Cuba: Scientists from the Spanish University of Oviedo and the Cuban
Oceanology Institute will widen their investigations and studies on the
Cuban sea fauna. The investigations started in the Peninsula of
Guanahacabibes, one of the zones with the greatest biological diversity
in Cuba, and will continue in other areas with high ecological
significance such as Cienaga de Zapata.
"We want to complement the investigations made in the west of Cuba that
let us classify 773 species of marine molluscs, 50 of them considered
new species for science, said Spanish biologist and professor Jesus
Ortea to Prensa Latina.
Among the most conspicuous there is the Emiliotia inmaculatus, collected
at 33 meters deep, and the Cubalaskeya Machoi.
Ortea said that 50 percent of the varieties lives in Guanahacabibes,
where there is a protection because of the regulations to a biosphere
reserve.
"We have found new species of crustaceans and a luminous slug, which
emits light when it is interrupted, among other discoveries," he stated.
Cuban biologist Jose Espinosa said this is a zone of surprising
richness, with a great patrimony still to discover, and that Cuba might
be a center for plankton larvae that could favour the recuperation of
zones of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
Pinar del Rio, Dec 12 (Prensa Latina)
World News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers (14
December 2009)
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/12/14/wld03.asp
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