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Online ISSN : 2349-8080 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorinchiefijcrbp@gmail.com |
San Ignacio Lagoon is located on the west coast of Baja California Sur; this body of water has important bio-economic properties. Because of its geographical location, it is considered to be a part of the Californian province temperate region. There have been several studies of the fish fauna present in the lagoons of Baja California Sur, however, the information collected so far is not enough to provide good management and conservation of the fish fauna of this lagoon. This study established the zoogeographic affinities of fish species associated to soft bottoms registered in San Ignacio Lagoon B.C.S. Six samplings were conducted at 11 sites in the lagoon, from April 2013 to April 2014; an experimental trawl was used and the physicochemical parameters were obtained at each sampling. A total of 2887 organisms from 26 families, 38 genera and 46 species of fishes were collected, the largest number of species were from the Haemulidae and Serranidae families. The zoogeographic affinities correspond to 28% Californian Province, 4% Cortez Province, 7% Mexican Province, 41% Panamic Province, 18% Eastern Pacific and 2% Circumtropical.
