ReefSYN | Standardized datasets of Brazilian reef diversity in space and time - Dataset XI: Rio Grande do Norte monitoring

Study Extent

Data has been collected yearly since 2016. The two first years accounted for 320 UVCs conducted at all 7 locations, most of them surveyed just once in time (Roos et al. 2019). Two localities within the shallow patchy reefs from the municipality of Rio do Fogo kept being monitored every four months from April 2018 to April 2023 (onwards) by Jessica Bleuel and other members of the Marine Ecology Laboratory Team (https://twitter.com/MarineEcoBR), adding up more than 850 UVCs. Roos NC, Pennino MG, Carvalho AR, Longo GO (2019) Drivers of abundance and biomass of Brazilian parrotfishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 623:117-130. doi: 10.3354/meps13005

Sampling

A total of 820 UVCs were performed at 54 localities within 7 different locations at depths ranging from 1 to 28 m depending on local depth. Data has been collected yearly since 2016. During the first year, only fish from clades Scarini and Acanthuridae were tallied. From 2017 on, the entire fish assemblage began to be surveyed.

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. During the first year, only fish from clades Scarini and Acanthuridae were tallied. From 2017 on, the entire fish assemblage began to be surveyed.

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. Archosargus rhomboidalis
13. Aulostomus strigosus
14. Azurina multilineata
15. Bodianus rufus
16. Bothus ocellatus
17. Brachygenys chrysargyreum
18. Cantherhines macrocerus
19. Cantherhines pullus
20. Canthigaster figueiredoi
21. Caranx
22. Caranx bartholomaei
23. Cephalopholis fulva
24. Chaetodipterus faber
25. Chaetodon ocellatus
26. Chaetodon striatus
27. Chilomycterus spinosus
28. Chromis scotti
29. Clepticus brasiliensis
30. Coryphopterus glaucofraenum
31. Diodon hystrix
32. Elacatinus figaro
33. Epinephelus adscensionis
34. Epinephelus itajara
35. Eucinostomus
36. Eucinostomus argenteus
37. Eugerres brasilianus
38. Ginglymostoma cirratum
39. Gymnothorax funebris
40. Gymnothorax miliaris
41. Gymnothorax vicinus
42. Haemulon atlanticus
43. Haemulon aurolineatum
44. Haemulon chrysargyreum
45. Haemulon parra
46. Haemulon plumierii
47. Haemulon squamipinna
48. Halichoeres brasiliensis
49. Halichoeres dimidiatus
50. Halichoeres maculipinna
51. Halichoeres poeyi
52. Harengula clupeola
53. Hemiramphus
54. Hemiramphus brasiliensis
55. Holacanthus ciliaris
56. Holacanthus tricolor
57. Holocentrus adscensionis
58. Hypanus berthalutzae
59. Hypanus marianae
60. Kyphosus
61. Kyphosus cinerascens
62. Kyphosus sectatrix
63. Kyphosus vaigiensis
64. Labrisomus nuchipinnis
65. Lutjanus alexandrei
66. Lutjanus analis
67. Lutjanus jocu
68. Lutjanus synagris
69. Melichthys niger
70. Microspathodon chrysurus
71. Mulloidichthys martinicus
72. Muraena pavonina
73. Mycteroperca bonaci
74. Myrichthys ocellatus
75. Myripristis jacobus
76. Ocyurus chrysurus
77. Odontoscion dentex
78. Ophioblennius trinitatis
79. Orthopristis ruber
80. Paranthias furcifer
81. Pareques acuminatus
82. Pomacanthus paru
83. Pseudupeneus maculatus
84. Rypticus saponaceus
85. Scarus trispinosus
86. Scarus zelindae
87. Scomberomorus brasiliensis
88. Serranus baldwini
89. Sparisoma
90. Sparisoma amplum
91. Sparisoma axillare
92. Sparisoma frondosum
93. Sparisoma radians
94. Sphoeroides camila
95. Sphyraena barracuda
96. Stegastes fuscus
97. Stegastes pictus
98. Stegastes variabilis
99. Synodus synodus
100. Thalassoma noronhanum
101. Trachinotus ovatus

Two localities within the shallow patchy reefs from the municipality of Rio do Fogo, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.