Presentation

 

Biennium 2022-2024

Head of the Department
Profa. Joana Zanol Pinheiro da Siva
e-mail: chefiadi@mn.ufrj.br

Deputy Head of the Department
Prof. Alexandre Dias Pimenta
e-mail: alexpim@mn.ufrj.br

The Department of Invertebrate carries outstanding research in the field of Natural Sciences. It leads and collaborates on large national and foreign projects focusing on biodiversity inventories, on biology, conservation, ecology and evolution of target taxa, which may subsidize applied research on bioprospection, bioremediation and biomonitoring. The department has high quality scientific production and has CNPq Productivity Fellows, editors and referees of international journals among its professors.

Aims

• To be a center of excellence on biodiversity research of marine invertebrates and arachnids, enabled to identify, describe and understand the biology, and the ecology of invertebrates species in all marine habitats, including Deep Sea fauna;

• To train and qualify students, researchers and technicians in invertebrate taxonomy and management of scientific natural history collections;

• To make the knowledge generated by the research accessible to the scientific community, students and the general public;

• To steward and expand the Zoology Collections of Invertebrates.

 

Areas of Activity

• Research - Taxonomy, systematics, evolution, ecology (including studies of environmental impacts and climatic changes) and reproductive biology of marine invertebrates and arachnids;

• Teaching
  

  Graduate level:
  Zoology, Museu Nacional, UFRJ (PPGZOO)
  Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Instituto de Biologia, UFRJ (PPGBBE)
  Genetics, Instituto de Biologia, UFRJ (PGGEN)
  Master in Biology Teaching, Campus Duque de Caxias , UFRJ (PROFBIO) <
  Undergraduate level:
  Biological Sciences, Instituto de Biologia, UFRJ
  
  

• Outreach
  Environmental education, training of teachers of elementary, middle and high schools, museum exhibitions. Projects Coral Vivo and Ilhas do Rio. Technical support to the Section of Teaching Assistance (SAE) and to the Section of Museology (SEMU) of the National Museum.
  
  

  Biological Collections: repositories of biodiversity

  Most research projects of the Invertebrates Department include collection of specimens for study and posterior deposit in zoological collections. These collections are of extreme importance as repository of biodiversity and for the identification of the species. The increase in number specimens, maintenance, and long-term preservation of the zoological collections are among the main goals of the National Museum and of the Invertebrate Department.

  The Department stewards collections of Arachnida Arachnida, Cnidaria, Crustacea, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Myriapoda, Polychaeta (e-mail: colecpoly@mn.ufrj.br ) and Porifera, as well as smaller collections of Bryozoa, Echiura, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Platyhelminthes and Urochordata.

  The collection room “Prof. Paulo Young”, located in outbuilding by the historical palace, houses all the collections of marine invertebrates. For further information on the collections please contact professors or collection manager.

   

  Sectors, professors and major research fields of the Invertebrate Department

  Arachnology (Spiders, scorpions, harvestmen)

• Adriano Brilhante Kury
  Systematics, evolution and biogeography of arachnids. Taxonomy and systematics of neotropical Opiliones.
  Taxonomia e sistemática de Opiliones neotropicais.
  E-mail: adrianok@gmail.com    
  Curriculum Vitae     
  Homepage




Biodiversity of Annelida – LaBiAnne (bristle worms, earth worms and leeches)

• Joana Zanol
  Biodiversity, sistematics and evolution of polychaete annelids.
  E-mail: joanazanol@mn.ufrj.br     
  Curriculum Vitae




Carcinology (Crustaceans: crabs, shrimps, lobsters)

• Cristiana Serejo
  Taxonomy and evolution of amphipods.
  E-mail: csserejo@acd.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae

• Irene Cardoso
  Systematics and evolution of Decapoda, with emphasis in caridean shrimps.
  E-mail: irenecardoso@mn.ufrj.br     
  Curriculum Vitae




Cnidaria (corals, anemones, hydroids, jellyfish)




Echinodermatology (sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, feather stars)

• Carlos Renato R. Ventura
  Echinodermata. Taxonomy, biogeography, ontogeny and population dynamics of echinoderms.
  E-mail: ventura@acd.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae     




Porifera (marine and freshwater sponges)
Laboratory of Porifera Integrative Taxonomy – TAXPOmol

• Eduardo Carlos M. Hajdu
  Biodiscovery (biodiversity, biogeography,bioprospection) of marine Porifera from shallow and deep waters of South America and Antartic.
  E-mail: eduardo.hajdu@gmail.com    
  Curriculum Vitae     
  Homepage
   Tel.: +55-21-3938-1191

Laboratory of Porifera Biology

• Guilherme R. S. Muricy
  Taxonomy, cytology, ecology and biogeography of Porifera from the Brazilian coast, with emphasis on the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Impact of pollution on the sponge community structure, ecological partition, abundance, temporal variation and associated fauna. Phylogeny and integrative taxonomy of the Class Homoscleromorpha.
  E-mail: muricy@mn.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae     
   Tel.: +55-21-3938-1190




Malacology (snails, slugs, mussels, oysters, squid and octopus)

• Alexandre Dias Pimenta
  Taxonomy and geographic distribution of Brazilian marine molluscs. Systematics and phylogeny of marine gastropode molluscs.
  E-mail: alexpim@mn.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae     
  Homepage

• Vinicius Padula
  Biodiversity, integrative taxonomy and systematics of molluscs, with emphasis in Heterobranchia and Nudibranchia. Collaboration in the areas of evolution, conservation and natural products of marine invertebrates.
  E-mail: padula@mn.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae     
  Homepage




Technical Staff


Biologist and Collection Technician Bryozoa, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Platyhelminthes and Urochordata.

• Lilian Cardoso
  E-mail: lilian.cardoso@mn.ufrj.br  
  Curriculum Vitae     



Collection Manager and Collection Technician Cnidaria

• Julianna Freires Barbosa
  E-mail: julianna.freires@mn.ufrj.br  
  Curriculum Vitae     





Laboratory and Collection Technicians:

Annelida

• Camila Simões Martins de Aguiar Messias
  E-mail: camila.messias@mn.ufrj.br  
  Curriculum Vitae     




Arachnida e Myriapoda

• Carla Martinho de Lima Barros
  e-mail: carlamlbarros@gmail.com  
  Curriculum Vitae     




Crustacea

• Barbara Cristina da Silva Francisco
  e-mail: barbaracristinasf@mn.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae     




Echinodermata

• Luís Vitor Oliveira Antunes
  E-mail: luis.antunes@mn.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae     




Mollusca

• Claudio José Fernandes da Costa
  E-mail: claudiocosta@mn.ufrj.br    





Secretary

• Nazaré da C. Pereira Rezende
  E-mail: nazare@mn.ufrj.br    
  Curriculum Vitae     





Volunteer Contributor

• Fernando Coreixas de Moraes
  E-mail: fmoraes@mn.ufrj.br    





Major research projects coordinated or with collaboration of the Department of Invertebrate:

• Coral Vivo (sponsored by Petrobras and Arraial d’Ajuda Eco Parque);

• REVIZEE (MMA/IBAMA/SECIRM/CNPq) - Program of Evaluation of the Sustainable Potential of Living Resources in the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone;

• HABITATS (Petrobras) - Evaluation of the environmental heterogeneity of the Campos Basin;

• OCEANPROF (Petrobras) - Deep water environmental characterization of the Campos Basin;

• MAR-ECO Project (Census of Marine Life) - An international exploratory study of the macro and megfauna of the mid-Atlantic Ocean including the processes that control their distribution and community structures;

• Environmental characterization of the Rio Grande Rise (SECIRM);

• Environmental characterization of the Potiguar Basin, RN (Petrobras);

• Development of the Taxonomy of Porifera in Brazil (Thematic Network Petrobras);

• Projeto Ilhas do Rio (Islands of Rio Project - Petrobras Ambiental);

• List of Brazilian invertebrate threatened species- supports to ICMBio;

• Training of personnel in Mapping of Marine Biodiversity and Chemodiversity in the Tropical West Atlantic (Project MBQMar, CAPES).
  
  

  Mailing Address

  Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional, UFRJ.
  Av. Bartolomeu de Gusmão, 875
  Campus de Ensino e Pesquisa do Museu Nacional, Prédio da Administração
  São Cristóvão – Rio de Janeiro – RJ 20941-160
  Brasil

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