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Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2008 DNA barcoding is a recently proposed global standard in taxonomy based on DNA sequences. The two main goals of DNA barcoding methodology are assignment of specimens to a species and discovery of new species.
Daniel Toffoli +5 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2010 INTRODUÇÃO: No presente trabalho objetivamos descrever o processo de colonização da Bacia do Alto Paraná, Sudeste do Brasil, por arraias, demonstrando sua atual situação e provável tendência, os impactos gerados e discutindo algumas ações de manejo e ...
Domingos Garrone Neto +1 more
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Acta Amazonica, 2012 Freshwater stingrays, or potamotrygonids, are restricted to Neotropical river drainages. These elasmobranchs are well adapted to freshwater environments and the number of described species gradually increases as further research is carried out.
María Cristina Oddone +2 more
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TRAFFICKING OF ORNAMENTAL FISH IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, 2021 The trafficking of ornamental fish is growing on a yearly basis in the Brazilian Amazon. This represents a serious threat to the biodiversity of the region.
Hélio BELTRÃO +3 more
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Proposal of a non-lethal visual census method to estimate freshwater stingray abundance
Universitas Scientiarum, 2016 There is not a current method to estimate South American freshwater stingray’s abundance. Therefore we designed a census method and tested it in the field.
Mónica Andrea Morales-Betancourt +1 more
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Ornamental fishing in the region of Barcelos, Amazonas: socioeconomic description and scenario of activity in the view of “piabeiros” [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2019 The Negro river basin is considered the largest area of extractive of ornamental fish in Brazil. This area has fundamental importance for the populations from the Amazon.
D. S. Ladislau +9 more
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Trends in Medicinal Uses of Edible Wild Vertebrates in Brazil
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 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
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves +3 more
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Rhinebothrium jaimei sp. n. (Eucestoda: Rhinebothriidea: Rhinebothriidae): a new species from Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) [PDF]
Folia Parasitologica, 2015 Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Batoidea: Potamotrygonidae) host a diversity of parasites, including some, like their hosts, that are marine-derived. Among the parasites of potamotrygonids, the cestode fauna is the most diverse, with multiple genera having been reported, including genera endemic to the freshwaters of the Neotropics and genera that ...
Fernando P L, Marques, Florian B, Reyda
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Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2011 A pesar de la representatividad de Potamotrygon magdalenae en Colombia, por encontrarse a lo largo de la cuenca del río Magdalena y sus afluentes, esta raya no ha sido objeto de estudios previos, desconociéndose la mayor parte de sus aspectos bio ...
Herly Bibiana Ramos Socha +1 more
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