Shells of Triphoroidea (Gastropoda) occupied by crustaceans in the western Atlantic
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DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1582816
Abstract: ABSTRACT The present study investigates the occurrence of crustaceans inhabiting shells of Triphoroidea (consisting of small-sized gastropods, with right or left coiling) along the western Atlantic. Shells of the newtoniellid Retilaskeya emersonii were occupied by… read more here.
Keywords: gastropoda occupied; occupied crustaceans; atlantic shells; western atlantic ... See more keywords
Overview of the comb jellies (Ctenophora) from the South-western Atlantic and Sub Antarctic region (32–60°S; 34–70°W)
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DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2020.1775660
Abstract: ABSTRACT Ctenophora are important components of marine ecosystems. However, the South-western Atlantic and Sub Antarctic region are still one of the least studied region in the world. We report the species composition and spatial distribution… read more here.
Keywords: south western; western atlantic; atlantic sub; antarctic region ... See more keywords
A revision of the genus Cryptonemia (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) in Bermuda, western Atlantic Ocean, including five new species and C. bermudensis (Collins & M. Howe) comb. nov.
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DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2018.1452297
Abstract: ABSTRACT Cryptonemia specimens collected in Bermuda over the past two decades were analysed using gene sequences encoding the large subunit of the nuclear ribosomal DNA and the large subunit of RuBisCO as genetic markers to… read more here.
Keywords: bermudensis; comb nov; new species; cryptonemia ... See more keywords
Molecular systematics of Crassiphycus and Hydropuntia (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) with the description of poorly known taxa in the Western Atlantic Ocean
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DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2020.1814424
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study builds on recent treatments of the marine red algal family Gracilariaceae (Gracilariales) focusing in detail on Hydropuntia and Crassiphycus. Species in these two genera often present identification problems due to high levels… read more here.
Keywords: crassiphycus hydropuntia; molecular systematics; western atlantic; poorly known ... See more keywords
A Cryptic Invasion in the Western Atlantic: Presence of the Fouling Barnacle Megabalanus zebra (Darwin, 1854) (Crustacea, Cirripedia) in the Caribbean Sea.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.7
Abstract: The barnacle Megabalanus zebra is largely known from ship hulls, with little information on its biology, ecology, and natural range. We identify M. zebra here from the southern Caribbean, based upon specimens collected as early… read more here.
Keywords: megabalanus zebra; western atlantic; barnacle megabalanus; megabalanus ... See more keywords
A new species of shrimp of the genus Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, including a key to the western Atlantic species of the genus
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.4.3
Abstract: A new species of symbiotic palaemonid shrimp, Periclimenaeus mcmichaeli sp. nov., is described based on a single male specimen collected near Dry Tortugas, Florida, in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. This new species, the 14… read more here.
Keywords: genus periclimenaeus; new species; western atlantic; species genus ... See more keywords
Five new species of Western Atlantic stardrums, Stellifer (Perciformes: Sciaenidae) with a key to Atlantic Stellifer species.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.3.2
Abstract: Five new species of Stellifer are described from the Caribbean Sea and tropical southwestern Atlantic. Among the previously recognized stelliferine genera, Stellifer is unique by having a pair of variably developed appendages on the posterior… read more here.
Keywords: atlantic stardrums; new species; western atlantic; five new ... See more keywords
Two new marine hermit crabs allied with the Paguristes tortugae complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the western Atlantic.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5178.1.1
Abstract: A recent molecular phylogenetic analysis that focused on selected species of western Atlantic Paguristes Dana, 1851, Areopaguristes Rahayu McLaughlin, 2010, and Pseudopaguristes McLaughlin, 2002 was somewhat inconclusive regarding relationships among those genera, but it revealed… read more here.
Keywords: paguristes tortugae; new marine; two new; marine hermit ... See more keywords
THE GENUS PLACOSPONGIA (DEMOSPONGIAE: CLIONAIDA) FROM THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.6.1
Abstract: The genus Placospongia Gray, 1867 is a group of sponges widely distributed in the world. It currently has 11 valid species, where five of those, Placospongia caribica Rützler et al., 2014, P. cristata Boury-Esnault, 1973,… read more here.
Keywords: placospongia demospongiae; genus placospongia; colombian caribbean; western atlantic ... See more keywords
A closer look reveals hidden diversity in the intertidal Caribbean Fortuyniidae (Acari, Oribatida)
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268964
Abstract: A molecular genetic and morphometric investigation revealed the supposedly widespread Caribbean and Western Atlantic intertidal oribatid mite species Fortuynia atlantica to comprise at least two different species. Although there are no distinct morphological differences separating… read more here.
Keywords: reveals hidden; closer look; look reveals; caribbean western ... See more keywords
New records of Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) (Testudines, Cheloniidae) provide evidence that Uruguayan waters are the southernmost limit of distribution for the species in the western Atlantic Ocean
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DOI: 10.15560/13.6.863
Abstract: We report 8 new records of Lepidochelys olivacea marine turtle in the Uruguayan waters, indicating this area as the southernmost limit of distribution for this species in the western Atlantic Ocean. In addition, 1 specimen… read more here.
Keywords: uruguayan waters; western atlantic; distribution; records lepidochelys ... See more keywords