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Article: Conservation status of coral reef fishes in the Florida Keys.
- Article from:
- Endangered Species Update
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Abstract
This article identifies coral reef fishes that may deserve a high conservation priority in the Florida Keys. Expert observations between 1993 and 2004 from the REEF database (n = 5,783) identified 114 coral reef fishes that occur in the Florida Keys. Of these, four restricted-range coral reef fishes and a number of rare species based on incidence may deserve a high conservation priority in the Florida Keys. Large-bodied species with low abundance and small range size have been hypothesized to be associated with extinction-proneness, but there were few large-bodied species that meet these criteria in the Florida Keys. The Serranids, Mycteroperca venenosa ...