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Table II in AfriBasins: a new framework in FishBase for the analysis of African fresh and brackish water fish distributions, with a discussion on the Congo basin fauna
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Table II. – AfriBasin size, species and endemics per AfriBasin and different proxies of sampling effort based on 42022 georeferenced records from the RMCA fish collection and GBIF.
| Subbasin | Size (km 2) | Species | Species / 1000 km 2 | Endemics | Endemics / 1000 km 2 | Records | Records / 1000 km 2 | Sampling localities | Sampling loc. / 1000 km 2 | Sampling days | Sampling days / 1000 km 2 | Expeditions | Expeditions / 1000 km 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Congo | 75000 | 344 | 4.59 | 3 | 0.04 | 3622 | 48.29 | 172 | 2.29 | 495 | 6.60 | 154 | 2.05 |
| Kasai | 290000 | 259 | 0.89 | 23 | 0.08 | 1630 | 5.62 | 121 | 0.42 | 239 | 0.82 | 138 | 0.48 |
| Pool Malebo | 9500 | 254 | 26.74 | 10 | 1.05 | 4455 | 468.95 | 101 | 10.63 | 518 | 54.53 | 200 | 21.05 |
| Ubangi | 240000 | 248 | 1.03 | 19 | 0.08 | 1705 | 7.10 | 119 | 0.50 | 164 | 0.68 | 61 | 0.25 |
| Lower Congo | 50000 | 248 | 4.96 | 53 | 1.06 | 2233 | 44.66 | 264 | 5.28 | 366 | 7.32 | 131 | 2.62 |
| Lualaba | 323000 | 247 | 0.76 | 18 | 0.06 | 4354 | 13.48 | 388 | 1.20 | 645 | 2.00 | 226 | 0.70 |
| Aruwimi | 127500 | 233 | 1.83 | 12 | 0.09 | 1455 | 11.41 | 150 | 1.18 | 213 | 1.67 | 69 | 0.54 |
| Ruki | 177000 | 231 | 1.31 | 9 | 0.05 | 2211 | 12.49 | 81 | 0.46 | 328 | 1.85 | 103 | 0.58 |
| Itimbiri | 55000 | 228 | 4.15 | 4 | 0.07 | 1548 | 28.15 | 26 | 0.47 | 108 | 1.96 | 50 | 0.91 |
| Upper Lualaba | 144000 | 219 | 1.52 | 28 | 0.19 | 3449 | 23.95 | 371 | 2.58 | 644 | 4.47 | 160 | 1.11 |
| Sangha | 180000 | 215 | 1.19 | 8 | 0.04 | 2012 | 11.18 | 181 | 1.01 | 195 | 1.08 | 72 | 0.40 |
| Uélé | 122000 | 195 | 1.60 | 7 | 0.06 | 1104 | 9.05 | 85 | 0.70 | 184 | 1.51 | 83 | 0.68 |
| Lindi-Tshopo | 54000 | 182 | 3.37 | 1 | 0.02 | 931 | 17.24 | 86 | 1.59 | 128 | 2.37 | 47 | 0.87 |
| Lomami | 74000 | 181 | 2.45 | 1 | 0.01 | 738 | 9.97 | 151 | 2.04 | 161 | 2.18 | 44 | 0.59 |
| Marine Lower Congo | 10000 | 164 | 16.40 | 8 | 0.80 | 1421 | 142.10 | 104 | 10.40 | 192 | 19.20 | 123 | 12.30 |
| Mweru | 94000 | 163 | 1.73 | 29 | 0.31 | 3376 | 35.91 | 327 | 3.48 | 569 | 6.05 | 155 | 1.65 |
| Léfini-Likouala | 110000 | 140 | 1.27 | 10 | 0.09 | 2278 | 20.71 | 128 | 1.16 | 195 | 1.77 | 50 | 0.45 |
| Sankuru | 130000 | 119 | 0.92 | 10 | 0.08 | 659 | 5.07 | 33 | 0.25 | 80 | 0.62 | 34 | 0.26 |
| Tumba | 6500 | 110 | 16.92 | 3 | 0.46 | 357 | 54.92 | 12 | 1.85 | 67 | 10.31 | 23 | 3.54 |
| Bangweulu | 110000 | 103 | 0.94 | 1 | 0.01 | 1325 | 12.05 | 172 | 1.56 | 190 | 1.73 | 70 | 0.64 |
| Kwilu | 85000 | 86 | 1.01 | 5 | 0.06 | 130 | 1.53 | 19 | 0.22 | 34 | 0.40 | 26 | 0.31 |
| Kwango | 195000 | 84 | 0.43 | 10 | 0.05 | 299 | 1.53 | 24 | 0.12 | 33 | 0.17 | 18 | 0.09 |
| Mai-Ndombe | 40000 | 72 | 1.80 | 8 | 0.20 | 89 | 2.23 | 27 | 0.68 | 16 | 0.40 | 25 | 0.63 |
| Lukenie | 76500 | 51 | 0.67 | 2 | 0.03 | 275 | 3.59 | 18 | 0.24 | 32 | 0.42 | 21 | 0.27 |
| Mongala | 45000 | 41 | 0.91 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 2.07 | 9 | 0.20 | 17 | 0.38 | 14 | 0.31 |
| Lulonga | 67000 | 20 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 1.19 | 13 | 0.19 | 17 | 0.25 | 12 | 0.18 |
| Kotto | 71000 | 19 | 0.27 | 1 | 0.01 | 126 | 1.77 | 15 | 0.21 | 12 | 0.17 | 16 | 0.23 |
| Bomu | 130000 | 14 | 0.11 | 1 | 0.01 | 67 | 0.52 | 11 | 0.08 | 14 | 0.11 | 9 | 0.07 |
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Published as part of Musschoot, Tobias, Boden, Gert & Snoeks, Jos, 2023, AfriBasins: a new framework in FishBase for the analysis of African fresh and brackish water fish distributions, with a discussion on the Congo basin fauna, pp. 292 in Cybium 47 (3) on page 292, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2023-024, http://zenodo.org/record/12713693
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