La ictiofauna marina de Baja California Sur, México, desde la perspectiva de un trabajo museológico

Abstract

One brief account and results of the generated activities through curatorial activities (fixing, preservation, taxonomy and catalogation) carried in the icthyological collection of the Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas are presented. This Icthyological stock carne from Baja California Sur; Concepción Bay (57 families and 146 species), La Paz Bay (84 families and 228 species), Magdalena Bay (65 families and 161 species), San Ignacio Lagoon (19 families and 29 species) and adjacent coasts of the Pacific ocean and Gulf of California (97 families and 244 species). There are however some specimens from other Mexican States and overseas México. This collection is important on a national level, and is the most complete for Mexican Pacific, accounting with 25000 organisms, integrated in 118 families, 270 genera and 403 species.