Vol.4, No.2, 43-52 (2014) Open Journal of Ecology http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oje.2014.42006 Species richness and community structure of class Polyplacophora at the intertidal rocky shore on the marine priority region no. 33, Mexico Lizeth Galeana-Rebolledo1*, Rafael Flores-Garza1, Adriana Reyes-Gómez1, Sergio García-Ibáñez1, Pedro Flores-Rodríguez1, Carmina Torreblanca-Ramírez1, Arcadio Valdés-González2 1Unidad Académica de Ecología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Acapulco, México; *Corresponding Author:
[email protected] 2Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Laboratorio de Acuacultura, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Ciudad Universitaria, San Nicolás de los Garza, México Received 4 December 2013; revised 3 January 2014; accepted 10 January 2014 Copyright © 2014 Lizeth Galeana-Rebolledo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In accordance of the Creative Commons Attribution License all Copyrights © 2014 are reserved for SCIRP and the owner of the intellectual property Lizeth Galeana-Rebolledo et al. All Copyright © 2014 are guarded by law and by SCIRP as a guardian. ABSTRACT neatus Broderip & Sowerby, 1829), were consi- dered wide. Intertidal species richness was as- Marine Priority Region No. 33 (MPR 33) lies in sociated with habitat stability and wave intensity; the State of Guerrero, where the National Com- the more unstable sites had greater richness mission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity while most stable sites lower. Species inventory has declared a lack of information on marine and understanding the communities’ interac- species, Class POLYPLACOPHORA among oth- tions of the marine fauna of the State of Guer- ers.