A Comparison of the Ichthyofauna in Three Natural Protected Areas of Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Authors: Lozano Vilano, Ma. de Lourdes*, Garcia Ramirez, Ma. Elena, Contreras-Lozano, Jorge A., Contreras-Balderas, Armando J.

Year: 2015 (xlvii)

Abstract

The three Natural Protected Areas, the Monumento Natural Cerro de la Silla (Federal), create of 26 April 1991 for the president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Sierra de la Silla (State), the 24 of November 2000, the governor of Nuevo León, Fernando Canales Clarion, decree this Natural Protected Area, and Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey (PNCM) (Federal), was create at November 24, 1939 by government decree of President Lázaro Cárdenas, was established for the conservation of flora and fauna; all of them are part of the physiographic province of the Sierra Madre Oriental. In this work, we report in total for the three areas: 28 species of fishes, in 21 genera and 11 families, according to zoogeographic origin 14 species are Nearctic, 12 Neotropical and one Palearctic and Ethiopian, according to ecological affinity 16 are primary, 9 secondary and 3 peripheral; and 9 species are non-native, spread exotic by invasion, translocation and introduction. Among the 19 species, 8 are in some category within the Norma Oficial Mexicana (NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010)=NOM. In the Red List, IUCN (2011) only one appear as status Vulnerable Etheostoma grahami (Rio Grande darter). In the comparison of three areas, they share 21 species are 13 native fishes, 8 exotic or invasive: (Dorosoma cepedianum (sardina molleja), Cyprinus carpio (carpa común), Notropis stramineus (carpita arenera), Scartomyzon congestus (matalote gris), Ictalurus punctatus (bagre común), I. lupus (bagre lobo), Fundulus sp (bagre común) and Lepomis macrochirus (mojarra oreja azul)), and 7 are in the NOM: Threatened Cyprinella lutrensis (Red shiner), Cyprinella rutila (Mexican red shiner), Notropis amabilis (Texas shiner), Notropis jemezanus (Rio Grande shiner) and Etheostoma grahami, (Rio Grande darter); as Endagered Dionda melanops (Spotted minnow) and as Special Concern Ictalurus lupus (Headwater catfish).