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Ichthyofauna as a Regionalization Instrument of the Coastal Lagoons of the Gulf of Mexico

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Marine fishes have been used in the determinations and corroborations of biogeographic hypotheses, as in the southwest Gulf of Mexico (GOM), where the warm-temperate and tropical ichthyofaunas of the Carolinian and Caribbean provinces mix. The objective of this study was to determine if the arrangement of the lagoon-estuarine ichthyofauna of the southwest GOM corresponds to a previous biogeographic hypothesis based on coastal marine ichthyofauna. Based on peer-reviewed and specialized literature, an ichthyofauna distribution database of 15 coastal lagoons distributed from southern Texas, USA, to Campeche, Mexico, was constructed and used to determine beta diversity, taxonomic diversity, and the geographical segregation of lagoons. A database of 115 species was obtained, more than expected for the lagoon systems of the southwest GOM. The lagoon ichthyofauna of the southwest of the GOM did not follow the traditional biogeographic hypothesis; instead, it was segregated into three sections: northern section within the Carolinian Province, central section with major Caribbean influence, and southern section within the Caribbean Province.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Horacio Pérez-España for his advice on the methodology in determining geographic barriers. This study was accomplished with the support of the projects IPN-SIP/20200572, and RAM is a fellow recipient of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)-Secretaría de Energía (SENER)-Hidrocarburos (Project 201441). RAM and VHCE are fellowships recipients of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (CONACyT-SNI). VHCE and GdelaCA were supported by programs at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional: Estímulo al Desempeño de los Investigadores (EDI) and Comisión de Operación y Fomento de Actividades Académicas (COFAA).

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This research was funded by a grant from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología to DLLH (CONACYT fellowship: 278896).

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  2. Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Km 6 Antigua carretera a Progreso, 97310, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

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  4. Division of Coastal Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, 703 East Beach Drive, Ocean Springs, MS, 39564, USA

    Mark S. Peterson

  5. Laboratorio de Ecología, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, UNAM, Av. De Los Barrios No. 1, Los Reyes Iztacala, 54090, Tlalnepantla, Estado de México, Mexico

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López-Herrera, D.L., de la Cruz-Agüero, G., Aguilar-Medrano, R. et al. Ichthyofauna as a Regionalization Instrument of the Coastal Lagoons of the Gulf of Mexico. Estuaries and Coasts 44, 2010–2025 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-00902-9

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