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New fish species added to the ichthyofauna of Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Baja California Sur, México

Year 2021, , 343 - 350, 01.10.2021

Laura Civico Collados , Jorge A. Rosales-casian

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR21029

Abstract

The Laguna Ojo de Liebre (Scammon’s lagoon) is the iconic sanctuary of the Pacific gray whale and belongs to the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve in Baja California, México. From June 2015 to August 2016, six seasonal visits were conducted on the ichthyofauna in seven sites of the lagoon. By diving, trapping, hook & line, and gillnet commercial fishing, a total number of 39 fish species was identified belonging to 25 families. In this study a total number of eight fish species is added to the first two existing 20-year-old lists: the Gymnothorax mordax (Ayres, 1859), Apogon sp. Pomacanthus zonipectus (Gill, 1862), Balistes polylepis (Steindachner, 1876), Pareques viola (Gilbert 1898), Caranx sp., Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870), and the Icelinus sp. During 2015-2016, two anomalous events warmed the lagoon, and possibly, it contributed to the fish species movement from the adjacent tropical or subtropical zones. Ichthyofauna from Laguna Ojo de Liebre is reported here before the installation of reef modules as a refuge for red lobster and fish aggregation.  

Keywords

Species occurrence Scammon’s lagoon The Blob El Niño Warming conditions

Supporting Institution

CICESE

Project Number

622-156

Thanks

Our special thanks to Oc. Javier Lugo-Yuriar and Mr. Marco Gómez-Romero, Presidents of Cooperative "Luis Gómez Z." from Guerrero Negro, B.C.S; the support they provided us along with their staff was integral, from processing permits to enter the salt company area, and the boats, outboard motors, traps, gas and the effort on board to make the monitoring successful. Thanks to many graduate students who participated as support in our monitoring trips: Anahí, Marianne, Schery, Maribel, Rigo, Mariana, Jorge Jr., Rodrigo, Abigail, Gonzalo, Arturo, and Violeta.

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  • Álvarez-Borrego, S., Granados-Guzmán, A. (1992). Variación espacio-temporal de temperaturas en un hábitat de invierno de la ballena gris: Laguna Ojo de Liebre. Ciencias Marinas, 18(1), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v18i1.872
  • Arellano-Martínez, M., Ceballos-Vázquez, B.P., Villalejo-Fuerte, M., García-Domínguez, F., Elorduy-Garay, J.F., Esliman-Salgado, A., and Racotta, I.S. (2004). Reproduction of the lion's paw scallop Nodipecten subnodosus Sowerby, 1835 (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from Laguna Ojo de Liebre, BCS, México. Journal of Shellfish Research, 23(3), 723-720.
  • De La Cruz-Agüero, J.D., Gómez, V.M.C., Arellano-Martinez, M.A. (1996). Lista sistemática de los peces marinos de las lagunas Ojo de Liebre y Guerrero Negro, BCS y BC, México. Ciencias Marinas, 22(1), 111-128.
  • Dorantes-Gilardi, M., Rivas, D. (2019). Effects of the 2013–2016 Northeast Pacific warm anomaly on physical and biogeochemical variables off northwestern Baja California, derived from a numerical NPZD ocean model. Deep–Sea Res. II. Top. Stud. Oceanography. 169-170, 104668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.104668
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  • Freiwald, J., Wisniewski, C., Wehrenberg M., Shulman, C., Dawson, C. (2015). Reef check California instruction manual: a guide to rocky reef monitoring. Reef Check Foundation, Pacific Palisades, California, 152p.
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  • Hernández-Olalde, L.N., García-Domínguez, F.I., Arellano-Martínez, M.A., Ceballos-Vázquez, B.A.P. (2007). Reproductive cycle of the pearl oyster Pteria sterna (Pteriidae) in the Ojo de Liebre lagoon, BCS, México. Journal of Shellfish Research, 26(2), 543-548. https://doi.org/10.2983/0730-8000(2007)26[543:RCOTPO]2.0.CO;2
  • Hernández-Cruz, G. (2013). Análisis de la captura diurna y nocturna y estado de la población de tortuga prieta (Chelonia mydas) en Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Baja California Sur: 2009-2012. Ensenada, Baja California: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, B.C. (CICESE), Master's thesis, 84p.
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  • Hubbs, C.L. (1960). The marine vertebrates of the outer coast. Symposium The Biogeography of Baja California and adjacent seas. Systematic Zoology, 9(3-4), 134-147. https://doi.org/10.2307/2411962
  • Jiménez–Rosenberg, S.P.A., Saldierna–Martinez, R.J., Aceves–Medina, G., Cota–Gómez, V.M. (2007). Fish larvae in Bahía Sebastián Vizcaino and the adjacent oceanic region, Baja California, México. Checklist, 3(3), 204-223. https://doi.org/10.15560/3.3.204
  • Marinone, S.G. (1982). Transporte litoral sobre las barras de Guerrero Negro y Ojo de Liebre. Ciencias Marinas, 8(1), 20-29. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v8i1.384
  • Miller, D.J., Lea, R.N. (1972). Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 157, 235p.
  • Moser, H.G., Charter, L.R., Smith, P.E., Ambrose, D.A., Charter, S.R., Meyer, C.A., Sandknop, E.M., Watson, W. (1993). Distributional atlas of fish larvae and eggs in the California Current region: taxa with 1000 or more total larvae, 1951 through 1984. CALCOFI Atlas No. 31. 233p.
  • Nelson, J.S. (2006). Fishes of the world, 4th edition. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 601p. ISBN-13: 978-0471250319.
  • NOAA’s El Niño page. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. (Retrieved from http://www. https://www.climate.gov/enso/ (accessed 08. 10. 2019).
  • Page, L.M., Espinosa-Pérez, H., Findley, L.T., Gilbert, C.R., Lea, R.N., Mandrak, N.E., Mayden R., Nelson, J.S. (2013). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 7th edition. Bethesda, MD. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 34, 243p. ISBN 978-1-934874-31-8
  • Quiñones-Arreola, M.F. (2003). Comparación del patrón reproductivo del Megapitaria squialida (Sowerby, 1835) en la laguna ojo de liebre, Océano pacifico y en bahía Juncalito, Golfo de California, BCS, México. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR). Master's thesis, 68p.
  • Robinson, C.J. (2016). Evolution of the 2014–2015 sea surface temperature warming in the central west coast of Baja California, Mexico, recorded by remote sensing. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 7066-7071. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069356
  • Rodríguez-Padilla, I. (2013). Análisis estadístico de la distribución espacial y temporal (2008-2010) de la temperatura y salinidad en la Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Baja California Sur, México., Universidad de Guadalajara. Master's thesis, 71p.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1997). Inshore soft-bottom fishes of two coastal lagoons from the Northern Pacific coast of Baja California. CALCOFI Reports, 38, 180-192.
  • Zamora-Salvador, J.E. (2015). Transporte de sedimentos y evolución morfológica de la barra de laguna Ojo de Liebre, B.C.S., Universidad de Guadalajara. Master's thesis, 65p.

Year 2021, , 343 - 350, 01.10.2021

Laura Civico Collados , Jorge A. Rosales-casian

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR21029

Abstract

Project Number

622-156

References

  • Acevedo-Cervantes, A. (1997). Caracterización ecológica de la comunidad íctica de la Laguna Ojo de Liebre, B.C.S, México. La Paz, Baja California: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR). Master's thesis, 108p.
  • Alvarado, B.J., Galindo, J., Iwadane, G.M., Migoya, K.R., Vázquez, M. (1986). Evaluación de los parámetros ambientales y su relación con la distribución y movimientos de la ballena gris Eschrichtius robustus Lacepede 1804 en la Laguna Ojo de Liebre, B.C.S., México. Ciencia Pesquera IPN, 5, 33-49.
  • Álvarez-Borrego, S., Granados-Guzmán, A. (1992). Variación espacio-temporal de temperaturas en un hábitat de invierno de la ballena gris: Laguna Ojo de Liebre. Ciencias Marinas, 18(1), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v18i1.872
  • Arellano-Martínez, M., Ceballos-Vázquez, B.P., Villalejo-Fuerte, M., García-Domínguez, F., Elorduy-Garay, J.F., Esliman-Salgado, A., and Racotta, I.S. (2004). Reproduction of the lion's paw scallop Nodipecten subnodosus Sowerby, 1835 (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from Laguna Ojo de Liebre, BCS, México. Journal of Shellfish Research, 23(3), 723-720.
  • De La Cruz-Agüero, J.D., Gómez, V.M.C., Arellano-Martinez, M.A. (1996). Lista sistemática de los peces marinos de las lagunas Ojo de Liebre y Guerrero Negro, BCS y BC, México. Ciencias Marinas, 22(1), 111-128.
  • Dorantes-Gilardi, M., Rivas, D. (2019). Effects of the 2013–2016 Northeast Pacific warm anomaly on physical and biogeochemical variables off northwestern Baja California, derived from a numerical NPZD ocean model. Deep–Sea Res. II. Top. Stud. Oceanography. 169-170, 104668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.104668
  • Eberhardt, R.L. (1966). Coastal geographical features of Laguna Guerrero Negro. The California Geographer, 7, 29-35.
  • Freiwald, J., Wisniewski, C., Wehrenberg M., Shulman, C., Dawson, C. (2015). Reef check California instruction manual: a guide to rocky reef monitoring. Reef Check Foundation, Pacific Palisades, California, 152p.
  • Fricke, R., Eschemeyer, W.N., Van der Laan, R. (2021). Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, species, references. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp (accessed 09. 05.2021).
  • Gutiérrez de Velasco, G. (2000). Análisis de la circulación y las condiciones físicas de la Laguna Ojo de Liebre, B.C.S. con relación a la mortandad de Tortugas Marinas durante diciembre de 1997. Informe final para la Compañía Exportadora de Sal, ESSA. México, 44p.
  • Hernández-Olalde, L.N., García-Domínguez, F.I., Arellano-Martínez, M.A., Ceballos-Vázquez, B.A.P. (2007). Reproductive cycle of the pearl oyster Pteria sterna (Pteriidae) in the Ojo de Liebre lagoon, BCS, México. Journal of Shellfish Research, 26(2), 543-548. https://doi.org/10.2983/0730-8000(2007)26[543:RCOTPO]2.0.CO;2
  • Hernández-Cruz, G. (2013). Análisis de la captura diurna y nocturna y estado de la población de tortuga prieta (Chelonia mydas) en Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Baja California Sur: 2009-2012. Ensenada, Baja California: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, B.C. (CICESE), Master's thesis, 84p.
  • Humann, P., Deloach, N. (2004). Reef fish identification: Baja to Panama. Jacksonville, Florida: New World Publications, 343p. ISBN: 9781878348388.
  • Horn, M.H., Allen, L.G., Lea, R.N. (2006). Biogeography. In L.G. Allen, D.J. Pondella & M.H. Horn (Eds.), The ecology of marine fishes. California and adjacent waters (p. 3–25). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN-13: 978-0520246539. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520246539.003.0001
  • Hubbs, C.L. (1960). The marine vertebrates of the outer coast. Symposium The Biogeography of Baja California and adjacent seas. Systematic Zoology, 9(3-4), 134-147. https://doi.org/10.2307/2411962
  • Jiménez–Rosenberg, S.P.A., Saldierna–Martinez, R.J., Aceves–Medina, G., Cota–Gómez, V.M. (2007). Fish larvae in Bahía Sebastián Vizcaino and the adjacent oceanic region, Baja California, México. Checklist, 3(3), 204-223. https://doi.org/10.15560/3.3.204
  • Marinone, S.G. (1982). Transporte litoral sobre las barras de Guerrero Negro y Ojo de Liebre. Ciencias Marinas, 8(1), 20-29. https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v8i1.384
  • Miller, D.J., Lea, R.N. (1972). Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 157, 235p.
  • Moser, H.G., Charter, L.R., Smith, P.E., Ambrose, D.A., Charter, S.R., Meyer, C.A., Sandknop, E.M., Watson, W. (1993). Distributional atlas of fish larvae and eggs in the California Current region: taxa with 1000 or more total larvae, 1951 through 1984. CALCOFI Atlas No. 31. 233p.
  • Nelson, J.S. (2006). Fishes of the world, 4th edition. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 601p. ISBN-13: 978-0471250319.
  • NOAA’s El Niño page. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. (Retrieved from http://www. https://www.climate.gov/enso/ (accessed 08. 10. 2019).
  • Page, L.M., Espinosa-Pérez, H., Findley, L.T., Gilbert, C.R., Lea, R.N., Mandrak, N.E., Mayden R., Nelson, J.S. (2013). Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 7th edition. Bethesda, MD. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 34, 243p. ISBN 978-1-934874-31-8
  • Quiñones-Arreola, M.F. (2003). Comparación del patrón reproductivo del Megapitaria squialida (Sowerby, 1835) en la laguna ojo de liebre, Océano pacifico y en bahía Juncalito, Golfo de California, BCS, México. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR). Master's thesis, 68p.
  • Robinson, C.J. (2016). Evolution of the 2014–2015 sea surface temperature warming in the central west coast of Baja California, Mexico, recorded by remote sensing. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 7066-7071. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069356
  • Rodríguez-Padilla, I. (2013). Análisis estadístico de la distribución espacial y temporal (2008-2010) de la temperatura y salinidad en la Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Baja California Sur, México., Universidad de Guadalajara. Master's thesis, 71p.
  • Rosales-Casián, J.A. (1997). Inshore soft-bottom fishes of two coastal lagoons from the Northern Pacific coast of Baja California. CALCOFI Reports, 38, 180-192.
  • Zamora-Salvador, J.E. (2015). Transporte de sedimentos y evolución morfológica de la barra de laguna Ojo de Liebre, B.C.S., Universidad de Guadalajara. Master's thesis, 65p.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Maritime Engineering (Other)
Journal Section Research Articles
Authors

Laura Civico Collados 0000-0003-0572-3702

Jorge A. Rosales-casian 0000-0002-5546-5791

Project Number 622-156
Publication Date October 1, 2021
Submission Date January 4, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021

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APA Civico Collados, L., & Rosales-casian, J. A. (2021). New fish species added to the ichthyofauna of Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Baja California Sur, México. Aquatic Research, 4(4), 343-350. https://doi.org/10.3153/AR21029

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