Testudines includes the Chelonia and some of their extinct relatives from the extentive turtle fossil record.
Chelonia (ke-lō′ni-a) is a group name given to extant animals commonly known as turtles, tortoises and terrapins. Alternative scientific names for the group include Chelonii, Testudinata, Testudines.
Chelonia is the Greek word for tortoise whereas testudo (meaning "moveable shelter") is Latin.
EU BON has launched a beta version of its biodiversity portal for analysing and understanding biodiversity change.
Users will be able to search and harvest data from a number of major sources (making fragmented data more useful) and analyse the data using a range of different tools.
Presentation of lectures given by Dr. Marie-Josée Fortin, a professor at the University of Toronto / Canada and a visiting researcher at Science without Borders / CNPq
Two acarologistas, Dr. Dinarte Gonçalves and MSc. Matheus Rocha dos Santos, are visiting the INPA, for a period of 20 days, through collaboration with Dr. Elizabeth Franklin and Dr. José Wellington de Morais, the CBio. The research goal is to discover and describe new species of Cunaxidae family and Mesostigmata order in natural environments of the Amazon rainforest through biological material collected by Systematics Laboratory and Soil Invertebrate Ecology.
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