Although it has been assumed that the satyrine butterfly Palmaris gustavi (Staudinger, 1898) should be present in northern Chile, no reliable reports of its observation and capture have been provided. Here, we report the presence of P. gustavi in several localities of northern Chile stretching from the altiplanic regions of Putre to those of San Pedro de Atacama, 550 km to the south. We also re...

—It is difficult for agencies to evaluate the impacts of the many planned dams on São Francisco River, Brazil, migratory fishes because fish migrations are poorly known. We conducted a study on zulega Prochilodus argenteus, an important commercial and recreational fish in the São Francisco River, to identify migrations and spawning areas and to determine linear home range. During two spawning s...

Rapid industrialization along with advanced agricultural activities led to the contamination in aquatic environment with heavy metals. Heavy metals ultimately pass into human body through having aquatic animals like fish, prawn and crab. In this study, accumulation of heavy metals (zinc, copper, iron, cadmium and lead) in various organs of four commonly consumed fish (Euthynnus affinis...

Supplementary Document Data Distributions, Computing Time, Analysis and Methods Ching-Wei Wang 1,2∗, Yu-Ching Lee 2,3, Evelyne Calista 1,2, Fan Zhou 5, Hongtu Zhu 5,6, Ryohei Suzuki 7,8, Daisuke Komura 7, Shumpei Ishikawa 7, Shih-Ping Cheng 4 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan . NTUST Center of Computer Vision and Medical I...

In the West, comics are traditionally seen by the " literati " as a rather low-brow medium pandering to sweaty-palmed, superhero-obsessed teenagers. Although this perception may contain a grain of truth, the genre as a whole has long since outgrown this well-worn stereotype. This will come as no surprise to the Japanese, who have considered manga (Japanese comics) part of the established litera...

A systematic checklist of fish and shellfishes the Poonthura estuary, Kerala, India is provided including notes on their conservation status. This includes 66 finfish five shellfish, belonging to 17 orders, 35 families, 60 genera. Carangiformes richest order (11 species, eight genera, three families), representing 15.4% total diversity. Carangidae, most diverse family with nine representatives,...