First Record of Freshwater Fish on the Cape Verdean Archipelago

Kay Lucek; Mélissa Lemoine

doi:10.3377/004.047.0214

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Kay Lucek,^1,2,* Mélissa Lemoine³

¹1Institute for Ecology & Evolution, Division of Aquatic Ecology & Macroevolution, University of Bern
²2Department of Fish Ecology, EAWAG Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Seestrasse 79,
³3Institute for Ecology & Evolution, Division of Evolutionary Ecology, University of Bern, Baltzerstr

^*Author for correspondence. E-mail: kay.lucek@eawag.ch

Abstract

The Cape Verdean islands form a distinct aquatic freshwater ecoregion characterized mainly by temporal water bodies with an adapted invertebrate community. Freshwater fish were not previously recorded from the archipelago. During a non-exhaustive survey of freshwater bodies on five islands of the archipelago, the first presence of a freshwater fish was recorded. Using barcoding sequences, the species was identified as the guppy (Poecilia reticulata), a highly invasive species alien to the Cape Verdean Islands.

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Kay Lucek and Mélissa Lemoine "First Record of Freshwater Fish on the Cape Verdean Archipelago," African Zoology 47(2), 341-344, (1 October 2012). https://doi.org/10.3377/004.047.0214

Received: 29 December 2011; Accepted: 1 April 2012; Published: 1 October 2012

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