Argentina 



Direcciou General de Rea/rsos Naturales, 

 Lahoratono de Hidrobiologia 



GENERAL BUREAU OF NATURAL RESOURCES, HY- 

 DROBIOLOGICAL LABORATORY 



POSTAL address: Casilla Correo No. 58, Boulevard 

 3100, Santa Fe, Argentina. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Argentine Aurelio Bonetto, Di- 

 rector. Almafuerte 3157, Santa Fe, Argentina. 



SPONSORING AGENCY: Consejo National de Investiga- 

 ciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. 



YEAR founded: 1958. 



SCOPE of activities: Unrestricted research on the biol- 

 ogy, taxonomy and ecology of fishes, malacology, fish 

 culture, water pollution and general limnology. 



SEASON of operation: All year. 



PHYSICAL environment ACCESSIBLE: Rio (River) 

 Parana; eutrophic lake. 



PROVISIONS for visiting SCIENTISTS: Space for 2 vis- 

 itors ; no fees charged ; living quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH FACILITIES: Small library; large out- 

 door ponds and tanks, small aquarium tanks ; research 

 collections of Pisces, Pelecypoda (Naiades), Gastro- 

 poda (fresh- water snails), Crustacea and Porifera; 

 identified reference collections of naiades, fishes and 

 sponges; machine and wood shop, skilled shop work- 

 man available; small boats and outboard motors; one 

 10 m LOA vessel. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Eight at professional level; 6 tech- 

 nicians. 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Fish population studies using tagging methods 



(Argentine A. Bonetto and Clarice Pignalberi) 

 Biology, taxonomy and geographical distribution of 



South American Naiades (A. A. Bonetto and Ines 



Ezcurra) 

 Water pollution in the Parana River (Ruben Manzi 



and Roberto Conte) 



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Taxonomy and geographical distribution of Porifera 



in the Parana and Paraguay Rivers (A. A. Bonetto 



and Ines Ezcurra) 

 General Limnology in the Saladillos basin, especially 



in the Guadalupe lagoon (Ignacio Maciel and 



Ruben Manzi) 

 Algae in the marginal ponds of the Parana River 



(Ruben Manzi and Ignacio Maciel) 

 Fish-culture studies; especially on Leporinns obliisi- 



cleiis. and Salmnius niaxillosus (A. A. Bonetto, 



Clarice Pignalberi and Elly Cordiviola) 



Estacion de Biologia Marina "Puerto Deseado" 



PUERTO DESEADO MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Puerto Deseado, Provincia de Santa 

 Cruz, Argentina. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICERS: Professor O. Kuhnemann, Di- 

 rector de la Estacion, Departamento de Botanica, Uni- 

 versidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 



SPONSORING AGENCIES: Universidad de Buenos Aires; 

 Institute Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial (Uni- 

 versity of Buenos Aires, National Institute of Indus- 

 trial Technology). 



YEAR founded: I960. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Restricted research on zoo- and 

 phytoplank'on, systematics and ecology of algae and 

 Foraminifera; unrestricted research on general marine 

 biology; graduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year, but Station utilized 

 mainly from January to April. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Ria del Rio 



Deseado (Estuary of the Deseado River), Atlantic 

 Ocean; sandy and silty beaches, rocky and gravelly 

 shores and brackish, shallow bays. 

 PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and 

 living space for visitors ; no fees charged for research 

 space. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Small 



library; large outdoor ponds and tanks, small aquar- 

 ium tanks; research collections of sponges, coelenter- 

 ates, nemerteans, sipunculids, priapulids, bryozoans, 

 mollusks, brachiopods, annelids, arthropods, echino- 

 derms, ascidians, fishes and all major groups of algae 

 of the area; machine and wood shop, one 14 m LOA 

 motor launch. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Systematics and ecology 

 of benthonic marine algae, invertebrate zoology and 

 plankton. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Six at professional level; 2 technicians. 



IMPORTANT SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 



study: All species found along Patagonian coast, 

 plus many marine birds including nesting grounds of 

 the Patagonian penquin, Spheniscus magellauicus. 



MAJCJR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Systematics and ecology of Foraminifera (Estaben 

 Boltovskoy) 



