So Many Fishes, So Little Time: An Overview of Recent Ichthyological Discovery in Continental Waters

By John G. Lundberg, M. Kottelat, Gerald R. Smith, M. Stiassny, A. C. Gill. 2000

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Crying wolf, crying foul, or crying shame: alien salmonids and a biodiversity crisis in the southern cool-temperate galaxioid fishes? (2006, background): “Just as there is never ‘enough’ time (Lundberg et al. 2000), there is rarely ‘enough’ information to make well supported, rational decisions, i.e. enough is rarely known to ensure that conservation management is always based on ‘informed understanding’.”
State of the world's freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes. (2011, background): “For example, each year, approximately 200 new fish species are described (126).”
Freshwater fishes of the Amazon River basin: their biodiversity, fisheries, and habitats (2007, background): “The fish faunas of Africa and tropical Asia are incompletely known and may reach more than 3,000 species each (Lundberg et al., 2000).”
Global alteration of freshwaters: influences on human and environmental well-being (2011, background): “Over 10,000 fish species live in fresh water (Lundberg et al. 2000); approximately 40% of global fish diversity and one quarter of global vertebrate diversity.”
Conserving the freshwater fishes of South America (2013, background): “When the entire Neotropical region – which includes South America and part of Central America – is considered, the number of fish species jumps to above 5000, representing almost 10% of all known vertebrates (Lundberg et al., 2000; Albert & Reis, 2011a).”
The Fishes of the Amazon: Distribution and Biogeographical Patterns, with a Comprehensive List of Species (2019, background): “…studies on the diversification and historical biogeography of the Amazonian aquatic biota. its fish species and available estimates suggest a number between 1300 and 3500 species (e.g., Géry, 1969; Lundberg et al., 2000, 2010; Junk et al., 2007; Albert et al., 2011; van der Sleen and Albert, 2017).”
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation (2008, background): “Problems with taxonomy and species concepts hamper broadscale analyses even where systems have been reasonably well sampled (Lundberg et al. 2000).”
The nature of the diversity of Antarctic fishes (2004, background): “Thus, unlike the poorly known fish faunas of tropical freshwaters (Greenwood 1992; Berra 1997; Lundberg et al. 2000) and the deep-sea (Greenwood 1992; Merrett and Haedrich 1997; Roberts 2002), the fish fauna of the Southern Ocean falls into an intermediate category termed ‘‘moderately well-known’’…”
Conservation status of imperiled north American freshwater and diadromous fishes (2008, unknown): “This diversity is represented by large numbers of aquatic invertebrates (primarily insects, crustaceans, and mollusks) and fishes on the continent (Page and Burr 1991; Abell et al. 2000; Lundberg et al. 2000).”
Phylogenetic systematics and historical biogeography of the Neotropical electric fish Gymnotus (Teleostei: Gymnotidae) (2005, background): “Neotropical freshwaters are among the most diverse ecosystems on earth, containing an estimated 6000 species of fishes or approximately 11% of described vertebrates (Vari & Malabarba, 1998; Lundberg et al., 2000; Reis et al., 2003).”
Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges (2006, background): “Between 1976 and 1994, an average of 309 new fish species, approximately 1% of known fishes, were formally described or resurrected from synonymy each year (Stiassny, 1999) and this trend has continued (Lundberg et al., 2000).”
An assessment of animal species diversity in continental waters (2005, background): “The neotropical ichthyofauna (Central and South America) is estimated to include from 3500 species (Stiassny, 1999) to more than 5000 species (Lundberg et al., 2000).”
Global diversity of fish (Pisces) in freshwater (2007, background): “east tropical Asia) and 87 peripheral usually represented only by a few species (Lundberg et al., 2000).”
High levels of genetic variability and panmixia of the tambaqui Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1816) in the main channel of the Amazon River (2007, background): “The Amazonian ichthyofauna is very diverse and is represented by more than 3000 species known to science (Lundberg et al., 2000).”