Ocurrence and identification of Istiophoridae larvae and Xiphiidae eggs off the southeastern Brazilian Coast
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20950/1678-2305.2017v43n1p78Keywords:
barcode, Istiophoridae, Xiphiidae, swordfish, marlin, sailfish, ichthyoplanktonAbstract
This study had the aim to identify and relate the occurrence of billfish larvae and eggs in the Southeastern coast of Brazil. During the summer, in two periods (2012/2013 and 2013/2014), 74 surface trawls were done using an ichthyoplankton net off the coast of Vitória-ES, Rio de Janeiro-RJ and Ilhabela-SP, being collected 391 fish larvae. The identification of the billfish larvae was done by molecular biology using the DNA barcode (COI gene). During the 2012/2013 season, five sailfish and two white marlin larvae were identified and in the 2013/2014 season, two sailfish and two white marlin larvae and two swordfish eggs were identified. The occurrence of billfish larvae shall be further studied, so that inferences about the area and period of spawning and development of early life stages of these fish can be made more accurately.
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billfishes (Tetrapturus albidus, Istiophorus albicans and Tetrapturus pflueregi) in the southwestern Equatorial Atlantic (Brazil). ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers, 42(2): 329-334.
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of larval billfish in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries
Institute, 60: 379-84.
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fish species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological
Sciences, 360(1462): 1847-57.
YABE, H. 1953 On the larvae of sailfish, Istiophorus orientalis collected in the South-western Sea of
Japan. Nankai Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory,6: 1-10.
AMORIM, A.F.; ARFELLI, C.A. 1987 Analysis on Makaira nigricans Lacépí¨de, 1802, caught off
South and Southeast of Brazil (1971-1985). ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers, 26(2): 409-425.
AMORIM, A.F.; ARFELLI, C.A.; FAGUNDES, L. 1998 Pelagic elasmobranchs caught by longliners off
southern Brazil during 1974-97: An overview. Marine and Freshwater Reserch, 49(7): 621-632.
AMORIM, A.F.; PIMENTA, E.G.; AMORIM, M.C.C. 2011 Peixes-de-bico do Atlí¢ntico. Santos, SP, Edição do Autor: 108p.
ARFELLI, C.A.; AMORIM, A.F. 1981 Estudo biológicopesqueiro de agulhao-vela, Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw & Nodder, 1791), no sudeste e sul do Brasil (1971 a 1980). Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, 8: 9-22.
ARFELLI, C.A.; AMORIM, A.F.; GALHARDOAMADO, J.C. 1986 Analysis on Tetrapturus albidus
Poey (1861), caught off south and southeast Brazil (1971-1984). ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers, 25: 202-217.
BAGLIN, R.E. Jr. 1979 Sex composition, length-weight relationship, and reproduction of the white marlin, Tetrapturus albidus, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Fishery Bulletin, 76: 919-926.
BONECKER, A.C.T.; KATSURAGAWA, M.; CASTRO, M.S.; GOMES, E.A.P.; NAMIKI, C.A.P.;ANITEIXEIRA, M. 2012 Larval fish of the Campos Basin, southeastern Brazil. Check List, 8(6):
1280í 1291.
DAWNAY, N.; OGDEN. R.; McEWING, R.;CARVALHO, G.R.; THORPE, R.S. 2007 Validation of the Barcoding gene COI for use in forensic genetic species identification. Forensic Science
International, 173: 1-6.
DE SYLVA, D. 1963 Postlarva of the white marlin, Tetrapturus albidus, from the Florida Current off
the Carolinas. Bulletin of Marine Science, 13: 123-132
DE SYLVA, D.; BREDER, P.R. 1997 Reproduction, gonad histology, and spawning cycles of north
Atlantic billfishes (Istiophoridae). Bulletin of Marine Science, 60(3): 668-697.
ERDMAN, D.S. 1968 Spawning cycle, sex ration, and weights of blue marlin off Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands. Transactions of The American Fisheries Society, 97: 131í 137.
FAHAY, M.P., 2007 Early Stages of Fishes in the Western North Atlantic Ocean (Davis Strait, Southern Greenland and Flemish Cap to Cape Hatteras). Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization. 1696p.
HARVEY, G. 1990 The Jamaican billfish fishery and blue marlin catch from recreational sources, ]976-1988 in R.H. Stroud, ed. Planning for the future of billfishes. Marine Recreational Fisheries, 13: 191-197.
HEBERT, P.D.N.; CYWINSKA, A.; BALL, S.L.; DE WAARD, J.R. 2003 Biological identifications through DNA barcodes. Proceedings of Royal Society of London, B 270: 313í 322.
HYDE, J.R.; LYNN, E.; HUMPHREYS JR., R.; MUSYL, M.; WEST, A.P.; VETTER, R. 2005 Shipboard
identification of fish eggs and larvae by multiplex PCR, and description of fertilized eggs of blue
marlin, shortbill spearfish, and wahoo. Marine Ecology, 286: 269í 277.
JOLLEY, J.W. 1977 The biology and fishery of Atlantic sailfish Istiophorus platypterus, from southeast Florida. Florida Marine Research Publications, 28:1-31.
KATSURAGAWA, M.; ZANI-TEIXEIRA, M.L.;GOí"¡ALO, C.G.; OHKAWARA, M.H.; ITAGAKI,M.K. 2011 Temporal distribution of the ichthyoplankton in northern Todos os Santos bay and in Camamu bay, Bahia state - Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 59: 111-123.
LUTHY, S.A., COWEN, R.K.; SERAFY, J.E.; MCDOWELL, J.R. 2005 Toward identification of larval sailfish, white marlin, and blue marlin in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Fishery Bulletin,
103: 588í 600.
MAFALDA JUNIOR, P.O.; SINQUE, C.; MUELBERT, J. H.; SOUZA, C.S. 2004 Distribuição e abundí¢ncia
do ictioplí¢ncton na costa norte da Bahia, Brasil. Tropical Oceanography, 32(1): 69-88
MATHER, F.J.; JONES, A.C.; BEARDSLEY, G.L. 1972 Migration and distribution of white marlin and
blue marlin in the Atlantic Ocean. Fishery Bulletin, 70: 283-298.
MCDOWELL, J.R.; GRAVES, J.E. 2002 Nuclear and mitochondrial dNA markers for specific
identification of istiophorid and xiphiid billfishes.Fishery Bulletin, 100: 537í 544.
POST, J.T; SERAFY, J.E.; AULT, J.S.; CAPO, T.R.; DE SYLVA, D.P. 1997 Field and laboratory
observations on larval Atlantic sailfish (lstiophorus platypterus) and swordfish (Xiphias gladius). Bulletin of Marine Science, 60: 1026-1034.
RICHARDS, W.J. 1974 Evaluation of identification methods for young billfishes. In: R.S. Shomura
and F. Williams, eds. Proceedings of the International Billfish Symposium, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 9í 12 August 1972. Part 2. Review and Contributed Papers, 62í 72.
RICHARDSON D.E.; COWEN, R.K.; PRINCE, E.D.; SPONAUGLE, S. 2009 Importance of Straits of
Florida spawning ground to Atlantic sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and blue marlin (Makaira
nigricans). Fisheries Oceanography, 18: 402í 418.
ROOKER, J.R; SIMMS, J.R.; WELLS, R.J.D.; HOLT, S.A.; HOLT, G.J.; GRAVES, J.; FUREY, N.B. 2012
Distribution and Habitat Associations of Billfish and Swordfish Larvae across Mesoscale Features
in the Gulf of Mexico. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34180.
RUTKOWSKI, T.; SCHWINGEL, P.R.; BRILHA, R.T.; RODRIGUES-RIBEIRO, M. 2011 Ichthyoplankton
of Arvoredo Biological Marine Reserve, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 9(4): 905-
915.
SERAFY, J.S.; CAPO, T.R.; KELBLE, C.R. 2006 Live capture of larval billfishes: design and field testing
of the Continuous Access Neuston Observation Net (CANON). Bulletin of Marine Science, 79:
853í 858.
SERAFY, J.S.; KELBLE, C.R.; CAPO, T.R.; LUTHY, S.A.; ORTNER, P.B. 2008 Vertical movement rates of
captive larval billfishes (Istiophoridae) collected from Straits of Florida. Florida Scientific, 71(1): 23-30.
SCHMIDT, R.F.; RODRIGUES,T; PIMENTA, E.G.; HILSDORF, AW.S; AMORIM, A.F. 2015 Prelimilary
occurrence of Istiophoridae larvae (Perciformes,Xiphioidei) in southern Brazil. Collect. Vol. Sci. Pap.ICCAT, 71(5): 2256-2261.
SHOMURA, R. S.; WILLIAMS, F. 1975 Proccedings of the International Billfish Symposium Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 9-12 August 1972. Pt. 3. Species synopses. NOAA Techinal Reports, NMFS SSRF 675: 159.
SOUZA, R.C.; LESSA, R.P.T.; HAZIN, F.H.V. 1994 First observations on reproductive biology of
billfishes (Tetrapturus albidus, Istiophorus albicans and Tetrapturus pflueregi) in the southwestern Equatorial Atlantic (Brazil). ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers, 42(2): 329-334.
TIDWELL, M.T.; HOLT, S.A.; ROOKER, J.R.; HOLT, G.J. 2007 The distribution and feeding ecology
of larval billfish in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries
Institute, 60: 379-84.
UEYANAGI, S.; KIKAWA, S.; UTO, M.; NISHIKAWA, Y. 1970 Distribution, spawning, and relative
abundance of billfishes in the Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of Far Seas Fisheries Research Laboratory, 3:15-45.
VOSS, G.L. 1953 A contribution to the life history and biology of the sailfish, Istiophorus americanus Cuv. and Val., in Florida waters. Bulletin of Marine Science, 3: 206-240.
WARD, R.D.; ZEMLAK, T.S.; INNES, B.H.; LAST, P.R.; HEBERT, P.D. 2005 DNA barcoding Australia’s
fish species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological
Sciences, 360(1462): 1847-57.
YABE, H. 1953 On the larvae of sailfish, Istiophorus orientalis collected in the South-western Sea of
Japan. Nankai Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory,6: 1-10.
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