Chondrichthyan systematics in Brazil depicted: historical overview, research trends and future perspectives
Sarah Viana,
Flávia F. Petean,
Karla Soares
Abstract:Brazil comprises one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots of the chondrichthyan fauna, currently with 12 orders, 44 families, 90 genera and over 200 species of sharks, batoids, and chimaeras. These species inhabit marine, estuarine and freshwater realms of coastal and oceanic zones from the North equatorial central to the South-western Atlantic Ocean. Reporting on species occurrence in Brazil goes back to the pre-Linnaean Period. The golden era of the European Zoological studies put in place the knowledge on t… Show more
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