Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem.

ABSTRACT: The present work is part of a process to create a Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of Colombia and consisted in the depuration and updating of the taxonomic and geographic components of the checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia. An exhaustive revision of the 1435 species recorded in 2008 was necessary to: 1. Add new species described since 2009 and species originally described from Colombia but inadvertently omitted in 2008; 2. Add new records of already described species; 3. Delete species whose presence in Colombia was not supported by voucher specimens in ichthyological collections; and 4. Revise the geographic distribution of the species listed in 2008. This process resulted in the following numbers: 1. Total number of freshwater fish species in Colombia: 1494; 2. Number of

SUBMITTER: DoNascimiento C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674168 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature