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ESTACION DE BIOLOGIA MARINA 



PUERTO DESEADO 



Ecology of vegetation of the littoral zone (Oscar 



Kuhnemann) 

 Copepoda (Rosa Pallares) 

 Systematics of Rhodophyta (Carmen Pujals) 

 Systematics of Cyanophyta (Delia Rabinovich) 

 Systematics of Phaeophyta (Aldo Asensi) 

 Ecology of fauna of the littoral zone (Raul Ringaelet) 



fauna available at the Museo de La Plata; machine 

 and wood shop, electrical and electronic shop; small 

 boats and outboard motors, one 6 m LOA vessel. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Occasional courses in prac- 

 tical fish-culture. 



SIZE OF staff: Six at professional level; 5 technicians. 



IMPORTANT species AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 

 STUDIES: 



Potamogetonaceae : Potaniogelon stiiatt/s 



Ceratophyllaceae: Cenitophylhnn demersum 



Ciperaceae: Scirpus cal'ijorn'icns 



Mollusca: Littoridina parcbappei 



Pisces: Basilichthys bonariensis, Jenysia lineata 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Food and feeding habits of the fishes of Laguna 



Chascomus (Fernando C. Ramirez) 

 Relationship between neurosecretions and euryhaline 



habits in JenysM I'niectla (Federico Garcia Romeu) 

 General limnology of Laguna Vitel (Santiago R. 



Olivier) 

 Ostracods of Lake Chascomus (Fernando C. Ramirez) 

 Transplantation of Rio Parana fishes (Raul A. 



Ringuelet) 



Estacion H'idrobiolog'tca de Chascomus 



CHASCOMUS HYDROBIOLOGICAL STATION 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Avenida Lastra esq. Juarez, Chas- 

 comus FCNGR, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 



EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Femando Ramirez, Jefe, Division 

 Limnologia y Piscicultura, Direccion de Conservacion 

 de la Fauna, calle 50 no 723, La Plata, Buenos Aires, 

 Argentina. 



SPONSORING AGENCY: Ministerio de Asuntos Agrarios 

 de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Direccion de Con- 

 servation de la Fauna (Ministry of Agriculture of 

 the Province of Buenos Aires, Bureau of Wildlife 

 Conservation). 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1942-43. 



SCOPE OF activities: Restricted research on limnology 

 and conservation of aquatic resources; undergraduate 

 instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Laguna de 



Chascomus (Chascomus Lake, eutrophic) ; sistema de 

 las Encadenadas de Chascomus y Rio Salado (Chas- 

 comus Lake system and tributaries including the 

 Salado River) . 

 PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and 

 living space for 4 visitors; no fees charged for 

 research space. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: No 



library; large outdoor ponds and tanks; small aquar- 

 ium tanks; research collection of plankton samples; 

 identified reference collections of local flora and 



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Estacion Hidrobiologica de Puerto Quequen 

 del Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de 

 las Ciencias Maturates 



PUERTO QUEQUEN HYDROBIOLOGICAL STATION OF 

 THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL 

 SCIENCE RESEARCH 



POSTAL address: 



Instituto Nacional: Museo Argentine de Ciencias 

 Naturales "Bernadino Rivadavia," Avenida Angel 

 Gallardo 470, Casilla de Correo 10, Sucursal 5, 

 Buenos Aires, Argentina. 



Estacion Hildrobiologica: Puerto Quequen, Argen- 

 tina. 



