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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0034-7744</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Biología Tropical]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. biol. trop]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0034-7744</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-id>S0034-77442015000600049</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15517/rbt.v63i2.23128</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Micro identificación taxonómica y nuevos caracteres diagnósticos del erizo marino Astropyga pulvinata (Diadematoida: Diadematidae)]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Taxonomic microidentification and new diagnostic characters of the sea urchin Astropyga pulvinata (Diadematoida: Diadematidae)]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Juárez-Espinoza]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Pablo A.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Solís-Marín]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Francisco Alonso]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Arreguín-Espinosa]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Roberto A.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,UNAM Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Equinodermos ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,UNAM Laboratorio de Química de Biomacromoléculas Instituto de Química]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>63</volume>
<fpage>49</fpage>
<lpage>58</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0034-77442015000600049&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0034-77442015000600049&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0034-77442015000600049&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Astropyga pulvinata es un diademátido que posee cinco pares de series de puntos iridiscentes presentes en los interambulacros. A partir de la observación 20 individuos in vivo a través de un estereoscopio y el análisis con un Microscopio Electrónico de Barrido se identificaron los pedicelarios, las espículas y las rosetas calcáreas de los pies ambulacrales. Los pedicelarios presentes en A. pulvinata son trivalvados y de tres tipos: claviformes (oficéfalos) presentes en ambulacro; tridentados distribuidos en el peristoma; y trifoliados presentes en toda la testa excepto en los interambulacros. Los pedicelarios claviformes son los únicos que no están unidos por un pedúnculo calcáreo de tipo diadematoide. Se obtuvieron diez tipos de espículas de diversos tejidos blandos: uno del intestino; tres de la membrana anal y seis del peristoma, dos de las cuales no han sido descritas hasta el momento. Uno de estos nuevos tipos de espículas reportados posee forma de basto y otro de media luna. De las observaciones in vivo se encontraron puntos iridiscentes más pequeños presentes en el ambitus constituidos por aproximadamente ocho células.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Astropyga pulvinata is a sea urchin of the family Diadematidae that have five pairs of series of blue iridescent spots on interambulacral zones, from in vivo observation of 20 individuals under stereo-microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope analysis identification, the pedicellariae, spicules, and calcareous rosettes. The pedicellariae of A. pulvinata have three valves and are of three types: claviform, present on ambulacres; tridentates present on peristome and triphyllous present all over the test except in interambulacral areas. So ophicephalous pedicellariae are not bounded with a calcareous stalk. Ten types of spicules were observed from different soft tissues: one type from the intestine; three from the anal membrane; and six from the peristome, two of them constitute new diagnostic characters. One of them having a bat-shaped form and the other one with a waning crescent shape. In vivo observations showed that the blue iridescent spots were present on interambulacral areas as group of 35 cells bounded, and that other smaller spots were present on the ambitus, composed by eight cells. Rev. Biol. Trop. 63 (Suppl. 2): 49-58. Epub 2015 June 01.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[claviform, tridentate, triphyllous pedicellariae]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[spicules, blue iridescent spots.]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Pedicelarios claviformes, trifoliados, tridentados]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[espículas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[puntos iridiscentes]]></kwd>
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