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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Biologist, with a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP, São José do Rio Preto), and a Master's and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Zoology) from UNESP, Rio Claro. Specialist in the taxonomy and morphology of Echinodermata, with emphasis on Ophiuroidea. Between 2008 and 2010 she carried out a postdoctoral fellowship (FAPESP grant), and between 2011 and 2016 she was a Young Investigator (JP-FAPESP) at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She is currently a Researcher (PQ career) at UNICAMP, curator of the invertebrate collections, and coordinator of the Museum of Biological Diversity (MDBio) at the Institute of Biology of UNICAMP. She is also affiliated with the Graduate Program in Animal Biology at the same institute. Her research focuses on Zoology and Systematics, particularly on the taxonomy of extant groups of Echinodermata, general zoology, and morphological studies. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Which and how many species of Ophiuroidea occur in remote areas of the South Atlantic and Antarctica? Are there species shared between these two ecosystems? Answering these questions will enhance our understanding of marine biodiversity through the study of a widely distributed group in the benthos, the Ophiuroidea. Based on scientific collections, the main objective of this proposal is …
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 collectio…
Brazil is considered a megadiverse country; however, there are still significant gaps in our understanding of its marine fauna. The Ophiuroidea fauna in deep-sea environments (200 to 11,000 meters) remains poorly understood, with few studies addressing the biodiversity of these regions. Deep-sea environments, which cover more than 60% of the global seafloor, represent one of the planet's …
The class Ophiuroidea, the most diverse of the phylum Echinodermata, presents significant taxonomic challenges due to its great morphological diversity. This complexity is accentuated by the morphological changes that individuals undergo throughout their growth, generating doubts in their identification. Despite the abundance of these animals and scientific efforts, knowledge about their …
One of the most abundant families of deep-sea Ophiuroidea is Ophiacanthidae Ljungman, 1867, ophiuroids that inhabit regions between 40 and 4,000 m depth. They are diverse animals, with a wide variety of body forms and structures, making the determination of definitive diagnoses for the different taxa a challenge for taxonomists-a situation relatively common for many deep-sea families. Som…
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The Amphiuridae family is considered to be the largest and most diverse among the Ophiuroidea, with more than 50 genera described, many of which still have taxonomic problems, with overlapping diagnostic characters that make it difficult to separate taxa, such as Amphipholis and Microphiopholis, the latter of which was reclassified to include species of Amphipholis that had very small dis…
This project aims to conduct a taxonomic study to secure recognition of species of the genus Ophiocoma, Ophiocomidae family with occurrence in Brazil. This taxon was chosen because of its morphological characters considered inconsistent, making thus the delimitation of their species. The study in question will be held from morphological analysis of diagnostic structures, with the aid of m…
This project aims to study the taxonomic status of species of the suborder Ophiodermatina (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), which includes Ophiocomidae, Ophiodermatidae and Ophiomyxidae. These families present several taxonomic problems, belong to the same clade and have been highlighted in recent publications. The study will be carried out through the integrative taxonomy and will address an…
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