| Conservation |
41 marine coastal species with 5 endemic species (12.2%): Sicyases brevirostris, Odontesthes gracilis, Chironemus delfini, Parapercis dockinsi, and Paratrimma nigrimenta; 3 new recent records (1997 publ. 2010): Gymnothorax cf. obesus, Gnathophis cf. smithi and Suezichthys n.sp.
Sepúlveda (1987) emphasized the fish fauna of the Juan Fernández Islands had not been studied as a whole since Skottsberg’s Swedish expedition of 1908. About 140 fish species were recorded for the area around the Juan Fernández Archipelago, of which 58 were coastal species and eleven (19%) endemic (Sepúlveda & Pequeño 1985, Sepúlveda 1987, Meléndez & Villalba 1992). The latest revision of the Juan Fernández coastal fish fauna notes 51 species (Pequeño & Sáez 2000). However, 14 species are endemic to Juan Fernández Islands (27% of the coastal fish fauna) and Desventuradas Islands (49% of the coastal fish fauna). |