Los Peces Marinos de Venezuela

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Copeia. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 192.231.202.205 on Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:25:57 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions REVIEWS AND COMMENTS LOS PECES MARINOS DE VENEZUELA. By Fernando Cervigon M. Estaci6n de Investigaciones Marinas de Margarita, Funda-ci6n La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Monogr. 11:951 pp., 385 figs. 1 map, 2 vols. $16.00 (70 Bolivars) (Prepubl. price $12.00). Distributed by Fondo de Cultura Cientifica, Apartado 8150, Caracas.-One commonly associates with a faunal work the compilation and condensation of numerous reports on a fauna that is reasonably well-known. Except for the contribution by Schultz, discussed below, no such background information is available for Venezuela. There have been three major attempts at faunal summary for fishes for any country along the entire region of the Caribbean shores of South and Central America during this century, a disheartening observation in view of pending trans-Isthmian canal programs. That by Meek and Hildebrand on Panama (1923-28, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pub. No. 215) heavily favored the Pacific side and what fragmentary information is available in it for the Caribbean is decidedly dated. Puyo's effort on FrenchGuiana (1949, Faune de l'Empire FranSais 12, Paris) favors the freshwater and estuarine fish fauna and it was poorly executed. The most significant prior work on Venezuelan fishes is that published by Schultz in 1944-49 in numbers 3172 (catfishes), 3181 (characins), and 3235 (primarily coastal and estuarine fishes) of the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum. Since the collections available to Schultz were primarily from bays, markets, and environs of towns, his efforts were devoted largely to the continental faunal element. He provided a useful starting point for Venezuelan ichthyology but certainly did not pretend any comprehensive treatise. Cervig6n, who has been at the Esta-ci6n de Investigaciones Marinas de la Fun-daci6n de La Salle at Margarita Island for eight years and is currently its director, has concerned himself primarily with the oceanic and insular fishes. Cervigon's report on Venezuelan marine fishes thus is of uncommon interest to ichthyologists generally in that it is a first major effort on the region and as such presents much original information.

A Pesca Da Corvina Cynoscion Virescens (Cuvier, 1830) No Litoral Amazônico Brasileiro (Considerações E Aspectos Importantes) - Uma Revisão De Literatura

“…A corvina ou pescada-cambuçu (Cynoscion virescens) tem hábito demersal, vivendo em locais de substrato de lama arenosa das águas costeiras próximas de estuários, ocorrendo em profundidades que variam de 6 a 70 metros (CHAO, 1978). Abundante nas águas costeiras da América Central, porção do Oceano Atlântico e na costa brasileira (CERVIGÓN et al, 1993). Os peixes adultos habitam águas profundas no período diurno, e nadam para superfície durante a noite, enquanto os juvenis habitam zonas estuarinas (KEITH et al, 2000).…”

“…A Cynoscion virescens, conhecida como corvina ou pescada-cambuçu, é encontrada ao longo da costa brasileira (CHAO, 1978;CERVIGÓN et al, 1993). Estudos evidenciam exploração e importância econômica deste recurso ao longo do litoral paraense, seja por armadilhas fixas (currais) ou pelo esforço da frota artesanal (PINHEIRO et al, 2004;DUARTE-PAULA, 2018;FARIAS et al, 2021).…”

No longer a circumtropical species: revision of the lizardfishes in the Trachinocephalus myops species complex, with description of a new species from the Marquesas Islands

“…Trachinocephalus myops Norman 1935: 121–122 in part; Anderson et al , : 38–46; Randall, : 27–28; Palacio, : 25; Sulak, ; Uyeno & Aizawa, : 161; Robins et al , : 81; Valdez & Aguilera, : 54; Edwards, : 73; Cervigón, : 150–152; Boschung, : 71; Cervigón et al , : 447; Böhlke & Chaplin, : 62; Smith, : 351–352; McEachran & Fechhelm, : 614; Smith‐Vaniz et al , : 150; Polanco, : 101–107; Russell, : 930; Ditty et al , : 316–317; Kells & Carpenter, :118 ; Frable et al , : 123; Eschmeyer, .…”

Registro De Un Mero Negro Adulto, Hyporthodus Nigritus (Perciformes: Ephinephelidae), en Un Arrecife Profundo Del Caribe Colombiano

“…Uno de los caracteres diagnósticos de H. nigritus es que posee 10 espinas en la aleta dorsal y un mayor número de radios en la pectoral que la mayoría de sus congéneres (Craig et al, 2011). Los adultos se alimentan principalmente de cangrejos, camarones, langostas y peces (Cervigón, 1991;Heemstra y Randall, 1993;Heemstra et al, 2002).…”