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Redescription of the fish-parasitic isopod Cymothoa ianuarii Schioedte & Meiner...
Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Huber, Augusto Frederico; Araujo, Paula BeatrizCymothoa ianuarii Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 is rediscovered almost 136 years after its original description and redescribed from specimens collected in the state of São Paulo. This species is mainly characterized by adult females with cephalon with conspicuous eyes and not deeply immersed in pereonite 1, pereonites 5-6 much wider than 4, pleotelson twice as wide as long and pleopods 1-5 decreasing in size; ...
Metazoan parasites of cetaceans off the northeastern coast of Brazil
Carvalho, Vitor Luz; Bevilaqua, Claudia Maria Leal; Iñiguez, Alena Mayo; Matthews-Cascon, Helena; Ribeiro, Felipe BezerraThis study represents the first survey of the parasitic fauna of cetaceans off the northeastern coast of Brazil. Parasites were collected from 82 animals rescued from the states of Ceará to Bahia, including the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. A total of 14 species of cetaceans were evaluated: Sotalia guianensis, Stenella sp., Stenella clymene, Stenella longirostris, Stenella coeruleoalba, Stenella frontalis...
Morphometric sexual maturity and allometric growth of the crab Sesarma rectum R...
Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Matthews-Cascon, Helena; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaThe size at sexual maturity and the allometric growth of the semi-terrestrial crab Sesarma rectum were studied in an impacted tropical mangrove in northeast Brazil. Crabs were monthly collected during spring low-tide periods, from October 2009 through September 2010. A catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) technique was used to sample the crab population, with two-hour sampling periods, by two people. A total of 492 cra...
First record of Xenobalanus globicipitis (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) on Stenella ...
Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Carvalho, Vitor Luz; Bevilaqua, Cláudia Maria Leal; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaThe present contribution reports for the first time the sessile barnacle Xenobalanus globicipitis as an epizoic of the striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba in the oligotrophic waters of north-eastern Brazil. One barnacle specimen was found on a dead cetacean in Ceara´ State, north-eastern Brazil. Diagnosis and figures of the barnacle are provided and the relationship between the epizoic and the host discussed.
Marine debris from the past - contamination of the Brazilian shore by a WWII wreck
Teixeira, Carlos Eduardo Peres; Cavalcante, Rivelino Martins; Soares, Marcelo Oliveira; Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaIn 2018, unidentified packages appeared along approximately 1600 Km of the Brazilian coastline causing widespread pollution to beaches and danger to society. The packages were found to be bales of raw rubber ranging in size from 0.06 m3 to 3.4 m3 and weighing up to 200 kg. A few bales were marked with the stamp “Product of French Indochina” and colonized by the barnacle Lepas anatifera, an oceanic species. We f...
Predatory behavior of the paguroid Dardanus venosus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1848) (A...
Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Matthews-Cascon, Helena; Bezerra, Luís Ernesto ArrudaPaguroids are usually detritivorous organisms and the occurrence of predation on mollusks is very unusual. Th is contribution reports the occurrence of a predatory behavior of the paguroid Dardanus venosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1848) on the snail Aurantilaria aurantiaca (Lamarck, 1816). Single specimen of paguroid was found att acking the snail in a sea grass meadow dominated by Halodule wrightii Ascherson on the ...
Population biology and morphometric sexual maturity of the fiddler crab Uca (Uc...
Silva, Francisca Mariana Rufino de Oliveira; Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaThe population biology and size at sexual maturity of Uca (Uca) maracoani were studied for the first time in a semi-arid tropical estuary of northeastern Brazil. A catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) technique was used to sample the crabs, on the surface and inside burrows, for 60-min sampling periods by one person on a monthly basis during spring low tide periods from June 2013 to June 2014 in an estuary area of Baix...
Shell occupation and ectosymbionts of two hermit crab species in the South Atla...
Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Matthews-Cascon, Helena; Mantelatto, Fernando Luis; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaThis study characterized shell occupation by two species of hermit crabs and analysed the occurrence of ectosymbionts on their shells, in a comparative way. The hermit crabs Clibanarius antillensis and Calcinus tibicen were selected for this comparative study because of their abundance and wide distributions. Specimens were collected manually during spring low tides every 2 months, from February 2011 to January...
Primitive decapods from the deep sea: fi rst record of blind lobsters(Crustacea...
Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda; Ribeiro, Felipe BezerraWe report herein the occurrence of the infraorder Polychelida in Potiguar Basin, northeastern Brazil. Specimens were collected by the project “Avaliação da Biota Bentônica e Planctônica na porção off shore das Bacias Potiguar e Ceará”, developed by the Brazilian Oil Company (PETROBRAS). Th ree species were recorded for the fi rst time in this region: Pentacheles validus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880, Polycheles typhlo...
Registro do caranguejo Calyptraeotheres garthi (Fenucci, 1975) (Brachyura, Pinn...
Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra; Cascon, Helena Matthews; Bezerra, Luis Ernesto ArrudaThis study reports the occurrence of the pea-crab Calyptraeotheres garthi (Fenucci, 1975) for the State of Ceará, Northeastern Brazil. The crab was found associated to the calyptraeid limpet Crepidula plana (Say, 1822) in a Voluta ebraea (Linnaeus, 1758) shell occupied by the hermit crab Petrochirus diogenes (Linnaeus, 1758). This record represents the northernmost occurrence for the species in the Atlantic Oce...