GEOSCIENCES MEETING
B R A Z I L - T E X A S A &M U N I V E R S I T Y
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION INTERNATIONALIZATION
SPECIMENS OF THE FAMILY ARCIDAE (BIVALVIA: MOLLUSCA) DEPOSITED
IN THE OCEANOGRAPHY MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE
PERNAMBUCO (BRAZIL)
Jonata A. Francisco1, Deusinete O. Tenorio2, José C. N. Barros3
1
[email protected] (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
[email protected] (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
3
[email protected] (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco)
2
The oceanography department of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) was
founded in 1950 and has since put together a zoological collection with approximately 32000
lots (13000 lots of Crustacea, 7000 lots of Mollusca, 4000 lots of other invertebrates and 1300
lots of fish as well as samples of plankton organisms). These lots are deposited in the
Oceanography Museum of the institution. Specimens were obtained from shallow and deep
waters during 26 oceanographic expeditions performed since 1960. Other samples were
recently collected from the Potiguar Basin in the state of Rio Grande do Norte as well as
recent studies. Taxonomy, Systematics, Anatomy, Morphology, Biogeography and Ecology
studies have been carried out based on this collection. These studies lend support to new
studies and activities carried out mainly in northern and northeastern Brazil. The aim of one
of these studies is to review the Taxonomy and Systematics of species of the family Arcidae
occurring on the continental shelf off Brazil. The family Arcidae unites a group of marine
bivalves that inhabit rocky substrates and are distributed in warm tropical waters from the
midlittoral zone to great depths. The specimens of Arcidae in the collection of the
Oceanography Museum (Museu de Oceanografia) of the Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco in cataloged lots were compared with descriptions in the literature to reconfirm
the genus and species identifications and were also quantified and cataloged based on their
respective collection sites. All information produced in this review is being digitized for the
creation of a future electronic database. Besides material deposited in the Museu de
Oceanografia of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (MOUFPE), the review is also
based on lots from other institutions: Museu de Malacologia, Universidade Federal Rural de
Pernambuco (MMUFRPE), Pernmabuco, Brazil; Museu Oceanográfico Prof. Eliezér de
Carvalho Rios (MORG), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro
(MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP),
São Paulo, Brazil; Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; and Musée Genève,
Geneva, Switzerland. In this study, the family Arcidae is represented by 947 lots with 7970
specimens distributed among 12 genera in a total of 21 species. Thus, the study of the family
Arcidae has ample representativity, with samples from different regions along the coast of
Brazil as well as other locations of the Atlantic Ocean.
Funding: CAPES
March 26-29, 2012
Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil
Abstract P-16