Browsing Artículos científicos by Subject "TAXONOMÍA"
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A new giant species of placented worm and the mechanism by which onychophorans weave their nets (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2010)Onychophorans, or velvet worms, are poorly known and rare animals. Here we report the discovery of a new species that is also the largest onychophoran found so far, a 22cm long female from the Caribbean coastal forest of ... -
A new giant velvet worm from Costa Rica suggests absence of the genus Peripatus (Onychophora: Peripatidae) in Central Americ
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020-02-03)Introduction: Neotropical onychophoran taxonomy and diversity has been poorly investigated. Recent studies have discovered problems in species classification: they have questioned the accepted genera and the actual number ... -
A New Hybrid of Serpocaulon (Polypodiaceae) from Costa Rica
(Bio One Research Evolved, 2013)A new hybrid Serpocaulon 3 sessilipinnum A. Rojas & J.M. Chaves is described. The new taxon has characters intermediate between S. fraxinifolium (Jacq.) A.R. Sm. and S. ptilorhizon (Christ) A.R. Sm., which are related ... -
A new species of Seticeros from Costa Rica (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae)
(Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), 2011)A new species of Seticeros Perger & Santos-Silva, 2010 (Prioninae: Callipogonini) from San Isidro del General, San José, Costa Rica is described and illustrated. A key to the species of Seticeros is added. -
Annotated checklist of marine molluscs collected during the R. V. Victor Hensen Costa Rica Expedition 1993/1994
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 1995)An annotated checklist of species of marine molluscs from Golfo Dulce, Bahfa Coronado and Golfo de Nicoya. Costa Rica, obtained aI 20-200 m during the Victor Hensen cruise, includes 157 species: 108 Gastropoda and 49 ... -
Camelobaetidius guaycara, a new species of Baetidae (Ephemeroptera) from Costa Rica, Central America
(Magnolia Press, 2018-06-14)The nymphs of a new species of Camelobaetidius (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) possibly related to the South American species of this genus were found on the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Costa Rica. Among other characteristics ... -
Las especies de Trachelomonas (Algas: Euglenophyta) en tres lagunas volcánicas de Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 1995)The algae of three lakes of volcanic origin, Laguna Hule, Congo and Bosque Alegre (740 m. above see leve!) were studied frorn 1989 to 1993. Five Trachelomonas (Euglenophyta ) species and sorne of their varieties are ... -
First Finding Of A Male Aphanolaimus Coomansi (Tsalolichin, 1988) In Tropical Areas
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 1998)First finding of a male Aphanolaimus coomansi (Tsalolichin, 1988) in tropical ar eas. Nematropica 30:161-166. The rare aquatic nematode Aphanolaimus coomansi Tsalolichin, 1988 was found in some habitats in Costa Rican ... -
Five New Species of Diplazium Sw. (Athyriaceae) from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Colombia
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2018-04-13)Five new species are described in the genus Diplazium Sw. from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Colombia, as results of studies in the Neotropical ferns. The new species are Diplazium chirripoense A. Rojas, Diplazium cornutum ... -
Four New Species and Additional Distributions of Elaphoglossum Section Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae) from the Neotropics
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2017-05-19)Four new species of Elaphoglossum sect. Elaphoglossum are described: E. amparoanum A. Rojas, E. chocoense A. Rojas, E. fayorum A. Rojas and E. luciae A. Rojas. The first species is related to E. variolatum Mickel, but ... -
Identificación de cuatro especies de Clupeiformes (Actinopterygii) mediante análisis de secuencias de ADN mitocondrial en áreas de explotación pesquera del Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021-01)Las sardinas junto con las anchovetas constituyen unos de los grupos de mayor importancia en la pesquería del golfo de Nicoya. Son alimento para peces de mayor tamaño y aves marinas, por tanto, no solo sufren explotación ... -
New records, validated name, and redefinition in Azolla (Salviniaceae, Pteridophyta) from Costa Rica
(Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), 2024)In studies of herbarium specimens and living material, we observed that several species in the genus Azolla Lam. are present in different wetlands of Costa Rica, which instigated the search for applicable names of each ... -
New species and records of Cloeodes Traver, 1938 (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from Costa Rica
(Pensoft (Bulgaria), 2020)The nymph of Cloeodes danta sp. nov. is described from male and female nymphs collected from highland streams in the Caribbean Slope of the Costa Rica Central Volcanic Mountain Range. Adults are unknown. In addition, C. ... -
Los onicóforos, fósiles caminantes
(Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de El Salvador, 2012-08-23)Los onicóforos son considerados “fósiles vivientes” porque durante más de 500 millones de años su morfología ha cambiado muy poco y han mantenido un estadio evoluti vo aparentemente intermedio entre los anélidos ... -
Redescription of four species of Camelobaetidius Demoulin, 1966 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from Central and North America
(Magnolia Press, 2020-03-30)Four species of Camelobaetidius (C. maidu, C. variabilis, C. kondratieffi, and C. shepardi) are redescribed and diagnosed based on paratype material and original descriptions. Some omissions and inaccurate information in ... -
The geographic distribution of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
(Revista de Biologia Tropical vol.64 no.4 1401-1414 2016, 2016-06-06)Velvet worms, “peripatus” or onychophorans, are “living fossils” that were geographically widespread in Cambrian seas but now occur exclusively on terrestrial habitats. The only extant species studied in some detail are ... -
Three New Species and New Records of Dennstaedtia Bernh. from Mesoamerica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018)Navarrete & Øllgaard [1] indicated the presence of a “C” group within Dennstaedtia Bernh. that contains D. obtusifolia (Willd.) T. Moore, which is the type material of the genus Patania C. Presl and indicated that it ... -
Two new records of the fern genus Lindsaea Dryand. ex Sm. (Lindsaeaceae) from Panama
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2023-05-19)Presentamos los primeros registros de Lindsaea leprieurii Hook. y Lindsaea angustipinna A.Rojas & Tejero de Panamá. Se proporcionan imágenes, comentarios taxonómicos, evaluaciones de conservación y notas geográficas. -
Unexplored Character Diversity in Onychophora (Velvet Worms): A Comparative Study of Three Peripatid Species
(Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Norway, 2012-12-17)Low character variation among onychophoran species has been an obstacle for taxonomic and phylogenetic studies in the past, however we have identified a number of new and informative characters using morphological, molecular, ...