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Abstract The most frequent jellyfish in Southern Brazil causes mainly local pain and skin plaques. A 3-year-old female bather presented an erythematous, irregular plaque on the left forearm after contact with a jellyfish and intense facial angioedema with facial flushing. The lungs had vesicular murmur, wheezes, and snorts, and pink and spumous secretion in the airways with intercostal retraction. She was administered subcutaneous adrenaline (0.1mg/kg) and hydrocortisone intravenous (10mg/kg) with total recovery in a few minutes. The manifestations of anaphylactic reactions are distinct from those of envenomations, and prompt and adequate care is fundamental in these situations.
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Humans , Animals , Female , Bites and Stings/complications , Cnidaria/classification , Cnidarian Venoms , Anaphylaxis/etiology , Angioedema/etiology , Anaphylaxis/diagnosis , Angioedema/diagnosisABSTRACT
The occurrence of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii (=sowerbyi) Lankester, 1880 was recorded in April 2006 in the Lagoa Misteriosa water body, a calcareous lake (doline) in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. Only Rotifera composed the zooplankton community was composed only of Rotifera and the environment was meso-eutrophic system. The nomenclature of C. sowerbii is discussed with regard to the use of the correct spelling and an alternative one. The distributions of C. sowerbii in Brazil include eight states and in South America the distribution includes four countries.
A ocorrência da água-viva de água doce Craspedacusta sowerbii (=sowerbyi) Lankester, 1880 foi registrada em abril de 2006, na lagoa Misteriosa, um lago calcário (dolina) no estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. A comunidade zooplanctônica foi composta apenas por Rotifera e a qualidade da água do sistema apresentou uma classificação de meso-eutrófico. A nomenclatura foi discutida quanto às formas usuais de grafia do nome e proposta uma alternativa. A distribuição da C. sowerbii no Brasil inclui oito estados e na América do Sul a distribuição apontou quatro países onde a espécie foi registrada.
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Cnidaria/classification , Aquatic Fauna/analysis , Aquatic Fauna/classification , Hydrozoa/anatomy & histology , Hydrozoa/classification , Lakes/analysis , Zooplankton/classificationABSTRACT
Las colecciones biológicas de diferentes museos en un país son material complementario que sirven para estudios e investigaciones sobre biodiversidad, ya que además de la información sobre los especimenes preservados, ofrecen instrumentos para crear vínculos y relaciones entre sí. La presente nota, ilustra la importancia de la complementariedad entre colecciones: Museo Javeriano; MUJ y Museo de Historia Natural Marino de Colombia; MHNMC, para un mismo grupo biológico, los corales hermatípicos. La nomenclatura de especies utilizadas fue siguiendo a Veron (2000). El MUJ busca participar con su colección de referencia (29 especies, 129 registros biológicos) en proyectos nacionales e internacionales, compartiendo información, para de esta manera aportar al conocimiento y estudio de la biodiversidad.
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Anthozoa/classification , Classification , Cnidaria/classificationABSTRACT
A list of the species and taxa of some pelagic animals from a tropical upwelling region, based on collections made off the coast of Costa Rica is presented. The list includes a total of 224 species, 53 genera and 11 subspecific forms in Cnidaria, Annelida, Mollusca, Artropoda (Crustacea), Chaetognatha and Pisces