[PDF][PDF] Status of Eastern Brazilian coral reefs in time of climate changes

Z Leão, RKP Kikuchi, MDM Oliveira… - Pan-American Journal …, 2010 - researchgate.net
Brazilian reefs comprise the largest and the richest reefs of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
Indicators of reef vitality reveal that reefs located less than 5 km from the coastline, the …

Genetic variation and population structuring in two brooding coral species (Siderastrea stellata and Siderastrea radians) from Brazil

EG Neves, SCS Andrade, FL da Silveira, VN Solferini - Genetica, 2008 - Springer
Siderastrea stellata and S. radians are scleractinian coral species that present a remarkable
overlap of diagnostic characteristics and sympatric distribution. Moreover, both are …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation status and spatial patterns of AGRRA vitality indices in Southwestern Atlantic Reefs

RKP Kikuchi, ZMAN Leão, MDM Oliveira - Revista de biologia tropical, 2010 - scielo.sa.cr
Coral reefs along the Eastern Brazilian coast extend for a distance of 800km from 12° to 18°
S. They are the largest and the richest reefs of Brazil coasts, and represent the …

The occurrence of Scolymia cubensis in Brazil: revising the problem of the Caribbean solitary mussids

E Neves, R Johnsson, C Sampaio, M Pichon - Zootaxa, 2006 - mapress.com
Identification of scleractinian corals is traditionally based upon morphological analysis of
skeleton traits. However, due to the influence of the environment on coral development, and …

[PDF][PDF] The adverse effects of cryptochirid crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) on Siderastrea stellata Verril, 1868 (Anthozoa: Scleractinia): causes and consequences of …

MM Nogueira, NM Menezes, R Johnsson, E Neves - Cah Biol Mar, 2014 - researchgate.net
In marine environments, a wide range of small, cryptic invertebrates are specialist
inhabitants of sessile Scleractinian corals, the exclusive hosts of cryptochirid crabs which …

Morphological variation in the atlantic genus Siderastrea (Anthozoa, Scleractinia)

N Menezes, E Neves, RKP Kikuchi… - Papéis Avulsos de …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
Siderastrea is a small genus of scleractinian corals, composed by zooxanthellate massive
colonial forms. Besides contributing to the consolidation of the reef structure, represent a …

Intertidal Anthozoans from the coast of Ceará (Brazil)

MO Soares, EF Rabelo, HM Cascon - 2011 - repositorio.ufc.br
(Intertidal Anthozoans from the coast of Ceará, Brazil). The diversity and distribution of
anthozoans were studied from intertidal regions along the state of Ceará, in northeastern …

Description of a new genus of Cryptochiridae (Decapoda: Brachyura) associated with Siderastrea (Anthozoa: Scleractinia), with notes on feeding habits

MFS Badaro, EG Neves, P Castro, R Johnsson - Scientia Marina, 2012 - torrossa.com
Members of the Cryptochiridae are small gall-crabs that live as obligate symbionts of
scleractinian corals. Only two species have so far been recorded in the western Atlantic …

[HTML][HTML] Intracolonial variation in Siderastrea de Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): taxonomy under challenging morphological constraints

NM Menezes, EG Neves, F Barros, RKP Kikuchi… - Biota …, 2013 - SciELO Brasil
The morphology of sessile invertebrates, such as scleractinian corals, can be controlled by
environmental and genetic mechanisms and, consequently, it is highly variable …

Taxonomic revision of the southwestern Atlantic Madracis and the description of Madracis fragilis n. sp. (Scleractinia: Pocilloporidae), a new coral species from Brazil

EE NEvEs, RR JohNssoN - Scientia Marina, 2009 - scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es
The genus Madracis has been known in Brazil from four deep water species, namely M.
mirabilis, M. asperula, M. brueggemanni and M. pharensis, and one zooxanthellate species …