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Submitted December 22, 2020
Published 2020-12-22

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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2021): Tecnociencia

PRELIMINARY SYSTEMATIC LIST OF COMMERCIAL MARINE FISHES OF PACIFIC PANAMA


DOI https://doi.org/10.48204/j.tecno.v23n1a11

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DOI: 10.48204/j.tecno.v23n1a11

Published: 2020-12-22

How to Cite

Garcés B., H. (2020) “PRELIMINARY SYSTEMATIC LIST OF COMMERCIAL MARINE FISHES OF PACIFIC PANAMA”, Tecnociencia, 23(1), pp. 198–237. doi: 10.48204/j.tecno.v23n1a11.

Abstract

Panamanian fishery resources still cover an important economic sector, but it still requires a more complete and continuos data series in order to count on a reliable fishing data. A revised, updated and phylogenetically ordered list is presented for the first time with the commercial fishes that occurs on the Pacific coast of the Republic of Panama. For this, the three available government reports, as well as other recent publications on commercial fish from the Panamanian Pacific, were consolidated into a single list. The obtained list was phylogenetically ordered following Nelson (2018) and included a comprehensive review of the updated scientific names with their respective authority and year according to FishBase (2019), as well as the main common names used locally. A total of 223 commercial fish species for the Pacific of Panama were obtained, corresponding to 183 bony and 40 cartilaginous fish. For each consolidated fish record, the order (N = 24) and the family (N = 49) are included in this list, as well as the authority and valid year for each of them. The most representative families listed were Carangidae (28 jacks), Sciaenidae (25 croakers), Carcharhinidae (17 sharks), Serranidae (17 groupers), Haemulidae (14 grunts), and Lutjanidae (10 snappers), comprising 50 % of the total (111 species). Additionally, a total of 31 commercial fish species were found that occurs on both slopes of Panama (Pacific and Caribbean), as well as 39 under some threat category. A greater effort is required in capturing data on fishing landings at the national level in order to evaluate the behavior and measures to be applied for some of our commercial fisheries.

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