First fish fauna assessment in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago with BRUVS: Species catalog with underwater imagery.: Fishes Checklist

Kurt Schmid; Fábio Renan Miranda da Silva; Bárbara Janaína Vieira dos Santos; Natalia Priscila Alves Bezerra; Ricardo Clapis Garla; Tommaso Giarrizzo

doi:10.25607/wcxq31

First fish fauna assessment in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago with BRUVS: Species catalog with underwater imagery.: Fishes Checklist

Citation

Schmid K, da Silva F R M, dos Santos B J V, Bezerra N P A, Garla R C, Giarrizzo T, Earl C (2023). First fish fauna assessment in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago with BRUVS: Species catalog with underwater imagery.: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/wcxq31 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-23.

Description

Fish fauna assessments with traditional catch methods are undesired in marine reserves. Underwater visual census on the other hand is biased due to fish-diver interactions, such as shyness or avoidance behavior of large-bodied target species. This study presents the first marine ichthyofauna inventory of the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeastern Brazil, sampled with non-destructive, independent Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems (BRUVS). High fish species richness, totaling 66 species from 28 families and 10 orders, including five elasmobranch species and other large predatory fish, such as barracudas, groupers and snappers, were recorded from 81 underwater video samples. Additionally, all of the 4,398 individuals sighted were associated to up to four different benthic habitat types. A catalog of underwater fish images and a detailed species list with additional information, such as conservation status, are provided.

Purpose

These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.

Sampling Description

Method steps

See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Agnatha
rank: Superclass
Chondrichthyes
rank: unranked
Osteichthyes
rank: unranked

Geographic Coverages

Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves

Bibliographic Citations

Schmid, Kurt & Miranda, Fabio & Santos, Bárbara & Alves Bezerra, Natalia & Garla, Ricardo & Giarrizzo, Tommaso. (2020). First fish fauna assessment in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago with BRUVS: Species catalog with underwater imagery. Biota Neotropica. 20. - https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2020-1014

Contacts

Kurt Schmid
originator
Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Ecologia Aquática e Pesca da Amazônia

Fábio Renan Miranda da Silva
originator
Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Ecologia Aquática e Pesca da Amazônia

Bárbara Janaína Vieira dos Santos
originator
Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Ecologia Aquática e Pesca da Amazônia

Natalia Priscila Alves Bezerra
originator
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

Ricardo Clapis Garla
originator
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Tommaso Giarrizzo
originator
Universidade Federal do Pará, Núcleo de Ecologia Aquática e Pesca da Amazônia

Chandra Earl
metadata author
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

Chandra Earl
processor
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

OBIS Secretariat
administrative point of contact
position: Secretariat
OBIS
email: helpdesk@obis.org