{"title":"Algas epibiontes en braquiuros (Crustacea) de dos pocetas intermareales en la costa suroriental de Cuba","authors":"Asiel Cabrera Guerrero, A. Capote","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I13.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I13.189","url":null,"abstract":"Se identifican las algas epibióticas en tres braquiuros que habitan en pocetas intermareales. Los braquiuros se recolectaron mediante buceo SCUBA y se le retiraron todas las algas presentes en el exoesqueleto. Se identifican 15 algas epibióticas sobre Macrocoeloma trispinosum (Latreille, 1825), Omalacantha bicornuta (Latreille, 1825) y Actaea bifrons Rathbun, 1898. Las especies más frecuentes son algas filamentosas y pequeñas de las familias Ceramiaceae y Cladophoraceae. Las algas Sphacelaria tribuloides y Cladophora catenate se identificaron sobre los exoesqueletos de las tres especies de braquiuros.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48760322","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":"Natural and anthropogenic factors as taphonomic agents in the differential preservation of paleontological remains from the fossil deposit “Las Llanadas”, Central Cuba","authors":"J. Martínez-López","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I13.194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I13.194","url":null,"abstract":"The results of a taphonomic analysis carried out on the vertebrate fossil deposit “Las Llanadas”, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, are presented. The origin of the deposit is analyzed through features of the accumulated sediments, combined with the geological structure of the study area. The type of fossiliferous deposit represented was determined according to the categorizations proposed for Cuba by several authors. Differential preservation registered, between the recent material and the fossil and subfossil material, was analyzed by considering the mechanisms of taphonomic alteration identified as direct evidence of specific biostratinomic and fossildiagenetic processes to which the extracted remains were subjected. Anthropogenic and natural factors are discussed as responsible for the current accumulation features of the deposit. The historical reconstruction of the paleontological interventions on the site, during the last century, had been an important element to understand the features of the current fossil assemblage.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48156504","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":"The vulnerability of leaflitter ants to forest disturbances in the island of Puerto Rico, Greater Antilles","authors":"Miguel A. García","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I13.193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I13.193","url":null,"abstract":"Reduced biodiversity and high number of endemics characterize island ecosystems. Island natives and endemics are considered more vulnerable than continental species to exotic species invasions and habitat changes. The effect of replacing a native forest by an exotic wood plantation was studied on the assemblage of native and endemic ant species. The main hypothesis was that endemic and native ant species were more vulnerable to habitat changes than the exotic ant species. Nevertheless, it was found that native ants were more numerous and specious in both native and exotic plantations. Also, high numbers of two endemic ants were detected within exotic plantations, while only one exotic ant Hypoponera opacipeps was relatively abundant, particularly on native forest. In conclusion, exotic ant species did not dominate the communities studied nor the native and endemic ant assemblages seemed to be affected negatively by the forest replacement.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43637994","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":"Inventario rápido de los reptiles del refugio de vida silvestre El Cañón del río Gurabo, República Dominicana","authors":"Eveling Gabot-Rodríguez, Cristian Marte","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I13.195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I13.195","url":null,"abstract":"Se realizó un inventario de los reptiles presentes en el área protegida y refugio de vida silvestre El Cañón del río Gurabo o Furnia de Gurabo, localizada al suroeste del municipio de Mao, provincia Valverde, República Dominicana. Se registran 15 especies para la zona, agrupadas en 10 familias y 12 géneros. Se amplía la distribución del gecko gigante de la Hispaniola, Aristelliger lar.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47425639","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}
Miguel S. Núñez-Novas, R. Guzmán-Pérez, Alexandra Contreras-Puigbó
{"title":"Guía de identificación de los murciélagos de La Española y anotaciones sobre las familias y especies","authors":"Miguel S. Núñez-Novas, R. Guzmán-Pérez, Alexandra Contreras-Puigbó","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I13.191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I13.191","url":null,"abstract":"Se presenta una guía ilustrada de identificación de los quirópteros de La Española, basada en diez años de trabajo de campo y laboratorio. Se incluyen dos claves dicotómicas, una de las familias y otra de las especies, ambas respaldadas ampliamente por figuras y fotografías que ayudarán a la determinación de los táxones, así como del sexo, la madurez sexual y las estructuras más comunes de los murciélagos. Se consideran también varias claves publicadas previamente. En total, son consideradas 18 especies, distribuidas en las seis familias reconocidas para la isla: Noctilionidae, Phyllostomidae, Molossidae, Mormoopidae, Natalidae y Vespertilionidae. Se registran datos importantes sobre la ecología y distribución de las especies incluidas.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49458141","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}
Luis M. Díaz, J. Lemm, E. Briggs, Sharon L. Clark, A. Dannenberg, R. Gamber, J. Kelly, Patrick Laughlin, Gary Markowski, Erin L. Shelley, A. B. Bakel
{"title":"Citizen science enables a new locality record for a critically endangered toad, Peltophryne Florentinoi Moreno & Rivalta, 2007","authors":"Luis M. Díaz, J. Lemm, E. Briggs, Sharon L. Clark, A. Dannenberg, R. Gamber, J. Kelly, Patrick Laughlin, Gary Markowski, Erin L. Shelley, A. B. Bakel","doi":"10.33800/nc.v0i13.196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i13.196","url":null,"abstract":"The Zapata Toad (Peltophryne florentinoi) is reported from a new locality, Guajimico, which extends the distribution of this species to the Cienfuegos Province, in the central region of Cuba.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45235299","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}
Enrique Reynaldo de la Cruz, Antonio Veja Torres, María Eugenia Veja Cendejas, Alejandro Fernández Velázquez, J. C. Ramírez, Elier A. Córdova García, Pedro Cruz Ramírez
{"title":"Preferencias tróficas de Pterois volitans (Scorpaenidae) en el área costera de Holguín, Cuba","authors":"Enrique Reynaldo de la Cruz, Antonio Veja Torres, María Eugenia Veja Cendejas, Alejandro Fernández Velázquez, J. C. Ramírez, Elier A. Córdova García, Pedro Cruz Ramírez","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I13.188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I13.188","url":null,"abstract":"El pez león (Pterois volitans) es una especie arrecifal que ha invadido de una manera vertiginosa el Atlántico Occidental. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo caracterizar la dieta del pez león en la zona costera de Holguín, Cuba. Para ello, se realizaron ocho campañas de muestreo durante el período abril-noviembre de 2016 en seis sitios costeros, incluyendo arrecifes frontales, artificiales y bahías, ubicados entre los 14 y 35 m de profundidad. Se analizó un total de 250 ejemplares con tallas entre 8 y 33 cm de longitud estándar. A través del análisis de sus contenidos estomacales se identificaron 27 tipos de presa, las cuales se agruparon en las categorías tróficas de peces, crustáceos y moluscos. Los peces fueron el componente preferencial en la dieta del pez león en base a los métodos numérico, frecuencia de ocurrencia, gravimétrico e índice de importancia relativa. Dentro de las presas, las especies de peces Holocentrus rufus y Monocanthus tuckeri fueron las más representativas. La dieta del pez león en el área de estudio reflejó la disponibilidad de las presas en cada sitio, lo que sugiere que es un predador oportunista (Índice de Levin = 0.91). No se encontró diferencias estadísticas en relación a la similitud entre los sitios de muestreo a partir del aporte del peso de los diferentes componentes consumidos.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44340588","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":"Checklist of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Hispaniola","authors":"Carlos A. MARTÍNEZ-MUÑOZ, D. Perez-Gelabert","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I12.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I12.86","url":null,"abstract":"Ten years have passed since the last checklist of Hispaniolan Chilopoda was done and the last bibliographic compendium was published. In this work we expand the former list of species and bibliography, update the taxonomic classification and provide an assessment on Chilobase records. A new intensive literature review was performed and both recent and formerly overlooked myriapodological works were included. The treatment of supraspecific taxonomic ranks was updated and follows Chilobase 2.0. This catalogue lists 4 fossil taxa as well as 24 extant species of centipedes from Hispaniola, 9 of which are endemic. For each extant species considered, there is information on Hispaniolan synonymies and geographic distribution. Included are some clarifications on synonymies and locality problems, and species with uncertain taxonomic status are indicated. Chilobase 2.0 was tested for completeness and accuracy. We propose several updates, grouped by incorrect species records, records not backed by known literature and species not under their currently accepted synonym. We also recommend chilopodologists to maintain active collaboration and send their updates to this useful database.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49248229","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 Manuel Bedia Sánchez, Manuel Ortiz Touzet, Jonathan Franco López, Edgard Pelaez Rodríguez, José Luis Viveros Legorreta
{"title":"Primer registro de Livoneca redmani (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) como parásito del pez Oligoplites saurus en las aguas someras de Veracruz, México","authors":"Carlos Manuel Bedia Sánchez, Manuel Ortiz Touzet, Jonathan Franco López, Edgard Pelaez Rodríguez, José Luis Viveros Legorreta","doi":"10.33800/nc.v0i12.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i12.90","url":null,"abstract":"Se presenta la nueva asociación del isópodo cimotoido Livoneca redmani Leach, 1818, parasitando al pez carángido Oligoplites saurus (Bloch y Schneider, 1801; Pisces: Carangidae), colectado con un chinchorro comercial en Playa Barrancas, Veracruz, México. Se ofrecen además una diagnosis del isópodo, así como tres figuras ilustrativas de este y una del pez parasitado.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69689302","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}
Enrique Reynaldo, A. Vega, Alejandro Fernández, J. Cruz, Elier Córdova, P. Cruz
{"title":"Distribución y abundancia del pez león Pterois volitans en la zona costera de uso turístico de Holguín, Cuba","authors":"Enrique Reynaldo, A. Vega, Alejandro Fernández, J. Cruz, Elier Córdova, P. Cruz","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I12.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I12.85","url":null,"abstract":"En Cuba, a partir del 2007, se detectó la presencia de Pterois volitans, comúnmente llamado Pez León, especie invasora causante de grandes daños a comunidades ictiológicas autóctonas en diferentes regiones del mundo. Este trabajo se propuso determinar la distribución y abundancia del Pez León en diferentes sitios de muestreo en la zona costera de uso turístico de Holguín. El estudio se realizó en ocho campañas de muestreo durante el período abril-noviembre de 2016. Se seleccionó un total de siete sitios de monitoreo distribuidos en dos municipios de la provincia Holguín (Rafael Freyre y Banes). Se determinó la abundancia promediando los valores de cada recorrido lineal (individuo por cada 100 m2). Se determinó la talla y el peso por estación de muestreo con una cinta métrica y una balanza digital. La comparación múltiple de medias se realizó por PERMANOVA con 10 000 permutaciones empleando la distancia euclidiana. Se registró un total de 365 individuos. El sitio con mayor densidad fue Playa Blanca, con 12.42 ind/100 m2 y el de menor abundancia playa Don Lino, con 3.66 ind/100 m2, detectando solamente diferencia estadística entre este sitio con el resto de los sitios monitoreados. El mes con mayor densidad en el año de estudio fue abril, con 13.14 ind/100 m2, registrándose diferencias estadísticas significativas en cuanto a la abundancia entre este y los meses de mayo (6.42 ind/100 m2), julio (7.28 ind/100 m2) y agosto (6.71 ind/100 m2). La comparación de la abundancia poblacional entre años del Pez León, registrada en el 2016 con años anteriores demuestra diferencia estadística entre los años 2013 (p<0.001) y 2012 (p<0.01).","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42996511","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}