**Biodiversity of Gastropod in the Southeastern Gulf of California, Mexico California, Mexico**

**Biodiversity of Gastropod in the Southeastern Gulf of** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.72201

Ruth Escamilla-Montes, Genaro Diarte-Plata, Paúl de J. Pacheco-Heredia,

Salvador Granados-Alcantar, Genaro Diarte-Plata, Paúl de J. Pacheco-Heredia, Juan A. Gill-León, Antonio Luna-González, Jesús A. Fierro-Coronado, Píndaro Álvarez-Ruíz, Héctor M. Esparza-Leal and Wenceslao Valenzuela-Quiñonez Juan A. Gill-León, Antonio Luna-González, Jesús A. Fierro-Coronado, Píndaro Álvarez-Ruíz, Héctor M. Esparza-Leal and Wenceslao Valenzuela-Quiñonez Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Ruth Escamilla-Montes, Salvador Granados-Alcantar,

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.72201

#### **Abstract**

Currently, studying the environment is important because of the phenomena that take place on the earth every day. That is why it is a priority to carry out studies that relate environmental changes to the biology of organisms. This allows us to know the interactions with the environment, and in this way solve, reduce or prevent ecological and economic problems, if they are organisms with a commercial value. The objective of this investigation is to determine ecological parameters of the gastropod community from the intertidal zone on five islands from the Gulf of California, México, to model the diversity, distribution and abundance of malacological fauna. We considered to evaluate the Shannon-Wiener diversity (H′), Pielou's of evenness (J) and the Margalef species richness indexes, in order to evaluate through an analysis from biotic and abiotic factors, the species status that was collected from the exposed and non-exposed zone tidal. The generated data were contemplated from a year-based biodiversity project (2016–2017) on the following islands: Patos, Bledos, Bleditos, Tunosa, and Mazocahui which belong to the Ohuira lagoon in Ahome, Sinaloa, southeast of the Gulf of California, México. Likewise a status about the importance of gastropods is mentioned for the study area.

**Keywords:** mollusks, Gulf of California, Muricidae, Melongenidae, tourism, fisheries, aquaculture

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