“…These four taxocenoses were compared with other taxocenoses of the southern region of Brazil (Machado et al, 1999;Bernarde & Machado, 2000;Machado & Bernarde, 2002;Conte & Machado, 2005;Conte & Rossa-Feres, 2006;Machado & Bernarde, 2006;Conte & Rossa-Feres, 2007;Deiques et al, 2007;Colombo et al, 2008;Hartmann et al, 2008;Lucas & Forte, 2008;Armstrong & Conte, 2010;Kwet et al, 2010;Iop et al, 2011;Lucas & Marocco, 2011;Garey & Hartmann, 2012;Giasson, 2012;Bastiani & Lucas, 2013;Bolzan et al, 2014;Crivellari et al, 2014;Moreira et al, 2014;Santos & Conte, 2014;Wachlevski & Rocha, 2014;Nazaretti & Conte, 2015;Bolzan et al, 2016;Leivas & Hiert, 2016;Santos-Pereira et al, 2016;Ceron et al, 2017;De Lucca et al, 2017) to observe how are they grouped only using the data on richness (presence-absence). Only the species which have been identified to a specific level were used to compose the richness of the aforementioned studies, therefore the unidentified species affinis and confer were excluded from the analysis.…”