scholarly journals First record of Sylvilagus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lagomorpha: Leporidae) in Rio Grande do Norte state, Northeast Brazil

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2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Raquel Carvalho Dantas ◽  
Fernando Heberson Menezes ◽  
Kalyl Silvino Serra ◽  
Edja Daise Oliveira Barbosa ◽  
Hugo Fernandes-Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Adult Individual ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
Mammal Diversity

We document the first record of Sylvilagus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil. An adult individual was photographed in October 2015 in the municipality of João Câmara. This is the northernmost report of this species for the Caatinga biome. This article also represents important data for the Rio Grande do Norte, since the mammal diversity of this state is practically unknown.

scholarly journals Isognomon bicolor (C. B. Adams, 1845) (Mollusca: Bivalvia): first record of this invasive species for the States of Paraíba and Alagoas and new records for other localities of Northeastern Brazil

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2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thelma Lúcia Pereira Dias ◽  
Ellori Laíse Silva Mota ◽  
Anne Isabelley Gondim ◽  
Jacicleide Macedo Oliveira ◽  
Emanuelle Fontenele Rabelo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Records ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Littoral Region ◽  
Exotic Invasive

This study provides the first record of the exotic invasive bivalve Isognomon bicolor for the State of Paraíba, Northeastern Brazil. It has been found to occur in at least twelve coastal reefs along the coast. We also present its first record for the State of Alagoas and new record localities for the States of Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco, including its occurrence in hypersaline estuaries. From these records the distribution range of I. bicolor has been expanded to the littoral region of Northeast Brazil, where this invasive species seems well established.

scholarly journals An extended geographical distribution of Donax gemmula Morrison, 1971 (Bivalvia: Donacidae): new record from the Brazilian Northeastern coast

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2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1087
Author(s):  
Cristiane Xerez Barroso ◽  
Soraya Guimarães Rabay ◽  
Flávio Dias Passos ◽  
Helena Matthews-Cascon
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Ballast Water ◽  
New Record ◽  
Continuous Distribution ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Brazilian Coast ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Northeastern Coast

This study provides the first record of Donax gemmula Morrison, 1971 (Bivalvia: Donacidae) from the Ceará State, Northeast Brazil; up to now it was only known from the Southeastern and Southern Brazilian coast. Shells larger than ~2 mm in length of this species can be distinguished from those of D. striatus Linnaeus, 1767. Both species were collected in the same beaches: Banco dos Cajuais and Pecém. The occurrence of D. gemmula remains unnoticed for others States of the Northeast Brazil, and so we suggest two possible explanations for this finding from Ceará State: i) a recent introduction (e.g., by ballast water); or ii) this species has a continuous distribution along the Brazilian coast (Ceará to Rio Grande do Sul), being not recorded until now because this is not easily collected (the animals are small and bottom samples need to be sieved to obtain them) and may be confused with young specimens of other species of Donax, such as D. striatus.

scholarly journals Mollusca, Bivalvia, Corbiculidae, Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774): First record for the Caatinga biome, northeastern Brazil

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2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Oliveira Santana ◽  
Maria Julia Martins Silva ◽  
Adriana Bocchiglieri ◽  
Silmara De Moraes Pantaleão ◽  
Renato Gomes Faria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Corbicula Fluminea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Invading Species ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
First Time

Corbicula fluminea is native mollusk from China. In Brazil, this species was first recorded in Rio Grande do Sul state in the late 70’s, being also recorded in the Amazonia basin between 1997 and 1998. The present note reports the occurrence of C. fluminea for the first time in the Caatinga biome and extends considerably the geographical distribution of this invading species in Brazil and consequently in South America. 

scholarly journals Unexpected larger distribution of paleogene stem-rollers (AVES, CORACII): new evidence from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico J. Degrange ◽  
Diego Pol ◽  
Pablo Puerta ◽  
Peter Wilf
Keyword(s):  
Hind Limb ◽  
Divergence Time ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
Important Data ◽  
New Material ◽  
Holarctic Region ◽  
New Evidence

AbstractHere we present the first record of a stem-Coracii outside the Holarctic region, found in the early Eocene of Patagonia at the Laguna del Hunco locality. Ueekenkcoracias tambussiae gen. et sp. nov. consists of an incomplete right hind limb that presents the following combination of characters, characteristic of Coracii: relatively short and stout tibiotarsus, poorly developed crista cnemialis cranialis, short and wide tarsometatarsus, with the tuberositas m. tibialis cranialis located medially on the shaft, and curved and stout ungual phalanges. Although the presence of a rounded and conspicuous foramen vasculare distale and the trochlea metatarsi II strongly deflected medially resemble Primobucconidae, a fossil group only found in the Eocene of Europe and North America, our phylogenetic analysis indicates the new taxon is the basalmost known Coracii. The unexpected presence of a stem-Coracii in the Eocene of South America indicates that this clade had a more widespread distribution than previously hypothesized, already extending into the Southern Hemisphere by the early Eocene. Ueekenkcoracias tambussiae represents new evidence of the increasing diversity of stem lineages of birds in the Eocene. The new material provides novel morphological data for understanding the evolutionary origin and radiation of rollers and important data for estimates of the divergence time of the group.

Religious Sectarianism in the Sertão of Northeast Brazil 1815-1966

1968 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Anderson Gross
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Coastal Plains ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Afro Brazilian

Sectarian religious groups in Brazil, not of Afro-Brazilian origin, have been formed primarily in the backlands of the Northeast. There they have flourished during two approximate time periods, 1815 to 1840 and 1870 to the present. This paper will examine the religious groups of the Brazilian backlands as social phenomena.The locale of the sects, the backlands sertão, is both a geographical and cultural subregion of the Northeast. The latter area is generally defined as comprising the states of Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Sergipe, Alagôas, and northern Bahia. Geographically the sertão is an area subject to recurrent drought, lying back of fertile coastal plains from Salvador in Bahia to Natal in Rio Grande do Norte, touching the coast in Ceará, and again retreating inland in Piauí.

Ingolfiella rocaensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ingolfiellidea): first record of ingolfiellidean amphipods in Brazilian waters

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 962 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ R. SENNA ◽  
CRISTIANA S. SEREJO
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Slender Seta

Benthic surveys at the Atol das Rocas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, provided material for the description of a new ingolfiellid, Ingolfiella rocaensis sp. nov. The material was obtained from washed sponges, located off the ring of the Atol, at 14 meters depth. This species is herein described and can be distinguished from other species of the genus mainly by the presence of one little slender seta on endopod of uropod 1, instead of stout setae or spines. This is the first record of the suborder Ingolfiellidea from the Brazilian waters.

scholarly journals Plant breeding in the semiarid region of Brazil: examples of success

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (spe) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoel Abílio de Queiroz ◽  
Levi de Moura Barros ◽  
Luiz Paulo de Carvalho ◽  
Jonas de Araújo Candeia ◽  
Edinardo Ferraz
Keyword(s):  
Cotton Fiber ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Semiarid Region ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
Colored Cotton ◽  
Nut Production ◽  
Production Area ◽  
Naturally Colored Cotton

The Northeastern region of Brazil comprises the Caatinga biome (900,000 km²) part of which is a semiarid region with rainfed and irrigated production systems. Among the successful breeding programs are cashew and cotton. The first led to a substantial increase in nut production in Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte and Piauí and the second bred a naturally colored cotton fiber, now processed in small clothing industries in Paraiba, exporting to 11 countries. In the lower-middle São Francisco valley, the previously grown onion was replaced by improved varieties, on 90% of the production area, and by industrial tomato, introduced by research in 1972, which came to be used on more than 80% of the area at the time. The participation of the private sector and continuity of breeding programs were crucial for the success. More examples of success are expected with the establishment of postgraduate courses in Agricultural Sciences in the Semiarid region.

scholarly journals First record of species of Liogenys (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae) associated with winter grain crops in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana A. Cherman ◽  
Jerson V. C. Guedes ◽  
Miguel A. Morón ◽  
Elder Dal Prá ◽  
Clérison R. Perini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Grain Crops

scholarly journals First record of albinism in the smooth dogfish Mustelus Schimitti Springer, 1939 (Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae) from Southern Brazil

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Ferreira Teixeira ◽  
Maria Lúcia Góes de Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Subadult Male ◽  
Male Specimen

This paper reports on a subadult male specimen of the smooth dogfish, Mustelus schimitti, caught in the continental shelf of Rio Grande Sul, during winter of 1993, which exhibited the characteristics of total albinism.

scholarly journals First record of Cephalobaena tetrapoda (Pentastomida: Cephalobaenidae) as a parasite on Liophis lineatus (Ophidia: Colubridae) in Northeast Brazil

2006 ◽  
Vol 66 (2a) ◽  
pp. 559-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. O. Almeida ◽  
S. V. Brito ◽  
F. S. Ferreira ◽  
M. L. Christoffersen
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Tract ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
First Record ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
New Host ◽  
Humid Tropical Forest

Cephalobaenidae constitutes one of the main pentastomid groups infecting the respiratory tract of snakes. Six specimens of Liophis lineatus, a colubrid, were collected by active capture and pitfalls installed on the banks of the Batateiras river, close to its source, in the ‘APA - Área de Proteção Ambiental’ (a protected environmental area of the ‘IBAMA - Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources’), and in a remnant of the humid tropical forest ‘FLONA - Floresta Nacional do Araripe’, both in the municipality of Crato, state of Ceará, Northeast Brazil. Out of the six specimens of L. lineatus examined, only one had its lung infected by the pentastomid Cephalobaena tetrapoda. This represents the first record of C. tetrapoda as a parasite of a snake in Northeast Brazil, as well as the first record of a colubrid, L. lineatus, as a new host for the pentastomid in Brazil.

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