A New Species of Poeciliid Fish of the Genus Limia from the Island of Grand Cayman, B.W.I.

Copeia ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 1970 (2) ◽  
pp. 270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis R. Rivas ◽  
William L. Fink
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Grand Cayman ◽  
Poeciliid Fish ◽  
A New Species

Gambusia aurata, a New Species of Poeciliid Fish from Northeastern Mexico

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Rush Miller ◽  
W. L. Minckley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Poeciliid Fish ◽  
Northeastern Mexico ◽  
A New Species

scholarly journals A New Species of Thetispelecaris (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Submarine Cave on Grand Cayman Island

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susumu Ohtsuka ◽  
Yukio Hanamura ◽  
Tomoki Kase
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cayman Island ◽  
Grand Cayman ◽  
Submarine Cave ◽  
A New Species

A new livebearing fish, Heterandria tuxtlaensis, from Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1824 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN D. MCEACHRAN ◽  
THOMAS J. DEWITT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geometric Morphometrics ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Fish Populations ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Poeciliid Fish ◽  
Fin Rays ◽  
High Level ◽  
Livebearing Fish ◽  
A New Species

A new species of poeciliid fish, Heterandria tuxtlaensis sp. n., is described from Lake Catemaco in southern Veracruz, Mexico. Based on traditional and geometric morphometrics, H. tuxtlaensis differs most substantially from its likely sister species H. bimaculata in possessing short dorsal and caudal fins, a short dorsal fin base composed of fewer fin rays, a more shallow body, and a relatively small basicaudal spot restricted to the area above the mid lateral line. Description of this new species brings the number of known endemics in Lake Catemaco to six. This high level of endemicity complements genetic and geological findings suggesting the lake is ancient and well separated from surrounding fish populations.

scholarly journals Proceraea janetaesp. nov. (Annelida, Syllidae, Autolytinae), a scleractinian coral feeder from Grand Cayman Island

2014 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Martin ◽  
João Gil ◽  
Cynthia Abgarian ◽  
Essi Evans ◽  
Everett M. Turner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Scleractinian Coral ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Cayman Island ◽  
Grand Cayman ◽  
Longitudinal Band ◽  
Bright Yellow ◽  
Yellow Orange ◽  
A New Species

We have found a new species of Autolytinae (Annelida, Syllidae),Proceraea janetae, feeding on the scleractinian coralMontastrea cavernosain coral reefs surrounding the Grand Cayman Island (Cayman Islands, British West Indies). The new species has a characteristic combination of transversal brown markings on the segmental margins and diffuse white mid-dorsal transverse bars, together with a diffuse white mid-dorsal longitudinal band. Antennae are brown, tentacular cirri are pale, the first dorsal cirri are white with pale base; the second dorsal cirri are pale, and the remaining dorsal cirri are alternately long, bright yellow-orange with brownish tips and short, entirely brown. The trepan has 18 tricuspid teeth in one ring. There are 9 teeth with all cuspids equally long and 9 with a longer median cuspid, arranged in an alternating pattern. We describe and illustrate the feeding behaviour of the new species, which appears to be closer to parasitism rather than to specialized predation.Proceraea janetaesp. nov. is the second polychaete, and the first syllid, known to feed on scleractinian corals.

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