Nilda E. Aponte’s research while affiliated with University of Puerto Rico System and other places

... Investigating deep-water habitats has been difficult due to the depth limitations of air-based SCUBA surveys (>30 m) (Appeldoorn & Baker 2013, Boman et al. 2016. Closed-circuit rebreathers, mixed-gas SCUBA surveys, and tools such as remotely operated vehicles have recently been used to characterize the physical and biological characteristics of deep reefs (Armstrong & Singh 2012, Ballantine et al. 2016, including fish, coral (Sherman et al. 2010), and sponge assemblages (Garcia-Hernandez et al. 2018). Moreover, emerging technologies such as multibeam sonar and underwater camera systems have promoted the study of deeper habitats (Boman et al. 2016, Cruz-Marrero et al. 2020. ...

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Newly discovered, deep-water nursery and spawning habitats of the queen conch, Aliger gigas, in Puerto Rico

... Tetrasporocistos seriados, individuales, ovales, 50-55 µm por 42-45 µm. Referencias: : Aponte et al. (1994). cita Aglaothamnion polyspermum (C. ...

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Elementos para el estudio de las macroalgas de Argentina.

... Wynne (1986). Gabrielson y Cheney (1987), Aponte et al. (1994) y Silva et ai. (1996). ...

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Lista de algas del Area de Protección Yum Balam, Quintana Roo, México

... A shallowwater collection was reported by Skelton and South (2007) from American Samoa as well as by Wynne (2001) from Oman (Arabian Sea). Hypoglossum caloglossoides was reported from 61 m depth in the Bahamas by Ballantine and Aponte (2005) and originally from Puerto Rico to 70 m depth (Ballantine et al., 2009). The holotype of the species, however, was collected at 11 m depth (Wynne and Kraft, 1985) and is also known from shallow water in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean (Hoffman and Wynne, 2015). ...

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The Mesophotic, Coral Reef-Associated, Marine Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea

... In total, 186 taxa (166 identified to species) were recognized from depths greater than 35 m. These species comprise some 40% of the total algal flora known from Puerto Rico (Ballantine and Aponte 2002a;Ballantine et al. 2009Ballantine et al. , 2011. Forty-three species (8% of the entire benthic flora of Puerto Rico) are mostly or entirely restricted to depths greater than 35 m. ...

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Macroalgae

... Thus, the specimens of D. hutchinsiae found in the Cape Martyan Nature Reserve (HBR no. 7 SCC), by the appearance and structure of the thalli, the nature of branching and cortication, the morphology and morphometry of the polysiphon and monosiphon branches, as well as tetrasporangial stichidia, correspond to the key diagnostic characteristics of a species [9,11,13]. ...

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Distribution of Dasya hutchinsiae Harvey, 1833 (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in the Northern Black Sea Region

... Thalli have thin-walled rhizoidal filaments, indeterminate pseudodichotomous growth, and sessile caliciferous cells. Renouxia was also reported in the Caribbean Sea from Puerto Rico (Ballantine et al. 2004) and in the Indo-Pacific: Philippines (Kraft et al. 1999), Papua New Guinea (Coppejans and Millar 2000), French Polynesia (Littler andLittler 2003, N'Yeurt and, Fiji (South and Skelton 2003), New Caledonia (Bittner et al. 2011), Thailand (Liao andCharatsee 2000), Rodrigues and Tanzania (De Clerck et al. 2004). Fredericq and Norris (1995) created the order and family (Rhodogorgonales and Rhodogorgonaceae) to include Rhodogorgon and Renouxia. ...

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Rhodenigma contortum, an obscure new genus and species of Rhodogorgonales (Rhodophyta) from Western Australia

... 43-49.] Anadyomene stellata (Wulfen) C. Agardh Puerto Rican Distribution: As Anadyomene stellata: Almodóvar and Blomquist 1961;Almodóvar 1964aBallantine 1977Ballantine , 1979Almodóvar and Ballantine 1983;Ballantine and Aponte 1997a;Ballantine et al. 1987;Ballantine and Aponte 2002;Ballantine et al. 2016. Guiry and Guiry (2022). ...

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The Marine Benthic Algal Flora of Puerto Rico, II. Chlorophyta and Prasinodermatophyta

... • Botryocladia spp.: red algae with branches bearing vesicles that resemble clusters of grapes. At least 10 species of Botryocladia exist in the western Atlantic Ocean (Ballantine and Aponte 2002;Gavio and Fredericq 2003). These species may be used in food or the aquarium trade. ...

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Better Practices for Sustainable Seaweed Cultivation in the Caribbean

... Among marine algal floras of the western Atlantic, Puerto Rico is arguably the best known of any Caribbean island, with new exploration and collections continuously yielding new species and species distribution records from its diverse inshore and shallow to deep-water offshore habitats. In the last 20 years alone, 31 new species have been recognized and described (Ballantine and Norris 1994, Aponte and Ballantine 1995, Norris and Ballantine 1995, Ballantine 2000, Huisman et al. 2001, Lopez-Piñero and Ballantine 2001, Ballantine et al. 2002a, 2010, Ballantine and Ruíz 2005, 2010,b, 2012, Velez and Vega 2005, Ballantine and Abbott 2006, Ballantine and Lozada-Troche 2008, Athanasiadis and Ballantine 2011, Athanasiadis et al. 2013, Bucher et al. 2014). In addition to 46 new geographic records previously recognized from Puerto Rico during this period , Ballantine and Wynne 1998, Ballantine et al. 2002b, 2009, Ballantine and Ruíz 2005 and the 11 new records herein, there are 533 species (not including infraspecific taxa) of benthic algae (Rhodophyta, Heterokontophyta, Chlorophyta) including macroscopic Chrysophyceae and Xanthophyceae (but excluding Cyanobacteria), now known from the marine and estuarine waters surrounding Puerto Rico. ...

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Notes on the benthic marine algae of Puerto Rico, XI: New records including new Meredithia (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) species