Cuban Waters Research Articles

The genus <i>Paguristes</i> (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) from Cuba (Western Atlantic). A new record and a new species

The present paper presents an overview of the studies on the genus Paguristes from the Caribbean Sea and more specifically from Cuban waters. Additionally, the hermit crabs belonging to the genus Paguristes collected during different surveys of the Instituto de Oceanologia de Cuba on the Cuban coast have been listed. A new species of hermit crab, Paguristes hologuinensis sp. nov., is described and remarks on a new record, Paguristes paraguanensis MacLaughlin and Provenzano, 1974, are given.

Variabilidad interanual de las anomalías de la temperatura superficial del mar en aguas cubanas y su relación con eventos El Niño-Oscilación del Sur (ENOS)

Sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies time series in the Cuban waters grid is analyzed. Cold and warm events in times series are shown. SST anomalies are compared with ENSO 3 region in the equatorial Pacific with SST anomalies Cuban waters having a high correlation with 4-5 months of lag. We are also analyzed the relationships between the SST anomalies and air surface temperature in some of the Cubans coastal meteorological data are analyzed, as well as the influence of the SST anomalies, with the spawns and recruitment of the spiny lobster Panulirus argus of the Cuban region, all with a good level of statistical significance with lags.

Ernest Hemingway, Gulf Stream Marine Scientist: The 1934-35 Academy of Natural Sciences Correspondence

In March 1934, Charles Cadwalader of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, asked Ernest Hemingway to help the Academy collect specimens of fish from Cuban waters and the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Cadwalader, and Academy ichthyologist Henry W. Fowler spent August 1934 on trips aboard the Pilar out of Havana. Hemingway continued to contribute specimens and scientific information for another year, during which he and the Academy men exchanged colorful and detailed letters. Their 1934-35 correspondence documents Hemingway's wide expertise as a sportsman-scientist, and is evidence of his lifelong role as an inquisitive and perceptive naturalist.

Results of Surveillance for Vibrio cholerae in Cuban Waters

Results of Surveillance for Vibrio cholerae in Cuban Waters

Hawksbill Turtles in Cuba

In his article “Turtle project can't outrun bureaucracy” (News & Comment, [20 June, p. 1785][1]) Jeffrey Mervis states that Cuba is seeking limited trade of hawksbill sea turtles on the grounds that its population is self-contained. The Cuban proposal at the 10th meeting of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna) in Harare did not say that hawksbills in Cuban waters were a closed population; it argued that the data were consistent with some hawksbills being relatively residential in those waters. The main grounds for the Cuban proposal were that hawksbills in its waters were well managed and that the proposed quota for trade was conservative, almost a tenth of the harvest levels that had been sustained for more than two decades. These are more important matters than whether some turtles cross international boundaries. However, to the extent that such movements do occur, one would think that other Caribbean nations would give Cuba some credit for having reduced its harvest by about 90%. And, in fact, although the Cuban proposal did not obtain the two-thirds majority necessary for CITES approval, more parties voted for it than against it. Sustainable use as a conservation method has been effective with vicunas and crocodiles; it should be given a chance with sea turtles. [1]: /lookup/volpage/276/1785

Later Stage Larvae of Panulirus Guttatus (Latreille, 1804) (Decapoda, Palinuridae) With Notes On the Identification of Phyllosomata of Panulirus in the Caribbean Sea

AbstractLarval stages VI to X of Panulirus guttatus from Cuban waters are described. The principal differences with the larvae of the other two Caribbean species of Panulirus are discussed.

Positive results of induced spawning and larval rearing experiments with Mugil liza Val., a grey mullet from Cuban waters

Induced spawning and larval rearing experiments were carried out with Mugil liza at Tunas de Zaza, Cuba. Of the 39 females treated with hormones, viable eggs and larvae were obtained from 9 females with natural or artificial fertilization. The best results were obtained with mullet pituitary homogenate (15 mg/kg), HCG with mullet pituitary homogenate (27–54 I.U./g with 18–48 mg/kg), HCG alone (53.1–60 I.U./g) and HCG with carp pituitary homogenate (12–41 I.U./g with 29.2–48 mg/kg) in that order, administered in three injections at 24-h intervals.

The fecundity of mullet (Pisces, Mugilidae) from Cuban waters

The fecundities of Mugil liza, M. hospes, M. curema and M. trichodon from Cuban waters were determined volumetrically. The subsamples obtained with a Bogorov pipette from a saturated salt solution had a coefficient of variation (C.V.) of 6.81% and did not introduce a bias. Since the fecundity‐weight relationships were significantly different between species and between M. curema from different localities, this character might be used to discriminate between species and stocks of mugilids. There was the same ranked order for fecundity and growth rate of the different species; M. liza had the highest values followed by M. curema, M. hospes and M. trichodon..

Investigations of Inner Continental Shelf Waters off Lower Chesapeake Bay. Part IV. Descriptions of the Chaetognatha and a Key to Their Identification

Ten species of chaetognaths were identified from plankton collections taken from the inner continental shelf waters off Virginia in 1960, including:Sagitta serratodentata, S. elegans, S. tenuis, S. enflata, S. helenae, S. minima, S. hispida, S. bipunctata, Pterosagitta draco, andKrohnitta pacifica. An artificial key to the identification of these species and descriptions based on the collected specimens are given. Tooth counts and seminal vesicle structure ofS. serratodentata revealed the presence of two subspecies in the western Atlantic. Virginian specimens are the cold-water vaviety,S. s. tasmanica, whereas Cuban waters are inhabited byS. s. atlantica. Published counts and descriptions of this species are lacking for intermediate waters. Specimens ofS. tenuis displayed an intermediacy and overlapping of several characters that have been used for the separation ofS. friderici andS. tenuis. Included among these characters are Tokioka’s TC values, maximum body length, number of teeth, extension of the ovaries, and size at maturity. The present collections ofK. pacifica constitute a northward extension of the known range of this species in the western Atlantic.

Observations on the Use of the Sucking-Fish or Remora, Echeneis naucrates, for Catching Turtles in Cuban and Colombian Waters

IN reading several interesting papers of Dr. E. W. Gudger (1919), that indefatigable research worker in the bibliography of ichthyology, my attention was arrested by the title and contents of a brochure On the Use of the Sucking-fish for Catching Fish and Turtles. In some fifty pages and with less than a dozen illustrations he has skillfully demonstrated and proven the story of the use man found for the sucking-fish. He states that the custom of using the remora for fishing was first observed by Columbus (.1494) on his second voyage to America, in an island group of the West Indies called the Jardinellas de la Reina. In conversation with Dr. Gudger I told him of similar observations by myself and others in Cuban waters, and of those of my father, Dr. Solomon De Sola, off the north coast of Colombia. At Dr. Gudger's instigation I relate these experiences, offer some extensions to his paper and comment on the writings of other authors who have treated upon this subject of remora fishing.

Book Review: Fighting in Cuban Waters: Or. under Schley on the Brooklyn.

Book Review: Fighting in Cuban Waters: Or. under Schley on the Brooklyn.