Cantao Purpuratus
Cantao may refer to: * Cantão, a Brazilian forest ecosystem * ''Cantao'', a genus of bugs in the family Scutelleridae * Cantão State Park The Cantão State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual do Cantão) is a state park in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. It protects the Cantão wetlands, an area of igapó flooded forest in the ecotone where the Amazon rainforest merges into the cerrado. Loca ...

Cantão
Cantão is a tropical forest ecosystem located in the central Araguaia river basin, the southeastern edge of the Amazon biome, in the Brazilian state of Tocantins. It is one of the biologically richest areas of the eastern Amazon, with over 700 species of birds, nearly 300 species of fish (more than in all of Europe), and large populations of endangered species such as the giant otter and the black cayman. About 90% of the Cantão ecosystem is protected within Cantão State Park. Ecological importance Due to its geographical location and topography, the Cantão ecosystem combines several unique features that contribute to its high biodiversity and productivity: *It is located at the ecotone between the cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil. The cerrado has the highest biodiversity of all the world's savannas, and the Amazon has the highest rainforest diversity. At the Cantão region, this ecotone is particularly sharp, resulting in species from both biomes coexisting within a ...
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Cantao (bug)
''Cantao'' is a genus of true bugs in family Scutelleridae. Description Body elongate oval; head elongate, with nearly straight and carinate lateral margins; pronotum with posterolateral angles produced at base of scutellum; scutellum with a pair of deep foveae basally; peritreme large, occupying most of metapleurite, evaporatorium reduced. Distribution Distributed in Indomalaya, Wallacea, New Guinea and Australia. A doubtful species ('' Cantao africanus'') has been reported from tropical Africa. A fossil species (tentatively placed into ''Cantao'') was described from the middle Miocene of Tottori Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. Species * ''Cantao ocellatus'' (Thunberg, 1784) * '' Cantao variabilis'' (Montrouzier, 1855) * '' Cantao purpuratus'' (Westwood, 1837) * ''Cantao parentum Cantao may refer to: * Cantão, a Brazilian forest ecosystem * ''Cantao'', a genus of bugs in the family Scutelleridae * Cantão State Park The Cantão State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual do Ca ...
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