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Se describe una especie nueva perteneciente al género Epimeria de material colectado durante la expedición del B/I John Elliott Pillsbury en las aguas profundas del Golfo de Panamá. Esta nueva especie puede ser distinguida de las otras especies del género por la combinación de los siguientes caracteres: rostro largo, alcanza la mitad del artejo 2 d...
The application of DNA barcoding represents a complementary and efficient approach to identifying specimens at all stages of their life cycle when used in combination with traditional morphological methods. Due to difficulties obtaining samples from the deep sea (> 200 m), these methods have been less frequently applied to deep-water taxa. We used...
The genus Critomolgus Humes and Stock, 1983 represents a group of 34 species of copepods associated with marine invertebrates. Most of these species have been collected in associations with species of the phyla Cnidaria and Echinodermata in several localities in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with three species reported in the Mediterranea...
The identification of deep-sea (>200 m) pelagic larvae is extremely challenging due to the morphological diversity across ontogeny and duration of larval phases. Within Decapoda, developmental stages often differ conspicuously from their adult form, representing a bizarre and mysterious world still left to be discovered. The difficulties with sampl...
The genus Amathillopsis Heller, 1875 represents a group of 13 species of amphipods that live predominantly in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Many amathillopsids inhabit both mesopelagic, bathyal, and abyssal zones. We describe Amathillopsis colemani n. sp., a new species of marine deepwater amphipod collected at 1200 meters depth. This is the fir...
Se describe una especie nueva de anfípodo de aguas profundas pertenecientes al género Eusiroides. El material estudiado fue colectado en localidades del golfo de México y el estrecho de la Florida por el B/I Gerda de la Universidad de Miami, en 1963. Se ofrecen además las diferencias más notables entre la especie nueva y E. monoculoides (Haswell, 1...
A new anchialine species of Eupelte (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Peltidiidae) is described from tidal pools and submerged passages in Bermuda caves. It is the sixth anchialine harpacticoid species known from Bermuda and the first anchialine member worldwide of the family Peltidiidae. The genus Eupelte currently contains 16 valid species, of which five...
A new species of marine amphipod of the genus Quadrimaera is described from material collected from Crandon Park, Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida, USA, associated to Penicillus spp. about 0.5 m water depth. The differences with the closer species are also presented.
Producto del estudio de material depositado en la colección del Museo de Invertebrados Marinos de la Universidad de Miami se registran nuevas ubicaciones y se amplía la distribución de cuatro especies de peracáridos. Estas especies son el isópodo Syscenus infelix y tres especies de anfípodos pertenecientes al género Trischizostoma: T. costai, T. ri...
The genus Oediceroides Stebbing, 1888 represents a group of 23 species of amphipods that live from shallow coastal areas to abyssal plains. Most of these species have been collected in deep waters from localities in the South Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and only one species has been found in the Mediterranean Sea. Many oediceroids inhabit waters m...
Interfacial esterases are useful enzymes in bioconversion and racemic mixture resolution processes. Marine invertebrates are few explored potential sources of these proteins. In this work, aqueous extracts of 41 species of marine invertebrates were screened for esterase, lipase, and phospholipase A activities, being all positive. Five extracts(Stic...
Female harpacticoid copepod specimens representing an undescribed species of Peltidium (Peltidiidae) were found from an unidentified species of Sargassum during a series of samplings carried out in 2014 in Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A. The new species, Peltidium camilae, is similar to P. nichollsi Geddes, 1968 and P. lerneri Geddes, 1968. These specie...
Rostra, telsons and patterns of sternal spines were examined for Western Atlantic penaeid shrimps Metapenaeopsis, Rimapenaeus and Farfantepenaeus to facilitate the identification of postlarval and juvenile stages and clarify the patterns of sternal spines previously proposed as a useful tool for identifying penaeid postlarvae at the generic level....
For the first time, one species from the family Macrochironidae, is recorded from the Gulf of Mexico. The species, Macrochiron sargassi, was found on the west coast of Florida, USA, while performing Sargassum washes.
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Se registra por primera vez para el Golfo de Mexico un representante de la familia Macrochironidae. La especie Macrochiron...
The first record of an amphipod belonging to the family Trischizostomatidae from the Caribbean Sea is presented.
Rhypasma Pascoe, 1862 is transferred from the tribe Stenosini (Pimeliinae) to Belopini (Lagriinae). Caribanosis gen. nov. is described and placed in Stenosini (Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) to hold Rhypasma quisqueyanus Garrido et Varela, 2011. The following new combination is established: Caribanosis quisqueyanus (Garrido et Varela, 2011), comb. nov....
A new species of deep water isopod of the genus Syscenus is described. This is the first record of a species of this genus for the Gulf of Mexico. A key for the identification of all the species of the genus is also presented.
RESUMEN. Se describe una especie nueva perteneciente al género Amathillopsis, la cual se caracteriza por carecer de ojos, flagelo accesorio con un solo artejo, telson emarginado distalmente, con un proceso espinoso mediodorsal en los pereionitos 4-7, pleonitos 1-3 y urosomito 1. Esta es la primera cita de una especie de la familia Amathillopsidae P...
Fifty species and one subspecies of parasite copepods are registered for the Cuban archipelago. Copepods were found in hosts belonged to different taxa (host number in parentheses): sponges (7), cnidarians (3), mollusks (3), crustacean (3), echinoderms (5), a non-identified ascidia, species and subspecies of fishes (18), and a subspecies of manatee...
A new species of the genus Epimeria Costa, 1851 is described based on material collected in the expeditions of the R/V Gerda and R/V John Elliott Pillsbury to 198-1224 meters deep. This new species can be distinguished of the others in the genus by the combination of several characters including: rostrum long, reaching the half of the second articl...
Se presenta la segunda adición a la lista de crust{ceos cubanos. Esta incluye todas las especies marinas, estuarinas y dulceacuícolas epigeas e hipogeas, que han sido citados para el país, desde la publicación de la primera adición hasta el presente. Se presentan adem{s cinco especies de dec{podos fósiles.
En esta nueva versión se sigue el mismo si...
Two new species of copepods belonging to the Peltidiidae family are herein described. One of these species was attributed to the genus Peltidium and belongs to the group of species composed of P. ovale Thompson I. C. & Scott A., 1903; P. simplex Nicholls, 1941; P. perturbatum Geddes, 1968; P. proximus Varela, 2005. These species share the elongate...
Se registra por primera vez para el archipiélago cubano Palicus alternatus Rathbun, 1897. Esta es la octava especie del género Palicus Philippi, 1838 registrada para Cuba.
Se propone un nuevo nombre, para eliminar la homonimia, en una especie del género Asterocheres Boeck, 1859 descrita para el archipiélago cubano.
As an effort towards improving our knowledge of the Mexican harpacticoid fauna, new species and new records of different families have been published during the last 14 years. The material presented herein belongs to a group of species of Alteutha characterized by the lack of inner armature in P2-P4 EXP1. The new species herein presented seems to b...
Three families and five genera are recorded for the first time from Cuban Oligocene-Miocene geologic age. The genera Arenaeus (Portunidae) and Spinolambrus (Parthenopidae) are recorded for the first time for the fossil record. A new species of Spinolambrus is also described.
First records of peracarid crustaceans obtained from the Cayo Matías Ocean Blue Hole, southwestern Cuba, are documented. In addition, two new species of isopod and amphipod are herein described. Gnathia micheli n. sp. (Isopoda, Gnathiidae) and Boca normae n. sp. (Amphipoda, Aristiidae) were associated with filamentous algae at a depth of 20 m. Both...
The amphipods of Coboldus are considered as antipolar members of iphimediids with loss of a maxilla 1 palp article 2. A new amphipod species of the genus Coboldus (Family Iphimediidae) collected from soft bottom in a submarine cave, Northern Cuba, is described. Coboldus chazaroi sp. nov., differs from all other known species by the following charac...
Physalia physalis is a marine cnidarian from which high molecular weight toxins with hemolytic and neurotoxic effects have been isolated. In the present work two novel toxins, PpV9.4 and PpV19.3 were purified from P. physalys by bioactive guideline isolation. It involved two steps of column chromatography, gel filtration and RP-HPLC. The molecular...
Se describe una especie nueva de copépodo perteneciente al género Bradypontius Giesbrecht, 1895, hallado en la región Sur Central de Cuba. Esta es la primera ocasión en que se registra un representante de la familia Artotrogidae Brady, 1880, para el Mar Caribe.
Crude extracts from coelenterates have been a source of neurotoxins that still possesses a great potential in the discovery of novel drugs. Studies about the effect of cnidarians venoms upon insulin release are not common, despite the coincidences in ionic mechanisms of glucose stimulated insulin secretion and neurotransmitter release. In the prese...
ABSTRACT. Four families, five genera and five species of marine hydroids are recorded for the first time from Cuban archipelago. A new species of Zanclea Gegenbaur associated with octocorals is described. It constituted the second known species of this genus living associated with octocorals.
Three new species of siphonostomatoid copepods belonging to the genus Asterocheres Boeck, 1859 are described. They were associated with sponges of the genera Niphates Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864, and Callyspongia Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1864. Asterocheres paraboecki Johnsson, 1998 is recorded for the first time from Cuban archipelago.
The barnacle Amphibalanus reticulatus (Utinomi, 1967) is recorded for the first time from the Cuban archipelago. The foreign vessel activity seems to be responsible for the introduction of this species in Cuba.
ABSTRACT Two families, five genera and ten species of marine copepods belonging to the orders Cyclopoida, Harpacticoida and Siphonostomatoida are recorded for the first time in the Cuban archipelago. Eight of the species are parasites of marine fishes and the others are free living species. New host records for Caligus ocyurus are registered in add...
El estudio de la Colección Paleontológica del Museo de Historia Natural de Cuba permitió identificar restos de crustáceos que resultan la primera cita para el Neógeno de Haití de la familia Calappidae y del genero Calappa.
The study of the Paleontological Collection of the National Museum of the Natural History of Cuba permit to identify crustace...
Se estudió material de picnogónidos colectados mediante SCUBA y snorkel en varias localidades del archipiélago cubano y se registran por primera vez para Cuba dos géneros y cinco especies de estos organismos. Todas las especies estudiadas son ilustradas.
The study of material of pycnogonids collected with SCUBA and snorkel in several localities o...
Se describe una nueva especie de copépodo perteneciente al género Orecturus, encontrado en asociación con el octocoral Eunicea mammosa en la provincia de La Habana. Dentro del género, esta especie es más similar a O. grandisetiger y O. bahiensis, debido a la presencia de tres setas en el exopodito de la antena, dos distales y una lateral. Sin embar...
Cnidarians comprise a taxon with a high biodiversity of cytolitic, neurotoxic and cardiotoxic compounds, which have not been studied on insulin release. We tested the effect of a crude extract of Zoanthus sociatus (Ellis, 1767) and the low molecular weight fraction of this extract on insulin secretion in isolated rat β-cells and also in a glucose t...
Hydrozoans from shallow waters were collected at 17 stations in July 2004. Stations were located in mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and coral reefs. Two subclases (Anthoathecata and Leptothecata) of hydrozoans were found, including 11 families, 27 genera and 34 species. The collection site, depth, type of substra- te, description and pictures ar...
RESUMEN En la actualidad se posee un limitado conocimiento sobre los crustáceos fósiles de Cuba. En el presente trabajo se esboza el registro de los decápodos fósiles de diferentes edades en nuestro país. El registro más antiguo de decápodo para Cuba es Lophoranina precocious del Campaniano – Maastrichtiano (Fm. Cotorro); además, es conocida una qu...
A new species of Entoprocta belonging to the genus Loxosomella is described: L. cubana n. sp. It has been found on the coast of Cuba living as an epizoite on the sponge Aiolochroia crassa. It is one of the largest Loxosomatidae described up to now and the first record of an entoproct for Cuba.
A new species of fossil decapod of the genus Eriosachila is described from the Colón Formation (Oligocene - Miocene) of Cuba. This is the second species of this genus found in strata outside of the Eocene.
Se describe una especie nueva de Rhypasma de República Dominicana. las diferencias fundamentales con las restantes especies conocidas, también son presentadas.
RESUMEN Se registran por vez primera vez para el archipiélago cubano el género Lytocarpia y la especie L. distans. Este es el más somero de los hallazgos de esta especie de hidrozoo. ABSTRACT The genus Lytocarpia and the species L. distans are recorded for the first time for Cuban archipielago. This is the most shallow find of this hydroid species.
Se registra por primera vez para Cuba la asociación de tres crustáceos colectados sobre el octocoral
Gorgonia flabellum. Se trata de Conopea galeata (Cirripedia), Elasmopus levis y Stenothoe sp.
(Amphipoda). Además, E. levis es la séptima especie del género Elasmopus que se registra para la fauna
cubana de anfípodos. Finalmente, se ofrecen varia...
RESUMEN Se describe una especie nueva de anfípodo del género Photis colectada en las aguas de la Región Oriental del archipiélago cubano. Se presentan las diferencias más notables de dicha especie con las dos más semejantes presentes en el área: Photis sp. F. (LeCroy, 2000) y P. sarae Souza-Filho y Serejo, 2010. Es la tercera especie del género reg...
Resumen En la actualidad se posee un limitado conocimiento sobre los crustáceos fósiles de Cuba. En el presente trabajo se esboza el registro de los decapados fósiles de diferentes edades en nuestro país. El registro más antiguo de decápodo para Cuba es Lophoranina precocious del Campaniano – Maastrichtiano (Fm. Cotorro); además, es conocida una qu...
A new species of copepod belonging to the genus Hermannella Canu, associated with bivalve molluscs of the genus Spondylus L. is described. The genus Chelacheres, two copepods species:Acanthomolgus affinis Stock and Chelacheres longipalpus (Stock and Humes) living in association with marine invertebrates are recorded for the first time from Cuban ar...
The rediscovery of the damselfish Stegastes otophorus (Poey, 1860) in Cuba is recorded. The localization of six demes with information on the habitat, behaviour, and feeding habits of one of them is also given. The living coloration of a juvenil and one adult from two different demes are described. In order to facilitate comparisons, three juvenile...
Paraeuphylax cubaensis, a new genus and new species of decapod, is described from the Colón Formation
(Oligocene–Miocene) in the Matanzas province, Cuba. The Podophthalminae was a diverse subfamily during the late Paleogene and early Neogene
ABSTRACT. Three families, four genera and four species of fossil crustacean (Decapoda: Brachyura) were studied. The following taxa are recorded for the first time for the Cuban Oligocene-Miocene belonging to Colon formation, Matanzas, Cuba: Raninoides sp. (Raninidae), Necronectes collinsi Schweitzer et al. (Portunidae), Iliacantha liodactylus Rathb...
Los representantes de la Clase Pycnogonida que habitan en las aguas del Archipiélago Cubano han pasado prácticamente desapercibidos para los especialistas, lo cual contrasta con las más de 60 especies registradas para el Golfo de México y el Mar Caribe (Child, 1992 y 2009). Hasta la fecha han sido registradas solo 12 especies en trabajos aislados,...
The family Sagittiferidae is recorded for the first time for Cuban Archipelago. Convolutriloba retrogemma, new record for Cuba, was found in an exhibition tank at the National Aquarium of Cuba, Havana city.
Se registran por primera vez una familia, dos géneros y cuatro especies de cirripedios para el archipiélago cubano; el primero habita sobre octocorales, el segundo sobre otro cirripedio y los restantes sobre corales. El número total de especies de cirripedios en aguas cubanas asciende a 35.
Dos especies de copépodos pertenecientes al género Asterocheres fueron halladas en recolectas recientes al norte de la provincia de Matanzas. Se describe la especie asociada a la esponja del género Callyspongia Duchassaing y Michelotti, 1864, como una nueva especie de copépodo sifonostomatoideo para la ciencia. Se discuten las diferencias más impor...
Los machos de Peltidium nichollsi y P. proximus se describen por primera vez. Además, esta es la primera cita de P. nichollsi para aguas cubanas.
Se describen dos especies de copépodos pertenecientes al género Asterocheres Boeck, 1860,. los cuales fueron hallados asociados a esponjas del género Agelas Duchassaing y Michelotti, 1864. Se ofrecen además las diferencias más importantes entre las especies nuevas y las más similares.
Una especie nueva perteneciente a la tribu Coelometopini de la familia Tenebrionidae, encontrada en la República Dominicana, es descrita e ilustrada.
Los representantes del Orden Semaeostomae, más conocidos comúnmente como medusas, están entre los organismos más conspicuos del plancton gelatinoso. Estos cnidarios no solo tienen gran importancia ecológica, pues forman parte de las tramas tróficas del océano, sino también impor-tancia económica y medica pues pueden afectar actividades pesqueras o...
One family, three genera and three species are recording for the first time for Cuban waters. Also this is the first finding of Pteroclava kempfi in the Atlantic Ocean.
Physalia physalis is a marine cnidarian from which high molecular weight toxins with hemolytic and neurotoxic effects have been isolated. In the present work, two novel toxins, PpV9.4 and PpV19.3 were purified from P. physalis by bioactive guideline isolation. It involved two steps of column chromatography, gel filtration and RP-HPLC. The molecular...
Although Cuba is the most studied Caribbean island with regard to freshwater Cladocera, our knowledge of their species composition and distribution is still limited. In this study, all available published and unpublished, reliable sources were reviewed for all records of this group of crustaceans. Thus, a revised and updated list of 70 species of t...
Three families, two genera and two species are recorded for the first time for the Cuban Cretaceous to Pleistocene geologic age. The genera Persephona Leach, 1817 (Leucosiidae), Mithrax Desmarest, 1823 (Majidae) and Panopeus Milne Edwards, 1834 (Panopeidae) are well known in the Recent of the Caribbean region. Fossils of these taxa are found in for...
Three families, two genera and two species are recorded for the first time for the Cuban Cretaceous to Pleistocene geologic age. The genera Persephona Leach, 1817 (Leucosiidae), Mithrax Desmarest, 1823 (Majidae) and Panopeus Milne Edwards, 1834 (Panopeidae) are well known in the Recent of the Caribbean region. Fossils of these taxa are found in for...
Hidrozoos TECADOS (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptothecatae) con fase pólipo conocida de Cuba. Thecatae Hydrozoa (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptothecatae) with known polyp phase of Cuba. RESUMEN Se presenta la lista actualizada de los hidrozoos tecados de Cuba (Leptothecatae), su distribución horizontal y una clave de identificación de las familias señaladas. E...
A species of gobid fish belonging to the genus Barbulifer Eigenmann y Eigenmann, 1888 is recorded for the first time from Cuban waters. This is also the first record of this genus for the Cuban archipelago.
The blenny Malacoctenus delalandei (Valenciennes, 1836) previously recorded to Cuba in base of a specimen collected in Miramar's littoral, Playa, was misidentified. It is actually an individual that belongs to the taxon Malacoctenus macropus and therefore should be removed from the marine Cuban ichthiofauna. The former specimen is compared with a r...
A species of Anilocra (Isopoda) is recorded first time for Cuban waters.
Three families, five genera and six species of copepods and one family, two genera and two species of cnidarians, all marine, are recorded for the first time for Cuban waters.
The family Melphidippidae and the genus Hornellia (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) are recorded for the first time from Cuban archipelago. The amphipod H. habanensis new species is described. Important differences among the new species and the two previously recorded ones (H. tequestae and H. atlanticus Thomas and Barnard, 1986) for the Topical Western Nort...
The first record from Cuba of Acanthemblemaria chaplini Böhlke, 1957 is the one recorded by Valdés-Muñoz and Garrido (1987), and not that by Valdés-Muñoz and Silva Lee (1980). This latter record is based instead, in a specimen of Acanthemblemaria aspera (Longley, 1927). In addition, the life coloration of a specimen of A. chaplini from the same loc...
A new species of copepod belongs to genus Heterolaophonte Lang, 1948 is described from Cuba. This species was found in association with Acanthopleura granulata (Gmelin, 1791) (Polyplacophora). It constituted the first record of this kind of association.
Nota: En la versión digital de éste número se encuentran las figuras a mayor escala.
RESUMEN Se presenta una clave ilustrada para la identificación de todas las especies de camarones de interés comercial que existen en el Archipiélago Cubano. Esta incluye claves dicotómicas para los dos Sub-ordenes, un Infraorden, una Superfamilia, tres Familias,...
Members of the phylum Sipuncula (peanut worms) are worm-shaped and inhabit the marine benthos. They generally burrow into sand or mud, into coralline rock or inhabit abandoned mollusc shells. Their geographic distribution ranges from the polar seas to the tropics and their depth range spans from the intertidal zone to 6860 m (Edmonds, 2000). The fi...
A new amphipod crustacean of the genus Rhachotropis (Gammaridea: Eusiridae), collected in association with a deep sea sponge, is herein described. The main differences between this new amphipod and all other known are also given. This is the first record of the genus in the Cuban waters. Résumé. On décrit une nouvelle espèce d'amphipode du genre Rh...
A new genus of amphipod family, Eusiridae (Gammaridea) which is close related to Eusiroides Stebbing is stablished. A new species belonging to the new genus is also described. Studied material comes from the alcohol into which the deep sea siliceous Cuban sponge (genus Lefroyella) was preserved. The main differences among the new taxa and those pre...
The genus Aristias is recorded for the first time from Caribbean sea. A new species, A. bicornuta, associated to the sponge Lefroyella is described and illustrated from Cuba.
A new species of copepod belonging to the genus Orecturus Humes, 1992 is described. It was collected in association with the octocorals Briareum asbestinum (Pallas, 1766) y Eunicea tourneforti Edwards y Haime, 1857. It is the first record of this genus from the Tropical Western Atlantic.
A new species of copepod belonging to the genus Asterocheres Boeck, 1860 is described. It was collected in association with the sponge Ptilocaulis walpersi. (Duchassaing y Michelotti, 1864). Most important differences among the new Asterocheres and the close related congeneric species are also given.
A new genus, Tantena and a new species T. slatarskii are described. A first record of the family Ochlesidae and genus Curidia, with the description of C. monicae n. sp. from Cuba are given., T. slatarskii n. sp., Curidia monicae n. sp., Cuba.
Se describe una especie nueva de isópodo flabelífero del género Cirolana, de la familia Ciro-lanidae. El material objeto de este estudio fue encontrado cuando se tamizó el alcohol en que per-manecía incluida una esponja hexactinélida colectada durante las Expediciones conjuntas de las universidades de Harvard y de La Habana, a bordo del B/I "Atlant...
Se describe una nueva especie de camarón stenopodideo del género Spongiocaris (Pleocyemata, Stenopodidea). Se ofrecen además las principales diferencias entre esta nueva especie y las otras tres conocidas hasta el presente. La especie fue encontrada al tamizar el alcohol en que se encontraba inmersa, desde 1939. Este hallazgo constituye el segundo...
RESUMEN Se presenta una lista con los 75 crustáceos (3 ostrácodos, 37 peracáridos, 35 decápodos) que se encontraron en la playa María La Gorda, costa Sur de la Península de Guanahacabibes, en la Provincia de Pinar del Río. Cuba. También se registran por primera vez para aguas cubanas un género de ostrácodo, una especie de anfípodo, dos de carídeos,...
The toxicity of biomolecules obtained from sea anemones in vitro does not necessarily justify their function as toxins in the physiology of the anemone. That is why anatomical and physiological considerations must be taken into account in order to define their physiological role in the organism. In this work, antibodies generated to Sticholysin II,...
Two families, three genera and three species of benthic harpacticoid copepods are recorded for the first time for Cuban waters. The depth and type of substrate of each locality are also given.
A new species of copepod of the genus Asteropontius, associated with the coral Mycetophyllia lamarckiana Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848 is described. This is the first record of the genus from the Cuban Archipelago, as well as, the first finding of a species of this genus in association with M. lamarckiana.
A new species of harpacticoid copepod belonging to the genus Peltidium is described. It is closed related to P. perturbatum Geddes, 1968 from Bahamas. This constituted the first record of the family Peltidiidae from Cuba.
