Distribution for the Amazon and La Plata basins
This database is a combination of two database initiatives focused on the Amazon and La Plata basins. Relying on the outputs of the AmazonFish project – https://www.amazon-fish.com/, we provide the most complete fish species distribution records covering the whole Amazon drainage. The database, including 2,526 validated freshwater native fish species, over 300.000 georeferenced records (database version from 02/2022), results from an extensive survey of species distribution including over 600 different sources (e.g. published articles, grey literature, online biodiversity databases and scientific collections from museums and universities worldwide) and field expeditions conducted during the project.
The La Plata basin includes the Parana, Paraguay and Uruguay river drainages, is the second most important in South America, including five countries. As for the Amazon, and because of its size and international configuration, no initiative has yet intended to compile the distribution of the fish fauna. The database is also built on from different sources together regrouping nearly 70 museum and university collections, complemented with over 800 bibliographic references. The 100.000 occurrence records range from 1829 to 2016 for 1122 native valid species and 24 exotic species (database version from 02/2022).
For more details see:
– Jézéquel et al (2020). A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin. Scientific Data, 7, 96.
– Jézéquel et al (2020). Metadata description of the Ictioplata database: a fish distribution database for the La Plata drainage basin. Freshwater Metadata Journal, 46: 1-6