Freshwater fishes distribution in Taiwan and continent of china and its biogeographical significance

摘要

Through the comparative analysis of primary freshwater fishes in Chinese continent and the Taiwan Island, we summarize the three distinctions of distribution of freshwater fishes in these areas: (I) there exists a high Similarity of freshwater fish fauna between Taiwan and the southeastern shore of the continent; (ii) some species of Freshwater fish are found both in the Taiwan Island and East Himalayans; (iii) different freshwater fishes have different Distributions in island arch of western Pacific where Taiwan is located, but the distribution pattern shows a similarity to That of adjacent continent.