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Provedor de dados: | Biota Neotropica
País: | Brazil
Título: | Synopsis of the knowledge on the Brazilian aplacophorans (Mollusca: Caudofoveata &amp;amp; Solenogastres)
Autores: | Passos,Flávio Dias; Miranda,Marcel Sabino; Corrêa,Paulo Vinicius Ferraz.
Data: | 2019-01-01
Ano: | 2019
Palavras-chave: | Aplacophora; Molluscs; Biodiversity; Southwestern Atlantic.
Resumo: | Abstract: Aplacophorans are well known as exclusively marine benthic molluscs with a vermiform body covered by aragonitic sclerites (also called spicules), whose species are widely distributed from the sublittoral down to the abyss. Currently, only nine species are known from Brazil (one Solenogastres and eight Caudofoveata), but these very few records are no longer a reflection of an existing low diversity. Sampling in deep waters has been conducted recently in oil-rich areas of the Brazilian coast, and the museum collections have now many aplacophoran lots. There is a need to learn about and/or install some microscopical facilities in Brazilian institutions, to form expertise for the investigations on these generally small animals. With studies on taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and ecology, important questions will be surely answered about the diversity, distribution, and the relationship among the deep-sea fauna from Brazil and from other places.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032019000100201
Editor: | Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP
Relação: | 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2018-0545
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Biota Neotropica  v.19 n.1 2019
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess