Colección de Ictiología de la Universidad de Antioquia
Citation
Jiménez Segura L F, Ospina Pabón J G, DoNascimiento C (2024). Colección de Ictiología de la Universidad de Antioquia. Version 5.12. Universidad de Antioquia. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15472/lkcff8 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-10.Description
Around the world, there are 36.779 fish species (Fricke, Eschmeyer and Fong, 2024). Colombian fishes are nearly 4.046 fish species (SiB Colombia, 2020); representing by 1.215 in the caribean ocean (Polanco and Acero, 2019), 881 in the pacific ocean (Beltran and Tavera, 2019) and 1.692 freshwather mainly in the basins of Amazonas and Orinoco rivers (DoNascimiento et al, 2024).
The Knowledge about the richness of fishes spieces comes mainly from regional research, monitoring associated with environmental permissions for infrastructure construction of energy projects, field courses and curriculum reports to the community. Witnesses of this diversity are deposited in Biological Collections, usually administered by institutions of higher education or research institutes. In Colombia, <> (2022) reports 214 biological collections, the most important not only for its geographical representation but also by their size are the National Institute of Natural Sciences at the National University of Colombia and the Museum of Alexander von Humboldt Institute.
Ichthyology collection of the University of Antioquia (CIUA) emerged as a repository of specimens collected in several research projects done by the group of Ichthyology (GIUA) since 2002. Initially, became part of the collection of Limnology (CLUA) but in 2008 it was registered in the Alexander von Humboldt Institute Museums database. Since then, (CIUA) is in charge of the curatorship of fish specimens not only from the ichthyologic research at the University of Antioquia but also from other researches, monitoring of consulting firms that deliver the material collected in their work also community donations. Here, we made a report about information contained in CIUA Fish Museum.
At the moment, this resource has 8.615 records that have been collected in colombian territory from 1972 to 2024. With a taxonomic coverage of three class, 25 orders, 86 families, 218 genus and 424 species.
Sampling Description
Study Extent
Magdalena-Cauca River, Atrato River, Sinú River, San Juan de Urabá River, Rancheria River, Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Caqueta River and Orinoco River.Sampling
Fish were caught using various methods; each of them defined according the habitat. In freshwater systems were used electrofishing, cast net throws (0,5-3 cm mesh size), gill nets (1-12 cm, mesh size), bottom trawls (0,5-3 cm, mesh size) and hooks lines (different sizes). In marine systems, we used mainly hook lines and gill nets. Although there was not a general sampling design, most of the samples in freshwater systems were taken in different climatic moments (rains and dry periods).Quality Control
Species of each specimen was determined using specialized literature. All the scientific names of specimens were validated by the updated fish checklist in Catalog of Fishes-California Academy of Sciences (Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan , 2022). Most of the specimens are preserved in alcohol 75%, tissues in etanol 96% and other ones are dry preservation (skeletons). A lot consists of all specimens of a species collected at the same climatic period and place. Each lot contains a paper tag with the main information about date and sampling site such as the Systematic information of the species; all of them are located inside metal cabinets protected from light. Because of the little space to store, lots are organized by a serial number. Data of each specimen (Species, Genera, Family, Order and Class), and date of sampling and collector name were recorded in a excel data set following recommendations of Darwin Core format and in the CIUA Museum Book. Some geographical information is also part of the data set associated to each lot. Some of those are: geographical records, locality name, and altitude. The latitude and longitude of sampling sites were plotted and cleaned using the menu facility of ModestR (García-Roselló et al., 2013) and Georreference protocol of Alexander von Humboldt Institute (Escobar D et al 2014) whit sofware Qgis.Method steps
- Sampling desing.
- Field sampling and environmental description about fish habitat.
- Fish fixation in formaldehyde 10%.
- Fish species determination.
- Specimen data record in the data bases (book, DWCore and label).
- Storage in the fish collection.
Taxonomic Coverages
The CIUA fish dataset have a taxonomic coverage of three class, 25 orders, 86 families, 218 genus and 424 species. There is a 75% classifed to the species level, 24.5% to genus and 0.40% to family. The most abundant orders are Siluriformes (3.648 records and 143 species) and Characiformes (3.634 records and 113 species).
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Animaliarank: kingdom
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Actinopterirank: class
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Chondrichthyesrank: class
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Siluriformesrank: order
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Characiformesrank: order
Geographic Coverages
The CIUA Fish Museum is a regional museum covering mostly Colombian Andean region. Department of Antioquia is the most significant political division with 557 sampling localities, 4.883 records and more than 21.087 specimens.
Most of the records in CIUA database come from marine and freshwater aquatic systems in the northwestern Colombia. This dataset have information from the coastal line of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and from seven river basins: Magdalena-Cauca, San Juan (Urabá), Sinú, Atrato, Ranchería, Amazonas and Orinoco . Most of the records come from freshwater systems (98.68%); mainly from creeks and rivers (72.78%). Altitudinally, specimens in CIUA were collected between 0 and 3486 m.a.s.l.
There are 4 international records, 2 from Venezuela, 1 from UK and 1 from Zambia.
Bibliographic Citations
- Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A., DoNascimiento, C. L., Usma Oviedo, J. S., Herrera Collazos, E. E., & García Melo, J. E. (2019). Colombia país de peces: Biodiversidad de los peces de agua dulce de Colombia. En La pesca en Colombia: del agua a la mesa (1 ed., pp. 19-22). Agenda del Mar . -
- Maldonado-Ocampo J.A., Orteaga-Lara A., Usma-Oviedo J.S., Galvis-Vergara G., Villa-Navarro F.A., Vásquez-Gamboa L., Prada-Pedreros S., Ardila-Rodríguez C. (2005).Peces de los Andes de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos (Alexander von Humboldt). Bogotá D.C. Colombia. 346p. -
- Dahl G. 1971. Los peces del norte de Colombia. Ministerio de Agricultura, Instituto de Desarrollo de los Recursos Naturales Renovables (INDERENA). Talleres Litografía Arco. Bogotá D.C. Colombia. 391p. -
- Malabarba L.R, Reis E.R, Vari R.P, Lucena Z.M, Lucena C.A.(1998). Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes. EDIPUCRS. 603p. -
- Jacques G. (1977). Characoids of the world, TFH Publications, New York City. 672p. -
- Buregess W.E. (1989) An atlas of the freshwater and Marine Catfishes.TFH Publications, New York City. 784p. -
- DoNascimiento, C., F. A. Villa Navarro, J. G. Albornoz Garzón y E. E. Herrera Collazos. (2024). Lista de especies de peces de agua dulce de Colombia - Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia. v. 2.16. Asociación Colombiana de Ictiólogos. Dataset/Checklist. -
- Polanco A. y Acero A. (2019). Colombia país de peces: Biodiversidad de peces marinos de del Caribe Colombiano. En La pesca en Colombia: del agua a la mesa (1 ed., pp. 19-22). Agenda del Mar . -
- Beltran B. y Tavera J. (2019). Colombia país de peces: Biodiversidad de peces marinos de del pacifico Colombiano. En La pesca en Colombia: del agua a la mesa (1 ed., pp. 19-22). Agenda del Mar . -
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan. (2024) ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES.(http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp).Electronic version accessed 18-04-2022. -
- Dornburg, A. & T. J. Near. 2021. The emerging phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of actinopterygian fishes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-122120-122554. -
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Luz Fernanda Jiménez Seguraoriginator
position: Associate teacher
Universidad de Antioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellín
Antioquia
CO
Telephone: 057 42195620
email: luz.jimenez@udea.edu.co
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
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Juan Guillermo Ospina Pabón
originator
position: Scientific researcher
Universidad de Antioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellín
Antioquia
CO
email: jguillermo.ospina@udea.edu.co
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-2628
Carlos DoNascimiento
originator
position: Scientific researcher
Universidad de Antioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellín
Antioquia
CO
email: tepuglanis@hotmail.com
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8680-7942
Luz Fernanda Jiménez Segura
metadata author
position: Associate teacher
Universidad de Antioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellín
Antioquia
CO
Telephone: 057 42195620
email: luz.jimenez@udea.edu.co
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-0355
Juan Guillermo Ospina Pabón
metadata author
position: Scientific researcher
Universidad de Anquioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellín
Antioquia
CO
email: jguillermo.ospina@udea.edu.co
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-2628
Carlos DoNascimiento
metadata author
position: Scientific researcher
Universidad de Anquioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellin
ANTIOQUIA
CO
email: tepuglanis@hotmail.com
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
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Luz Fernanda Jiménez-Segura
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Universidad de Antioquia
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email: luz.jimenez@gmail.com
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Juan Guillermo Ospina Pabón
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Universidad de Antioquia
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email: jguillermo.ospina@udea.edu.co
Grupo de Ictiología – GIUA
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Luz Fernanda Jiménez Segura
administrative point of contact
position: Associate teacher
Universidad de Antioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellín
Antioquia
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Telephone: 057 42195620
email: luz.jimenez@udea.edu.co
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0784-0355
Juan Guillermo Ospina Pabón
administrative point of contact
position: Scientific researcher
Universidad de Antioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellín
Antioquia
CO
email: jguillermo.ospina@udea.edu.co
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-2628
Carlos DoNascimiento
administrative point of contact
position: Scientific researcher
Universidad de Antioquia
Calle 67 No. 53-108 - Bloque 7-308
Medellin
ANTIOQUIA
CO
email: tepuglanis@hotmail.com
homepage: http://www.udea.edu.co/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8680-7942