Pablo Javier Torres

National Scientific and Technical Research Council | conicet · IBS - Instituto de Biología Subtropical

New record of the freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta sowerbii, Lenkester, 1880) in the province of Misiones, fourth documented record for Argentina. Nuevo registo de la medusa de agua dulce (Craspedacusta sowerbii, Lenkester, 1880) en la provincia de Misiones, cuarto registro documentado para Argentina

The Fluorescent Frog (Boana punctata) and the Uruguay Harlequin Frog (Lysapsus limellum) are two hylid species found in seasonal swamps and along large rivers in South America. Despite their wide distribution in the Amazon and Paraná River basins, they had never been recorded along the margins of the more than 340 km of the Paraná River in the prov...

Predation event of the banana spider (genus Cupiennius) on the tree frog Dendropsophus carnifex in Mindo, Pichincha Province, Ecuador

The aim of this paper is to report 10 predation events of anuran amphibians by giant water bugs of the genus Lethocerus in different localities in northeastern Argentina. With the exception of Scinax fuscovarius and Physalaemus biligonigerus, they are all new records of adult anurans being prey to these invertebrates. We conclude that this interact...

PAHs are persistent pollutants released into the environment by fossil fuels burning and leak during petroleum operations. Associated with suspended particles upon entering marine ecosystem are accumulated by benthic fauna. Human exposure occurs mainly from ingestion such as gastropods consumption. The objective was to determine PAHs in sediments a...

The invasive Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) is one of the most widespread introduced species of reptiles, being present in the New World at least 500 years ago. In this work, we report for the first time, the presence of the invasive gecko H. mabouia in the dry Chaco, a biogeographic region included in the Gran Chaco Sudamericano. We...

Predation attempt between the fish Hoplias malabaricus and the rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

This note was aimed at reporting the presence of the "European green crab" Carcinus maenas in the coast of Nuevo Gulf (Chubut, Argentina). This new record extends the actual distribution range of this species 250 km to the north of San Jorge Gulf, where it was previously reported. C. maenas is one of the most successful aquatic invaders in the worl...

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were assessed in blubber from 35 dead Southern Right Whales (SRW - Eubalaena australis) stranded at Península Valdés, Argentina. The life cycle includes a feeding period in high productivity areas of the South West Atlantic and a reproductive period in coastal template waters of...

The Pantanal cat, Leopardus colocolo braccatus, has been reported for grasslands and subtropical humid forests in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina. Here we report a dead Pantanal cat in the Moxos savannahs of the Beni Department of Bolivia, representing the first record of this taxon for Bolivia. This record, in combination with a reassessme...