The first record of a soft-shelled turtle (Testudines: Pan-Trionychidae) from southern Balkans (Pliocene, Gefira, N. Greece) and new information from bone histology

2015 ◽  
Vol 102 (7-8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelos Vlachos ◽  
Ignacio Cerda ◽  
Evangelia Tsoukala
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Diego Santos ◽  
Swami Leitão Costa ◽  
Francisco Carlos Pinheiro Costa

This study report the first record of Allamanda blanchetii Kunth in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. This species was collected from an upland forest in Semi-deciduous Seasonal Forest. This occurrence adds new information about the distribution of this species and expands its range to Brazil, which is important for its conservation. We provide taxonomic information, distribution maps, conservation status assessment, photograps, and an identification key for the Allamanda L. species in the Atlantic Forest.


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2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 614
Author(s):  
J. Pablo Jayat ◽  
Pablo E. Ortiz ◽  
Rodrigo González ◽  
Rebeca Lobo Allende ◽  
M. Carolina Madozzo Jaén

Sigmodontine rodents are well represented in northwestern Argentina, but information regarding their distribution in La Rioja is scarce. We add new information for seven species from seven localities in the Famatina range. These new records were obtained using both captures and owl pellet analysis. We cite the first record of Neotomys ebriosus in La Rioja. The collection locality is unusual for this species because of its low altitude and xeric conditions. Other notable results include the second record of Abrothrix andinus and of the genus Oligoryzomys at the province. 


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica L. Urgilés ◽  
Juan Carlos Sánchez-Nivicela ◽  
Diego F Cisneros-Heredia

We present new information on the distribution of the marsupial frog Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870) in Ecuador. We provide the first record from the province of Cañar, and the country’s southernmost locality (which also corresponds to the third known report from the province of Zamora-Chinchipe). In addition, we discuss the validity of the locality of Loreto for this species. Based on this discussion, we review the elevation range of the species and propose to change the lowest elevation limit of Gastrotheca testudinea from 1100 to 700 m.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Enghoff ◽  
Nicola Manno ◽  
Sévérin Tchibozo ◽  
Manuela List ◽  
Bettina Schwarzinger ◽  
...  

The first record of millipedes (Diplopoda) being regularly used for food by humans (the Bobo people of Burkina Faso) is given, including information on how the millipedes are prepared. The species in question areTymbodesmus falcatus(Karsch, 1881) andSphenodesmus sheribongensis(Schiøtz, 1966) (Gomphodesmidae) and an unidentified species of Spirostreptidae. New information on the nutritional value of millipedes is provided; unsaturated fatty acids, calcium, and iron contents are particularly high. The millipedes’ defensive secretions, hydrogen cyanide and benzoquinones, present a severe challenge for the spread of millipedes as an everyday food source. On the other hand, the possibility that benzoquinones may act as insect-repellents, as known from studies on nonhuman primates, and that sublethal cyanide ingestion may enhance human innate resistance to malaria, suggests promising ethnomedical perspectives to our findings.


2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 748-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio E. Miquel ◽  
Pablo E. Rodriguez

AbstractA remarkable fossil assemblage composed of five gastropod taxa is described from the Early Miocene of Santa Cruz (Patagonia, Argentina) in southernmost South America. The assemblage includes extinct and living genera South America, and on geographic distributions and represent background new information on spatial and across time distributions as well as identification of new taxa. A new taxon,Patagocharopa enigmatican. gen. n. sp., is tentatively assigned to Charopidae.Gastrocopta patagonican. sp. (Vertiginidae) represents the oldest record ofGastrocoptain Argentina and the southernmost record for the Americas.Punctum patagonicumn. sp. (Punctidae) represents the first record ofPunctumfor continental South America, and characterized by a protoconch with traces of axial costulae and a teleoconch with strong radial ribs.Zilchogyra miocenican. sp. is the first Miocene record of the charopid genusZilchogyra. Fragments of a possibleScolodonta(Scolodontidae) are recorded. Overall, the assemblage represents an important and useful paleoenvironmental tool. This fauna suggests that a more temperate and humid environment than today—with a more dense vegetation cover—was prevalent at this site during the Early Miocene.


Zoosymposia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
DÁVID MURÁNYI ◽  
TIBOR KOVÁCS ◽  
KIRILL MÁRK ORCI

We contribute new information on the taxonomy and biology of two recently described Balkan endemic stonefly species of the genus Isoperla Banks, 1906 (Plecoptera: Perlodidae). The hitherto unknown larva of Isoperla pesici Murányi, 2011 can be distinguished from related species on the basis of more laterally positioned abdominal stripes, and the long hairs on the apical half of the cerci. This species has a wide distribution in the Central Balkans, and we add six new localities, including the first record from Albania. It emerges from late spring to mid-summer, and occurs at low to moderately high altitudes. Isoperla pesici seems to be associated with springs, especially karst spring outlets, although it occurs in both small and large springs. The hitherto unknown larva of Isoperla citrina Murányi, 2011 is distinguished by its brown coloration with an indistinct pattern, quadrangular lacinia and lack of long hairs on the apical half of the cerci. The female lacks distinctive terminalia or egg characters and its habitus is similar to the male and sufficient to distinguish it from other known Balkan taxa. The male mating call is a sequence of beat-groups with a total duration of 3–6 s (at 22 °C); each group generally containing 3 beats, while the beat repetition pattern within beat groups is rather simple. This species is restricted to the high mountains of the western-Central Balkans, where we record four new localities, including the first record from Macedonia. It emerges from June to October, and is associated with very small creeks, lined with bushes at high elevations. Amongst the accompanying species, eleven are reported for the first time from Albania: (Brachyptera helenica Aubert, 1956, B. graeca Berthélemy, 1971, Leuctra bronislawi Sowa, 1970a, L. hirsuta Bogoecu & Tabacaru, 1960, L. hippopoides Kaçanski & Zwick, 1970, L. pseudosignifera Aubert, 1954, Protonemura hrabei Raušer, 1956, P. nitida (Pictet, 1836), Nemurella pictetii (Klapálek, 1900), Chloroperla russevi Braasch, 1969 and Siphonoperla neglecta (Rostock, 1881)), while one from Macedonia (Nemoura caligula Zwick, 1978) and Leuctra pseudohippopus Raušer, 1965 is reported from outside the Moesian ranges for the first time.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4413 (2) ◽  
pp. 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADRIAN ARDILA-CAMACHO ◽  
ARLEY CALLE-TOBÓN ◽  
MARTA WOLFF ◽  
LIONEL A. STANGE

The Neotropical fauna of Mantispidae is currently composed of 106 species. We provide new distributional records of Mantispidae from Colombia and Panama. Three new species are described, one in Symphrasinae from Colombia, and two in Mantispinae from Colombia and Panama. Haematomantispa nubeculosa (Navás, 1933) and Leptomantispa axillaris (Navás, 1908) are reported from Colombia for the first time, the former being the first record of the genus in the country. New locality records for other species previously known from Colombia are also given. For Panama, we report Anchieta fasciatella (Westwood, 1867) and Trichoscelia iridella (Westwood, 1867) for the first time, the former is herein newly transferred from Plega to Anchieta. Three names Mantispa confluens Navás, 1914, n. syn., Buyda apicata Navás, 1926, n. syn., and Mantispa neotropica Navás, 1933, n. syn., are here synonymized with Buyda phthisica (Gerstaecker, 1885). Updated keys for the genera of Mantispinae, and species of genera Trichoscelia, Buyda, and Climaciella from Colombia are included. With this new information, the known species richness of Mantispidae from Colombia increases from 21 to 26, and from 16 to 19 species in Panama. 


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2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harshil Patel ◽  
Raju Vyas ◽  
Pranav Vaghashiya

We report the first record of a snake, Ahaetulla laudankia Deepak, Narayanan, Sarkar, Dutta & Mohapatra, 2019 (Colubridae, Ahaetullinae) and confirm the occurrence of Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870) (Colubridae, Colubrinae) from Gujarat state based on reptile surveys conducted in South, Central, and Saurashtra regions of the state. We also provide new information on the morphology, microhabitat, diet, and behaviour of these species.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 371 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
ALIREZA POURSAFAR ◽  
YOUBERT GHOSTA ◽  
MOHAMMAD JAVAN-NIKKHAH

Stemphylium amaranthi was originally described from the leaves of Amaranthus retroflexous in China based only on asexual morphological characteristics. New collections of S. amaranthi from wheat and barley plants with symptoms of black (sooty) head mould in Golestan and Qazvin Provinces, Iran, revealed abundant formation of a sexual morph. The morphological identification was confirmed by sequences obtained from ITS-rDNA and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) genomic loci. New information on the sexual morph of S. amaranthi is provided and the species circumscription is emended. Wheat and barley are reported as new substrates for S. amaranthi, and this species is recorded for the first time in Iran.


1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Adrain ◽  
Gerald J. Kloc

New aulacopleuroidean trilobites from the Lochkovian of Oklahoma include the otarionine Cyphaspis carrolli new species from the Haragan Formation, and the brachymetopid Cordania wessmani new species from the overlying Bois d'Arc Formation. Cyphaspis carrolli is the first record of the genus from the North American Devonian. It is a highly plesiomorphic species, dissimilar to contemporaries from Europe, but closely related to Silurian species from Northern Laurentia and England. Cordania wessmani had previously been interpreted as a possible sexual dimorph of Cordania falcata Whittington, 1960, but new material and information shows that the forms occur separately with no stratigraphic overlap. New information on trilobite occurrence in the Haragan and Bois d'Arc Formations does not support previous hypotheses of trilobite sexual dimorphism, but rather indicates the presence of distinct, stratigraphically successive faunas.


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