Supplementary material for: Brosse, S., Beauchard, O., Blanchet, S., Dürr, H.H., Grenouillet, G., Hugueny, B., Lauzeral, C., Leprieur, F., Tedesco, P.A., Villéger, S. & Oberdorff, T. (2012) Fish-SPRICH: a database of freshwater fish species richness throughout the World. Hydrobiologia, doi:10.1007/s10750-012-1242-6 REMARKS These data files have been quality controled by the BioFresh data team. A number of minor technical and coordinate related issues have been corrected in agreement with the authors. TECHNICAL DETAILS csv files with delimiter ",", quoted fields as text and UTF8 encoding. For best results open in Open Office and convert to Microsoft Excel format if needed. DATA FILES * ESM1-UTF8.csv ESM 1. Literature used to build-up the Fish-SPRICH database. The full references used to gather fish richness data for each river basin are given below sorted alphabetically by river basin name. * ESM2-UTF8-corrected.csv ESM2. The Fish-SPRICH database. The information given in the Fish-SPRICH database is organised alphabetically by river basin name. Fish richness and environmental descriptors are listed horizontally. Columns are as follows: - Basin is the river basin name as found in the literature. When a basin was unnamed, it was identified by the name of the country or of the region followed by ".un". - TotalR is the total richness, i.e. the total number of freshwater fish species living in the river basin. It accounts for both native and non-native species. - NativeR is the native richness, i.e. the number of freshwater fish species native to the basin (including endemic species). - Non-nativeR is the non-native (or exotic ) richness, i.e. the number of freshwater fish species introduced into a basin and that have become established (i.e. self-reproducing populations) in the basin. - EndemicR is the endemic richness, i.e. the number of endemic freshwater fish species in the basin. Endemic species are those inhabiting only one river drainage basin (i.e. single-drainage endemics). - Brealm is the biogeographic realm to which the basin belongs, as described by Leveque et al. (2008) and Balian et al. (2008) during the Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment project (http://FADA.biodiversity.be). - Latrivermouth and Lonrivermouth are the geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude in decimal degrees) of the river mouth in degrees. - Lonmin, Lonmax, Lonmed, Latmin, Latmax, Latmed are the minimal, maximal and median coordinates (longitude and latitude in decimal degrees) of the river basin. - Minalt, Maxalt are the minimum and maximum altitudes in meters above sea level of the basin. Note that the minimum altitude can differ from zero for endorheic basins. - Area is the total surface area covered by the river basin in square kilometers.