The 1,054 drainage basins in this map cover more than 80% of the world’s continental surface area. The evaluation of native, non-native, and endemic freshwater fish species is based on an extensive literature survey.
see also:
Brosse, S., Beauchard, O., Blanchet, S., Dürr, H.H., Grenouillet, G., Hugueny, B., Lauzeral, C., Leprieur, F., Tedesco, P.A., Villeger, S., Oberdorff, T. (2013). Fish-SPRICH: a database of freshwater fish species richness throughout the World. Hydrobiologia 700: 343–349. (link).
with support provided by: BioFresh project
Pablo A. Tedesco 
, Céline Jézéquel & Thierry Oberdorff
P. A. Tedesco, C. Jézéquel, T. Oberdorff
UMR ‘‘BOREA’’ CNRS 7208/IRD 207/MNHN/UPMC, DMPA
Biologie des Organismes et des Ecosystèmes Aquatiques
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
43, rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex, France
Metadata for this dataset can be viewed in the Freshwater Metadatabase:
Fish-SPRICH: a database of freshwater fish species richness throughout the World
The Fish-SPRICH database can be downloaded from the BioFresh data repository:
This work was supported by the EU BioFresh Project (7th Framework European Program, Contract No. 226874).
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