Rich and underreported: First integrated assessment of the diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic

Leandro Nolé Eduardo1, Arnaud Bertrand1, Flávia Lucena-Frédou1, Bárbara Teixeira Villarins2, Júlia Rodrigues Martins2, Gabriel Vinícius Felix Afonso3, Theodore Wells Pietsch4, Thierry Frédou1, Fabio Di Dario2, Michael Maia Mincarone2, Chandra Earl5, Chandra Earl6

1 Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), ; 2 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), ; 3 Universidade de São Paulo (USP), ; 4 University of Washington, ; 5 UNESCO, ; 6 UNESCO, 

Corresponding author(s): Leandro Nolé EduardoArnaud BertrandFlávia Lucena-FrédouBárbara Teixeira VillarinsJúlia Rodrigues MartinsGabriel Vinícius Felix AfonsoTheodore Wells PietschThierry FrédouFabio Di DarioMichael Maia Mincarone, Chandra Earl (c.earl@unesco.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Eduardo L N, Bertrand A, Lucena-Frédou F, Villarins B T, Martins J R, Afonso G V F, Pietsch T W, Frédou T, Di Dario F, Mincarone M M, Earl C (2023). Rich and underreported: First integrated assessment of the diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/kr0wqx https://doi.org/10.25607/kr0wqx

Abstract

Here, we provide the first integrative study of the biodiversity of mesopelagic fishes of the southwestern Tropical Atlantic (SWTA), based on two expeditions in northeastern Brazil in 2015 and 2017. A full list of mesopelagic fishes of the region is provided, including rare species and new records for the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone and the indication of potentially new species in groups such as the Stomiiformes and Beryciformes.

Keywords: Occurrence

General description

Purpose: These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.
Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=brazilian-islands-eduardo-2022

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Fishes
Taxonomic ranks
Unranked: Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves
Coordinates: 4°3'29.16''S and 3°41'39.12''S Latitude; 33°57'24.84''W and 32°17'26.52''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: August 29, 2015 - May 10, 2017

Methods

Method step description: See Github <a href="https://github.com/iobis/mwhs-data-mobilization">Project</a> and <a href="https://iobis.github.io/mwhs-data-mobilization/notebooks/brazilian_atlantic_islands_fernando_de_noronha_and_atol_das_rocas_reserves/Eduardo_et_al_2022"> R Notebook</a> for dataset construction methods

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Rich and underreported: First integrated assessment of the diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/archive.do?r=brazilian-islands-eduardo-2022
Publication date of data: 2023-10-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-10-19
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Eduardo, Leandro & Bertrand, Arnaud & Lucena Frédou, Flavia & Villarins, Bárbara & Martins, Júlia & Afonso, Gabriel & Pietsch, Theodore & Fredou, Thierry & Di Dario, Fabio & Mincarone, Michael. (2022). Rich and underreported: First integrated assessment of the diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.937154