Cuba discovered in a strange seashell-shaped ball vuvuzela

By: EFE

Is one of a thousand marine species have been inventoried in the peninsula of Guanahacabibes.

An odd-shaped seashell vuvuzela ball has been discovered by a Spanish-Cuban team of researchers in Guanahacabibes (Cuba), 750 km south of the platform "Macondo", the oil spill has caused a major ecological disaster the history of mankind.

The finding has occurred in the reef ecosystem Guanahacabibes, where the research team performed since 2006 the inventory of marine shellfish waters are home to the peninsula, according to Efe recounts one of the researchers, Leopoldo Moro, Biodiversity Service Canary Islands Government.

Leopoldo Moro noted that this curious shell, a true living fossil "worthy of being the mascot of the last Football World Cup in South Africa", has proposed a new genre, "Globocornus, Globus = globe, ball, and cornus = trumpet (trumpet ball). "

It has also dedicated his discovery to Charles Darwin on the occasion of celebrating the International Year of Biodiversity and the 150 anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species ", a masterpiece that changed the view of life on the planet, details marine biologist.

So the snail has been dubbed "Globocornus darwini" and is one of a thousand marine species have been inventoried in the peninsula of Guanahacabibes by this team of Spanish and Cuban researchers found among the authors of the discovery, Jesus Ortea, University of Oviedo, and Jose Espinosa, Institute of Oceanology of Cuba.

Both are leaders of a team which also includes, in addition to Leopoldo Moro, Manuel Caballer, the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) that during the past six years have prepared the inventory marine western tip of Cuba.

According to Leopoldo Moro accurate, this area is considered a "hot spot" of biodiversity because the larvae are carried by ocean currents toward the American coast of the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, larvae that have the task of restoring the immediate future marine biodiversity oil affected by the disaster, he said.

In parallel, and the underwater cave Brains in the Canary island of Tenerife, the same research team has discovered another cave snail, the "Neritilia nataliae" the third Atlantic species of a genus with representatives in Sao Thome and the Caribbean.

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