Los peces asociados a arrecifes del Parque Nacional Revillagigedo (Pacífico mexicano): un inventario curado, comentado e ilustrado
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https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2026.97.5757Palabras clave:
Pacífico oriental tropical, Isla oceánica aislada, Arrecifes rocosos, Elasmobranquios, Peces óseosResumen
Accurate inventories of species living at isolated islands are essential for understanding the biogeographic and functional composition of insular faunas, habitat area vs. faunal-size relations and levels of endemism, as well as for purposes of conservation and management. Constructing such inventories involves new field research and rigorous winnowing of existing records that have errors in specimen identification and metadata or are unsubstantiable due to a lack of reliable source information. This paper provides a curated, photographically illustrated inventory of reef-associated fishes found at the 4 islands in the Revillagigedo National Park (RNP), 400 km southwest of Baja California. We assessed the quality of data about records relating to 364 species and added new data (specimens of 132 species and images of 182 species) that confirm species occurrences at each island in the park. The resultant inventory includes 234 accepted species occurrences, with 121 unaccepted occurrences (33.2% of the assessed species). Among the confirmed species, 166-189 (70.9-80.8%) evidently are park residents. New information indicates that the RNP fauna includes 23 named and probable species of endemics, representing 9.8% of the accepted species and 12.2-13.9% of the residents, highlighting the uniqueness of the RNP and its importance for conservation.
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