Volume 53 (Suppl. 3) December, 2005 Continue from the back cover CONTENTS RESEARCH ON ECHINODERMS IN LATIN AMERICA José Enrique Barraza & Carlos Roberto Hasbún The echinoderms (Echinodermata) from El Salvador. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 139-146 Harilaos A. Lessios Echinoids of the Pacific waters of Panama: Status of knowledge and new records. 147-170 Milena Benavides-Serrato, Giomar Helena Borrero-Pérez, Óscar D. Solano & Gabriel Rodolfo Navas Taxonomic list of the asteroids (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the continental shelf and supe- rior slope of the Colombian Caribbean. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 171-194 Raúl Neira O. & Jaime R. Cantera K. Taxonomic composition and distribution of the echinoderms associations in the littoral ecosys- tems of the Colombian Pacific. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 195-206 L. F. Netto, V. F. Hadel & C. G. Tiago Echinodermata from São Sebastião Channel (São Paulo, Brazil). 207-218 ECOLOGY Ernesto Weil, Juan L. Torres & Mayra Ashton Population characteristics of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in La Parguera, Puerto Rico, 17 years after the mass mortality event . 219-231 Héctor Reyes Bonilla, Adriana González Azcárraga & Aracely Rojas Sierra Sea star (Asteroidea) association structure on the rocky reef in the Gulf of California, Mexico. [In Spanish with English abstract]. 233-244 Carlos E. Cintra-Buenrostro, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla & María Dinorah Herrero-Pérezrul Oceanographic conditions and diversity of seastars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in the Gulf of California, México. 245-261 Tania Herrera-Escalante, R. A. López-Pérez & G. E. Leyte-Morales Bioerosion caused by the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) at Bahías de Huatulco, Western Mexico . 263-273 Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 53 (3-4): 1013-1022, September-December 2005 385 Juan José Alvarado & Cindy Fernández Echinoderms from Marino Ballena National Park, Pacific, Costa Rica. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 275-284 Natalie Bolaños, Amandine Bourg, Javier Gómez & Juan José Alvarado Diversity and abundance of echinoderms from reef lagoon at Cahuita National Park, Caribbean from Costa Rica. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 285-290 Mario Monroy López & Oscar David Solano Population state of Echinometra lucunter (Echinoida: Echinometridae) and its accompanying fauna on Caribbean rocky littoral from Colombia. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 291-297 REPRODUCTION Tamara Rubilar, Catalina Pastor & Enriqueta Díaz de Vivar Timing of fission in the starfish Allostichaster capensis (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in laboratory 299-303 Santiago Montealegre Quijano & Alfredo Gómez Gaspar Reproductive cycle of Lytechinus variegatus (Echinoidea: Toxopneustidae) in the south of Margarita Island, Venezuela. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 305-312 AQUACULTURE Olga Gómez M. & Alfredo Gómez G. Embrionary and larval development of Lytechinus variegatus (Echinoidea: Toxopneustidae) in laboratory conditions at Isla de Margarita-Venezuela. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 313-318 Esperanza Buitrago & César Lodeiros Seijo Larvae and poslarvae production of the green-white sea uchin Lytechinus variegatus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in culture conditions. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 319-328 Marina García, Jesús Rosas, Iván Hernández, Aidé Velásquez, Tomas Cabrera & Carlos Maneiro Larval survival and growth of Arbacia punctulata (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fed with five micro-algae at two salinities. [In Spanish with English abstract] . 329-336 David Astudillo, Jesús Rosas, Aidé Velásquez, Tomas Cabrera & Carlos Maneiro Larval growth and survival of Echinometra lucunter (Echinoidea: Echinometridae) fed with the micro-algae Chaetoceros gracilis and Isochrysis galbana. [In Spanish with English abstract]. 337-344 Salas-Garza, A., E. Carpizo-Ituarte, G. Parés-Sierra, R. Martínez-López & R. Quintana-Rodríguez Juvenile production of the red sea urchin Strongylocentrotus franciscanus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in Baja California, Mexico. [In Spanish with English abstract]. 345-355 386 Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 53 (3-4): 1013-1022, September-December 2005 FISHERY María Dinorah Herrero Pérezrul & Ernesto A. Chávez Optimum fishing strategies for Isostichopus fuscus (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the Gulf of California, México. 357-366 Patricio M. Arana Demography and fishery of the sea urchin Loxechinus albus (Echinodermata: Echinidae) in the south-austral Chile region. [In Spanish with English abstract]. 367-382 Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 53 (3-4): 1013-1022, September-December 2005 387 388 Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 53 (3-4): 1013-1022, September-December 2005.