Open AccessHeterópodos (Gastropoda: Pterotracheoidea) identificados en un transecto costa-océano en el Pacífico colombiano
Author(s) -
María Moreno-Alcántara,
Alan Giraldo,
Gerardo Aceves-Medina
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.2017.46.2.733
Subject(s) - transect , gastropoda , geography , zooplankton , ecology , oceanography , biology , fishery , geology
With the purpose of establishing the taxonomic composition of the heteropod assembly that inhabits the Colombian Pacific,zooplankton samples were collected in March 2014 along a coastal- offshore transect and later analyzed. Twelve speciesbelonging to three families and three genera were identified. Atlanta lesuerii was the most abundant species in the study area. In addition, A. frontieri, A. oligogyra, A. inflata and A. plana were recorded for the first time in the South American Pacific, as well as A. helicinoidea in the Colombian Pacific. This work contributes in a significant way in the knowledge of the heteropod molluscs of the Colombian Pacific.