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Issue: Vol. 5357 No. 3: 19 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.3.1
Page range: 301-341
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Marine and freshwater fishes of Alabama: a revised checklist and discussion of taxonomic issues

Department of Biology and Environmental Science; Auburn University at Montgomery; 301 Goodwyn Hall; Montgomery; AL 36124; USA; Department of Biology; Virginia Commonwealth University; 1000 W Cary St.; Suite 126; Richmond; VA 23284; USA; Field Operations Division; Alabama Department of Environmental Management; P.O. Box 301463; Montgomery; AL 36130; USA
Decatur Field Office; Alabama Department of Environmental Management; 2715 Sandlin Rd SW; Decatur; AL 35603; USA
Geological Survey of Alabama; Walter B. Jones Hall; 420 Hackberry Lane; Tuscaloosa; AL 35487; USA
Department of Biology and Environmental Science; Auburn University at Montgomery; 301 Goodwyn Hall; Montgomery; AL 36124; USA
Department of Biological Sciences; Auburn University; 120 W Samford Ave; Auburn; AL 36849; USA
Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, 1325 Hackberry Ln, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA
Geological Survey of Alabama, Walter B. Jones Hall, 420 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
Pisces ichthyofauna marine environments Mobile River Basin rivers and streams systematics taxonomy

Abstract

Checklists are fundamental and important tools for organizing information about biodiversity that provide a basis for conservation and additional scientific research. While Alabama is recognized as an aquatic biodiversity ‘hotspot’ with the highest native freshwater fish diversity in the contiguous United States, we currently lack an up-to-date list of the state’s fishes. In particular, much has changed over the past ~20 years regarding our knowledge of fishes from Alabama and the Mobile River Basin, rendering past comprehensive treatments by Mettee et al. (1996) and Boschung and Mayden (2004) out of date. Here, we provide a revised checklist of marine and freshwater fishes known from the coastal and inland waters of Alabama that includes 463 species (335 primarily freshwater fishes, and 128 marine or diadromous fishes) in 35 orders, 78 families, and 176 genera. Extant, extirpated, and extinct species are included, as are putative candidate species. The checklist is based on prior work, searches of the literature and online sources, as well as parsing a large compilation of >140,000 fish records for Alabama and the Mobile River Basin from 37 data providers in the global Fishnet2 database (www.fishnet2.net) and >4000 marine survey records from the SEAMAP database (https://www.gsmfc.org/seamap.php). After editing and quality control checks, the final combined database contained 144,215 collection records, ~95% of which were georeferenced. We discuss the species descriptions, nomenclatural changes, and updates to marine species that account for changes to the state list, and we close with a discussion of ~13 candidate species forms that remain undescribed, which represent outstanding taxonomic issues in need of further research attention.

 

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