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Northernmost record of Chiroderma trinitatum (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in Latin America, with distributional comments 拉丁美洲三脊脊Chirderma trinitatum（翼手目，叶子科）的最北记录及其分布评论

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2020-02-03 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v50i1.a2

M. A. Turcios-Casco, Arnulfo Medina-Fitoria, Nereyda Estrada-Andino

引用次数: 6

First record of the Pale-face bat (Phylloderma stenops, Phyllostomidae) in the Caribbean lowlands of Gracias a Dios in eastern Honduras 洪都拉斯东部Gracias a Dios加勒比海低地苍白面蝙蝠的首次记录

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2020-02-03 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v50i1.a3

M. A. Turcios-Casco, Arnulfo Medina-Fitoria, Lucía R. Portillo-Álvarez

引用次数: 5

Monitoring of terrestrial avifauna in six habitats on St. Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands, 2009–2017 2009-2017年荷兰加勒比海圣尤斯特歇斯6个栖息地陆生鸟类监测

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2020-02-03 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v50i1.a4

H. Madden, A. V. van Zanten

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引用次数: 4

Life histories of guppies (Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1869; Poeciliidae) from the Pitch Lake in Trinidad 特立尼达Pitch湖孔雀鱼的生活史（Poecilia reticulata Peters，1869；Poecilidae）

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2019-11-12 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a13

Francesco Santi, D. Bierbach, M. Schartl, R. Riesch

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引用次数: 4

Disappearance of the rock-boring urchin Echinometra lucunter (Echinoidea: Echinodermata) in urchin-burrows along an extensive rock wall of Grotto Beach, San Salvador, Bahamas 钻岩海胆Echinometra lucunter（棘皮动物总科：棘皮动物纲）在巴哈马圣萨尔瓦多石窟海滩广阔岩壁上的海胆洞穴中消失

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2019-11-12 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a16

J. McClintock

引用次数: 0

The Arachnids (Arachnida) of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao 阿鲁巴、博奈尔和库拉索的蛛形纲（Arachnida）

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2019-11-12 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a3

S. Crews, A. Debrot, G. van Hoorn, W. Galvis, Lauren A. Esposito

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引用次数: 2

Pteropods and heteropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Thecosomata) and the Miocene Oxygen Minimum Zone, Trinidad 翼足类和异足类(软体动物、腹足动物、软体动物)和中新世最低氧带，特立尼达

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2019-10-22 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a5

B. Wilson, Annalize Q. McLean

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Size specific chemoreception and ontogenic responses to food in the brittle star Ophioderma cinerea (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) 蛇尾蛇皮螈(棘皮科:蛇皮总科)对食物的大小特异性化学接受和致瘤反应

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2019-10-22 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a7

S. A. May, Amanda M. Mikalian

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Soil analysis to identify precolonial salt production in the Turks & Caicos Islands, the Caribbean 土壤分析，以确定加勒比海特克斯和凯科斯群岛殖民前的盐生产

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2019-10-22 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a14

J. Morsink

{"title":"Soil analysis to identify precolonial salt production in the Turks & Caicos Islands, the Caribbean","authors":"J. Morsink","doi":"10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a14","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This article shows how archaeological and geological data can be used to visualize the ‘invisible’ production of salt through solar evaporation in the archaeological record. Evidence of salt exploitation from natural salt ponds is difficult to obtain using standard archaeological methods, limiting our ability to assess the significance of these practices in the past. Salt, however, was an important and valuable resource in many different cultural contexts. This study follows on previous research of a precolonial site on Middle Caicos, Turks & Caicos Islands, which suggested a relationship between this settlement and the exploitation of salt at the adjacent natural salt pan. Coring techniques were used to visualize and determine the pre-colonial availability of salt at MC-6. Stratigraphic sequences in the salt pond provided a detailed perspective on the pond's dynamic past and confirmed that salt production was possible in precolonial times. The research presented here tested the applicability of phosphorus and chloride values and X-ray diffraction of soil to identify precolonial salt production. Data from the site and the pond suggest that people settled the village as soon as the pond began producing salt, linking the presence of people to the availability and possible exploitation practices of salt.","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":"49 1","pages":"263 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45677948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Associated organisms inhabiting the calcareous sponge Clathrina lutea in La Parguera, Puerto Rico 波多黎各La Parguera的钙质海绵中的相关生物

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Caribbean Journal of Science Pub Date : 2019-10-22 DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a12

J. E. García-Hernández, N. Hammerman, J. Cruz‐Motta, N. Schizas

{"title":"Associated organisms inhabiting the calcareous sponge Clathrina lutea in La Parguera, Puerto Rico","authors":"J. E. García-Hernández, N. Hammerman, J. Cruz‐Motta, N. Schizas","doi":"10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Sponges provide an array of ecological services and benefits for Caribbean coral reefs. They function as habitats for a bewildering variety of species, however limited attention has been paid in the systematics and distribution of sponge-associated fauna in the class Calcarea or for that matter of sponges in the Caribbean. The goal of this study was to characterize infaunal assemblages from a calcareous sponge, Clathrina lutea, across multiple reefs from the La Parguera Natural Reserve, Puerto Rico. The associated fauna from 43 C. lutea specimens yielded a total of 2,249 associated infauna distributed in seven invertebrate phyla. Arthropoda was the most abundant phylum accounting for 62.5% of total abundance, followed by Annelida (21.0%) and Nematoda (5.5%). Limited patterns of temporal or spatial variability were surmised due to the opportunistic sampling effort afforded to this investigation from the cryptic nature of this species. A concordance between our data set and those for the class Demospongiae were observed, with the most abundant associated fauna being copepods and polychaetes. However, when compared to other Calcarea, the present study found considerably more associated fauna.","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":"49 1","pages":"239 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47390110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5