Ichthyological Overview and Remarks on Freshwater Fishes from Capim River, Lower Amazon Basin, Brazil
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50412#.VD4ch1fHRK0 Author(s) Júlio Cesar Garavello 1* , Alexandre Kannebley de Oliveira 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutive Biology, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil . 2 Department of Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil . ABSTRACT The Capim River drainage should be considered small and thin by comparison with large Amazonian rivers. It rises by confluence of the Surubiú and Ararandeua rivers near 400 m high and their headwaters would be comfortably included in the Dry Emerged Lowland (terra firme) forest area of Sternberg’s Amazonian concept. Because of this reason the freshwater...