Deep-Water Shrimp (Crustacea: Penaeoidea) Off the Yucatan Peninsula (Southern Gulf of Mexico): A Potential Fishing Resource?

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Gracia ◽  
Ana Rosa Vázquez-Bader ◽  
Enrique Lozano-Alvarez ◽  
Patricia Briones-Fourzán
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Southern Gulf Of Mexico

Ecotoxicological effects of POPs on ariidae Ariopsis felis (Linnaeus, 1766) from three coastal ecosystems in the Southern Gulf of Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 1513-1520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Zapata-Pérez ◽  
Victor Ceja-Moreno ◽  
Mónica Roca Olmos ◽  
María Teresa Pérez ◽  
Marcela del Río-García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Coastal Ecosystems ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Ecotoxicological Effects ◽  
Southern Gulf Of Mexico

Occurrence of the Mardi Gras wrasse, Halichoeres burekae (Teleostei: Labridae) in the Alacranes Reef, off northern Yucatan Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2298 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALFONSO AGUILAR-PERERA ◽  
ARMIN TUZ-SULUB
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Planktivorous Fish ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Mardi Gras ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Southern Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Reef Platform

The Mardi Gras wrasse, Halichoeres burekae, is a planktivorous fish considered to be endemic to the Gulf of Mexico and recently described. It was previously known only from the Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary (USA) and Veracruz, (Mexico). We recorded Halichoeres burekae (initial female [50–70 mm TL] and terminal male [60–90 mm TL] phases) in the Alacranes Reef, a reef platform located off northern Yucatan Peninsula, southern Gulf of Mexico. This fish is relatively common in shallow (2 m) and deep (25 m) waters in the Alacranes Reef, where it forms small (15 individuals) to large (200 individuals) aggregations. This record represents a range extension for H. burekae and indicates a general lack of knowledge about the southern Gulf of Mexico reef fish fauna.

Updated checklist and identification key of benthic tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the sublittoral zone of the northern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4711 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
MÓNICA MARIEL ABARCA-ÁVILA ◽  
MARÍA TERESA HERRERA-DORANTES ◽  
IGNACIO WINFIELD ◽  
PEDRO-LUIS ARDISSON
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
New Records ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
North Coast ◽  
The North ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Sublittoral Zone ◽  
Southern Gulf Of Mexico

A taxonomic checklist of sublittoral tanaidaceans from the north coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, southern Gulf of Mexico, is presented in this study; it includes notes on geographic distribution, habitat, and an identification key. The genus Cacoheterotanais and the species Cacoheterotanais rogerbamberi, Mesokalliapseudes macsweenyi, Pagurotanais largoensis, Parakonarus juliae, and Psammokalliapseudes granulosus have their known distribution range within the Gulf of Mexico expanded, and are considered new records; this increases the number of tanaidacean species to 23 for the southeastern Gulf, and to 87 for the entire Gulf of Mexico. 

scholarly journals River Turtle in Danger

Oryx ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Alvarez del Toro ◽  
Russell A. Mittermeier ◽  
John B. Iverson
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Large River ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Snapping Turtles ◽  
Coastal Lowlands

A large river turtle Dermatemys mawei, found only in the coastal lowlands of the Gulf of Mexico, is becoming rare throughout most of its restricted range. It is found from central Veracruz, Mexico, eastward through Guatemala and Belize, but not in the Yucatan Peninsula, and it is heavily hunted for its meat. The only living representative of the Dermatemydidae, a turtle family known from as early as the Cretaceous, its closest living relatives are the mud turtles (Kinosternidae), and it is not as closely related to the snapping turtles (Chelydridae) as previously thought.4,5,9,20 In the latest classification of turtles the Dermatemydidae are placed in the Superfamily Trionychoidea of the Infraorder Cryptodira.

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