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Conservation threats and future prospects for the freshwater fishes of Ecuador: A hotspot of Neotropical fish diversity. [PDF]

J Fish Biol, 2021
ABSTRACT Freshwater fish communities in Ecuador exhibit some of the highest levels of diversity and endemism in the Neotropics. Unfortunately, aquatic ecosystems in the country are under serious threat and conditions are deteriorating. In 2018–19, the government of Ecuador sponsored a series of workshops to examine the conservation status of Ecuador's ...
Aguirre WE, Alvarez-Mieles G, Anaguano-Yancha F, Burgos Morán R, Cucalón RV, Escobar-Camacho D, Jácome-Negrete I, Jiménez Prado P, Laaz E, Miranda-Troya K, Navarrete-Amaya R, Nugra Salazar F, Revelo W, Rivadeneira JF, Valdiviezo Rivera J, Zárate Hugo E.   +15 more
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Trends in Medicinal Uses of Edible Wild Vertebrates in Brazil. [PDF]

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2017
The use of food medicines is a widespread practice worldwide. In Brazil, such use is often associated with wild animals, mostly focusing on vertebrate species. Here we assessed taxonomic and ecological trends in traditional uses of wild edible vertebrates in the country, through an extensive ethnobiological database analysis. Our results showed that at
Alves RRN, Oliveira TPR, Oliveira TPR, Medeiros MFT.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Morfometria de raias continentais (Chondrichthyes, Potamotrygonidae) do alto rio Paraná, Brasil - DOI: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v29i4.885

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2008
Potamotrygonidae constitui o único grupo recente de Chondrichthyes cujo habitat está restrito, exclusivamente, a águas continentais. Na planície de inundação do Alto rio Paraná, espécies desta família estabeleceram-se após o fechamento das comportas da ...
Antonio Guilherme Cândido da Silva, Erivelto Goulart   +1 more
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Morfometria de raias continentais (Chondrichthyes, Potamotrygonidae) do alto rio Paraná, Brasil = Morphometry of upper Paraná river freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes, Potamotrygonidae)

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2007
Potamotrygonidae constitui o único grupo recente de Chondrichthyes cujo habitat está restrito, exclusivamente, a águas continentais. Na planície de inundação do Alto rio Paraná, espécies desta família estabeleceram-se após o fechamento das comportas da ...
Antonio Guilherme Cândido da Silva, Erivelto Goulart   +1 more
doaj  

Rhythmic chew cycles with distinct fast and slow phases are ancestral to gnathostomes. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023
Richard BA, Spence M, Rull-Garza M, Roba YT, Schwarz D, Ramsay JB, Laurence-Chasen JD, Ross CF, Konow N.   +8 more
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Host relationships and geographic distribution of species of Acanthobothrium Blanchard, 1848 (Onchoproteocephalidea, Onchobothriidae) in elasmobranchs: a metadata analysis. [PDF]

Zookeys, 2020
Zaragoza-Tapia F, Pulido-Flores G, Gardner SL, Monks S.   +3 more
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Injuries caused by fish to fishermen in the Vale do Alto Juruá, Western Brazilian Amazon. [PDF]

Rev Soc Bras Med Trop, 2019
Costa TND, Jacó TRF, Casas ALDS, Bernarde PS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

First DNA Barcode Reference Library for the Identification of South American Freshwater Fish from the Lower Paraná River. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
Díaz J, Villanova GV, Brancolini F, Del Pazo F, Posner VM, Grimberg A, Arranz SE.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Stingray venom activates IL-33 producing cardiomyocytes, but not mast cell, to promote acute neutrophil-mediated injury. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2017
Dos Santos JC, Grund LZ, Seibert CS, Marques EE, Soares AB, Quesniaux VF, Ryffel B, Lopes-Ferreira M, Lima C.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Annotated checklist of fish cestodes from South America. [PDF]

Zookeys, 2017
Alves PV, de Chambrier A, Scholz T, Luque JL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source