Freshwater decapods of Puerto Rico: a checklist and reports of new localities.

New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory

A large number of recently collected specimens from Puerto Rico has yielded two new species including Palaeoxanthopsis tylotus and Eurytium granulosum, the oldest known occurrence of the latter genus. Cretaceous decapods are reported from Puerto Rico for the first time, and the Cretaceous fauna is similar to that of southern Mexico. Herein is included the first report of Pleistocene decapods fr...

Factors Influencing Tropical Island Freshwater Fishes: Species, Status, and Management Implications in Puerto Rico

Fisheries ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic effects including river regulation, watershed development, contamination, and fish introductions have substantially affected the majority of freshwater habitats in Europe and North America. This pattern of resource development and degradation is widespread in the tropics, and often little is known about the resources before they are lost. This article describes...

Factors Influencing tropical Island Freshwater Fishes: Species, Status, and Management Implications in puerto rico

Fisheries • vol 34 no 11 • november 2009 • www.fisheries.org ABStrACt: Anthropogenic effects including river regulation, watershed development, contamination, and fish introductions have substantially affected the majority of freshwater habitats in Europe and north America. This pattern of resource development and degradation is widespread in the tropics, and often little is known about the res...

Genetic seascape of the threatened Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, on the Puerto Rico Shelf.

It has been proposed that the elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, is genetically separated into two distinct provinces in the Caribbean, an Eastern and a Western population admixing in western Puerto Rico and around the Mona Passage. In this study, the genetic structure of A. palmata sampled at 11 Puerto Rican localities and localities from Curaçao, the Bahamas and Guadeloupe were examined. Analys...

Development of a Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity Development of a Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity for Freshwater Systems in San Juan, Puerto Rico Sponsored by The Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico (Fideicomiso)