The First Record of the Short Bigeye, Pseudopriacanthus altus, from the Caribbean Sea

Copeia ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 1963 (3) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Bruce B. Collette
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Caribbean

Mass stranding of pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) in the British Virgin Islands

2000 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni ◽  
Gian M. Toyos-González ◽  
Janice Pérez-Padilla ◽  
Marta A. Rodríguez-López ◽  
Julie Overing
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Killer Whale ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Killer Whales ◽  
British Virgin Islands ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Mass Stranding

The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is an offshore, tropical and subtropical delphinid found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The species has only recently been studied, mostly from specimens collected from strandings. While over 52 reports exist for the Atlantic Ocean, only one record exists for the Caribbean Sea. A new record of a mass stranding of pygmy killer whales from the British Virgin Islands is documented and the pathology and life history of the specimens is described, associating the stranding process with the meteorological and oceanographic disturbance of Hurricane Marilyn, which devastated the Virgin Islands a day prior to the stranding. This stranding event constitutes the sixth known mass stranding for the species worldwide, the first record for pygmy killer whales for the northeastern Caribbean and the second for the entire Caribbean Sea.

scholarly journals FIRST RECORD OF THE GENUS HETERODINIUM (DINOPHYCEAE) FROM COASTAL WATERS OF THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina M. Ramos Ortega ◽  
Luís A. Vidal V.
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time

Three species of the genus Heterodinium Kofoid are reported for the first time in coastal waters of the Colombian Caribbean. The identified species are Heterodinium rigdenae Kofoid, 1906, Heterodinium agassizii Kofoid, 1907 and Heterodinium angulatum Kofoid y Michener, 1911. Information about distribution of these species in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico is given.

scholarly journals Primer registro del copépodo Cymbasoma chelemense (Copepoda: Monstrilloida) en el mar Caribe colombiano

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Fernando Dorado-Roncancio ◽  
John Henry Dorado-Roncancio
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Body ◽  
Morphometric Characteristics ◽  
Female Adult ◽  
Adult Specimen ◽  
Total Length ◽  
Genital Complex ◽  
The Caribbean

As part of monitoring in the estuarine inner Bay of Cartagena, Colombia during the year 2016, a female adult specimen ofCymbasoma chelemense was collected and identified. Originally described for the Gulf of Mexico and sharing the followingmorphological and morphometric characteristics: Cephalothorax of at least 68% of the total length of the body. Oral papilla located at least 20% of the total length of the cephalothorax; Ocelli present; genital complex with ovigerous spines located at the base and with one single post genital somites, the ovigerous spines at least 14% longer than the total length of the body and about 10 times the length of urosome. This is the first record of a copepod of the genus Cymbasoma in Colombia estuarine waters, increasing the range of distribution of this species in the Caribbean Sea.

scholarly journals First record of Flabellina dana Millen and Hamann, 2006 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) in the South Atlantic Ocean

Check List ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Licia Sales ◽  
Marlon Delgado ◽  
Vinicius Queiroz ◽  
Vinicius Padula ◽  
Cláudio L. S. Sampaio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
South Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Brazilian Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
The Caribbean

The nudibranch Flabellina dana Millen and Hamann, 2006 is reported from two localities in the northeastern Brazilian coast. These are the first records of this species, previously recorded from localities in the Bahamas and the Caribbean Sea, in South Atlantic Ocean, extending its known geographic distribution more than 3500 km southward.

scholarly journals Presence of Ruvettus pretiosus (Gempylidae) in the Colombian continental Caribbean

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
María Camila Gómez-Cubillos ◽  
Marcela Grijalba-Bendeck
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Caribbean

The first record of Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 for the Colombian continental Caribbean is presented. The specimen was collected at Los Cocos, department of Magdalena (11°16’33, 84’’ N 73°53’33, 01’’ W), using a demersal longline gear placed at 100 m depth. Biometrics, diagnosis and comments regarding its distribution, ecology and biology are included in the description. This new record expands the distribution of the species in the Caribbean Sea and increases the reported number of gempylids for Colombia to five.

scholarly journals LITHOPHAGA NIGRA (D’ORBIGNY, 1853) (MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA: MYTILIDAE), FIRST RECORD FOR THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos E. Gómez Soto ◽  
Tatiana Rico ◽  
Néstor E. Ardila ◽  
Adolfo Sanjuan Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Dead Coral ◽  
Coral Skeletons ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time

Lithophaga nigra (d’Orbigny, 1853) is an uncommon boring bivalve that inhabits dead coral skeletons and occurs in the Caribbean Sea and the Indopacific region. One specimen of this species was collected within a dead head of the coral Montastraea sp. in Playa Blanca, (bahía de Gaira) near Santa Marta at 10 m of depth, and it is recorded for the first time in the Colombian Caribbean.

Relative sea level highstands of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, constrained by speleothem growth periods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Dominik Steidle ◽  
Sophie Warken ◽  
Norbert Frank ◽  
Julius Förstel ◽  
Nils Schorndorf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Trace Element Analysis ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Peak Height ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Scale Growth ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
The Caribbean

<p>The loading of the North American continent with ice sheets causes a geomorphologic response. As a result of this process, a NW-SE gradient of relative sea level developed in the Caribbean during periods of glaciation. In order to distinguish geomorphologic and eustatic contributions it is important to resolve timing and amplitude of relative sea level at different positions in the Caribbean.</p><p>The cave systems around Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico are presently submerged and well-connected to the nearby Atlantic with a low hydraulic head gradient. Speleothems must have formed during periods of lower sea level, thus providing constraints on the maximum elevation of relative sea level for given periods of time. Conversely, periods of growth cessation could have been caused by sea level rise thus indicating minimum relative sea level during highstands.</p><p>Here, we present <sup>230</sup>Th/U dated submerged speleothems that grew during MIS5a-d as well as MIS1/2, MIS6 and MIS11/12.</p><p>Growth of a single stalagmite (QUE01) at -10.8±0.1m (relative to today's sea level) was interrupted twice. Petrographical studies and trace element analysis indicate that submergence caused millennial-scale growth stops in QUE01 during MIS5. The proposed highstands are between 109.4±0.3ka and 105.0±0.3ka as well as between 104.5±0.4ka and 96.9±0.4ka.</p><p>While a previous study [1] constrains the amplitude to <9.9m, this study further improves the timing. This is the first record in this area that yields bracketing ages for those highstands from a speleothem that is very close to the peak height. In order to reconstruct a Caribbean sea level gradient, the combined Yucatán record acts as a counterpiece to a similar study from the northern end of the Caribbean sea level gradient which reports highstands at that time with a higher relative sea level [4].</p><p>Speleothem growth during MIS1/2 (19-8ka) relates to conflicting local sea level markers [2,3] and contains century-scale growth stops. Samples dating back to MIS6 and MIS11/12 highlight the potential for sea level reconstruction in this area before MIS5.</p><p>[1] Moseley et al. (2013) <em>Journal of Quaternary Science</em> <strong>28</strong> 293-300<br>[2] Moseley et al. (2015) <em>The Holocene</em> <strong>25</strong> 1511-1521<br>[3] Hering et al. (2018) <em>Journal of Quaternary Science</em> <strong>33</strong> 444-454<br>[4] Wainer et al. (2017) <em>Earth and Planetary Science Letters</em> <strong>457</strong> 325-334</p>

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