Check List 12(5): e19561, doi: 10.15560/12.5.1959
Recent benthic foraminifera from the Itaipu Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro (southeastern Brazil)
Débora Raposo‡, Vanessa Laut§, Iara Clemente|, Virginia Martins|, Fabrizio Frontalini¶, Frederico Silva#, Maria Lúcia Lorini¤, Rafael Fortes¤, Lazaro Laut¤‡ Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Unirio, Brazil§ Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF, Brazil| Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, Brazil¶ Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy# Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil¤ Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO, Brazil
Corresponding author: Débora Raposo ( deboraposo@gmail.com ) © 2017 Débora Raposo, Vanessa Laut, Iara Clemente, Virginia Martins, Fabrizio Frontalini, Frederico Silva, Maria Lúcia Lorini, Rafael Fortes, Lazaro Laut. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Raposo D, Silva F, Laut V, Fortes R, Clemente I, Martins V, Lorini M, Frontalini F, Laut L (2016) Recent benthic foraminifera from the Itaipu Lagoon, Rio de Janeiro (southeastern Brazil). Check List 12(5): 1959. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.5.1959 |  |
Abstract
Itaipu Lagoon is located near the mouth of Guanabara Bay and has great importance for recreation to the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Several studies have documented foraminiferan diversity at Guanabara Bay, but none in Itaipu Lagoon. Therefore, this study lists and provides images of foraminiferal species collected from Itaipu Lagoon. A total of 35 species belonging to 23 genera were collected, grouped in 17 families and four orders. Ammonia tepida was the species with the highest occurrence. This study represents a baseline work for future investigations.
Keywords
benthic foraminifera; biodiversity; paleoecology; Guanabara Bay