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Benthic Macroinvertebrate Diversity in the middle Doce river basin, Brazil

Citation

Sistema de Informação sobre a Biodiversidade Brasileira - SiBBr (2019). Benthic Macroinvertebrate Diversity in the middle Doce river basin, Brazil. Version 1.5. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/cev8wb accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-16.

Description

This resource contains a check list from the benthonic macroinvertebrate community sampled biannually from 1999 to 2010 in eight natural lakes from the middle Doce river lake system, and eight rivers segments in the Piracicaba River basin (sub-basin of Doce river), Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

From 1999 to 2010, eight rivers segments (Caraça, Barão de Cocais, Santa Bárbara, Peixe, Severo, Piracicaba, Ipanema, Doce) and eight lakes (Dom Helvécio, Gambazinho, and Carioca, Amarela, Águas Claras, Barra, Jacaré and Palmeirinha) were sampled in the dry and rainy season.

Sampling

During the periods of drought (July or August) and rain (January or February) of each year water samples were taken from rivers and lakes and collections of benthic fauna. For each lake two or more sampling stations were determined in the coastal region, to ensure that spatial heterogeneity was considered. In the rivers, a single sampling station was determined in the left margin of each environment.

Method steps

  1. For each lake two or more sampling stations were determined in the coastal region, to ensure that spatial heterogeneity was considered. In the rivers, a single sampling station was determined in the left margin of each environment. Samples were collected with a kick net packed in plastic bags, fixed with 10 ml of 40% formaldehyde solution, labeled and stored in polystyrene boxes. In the laboratory the collected material was washed, and the organisms retained in descending mesh screens (meshes of 2, 1, 0.5 and 0.250 mm). The organisms were screened using a stereoscopic microscope. Taxonomic identifications were made whenever possible up to the level of family, gender and / or species, based on the following literatures: Wiggins (1977), McCafferty (1981), Merrit & Cummins (1984), Dominguez et al. (1992) and Nieser & Melo (1997), Costa (1997) and Mugnai (2010).

Taxonomic Coverages

Specimens are identified at the lowest possible taxonomic level as possible, mostly at family levels. Some taxa were identified until genus or species level.
  1. Mollusca
    rank: phylum
  2. Annelida
    rank: phylum
  3. Arthropoda
    rank: phylum
  4. Platyhelminthes
    rank: phylum
  5. Crustacea
    rank: subphylum
  6. Insecta
    rank: class
  7. Bivalvia
    rank: class
  8. Gastropoda
    rank: class
  9. Clitellata
    rank: class
  10. Malacostraca
    rank: class
  11. Ostracoda
    rank: class
  12. Arachinida
    rank: class
  13. Hirudinea
    rank: subclass
  14. Oligochaeta
    rank: subclass
  15. Aeshnidae
    rank: family
  16. Anomalopsychidae
    rank: family
  17. Araneida
    rank: family
  18. Baetidae
    rank: family
  19. Belostomatidae
    rank: family
  20. Brachycentridae
    rank: family
  21. Caenidae
    rank: family
  22. Calamoceratidae
    rank: family
  23. Calopterygidae
    rank: family
  24. Ceratopogonidae
    rank: family
  25. Chaoboridae
    rank: family
  26. Chironomidae
    rank: family
  27. Coenagrionidae
    rank: family
  28. Corduliidae
    rank: family
  29. Corixidae
    rank: family
  30. Corydalidae
    rank: family
  31. Culicidae
    rank: family
  32. Curculionidae
    rank: family
  33. Dixidae
    rank: family
  34. Dolichopodidae
    rank: family
  35. Dryopidae
    rank: family
  36. Dytiscidae
    rank: family
  37. Elmidae
    rank: family
  38. Empididae
    rank: family
  39. Ephemeridae
    rank: family
  40. Gelastocoridae
    rank: family
  41. Gerridae
    rank: family
  42. Glossosomatidae
    rank: family
  43. Gomphidae
    rank: family
  44. Gripopterygidae
    rank: family
  45. Gryllidae
    rank: family
  46. Gyrinidae
    rank: family
  47. Haliplidae
    rank: family
  48. Hebridae
    rank: family
  49. Helicopsychidae
    rank: family
  50. Hydrobiosidae
    rank: family
  51. Hydrobiosidae
    rank: family
  52. Hydrophilidae
    rank: family
  53. Hydropsychidae
    rank: family
  54. Hydroptilidae
    rank: family
  55. Isotomidae
    rank: family
  56. Lampyridae
    rank: family
  57. Leptoceridae
    rank: family
  58. Leptohyphidae
    rank: family
  59. Leptophlebiidae
    rank: family
  60. Lestidae
    rank: family
  61. Libellulidae
    rank: family
  62. Limnephilidae
    rank: family
  63. Limnichidae
    rank: family
  64. Odontoceridae
    rank: family
  65. Perlidae
    rank: family
  66. Pleidae
    rank: family
  67. Polycentropodidae
    rank: family
  68. Polymirtacyidae
    rank: family
  69. Protoneuridae
    rank: family
  70. Psephenidae
    rank: family
  71. Psychodidae
    rank: family
  72. Pyralidae
    rank: family
  73. Scarabaeidae
    rank: family
  74. Sciomyzidae
    rank: family
  75. Simuliidae
    rank: family
  76. Staphylinidae
    rank: family
  77. Stratiomydae
    rank: family
  78. Syrphidae
    rank: family
  79. Tabanidae
    rank: family
  80. Tipulidae
    rank: family
  81. Tridactlidae
    rank: family
  82. Veliidae
    rank: family
  83. Palaemonidae
    rank: family
  84. Ampullaridae
    rank: family
  85. Ancylidae
    rank: family
  86. Corbiculidae
    rank: family
  87. Hydrobiidae
    rank: family
  88. Hyriidae
    rank: family
  89. Physidae
    rank: family
  90. Planorbidae
    rank: family
  91. Sphaeriidae
    rank: family
  92. Thiaridae
    rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Middle Stretch of the Rio Doce Basin - MG (Brazil)

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Diego Pujoni
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Belo Horizonte
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Gabriel Aguila
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627
Belo Horizonte
31270901
Minas Gerais
BR
Telephone: +55 31 99241-7738
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627
Belo Horizonte
31270901
Minas Gerais
BR
Telephone: +55 (31) 34092591
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627
Belo Horizonte
31270901
Minas Gerais
BR
Telephone: +55 (31) 34092591
Maria Marques
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627
Belo Horizonte
31270901
Minas Gerais
BR
Telephone: +55 (31) 34092591
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