Mangrove Fishes of the Americas
A large school of French grunts sheltering among red mangrove prop roots over a sandy bottom

Mangrove Fishes of the Americas

Fish records from mangrove forests across the Americas.

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French Grunts – Lorenzo Mittiga, Netherlands Antilles

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Contributors

  • Antar Mijail Pérez-Botello

    • Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
    • Oceana México, Mexico City, Mexico
    antarmijail@comunidad.unam.mx

  • Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo

    • Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany
    • Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama
    gustavo.castellanos@leibniz-zmt.de

  • D. Ross Robertson

    • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama
    robertsondr@si.edu

  • Tommaso Giarrizzo

    • Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Brazil
    tommaso@ufc.br

Acknowledgements

We thank CONABIO (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico), Ena Lucia Suarez Bolanos, Cristian Montes, Carlos Troche and Luiz Valderrama for information about Neotropical mangroves; Daniel Alarcón for drafting the first versions of the website; and Pamela Tapia and Elizabeth Chan for their support with data extraction.

About the Mangrove-Fish Mapper

Fish records associated with mangrove forests across the Americas, compiled from published studies.

Each point on the map is a site. Filter by fish family or species, mangrove taxa, region, ecoregion or country, and colour the sites by tidal cycle, tidal regime or mangrove typology. Every filtered selection can be downloaded.

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