Vol. 54 (4)

December / Diciembre 2006

CONTENTS / CONTENIDOS

In Memoriam

Aquatic Invertebrates / Invertebrados Acuáticos

Oscar E. Holguin Quiñones & Jesús E. Michel-Morfín
Population structure and accompanying biota of the snail Turbo (Callopoma) funiculosus (Gastropoda: Turbinidae), on Socorro Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico

Terrestrial Invertebrates / Invertebrados Terrestres

Alfonso Benítez-Mora & Tania S. Olivares
Egg ultrastructure in two Chilean moths: Ormiscodes socialis y Polythysana cinerascens (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). [Spanish]

Aquatic Vertebrates / Vertebrados Acuáticos

José Rodríguez & Estrella Villamizar
Diet of the tropical fish Gobioides broussonnetii (Pisces: Gobiidae) at Laguna de Unare, Venezuela. [Spanish]

A.A. Ortega-Salas & H. Reyes-Bustamante
Fecundity, survival, and growth of the seahorse Hippocampus ingens (Pisces: Syngnathidae) under semicontrolled conditions

Eduardo Ramos-Santiago, José Martín Ramírez-Gutiérrez, Ricardo Mendoza-Rodríguez & Margarito Tapia-García
Reproduction, distribution and abundance of the fish Pseudupeneus grandisquamis (Perciformes: Mullidae), in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. [Spanish]

A.A. Ortega-Salas & H. Reyes-Bustamante
Initial sexual maturity and fecundity of the goldfish Carassius auratus (Perciformes: Cyprynidae) under semi-controlled conditions

Terrestrial Vertebrates / Vertebrados Terrestres

Karrigan S. Börk
Lunar phobia in the greater fishing bat Noctilio leporinus (Chiroptera: Noctilionidae)

Caty Frenkel
Hemidactylus frenatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae): call frequency, movement and condition of tail in Costa Rica

Jaime Gómez, José A. Gil-Delgado & Juan S. Monrós
Breeding success of a colony of Boat-billed Herons Cochlearius cochlearius (Ciconiiformes: Ardeidae) in pasturelands of Costa Rica

Botany / Botánica

Viviana Vásquez, Mauricio Montero-Astúa & Carmen Rivera
Incidence and altitudinal distribution of 13 virus cultures in Solanum tuberosum (Solanaceae) from Costa Rica. [Spanish]

Marisol Castrillo
Photosynthesis in three altitudinal populations of the andean plant Espeletia schultzii (Compositae). [Spanish]

Oscar J. Rocha, Braulio Vílchez & Ana L. Araya Anchetta
A mast fruiting episode of the tropical tree Peltogyne purpurea (Caesalpinaceae) in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Victoria Hernández, Teresa Terrazas & Guillermo Angeles
Anatomy of six species of Dryopteris ferns (Dryopteridaceae) from Mexico. [Spanish]

Maria Teresa F. Piedade, Pia Parolin & Wolfgang J. Junk
Phenology, fruit production and seed dispersal of Astrocaryum jauari (Arecaceae) in Amazonian black water floodplains

Ecology / Ecología

Liz Brenes Cambronero & José Francisco Di Stéfano
Possible influence of ramets on the population structure and distribution of the giant tree Warszewiczia uxpanapensis, Tilarán Mountain Range, Costa Rica. [Spanish]

Ingemar Hedström, Jessica Harris & Kimberly Fergus
Euglossine bees as potential bio-indicators of coffee farms: Does forest access, on a seasonal basis, affect abundance?

Nilton Carlos Cáceres & Emygdio L.A. Monteiro-Filho
The action of post-dispersal beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on scats of Didelphis spp. (Mammalia: Didelphidae)

Isabel C. Romero, Jaime R. Cantera K. & Enrique J. Peña S.
Leaf consumption by herbivores in mangroves of the Dagua river estuary, Pacific coast of Colombia. [Spanish]

Antonio Mora Santacruz, Juan Ignacio Valdez Hernández, Gregorio Ángeles Pérez, Miguel Ángel Musálem Santiago & Humberto Vaquera Huerta
Establishment and development of Tabebuia rosea (Bignoniaceae) seedlings in a semideciduous tropical forest under management, Pacific coast of Mexico. [Spanish]

Mario Ortaz, Pablo Borjas von Bach & Rubén Candia
The diet of the neotropical insectivorous fish Creagrutus bolivari (Pisces: Characidae) according to the “graphic” and “relative importance” methods. [Spanish]

Mauricio Ramírez-Rodríguez, Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez & Daniel Lluch-Belda
Impact of surface temperature and salinity on the recruiting of the pink shrimp Farfantepenaeus duorarum (Decapoda: Penaeidae), in Sonda de Campeche, Gulf of Mexico. [Spanish]

Patricia Trujillo-Jiménez & Efrén Espinosa de los Monteros Viveros
The feeding ecology of the endemic fish Girardinichthys multiradiatus (Cyprinidontiformes: Goodeidae) in Lagunas of Zempoala National Park, Mexico. [Spanish]

Maria Isabel Criales-Hernández, Camilo B. García & Matthias Wolff
Biomass flow and structure of a tropical upwelling ecosystem in La Guajira, Colombian Caribbean. [Spanish]

Leticia G. Rodríguez-Canché, Teresita DNJ Maldonado-Montiel & Luciano A. Carrillo Navarro
Biological and biochemical quality of the Artemia (Anostraca: Artemiidae) population from Real de Salinas saltworks, Calkiní, Campeche, Mexico. [Spanish]

Taxonomy / Taxonomía

Yolanda E. Camacho-García & Terrence M. Gosliner
A new species of the zephyrinid nudibranch genus Janolus (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) from North America and Costa Rica

Eduardo López, Pedro Cladera & Guillermo San Martín
Orbiniidae polychaetes (Polychaeta: Scolecida) from Coiba Island, eastern Pacific of Panama, with description of a new species

Ana Lía Estévez & Mónica L. López Ruf
Subfamily separation in the hemipteran family Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera). [Spanish]

Biomedicine / Biomedicina

Mildred García-González, Teresita Coto Morales, Rafael Ocampo & Liliana Pazos
Subchronic and acute preclinic toxicity and some pharmacological effects of the water extract from leaves of Petiveria alliacea (Phytolaccaceae)