Fish, Taquara river basin, northern of the state of Paraná, Brazil.

Taquara River is situated in an agriculturist region, on the northern portion of the Tibagi river basin, state ofParaná. Fish fauna was collected in five stretches of the Taquara River and in nine headwaters of its tributaries, in theperiod of May to December 2006. Six orders, 22 families, and 74 species were collected, in a sum of 2,389 individuals.The orders Characiformes and Siluriformes were dominant.