ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e68495
First record of the cryptic fishes Ptereleotris calliura (Gobiidae) and Liopropoma rubre (Serranidae) from the Veracruz reef system in Mexico
Mariana Rivera Rivera-Higueras, Horacio Perez-España‡‡ Universidad de Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
Corresponding author: Mariana Rivera-Higueras ( mariana.rivera-higueras@utexas.edu ) © Mariana Rivera-Higueras, Horacio Perez-España. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Rivera-Higueras MR, Perez-España H (2021) First record of the cryptic fishes Ptereleotris calliura (Gobiidae) and Liopropoma rubre (Serranidae) from the Veracruz reef system in Mexico. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e68495 |  |
Abstract
Based on several in situ observations, the species Ptereleotris calliura (family Gobiidae) and Liopropoma rubre (family Serranidae) are added to the taxonomic fish inventory of the Veracruz reef system, Mexico. While P. calliura was found on sandy substratum in the lagoon, L. rubre was detected on the reef slope. With their addition, the checklist of reef fishes in the Veracruz reef system is expanded to 479 species. Given these findings, we predict that additional survey efforts (beyond visual transects) will reveal more previously unrecorded species of cryptic fishes in the Veracruz reef system.
Keywords
coral reef system, peppermint basslet, blue dartfish, cryptobenthic fish