Systematic revision of the Ailurinae (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ailuridae): with a new species from North America

2022 ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Steven C. Wallace ◽  
Lauren M. Lyon
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
A New Species

Widespread infection of the Eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) by a new species of Amphibiocystidium, a genus of fungus-like mesomycetozoan parasites not previously reported in North America

Parasitology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. RAFFEL ◽  
T. BOMMARITO ◽  
D. S. BARRY ◽  
S. M. WITIAK ◽  
L. A. SHACKELTON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
Notophthalmus Viridescens ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
A New Species

SUMMARYGiven the worldwide decline of amphibian populations due to emerging infectious diseases, it is imperative that we identify and address the causative agents. Many of the pathogens recently implicated in amphibian mortality and morbidity have been fungal or members of a poorly understood group of fungus-like protists, the mesomycetozoans. One mesomycetozoan, Amphibiocystidium ranae, is known to infect several European amphibian species and was associated with a recent decline of frogs in Italy. Here we present the first report of an Amphibiocystidium sp. in a North American amphibian, the Eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens), and characterize it as the new species A. viridescens in the order Dermocystida based on morphological, geographical and phylogenetic evidence. We also describe the widespread and seasonal distribution of this parasite in red-spotted newt populations and provide evidence of mortality due to infection.

Planalvus (Brachiopoda, Athyridida) from the Lower Devonian of the Armorican Massif, northwest France

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Racheboeuf ◽  
Paul Copper ◽  
Fernando Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Armorican Massif ◽  
A New Species

Cryptonella? cailliaudi Barrois, 1889, from the Lower Devonian of the Armorican Massif, is tentatively assigned to the athyridid brachiopod genus Planalvus Carter, thus far known only from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern North America. In addition, a new species, Planalvus rufus, is described from the Bois-Roux Formation (Pragian) of Brittany, France. These French species are small brachiopods with complex spiralial and jugal structures, which permit assignment to the order Athyridida.

scholarly journals Apheloria polychroma, a new species of millipede from the Cumberland Mountains (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4375 (3) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
PAUL E. MAREK ◽  
JACKSON C. MEANS ◽  
DEREK A. HENNEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Ouachita Mountains ◽  
Model Species ◽  
Color Morphs ◽  
Cumberland Mountains ◽  
A New Species

Millipedes of the genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 occur in temperate broadleaf forests throughout eastern North America and west of the Mississippi River in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. Chemically defended with toxins made up of cyanide and benzaldehyde, the genus is part of a community of xystodesmid millipedes that compose several Müllerian mimicry rings in the Appalachian Mountains. We describe a model species of these mimicry rings, Apheloria polychroma n. sp., one of the most variable in coloration of all species of Diplopoda with more than six color morphs, each associated with a separate mimicry ring.

A revision of the rare genusCyclolampas(Echinoidea) using morphometrics with description of a new species from the upper Callovian of Burgundy (France)

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Saucede ◽  
Alain Bonnot ◽  
Didier Marchand ◽  
Philippe Courville
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Linear Measurements ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Fourier Shape Analysis ◽  
And Migration ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Upper Callovian ◽  
Test Shape

The discovery of a new species,Cyclolampas altusnew species in the upper Callovian of Burgundy (France) leads to the systematic revision of the rare echinoid genusCyclolampasPomel, 1883. Two morphometric approaches are used jointly to describe and quantify variations in test shape: the analysis of linear measurements and the Elliptic Fourier shape analysis. Both analyses yield congruent results that highlight the amplitude of within-species variations and quantify the part due to allometry. Along with the description ofC. altus, the systematic position of species formerly assigned to the generaPygorhytisPomel, 1883 andCyclolampasis amended. Previously attributed to the genusPygorhytis,Cyclolampas castanea(Desor, 1858) is reassigned to the genusCyclolampason the base of new observations. Conversely, the examination of the Bajocian speciesPygorhytis kiliani(Lambert, 1909) andPygorhytis gillieroniDesor in Desor and de Loriol, 1872, which were previously assigned toCyclolampasnow supports their taxonomic reassignment to the genusPygorhytis. Finally, the two speciesCyclolampas verneuili(Cotteau, 1870) andCyclolampas cotteauiMintz, 1966 (nomen nudum) are considered junior synonyms of the genus type speciesCyclolampas voltzii(Agassiz, 1839). The questioned origin date of the genus, estimated either to the Bajocian or to the Oxfordian, is now clearly established to be upper Callovian. These new results fit well with the overall scheme of atelostomate echinoid evolution and migration to deep-sea environments during the Middle and Upper Jurassic.

A review of the ecology and distribution of Protoribates (Oribatida, Oripodoidea, Haplozetidae) in Alberta, Canada, with the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3620 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID EVANS WALTER ◽  
SARAH LATONAS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Gut Contents ◽  
Plant Cell Walls ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Peat Soils ◽  
The North ◽  
Opportunistic Predator ◽  
A New Species

The oribatid mite genus Protoribates Berlese (Haplozetidae) is reviewed for North America and the genus diagnosis is revised to account for the North American species, Protoribates robustior (Jacot, 1937) is redescribed and newly reported from western North America and a new species from Alberta is described. Protoribates haughlandae sp. n. is bisexual, heterotridactylous, and lives primarily in the peat soils of fens and bogs. Protoribates robustior is all-female, monodactylous, and occurs primarily in dry forests or in dry, treeless sites dominated by grasses, sedges, and shrubs. Both species feed on fungal hyphae and spores, but P. haughlandae also is an opportunistic predator and/or necrophage of small arthropods and P. robustior gut contents often include material that resembles plant cell walls. Examination of type specimens confirms that Protoribates prionotus (Woolley, 1968) is a junior synonym of the widespread Protoribates lophotrichus (Berlese, 1904). A key to differentiate Lagenobates from Protoribates and to identify the 7 species of the latter that are known or reported from North America is provided.

A New Species of Pineus (Homoptera: Adelgidae) on Abies

1964 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Underwood ◽  
R. E. Balch
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Abies Amabilis ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new anholocyclic species from the coastal region of western North America on Abies amabilis (Dougl.) Forbes and A. grandis (Dougl.) Lindl. is described. This is the first species of Pineus found on true firs.

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