ReefSYN | Standardized datasets of Brazilian reef diversity in space and time - Dataset VII: Fish assemblages from Guarapari

Study Extent

The data was SCUBA-collected between January and March 2008 at four locations close by to each other, and located about ten kilometers offshore Guarapari, Espírito Santo, central coast of Brazil. Two locations referred to natural habitats, the Rasas islands (113 UVCs; depth 3 to 25 m) and the island Escalvada (126 UVCs; 3-25 m). The other two locations were the shipwreck Bellucia (35 UVCs; 20-27 m), that ran aground and sank in 1903, and the derelict vessel Victory (46 UVCs; 18-35 m) that was intentionally sunk in 2003 to serve as an artificial reef.

Sampling

The 324 UVCs were conducted on 20 x 2 m belt transects as described earlier (see Morais et al. 2017 for more details). Morais, R.A., Ferreira, C.E.L. & Floeter, S.R. 2017. Spatial patterns of fish standing biomass across Brazilian reefs, Southwestern Atlantic. Journal of Fish Biology, 91: 1642–1667.

Quality Control

The name of all taxa was checked against the WoRMS database (World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS, 2022)), using the R package “worrms” (Chamberlain 2020). Thus, valid scientific names were called “scientificNameAccepted” following the DCS standard. The last checking was done on 23 October 2023, using the version 0.4.2 of ‘worrms’ R package.

Method steps

1. Fishes were tallied within size classes (0-5 cm, 5-10, 10-20 and so on) to estimate biomass through length-weight relationships.

1. Abudefduf saxatilis
2. Acanthostracion polygonium
3. Acanthostracion quadricornis
4. Acanthurus bahianus
5. Acanthurus chirurgus
6. Acanthurus coeruleus
7. Alphestes afer
8. Amblycirrhitus pinos
9. Anisotremus moricandi
10. Anisotremus surinamensis
11. Anisotremus virginicus
12. Apogon americanus
13. Aulostomus strigosus
14. Azurina multilineata
15. Balistes vetula
16. Bathytoshia centroura
17. Bodianus pulchellus
18. Bodianus rufus
19. Bothus lunatus
20. Bothus ocellatus
21. Calamus
22. Cantherhines macrocerus
23. Cantherhines pullus
24. Canthigaster figueiredoi
25. Caranx crysos
26. Caranx hippos
27. Caranx latus
28. Caranx ruber
29. Centropyge aurantonotus
30. Cephalopholis fulva
31. Chaetodipterus faber
32. Chaetodon sedentarius
33. Chaetodon striatus
34. Chilomycterus reticulatus
35. Chilomycterus spinosus
36. Chromis flavicauda
37. Chromis jubauna
38. Clepticus brasiliensis
39. Clupeidae
40. Coryphopterus dicrus
41. Coryphopterus glaucofraenum
42. Cryptotomus roseus
43. Dactylopterus volitans
44. Decapterus
45. Diodon hystrix
46. Diplectrum radiale
47. Diplodus argenteus
48. Doratonotus megalepis
49. Elacatinus figaro
50. Elops saurus
51. Emblemariopsis signifer
52. Equetus lanceolatus
53. Eucinostomus argenteus
54. Fistularia tabacaria
55. Gnatholepis thompsoni
56. Gramma brasiliensis
57. Gymnothorax funebris
58. Gymnothorax miliaris
59. Gymnothorax moringa
60. Gymnothorax vicinus
61. Haemulon atlanticus
62. Haemulon aurolineatum
63. Haemulon parra
64. Haemulon plumierii
65. Halichoeres brasiliensis
66. Halichoeres dimidiatus
67. Halichoeres penrosei
68. Halichoeres poeyi
69. Halichoeres sazimai
70. Holacanthus ciliaris
71. Holacanthus tricolor
72. Holocentrus adscensionis
73. Hypleurochilus
74. Hypsoblennius invemar
75. Kyphosus
76. Labrisomus nuchipinnis
77. Lutjanus alexandrei
78. Lutjanus analis
79. Lutjanus jocu
80. Lutjanus synagris
81. Malacanthus plumieri
82. Malacoctenus delalandii
83. Malacoctenus triangulatus
84. Microspathodon chrysurus
85. Mulloidichthys martinicus
86. Mycteroperca acutirostris
87. Mycteroperca bonaci
88. Mycteroperca interstitialis
89. Myripristis jacobus
90. Ocyurus chrysurus
91. Odontoscion dentex
92. Ogcocephalus vespertilio
93. Opistognathus aurifrons
94. Opistognathus whitehursti
95. Pagrus pagrus
96. Parablennius marmoreus
97. Parablennius pilicornis
98. Paradiplogrammus bairdi
99. Paralichthys brasiliensis
100. Paranthias furcifer
101. Pareques acuminatus
102. Pempheris schomburgkii
103. Pomacanthus arcuatus
104. Pomacanthus paru
105. Pseudocaranx dentex
106. Pseudupeneus maculatus
107. Ptereleotris randalli
108. Rypticus saponaceus
109. Scarus trispinosus
110. Scarus zelindae
111. Scorpaena brasiliensis
112. Scorpaena isthmensis
113. Scorpaena plumieri
114. Serranus atrobranchus
115. Serranus baldwini
116. Serranus flaviventris
117. Sparisoma
118. Sparisoma amplum
119. Sparisoma axillare
120. Sparisoma frondosum
121. Sparisoma radians
122. Sparisoma tuiupiranga
123. Sphoeroides camila
124. Stegastes fuscus
125. Stegastes pictus
126. Stegastes variabilis
127. Stephanolepis hispidus
128. Synodus intermedius
129. Synodus synodus
130. Thalassoma noronhanum

The data was collected at four locations offshore Guarapari, Espírito Santo, central coast of Brazil.