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Issue: Vol. 1523 No. 1: 9 Jul. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-07-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1523.1.1
Page range: 1–48
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Coastal Fishes of São Tomé and Príncipe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean)—an update

Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, P-8000-117, Faro, Portugal
Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, 24001-970, Brazil
Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia – CCB, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, 88010-970, Brazil
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
Departamento de Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Av. Fernando Ferrari S/N, Vitória, ES, 29060-900, Brazil
Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Coconut Island, P.O. Box 1346 Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744, USA
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, 58059-900, Brazil
Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Münchhausenstr. 21, D-81247 München, Germany
Pisces Eastern Central Atlantic marine biodiversity reef fish amphi-Atlantic species

Abstract

Here we report 59 new records of shore fishes for São Tomé and Príncipe islands (Gulf of Guinea), Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Ten of these are new species still to be described, including a new genus of a gobiid fish that lives in association with an axiid shrimp. A large proportion of the shore fishes of São Tomé and Principe occur on both sides of the Atlantic and many have their sister-species in the western Atlantic. To a lesser degree, there are also affinities to the western Indian Ocean.

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