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The invasive land flatworm Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) reaches a natural environment in the oceanic island of São Miguel (Açores)

Lago-Barcia, Domingo; González-López, José Rafael; Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel (Magnolia Press, 2020)

We report a new finding of the invasive land flatworm Obama nungara Carbayo et al., 2016 in a natural reserve of the oceanic island of São Miguel (Açores, Portugal) at 947 meters of altitude. This is the first record for ...
Morphological and molecular assessments of bobtail squids (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) reveal a hidden history of biodiversity

Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel; Sánchez, Pilar; Villanueva, Roger (Frontiers Media, 2021-01-20)

Molecular species delimitation assists taxonomic decisions for challenging species, like cryptic species complexes. Bobtail squids (Family Sepiolidae Leach, 1817) are a very diverse group of benthic and nektonic small to ...
Potentially handicapped but otherwise functional: Malformations in prey capture tools show no impacts on octopus life

Fernández‐Álvarez, Fernando Ángel; Farré, Marc; Antoni Sánchez‐Márquez, Antoni; Villanueva, Roger; Escolar, Oscar; Navarro, Joan (Wiley, 2020-10-17)

Larval mortality is a keystone ecological factor for many benthic octopus since it mostly occurs before their settlement in the sea bottom as benthic juveniles. The literature had revealed that records of adult animals ...