Fishes from rio Ibirapuitã basin, Environmental Protection Area of Ibirapuitã, Pampa Biome

Abstract

permits, process number 26609-1. A total of thirty one sampling points were performed in the streams, swamps and rivers of the rio Ibirapuitã basin, EPA of Ibirapuitã (Table 1, Figures 1 and 2), except the sampled site "Passo dos Britos" which is near the northern of the EPA. The fish specimens collected were fixed in 10% formalin and preserved in 70% alcohol and were identified using pertinent literature and keys (Bertaco and Lucena 2010;