Taxonomic studies, expansion and computerization of the marine invertebrate collections of the Museum of Zoology of the State University of Campinas, with emphasis on the Echinodermata

• Grant number: 11/50724-0
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2011
• End date: September 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Michela Borges
• Grantee: Michela Borges
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biologia (IB). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Zoological collections deposited in museums have a central role in the study of animal diversity. The State of Sao Paulo currently has five institutions that maintain partial or particular collections of marine invertebrates, including the Museum of Zoology of the State University of Campinas (ZUEC). The ZUEC Museum has been contributing significantly to the Brazilian scientific collections of marine invertebrates, especially. Polychaeta, Mollusca and Echinodermata, since a large number of specimens from various major projects are being deposited in that museum. At present, the collection contains about 116 thousand specimens in approximately 14 thousand lots. The aim of this project is to curate and computerize the collections of marine invertebrate of the ZUEC Museum, as well as to provide continuation of its exchange programs with other institutions. Taxonomic studies of the echinoderms deposited in the Museum will also be carried out, with emphasis on the Ophiuroidea. This collection will be analyzed with particular attention to morphological, taxonomic, distributional, phylogenetic and molecular aspects, given the volume of available material. Initially the genera Ophiophycis and Ophiomisidium, which bear issues of misidentification, will be studied. Supervision of graduate students is also among the goals, aiming the investment in training taxonomists and the establishment of a new line of research in the ZUEC Museum. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE MOURA BARBOZA, CARLOS ALBERTO; BORGES, MICHELA. A checklist of the extant species of ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Brazilian waters. Zootaxa, n. 3447, p. 1-21, AUG 31 2012. (11/50724-0)

BUENO, MARISTELA DE LIMA; GARCIA TAVARES, YARA APARECIDA; DI DOMENICO, MAIKON; BORGES, MICHELA. Gametogenesis and weight change of body organs of the sea cucumber Holothuria (Halodeima) grisea (Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae) in Southern Brazil. Revista de Biología Tropical, v. 63, n. 2, p. 285-296, JUN 2015. (11/50724-0, 12/08581-0)

DOS SANTOS ALITTO, RENATA APARECIDA; ZACAGNINI AMARAL, ANTONIA CECILIA; DE OLIVEIRA, LETICIA DIAS; SERRANO, HELENA; SEGER, KARIN REGINA; BORGES GUILHERME, PABLO DAMIAN; DI DOMENICO, MAIKON; CHRISTENSEN, ANA BEARDSLEY; LOURENCO, LUCIANA BOLSONI; TAVARES, MARCOS; et al. Atlantic West Ophiothrix spp. in the scope of integrative taxonomy: Confirming the existence of Ophiothrix trindadensis Tommasi, 1970. PLoS One, v. 14, n. 1, JAN 23 2019. (11/50317-5, 11/50724-0, 16/08869-4, 16/06877-0)

DE MOURA BARBOZA, CARLOS ALBERTO; BORGES, MICHELA. A checklist of the extant species of ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from Brazilian waters. Zootaxa, v. N/A, n. 3447, p. 21-pg., 2012-08-31. (11/50724-0)

CHAGAS, GISELLA C. S.; ALITTO, RENATA A. S.; SERRANO, HELENA; GRANADIER, GABRIELA; GUILHERME, PABLO D. B.; BORGES, MICHELA. New diagnostic characters forAmphiodiaandOphiophragmus(Amphiuridae, Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, v. 100, n. 5, p. 23-pg., 2020-08-01. (11/50724-0, 16/08869-4, 18/10313-0, 11/50317-5, 17/09987-3)

BUENO, MARISTELA DE LIMA; GARCIA TAVARES, YARA APARECIDA; DI DOMENICO, MAIKON; BORGES, MICHELA. Gametogenesis and weight change of body organs of the sea cucumber Holothuria (Halodeima) grisea (Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae) in Southern Brazil. Revista de Biología Tropical, v. 63, p. 12-pg., 2015-06-01. (11/50724-0, 12/08581-0)