The marine fishes of St Eustatius Island, northeastern Caribbean: an annotated, photographic catalog.

ABSTRACT: Sint Eustatius (Statia) is a 21 km² island situated in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. The most recent published sources of information on that island's marine fish fauna is in two non-governmental organization reports from 2015-17 related to the formation of a marine reserve. The species-list in the 2017 report was based on field research in 2013-15 using SCUBA diving surveys, shallow "baited underwater video surveys" (BRUVs), and data from fishery surveys and scientific collections over the preceding century. That checklist comprised 304 species of shallow (mostly) and deep-water fishes. In 2017 the Smithsonian Deep Reef Observation Project surveyed deep-reef fishes at Statia using the crewed submersible Curasub. That effort recorded 120 species, including 59 new occurrences r

SUBMITTER: Robertson DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7788074 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature