Echinoderm from Brazil: Historical Research and the Current State of Biodiversity Knowledge

Ventura, Carlos Renato Rezende; Borges, Michela; Campos, Lúcia S.; Costa-Lotufo, Letı́cia V.; Freire, Carolina A.; Hadel, Valéria Flora; Manso, Cynthia Lara de Castro; Silva, José R.M.C.; Tavares, Yara Aparecida Garcia; Tiago, Cláudio Gonçalves

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“…Several species in the present collection, including the sea cucumber Isostichopus badionotus, the sea urchin Eucidaris tribuloides, and the sea stars Echinaster brasiliensis, Luidia senegalensis, Echinaster echinophorus and Narcissia trigonaria, are considered endangered in some localities on the southeastern Brazilian coast (Hadel et al 1999, Ventura et al 2009). …”

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“…For example, information on collections of Echinodermata is mostly limited to the Southeast region, in institutions such as the Museu Nacional of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, the Museu de Zoologia of the Universidade de São Paulo and the Museu de Zoologia of the Universidade de Campinas (Amaral & Jablonski 2005, Ventura et al 2009). In the Brazilian Northeast, other specific collections with Brazilian specimens of Echinodermata have been established more recently in universities in the states of Bahia , Paraíba (Gondim et al 2008), Pernambuco (Lima & Fernandes 2009), and Sergipe (Oliveira et al 2010).…”

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Inventory of the Echinodermata collection from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas

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Collections and inventories provide important and essential information for understanding the composition and distribution of biodiversity. This contribution presents an inventory of the species held in the Echinodermata collection in the Setor de Comunidades Bentônicas (LABMAR/ICBS), Universidade Federal de Alagoas. The collections were made over a period of more than 20 years, at several localities of coastal Alagoas. This collection now includes 16,201 catalogued individual specimens, with 50 species in the five extant classes Crinoidea, Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea and Holothuroidea, based on 640 records; the class Ophiuroidea is best represented. The results of this inventory contribute significantly to knowledge of marine benthic diversity from the state of Alagoas, and the information presented here expands the data for Echinodermata from the northeastern coast of Brazil.

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Inventory of the Echinodermata collection from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas

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“…There is a long documented history of research into Crown-of-Thorns starfish biology, ecology, and the causes of their outbreak. These marine starfish are Asteroidea that represent the second most diverse group within the phylum Echinodermata used as traditional medicine for thousands of years in China and North-eastern Brazil (Ventura, et al 2012). Taxonomically, the Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTs) is the second largest starfish categorized under the phylum.…”

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Medicinal bioactive compounds to functional foods from geochemical signatures marine biomasses: sea cucumbers, macroalgae and crown of thorns biomasses

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Recognition of health benefits associated with consumption of marine derived biomasses is one of the most promising developments in human nutrition and disease-prevention research. This endeavor for bioactives and functional ingredients discovery from marine sources is "experience driven," as such the search for therapeutically useful synthetic drugs, and functional components is like "looking for a needle in a haystack," thus a daunting task. Zoonotic infection, adulteration, global warming and religious belief can be the star-gate barrier: -For example, the outsourcing for Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), a pharmacologically bioactive compound have emerged as novel biomarkers and molecular players both within tumor cells and their microenvironment, as they integrate signals from growth factors, chemokines, integrins, and cell-cell matrix adhesion. As such, worldwide initiatives in outsourcing from geochemical signatures marine biomasses are flourishing. Most of these scientific interests are related to marketable compounds optimised via biotechnology applications. Approximately 50% of the US FDA approved drugs during 1981-2002 consist of either marine metabolites or their synthetic analogs. These bioactive compounds acts as antioxidant, peptides, chitoligosaccharides derivatives, sulfated polysaccharides, phlorotannins and carotenoids. Highlights from works to harness and provide scientific support to folk medicine much claimed legacy, pertaining to geochemical signatures vouchered sea cucumbers, macroalgae and crown of thorns starfish will be extrapolated.

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“…In Brazilian waters, it is represented by the families Psolidae, Cucumariidae, Sclerodactylidae and Phyllophoridae (Tommasi 1974, Tommasi et al 1988a, b, Martins et al 2012, Ventura et al 2012). Phyllophoridae (sensu Pawson and Fell 1965) have 10 to 25 tentacles, with tube feet scattered over the entire body or restricted to the radii and a calcareous ring complex with usually radial plates of medium to large size, subdivided into several pieces (Thandar 1990).…”

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A new species of Pentamera Ayres, 1852 from the Brazilian coast (Holothuroidea, Dendrochirotida, Phyllophoridae)

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2016

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Pentamera paraibanensis sp. n. is described from more than 3000 specimens as a new species of Phyllophoridae from northeast Brazil, in the tropical southwestern Atlantic. It is distinguished from its congeners by the shape of the calcareous ring with moderate posterior processes, and by the tables in the body wall with a usually quadrilocular disc and a low, toothed spire composed of two pillars. The body is brown, with the tube feet in double rows per ambulacrum, and tentacles more lightly colored. The species was found inside rodoliths in large numbers. This paper contains a morphological description of the specimens, and an account of their habitat characteristics.

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Echinoderm from Brazil: Historical Research and the Current State of Biodiversity Knowledge

Cited by 20 publications

References 114 publications

Inventory of the Echinodermata collection from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Inventory of the Echinodermata collection from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Medicinal bioactive compounds to functional foods from geochemical signatures marine biomasses: sea cucumbers, macroalgae and crown of thorns biomasses

A new species of Pentamera Ayres, 1852 from the Brazilian coast (Holothuroidea, Dendrochirotida, Phyllophoridae)

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