Composition of fish communities in an intertidal salt marsh creek in the Changjiang River estuary, China

Weimin Quan; Yong Ni; Liyan Shi; Yaqu Chen

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Composition of fish communities in an intertidal salt marsh creek in the Changjiang River estuary, China

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- Composition of fish communities in an intertidal salt marsh creek in the Changjiang River estuary, China
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 27, Issue 4, Pages: 806-815(2009)
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  Key and Open Laboratory of Marine and Estuarine Fishery Ministry of Agriculture East China Sea Fishery Research Institute Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-009-9186-z
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- Online First：04 December 2009，
  
  Published：2009
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Quan, W., Ni, Y., Shi, L. et al. Composition of fish communities in an intertidal salt marsh creek in the Changjiang River estuary, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 27, 806–815 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-009-9186-z
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Quan, W., Ni, Y., Shi, L. et al. Composition of fish communities in an intertidal salt marsh creek in the Changjiang River estuary, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 27, 806–815 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-009-9186-z DOI：

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Fish communities in a (third-order) intertidal creek in Dongtan marsh in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River estuary were investigated seasonally for one year. A total of 1 996 fish specimens (10 967.8 g) comprising 26 species and 15 families were collected. Abundances of fish communities in the intertidal salt marsh creek were primarily dominated by Boleophthalmus pectinirostris (19.8%)

Collichthys lucidus (18.6%)

Periophthalmus magnuspinnatus (18.2%)

Liza haematocheilus (17.9%)

and secondarily by Mugilogobius abei (8.5%)

L. carinatus (7.2%)

Odontamblyopus lacepedii (4.3%)

and Acanthogobius ommaturus (3.9%); another 18 species were present only occasionally. Non-MDS ordination and SIMPER analysis indicated that there were two fish communities in the intertidal salt marsh creek. In spring

the communities were dominated by B. pectinirostris

P. magnuspinnatus

C. lucidus and M. abei; in summer

autumn

and winter by L. haematocheilus

L. carinatus

A. ommaturus and O. lacepedii. Some species showed strong habitat selection; L. carinatus and P. magnuspinnatus were distributed mainly in the upper and middle creek

while B. pectinirostris

M. abei and O. lacepedii inhabited the middle and lower creek. The study indicated that the salt marshes of the Changjiang River estuary are an important nursery and feeding habitat for many fishes and should be protected.

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