After revising the literature and consulting the pertinent virtual databases, we here list all
Brazilian marine bivalves currently considered as valid and include data on their …

The expression 'you need to know to conserve'is a well-known cliche among biologists.
Documenting the richness of a group of organisms is the first step towards understanding …

Coastal ecosystems of northeastern Brazil have important biodiversity with regard to marine
mollusks, which are insufficiently studied. Here we provide an inventory of mollusks from two …

This book is the result of several years of research on the superfamily Mactroidea. I started to
study the taxonomy of the species belonging to the family Mactridae of southwestern Atlantic …

Intensive sampling of molluscs from the intertidal to depths of 800 m around the islands of
Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles (KARUBENTHOS 2012, 2015) recovered 25 species of …

Bivalves provide a range of ecosystem services such as turbidity reduction, denitrification
induction, and habitat complexity provision. This study aimed to assess the diversity and the …

Bivalves play an important role in regulating bodies of water as well as in providing a wide
range of ecosystem services including habitat complexity provision. A study of bivalve …

Anomalodesmata is the rarest and most specialized group of the class Bivalvia. In general,
scarce data on sperm ultrastructure of anomalodesmatans are available in the literature …

ABSTRACT Contaminants compounds like Heavy Metals and Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons (PAH's) are primarily sourced from industrial and urban areas. As pollutants …

Increasing habitat modification and species loss demand consistent efforts to describe and
understand biodiversity patterns. The BIOTA/FAPESP Program was created in this context …