Marine Record
Introduction of non-indigenous species into a well-established ecosystem can be detrimental, resulting in both ecological and economical damage. Two specimens of giant mud crab, Scylla serrata were found for the ...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:26
Published on: 29 September 2017
Marine Record
Vestimentiferan tubeworms (Annelida: Siboglinidae) often play an important role as a foundation species in chemosynthetic ecosystems by providing microhabitats for other organisms. In the present study, we det...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:25
Published on: 20 September 2017
Marine Record
Galapagos fur seals, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, inhabit the Galapagos Archipelago. The species is considered to be non-migratory, remaining in the Galapagos year-round. On 9 June 2016, a live fur seal stranded ...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:24
Published on: 6 September 2017
Marine Record
For the first time, almost half a century after its discovery and description, the poorly known endemic gobiid fish Chriolepis lepidota was seen alive at Malpelo Island.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:23
Published on: 23 August 2017
Marine Record
The chevron butterflyfish Chaetodon trifascialis is an obligate corallivore found on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. The typical northern extent of the distributional range of the chevron butterflyfish overlaps with th...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:22
Published on: 21 August 2017
Marine Record
This work reports the occurrence of Thysanozoon brocchii from the rocky intertidal coast of Ratnagiri and Dwarka, the West Coast of India, for the first time. Two morphotypes were found, the first morph has a buf...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:21
Published on: 28 July 2017
Marine Record
A new record of Megachasma pelagios is here reported for the tropical western North Atlantic Ocean from Puerto Rico.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:20
Published on: 29 June 2017
Marine Record
The Pacific coastline along the southern Izu Peninsula, Japan, is strongly influenced by warm tropical waters of the Kuroshio Current. A new easternmost record of the near-threatened sesarmid crab Clistocoeloma v...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:19
Published on: 19 June 2017
Marine Record
An unusually coloured, small baleen whale was documented off the southern coast of Sri Lanka in February 2017 during routine field surveys. Based on five distinct morphological characteristics including jaw as...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:18
Published on: 13 June 2017
Marine Record
The cetacean fauna of the poorly-studied waters off eastern Africa is still being described. Information on the cetacean species occurring in specific range states is important for understanding their geograph...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:17
Published on: 8 June 2017
Marine Record
Syllis vittata is present from British Waters to the Mediterranean Sea, Morocco and the Canary Islands and recorded from the South African coast and Indian Ocean.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:16
Published on: 6 June 2017
Research
Marine turtles play an important role in the culture and economy of numerous coastal communities around the world. However, the legal framework that regulates the consumptive use of these reptiles varies among...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:15
Published on: 23 May 2017
Marine Record
An updated checklist of medusae and ctenophores is presented for the first time for the area comprised by the Bahía Blanca Estuary, the adjacent shelf El Rincón and Monte Hermoso beach, o...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:14
Published on: 12 May 2017
Marine Record
The sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Archipelago (46°53’S, 37°52’E), consisting of Marion and Prince Edward islands, is situated in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, approximately 2 600 km away from the clos...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:13
Published on: 12 May 2017
Marine Record
This report represents the first record of the sharpnose sevengill shark Heptranchias perlo in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:12
Published on: 8 May 2017
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The presence of species belonging to genus Paramphitrite (Terebellidae) has been recorded in the Temperate Northern Atlantic and Arctic regions (Iberian Atlantic, Norwegian and Russian seas). This paper describes...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:11
Published on: 12 April 2017
Marine Record
The caprellid fauna from different localities along the Mexican Pacific coast: Sinaloa (3), Nayarit (15), Jalisco (9) and Colima (1) are presented herein.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:9
Published on: 22 March 2017
Marine Record
The coral excavating sponge Cliona delitrix is one of the most aggressive and conspicuous excavating sponges on Caribbean reefs. While C. delitrix is very prominent displaying its typical encrusting growth form (
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:10
Published on: 22 March 2017
Marine Record
The French angelfish Pomacanthus paru (Pomacanthidae) is recognised as an important cleaner in tropical reef environments, yet its clients remain relatively undescribed in the literature. Here, we report observat...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:8
Published on: 8 March 2017
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Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:7
Published on: 3 March 2017
Marine Record
The study describes the range extension of the sea horse Hippocampus fuscus from the south to north east coastal waters of the India, Bay of Bengal. After 99 years since initial discovery, the Hippocampus fusc...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:6
Published on: 3 March 2017
Marine Record
Nephroselmis is composed by unicellular nanoplanktonic organisms, occurring predominantly in marine environments. Currently, 14 species are taxonomically accepted. Nephroselmis viridis wa...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:5
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research
DNA barcoding is an effective method of accurately identifying morphologically similar oyster species. However, for some of Japan’s Ostrea species there are no molecular data in the international DNA databases.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:4
Published on: 16 January 2017
Marine Record
Until recently, only two species of seadragon were known, Phycodurus eques (the leafy seadragon) and Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (the common seadragon), both from Australia. In 2015, we described a new species of se...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:2
Published on: 13 January 2017
Research
Collections of the amphipod genus Cheirocratus from the North Sea and Ireland proved to include C. robustus Sars a species previously known only from Norway and Sweden.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:3
Published on: 13 January 2017
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