the biota found in the region. Despite its economic value and intrinsic biological relevance, several aspects of the diversity of the marine and estuarine fishes of the region are poorly known. This situation results mainly from a historical imbalance in terms of the number of studies devoted to increasing the knowledge of the marine biota along the Brazilian coast, such as those dealing with species inventory and taxonomic revisions, which are typically concentrated in the south and southwestern portions of the country. The scientific production focused on marine organisms of the north coast is also imbalanced, and reflects the relatively small number of taxonomists and research groups working on that subject. The insufficient knowledge of the biodiversity of the marine and estuarine fishes of the north coast is an impediment to the implementation of adequate public policies aimed at the management of natural resources in the region. In the long term, that situation is potentially harmful in terms of conservation of a still poorly known biota. A better understanding of the marine fish fauna of the north coast of Brazil will be achieved only through the investment in scientific research and personnel training in systematics and biogeography, coupled with the modernization of the current infrastructure and expansion of scientific collections of the region.

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Preliminary observations on abundance and distribution of fish fauna in a canyon of the Bay of Biscay (ICES Division 8c)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315420001265 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

G. Diez ◽

L. Arregi ◽

M. Basterretxea ◽

E. Cuende ◽

I. Oyarzabal

Keyword(s):

Deep Sea ◽

Basque Country ◽

Fish Fauna ◽

Fishing Effort ◽

Fishing Gear ◽

Clear Trend ◽

Depth Ranges ◽

Abundance And Distribution ◽

Sea Fish ◽

Distribution Of Fish

Abstract The changes in abundance and biodiversity of deep-sea fish fauna are described based on an annual deep-water longline survey with data collected during the period 2015–2019 in the Basque Country continental Slope (ICES Division 8c). The sampling scheme included hauls in four 400 m strata, from 650–2250 m deep. The DST sensors installed in the main line have allowed us to set an accurate soak time for each haul, and they were used to calculate fishing effort and CPUE by haul. The catchability of the fishing gear indicated that 15% of the total hooks deployed in the five-year period were able to fish, and that the bottom longline was very effective in fishing a wide number of different species in all depth ranges. The fishing gear caught 14 different species of sharks (13 deepwater and one pelagic), two chimaeras and nine teleosts. The abundance and biomass registered on the hooks attached to the bottom were between three and four times higher than in the floating sections, and the highest CPUE and biomass were recorded between 1051–1450 m, from 2015 to 2017, and in the 1451–1850 m strata, but they do not show any clear trend throughout the five years of the series.

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Preliminary results of drift-bottle releases and recoveries in the Western Tropical Atlantic

Boletim do Instituto Oceanográfico ◽

10.1590/s0373-55241967000100002 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 13-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ellen F. Luedemann

Keyword(s):

Surface Current ◽

Northeastern Brazil ◽

Brazilian Coast ◽

Northern Coast ◽

The North ◽

Strong Current ◽

North Brazil ◽

Equatorial Current ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Area North

In February-March 1963, during the Equalant Operation for the ICITA program, 476 drift-bottles were released at the equatorial waters off the northern Brazilian coast (01ºS to 09ºN and 043ºW to 053ºW). Thirty-five, bottles were recovered (7,4%). Those were classed in five groups according to their different velocity ranges and areas of recovery (Trinidad Island; Lesser Antilles; Caribbean and Florida area; north Brazil; northeastern Brazil). The recoveries of bottles released within 300 nm off the northern and northeastern coast of Brazil confirmed a strong current along the north and northeast coast in northwestern direction (South Equatorial Current and branches). In late February-early March the bottles showed maximum velocities of this current (3,6 knots). The region off the northern coast of Brazil, between 05ºN and 09ºN up to 050ºW seems to have been under the influence of an eastward component of the surface current in this same period, while at late March this influence appears to have been weaker. In the region from Trinidad Island to Yucatan Peninsula the current seems to be stronger on the northeastern side of the Caribbean Sea.

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Spatial Analysis of Coastline Change by Remote Sensing in the North Coast of Karawang Regency

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik ◽

10.7454/jglitrop.v3i2.71 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Roberto Pasaribu ◽

Firman Agus H. ◽

Liliek Soeprijadi

Keyword(s):

Shoreline Change ◽

Rate Of Change ◽

North Coast ◽

Landsat 8 ◽

Northern Coast ◽

Shoreline Changes ◽

The Road ◽

Coastline Change ◽

The North ◽

Landsat 7

The existence of the coast in the northern part of Karawang Regency is very worrying. Seawater that was far up to tens of meters from the side of the road, is now on the lip of the road, even some parts of the road are cut off due to abrasion of seawater. Some villages were affected by abrasion erosion. One of the effects of damage due to abrasion and sedimentation is the occurrence of shoreline changes. This change in coastline will affect people's lives and spatial planning for the development of the area. For this reason, this study aims to determine the extent and rate of shoreline changes that occurred on the coast of Karawang Regency in the periods of 1989, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2016, and 2018. The shoreline data was obtained from the extraction of Landsat 3 MSS, Landsat 5 TM, Landsat 7 ETM +, and Landsat 8 OLI-TIRS after the NDWI process was previously carried out. While the rate of change is calculated at 6 sample point locations scattered along the northern coast of Karawang Regency. The results showed that the largest area damaged by abrasion occurred in Sedari Village covering an area of 166.802 hectares, and the area formed by the largest sedimentation occurred in Muara Cilamaya Village at 276,318 hectares. Meanwhile, the fastest rate of shoreline change due to abrasion occurred in Sukajaya Village at 10 meters /year, while the slowest in Sedari Village at 3.77 meters / year. The fastest sedimentation process in Muara Cimalaya Village is 4.5 meters / year, while the late one in Tanjung Pakis Village is 3.09 meters / year.Keywords: Abrasion, Accretion, Coastline Changes, Karawang

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Biemna trisigmata sp. n., a new sponge from the North coast of Brazil (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.639.1.1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 639 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Beatriz Mothes ◽

Maurício A. De Campos

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

North Coast ◽

Brazilian Coast ◽

The North ◽

A New Species

A new species of Biemna Gray, 1867, B. trisigmata sp. n., is described from the northern Brazilian coast, Amap State. The new species is compared to other tropical West Atlantic species of Biemna, from which it differs in having three categories of sigmas and two categories of microxeas.

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Morphological description of six species of Suberitida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the unexplored north-eastern coast of Brazil, with emphasis on two new species

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315420000296 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 100 (3) ◽

pp. 389-400

Author(s):

Humberto F. M. Fortunato ◽

Thierry Pérez ◽

Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu

Keyword(s):

Current Knowledge ◽

Atlantic Coast ◽

Marine Sponges ◽

Eastern Coast ◽

Morphological Description ◽

Brazilian Coast ◽

Northern Coast ◽

Western Atlantic ◽

The North ◽

North Eastern

AbstractThe Order Suberitida is defined as a group of marine sponges without an obvious cortex, a skeleton devoid of microscleres, and with a deletion of a small loop of 15 base pairs in the secondary structure of the 28S rDNA as a molecular synapomorphy. Suberitida comprises three families and 26 genera distributed worldwide, but mostly in temperate and polar waters. Twenty species were reported along the entire Brazilian coast, and although the north-eastern coast of Brazil seems to harbour a rich sponge fauna, our current knowledge is concentrated along the south-eastern Atlantic coast. A survey was implemented along the northern coast of Brazil, and the collection allowed the identification of six species belonging to the Order Suberitida. Two of them are considered new to science: Suberites purpura sp. nov., Hymeniacidon upaonassu sp. nov., and four, Halichondria (Halichondria) marianae Santos, Nascimento & Pinheiro, 2018, Halichondria (H.) melanadocia de Laubenfels, 1936, Suberites aurantiacus (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864), and Terpios fugax Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864, are re-described. Taxonomic comparisons are made for Tropical Western Atlantic species and type species of the four genera. Finally, an identification key for the Western Atlantic Suberites species is provided.

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Hematological and histopathological evaluation of wildlife green turtles (Chelonia mydas) with and without fibropapilloma from the north coast of São Paulo State, Brazil

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira ◽

10.1590/s0100-736x2014000700013 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 34 (7) ◽

pp. 682-688 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Ticiana Zwarg ◽

Silmara Rossi ◽

Thaís C. Sanches ◽

Marina de O. Cesar ◽

Max R. Werneck ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Chelonia Mydas ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

North Coast ◽

Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin ◽

Northern Coast ◽

São Paulo ◽

Corpuscular Hemoglobin ◽

Green Turtles ◽

The North ◽

Blood Profiles

Blood profiles were determined in 47 juvenile green turtles, Chelonia mydas, from São Paulo northern coast, Brazil. Twenty-nine were affected by fibropapillomas and 18 were tumor free. Complete gross and histopathologic examinations of the fibropapillo were performed in 21 green turtles. Biometrical data, size, location and amount of tumors were recorded. The papillomas varied in morphology, location, size, color and texture. We found hyperplastic stroma, rich in blood vessels and connective tissue with increase in thickness of the dermis. The tumors w0ere classified as papillomas or fibropapillomas according to their epithelial and/or stromal proliferation. The lowest Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin (HCM) values were observed in affected turtles.

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Fecundity of the deep-sea fish in the north-east atlantic Alepocephalus bairdii (Pisces: Alepocephalidae)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315498000952 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 79 (4) ◽

pp. 765-767 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

V. Allain

Keyword(s):

Standard Length ◽

Deep Sea ◽

Batch Fecundity ◽

East Atlantic ◽

The West ◽

Spawning Period ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

First Maturity ◽

Sea Fish

Alepocephalus bairdii is a deep sea fish caught but discarded by semi-industrial fisheries from the north-east Atlantic Ocean. Reproductive features were investigated on 448 females of 29–93 cm standard length (SL) captured over 2 y (December 1995–December 1997) at 800–1280 m off the west coast of the British Isles. The first maturity of females was determined at L50=55 cm SL. A well-defined spawning period could not be determined in this species; a batch spawner characterized by an indeterminate annual fecundity. Absolute batch fecundity was estimated between 458 and 7049 oocytes per female 63–88 cm SL.

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