Description
Around the world, there are 36.179 fish species (Fricke, Eschmeyer and Fong, 2022). Colombian fishes are nearly 4.046 fish species (SiB Colombia, 2020); representing by 1.215 in the caribean ocean (Polanco and Acero, 2019), 881 in the pacific ocean (Beltran and Tavera, 2019) and 1.616 freshwather mainly in the basins of Amazonas and Orinoco rivers (DoNascimiento et al, 2021).
The Knowledge about the richness of fishes spieces comes mainly from regional research, monitoring associated with environmental permissions for infrastructure construction of energy projects, field courses and curriculum reports to the community. Witnesses of this diversity are deposited in Biological Collections, usually administered by institutions of higher education or research institutes. In Colombia, <
Ichthyology collection of the University of Antioquia (CIUA) emerged as a repository of specimens collected in several research projects done by the group of Ichthyology (GIUA) since 2002. Initially, became part of the collection of Limnology (CLUA) but in 2008 it was registered in the Alexander von Humboldt Institute Museums database. Since then, (CIUA) is in charge of the curatorship of fish specimens not only from the ichthyologic research at the University of Antioquia but also from other researches, monitoring of consulting firms that deliver the material collected in their work also community donations. Here, we made a report about information contained in CIUA Fish Museum.
At the moment, this resource has 8.280 records that have been collected in colombian territory from 1972 to 2023. With a taxonomic coverage of 2 class, 22 orders, 84 families, 214 genus and 411 species.
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 8,280 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.
- Occurrence (core)
- ExtendedMeasurementOrFact
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Jiménez Segura L F, Cortés Hernández M Á, Álvarez Álvarez K L, Ospina Pabón J G, Castellanos Mejía M C, DoNascimiento C (2023): Ichthyological Collection of the Universidad de Antioquia. v5.11. Universidad de Antioquia. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15472/lkcff8
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ba1e6e34-8196-422a-ae31-f71717dd1de8. Universidad de Antioquia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Colombian Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Freshwater and marine fishes; Fish records; North-west of South America; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The CIUA Fish Museum is a regional museum covering mostly Colombian Andean region. Department of Antioquia is the most significant political division with 521 sampling localities, 4.624 records and 20.842 specimens. Most of the records in CIUA database come from marine and freshwater aquatic systems in the northwestern Colombia. This dataset have information from the coastal line of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and from seven river basins: Magdalena-Cauca, Meta, San Juan de Urabá, Sinú and Atrato. Most of the records come from freshwater systems (98.51%); mainly from creeks and rivers (68.95%). Altitudinally, specimens in CIUA were collected between 0 and 3486 m.a.s.l. There are 4 international records, 3 from Venezuela and 1 from Zambia.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [0.779, -77.793], North East [11.508, -67.498] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The CIUA fish dataset have a taxonomic coverage of 2 class, 22 orders, 84 families, 214 genus and 411 species. There is a 73.4% classifed to the species level, 26% to genus and 0.49% to family. The most abundant orders are Characiformes (3.505 records and 94 species)
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Class | Actinopteri, Elasmobranchii |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1972-02-22 / 2023-05-14 |
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Project Data
Fish collection of the University of Antioquia is the repository of the fishes catched in the research program made by the Ichthyology Group since 2008. Also, fish came from donations from other museums.
| Title | Colección de Peces de la Universidad de Antioquia |
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| Funding | CODI-Universidad de Antioquia, International Foundation for Science, Agencia de Cooperación Española AECID, ISAGEN S.A., Empresas Públicas de Medellín, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt,The Nature Conservancy, Corpocaldas, Gobernación de Antioquia. |
| Study Area Description | Most of the records in CIUA database come from marine and freshwater aquatic systems in the northwestern Colombia. This dataset have information from the coastal line of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and from seven river basins: Magdalena-Cauca, Meta, San Juan de Urabá, Sinú and Atrato. Most of the records come from freshwater systems (98.51%); mainly from creeks and rivers (68.95%). Altitudinally, specimens in CIUA were collected between 0 and 3486 m.a.s.l. There are 3 international records, 2 from Venezuela and 1 from Zambia. Most of the records in CIUA database come from marine and freshwater aquatic systems in the northwestern Colombia. |
| Design Description | Sampling desing had been planned in order to describe changes in the fish assemblage in two ways: spatial and time axis. Also to probe some hypothesis on fisheries landings and fish migrations. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Fish were caught using various methods; each of them defined according the habitat. In freshwater systems were used electrofishing, cast net throws (0,5-3 cm mesh size), gill nets (1-12 cm, mesh size), bottom trawls (0,5-3 cm, mesh size) and hooks lines (different sizes). In marine systems, we used mainly hook lines and gill nets. Although there was not a general sampling design, most of the samples in freshwater systems were taken in different climatic moments (rains and dry periods).
| Study Extent | Magdalena-Cauca River, Atrato River, Sinú River, San Juan de Urabá River, Rancheria River, Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Caqueta River and Orinoco River. |
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| Quality Control | Species of each specimen was determined using specialized literature. All the scientific names of specimens were validated by the updated fish checklist in Catalog of Fishes-California Academy of Sciences (Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan , 2022). Most of the specimens are preserved in alcohol 75%, tissues in etanol 96% and other ones are dry preservation (skeletons). A lot consists of all specimens of a species collected at the same climatic period and place. Each lot contains a paper tag with the main information about date and sampling site such as the Systematic information of the species; all of them are located inside metal cabinets protected from light. Because of the little space to store, lots are organized by a serial number. Data of each specimen (Species, Genera, Family, Order and Class), and date of sampling and collector name were recorded in a excel data set following recommendations of Darwin Core format and in the CIUA Museum Book. Some geographical information is also part of the data set associated to each lot. Some of those are: geographical records, locality name, and altitude. The latitude and longitude of sampling sites were plotted and cleaned using the menu facility of ModestR (García-Roselló et al., 2013) and Georreference protocol of Alexander von Humboldt Institute (Escobar D et al 2014) whit sofware Qgis. |
Method step description:
- Sampling desing.
- Field sampling and environmental description about fish habitat.
- Fish fixation in formaldehyde 10%.
- Fish species determination.
- Specimen data record in the data bases (book, DWCore and label).
- Storage in the fish collection.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Colección de Ictiología Universidad de Antioquia |
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| Collection Identifier | https://www.gbif.org/grscicoll/collection/990d8136-8e9d-44b1-93bd-269c508efc43 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | CIUA |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Dried, Glycerin, Refrigerated |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A., DoNascimiento, C. L., Usma Oviedo, J. S., Herrera Collazos, E. E., & García Melo, J. E. (2019). Colombia país de peces: Biodiversidad de los peces de agua dulce de Colombia. En La pesca en Colombia: del agua a la mesa (1 ed., pp. 19-22). Agenda del Mar .
- Maldonado-Ocampo J.A., Orteaga-Lara A., Usma-Oviedo J.S., Galvis-Vergara G., Villa-Navarro F.A., Vásquez-Gamboa L., Prada-Pedreros S., Ardila-Rodríguez C. (2005).Peces de los Andes de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos (Alexander von Humboldt). Bogotá D.C. Colombia. 346p.
- Dahl G. 1971. Los peces del norte de Colombia. Ministerio de Agricultura, Instituto de Desarrollo de los Recursos Naturales Renovables (INDERENA). Talleres Litografía Arco. Bogotá D.C. Colombia. 391p.
- Malabarba L.R, Reis E.R, Vari R.P, Lucena Z.M, Lucena C.A.(1998). Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes. EDIPUCRS. 603p.
- Jacques G. (1977). Characoids of the world, TFH Publications, New York City. 672p.
- Buregess W.E. (1989) An atlas of the freshwater and Marine Catfishes.TFH Publications, New York City. 784p.
- DoNascimiento, C., F. A. Villa Navarro, J. G. Albornoz Garzón y E. E. Herrera Collazos. (2021). Lista de especies de peces de agua dulce de Colombia - Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia. v. 2.13. Asociación Colombiana de Ictiólogos. Dataset/Checklist.
- Polanco A. y Acero A. (2019). Colombia país de peces: Biodiversidad de peces marinos de del Caribe Colombiano. En La pesca en Colombia: del agua a la mesa (1 ed., pp. 19-22). Agenda del Mar .
- Beltran B. y Tavera J. (2019). Colombia país de peces: Biodiversidad de peces marinos de del pacifico Colombiano. En La pesca en Colombia: del agua a la mesa (1 ed., pp. 19-22). Agenda del Mar .
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan. (2022) ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES.(http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp).Electronic version accessed 18-04-2022.
- Dornburg, A. & T. J. Near. 2021. The emerging phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of actinopterygian fishes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-122120-122554.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.15472/lkcff8 |
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| ba1e6e34-8196-422a-ae31-f71717dd1de8 | |
| https://ipt.biodiversidad.co/sib/resource?r=udea-001 |