Inventory of fishes of Everglades National Park: Fishes Checklist
Citation
Loftus W F, Earl C (2023). Inventory of fishes of Everglades National Park: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.1. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/dpvccz accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-01.Description
This inventory of the fishes of Everglades National Park summarizes the ichthyological and fisheries investigations that have provided information on the composition and distribution of the park's marine, brackish and freshwaterfish faunas. Descriptions of the major aquatic habitats of the park provide a context for the subsequent complete inventoy for the area. South Florida is a region in which members of the Antillean and Carolinian fish faunas meet and mix, giving rise to a diverse assemblage of fishes. Two hundred and ninety species offishes have been recorded from the park, the majority of which occur both in North American and tropical West Atlantic waters. All of the native freshwaterfishes in the park are derived from temperate North America; conversely, the seven established non-indigenous fish species originated in tropical waters. The table of species inellides abundance and habitat use irlfortnation. Species that are of hypothetical or questionable occurrence are also noted.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 iOBISTaxonomic Coverages
Fishes
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Agnatharank: Superclass
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Chondrichthyesrank: unranked
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Osteichthyesrank: unranked
Geographic Coverages
Everglades National Park
Bibliographic Citations
- Loftus, W. (2000). Inventory of fishes of Everglades National Park. Florida Scientist. 63. 27-47. -
Contacts
William F. Loftusoriginator
USGS
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