DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18157142
title: TABLE 2 in A checklist of the fishes of the Motagua River drainage of western Honduras

description: TABLE 2. Fish species recorded in the Honduran side of the Motagua River Basin. Locality codes correspond to Table 1 and Figure 1. IUCN indicates the species’ conservation status according to the IUCN Red List: LC = Least Concern, DD = Data Deficient, EN = Endangered, VU = Vulnerable, and NE= species Not Evaluated. Source refers to species origin: Nat = Native, Ex = Exotic, and Tr = Translocated. Habitat, refers to the type of habitat where the species are found, based on FishBase: F = Freshwater, B = Brackish, and M = Marine.
Order/Family/SpeciesLocalityIUCNSourceHabitatELOPIFORMESMegalopidaeMegalops atlanticus Valenciennes45VUNatF, Be, MANGUILIFORMESAnguillidaeAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur)37, 38, 51ENNatF, B, MGYMNOTIFORMESGymnotidaeGymnotus cylindricus La Monte48LCNatFCHARACIFORMESBryconidaeBrycon guatemalensis Regan5, 7, 18, 30LCNatFAcestrorhamphidaeAstyanax aeneus (Günther)5, 14, 16, 21, 22, 25, 26, 33, 34, 35, 37LCNatF, BSILURIFORMESHeptapteridaeRhamdia guatemalensis (Günther)5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17LCNatFRhamdia laticauda (Kner)2, 5, 14, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37LCNatFGOBIIFORMESEleotridaeDormitator maculatus (Bloch)38, 45, 50, 52, 55LCNatF, B, MEleotris amblyopsis (Cope)43LCNatF, B, MGobiomorus dormitor Lacepède34, 35, 38, 42, 44LCNatF, B, MGobiidaeAwaous banana (Valenciennes)25, 28, 33, 35, 38, 41, 44, 46LCNatF, BEvorthodus lyricus (Girard)36, 45, 51LCNatF, B, MSicydium plumieri (Bloch)35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46DDNatF, B, MSYNBRANCHIFORMESSynbranchidaeOphisternon aenigmaticum Rosen & Greenwood4LCNatF, BSynbranchus marmoratus Bloch20LCNatF, BCARANGIFORMESCentropomidaeCentropomus undecimalis (Bloch)36, 45, 52, 53LCF, B, MPolynemidaePolydactylus virginicus (Linnaeus)45LCNatF, B, MAchiridaeTrinectes maculatus (Bloch & Schneider)52LCNatF, B, MCarangidaeCaranx latus Agassiz45LCNatF, B, MATHERINIFORMESAtherinidaeAtherinella meeki (Miller)54, 55, 56LCNatFBELONIFORMESBelonidaeStrongylura marina (Walbaum)45LCNatF, B, MCYPRINODONTIFORMESRivulidaeCynodonichthys tenuis Meek49DDNatFProfundulidaeProfundulus kreiseri Matamoros, Schaefer, Hernández & Chakrabarty3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18, 19VUNatFPoeciliidaeAlfaro huberi (Fowler)7, 10, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 25, 26LCNatFBelonesox belizanus Kner36, 45, 47LCNatF, BGambusia nicaraguensis Günther33, 36, 43, 49, 50, 51LCNatF, BPhallichthys amates (Miller)49, 50LCNatFPoecilia hondurensis Poeser14, 16LCNatFPoecilia marcellinoi Poeser14DDNatFPoecilia mexicana Steindachner2, 5, 9, 12, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 44LCNatF, BPoecilia salvatoris Regan14DDNatFPoeciliopsis pleurospilus (Günther)2, 12, 14, 16, 17, 22, 23, 32, 34LCNatFPseudoxiphophorus anzuetoi (Rosen & Bailey)11, 16, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26LCNatFXiphophorus mayae Meyer & Schartl4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 19, 24, 33, 50LCNatFCICHLIFORMESCichlidaeChuco microphthalmus (Günther)5, 22, 29, 30DDNatFCryptoheros cutteri (Fowler)23,25, 26LCNatFCryptoheros spilurus (Günther)16, 21, 22, 36, 44DDNatFOreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus)9, 33LCExF, BParachromis managuensis (Günther)45, 16LCTrFParachromis motaguensis (Günther)5, 6, 9, 12, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 26, 28LCNatFParachromis multifasciatus (Regan)38NENatF, BRocio octofasciata (Regan)38LCNatFThorichthys aureus (Günther)1, 7, 16DDNatFVieja maculicauda (Regan)31, 51LCNatF, BMUGILIFROMESMugilidaeDajaus monticola (Bancroft)27, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46LCNatF, B, MJoturus pichardi Poey30, 35, 37, 38LCNatF, B, MMugil curema Gilbert45LCNatF, B, MACANTHURIFORMESGerreidaeEucinostomus melanopterus (Bleeker)45LCNatF, B, MEugerres plumieri (Cuvier)45LCNatF, B, MGerres cinereus (Walbaum)45LCNatF, B, MHaemulidaeRhonciscus crocro (Cuvier)37, 38DDNatF, B, MTETRAODONTIFORMESTetraodontidaeSphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus)45LCNatF, B, M
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description: Published as part of Lardizabal, Claudia C., Martinez, Dilenia E., Engman, Augustin C., Walker, Adam Bajo-, Sarmiento-Marina, Yessenia, Hernández-Ávila, Sonia Gabriela & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2025, A checklist of the fishes of the Motagua River drainage of western Honduras, pp. 506-508 in Zootaxa 5725 (4) on page 506, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5725.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17869863