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Checklist of the Cnidaria Medusozoa of Brazil

Uma lista dos Cnidaria Medusozoa marinhos do Brasil foi composta a partir de registros de ocorrencia disponiveis na literatura. Ate o momento, ha um total de 373 especies registradas para o Brazil:…
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BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Motivation The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity…
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The life cycle of Chrysaora lactea Eschscholtz, 1829 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) with notes on the scyphistoma stage of three other species

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The life cycle of Chrysaora lactea Eschscholtz, 1829, a common species on the Brazilian coast, is described and ephyrae and young medusae were maintained in laboratory conditions up to 7 months.
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Skin lesions in envenoming by cnidarians (Portuguese man-of-war and jellyfish): etiology and severity of accidents on the Brazilian coast.

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Patients from the North Coast region of São Paulo State, Brazil were seen and there was an association between skin marks and probable accident etiology, as the Cubozoa Class (box jellyfish) and Portuguese man-of-war cause the most severe accidents.
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Genetic variation and population structuring in two brooding coral species (Siderastrea stellata and Siderastrea radians) from Brazil

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The data suggest the occurrence of gene flow along the Brazilian coast, which is the first study on population genetics of Brazilian reef corals.
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The Association of Two Gall Crabs (Brachyura: Cryptochiridae) with the Reef-building Coral Siderastrea stellata Verrill, 1868

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The family Cryptochiridae includes a small group of cryptic crabs that inhabit cavities in scleractinian corals and is represented in Brazil by two species, Opecarcinus hypostegus and Troglocarcinus corallicola.
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An outbreak of Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis - Linnaeus, 1758) envenoming in Southeastern Brazil.

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The clinical and therapeutic aspects of 331 accidents involving Portuguese man-of-war in an outbreak on the coast of the State of São Paulo, Brazil reported were rare and mild, and first aid measures were effective in controlling the pain.
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Seabather's eruption: report of five cases in southeast region of Brazil.

The authors report five cases of seabather's eruption, a typical dermatitis associated predominantly to the jellyfish Linuche unguiculata (Cnidaria), that causes erythematous and pruriginous papules…
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Evolutionary Diversification of Banded Tube-Dwelling Anemones (Cnidaria; Ceriantharia; Isarachnanthus) in the Atlantic Ocean

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It is revealed that two different species exist in the Atlantic Ocean and genetic divergence within and between Ceriantharia species is more similar to that found in Medusozoa than Anthozoa and Porifera that have divergence rates similar to typical metazoans.
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Reproductive biology of Palythoa caribaeorum and Protopalythoa valilbilis (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Zoanthidea) from the southeastern coast of Brazil.

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The reproductive biology of Palythoa caribaeorum and Protopalythoa variabilis was studied through monthly samples from tagged colonies from June 1996 to June 1997, in Sao Sebastiao channel, São Paulo, Brazil.
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