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Cladocerans from gut content of fishes from Guaporé River Basin, MT, Brazil
Author(s) -
Lourdes M. A. Elmoor-Loureiro,
Carlos Eduardo Aguiar Soares
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
acta limnologica brasiliensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.244
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2179-975X
pISSN - 0102-6712
DOI - 10.4322/actalb.02201006
Subject(s) - content (measure theory) , fishery , structural basin , geography , environmental science , biology , mathematics , paleontology , mathematical analysis
Aim: the present study aimed to identify the cladoceran species taken from the gut content of fishes sampled from Vila Bela da Santissima Trindade (Mato Grosso); Methods: the gut content of 14 individual fishes were analyzed; from each one, at least 100 individual cladocerans were identified; Results: A total of 25 cladoceran species were registered, providing the first species list for Guapore River Basin, seven of them reported from Mato Grosso State for the first time; Conclusions: Besides the information on Cladoceran occurrence, the study point out the importance of this organisms in the aquatic food web of Guapore Basin.

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