Hostname: page-component-65b85459fc-22psd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-10-16T15:02:39.410Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Southernmost occurrence of Syngnathus folletti on a temperate coastal lagoon of Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2011

Daniel O. Bruno ,
Mariana Addino  and
Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa
Daniel O. Bruno*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Dean Funes 3350, Mar del Plata, B7602AYL, Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, C1033AAJ, Argentina
Mariana Addino
Affiliation:
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, C1033AAJ, Argentina Laboratorio de Ecología, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), CC 573 Correo Central, B7600WAG, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Dean Funes 3350, Mar del Plata, B7602AYL, Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, C1033AAJ, Argentina
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: D.O. Bruno, Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Dean Funes 3350, Mar del Plata, B7602AYL, Argentina email: dobruno@mdp.edu.ar
Get access

Abstract

We report the occurrence of a mature male Syngnathus folletti in the inlet channel of Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon (37°44′S 57°25′W, Buenos Aires, Argentina). This record constitutes the southernmost report for the species. Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon is characterized by mudflats surrounded by a large cord-grass area but not by grass beds which are seen to be a suitable habitat for S. folletti. Therefore, oceanic winds that allow warmer northern waters to approach the coast of Argentina could be the cause of the presence of the species.

Keywords

Syngnathus folletticoastal lagoonArgentina

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 4 , December 2011 , e62
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

REFERENCES

Blasina, G.E., Delpiani, S.M., Bruno, D.O., González Castro, M. and Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. (2009) First record of Callorhinchus callorynchus and Trachurus lathami, in a south-western Atlantic coastal lagoon. Marine Biodiversity Records 2, e90.Google Scholar
Cousseau, M.B., Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. and Figueroa, D.E. (2001) La Ictiofauna de la Laguna Mar Chiquita. In Iribarne, O. (ed.) Reserva de Biósfera Mar Chiquita: características físicas, biológicas y ecológicas. Mar del Plata: Editorial Martín, pp. 187–203.Google Scholar
Dawson, C.E. (1982) Family Syngnathidae. In Bolke, J.E. (ed.) Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Part 8. Order Gasteroisteiformes, Suborder Syngnathoidei. New Haven: Sears Foundation for Marine Science, Yale University, pp. 1–172.Google Scholar
Díaz de Astarloa, J.M., Figueroa, D.E., Cousseau, M.B. and Barragán, M. (2000) Occurrence of Trachinotus carolinus (Carangidae) in laguna costera Mar Chiquita, with comments on other occasionally recorded fishes in Argentinean waters. Bulletin of Marine Science 66, 399–403.Google Scholar
Eydoux, F. and Gervais, P. (1837) Voyage de la ‘Favorite’, poissons. Echeneis sexdecimlamellata et Syngnatus blainvillianus. Magazine Zoologique 7, 1–4.Google Scholar
Fasano, J.L., Hernández, M.A., Isla, F.I. and Schnack, E.J. (1982) Aspectos evolutivos y ambientales de la laguna Mar Chiquita (Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Oceanológica Acta, Simposio Internacional sobre lagunas costeras, SCOR/IABO/UNESCO, Bordeaux, France, pp. 285–292.Google Scholar
Figueiredo, J.L. and Menezes, N.A. (1980) Manual de peixes marinhos do sudeste do Brasil. Volume III, Teleostei (2). Museu de Zoología Universidade de São Paulo, 90 pp.Google Scholar
Figueroa, D.E., Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. and Cousseau, M.B. (2000) Southernmost occurrence of the aguavina on the western Atlantic coast of Argentina. Journal of Fish Biology 56, 1280–1282.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Garcia, A.M. and Vieira, J.P. (1997) Abundância e diversidade da assembléia de peixes dentro e fora de uma pradaria de Ruppia maritima L., no estuário da Lagoa dos Patos (RS-Brasil). Atlântica Rio Grande 19, 161–181.Google Scholar
Garcia, A.M., Vieira, J.P. and Winemiller, K.O. (2001) Dynamics of the shallow-water fish assemblage of the Patos Lagoon estuary (Brazil) during cold and warm ENSO episodes. Journal of Fish Biology 59, 1218–1238.Google Scholar
Garcia, A.M., Geraldi, R.M. and Vieira, J.P. (2005) Diet composition and feeding strategy of the southern pipefish Syngnathus folletti in a Widgeon grass bed of the Patos Lagoon Estuary, RS, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 3, 427–432.Google Scholar
González Castro, M., Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. and Cousseau, M.B. (2006) First record of a tropical affinity mullet, Mugil curema (Mugilidae), in a temperate southwestern Atlantic coastal lagoon. Cybium 30, 90–91.Google Scholar
González Castro, M., Díaz de Astarloa, J.M., Cousseau, M.B., Figueroa, D.E., Delpiani, S.M., Bruno, D.O., Guzonni, J.M., Blasina, G.E. and Deli Antoni, M.Y. (2009) Fish composition in a south-western Atlantic temperate coastal lagoon: spatial–temporal variation and relationships with environmental variables. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89, 593–604.Google Scholar
Herald, E.S. (1942) Three new pipefishes from the Atlantic coast of North and South America, with a key to the Atlantic American species. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 4, 126–127.Google Scholar
Lucas, A.J., Guerrero, R.A., Mianzan, H.W., Acha, E.M. and Lasta, C.A. (2005) Coastal oceanographic regimes of the Northern Argentine Continental Shelf (34–43°S). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 65, 405–420.Google Scholar
Martinetto, P., Ribeiro, P. and Iribarne, O. (2007) Changes in distribution and abundance of juvenile fishes in intertidal soft sediment areas dominated by the burrowing crab Chasmagnathus granulatus. Marine and Freshwater Research 58, 194–203.Google Scholar
Nelson, J.S. (2006) Fishes of the world. 4th edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons.Google Scholar
Neves, L.M., Teixeira, T.P. and Araújo, F.G. (2010) Structure and dynamics of distinct fish assemblages in three reaches (upper, middle and lower) of an open tropical estuary in Brazil. Marine Ecology 32, 115–131.Google Scholar
Piacentino, G.L.M. and Luzzatto, D.C. (2004) Hippocampus patagonicus sp. nov., nuevo caballito de mar para la Argentina (Pisces, Syngnathiformes). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 6, 339–349.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pozzi, A.J. and Siccardi, E.M. (1948) Descripción del álotipo de Syngnathus folletti Herald, 1942 (Pisces, Syngnathidae). Comunicaciones del Museo de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia. Series Ciencias Zoológicas 8, 9 pp.Google Scholar
Reta, R., Martos, P., Perillo, G.M.E., Piccolo, M.C. and Ferrante, A. (2001) Características hidrográficas del estuario de la laguna Mar Chiquita. In Iribarne, O. (ed.) Reserva de Biósfera Mar Chiquita: características físicas, biológicas y ecológicas. Mar del Plata: Editorial Martín, pp. 31–52.Google Scholar
Ruarte, C.O., Rico, M.R. and Lucifora, L. (2009) Inventario íctico del litoral costero Bonaerense y Uruguayo. INIDEP Informe Técnico 69, 29 pp.Google Scholar
Skansi, M.M.(2008) Boletín climatológico. Programa de Vigilancia del Clima en la Argentina y Región Subantártica Adyacente, volume XX, no. 12, 35 pp.Google Scholar
Solari, A., García, M.L. and Jaureguizar, A.J. (2009) Fish fauna from the Ajó river in Campos del Tuyú National Park, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Check List, Campinas 5, 807–811.Google Scholar
Valiñas, M., Acha, E.M. and Iribarne, O. (2010) Habitat use and feeding habits of juvenile fishes in an infrequently flooded Atlantic salt marsh. Marine and Freshwater Research 61, 1154–1163.Google Scholar
Weiss, G. (1981) Ictioplancton del estuario de Lagoa Dos Patos, Brasil. PhD thesis. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.Google Scholar