Research Article

Restoration Effects of the Riparian Forest on the Intertidal Fish Fauna in an Urban Area of the Amazon River

Table 2

Occurrence and relative abundance of fish species recorded in the intertidal zone of an urban waterfront on the Amazon.

Order/familySpeciesRelative abundance (%) area
IIIIIIIVVVI

Characiformes
 Erythrinidae Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (Agassiz, 1829)4052.442.94.8
 Characidae
  TriportheinaeTriportheus angulatus (Spix & Agassiz, 1829)2063.627.39.1
  TetragonopterinaeAstyanax bimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)8838.814.34.110.020.412.0
  SerrasalminaeSerrasalmus marginatus (Cuvier, 1819)2350.013.636.4
Siluriformes
 Loricariidae Hypostomus plecostomus (Linnaeus, 1758)6848.210.73.63.628.65.4
Hypostomus emarginatus (Valenciennes, 1840)9051.212.22.44.9227.3
7.723.115.0
 Auchenipteridae Pseudauchenipterus sp. (Linnaeus, 1766)6043.610.37.723.115.0
 Trichomycteridae Vandellia sp. (Valenciennes, 1846r)18415.426.013.011.020.214.0
 PimelodidaePimelodus pictus (Steindachner, 1876)3252.44.842.9
Pimelodus blochii (Valenciennes, 1840)2950.044.45.6
 Heptapteridae Pimelodella cristata (Müller & Troschel, 1849)1566.717.016.7
 CallichthyidaeHoplosternum littorale (Hancock, 1828)8439.611.319.01.922.65.7
Cyprinodontiformes
 Anablepidae Anableps anableps (Linnaeus, 1758)8342.617.019.04.317
Perciformes
 SciaenidaePachyurus schomburgkii (Günther, 1860)962.512.513.012.5
Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel, 1840)4338.512.015.023.112.0
Tetraodontiformes
 Tetraodontidae Colomesus psittacus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) 6371.928.1
Clupeiformes
 Clupeidae Rhinosardinia amazonica (Steindachner, 1879)17248.716.035.4
Rhinosardinia serrata (Eigenmann, 1912)8056.14.939
Pleuronectiformes
 Achiridae Achirus achirus (Linnaeus, 1758)3968.431.6
Beloniformes
 BelonidaePotamorrhaphis guianensis (Jardine, 1843)4487.912.1