The scorpion fauna of Mona Island, Puerto Rico (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Scorpionidae)

A New Hairstreak Butterfly ( Lycaenidae ) from Mona Island , Puerto Rico

Biogeographical Affinities of the Butterflies of a 'forgotten' Island: Mona (puerto Rico)

David Spencer Smith Hope Entomological Collections and Department of Zoology. Oxford University, England Stuart J . Ramos Department of Biology, Mayaquez Campus, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Faustino McKenzie Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Eugene Munroe Grani te Hill Farm, RR 2, Dunrobin. Ontario, Canada Lee D. Miller Allyn Museum of Entomology of the Flor...

A survey of the epibiota of Eretmochelys imbricata (Testudines: Cheloniidae) of Mona Island, Puerto Rico.

Epibiotic organisms inhabiting non-nesting hawksbill sea turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766), are described from Mona and Monito Islands, Puerto Rico. Epibiont samples from 105 turtles of shallow (< 40 m) water foraging habitats were collected and identified to the lowest possible taxon. This epibiotic assemblage consisting of at least 4 algal functional groups and 12 animal phyla ...

Evidence for recombination in scorpion mitochondrial DNA (Scorpiones: Buthidae).

There has been very little undisputed evidence for recombination in animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) provided so far. Previous unpublished results suggestive of mtDNA recombination in the scorpion family Buthidae, together with cytological evidence for a unique mechanism of mitochondrial fusion in that family, prompted us to investigate this group in more details. First, we sequenced the comple...

Turnover and Ecological Release in the Avifauna of Mona Island, Puerto Rico

Mor)• biogeographic theory states that the number of species in a class or other large taxonomic unit that inhabits an island is maintained within narrow bounds by a dynamic steady state between colonization and extinction s (MacArthur and Wilson 1967). Although a recent experimental test of the theory upheld most of its expectations (Simberloff and Wilson 1969), there remains a paucity of data...