scholarly journals Elementos de la dieta del manatí Trichechus manatus manatus en tres sitios importantes para la especie en México y Belice

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lavinia Flores-Cascante ◽  
Benjamín Morales-Vela ◽  
Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez ◽  
Janneth Padilla-Saldívar ◽  
Nicole Auil

Los manatíes (Trichechus manatus manatus) son mamíferos herbívoros y de hábitos oportunistas, se alimentan de casi 60 especies de plantas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue identificar los elementos de la dieta del manatí por medio de análisis de heces en dos sitios en México (Jonuta, Tabasco y Bahía de la Ascensión, Quintana Roo) y uno en Belice (Southern Lagoon). Las muestras provienen de manatíes de vida libre y en cautiverio que fueron capturados temporalmente para muestreo y evaluación de su salud durante el período 2004-2006. Un total de 24 muestras fueron procesadas. La identificación de los elementos de la dieta se basó en el análisis microhistológico de las heces y la separación de los ítems para su posterior comparación con material bibliográfico y colecciones histológicas. También se revisaron las muestras para la búsqueda de invertebrados. Las especies vegetales identificadas fueron: Thalassia testudinum, Rhizophora mangle, Halodule wrightii, Ruppia sp. y Panicum sp., esta última confirmada por primera vez para México. No se encontró evidencia de invertebrados en las muestras. El orden de importancia relativa de consumo de las especies vegetales por los manatíes coincide con lo reportado para otras regiones de América. Se recomienda hacer un mayor esfuerzo de muestreo en áreas donde se desconocen los ítems alimentarios de la especie.AbstractManatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) are herbivorous mammals with opportunistic habits that feed onapproximately 60 species of plants. The focus of this paper was to identify diet elements of the manateeby fecal analysis in two sites in Mexico (Jonuta, Tabasco and Bahía de la Ascensión, Quintana Roo) andone site in Belize (Southern Lagoon). Samples were obtained from wild manatees and captive manateestemporarily captured for health assessment and sampling during 2004-2006. A total of 24 samples wereanalyzed. Diet components were assessed by microhistological analysis of feces. Items were separated andcompared with bibliography and histological collections. Samples were also analyzed to detect invertebrates.Vegetal species found included Thalassia testudinum, Rhizophora mangle, Halodule wrightii, Ruppia sp. and Panicum sp., the latter confirmed for the first time for Mexico. No evidence of invertebrates wasfound in the samples. Relative importance of vegetal species consumed by manatees coincides with thefindings reported for other areas in the Americas. Further systematic sampling efforts are needed in areaswhere manatee diet items are unknown.

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Lavinia Flores-Cascante ◽  
Benjamín Morales-Vela ◽  
Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez ◽  
Janneth Padilla-Saldívar ◽  
Nicole Auil

Los manatíes (Trichechus manatus manatus) son mamíferos herbívoros y de hábitos oportunistas, se alimentan de casi 60 especies de plantas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue identificar los elementos de la dieta del manatí por medio de análisis de heces en dos sitios en México (Jonuta, Tabasco y Bahía de la Ascensión, Quintana Roo) y uno en Belice (Southern Lagoon). Las muestras provienen de manatíes de vida libre y en cautiverio que fueron capturados temporalmente para muestreo y evaluación de su salud durante el período 2004-2006. Un total de 24 muestras fueron procesadas. La identificación de los elementos de la dieta se basó en el análisis microhistológico de las heces y la separación de los ítems para su posterior comparación con material bibliográfico y colecciones histológicas. También se revisaron las muestras para la búsqueda de invertebrados. Las especies vegetales identificadas fueron: Thalassia testudinum, Rhizophora mangle, Halodule wrightii, Ruppia sp. y Panicum sp., esta última confirmada por primera vez para México. No se encontró evidencia de invertebrados en las muestras. El orden de importancia relativa de consumo de las especies vegetales por los manatíes coincide con lo reportado para otras regiones de América. Se recomienda hacer un mayor esfuerzo de muestreo en áreas donde se desconocen los ítems alimentarios de la especie.AbstractManatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) are herbivorous mammals with opportunistic habits that feed onapproximately 60 species of plants. The focus of this paper was to identify diet elements of the manateeby fecal analysis in two sites in Mexico (Jonuta, Tabasco and Bahía de la Ascensión, Quintana Roo) andone site in Belize (Southern Lagoon). Samples were obtained from wild manatees and captive manateestemporarily captured for health assessment and sampling during 2004-2006. A total of 24 samples wereanalyzed. Diet components were assessed by microhistological analysis of feces. Items were separated andcompared with bibliography and histological collections. Samples were also analyzed to detect invertebrates.Vegetal species found included Thalassia testudinum, Rhizophora mangle, Halodule wrightii, Ruppia sp. and Panicum sp., the latter confirmed for the first time for Mexico. No evidence of invertebrates wasfound in the samples. Relative importance of vegetal species consumed by manatees coincides with thefindings reported for other areas in the Americas. Further systematic sampling efforts are needed in areaswhere manatee diet items are unknown.


Author(s):  
Luz Stella Mejla ◽  
Oscar D. Solano ◽  
Alberto Rodríguez Ramírez

In this note 8 species are reported for the first time from Islas del Rosario. They were found associated with Thalassia testudinum seagrass and Rhizophora mangle roots. With these new records, 242 species of fishes are now known in this area.


Author(s):  
P. Tongiorgi ◽  
E. Fregni ◽  
M. Balsamo

During 1996–1997 a systematic sampling programme was carried out in brackish coastal lakes and lagoons and in the delta of the River Po. In six of the nine collecting locations, 12 species of Gastrotricha were identified. One species, Chaetonotus ichthydioides, is new to science; another three species, the chaetonotidans Heterolepidoderma foliatum and the macrodasyidans Dendrodasys ponticus and Turbanella cf. pontica, and one macrodasyidan genus, Paradasys (P. subterraneus), were found in Italy for the first time. The unusual morphology of some of the species identified shows that Gastrotricha colonized brackish waters from both marine and freshwater habitats.


Author(s):  
D. I. Enríquez

Abstract A description is provided for Corollospora gracilis. Information on the host plants (Coccoloba uvifera, Rhizophora mangle, Sargassum sp., Syringodium filiforme and Thalassia testudinum), geographical distribution (South Africa, Mexico, Japan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, India), and dispersal and transmission of the pathogen is presented.


2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1934578X1400901
Author(s):  
Fernanda das Neves Costa ◽  
Marcos Daniel da Silva ◽  
Ricardo Moreira Borges ◽  
Gilda Guimarães Leitão

Nine phenolic compounds, quercetin, epi-catechin, catechin, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, kaempferol 3- O-β-glucopyranoside, quercetin 3- O-β-glucopyranoside, quercetin 3- O-6″- trans-coumaroyl-β-glucoside, kaempferol 3- O-β-rutinoside and quercetin 3- O-β-rutinoside, were isolated from the EtOAc leaf extract of Rhizophora mangle (Rhizophoraceae) combining counter-current chromatography (CCC) and gel-filtration. A solvent system of n-hexane-ethyl acetate-methanol-water (1.5:6:1.5:6) was employed at the preliminary stage of EtOAc extract fractionation as it was shown to contain compounds that differed highly in their hydrophobicity. The obtained fractions were further purified by either CCC or gel-filtration depending on their complexity. The isolated compounds were analyzed by NMR spectroscopy and the proposed structures were confirmed by HRES/ESI/TOF MS. Some of these compounds were isolated and/or identified for the first time in R. mangle.


Acarologia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Lucia Montes-Ortiz ◽  
Tom Goldschmidt ◽  
Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez

For the first time a parasitic relationship between a water mite larva and a Cladocera is found and documented by scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging. A Unionicolidae larva (cf. Unionicola) has been found attached to a Bosmina tubicen (Cladocera) collected in a karst sinkhole (cenote) in the southeast of the Yucatán Peninsula (México).


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