Published November 27, 2023 | Version v1
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Sicydium altum Meek 1907

  • 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
  • 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
  • 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
  • 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
  • 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
  • 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554

Description

Sicydium altum Meek 1907. Atlantic Titi Goby; Chupapiedras, Tití, Gobio, Gobio de Río, Lamearenas, Dormilón

Vouchers: UCR 3225-007 (1). Distribution: Western Atlantic Ocean; from southern Nicaragua to (probably) western Panama; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) IM (Atlantic); 0–780 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; VU B1ab(iii,v) (2020), population trend unknown. Literature: Bussing (1998: 402; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 39; listed, including information on distribution). Remarks: This species was reported from northern Costa Rica to western Panama (Angulo 2021), including the binational (Costa Rica-Nicaragua) San Juan watershed. Our record in the Indio Maíz hydrogeographic unit represents a range extension in the known distribution of the species.

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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References

  • Meek, S. E. (1907) Synopsis of the fishes of the Great Lakes of Nicaragua. Field Columbian Museum Zoological Series, 7, 97 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 3761
  • Bussing, W. A. (1998). Freshwater fishes of Costa Rica. Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose´, Costa Rica, 468 pp.
  • Angulo, A. (2021) New records and range extensions to the Costa Rican freshwater fish fauna, with an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 5083 (1), 1 - 72, https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5083.1.1