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Photographs of living animals of Cephalaspidea, Pleurobranchomorpha, Anaspidea, and Sacoglossa. 2. Haminoea antillarum (d'Orbigny, 1841). 3. Chelidonura hirundinina (Quoy and Gaimard 1832). 4. Berthella vialactea Ghanimi et al., 2020. 5. Pleurobranchus areolatus Mörch, 1863. 6. Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832). 7. Elysia crispata Mörch, 1863. 8. Elysia velutinus Pruvot-Fol, 1947. 9. Cylindrobulla beauii P. Fisher, 1857.
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A survey of heterobranch sea slug diversity in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago documented a total of 20 species of Anaspi-dea, Cephalaspidea, Nudibranchia, and Pleurobranchomorpha during an 81-hour search effort. This includes four new records for Bocas del Toro in addition to a potentially undescribed species and an unidentified species. Both direc...
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... The results of this study highlight the previously undocumented rich diversity of marine red algae, building upon findings from earlier research conducted in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago [7,[97][98][99]. We generated 179 COI-5P, 5 rbcL, and 5 UPA sequences from 179 samples, effectively doubling the number of publicly available red algae sequences from the Caribbean coast of Panamá in GenBank (previously 152 sequences from 93 samples) (Table S5). ...
Bocas del Toro is an archipelago on the Caribbean coast of Panamá, recognized as a biodiversity hotspot. While marine red macroalgae in the Western Atlantic are well studied, the marine flora of Panamá, particularly Bocas del Toro, remains underexplored using DNA barcoding. This study documents the diversity of marine red macroalgae in the region using COI-5P barcoding to identify species, detect cryptic diversity, and assess the presence of invasive and amphi-isthmian species. Specimens collected in 2008 and 2009 yielded 179 COI-5P sequences. Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) were assigned to 82 genetic clusters, many lacking GenBank matches, suggesting potential new species. Morphology and phylogenetic analyses of rbcL, UPA, and cox1 confirmed two new species of Gracilaria (G. bocatorensis sp. nov. and G. dreckmannii sp. nov.). Despite advances in DNA barcoding, red macroalgal diversity in Panamá remains understudied, particularly Corallinales, where rbcL sequences are lacking. No introduced or amphi-isthmian species were detected. This study adds 16 new species records for the Caribbean coast of Panamá, emphasizing the importance of DNA barcoding in biodiversity research.
