The Gulf of Mexico and Canada Basin: Genetic Siblings on Either Side of North America

GSA Today ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.R. Lundin ◽  
A.G. Doré
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Canada Basin

Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas

2005 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Fish Assemblages ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Large River ◽  
Freshwater Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Native Fishes

<em>Abstract.</em>—The Rio Grande is the fourth longest river in North America and the 22nd longest in the world. It begins as a cold headwater stream in Colorado, flows through New Mexico and Texas, where it becomes warm and turbid and finally empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The diversity of native fishes is high in the Rio Grande ranging from freshwater salmonids in its upper reaches to coastal forms in the lower reaches. Historically, about 40 primary freshwater species inhabited the waters of the Rio Grande. Like many rivers throughout North America, the native fish fauna of this river has been irrevocably altered. Species once present are now extinct, others are threatened or endangered, and the majority of the remaining native fishes are declining in both range and numbers. Today, 17 of the 40 primary native freshwater fishes have been either extirpated in part or throughout the Rio Grande drainage. This chapter examines the river, its fauna, and its current plight.

scholarly journals Changes in precipitation regimes over North America during the Holocene as recorded by mineralogy and geochemistry of Gulf of Mexico sediments

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 132-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Carlos Montero-Serrano ◽  
Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles ◽  
Thomas Sionneau ◽  
Nicolas Tribovillard ◽  
Aloys Bory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Precipitation Regimes

Variation in Body Size of Two Species of Supralittoral Talitrids (Amphipoda, Talitroidea) from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts of North America

Crustaceana ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (10) ◽  
pp. 1243-1250 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Development Pattern ◽  
Metabolic Theory ◽  
Metabolic Theory Of Ecology

AbstractPopulations of Platorchestia platensis (Krøyer, 1845) and Orchestia grillus Bosc, 1802 (Amphipoda, Talitroidea) show variations in body size throughout their range in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast of North America. For each species we describe an intraspecific correlation between median body size and degrees of latitude north, such that in populations progressively further north from the equator, the median body size becomes larger. This growth and development pattern is consistent with the metabolic theory of ecology and appears to be general among Talitridae, with a few exceptions.

On the identity and origin of Anadara demiri (Bivalvia: Arcidae)

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 1289-1298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo G. Albano ◽  
Emidio Rinaldi ◽  
Francesca Evangelisti ◽  
Michela Kuan ◽  
Bruno Sabelli
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Locus Typicus

Anadara demiri (Piani, 1981) is an alien species in the Mediterranean Sea extending its range from Turkey westernly to the Adriatic Sea, where it is locally abundant. The species was first identified as Arca amygdalum Philippi, 1847 in the 1970s. The locus typicus of A. amygdalum is China. This first identification has never been discussed and the species has been thought to be of Indo-Pacific origin to date. However, in the Indo-Pacific province no Anadara shows any similarity with A. demiri. Morphological and molecular data suggest A. demiri is closely related to Anadara transversa (Say, 1822), a common species of the eastern coasts of North America. Anadara demiri is hence considered a junior synonym of A. transversa and the origin of this immigration has to be searched in the southern range of this species, maybe the Gulf of Mexico coasts of Florida.

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