New lichen in the mangrove swamps of the Colombian Caribbean coast  
 

The lichen Peltigera sp. was found in Caño Arroyo de Plata (10°08'06.5” N, 75°32'35.8” W; Dept. Bolivar, Colombia) associated exclusively to the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangrove) and only in plants that were deteriorated or undergoing degradation. Tree mortality was 43 %. Mangroves: Avicennia germinans, Pelliciera rhizophorae, Laguncularia racemosa, which set. Soil sandy, compact and with salt cristals (temperature 27.9-28.4º, salinity 36.4-48.5%o, oxygen 0.4-0.6 m/l, pH 5.3-5.9).

Vouchers were deposited in José Cuatrecasas-Arumi Herbarium,  National University of Colombia, Palmira, Dept. Valle. We thank Eugenio Escobar-Manrique for identifying the lichen genus.

Dario Avendaño-Remolina, Adolfo Sanjuan-Muñoz & Ricardo Alvarez-León

Apartado Aéreo 27770 Santa Fe de Bogotá D. C. - Colombia
E-mails: davenda@hotmail.com , alvarez_leon@hotmail.com
 
 

Six new plant species associated to the swamps of the Colombian Caribbean  
 

During restoration of mangrove swamps affected by oil spills and calcareous materials, aerobic fertilization allowed normal development of the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) and at least six associated species: Cyperaceae: Eleocharis mutata (L.) Romer et Schultes, Pycreus unioloides (R. Brown) Urban, Poaceae: Chloris aristata (Cerv.) Swallen,  Panicum grande Hitchcock et Chase, Paspalidium geminatum (Forsk) Staff. and, Typhaceae: Typha angustifolia L.. These are new records for Colombian Caribbean mangroves. Location: SE Cartagena Bay coast (10º 16’ – 10º 26’ N and 75º 30’ – 75º 35’ W), water and soil of varying salinity (26.0-35.0 %o) and temperature (23.6-28.5 ºC). The samples were deposited in José Cuatrecasas-Arumi Herbarium, National University of Colombia (Palmira, Dept. Valle). We thank Eugenio Escobar-Manrique for corroborating plant identification.
 

Ricardo Alvarez-León, Luz Esther Sánchez-Arias & Dario Avendaño-Remolina

Proy. Mangroves of Cartagena Bay  UBJTL / ECOPETROL / ICP

Apartado Aéreo 27770 Santa Fe de Bogotá D. C. - Colombia
E-mails: alvarez_leon@hotmail.com; lesanchez18@hotmail.com; davenda@hotmail.com
 
 

First report of Strombus gallus (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from  coral reefs of the Colombian Caribbean  

Skin and scuba diving observations (depth: 0-20 m, June 1992 to December 1993) in Archipelago San Bernardo (Dept. Sucre, 9º 03'-9º 05 ' N and 75º 45 ' - 75º 57 ' W) produced live and dead Strombus gallus, sharing this habitat (coralline fragments and marine grass bottoms), with S. costatus, S. gigas, S. pugilis and S. raninus). Vouchers  were deposited in the Institute of Fishery and Aquaculture, INPA, Monteria and Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia.
 

Alba Lucía Lagos-Bayona and Ricardo Alvarez-León

Proj. Bioecology of the Strombus gigas, INPA / COLCIENCIAS
Apartado Aéreo 27770 Santa Fe de Bogotá D. C. - Colombia

E-mails: albalagos@inpa.gov.co; alvarez_leon@hotmail.com
 
 

Neoteredo reynei (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) in mangrove swamps of the Colombian Caribbean  
 

Twelve individuals of N. reynei (Barttsch, 1920) were collected inside roots and the shafts of the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangrove) in the Ensenada of Marirrio (8º 02 ' N 76º 54 ' W), one of the outlets of the river Atrato, NE Colombia Bay (Gulf of Urabá, Dept. of Antioquia, Colombia). Vouchers  were deposited in the Institute of Oceanography, University of Sao Pablo, Brazil and Institute of Marine Investigations of Punta of Betín, Santa Marta, Colombia. We thanks Sonia López for mollusk identification, H. Sanchez-Páez (Mangroves of Colombia MMA / ACOFORE / OIMT) and F. Pinto-Nolla, J. C. Pino-Renjifo, R. M. De Ayala-Monedero, G. A. Ulloa-Delgado and W. O. Gil-Torres for field assistance.
 

Ana Soledad Sánchez-Alférez and Ricardo Alvarez-León

Proy. Mangroves of Colombia MMA / ACOFORE / OIMT

Apartado Aéreo 27770 Santa Fe de Bogotá D. C. - Colombia
E-mails: manglar@latino.net.co; alvarez_leon@hotmail.com
 
 
 

 New records for cidaroid echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico  
 

Cidaris abyssicola (A. Agassiz). One specimen was collected at 23° 53’ 00” N, 87° 26’ 00” W, 19/X/85. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.104.0; and 34 specimens at 19° 03’ 00” N, 93° 11’ 00” W, 6/VII/94, 229 m. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.104.1, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Reference: Mortensen, T. 1928. A monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel Publisher, Copenhagen. 551 p.

Cidaris rugosa (H. L. Clark). One specimen was collected at 20° 09’ 00” N, 91° 51’ 04” W, 16/VIII/84. 46 m. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.123.2, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Reference: Mortensen, T. 1928. A monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel Publisher, Copenhagen. 551 p.

Stereocidaris ingolfiana Mortensen. Three specimens were collected at 22° 41’ 05” N, 87° 55’ 03” W, 2/II/86. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.122.1, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Reference: Mortensen, T. 1928. A monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel Publisher, Copenhagen. 551 p.

Stylocidaris affinis (Philippi). Two specimens were collected at 23° 58’ 02” N, 88° 44’ 05” W. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.0; two specimens at 23° 39’ 04” N, 88° 53’ 01” W, 21/X/85. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.1; one specimen at 23° 22’ 09” N, 88° 06’ 09” W, 19/X/85. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.2; 22 specimens at 23° 15’ 09” N, 87° 35’ 06” W, 4/II/86. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.6; two specimens at 21° 15’ 02” N, 86° 29’ 01” W, 10/II/86. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.7; two specimens at 23° 04’ 05” N, 88° 34’ 00” W, 2/II/86. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.8; one specimen at 23° 17’ 04” N, 87° 57’ 01” W, ?/X/86. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.9; and one specimen at 22° 14’ 08” N, 87° 59’ 07” W, ?/X/86. Catalogue ICML-UNAM 4.107.10, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. Reference: Mortensen, T. 1928. A monograph of the Echinoidea. I. Cidaroidea. C. A. Reitzel Publisher, Copenhagen. 551 p.
 

Israel Fabricio Barbosa-Ledesma, Francisco Alonso Solís-Marín y Alfredo Laguarda-Figueras

Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Equinodermos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Apartado Postal 70-305, C.P. 04510, México, D. F.
E-mail: fabarbos@mar.icmyl.unam.mx

Dept. of Oceanography, Southampton Oceanography Centre. European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, Inglaterra.
 
 

 Audulla chelifera (Amphipoda: Corophiidae) en las costas de Venezuela  
 

Se identificaron 60 individuos de A. chelifera, 22 machos, 11 hembras ovadas, 13 hembras y 14 juveniles asociados a las algas Caulerpa racemosa y C. sertularioides, recolectados en una plataforma rocosa de Puerto Viejo (10º36’53” N, 67º06’00” W), Litoral Central de Venezuela, la que amplio su rango geográfico anterior (Bermudas, Belize, norte de Cuba y Brasil). Un macho y una hembra están depositados en el Museo de Biología, Universidad Central de Venezuela (MBUCV-XI-4773 y MBUCV-XI-4774). Referencia: Thomas, J.D. y J.L. Barnard. 1987. The Indo-Pacific Audulla chelifera reported from the Caribbean Sea (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 100: 364-370.
 

Yusbelly J. Díaz y Alberto Martín

Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado Postal 89000, Sartenejas, Baruta, Venezuela. e-mail: amartinz@usb.ve, yjdiaz@uole.com
 
 

Arctodiaptomus dorsalis (Copepoda: Calanoida) en los Estados de Morelos y Tabasco, México

 

Copépodo conocido  anteriormente para los estados de Aguascalientes, Veracruz, Quintana Roo Yucatán y Jalisco. Se amplía su ámbito de distribución al Municipio de Jilotepec, Morelos (julio de 1992) y a los Pantanos de Centla, Tabasco (junio de 1999). Se seleccionaron 50 hembras y 50 machos de cada una de las localidades y quedaron depositados en los catálogos More-92 y Centla-99. Departamento de Hidrobiología, UAM-I. Referencia:  Alvarez-Silva, C. 1999. Ampliación del ámbito de Arctodiaptomus dorsalis (Copepoda: Calanoida) en Lagunas Costeras del Golfo de México. Rev. Biol. Trop., 47(4):
 

Carlos Alvarez Silva y Ricardo Campos Verduzco

Departamento de Hidrobiología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, AP. 55-535, CP. 09340, México, D.F. Fax: (525)8044738; danae@xanum.uam.mx

 
 

First report of Barbronia weberi (Hirudinea: Salifidae) for South America  
 

One hundred and sixty-six specimens of Barbronia weberi (Blanchard, 1897) collected in Atibaia River (22°44’ S, 47°20’ W) represent the first report of this species for South America.. It had been reported previously from Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Borneo, Philippines, India, Afghanistan, China and Malaysia. We thank FAPESP for financial support (97/03777-1) and Donald J. Klemm, Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, for identifying the species. Reference: Sawyer, R. T. 1986. Leech biology and behaviour. Volume 2. Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics. Claredon Press, Oxford, 374 p.
 

Paulo A. Z. Pamplin and Odete Rocha

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Federal University of São Carlos, C. P. 676, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil. Fax (16) 260-8322. E-mail: pazpamplin@zipmail.com.br
 
 

  An abnormal Oncorhynchus mykiss (Pisces: Salmoniformes: Salmonidae) in Embalse del Neusa, Colombian Andes  
 

An abnormal male of the trout rainbow, O. mykiss (Richardson, 1836) variety Kanloop was collected in Sueva (Dept. Cundinamarca) to which alevino were introduced from the United States of America. The animal was kept in a pond (temperature 14-18º C) of the Neusa Station. Apparently, mishandling during sperm extraction  led to escoliosis, which at age 30 months caused two bends in the body, from first to second dorsal fins. This affected swimming, food capture and buoyancy. The animal is albino with black spots and brilliant white dorsal lobe (origin to fork vertex). This is the first record of albinism and scoliosis for the species in Colombia. In other countries, scoliosis has been associated with bacteria from concentrated food. Voucher was deposited in Estación del Neusa, Corporación Autónoma Regional de Cundinamarca, Neusa, Colombia.
 

Fabricio Iván Pardo-Rodríguez, Ana María Martínez-Sánchez and Ricardo Alvarez-León

Proy. Aquaculture in Andean Reservoirs CAR / INPA
Apartado Aéreo 27770 Santa Fe de Bogotá D. C. - Colombia
E-mails: fipardo@hotmail.com; anamar@yahoo.com;  alvarez_leon@hotmail.com
 
 

  Frogs associated to the swamps of the Colombian Caribbean  
 

This is the first record for the Colombian Caribbean mangroves of two Hylidae frogs: Hyla microcephala Surrounds, 1886 and Scinax rubra (laurenti, 1768).  H. microcephala was known from Amazonía, Orinoquía, piedemont of the Oriental Plains, high river Magdalena, north Dept. Choco, Dept. Valle and Caribbean region.  Canal del Dique (dept. of Bolivar, 10° 10' N, 76° 59' W, 20-08-93) Dibulla (dept. of the Guajira, 11° 16' N, 73° 19' W, 14-07-96) and Ciénaga del Francés (Dept. of Sucre, 9° 33'N, 75° 34' W, 19-06-96) are added;  S. rubra was known from the middle Magdalena river and the Caribbean region.  Canal del Dique (dept. of Bolivar, 10° 10' N, 76° 59', 20-08-93) and Titumate (Dept. of Chocó, 8°40' N, 77°12' W, 28-06-96) are added.  The frogs perched cryptically on the branches or back of leaves of Rhizophora mangrove and Laguncularia racemosa. The mangroves were at different stages of development, influenced by waters of varying salinity and temperature.  Vouchers:  Alexander von Humboldt Institute Villa de Leyva (Dept. Boyacá) and Dep. Biology, University del Valle (Dept. Valle) Colombia.  We thanks José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid and Taran Grant for frog identification.
 

Ricardo Alvarez-León & Rosa Mary De Ayala-Monedero

Proy. Mangroves of Colombia MMA / ACOFORE / OIMT
Apartado Aéreo 27770 Santa Fe de Bogotá D. C. - Colombia
E-mails: manglar@latino.net.co; alvarez_leon@hotmail.com; romayala@hotmail.com
 
 

Ampliación del ámbito altitudinal del tapir centroamericano (Tapirus bairdii)  
 

En Mayo de 1994 encontramos huellas y heces frescas de tapir a 3 620 msnm, en estanques naturales rodeados por matorral de Chusquea subtessellata en el páramo subalpino, ladera SE del Cerro Chirripó, Costa Rica (9º30´N, 83º28´W). Este constituye el mayor registro altitudinal para T. bairdii en toda su área de distribución.

Eduardo Naranjo y Christopher Vaughan.

Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Apartado 63, San Cristóbal, Chiapas, México. Tel/Fax (52) 967-81883 enaranjo@sclc.ecosur.mx

Programa Regional Manejo de Vida Silvestre, Universidad Nacional, Ap. 1350-3000, Heredia, Costa Rica. Tel (506) 237-7039 cvaughan@una.ac.cr
 
 

  Nasageneia yucatanensis (Amphipoda: Eusiridae) en las costas de Venezuela  
 

Se recolectó una hembra de la especie N. yucatanensis en una plataforma rocosa de Puerto Viejo (10º36’53" N, 67º06’00" W), Litoral Central de Venezuela, asociada a Caulerpa racemosa, lo cual amplía su ámbito geográfico anterior (Laguna de Términos, Mexico y Bahía de Cispata, Golfo de Morrosquillo, Colombia) hacia el Sur-Este del Mar Caribe. Catálogo MBUCV- XI-4777, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Referencia: Ledoyer, M. 1986. Faune mobile des herbiers de phanérogames marines (Halodule et Thalassia) de la Laguna de Términos (Mexique, Campeche). II Les gammariens (Crustacea). An. Inst. Cienc. Del Mar y Limnol. Univ. Nal. Autón. México. 13(3): 171-200.

 
Y. J. Díaz y A. Martín

Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado postal 89000, Sartenejas, Baruta, Venezuela; amartinz@usb.ve  yjdiaz@uole.com