COMMENTS OF SPECIES OF SOLARIELLA AND LAMELLITROCHUS (TROCHIDAE, SOLARIELLINAE) FROM THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE OF NORTHEAST BRAZIL, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES
- J. C. Barros, P. Santos, Jonata de Arruda Francisco
- Biology
- 13 April 2009
Five species of Solariella and three species of Lamellitrochus were identified from the continental shelf and slope of Northeast Brazil, and were revised based on morphology, the original…
New species of Architectonicidae (Gastropoda Heterobranchia) from northeastern Brazil
The species described here are considered endemic to northeastern Brazil and are described for the continental shelf and slope off northeastern Brazil.
New records of Caribbean Gastropods (Skeneidae, Tornidae, Orbitestellidae and Omalogyridae) for Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago (Brazil)
- S. Lima, J. C. Barros, Jonata de Arruda Francisco, P. S. Oliveira
- Biology
- 2011
It is believed that the taxa studied have a circum-Caribbean distribution and are dispersed from the Caribbean and northeastern portion of South America to the SPSPA under the influence of the equatorial subcurrent, occupying seamounts and/or oceanic banks in a gradient fashion.
Five new species of Arcidae from Brazil with description of new genus: Paranadara (Mollusca: Bivalvia)
- Jonata de Arruda Francisco, J. C. Barros, S. Lima
- BiologyJournal of the Marine Biological Association of…
- 11 August 2011
New arcid species belonging to the genera Paranadara gen. nov., Acar and Asperarca (new record) are described for the western Atlantic Ocean based on shell morphology and are similar to this genus due to shape, ligament and presence of concentric lamellae cut by radial threads.
A new deep-sea species of Mitromorpha (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae) off Brazil
- S. Lima, J. C. Barros, Jonata de Arruda Francisco
- BiologyJournal of the Marine Biological Association of…
- 3 August 2009
A new species of Conidae is described from Brazilian waters, with two unnamed Brazilian species being diagnosed as possessing strong axial ribs, second spiral cord on the body whorl more pronounced and yellowish-brown spiral bands.
Shell morphometry of three species of the genus Nuculana Link, 1807 (Bivalvia, Protobranchia, Nuculanidae) from continental shelf and slope Northeastern Brazil
- Jonata de Arruda Francisco, Deusinete de Oliveira Tenório, J. C. Barros, Juliana Gabrielle Arcelino da Silva, G. F. Silva
- Biology
- 30 June 2011
A analise de variaveis canonicas mostrou existir diferencas conquiliologicas no tamanho e na forma das especies, corroborando com a separacao inicial dos taxons em 74% dos casos.
Two new species of Aclis (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Aclididae) from the continental slope of northeast Brazil
- J. C. Barros, S. Lima, Jonata de Arruda Francisco
- Biology, Geology
- 15 October 2007
Two new species of Aclis Loven, 1846 are described from the continental slope of northeast Brazil. Aclis macrostoma n. sp. is recorded off the state of Rio Grande do Norte at depths ranging from 375…