“…In Brazil, most studies dealing with estuarine fish assemblages were made in Rio de Janeiro (Andreata et al, 1990(Andreata et al, , 2002Araú jo et al, 1998Araú jo et al, , 2001Brum et al, 1994;Costa, 1984;Pessanha et al, 2000), Paraná Bouchereau, 1999a, 1999b;Chaves and Corrêa, 1998;Neto et al, 2004;Santos et al, 2002;Spach, Santos, and Godefroid, 2003;Spach et al, 2004;Vendel et al, 2002), Rio Grande do Sul (Chao et al, 1982;Vieira, 1997, 2001;Godefroid et al, 2004;Pereira, 1994;Silva, 1982) and in some areas of the north states (Araú jo, Teixeira, and Oliveira, 2000;Camargo and Isaac, 2001;Castro, 2001;Lopes, Oliveira-Silva, and Ferreira-Melo, 1998;Vasconcelos-Filho and Oliveira, 1999). Although Santa Catarina's coast has a fair number of important estuaries, their fish assemblages have been seldom DOI: 10.2112/08-1050.1 received 30 July 2008accepted in revision 1 August 2008. studied (Hostim-Silva et al, 2002).…”