[Coral-List] Cnidarian Plataform -- Research and Conservation in Brazil and South America !

[Ignacio Agudo]

Dear coral listers,

Cordial and respectful greetings !

We would like to introduce you to our modest virtual space "Cnidarians -
Research and Conservation in Brazil and South America" (= Cnidários -
Pesquisa e Conservação no Brasil e na América do Sul) <
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1391001107824116/  >, an autonomous
functional public group on Facebook created in January 13 2014 that is part
of so-called "AM Network for Scientific-Environmental Disclosure" (=  Rede
AM de Divulgação Científico-Ambiental) and integral of the emerging "Latin
American Cnidaria Network - LaCNida" (= Red Latinoamericana de Cnidaria/
Rede Latino-americana de Cnidaria) <
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSPUR3mAxG9dIwCHffG_vFwG9tn-E4yb/view  --
see p. 12 ;
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2833154390125184&set=pcb.2591173964473485
>,  created this last in November 05 2019, on the framework of the "II
Simposio Latinoamericano de Cnidarios", in the city of Mar del Plata,
Argentina < https://www.facebook.com/LACNIda   ;
https://www.instagram.com/lacnida/?hl=es-la  >.

This is a comprehensive platform for research, consultation, reference,
guidance and scientific-environmental dissemination aimed specifically at
promoting knowledge of Cnidarian biodiversity occurring in the Neotropical
geographic territories of Brazil, continental Americas and the Caribbean
region, in order to concentrate and facilitate the permanent exchange of
information related to the topic, admitting posts in Portuguese, Spanish
and English languages < https://www.facebook.com/groups/1391001107824116/ >.


CNIDARIA, an exclusive and important phylum of aquatic invertebrates that
comprises animal forms of radial symmetry, which have a ring of tentacles
with urticating cells (cnidocytes) and have polymorphism, that is, two
possible body shapes: polyp and medusae, being in their great mostly marine
(known sea anemones, diverse coral forms and jellyfishes, among others),
including some representatives occurring in inland continental freshwater/
limnics, which for a long time were grouped together with the Ctenophores
(Ctenophora), in the ancient phylum Coelenterata (Celenterados), with its
effective conservation the perpetuity in practice today proving to be
worryingly insufficient in view of the speed with which the "anthropic
actions" have been degrading / altering the natural marine-coastal and
fluvial environments that they occupy, so that every effort in that sense
it becomes necessary and emergency.

"Cnidarians - Research and Conservation in Brazil and South America" <
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1391001107824116/ >, an modest virtual
space at the service of "Citizen Science".

--
*A. Ignacio Agudo-Padrón*

Geographer, Environmental Researcher
                      CEO Brazilian AM Network for Scientific-Environmental
Disclosure   https://www.facebook.com/groups/877015675755297
                           Member Latin American Cnidaria Network -
LaCNida
http://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2833154390125184&set=pcb.2591173964473485
                      Southern Brazil
                                           Caixa Postal (P.O.Box) 010,
88010-970 Centro, Florianópolis,                    Santa Catarina/ SC,
Brasil
           E-mail: ignacioagudo at gmail.com                   Curriculum:
http://lattes.cnpq.br/3951358740536805                   ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9073-9049                             ResearchGate
(some Contributions):     https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aisur_Agudo-
 Padron/publications?sorting=newest
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aisur_Agudo-Padron/publications?sorting=newest>