McMahan Caleb D, Matamoros Wilfredo A, Álvarez Calderón Francisco S, Henríquez Wendy Yamileth, Recinos H Michelle, Chakrabarty Prosanta, Barraza Enrique, Herrera Néstor
LSU Museum of Natural Science (Ichthyology), Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge LA 70803 USA; Email:
LSU Museum of Natural Science (Ichthyology), Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge LA 70803 USA Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Dr., Hattiesburg, MS 39406 USA.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2013 Jan 23;3608:440-56. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.6.2.
The inland fish fauna of El Salvador and its distribution was originally described in 1925 by Samuel Hildebrand. That work has been the main source of information for freshwater fishes of El Salvador up to today. Based on the combination of an intensive literature review, electronic database searches, re-identification of museum specimens, and fieldwork, we hereby provide an updated checklist of the inland fishes of El Salvador. This checklist provides distributional data at the Salvadoran hydrographical and political (by department) levels. The checklist is systematically arranged at the ordinal and familial level and then alphabetically therein. The freshwater fish fauna of El Salvador includes 101 species divided into 64 genera, 29 families, and 14 orders. According to their supposed tolerance to salinity, 73% of these species are peripheral, 23% secondary, and only 4% are primary freshwater fishes. One species is endemic to the country, Amatitlania coatepeque. The low number of primary freshwater fishes and endemics is comparable to the Central American Pacific slope in particular, as well as northern Central America in general.
萨尔瓦多的内陆鱼类区系及其分布最初由塞缪尔·希尔德布兰德于1925年进行了描述。直至今日，该著作一直是萨尔瓦多淡水鱼类信息的主要来源。基于深入的文献综述、电子数据库搜索、博物馆标本的重新鉴定以及实地考察的综合结果，我们在此提供一份萨尔瓦多内陆鱼类的更新清单。这份清单提供了萨尔瓦多水文地理层面以及政治层面（按省份划分）的分布数据。该清单在目和科的层面进行了系统排列，然后在其中按字母顺序排列。萨尔瓦多的淡水鱼类区系包括101个物种，分为64个属、29个科和14个目。根据它们对盐度的假定耐受性，这些物种中73%为边缘性鱼类，23%为次生鱼类，仅有4%是原生淡水鱼类。有一种鱼类是该国特有的，即科阿特佩克阿玛蒂拉丽鱼。原生淡水鱼类和特有鱼类数量较少，这与中美洲太平洋沿岸地区，特别是整个中美洲北部的情况相当。
