Ways to Protect the Environments of the Itaúnas Cloud Fish - Xenurolebias myersi (Carvalho, 1971) – Inhabitant of the Restinga Swamps, Conceição Da Barra, Northern Espírito Santo, Southeastern Brazil

Itaúnas is a locality of rare scenic beauty, with white sand dunes in the middle of the savanna coastal environments known as restinga, and many flooded pools, forming a unique landscape. In these ponds of dark, matte tea colored water, lives a fish, _Xenurolebias myersi, _an endemic inhabitant of Itaúnas. The survival of this unique little fish is worrying. The living environments of the Itaúnas cloud fish are under pressure, and the species is threatened with extinction as well. As inhabiting temporary, almost isolated environments, this fish is almost unknown. The local population is unaware that the region is inhabited by an endangered endemic fish. A form of protection comes from promoting its presence among the population of the village. The present contribution aims to shed light on the knowledge of _Xenurolebias myersi_ and its awareness by the local population, as well as to highlight the urgent need to protect the Velha Antônia stream, a river drainage close to the village of Itaúnas, where the fish was caught for the first time.