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| Rocha,Rosana Moreira; Guerra-Castro,Edlin; Lira,Carlos; Pauls,Sheila Marquez; Hernández,Ivan; Pérez,Adriana; Sardi,Adriana; Pérez,Jeannette; Herrera,César; Carbonini,Ana Karinna; Caraballo,Virginia; Salazar,Dioceline; Diaz,Maria Cristina; Cruz-Motta,Juan José. |
| Although ascidians form a conspicuous part of sessile assemblages in the Caribbean, no specialized inventories have been developed in Venezuela, except for a list of 15 species reported from Margarita Island (1984). Here we present the results of a taxonomic workshop held in the Universidad de Oriente, Boca del Rio, Margarita Island during April 20-25 of 2009, sponsored by the NaGISA-Caribbean Sea program. La Restinga National park was surveyed and we found 29 species belonging to 19 genera and 10 families. The most abundant colonial species were Clavelina oblonga, Aplidium accarense, Polyclinum constellatum, Distaplia bermudensis, Symplegma rubra, S. brakenhielmi, Botrylloides nigrum and Ecteinascidia turbinata. Among the solitary ascidians Phallusia... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Urochordata; Taxonomy; South Caribbean; Mangrove; Coastal lagoon; Conservation; Bioinvasion. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032010000100021 |
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