Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013)

Articles

• Special Article: From Birdsong to Babel: the canine connection in the origin of human language

  Graham Pont

  11-16

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• Species richness of continental gastropod mollusks from a coffee plantation in Jinotega, northern Nicaragua: a first approach

  Mijail Pérez, Marlon Sotelo

  17-23

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• First record of Chaetacanthus magnificus (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from the northeast coast of Brazil, with an overview of its taxonomic history

  Rafael Justino de Brito, José Eriberto De Assis, Martin Lindsey Christoffersen

  25-32

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• The Sea Urchin Diadema antillarum (Echinodermata, Equinoidea), algal cover and juvenile coral densities in La Parguera, Puerto Rico

  Francisco J. Soto Santiago, Emmanuel Irizarry Soto

  33-40

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• Second Record of Onychophora (Peripatidae) in Vietnam

  Paul E. Moler, Randall B. Babb, Wayne Van Devender, Nguyen V. Khoi

  41-43

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• Performance of selected macroinvertebrate-based biotic indices for rivers draining the Merendon Mountains region of Honduras

  Paul O’Callaghan, Mary Kelly-Quinn

  45-54

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• First report for the Neotropics of predation by the waterscorpion Ranatra (Hemiptera: Nepidae) on a member of Gerromorpha (Hemiptera)

  Federico Herrera

  55-56

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• Actividad de la hormiga Linepithema dispertitum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) a lo largo del día y en diferentes estados de inflorescencia de  Heliconia rostrata (Heliconiaceae)

  Pablo R. Gutiérrez Martínez

  57-61

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• Hyper-intensive farming of white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei in a freshwater tank under semi-controlled conditions (Decapoda: Penaeidae)

  A. A. Ortega Salas, L. A. Rendón M.

  63-68

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• Hyper-intensive farming white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Decapoda: Penaeidae) in a seawater tank under semi-controlled conditions

  A. A. Ortega-Salas, L. A. Rendón M.

  69-74

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• Uso de modelos nulos para el estudio de comunidades de crustáceos zooplanctónicos de aguas continentales chilenas

  Patricio De los Ríos-Escalante, Jeanette Jara, Juan Norambuena

  75-82

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• The prevalence of Helminth parasites in the gastro-intestinal tract of wild African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus (Siluriformes: Clariidae) in Gwagwalada, Nigeria

  Ahmed S. Dan-kishiya, Angela Oboh, Usman B. Ibrahim

  83-87

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• Occurrence of the fish Girardinichthys viviparus (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae) in an urban lake at Mexico City

  José Luis Gómez Márquez, Bertha Peña Mendoza, José Luis Guzmán Santiago

  89-95

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• The Indigenous and Invasion Fishes In Two Main Reservoirs in the Southwestern Anatolia (AYDIN)

  Hüseyin Sasi, Selcuk Berber

  97-101

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• Redescription, new distribution record, DNA sequence and length-weight relationship of the Eel-loach Pangio pangia (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) in the River Ganges Basin, India

  U. K. Sarkar, A. Dabas, G. E. Khan, V. K. Dubey, R. Kumar, A. K. Mishra, A. Pal, S. P. Singh, J. K. Jena

  103-109

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• Lista actualizada de aves dañinas en Costa Rica (2012)

  Javier Monge

  111-120

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• Ecología trófica de la Garza blanca Ardea alba (Pelecaniformes: Ardeidae) en un humedal del río Paraná, Argentina

  Rodrigo Ezequiel Lorenzón, Ana Laura Ronchi Virgolini, Adolfo Héctor Beltzer

  121-127

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• Presencia espacial y temporal de Aramus guarauna (Gruiformes: Aramidae) y de Rostrhamus sociabilis (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) en la Reserva de la Biósfera Marismas Nacionales, Nayarit, México

  Roberto Carmona, Luis Francisco Mendoza, David Molina, Paulina Martínez, Jonathan Vargas, Miguel Cruz

  129-135

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• Neonate survival en handled broods of the Olive Ridley Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea (Testudines: Cheloniidae) in “El Verde”, Sinaloa, Mexico

  Luis A. Rendón, Armando A. Ortega-Salas

  137-141

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• Características de refugios de algunas especies de murciélagos en la cuenca alta del río Itaya, Loreto, Perú

  Edgardo M. Rengifo, Wendy Calderón, Rolando Aquino

  143-150

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• Consumo voluntario de alimento fresco por parte de monos aulladores (Alouatta palliata y A. pigra) en cautiverio

  Maribel Anaya Lira, Carlos Gutiérrez Olvera, Adriana Margarita Ducoing Watty, Perla Cifuentes Calderón, Mariano Sánchez Trocino

  151-155

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• Effect of marital status, gender and job position in smoking behavior and cessation intent of staff members in a Central American public university

  Lourdes Arce Espinoza, Julián Monge Nájera

  157-161

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• A case study in Costa Rica about personal happiness: Does health and family communication have more influence than quantity of money and material goods?

  Carliann J. Pentz, Daniel Rojas, Michael B. McCoy, Christopher S. Vaughan

  163-170

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