Fishes of the flooded savannas of Paz de Ariporo, Meta River, Orinoco basin

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 690 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Urbano-Bonilla A, Mendez-López A, Roa-Fuentes C A, Herrera-Collazos E E (2021): Fishes of the flooded savannas of Paz de Ariporo, Meta River, Orinoco basin. v2.4. Asociación Colombiana de Ictiólogos. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15472/j5wiyc

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Asociación Colombiana de Ictiólogos. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f96de520-5afe-456b-bf62-781a9aca5b62.  Asociación Colombiana de Ictiólogos publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Colombian Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Artificial lagoons; Colombia; Casanare; predation; seasonal variation; environmental variables; Orinoco

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Our study site was located in Paz de Ariporo floodplains, at left side of Meta river and between lower Guachiría river and La Hermosa stream basins, Casanare department, Colombia. This area corresponds to alluvial and eolic floodplains, which undergo a sinking, process during Pleistocene caused by a fault on which Meta river flow currently (Mora-Fernández et al., 2013, Osorio-Peláez et al., 2015).

Taxonomic Coverage

In the 13 environments evaluated, 180 different species we recorded. The species were distributed in seven 7 orders, 34 families and 116 genera.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

No Description available

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

We characterized Fish community in floodplains in 13 stations and two climatic periods (ascending waters and descending waters), by the combination and standardization of different fishing arts and measure different environmental variables.

Method step description:

1. Standardized samples were applied for both periods and study sites (Fig. 1): sampling included a 100 m transect, making five passes of a fence (7 m long, 2 m high and 0.1 cm mesh), 20 cast net shots (4 m diameter and 2.5 cm mesh) and fishing with hooks for three hours (hooks and lines of different sizes and types of bait). Two "stationary" gillnets (23 m long, 2 m high and 5 cm mesh) were used for 4 hours, and were revised every hour. After captured, fish were fixed in 10% formalin, and then transferred to 70% ethanol. The taxonomic list follows the classification system proposed by Reis et al. (2003) with recent modifications proposed by Oliveira et al. (2011) (characiform families), Thomaz et al. (2015) (Stevardiinae) and Betancur-R et al. (2016) (for osteichthyans in general), and valid species names were confirmed through queries on the Catalog of Fishes of the California Academy of Sciences (Eschmeyer et al., 2017). The species recorded were categorized as threatened (Mojica et al., 2012), migratory (Usma et al., 2013), endemic (DoNascimiento et al., 2017), and species subject of conservation (González et al., 2015).
2. Before fish sampling, in a 100-meter transect, environmental variables (sustrate, submerged vegetation, riparian vegetation and stream morphology) were measured following the protocols established in Rankin (2006). In each site, parameters were taken in-situ such as: dissolved oxygen, water temperature, pH and conductivity with previously calibrated apparatus (Hanna HI 9811-5). Likewise, a representative water sample was taken according to standard protocols for the analysis of the following chemical parameters: total nitrogen, total coliforms, total phosphorus and total solids.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Betancur-R R, Wiley EO, Arratia G, Acero A, Bailly N, Miya M, Lecointre G, Ortí G. Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes. BMC evolutionary biology. 2017;17(1):162.
2. DoNascimiento C, Herrera-Collazos EE, Herrera-R GA, Ortega-Lara A, Villa-Navarro F, Usma-Oviedo JS, Maldonado-Ocampo JA. Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem. ZooKeys. 2017. 708: 25-138.
3. Eschmeyer WN, Fricke R, van der Laan R. Catalog of fishes (California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco); 2017; Accessible at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp
4. González MF, Díaz-Pulido A, Mesa LM, Corzo G, Portocarrero-Aya M, Lasso C, Chaves ME, M Santamaría (Eds) Catálogo de biodiversidad de la región orinoquense. Volumen 1. Serie Planeación ambiental para la conservación de la biodiversidad en áreas operativas de Ecopetrol. Proyecto Planeación ambiental para la conservación de la biodiversidad en las áreas operativas de Ecopetrol. Bogotá D.C.: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt – Ecopetrol S.A. 2015.
5. Rankin ET. Methods for assessing habitat in flowing waters: using the qualitative habitat evaluation index (QHEI). Ohio: EPA, Division of Surface Water, Groveport, OH; 2006.
6. Reis RE, Albert JS, Di Dario F, Mincarone MM, Petry P, Rocha LA. Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America. J Fish Biol 2016;89(1):12-47.
7. Thomaz AT, Arcila D, Ortí G, Malabarba LR. Molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Stevardiinae Gill, 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae): classification and the evolution of reproductive traits. BMC evolutionary biology; 2015; 15(1):146.
8. Osorio-Peláez, C., C. A. Lasso y F. Trujillo editors. XIII. Aplicación de criterios bioecológicos para la identificación, caracterización y establecimiento de límites funcionales en humedales de las sabanas inundables de la Orinoquia. Serie Editorial Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Bogotá, DC Colombia: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IavH); 2015. p. 227-249.
9. Oliveira C, Avelino GS, Abe KT, Mariguela TC, Benine RC, Ortí G, Vari RP, Castro RM. Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling. BMC Evolutionary Biology; 2011; 11(1):275
10. Mora-Fernández C, Peñuela-Recio L, Castro-Lima F. Estado del conocimiento de los ecosistemas de las sabanas inundables en la Orinoquia Colombiana. Orinoquia, 2015; 19(2), 253-271.
11. Mojica JIUO, León JUA and Lasso R. Libro rojo de peces dulceacuícolas de Colombia. Bogotá: CO-BAC; 2012.
12. Usma JS, Valderrama M, Escobar MD, Ajiaco-Martínez RE, Villa-Navarro F, Castro F, Ramírez-Gil H, Sanabria AI, Ortega-Lara A, Maldonado-Ocampo J, Alonso JC. Peces dulceacuícolas migratorios en Colombia. Plan Nacional de las especies migratorias. Diagnóstico e identificación de acciones para la conservación y el manejo sostenible de las especies migratorias de la biodiversidad en Colombia. Ministro de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial y WWF. 2009.

Additional Metadata