Title
La familia Conidae en el mar peruano
Other title
The family Conidae from Peruvian Sea.
Date Issued
01 April 2010
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
This paper describes and provides information on the species of the genus Conus (Neogastropoda:Conidae) preserved in the Laboratorio de Biología y Sistemática de Invertebrados Marinos de la Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas (LaBSIM) y el Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Marcos (MUSM). The material was collected at the Department of Tumbes (9 locations) and Piura (16 locations). Intesive collect was realized in April 2007 and occasional in posterior years. Of the 16 reported species it is counted with material corresponding to 11 of them: Conus (Conus) gladiator Broderip, 1833; Conus (Asprella) arcuatus Broderip & Sowerby, 1829; Conus (Cylinder) lucidus Wood, 1828; Conus (Leptoconus) poormani Berry, 1968; Conus (L.) recurvus Broderip, 1833; Conus (Pyruconus) fergusoni;Sowerby, 1873; Conus (P.) patricius Hinds, 1843; Conus (Ximeniconus) mahogani Reeve,1843; Conus (X.) perplexus Sowerby, 1857; Conus (X.) tornatus Sowerby, 1833 and Conus (X.) ximenes Gray, 1839. There are no material of Conus (C.) princeps Linnaeus, 1758; Conus (C.) tiaratus Sowerby, 1833; Conus (Chelyconus) purpurascens Sowerby, 1833; Conus (Leptoconus) regularis Sowerby, 1833 and Conus (L.) virgatus Reeve, 1849. Conus kohni MacLean & Nybakken, 1979 and Conus xanthicus Dall, 1910, are reported for the first time, wich increases to 18 the number of species registered for the tropical sea of Peru.
Start page
65
End page
73
Volume
17
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84984971333
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
Sponsor(s)
Trabajo presentado a la XVIII Reunión Científica del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Bioló- gicas Antonio Raimondi, “200 años del nacimiento de Charles Darwin y el 150 aniversario de la publicación de On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”. Del 19 al 21 de agosto de 2009.
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