{"title":"Anfibios y reptiles de los matorrales de cactáceas del sur de Cuba","authors":"Irelis Bignotte-Giró, Ansel Fong G.","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.357","url":null,"abstract":"Los Matorrales de cactáceas del sur de Cuba constituyen una ecorregión que solo se encuentra dispersa en franjas y fragmentos pequeños asociados a climas secos costeros de esta isla, con un área inferior a 3000 km2. Su estado de conservación se clasifica como \"Vulnerable\" y se considera que la naturaleza peligra en su territorio, por lo que es indispensable la actualización del conocimiento de su biodiversidad para contribuir a su preservación. En este estudio se presenta el inventario de los anfibios y reptiles de esta ecorregión en la franja suroriental de la isla, confeccionado a partir de la revisión bibliográfica y de colecciones, así como de muestreos de campo a diferentes sitios del área de estudio entre los años 2015 y 2022. En los muestreos se utilizó la metodología de registros de encuentros visuales con búsqueda activa de los animales, tanto de forma visual como auditiva, realizando muestreos diurnos y nocturnos. Se registran nueve especies de anfibios y 61 especies de reptiles, con predominio de las familias Eleutherodactylidae y Anolidae, y de los géneros Eleutherodactylus y Anolis. El endemismo es alto, con 77.8% en anfibios y 78.7% en reptiles, 22 especies son conocidas solamente de esta área. Tres especies de anfibios y 11 de reptiles se consideran amenazadas en la Lista Roja de UICN, además de otras cinco clasificadas como “Casi amenazada”. Se seleccionaron 25 especies consideradas como de mayor interés para la conservación en base a su endemismo local y grado de amenaza, las que deberían recibir la mayor prioridad para lograr su preservación en el área de estudio. La combinación de alta riqueza específica, endemismo local y especies amenazadas de los dos grupos enfatizan la relevancia de esta ecorregión para la conservación en Cuba y el Caribe.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141802618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relaciones bipartitas macroalgas epizoicas-cangrejos en lechos de macroalgas en la costa suroriental de Cuba","authors":"Asiel Cabrera Gerrero, Kider Garcés-Domínguez, Abdiel Jover Capote","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.356","url":null,"abstract":"El exoesqueleto de los crustáceos constituye un sustrato adecuado para que las macroalgas marinas desarrollen epibiosis. Entre los años 2018 y 2023 se recolectaron 58 individuos de crustáceos con macroalgas sobre sus exoesqueletos en seis localidades de Santiago de Cuba. A partir de esta información, se creó una matriz de abundancia de macroalgas por especie de crustáceo para su análisis utilizando el paquete bipartita en R. La red de interacción mostró 25 macroalgas epizoóticas creciendo en el exoesqueleto de seis especies de crustáceos, con 55 interacciones. La macroalga Lobophora variegata (J.V.Lamouroux) Womersley ex E.C.Oliveira se registra por primera vez en aguas cubanas sobre Mithraculus sculptus (Lamarck, 1818). La red macroalgas-crustáceos mostró baja especialización y alta robustez. Estas características son propias de interacciones mutualistas no obligatorias. Las interacciones se caracterizan por estar dominadas por especies periféricas, estas especies tienen el 82% de las interacciones dentro de su propio módulo. El 18% de las especies restantes son clave para la estructura de la red porque enlazan distintos módulos. Los valores de especialización, anidamiento y modularidad corresponden a los valores de vulnerabilidad y generalidad encontrados en la red macroalgas-crustáceos. Estos valores confirman que las macroalgas epizoóticas son generalistas en los lechos de macroalgas marinas.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141802300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. W. Viñola-Lopez, Osvaldo Jiménez-Vázquez, Abel Hernández Muñoz, C. R. Borges-Sellén, Alberto F. Arano-Ruiz, Jesús Paz Castro
{"title":"New Quaternary fossils from high elevation cave deposits in Cuba","authors":"L. W. Viñola-Lopez, Osvaldo Jiménez-Vázquez, Abel Hernández Muñoz, C. R. Borges-Sellén, Alberto F. Arano-Ruiz, Jesús Paz Castro","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.359","url":null,"abstract":"High elevation fossil deposits in Cuba have been poorly studied, and there is a limited understanding of how altitudinal changes could have affected the composition of faunal communities in the past. Here, we report fossils of 13 vertebrate species and an invertebrate from 11 late Quaternary cave deposits at elevations ranging from 532 to 1123 meters above sea level, located in the Guamuhaya Masiff in central Cuba. The composition of the vertebrate fauna assemblages recovered from these localities resembles that known from other lowland deposits and includes eight extinct, one extirpated, and four extant species. Furthermore, the specimens reported here record the highest elevation known for nine species recovered.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141805272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of the genus Upogebia Leach, 1802 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Upogebiidae) from the north coast of Cuba","authors":"Manuel Ortiz, S. Cházaro-Olvera","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.354","url":null,"abstract":"Los invertebrados marinos y estuarinos de la Playa Cojímar en la costa este de La Habana, noroeste de Cuba, son monitoreados desde hace más de 40 años, siendo los crustáceos el foco de estas actividades. En una recolección reciente de muestras de crustáceos, se obtuvieron, preservaron y estudiaron dos mudas de camarones de barro o upogébidos. Sólo Pomatogebia operculata (Schmitt, 1924) y Upogebia affinis (Say, 1818) fueron registradas anteriormente en aguas cubanas. Aquí se presenta la descripción de una nueva Upogebia. También se proporciona una tabla para diferenciar la nueva especie de U. jamaicensis Thistle, 1973 y U. toralae Williams & Hernández Aguilera (1998), las dos especies más cercanas.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141803170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Varela, Heather D Bracken-Grissom, Manuel Ortiz
{"title":"New records of deep-water marine amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean","authors":"Carlos Varela, Heather D Bracken-Grissom, Manuel Ortiz","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.360","url":null,"abstract":"New records of deep-sea marine amphipods are presented. Three families, three genera and three species (Chuneola paradoxa, Epimeria ortizi and Trischizostoma nicaeense) are recorded for the first time for the Gulf of Mexico. Another species, T. raschi, is recorded for the first time from the Florida Keys, the Lesser Antilles, and the eastern Atlantic Ocean.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141803794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depredación de Centruroides gracilis (Scorpiones: Buthidae) y Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Ixodida: Ixodidae) por Anolis sagrei (Squamata: Anolidae) en Cuba","authors":"Luis F. De Armas","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.361","url":null,"abstract":"Se registra, por primera vez, la depredación del escorpión Centruroides gracilis (Latreille, 1804) y de la garrapata común del perro (Rhipicephalus sanguineus s. l.) por Anolis sagrei Duméril & Bibron, 1837, hecho comprobado a partir de los fragmentos de ambos arácnidos contenidos en las heces fecales de este lagarto. El escorpión depredado era una ninfa I, en tanto de la garrapata se detectaron tres machos adultos en igual cantidad de bolos fecales examinados. Las observaciones fueron realizadas en septiembre de 2023 en la terraza de una vivienda urbana en San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba. Esta especie de lagarto constituye el sexto depredador conocido de R. sanguineus s. l. y de C. gracilis en Cuba. Además, es el tercer caso de depredación de un escorpión por A. sagrei.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141805544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel Hernández-Borroto, Samuel Hernández-Valencia
{"title":"Primeros reportes del ruiseñor Myadestes elisabeth (Passeriformes: Turdidae) en la provincia de la Habana, Cuba","authors":"Samuel Hernández-Borroto, Samuel Hernández-Valencia","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.362","url":null,"abstract":"Se presentan los dos primeros registros de localidad para el ruiseñor, Myadestes elisabeth (Lembeye, 1850), en la provincia La Habana. Los avistamientos tuvieron lugar entre las 7:30–9:00 a. m., en dos áreas boscosas del municipio La Habana del Este: 1, Reserva Florística Manejada Abra del río Cojímar y 2, el Abra del río Bacuranao. La distribución conocida de esta especie comprende cuatro de las cinco provincias que conforman a la Región Occidental cubana: Pinar del Río, Artemisa, La Habana y Mayabeque.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141803457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dos nuevos lugares de anidación para el flamenco del Caribe, Phoenicopterus ruber (Phoenicopteriformes: Phoenicopteridae), en el noroeste de República Dominicana","authors":"E. Fernández, M. Paulino, Luis Ramón Paulino","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.363","url":null,"abstract":"Se reportan dos nuevos sitios de anidación del flamenco caribeño (Phoenicopterus ruber) dentro del Parque Nacional Manglares de Estero Balsa en el noroeste de República Dominicana. El primer sitio, Laguna Manolo, estaba inactivo en el momento de la visita en el 2022, pero se documentaron 84 montículos de anidación y aproximadamente 200 flamencos volantones juveniles. El segundo sitio de anidación del 2023, Laguna Atravesada, se encontraba activo en el momento de la documentación y se registraron 305 montículos de anidación y una guardería de 166 polluelos recién nacidos.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joel C. Timyan, Anne-Isabelle Bonifassi, Jean-Marry Exantus
{"title":"Census of the American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber (Phoenicopteriformes: Phoenicopteridae) in Haiti","authors":"Joel C. Timyan, Anne-Isabelle Bonifassi, Jean-Marry Exantus","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi24.353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi24.353","url":null,"abstract":"An aerial census of the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) was conducted during February 20–27, 2024, in Haiti. Nineteen wetland sites were surveyed by fixed-wing aircraft over 4 days. Flamingos were detected at 5 sites and totaled an estimated 1333 individuals. The highest number of individuals was observed at the Estère mangroves and wetlands (1000), followed by Lac Azuéi (229), Lagon Grand Vide (76), Ile-à-Vache (25) and Pointe Mangle (3). It was not possible to census all the areas in Haiti where flamingos are known or expected to occur. Coastal areas that were omitted from this census included the western Tiburon Peninsula, the Cayemites, the Northwest, the Southeast and Tortuga Island. The census is likely an underestimate of the actual population in Haiti during the period of the study. Historical and recent data were compiled to map the distribution of the species in Haiti. It is recommended that Haiti increase the area of protected wetlands to ensure adequate feeding and resting habitats, but also to expand their spatial and temporal coverage and ensure conditions for breeding residents.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141805534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gloria Mariño-Briceño, J. Cappelletto, A. Ascanio, Esteban Agudo-Adriani, Aldo Cróquer
{"title":"Describing the dynamics of recruits and juvenile scleractinian corals using 3d models: a case study from Cayo Mero reef, Morrocoy National Park, Venezuela","authors":"Gloria Mariño-Briceño, J. Cappelletto, A. Ascanio, Esteban Agudo-Adriani, Aldo Cróquer","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi23.347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi23.347","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the dynamics of coral recruitment and post-settlement is fundamental to a better comprehension of coral reef dynamics and recovery. We studied the abundance and survivorship of coral recruits and juveniles together with benthic dynamics at a scale of months and centimeters in Playa Mero reef, a disturbed reef in Morrocoy National Park. For this, we used photogrammetry to monitor eight permanent 50x50 cm quadrats haphazardly deployed every 3–4 months over 18 months. Juveniles and recruits of Agaricia spp. were at least four times more abundant than reef builders such as Orbicella spp. A distance-based linear model showed that rugosity, macroalgae, coral cover, and sand were the most important benthic variables and predicted up to 46% of the spatial and temporal variation of recruit and juvenile corals. The mortality of juvenile corals was higher than net recruitment rates, and only a limited number of genera such as Agariciids, Colpophyllia, Porites, and Scolymia were observed as recruits. Using a logit model, we also found a positive relationship between the mean growth rate and survivorship of juvenile corals (Nagelkerke R2= 0.67). We concluded the lack of recruitment of large reef builders, and the rapid mortality of a limited number of juvenile species, might be a sign of a coral community's failure to increase coral cover.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139606808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}