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Ten new records of reef fish on the coast of Santa Catarina State, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2009

Diego R Barneche*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biogeografia e Macroecologia Marinha, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil
Antônio B Anderson
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biogeografia e Macroecologia Marinha, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil
Sergio R Floeter
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biogeografia e Macroecologia Marinha, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil
Marcelo Silveira
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biogeografia e Macroecologia Marinha, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil
Daniel F Dinslaken
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biogeografia e Macroecologia Marinha, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil
Alfredo Carvalho-Filho
Affiliation:
Fish Bizz Ltda., Rua Moncorvo Filho, 51, São Paulo, SP 05507-010, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: D.R. Barneche, Laboratório de Biogeografia e Macroecologia Marinha, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil email: diego.barneche@gmail.com
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Abstract

We present a list with 10 new records of reef fish on the coast of Santa Catarina State, the southernmost site of tropical reef fish occurrence on the Brazilian coast. We also comment on the distribution-range of the recently described Halichoeres sazimai (Labridae).

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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