Amanda Cruz Mendes

Amanda Cruz Mendes
Rio de Janeiro State University | UERJ · Departamento de Zoologia (DZ)

PhD

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Introduction
Professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Current research projects on: Systematics of Opiliones, Cataloging, Soil Diversity of Arthropods, Gender Bias in Science, and Biology Teaching in Brazilian Secondary Education
Additional affiliations
February 2014 - present
Rio de Janeiro State University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
March 2013 - July 2013
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Position
  • Substitute Professor
February 2003 - February 2014
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Position
  • Research Associate
Education
July 2005 - September 2009

Publications

Publications (53)
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The limited temporal completeness and taxonomic accuracy of species lists, made available in a traditional manner in scientific publications, has always represented a problem. These lists are invariably limited to a few taxonomic groups and do not represent up-to-date knowledge of all species and classifications. In this context, the Brazilian mega...
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The limited temporal completeness and taxonomic accuracy of species lists, made available in a traditional manner in scientific publications, has always represented a problem. These lists are invariably limited to a few taxonomic groups and do not represent up-to-date knowledge of all species and classifications. In this context, the Brazilian mega...
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The limited temporal completeness and taxonomic accuracy of species lists, made available in a traditional manner in scientific publications, has always represented a problem. These lists are invariably limited to a few taxonomic groups and do not represent up-to-date knowledge of all species and classifications. In this context, the Brazilian mega...
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The limited temporal completeness and taxonomic accuracy of species lists, made available in a traditional manner in scientific publications, has always represented a problem. These lists are invariably limited to a few taxonomic groups and do not represent up-to-date knowledge of all species and classification. In this context, the B Brazilian meg...
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In this study, the understanding of the harvestman genus Carlotta Roewer, 1943, is expanded. Carlotta currently comprises two species found in central Espírito Santo state. The descriptions of the existing Carlotta species have been supplemented, including genital morphology. Four new species are herein described-Carlotta beckeri sp. nov., Carlotta...
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The reduced temporal validity of species lists made available in a traditional manner in scientific publications has always represented a problem. These lists are invariably limited to a few taxonomic groups and do not represent the up-to-date knowledge of all species and classifications. The Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil (CTFB), made publ...
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Este trabalho investigou a compreensão do processo de fecundação humana entre alunos do 2º ano do Ensino Médio, utilizando metodologias práticas e investigativas no Colégio Estadual Dôrval Ferreira da Cunha, em São Gonçalo, RJ. Em quatro etapas de 50 minutos, os alunos participaram de rodas de conversa, jogos de memória online, produção de modelos...
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A Atividade de Aplicação em Sala de Aula (AASA) foi implementada em turmas de terceiro ano do ensino médio no Rio de Janeiro, focando no tema Meio Ambiente do Currículo Mínimo de Biologia (RJ). Com base no ensino por investigação e na Base Nacional Comum Curricular, a AASA visou desenvolver a compreensão dos alunos sobre o papel humano no equilíbri...
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Epiperipatus ohausi (Bouvier, 1900) is the first species known from Rio de Janeiro, and more than 120 years later a new species is described in the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ). In this study, we describe the second species in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which we are naming in honor of the indigenous population called puri who resided in southeast...
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The species Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) opilionivora (Lane, 1947) (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) was rediscovered in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 75 years after its original description. This study aimed to investigate the ectoparasitic relationship between F. (T.) opilionivora and its host and document its occurrence, which was recorded serendip...
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The subfamily Gonyleptinae is the second largest in Gonyleptidae, harboring over 100 species. Gonyleptinae is polyphyletic, nestled in the clade K92, and despite its richness, several species of that subfamily have not had their chemicals of the defensive secretions analyzed. Among these are Gonyleptes curticornis (Mello-Leitão, 1940) and G. horrid...
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Since the workforce is affected by individuals’ socio-economic status, prohibitive and ballooning costs associated with academic conferences are one factor that helps to perpetuate inequality in STEM fields. Of the many types of economic barriers that early-career academics and other minority groups can find in the academic realms, those related to...
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Heteropachylus Roewer is the type genus of Heteropachylinae Kury, endemic to the Atlantic forest, Brazil. Heteropachyline males bear free tergites at least partially fused to dorsal scutum, besides other sexually dimorphic features common in gonyleptids as a higher ratio of maximum widths of abdominal scute and carapace and stronger armature of leg...
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Usage of Science Communication as a strategy for teaching evolution to undergraduates in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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O ensino de Biologia carrega uma herança tradicionalista, exaustivamente descritiva. Isto influencia negativamente o interesse dos alunos pela disciplina, distanciando-os do cotidiano. Portanto se faz necessário abordagens investigativas e colaborativas que levem em consideração conceitos prévios dos alunos. Foi elaborada uma aula que os alunos pro...
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The cosmetids are conspicuous harvestmen, remarkably diverse in size, shape and colour. However, the effectiveness of all these morphological traits for diagnosing groups is scarcely explored in the literature. Since the early 20th century, the family Cosmetidae has been divided into two subfamilies, Cosmetinae and Discosomaticinae, and there has b...
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Kury A. B., Mendes A. C., Cardoso L., Kury M. S., Granado A. de A., Giribet G., Cruz-López J. A., Longhorn S. J. (2021). WCO: World Catalogue of Opiliones (version 2021-03-23). In: Catalogue of Life, et al. (2021). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2021-04-05. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Ne...
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A academia científica está edificada sobre um profundo viés que privilegia os homens e resulta numa progressão de carreira diferenciada entre gêneros e áreas. Nas chamadas ciências duras (Ciências, Matemática, Engenharia e Tecnologia) a presença feminina domina a base da pirâmide da carreira acadêmica, mas declina a cada nível seguinte devido às di...
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The "World Catalogue of Opiliones" (WCO) is a collaborative effort to comprehensively index the Earth's species of harvestmen. This paper announces one component of the WCO, "WCO-Lite" a website available at https://wcolite.com/. WCO-Lite provides a graphic user interface for a second component of the WCO, "Opiliones of the World", a database on th...
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Resumo: A representação feminina na ciência é frequentemente explicada pela metáfora do “leaky pipeline”, onde em cada estágio da academia, há uma redução ou ausência de pesquisadoras ocupando o mais alto nível da academia, semelhante a um vazamento em um oleoduto. Várias razões para as mulheres interromperem suas carreiras científicas foram identi...
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Resumo: A participação feminina nos meios acadêmicos tem aumentado como fruto da luta de mulheres para afirmar suas posições em todas as áreas da sociedade. Esse incremento, todavia, é maior em áreas estereotipadas como femininas (humanas). O campo das “ciências duras” (STEM) continua predominantemente masculino. Os efeitos pervasivos de uma academ...
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Las aracnólogas de la generación Y, o millennials, traen nuevas demandas al mundo académico y si destacan por su confianza, alta formación académica, ambición, objetivos profesionales definidos y conciencia de los problemas a cerca de la baja representatividad de los grupos minoritarios. Sin embargo, aún con todas estas actitudes, todavía no hay mu...
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This is minor version 1.2 of the WCO-Lite website, containing one more layer of this nomenclatural/taxonomic endeavor. Version 1.2 contains bibliographic references for taxa nomina (exhaustive up to suprageneric taxa) and features a new author in the project team.
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WCO-Lite (with the word “light” restyled as “lite”) is a slenderer, more agile, online version of WCO, aiming to be a public-ready, authoritative reference for taxonomy of all subtaxa of harvestmen worldwide. WCO-Lite is being developed using an integrated web-based workbench for taxonomists called TaxonWorks (http://taxonworks.org/), created by Th...
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WEBSITE: Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S. & Granado, A.de A. (2020) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.1. Online at: https://wcolite.com/. Complete list of valid taxon nomina of harvestmen from suborder to subspecies; exhaustive taxonomic survey up to December 2018
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The genus nomen Larifuga Loman, 1898 was originally published without stated grammatical gender. No possible indications of gender are provided by the specific epithets, as all of them are nouns in the genitive. This genus nomen has consistently been treated as feminine in the literature. However, as shown here, it is a masculine classical Latin wo...
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In this chapter, the state of art of the arachnid fauna of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest is presented, emphasizing diverse aspects of their systematics, morphology, natural history, distribution and conservation. Almost all groups of extant arachnids are present in this biome, such as mites, whip-spiders, spiders, scorpions, whip-scorpions, schizom...
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Two new species of Heteropachylinae Kury, 1994, are described: Magnispina robusta sp. nov. and Magnispina bahiana sp. nov., both from Serra Bonita Natural Reserve, Camacan, Bahia, Brazil. Magnispina robusta sp. nov. is diagnosed by: free tergites II–III with tubercles on their lateral margins, free tergite III without median armature, dorsal anal o...
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Comprising more than 6500 species, Opiliones is the third most diverse order of Arachnida, after the megadiverse Acari and Araneae. The database referred here is part 1 of 12 of a project containing an intended worldwide checklist of species and subspecies of Opiliones as Darwin Core archives, and it includes the superfamilies Travunioidea and Tria...
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Darwin Core Archive: World Checklist of Opiliones species (Arachnida). Part 1: Laniatores – Travunioidea and Triaenonychoidea
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We add three new species to the formerly monotypic Amazonian Hutamaia, Hutamaia maceta sp. nov., Hutamaia plei sp. nov. and Hutamaia trompsonica sp. nov. and compare them with the type species, Hutamaia caramaschii Soares & Soares, 1977. Hutamaia was known only from two localities: Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil (type locality of the type species), and...
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We describe Metarthrodes oxum sp. nov. from Camacan, state of Bahia, Brazil, the second species of Caelopyginae described from the state, after Metarthrodes xango Pinto-da-Rocha, 2002. Metarthrodes oxum sp. nov. can be recognized by the presence of a pair of white spots on area I, white C-shaped stripes on lateral grooves of area Ill, posterior mar...
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Acumontia succinea sp. nov. is described from the Parc national de la Montagne d'Ambre, in the former Antsiranana Province, Madagascar. Detailed illustrations from all views of the male genitalia of a species of Acumontia are provided for the first time. Complementary illustrations are provided of the types of the five valid species of Acumontia de...
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Heteropachylinae Kury, 1994 is currently considered an early lineage of Gonyleptidae Sundevall, 1833 and includes small harvestmen that occur in the Atlantic Forests, mainly in the Northeast Region of Brazil. The species of Heteropachylinae were spread in different subfamilies until the establishment of the group. As a result of that, until now the...
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Among the 64 genera of Triaenonychinae Sørensen 1886 (Opiliones, Insidiatores), two are found in more than one continent: Ceratomontia Roewer 1915 and Nuncia Loman 1902, both occurring in South America, the former occurring also in South Africa, the latter in New Zealand. Until now there were 22 valid species of Ceratomontia, diagnosed mainly by th...
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The taxonomic status of the generic names of European Travuniidae is studied. Although the generic name Abasola Strand, 1928 is widely used, Travunia Absolon, 1920 is a valid replacement name for Absolonia Roewer, 1915, junior homonym of Absolonia Börner, 1901 (Collembola), while Abasola is a superfluous replacement name for the same. Type species...
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The potential effect of the fucose mannose ligand (FML)-vaccine on immunotherapy of canine visceral leishmaniasis was assayed on five mongrel dogs experimentally infected with Leishmania donovani and on 21 Leishmania chagasi naturally infected dogs when seropositive to FML but completely asymptomatic. The clinical signs of the experimentally infect...
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The monotypic genus Thaumatoleptes Roewer, 1930 is studied. The type species, Thaumatoleptes rugosus Roewer, 1930, is redescribed and newly recorded from Fernando de Noronha Island. The male genitalia are for the first time described and illustrated.

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