Graduate courses

in Aquaculture and
Tropical Aquatic Resources

Benthology I - Biology and Taxonomy

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Biology and taxonomy of (1) Porifera, (2) Cnidaria, (3) Turbellaria, (4) Nemertea, (5) Gastrotricha, (6) Kinorhyncha, (7) Nematoda, (8) Sipuncula, (9) Polychaeta, (10) Decapoda, (11) Tanaidacea, (12) Isopoda, (13) Amphipoda, (14) Cirripedia, (15) Copepoda, (16) Ostracoda, (17) Acari, (18) Pycnogonida, (19) Polyplacophora, (20) Gastropoda, (21) Bivalvia, (22) Cephalopoda, (23) Bryozoa, (24) Crinoidea, (25) Asteroidea, (26) Echinoidea, (27) Holoturoidea, (28) Ophiuroidea, (29) Ascidiacea and (30) Cephalochordata.

Goals

Provide students with knowledge on the biology and taxonomy of aquatic macroinvertebrates.

Methodology

Exhibition and laboratory classes, presentation of seminars, readings and discussions of current scientific articles.

Evaluation

Presentation of a scientific publication, participation in all activities and a written multiple choice tests.

Program content

30 theoretical classes, studying the biology of aquatic macroinvertebrates and 30 practical classes learning about methods to collect benthic material and to identify aquatic macroinvertebrate species in the laboratory based on the appropriate literature.

Accompanying literature

Amaral, A.C.Z., Nallin, S.A.H., Steiner, T.M., Forroni, T.d.O. & Filho, D.G. (2012). Catálogo das espécies de annelida Polychaeta do Brasil. Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMP. 182 p.

Amaral, A.C.Z. & Nonato, E.F. (1996). Annelida Polychaeta: Características, Glossário e Chaves para Famílias e Gêneros da Costa Brasileira. UNICAMP. 124.

Amaral, A.C.Z., Rizzo, A.E. & Arruda, E.P. (2006). Manual de Identificação dos Invertebrados Marinhos da Região Sudeste-Sul do Brasil: Vol. 1. São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo. 288.

Barnard, J.L. & Karaman, G.S. (1991a). The Families and Genera of Marine Gammaridean Amphipoda (Except Marine Gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum (1991) Supplement 13 (Part 1). Sidney South, NSW, Melbourne. 1-417.

Barnard, J.L. & Karaman, G.S. (1991b). The Families and Genera of Marine Gammaridean Amphipoda (Except Marine Gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum (1991) Supplement 13 (Part 2). Sidney South, NSW, Melbourne. 419-866.

de Barros, F.B.A.G., de Castro, M.S. & Bonecker, A.C.T. (2007). Description and distribution of the larvae of two species of Fistulariidae (Teleostei, Syngnathiformes) in the southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotrop. 7 (1).

Bruce, N.L. (1986). Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum (1986) Supplement 6. Sidney South, NSW, Melbourne. 1-239.

Carranza, A., Borges, M., Rodríguez, M. & Borthagaray, A.I. (2007). Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from La Coronilla-Cerro Verde (Uruguay): a new record for the Uruguayan coast. Biota Neotrop. 7 (3): 103-107.

Cervigón, F., Cipriani, R., Fischer, W., Garibaldi, L., Hendrickx, M., Lemus, A.J., Márquez, R., Poutiers, J.M., Robaina, G. & Rodriquez, B. (1992). Guía de Campo de las Especies Comerciales Marinas y de Aguas Salobres de la Costa Septentrional de Sur America. Fichas FAO de Identificación de Especies para los Fines de la Pesca. Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación, FAO

Colin, P.L. & Arneson, C. (1995). Tropical Pacific Invertebrates: A Field Guide to the Marine Invertebrates Occurring on Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs, Seagrass Beds and Mangroves. The Coral Reef Research Foundation. 305 p.

Culter, J.K. (1986). Manual for Identification of Marine Invertebrates. A Guide to Some Common Estuarine Macroinvertebrates of the Big Bend Region, Tampa Bay, Florida. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory Cincinnati OH 45268, EPA/600/4-86/002, Research and Development. 206.

Denadai, M.R., Arruda, E.P., Domaneschi, O. & Amaral, A.C.Z. (2006). Veneridae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) da costa norte do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotrop. 6 (3): 1-34.

Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands: 58. 2. Auflage. Gustav Fischer, Jena Stuttgart Lübeck Ulm. 648.

Henríquez, G.A. & Bahamonde, N.N. (1976). Clave de indentificación y datos biologicos de jaibas y pancoras frecuentes en las pescas comerciales de Chile (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Investigacion Pesquera, Instituto de Fomento Pesquero Chile 21: 81.

Manso, C.L.d.C., Alves, O.F.d.S. & Martins, L.R. (2008). Echinodermata da Baía de Todos os Santos e da Baía de Aratu (Bahia, Brasil). Biota Neotrop. 8 (3): 179-196.

Matthews-Cascon, H. & Lotufo, T.M.d.C. (2006). Biota Marinha da Costa Oeste do Ceará. Biodiversidade: 24. Ministério do Meio Ambiente. 248 p.

Moretti, M.d.S. (2004). Atlas de Identificação Rápida dos Principais Grupos de Macroinvertebrados Bentônicos. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Laboratório de Ecologia de Bentos

Nunes, J.M.d.C. & Guimarães, S.M.P.d.B. (2008). Novas referências de rodofíceas marinhas bentônicas para o litoral brasileiro. Biota Neotrop. 8 (4).

Pérez-Torrijos, J., Hernández-Alcântara, P. & Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Nephtyidae (Polychaeta) from the Gulf of California (Mexican Pacific) with the description of two new species of Aglaophamus. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 86 (4): 697–710.

Ribeiro-Costa, C.S. & da Rocha, R.M. (2006). Invertebrados – Manual de Aulas Práticas. 2ª Edição. Holos Editora. 271.

Ribetti, V.L. & Roccatagliata, D. (2006). Redescription of Excirolana armata (Dana, 1853) and synonymy of Cirolana argentina Giambiagi, 1930 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 119 (1): 1.

Rizzo, A.E. & Amaral, A.C.Z. (2007). Nephtyidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from São Paulo State, Brazil, including a new record for the Brazilian coast. Biota Neotrop. 7 (3): 253-263.

Rizzo, A.E., Steiner, T.M. & Amaral, A.C.Z. (2007). Glyceridae Grube 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Southern and Southeastern Brazil, including a new species of Glycera 7 (3).

Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. & Londoño-Mesa, M.H. (2004). Lista de especies y bibliografía de poliquetos (Polychaeta) del Pacífico Oriental Tropical. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Serie Zoología 75 (1): 9-97.

Shimabukuro, V. (2007). As associações epizóicas de Hydrozoa (Cnidaria: Leptothecata, Anthoathecata e Limnomedusae): I) Estudo faunístico de hidrozoários epizóicos e seus organismos associados; II) Dinâmica de comunidades bentônicas em substratos artificiais. Dissertação de Mestrado 275.

Shimabukuro, V., Marques, A.C. & Migotto, A.E. (2006). Fauna de hidrozoários atecados (Hydrozoa, Anthoathecata) da costa do Estado do Ceará, Brasil 6 (3): 13 p.

de Souza, L.S., Araújo, I.C.V. & Caetano, C.H.S. (2013). A commented list of Scaphopoda (Mollusca) found along the Brazilian coast, with two new synonymies in the genus Gadila Gray, 1847. Biota Neotrop. 13 (2): 227-235.

Thorp, J.H. & Rogers, D.C. (2011). Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America. Academic Press. 304.

Trovant, B., Elías, R., Diez, M.E. & de León-González, J.A. (2012). New records of polychaetes (Annelida) for northern Ecuador. Marine Biodiversity Records 5.

Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (1984a). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Volume I: Final Report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091: 202: Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.

Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (1984b). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Volume II: Final Report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091: Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.

Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (1984c). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Volume III: Final Report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091: Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.

Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (1984d). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Volume IV: Final Report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091: Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.

Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (1984e). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Volume V: Final Report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091: Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.

Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (1984f). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Volume VI: Final Report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091: Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.

Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (1984g). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Volume VII: Final Report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091: Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.

Valente, M.J. (2010). Pequeno guia para identificação dos moluscos marinhos em contextos arqueológicos portugueses (v. 2). Universidade do Algarve – FCHS, Departamento de História, Arqueologia e Património, http://w3.ualg.pt/~mvalente/. 25.

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