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Inventario De Invertebrados De La Zona Rocosa Intermareal De Montepío, Veracruz, México
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 85: 349-362, 2014 Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 85: 349-362, 2014 DOI: 10.7550/rmb.42628 DOI: 10.7550/rmb.42628349 Inventario de invertebrados de la zona rocosa intermareal de Montepío, Veracruz, México Inventory of invertebrates from the rocky intertidal shore at Montepío, Veracruz, Mexico Aurora Vassallo, Yasmín Dávila, Nelia Luviano, Sara Deneb-Amozurrutia, Xochitl Guadalupe Vital, Carlos Andrés Conejeros, Leopoldo Vázquez y Fernando Álvarez Colección Nacional de Crustáceos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Apartado postal 70-153, 04510 México, D. F., México. [email protected] Resumen. Se presenta el registro de las especies de invertebrados marinos que habitan la costa rocosa intermareal de Montepío, Veracruz, identificados hasta ahora. La información se obtuvo de las colectas realizadas en los últimos 10 años por parte de la Colección Nacional de Crustáceos y los registros adicionales se obtuvieron de la información publicada. El listado de especies incluye las formas de vida en relación con el sustrato, criptofauna o epifauna, así como su tipo de distribución en las 2 principales regiones zoogeográficas marinas para el golfo de México: Carolineana y Caribeña; se incluyen también las especies que sólo se encuentran en el golfo de México. El listado incluye 195 especies pertenecientes a 9 grupos, de los cuales Crustacea es el más diverso con 73 especies, seguido por Mollusca con 69 y Echinodermata con 18; los grupos con menor riqueza específica fueron: Chelicerata con 2 especies y Platyhelminthes y Sipuncula con una sola especie cada grupo. Del total de especies 74 son nuevos registros de localidad y 7 nuevos registros para Veracruz. -
WMSDB - Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base
WMSDB - Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base Family: TURBINIDAE Author: Claudio Galli - [email protected] (updated 07/set/2015) Class: GASTROPODA --- Clade: VETIGASTROPODA-TROCHOIDEA ------ Family: TURBINIDAE Rafinesque, 1815 (Sea) - Alphabetic order - when first name is in bold the species has images Taxa=681, Genus=26, Subgenus=17, Species=203, Subspecies=23, Synonyms=411, Images=168 abyssorum , Bolma henica abyssorum M.M. Schepman, 1908 aculeata , Guildfordia aculeata S. Kosuge, 1979 aculeatus , Turbo aculeatus T. Allan, 1818 - syn of: Epitonium muricatum (A. Risso, 1826) acutangulus, Turbo acutangulus C. Linnaeus, 1758 acutus , Turbo acutus E. Donovan, 1804 - syn of: Turbonilla acuta (E. Donovan, 1804) aegyptius , Turbo aegyptius J.F. Gmelin, 1791 - syn of: Rubritrochus declivis (P. Forsskål in C. Niebuhr, 1775) aereus , Turbo aereus J. Adams, 1797 - syn of: Rissoa parva (E.M. Da Costa, 1778) aethiops , Turbo aethiops J.F. Gmelin, 1791 - syn of: Diloma aethiops (J.F. Gmelin, 1791) agonistes , Turbo agonistes W.H. Dall & W.H. Ochsner, 1928 - syn of: Turbo scitulus (W.H. Dall, 1919) albidus , Turbo albidus F. Kanmacher, 1798 - syn of: Graphis albida (F. Kanmacher, 1798) albocinctus , Turbo albocinctus J.H.F. Link, 1807 - syn of: Littorina saxatilis (A.G. Olivi, 1792) albofasciatus , Turbo albofasciatus L. Bozzetti, 1994 albofasciatus , Marmarostoma albofasciatus L. Bozzetti, 1994 - syn of: Turbo albofasciatus L. Bozzetti, 1994 albulus , Turbo albulus O. Fabricius, 1780 - syn of: Menestho albula (O. Fabricius, 1780) albus , Turbo albus J. Adams, 1797 - syn of: Rissoa parva (E.M. Da Costa, 1778) albus, Turbo albus T. Pennant, 1777 amabilis , Turbo amabilis H. Ozaki, 1954 - syn of: Bolma guttata (A. Adams, 1863) americanum , Lithopoma americanum (J.F. -
Infection by Parorchis Acanthus (Trematoda) Decreases Grazing by the Keystone Gastropod, Littoraria Irrorata
Infection by Parorchis acanthus (Trematoda) decreases grazing by the keystone gastropod, Littoraria irrorata Joseph P. Morton Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, United States of America ABSTRACT Parasites are well-known to alter the behavior of their hosts, but there is still a paucity of knowledge about how parasites modify the behavior of many ecologically influential host species. I studied the keystone grazer, the salt marsh periwinkle (Littoraria irrorata), to determine the influence of infection by the digenetic trematode, Parorchis acanthus, on its grazing behavior. Comparative laboratory grazing studies of wild- collected and experimentally infected snails revealed that Parorchis decreased grazing on live Spartina by more than 80%. Because of the large ecological influence of Littoraria in southern U.S. marshes, parasite modification of snail grazing may have ramifications for marsh ecosystem stability if parasite prevalence is sufficiently high. Subjects Animal Behavior, Ecology, Marine Biology, Parasitology Keywords Grazing, Parasitism, Salt marsh, Behavior modification, Trematode INTRODUCTION A broad body of research demonstrates the ability of parasites to induce powerful changes in the behavior of their hosts (Holmes & Bethel, 1972; Dobson, 1988; Moore & Gotelli, 1990; Lafferty & Morris, 1996; Moore, 2002; Toscano, Newsome & Griffen, 2014; Soghigian, Submitted 25 April 2017 Accepted 6 March 2018 Valsdottir & Livdahl, 2017). These changes may be adaptive for the parasite because Published 27 March 2018 behavioral modification often facilities transmission to the next host species in its life Corresponding author cycle, an adaptive response of the host species, or a non-adaptive byproduct of parasitic Joseph P. Morton, infection (Lafferty, 1999; Levri, 1999; Moore, 2002). -
Larval Stages of Digenetic Flukes and Their Molluscan
STUDIES ON THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LARVAL STAGES OF DIGENETIC FLUKES AND THEIR MOLLUSCAN HOSTS. MICHAEL ANTONY PRICE SUBMITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS DEPARTMENT OF PURE AND APPLIED ZOOLOGY. MARCH 1984 Snails of the species Thais (Nucella) lapillus (L) were collected from Scarborough South Bay, and Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire. The presence of the rediae of Parorchia acanthus. NICOLL (Digenea: PHILOPHTHALMIDAE) in T-,. lapillus individuals was previously associated with abnormal shell growth by Feare (1970a). His work has been extended to provide more conclusive evidence of parasitic gigantism in T, larAllus infested with P-,. acanthus-. - The energy increment and soft tissue mass increase associated with shell growth has been calculated for a sample of infested T, lapillus individuals. As reported by Cooley (1958) and Feare (1969) infestation with P_.. acanthus rediae progressively destroys the host gonad. The resultant reproductive saving was estimated for non-infested male and female T, lapillus from Robin Hoods Bay in 1981 and the energy values obtained were compared with estimates of the average energy loss from infested M., laDillus as a result of cercarial production and redial growth. The proportion of the whole body dry mass of infested M, lapillus. individuals contributed by the redial population was generally similar to the gonadal proportion of non-infested femalest but did not follow the same seasonal cycle. The digestive gland of infested dogwhelks was proportionally reduced from that of non-infested females in August only. The growth of redial populations within the hosts through the summer is suggested as a possible cause of host gigantism. -
Four Marine Digenean Parasites of Austrolittorina Spp. (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in New Zealand: Morphological and Molecular Data
Syst Parasitol (2014) 89:133–152 DOI 10.1007/s11230-014-9515-2 Four marine digenean parasites of Austrolittorina spp. (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in New Zealand: morphological and molecular data Katie O’Dwyer • Isabel Blasco-Costa • Robert Poulin • Anna Falty´nkova´ Received: 1 July 2014 / Accepted: 4 August 2014 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Abstract Littorinid snails are one particular group obtained. Phylogenetic analyses were carried out at of gastropods identified as important intermediate the superfamily level and along with the morpholog- hosts for a wide range of digenean parasite species, at ical data were used to infer the generic affiliation of least throughout the Northern Hemisphere. However the species. nothing is known of trematode species infecting these snails in the Southern Hemisphere. This study is the first attempt at cataloguing the digenean parasites Introduction infecting littorinids in New Zealand. Examination of over 5,000 individuals of two species of the genus Digenean trematode parasites typically infect a Austrolittorina Rosewater, A. cincta Quoy & Gaim- gastropod as the first intermediate host in their ard and A. antipodum Philippi, from intertidal rocky complex life-cycles. They are common in the marine shores, revealed infections with four digenean species environment, particularly in the intertidal zone representative of a diverse range of families: Philo- (Mouritsen & Poulin, 2002). One abundant group of phthalmidae Looss, 1899, Notocotylidae Lu¨he, 1909, gastropods in the marine intertidal environment is the Renicolidae Dollfus, 1939 and Microphallidae Ward, littorinids (i.e. periwinkles), which are characteristic 1901. This paper provides detailed morphological organisms of the high intertidal or littoral zone and descriptions of the cercariae and intramolluscan have a global distribution (Davies & Williams, 1998). -
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: PATTERNS IN
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: PATTERNS IN DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENTHIC MOLLUSCS ALONG A DEPTH GRADIENT IN THE BAHAMAS Michael Joseph Dowgiallo, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla Department of Biology, UMCP Species richness and abundance of benthic bivalve and gastropod molluscs was determined over a depth gradient of 5 - 244 m at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas by deploying replicate benthic collectors at five sites at 5 m, 14 m, 46 m, 153 m, and 244 m for six months beginning in December 1993. A total of 773 individual molluscs comprising at least 72 taxa were retrieved from the collectors. Analysis of the molluscan fauna that colonized the collectors showed overwhelmingly higher abundance and diversity at the 5 m, 14 m, and 46 m sites as compared to the deeper sites at 153 m and 244 m. Irradiance, temperature, and habitat heterogeneity all declined with depth, coincident with declines in the abundance and diversity of the molluscs. Herbivorous modes of feeding predominated (52%) and carnivorous modes of feeding were common (44%) over the range of depths studied at Lee Stocking Island, but mode of feeding did not change significantly over depth. One bivalve and one gastropod species showed a significant decline in body size with increasing depth. Analysis of data for 960 species of gastropod molluscs from the Western Atlantic Gastropod Database of the Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) that have ranges including the Bahamas showed a positive correlation between body size of species of gastropods and their geographic ranges. There was also a positive correlation between depth range and the size of the geographic range. -
Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service V.62
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Stewart Udall, Secretary FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, Clarence F. Pal?4-."ke, Commissioner BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES, Donald L. McKernan, Director STUDIES ON Parorchis acanthus (TREMATODA: DIGENEA) AS A BIOLOGICAL CONTROL FOR THE SOUTHERN OYSTER DRILL, Thais haemastoma· By NELSON R. COOLEY FISHERY BULLETIN 201 From Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service VOLUME 62 Published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • WashlnAton • 1962 Printed by the U.S. Government PrlntlnA Office, WashlnAton For &BIe by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government PrIntlnA Office, WashlnAton 25, D.C. - Price 20 cents Library of Congress catalog c;ard for the series, Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 8et'l'ice. Fishe.ry Bulletin, v. 1- W'ashington, U.S. Govt.. Print. Off., 1881-19 v. in Illus., maps (part fold.) 23-28 ('111. Some vols. issued in the congressional series as Senate or House documents. Bulletin composing v. 47- also numbered 1- Title varies: v. 1-49 Bulletin. Vols. 1-49 issued by Bureau of Fisheries. (('alled Fish COlllmission, v. 1-23) 1. Fisheries-U.S. 2. Flsh-('ultur~U.S. I. Title. SHll.A25 639.206173 9-35239* Library of Congress [59r55b1] D CONTENTS Page Materials and methods_ _____________________________________________________ 78 The parasite_______________________________________________________________ 79 Taxononly ~______________________________________________________ 79 Morphology____________________________________________________________ -
Arca Zebra (Mollusca Bivalvia: Arcidae) En Venezuela
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras ISSN 0122-9761 “José Benito Vives de Andréis” Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research Santa Marta, Colombia, 2018 47 (1), 45-66 Fauna asociada a la pesquería de Arca Zebra (Mollusca Bivalvia: Arcidae) en Venezuela Fauna associated with the fishing of Arca Zebra (Mollusca Bivalvia: Arcidae) in Venezuela Roberto Díaz-Fermín, Vanessa Acosta-Balbás Departamento de Biología, Laboratorio de Ecología. Escuela de Ciencias. Universidad de Oriente, Cumana, Venezuela. [email protected], [email protected] RESUMEN rca zebra, constituye uno de los recursos pesqueros de mayor impacto económico en el nororiente de Venezuela, ya que forma bancos de importancia comercial. Durante un periodo de nueve meses (mayo 2010- agosto 2011) se identificó, cuantificó y describió la estructura comunitaria de los organismos provenientes de la pesquería de arrastre efectuada por los pescadores de la zona; así mismo, se calculó la Abiomasa y abundancia de los diferentes grupos taxonómicos para realizar Curvas de Comparación Abundancia-Biomasa (ABC), con el objetivo de determinar el grado de afectación por la actividad de arrastre. En total se contabilizaron 3 249 organismos, pertenecientes a 130 especies, agrupadas en cinco Phylla: Mollusca, Annelida, Arthropoda, Echinodermata y Chordata. La diversidad total de Sanders fue de 122.9. Entre los taxones más diversos se encontraron los moluscos (70.87) y poliquetos (29.91). Los moluscos presentaron la mayor abundancia, seguidos de los poliquetos, crustáceos, equinodermos y ascidias. El mayor aporte en biomasa la mostraron los moluscos y equinodermos. Las especies constantes fueron: Mithraculus forceps, Phallucia nigra, Echinometra lucunter, Eunice rubra y Pinctada imbricata. -
Florida Keys Species List
FKNMS Species List A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T 1 Marine and Terrestrial Species of the Florida Keys 2 Phylum Subphylum Class Subclass Order Suborder Infraorder Superfamily Family Scientific Name Common Name Notes 3 1 Porifera (Sponges) Demospongia Dictyoceratida Spongiidae Euryspongia rosea species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey 4 2 Fasciospongia cerebriformis species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey 5 3 Hippospongia gossypina Velvet sponge 6 4 Hippospongia lachne Sheepswool sponge 7 5 Oligoceras violacea Tortugas survey, Wheaton list 8 6 Spongia barbara Yellow sponge 9 7 Spongia graminea Glove sponge 10 8 Spongia obscura Grass sponge 11 9 Spongia sterea Wire sponge 12 10 Irciniidae Ircinia campana Vase sponge 13 11 Ircinia felix Stinker sponge 14 12 Ircinia cf. Ramosa species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey 15 13 Ircinia strobilina Black-ball sponge 16 14 Smenospongia aurea species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey, Tortugas survey, Wheaton list 17 15 Thorecta horridus recorded from Keys by Wiedenmayer 18 16 Dendroceratida Dysideidae Dysidea etheria species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey; Tortugas survey, Wheaton list 19 17 Dysidea fragilis species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey; Tortugas survey, Wheaton list 20 18 Dysidea janiae species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey; Tortugas survey, Wheaton list 21 19 Dysidea variabilis species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey 22 20 Verongida Druinellidae Pseudoceratina crassa Branching tube sponge 23 21 Aplysinidae Aplysina archeri species from G.P. Schmahl, BNP survey 24 22 Aplysina cauliformis Row pore rope sponge 25 23 Aplysina fistularis Yellow tube sponge 26 24 Aplysina lacunosa 27 25 Verongula rigida Pitted sponge 28 26 Darwinellidae Aplysilla sulfurea species from G.P. -
Distinción Taxonómica De Los Moluscos De Fondos Blandos Del Golfo De Batabanó, Cuba
Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res., 43(5): 856-872, 2015Distinción taxonómica de los moluscos del Golfo de Batabanó, Cuba 856 1 DOI: 10.3856/vol43-issue5-fulltext-6 Research Article Distinción taxonómica de los moluscos de fondos blandos del Golfo de Batabanó, Cuba Norberto Capetillo-Piñar1, Marcial Trinidad Villalejo-Fuerte1 & Arturo Tripp-Quezada1 1Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional P.O. Box 592, La Paz, 23096 Baja California Sur, México Corresponding author: Arturo Tripp-Quezada ([email protected]) RESUMEN. La distinción taxonómica es una medida de diversidad que presenta una serie de ventajas que dan connotación relevante a la ecología teórica y aplicada. La utilidad de este tipo de medida como otro método para evaluar la biodiversidad de los ecosistemas marinos bentónicos de fondos blandos del Golfo de Batabanó (Cuba) se comprobó mediante el uso de los índices de distinción taxonómica promedio (Delta+) y la variación en la distinción taxonómica (Lambda+) de las comunidades de moluscos. Para este propósito, se utilizaron los inventarios de especies de moluscos bentónicos de fondos blandos obtenidos en el periodo 1981-1985 y en los años 2004 y 2007. Ambos listados de especies fueron analizados y comparados a escala espacial y temporal. La composición taxonómica entre el periodo y años estudiados se conformó de 3 clases, 20 órdenes, 60 familias, 137 géneros y 182 especies, observándose, excepto en el nivel de clase, una disminución no significativa de esta composición en 2004 y 2007. A escala espacial se detectó una disminución significativa en la riqueza taxonómica en el 2004. No se detectaron diferencias significativas en Delta+ y Lambda+ a escala temporal, pero si a escala espacial, hecho que se puede atribuir al efecto combinado del incremento de las actividades antropogénicas en la región con los efectos inducidos por los huracanes. -
Infection by Parorchis Acanthus (Trematoda) Decreases Grazing by the Keystone Gastropod, Littoraria Irrorata
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Crossref Infection by Parorchis acanthus (Trematoda) decreases grazing by the keystone gastropod, Littoraria irrorata Joseph P. Morton Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, United States of America ABSTRACT Parasites are well-known to alter the behavior of their hosts, but there is still a paucity of knowledge about how parasites modify the behavior of many ecologically influential host species. I studied the keystone grazer, the salt marsh periwinkle (Littoraria irrorata), to determine the influence of infection by the digenetic trematode, Parorchis acanthus, on its grazing behavior. Comparative laboratory grazing studies of wild- collected and experimentally infected snails revealed that Parorchis decreased grazing on live Spartina by more than 80%. Because of the large ecological influence of Littoraria in southern U.S. marshes, parasite modification of snail grazing may have ramifications for marsh ecosystem stability if parasite prevalence is sufficiently high. Subjects Animal Behavior, Ecology, Marine Biology, Parasitology Keywords Grazing, Parasitism, Salt marsh, Behavior modification, Trematode INTRODUCTION A broad body of research demonstrates the ability of parasites to induce powerful changes in the behavior of their hosts (Holmes & Bethel, 1972; Dobson, 1988; Moore & Gotelli, 1990; Lafferty & Morris, 1996; Moore, 2002; Toscano, Newsome & Griffen, 2014; Soghigian, Submitted 25 April 2017 Accepted 6 March 2018 Valsdottir & Livdahl, 2017). These changes may be adaptive for the parasite because Published 27 March 2018 behavioral modification often facilities transmission to the next host species in its life Corresponding author cycle, an adaptive response of the host species, or a non-adaptive byproduct of parasitic Joseph P. -
1 Northwest Florida Species List
NORTHWEST FLORIDA SPECIES LIST This list, which contains shells found in the onshore and offshore waters of the Florida Panhandle, was prepared by the members of the Gulf Coast Shell Club. The list is arranged alphabetically by family. The numbers to the left of the shell name refer to the corresponding species as found in American Seashells, Second Edition by Dr R. Tucker Abbott. An asterisk indicates that a name change to the family, species, genus, (or all) has occurred since publication. Shells annotated with a superscript 1 indicate form names that may or may not be valid but are useful for identification. Shells annotated with a superscript 2 are shells from the 1994 Keeler and Robertson survey of the Apalachicola Marine Estuary and immediate offshore areas and represent species not currently held by GCSC members but that are deemed native to our area. Common name for the shell and its normal adult size range columns are included. There are 635 shells (including forms) on this list as of the latest update in March, 2013. Our thanks go to Dr. Harry Lee of the Jacksonville Shell Club for his assistance in this compilation. A caution: Any list of this type is subject to frequent name changes as the science involved progresses. GASTROPODA Family/Genus/Species Common Name Size (mm) ACTEONIDAE 3888 Acteon candens Rehder, 1939 Rehder’s Baby Bubble 5-10 3887 Acteon (Rictaxis) punctostriatus (C B Adams, 1840)* Pitted Baby Bubble 3-8 APLYSIIDAE (Nudibranch) Aplysia fasciata Poiret, 1789 Mottled Sea Hare 50 4166 Aplysia dactylomela Rang, 1828 Spotted Sea Hare 100-125 ARCHITECTICIDAE 0938 Architectonica nobilis Roding, 1798 Common Sundial 20-64 0943 Psilaxis krebsii (Morch, 1875) Beaded Sundial 7-13 BUCCINIDAE 2425 Antillophos candeanus (d’Orbigny, 1842)* Beaded Phos 12-30 2398 Engina cf.