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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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A new record of Neoharriota carri is here reported for the Caribbean of Guatemala.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:1
Published on: 3 January 2017
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The present study represents the first record of Scyliorhinus hesperius in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea.
Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:101
Published on: 9 December 2016
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The remains (probably a moult) of a female Chinese mitten crab were found in the freshwater River Clyde. This is the first report of a Chinese mitten crab from the wild in Scotland and is well outside the prev...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:100
Published on: 5 December 2016
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Non-native marine species, including tropical eastern Atlantic fish species are on the increase in Malta, with shipping activities being the main vector for the movement of these alien species from the Atlanti...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:99
Published on: 24 November 2016
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Climatic changes and human activities have worked to pave the way for alien species to invade new areas far from their native habitat. The Mediterranean sea has received many invasive species (Eissa and Zaki, ...
Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:98
Published on: 17 November 2016
MBR articles published before January 2016 can be accessed here.
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