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A new species of Satanoperca (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Rio Tocantins basin, Brazil

Neotrop. ichthyol; 19 (4), 2021
A new species of Satanoperca is described from the Rio Araguaia, Rio Tocantins basin, Brazil, and non-native records are available in the upper Rio Paraná basin. It differs from congeneric species by color pattern characters, such as head and flank marks. It is included in the Satanoperca jurupari speci...

Crecimiento del pez Plagioscion squamosissimus (Perciformes: Sciaenidae) según la inferencia de modelos múltiples en la cuenca del Orinoco medio, Venezuela

Rev. biol. trop; 68 (3), 2020
Introducción: El uso a priori del modelo de von Bertalanffy ha sido generalmente utilizado en el estudio del crecimiento en peces, sin considerar la existencia de otros modelos de crecimiento que pueden producir un mejor ajuste de los datos que se utilizan; considerándose como una mejor alternativa el ...

Hábitos alimenticios de Caranx vinctus (Perciformes: Carangidae), especie de importancia comercial en la bahía de Acapulco, Guerrero, México

Rev. biol. trop; 68 (3), 2020
Introducción: Caranx vinctus es una especie importante en las pesquerías locales, utilizada como fuente de proteína para el consumo humano, sin embargo, su ecología trófica es poco conocida en las costas de Pacífico mexicano. Objetivo: Conocer los hábitos alimenticios de C. vinctus. Metodología: ...

Cryptocaryon irritans, a ciliate parasite of an ornamental reef fish yellowtail tang Zebrasoma xanthurum

Abstract Cryptocaryon irritans is an obligate parasitic ciliate protozoan of wild and cultured marine fish. It causes white spot disease, and infections with this pathogen can cause significant losses for aquarists and commercial marine cultures worldwide. This study reports the occurrence of C. irritans...

Morphological and molecular insights of a new species of trypanorhynchid cestode parasite, Nybelinia exostigmi, in the Narrowstripe cardinal fish Apogon exostigma

Abstract Forty specimens of the Narrowstripe cardinal fish Apogon exostigma were examined for gastrointestinal helminthes, and 62.5% were infected with a new trypanorhynchid larval cestode parasite. The morphology of its larval stage was studied based on light and scanning electron microscopy. The data r...

Revision of Bairdiella (Sciaenidae: Perciformes) from the western South Atlantic, with insights into its diversity and biogeography

Neotrop. ichthyol; 17 (1), 2019
The sciaenid genus Bairdiella comprises a group of relatively small fishes found in inshore waters and estuaries of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Despite recent analyses of the phylogenetic relationships of Bairdiella, there has been no comprehensive revision of the alpha taxonomy of the spec...

Occurrence of larvae of trypanorhynch cestodes in snappers (Lutjanidae) from northeast Brazil

Abstract Three species of snappers from artisanal, small-scale fisheries were examined for the presence of parasites. A total of 139 lutjanid fish were collected: 69 specimens of Lutjanus analis, 47 specimens of Lutjanus vivanus, and 23 specimens of Lutjanus synagris. Encysted plerocercoid of trypanorhy...

A new mouth brooder species of Gymnogeophagus with hypertrophied lips (Cichliformes: Cichlidae)

Neotrop. ichthyol; 16 (4), 2018
A new mouth breeder species of Gymnogeophagus is described from a tributary of the río Uruguay. It is distinguished from most species of the genus by the presence of hypertrophied lips, and from G. labiatus and G. pseudolabiatus by the color pattern. The presence of successive allopatric species of the ...

Development of EPIC-PCR Markers for Lutjanus purpureus (Lutjanidae-Perciformes) and their Potential Applicability in Population Analyses

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 89 (3,supl), 2017
ABSTRACT In the present study, a novel set of eight EPIC primers were developed for Lutjanus purpureus and assayed in five other marine teleosts including three lutjanids, one scianid and one anablepid. Most of the genomic regions used in this study presented genetic diversity indexes equal or greater th...

La estructura de tallas como evidencia del establecimiento de Pterois volitansScorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) en el sur del Caribe mexicano

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (1), 2016
ResumenEl pez león (P. volitans), ha invadido todo el Caribe mexicano y Golfo de México, con un potencial de causar impactos negativos en el arrecife. En el sur del Caribe Mexicano se registró por vez primera en julio 2009, y a seis años del primer reporte, se han implementado algunas medidas de cont...