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Table 7 Local Knowledge on the habitat of Epinephelus marginatus in the coast of Brazila, b.

From: Ecology and ethnoecology of dusky grouper [garoupa, Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834)] along the coast of Brazil

Habitat

Copacabana

Itaipu

Florianópolis

Porto Sauípe

Itacimirim

Total

Cave

5

2

 

3

 

10

High depths

1

 

2

6

 

9

Islands

1

 

2

  

3

Open sea

1

  

6

1

8

Reefs/rocks

20

11

28

17

13

89

River

   

1

 

1

Sand/mud

   

3

1

4

Surface

1

   

1

2

Does not know

   

2

2

4

Interviews

23

12

23

22

12

92

  1. aCopacabana and Itaipu (Rio de Janeiro), Pântano do Sul (Florianópolis, Santa Catarina), and Itacimirim and Porto Sauípe (Bahia).
  2. bBased on interviews showing 38 fish pictures, including Epinephelus marginatus.
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

ISSN: 1746-4269

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