Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Valencia.

Butterflies are to understand Western culture, a symbol of innocence, beauty and fragility. Their colors fascinate children, accounting one of the main elements of the iconography child, their habits and morphology have always attracted the attention of anyone who contemplates the wonders of the animal kingdom and its preservation is a topic of debate among scientists and environmentalists. Butterflies are known popularly
the insect order Lepidoptera, which are included as members of the Superorder Endopterygota within Infraclass Neoptera. This is a large group, consisting of about one hundred twenty-seven Families and more hundred and sixty-five thousand species, grouped in Aglossata, Glossata. Zeugloptera Heterobathmiina and the four suborders are the clade. Most species of butterflies are actually habits Insects night, looking slightly fuzzy and colorful, but diurnal species are the most popular and famous, and others experience a complete metamorphosis, giving birth by laying eggs which fry emerge in the form of worms or larvae, called caterpillars, after which feed on leaves and stems will create a cocoon or chrysalis casing body to start its reorganization which will result in the winged adult look so familiar to everyone.
In Spain more than two hundred known diurnal species of these insects, entomologists and international studies have provided this beautiful biological group in the Iberian Peninsula, but unfortunately are very few studies have focused on the eastern side of the country, although this is where the greatest concentration of national Lepidoptera.
I remember the first serious and systematic study undertaken of the Butterflies Valencia was entitled "The Lepidoptera of Castellón de la Plana" despite my young age at the time of publication, this incontestable work was very early in my home library, which I soon get familiar with it. The volume was based with the research of Dr. Jose Amador De la Calle Pascual, who with the support provided by the Economic Research Seminar, ecological and social currently merged with Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Castellón, published the most complete catalog of butterflies and moths of that English province in 1983, after a work of capture, recognition and identification of thousands of copies through traps specially designed for this, located in different ecosystems of the region, for which he devoted several years of effort. The result was none other than the most complete publication about these insects, with specific references to individual photographs, diagrams, tables and other graphics. Notably, the work of Dr. De la Calle involved the description of numerous taxa hitherto unknown territory Castellon.
Since then, little else has been collector of interest, although prospective studies, especially by the respective faculties of the Universities of Valencia, have generated considerable academic knowledge about the species inhabiting the autonomous territory. However, this trend has just incomprehensible remedied, thanks to a new scientific project aimed to formally present informative, once and for all, diversity of species that find their habitat in Valencia with a vocabulary and a graphic that can be known and understood by all.
This new work receives the title "Butterflies of Valencia, and it renews and refreshes the content informative so far contained domestic works on the subject and provides a more regional and specific. Its publication was made possible thanks to the work of its authors, Sergio and José Antonio García Montagud, both active Torres Entomological Foundation Board and the Generalitat Valenciana (Generalitat Valenciana) through its Ministry of Environment (Ministry of Environment environment). In contemplating the new book, we find that is divided into specific files that describe individually the 159 taxa recorded in this area, reference to morphology, habitat, nutritional resources, symbiosis and other concepts of a biological nature. The book also reveals that 70% of the Iberian species of Lepidoptera are present in the community, probably due to its status as the coastal territory and its diversity of habitats.
With the contribution made by the new work, Valencia has swelled its regional database, which counts today more than half a million records, provided a reference for biologists and students from around the globe. In short, a new volume worthy of adding to the library.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Brazelian Wax Bangkok

The value of fossils: Brachiopoda.

The brachiopods are often confused by inexperienced eyes to bivalve mollusks, a group that despite its apparent similarity just no link sharing, because their origin and biology are widely disparate. Brachiopods are the righteous protagonists of this new episode of "The value of the fossils" that with this as much as four deliveries.
The Brachiopoda of the brachiopods or Animal Filo is lophotrochozoan (Lophotrochozoa) characterized by having a shell made of two movable blades. Unlike those bivalves, with which they are often confused and have two lateral leaflets more or less symmetrical, the brachiopods are endowed an upper and a lower shell, both clearly different in shape and size. Also the internal anatomy of brachiopods is property, the shell biomineralized, often anchored to the solid substrate by a muscular stalk and buried in galleries dug in the sand in less frequent cases, is held and moved by muscle groups adductors and abductors, enclosing inside the coelom, the central septum, a digestive system often devoid of open sewage and a rudimentary heart and other organs, all covered by a thick mantle. This interesting Filo
made its appearance in the early Cambrian period, for about five hundred and eighty million years, starting from the lophotrochozoan primitive early member of a long evolutionary lineage already had a double shell mineral, which decreased and even disappeared in some adaptive line immediately following, which was extinguished relatively quickly. However, had not completed the Cambrian period when brachiopods had diversified into the three major Superclasses that still remain: The Superclasses Linguliformea \u200b\u200band Craniformea, more primitive constitution, hold the valves together and moved only by the strength of your muscles, while members of the superclass Rhynchonelliformea \u200b\u200bhad a hinge at the rear end of the valves, made by a group of hinges embedded in their respective support holes, the latter also undergo a holometabolous development and lack of sewer, something that sets them apart from their relatives are not metamorphic. At present, only three are still hundreds of brachiopods in shallow aquatic environments, representing a clear edge in decline, but in the past, perhaps half a million of taxa inhabited our planet, the limes have been described more than twelve thousand.
The first example I present inhabited the shallow waters that covered the territory now occupied by Southern Europe during the Devonian period, between three sixty-four hundred and fifteen million years. This particular piece comes from the layers of Ciudad Real, which is very abundant, I mean a Rhynchonelliformea \u200b\u200bcalled Spirifer .

Spirifer sp.

the same superclass is Pygope Gender, which is rated Family Pygopidae, classified in the Superfamily Dyscolioidea which belongs to the Order and Suborder Terebratulida Terebratulidina. They girdle the species of this genus widely distributed, which are Pygope aspasia, Pygope catulloi, Pygope diphya, Pygope diphyoides Pygope and janitor.

Pygope sp.

Rhynchonellida , which is the next example of brachiopods that I offer, is a genus very prolific in their species diversity and above all very persistent over time because despite its early appearance in the period Ordovician, about four hundred fifty million years, survives even today in the form of several species, some of them quite popular in cuisine.

Rhynchonellida sp., Lower Jurassic.

Ultimately, I would like to display a well-known species in the Iberian Peninsula, in fact is present in much of Asia, Europe, North America, South America and New Zealand, its nomenclature is Spiriferina Alpine and is a member of the Order Spiriferida, particular is located in the Suborder Spiriferinidina, Family Spiriferinidae, one of the best-known family groups Spiriferinoidea Superfamily. The fossil comes from the Middle Jurassic of Teruel, Spain.

Spiriferina Alpine.

Undoubtedly, the brachiopods are a biological group still little known for science, it may be because much of its troops are already part of the fossil record.
In future dates, the fossil record of other beings in the Mirror of Science.