VI.—On a New Species of Holocenturm from the Miocene of Malta; with a List of Fossil Berycidæ hitherto Described

1887 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 355-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Smith Woodward
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Maltese Islands ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A New Species

Very little information has hitherto been published in regard to the fossil fishes of the well-known Miocene formation of the Maltese Islands. Dr. Leith Adams enumerates seventeen species in his latest contribution to the subject, but these are almost exclusively founded upon detached teeth. It is, therefore, of considerable interest to be able to place on record the discovery of a new and tolerably complete fish, obtained from an excavation made some months ago for new docks in the harbour of Valetta.

scholarly journals Biodiversity of bulbous and tuberous geophytes from the El Kala National Park (North-Eastern Algeria): checklist, vulnerability and conservation

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Besma Dechir ◽  
Atef Chouikh ◽  
Tarek Hamel ◽  
Nawel Nadia Azizi ◽  
Nawel Ganaoui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
National Park ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Floristic Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eastern Algeria ◽  
A New Species

Treinta estaciones en el Parque Nacional El Kala (Noreste de Argelia) fueron objeto de un inventario florístico que se centró en el estudio de la ecología de geófitos bulbosos y tuberosos. La flora se caracteriza por una alta proporción de taxones raros y/o endémicos, entre ellos, 6 especies son endemismos algero-tunecinos pertenecientes a la familia Orchidaceae. En este trabajo, se da a conocer la presencia de una nueva especie para la flora argelina, Ophrys fusca subsp. lupercalis. Los análisis multivariantes revelaron, ciertas variables ambientales que determinan la distribución de los geófitos. Los lugares de interés son particularmente sensibles a las amenazas, particularmente las de origen antrópico. Thirty stations at the El Kala National Park (North Eastern Algeria) were the subject of a floristic focused on the study of the ecology of bulbous and tuberous geophytes. The floristic analysis was used to draw up a checklist of 67 species belonging to 36 genera and 14 families, among of which 19 species a high proportion of rare and/or endemic taxa; among them six signed taxa are endemic to algerian-tunisian mainly represented by family of Orchidaceae. In this work, we recorded the presence of a new species for the Algerian flora which is Ophrys fusca subsp. lupercalis. Multivariate analyses revealed certain environmental variables determining the distribution of geophytes. The visited sites show an alarming vulnerability and subject to threats, particularly anthropogenic ones.

Taxonomic review of the Northeast Asian species of Kisaura (Philopotamidae) with description of a new species

Zoosymposia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
CHRISTINE JEWEL C. UY ◽  
NAOTOSHI KUHARA ◽  
YEON JAE BAE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Neighbor Joining ◽  
Japanese Species ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
High Bootstrap ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Northeast Asian ◽  
A New Species

The Northeast Asian species of Kisaura Ross, 1956 (Philopotamidae) are re-examined and males and females of a new species from South Korea are described and illustrated. Kisaura coreana sp. nov. closely resembles K. tsudai (Botoşǎneanu, 1970) and K. hattorii (Kuhara, 1999) described from Japan, but distinguished from the latter two species by the shape of the spiniform processes of segment X in the male genitalia. Further, we conclude that K. kisoensis (Tsuda, 1939) is not a synonym of K. aurascens (Martynov, 1934) because of differences in the genitalia, which was also supported by molecular data. Also, the Neighbor Joining tree shows a clade including both the Japanese species K. nozakii (Kuhara, 1999) and K. borealis  (Kuhara, 1999) with high bootstrap values, especially that for K. nozakii, collected from Hoshu Shiga, Kanzaki-gawa, Kazakoshi-dani (99% bootstrap value). This high value could reflect the possibility that they are the same species and just having differences based on geographic variation in morphological traits. These two species will be the subject of future studies. 

Loxosomella decorata n. sp., a new solitary entoproct from San Juan Island, WA, USA

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4238 (4) ◽  
pp. 594
Author(s):  
CLAUS NIELSEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Spiral Cleavage ◽  
New Localities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A New Species

Several species of solitary entoprocts of the genera Loxosoma and Loxosomella occur on maldanid polychaetes or in their tubes (Nielsen 1964). New species turn up almost every time maldanids from new localities are studied, and the species described below has been the subject of a study of spiral cleavage (Merkel et al. 2012). This paper describes a new species of Loxosomella from tubes of the maldanid polychaete Axiothella rubrocincta (Johnson, 1901) from False Bay, San Juan Island, WA, USA. 

scholarly journals IV.—On a New Species or Discites (Discites Hibernicus) from the Lower Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland

1893 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 251-254
Author(s):  
Arthur H. Foord ◽  
G. C. Crick
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Carboniferous Limestone ◽  
A New Species

The specimen which forms the subject of the present communication was obtained by one of the writers from the Carboniferous Limestone, near Dublin. Although one side of the specimen is covered by matrix, yet the other side and the periphery are so splendidly preserved, and the shell has not been distorted during fossilisation, that the characters of the fossil can be accurately determined (see Woodcut, p. 254).

The “wild shot”: photography for more biology in natural history collections, not for replacing vouchers

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4269 (4) ◽  
pp. 453 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROMAIN GARROUSTE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Type Series ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A New Species

Recently a correspondence in Zootaxa (Ceríaco et al., 2016) with more than 450 signatories including taxonomists, curators and other taxonomy users from all continents has received wide attention and has stimulated extensive discussion (a true buzz) around the possible interpretations of the Code (ICZN) about photography in taxonomy (Researchgate website link). This short note was necessary to recall the necessity of preserved specimens as vouchers for taxonomy, in response to photography-based taxonomy (PBT) as defended by Pape et al. (2016), and in a broad sense, for all the life sciences. This had been widely discussed and argued by Dubois & Nemésio (2007) who concluded on the importance of vouchers in taxonomy. But if the subject of these papers and discussions are about photography as the only way to document a new species, none of them discussed really what photography could represent in enhancing knowledge in natural sciences based on collections of specimens including type series and in association with other media (video and sound).

A new species of Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Cape d’Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3091 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINE N. W. LEE ◽  
ROGER N. BAMBER
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Species ◽  
Marine Reserve ◽  
Laboratory Culture ◽  
Baited Traps ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A New Species

A new species of leptostracan, Nebalia mortoni, is described from the waters of the Cape d’Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong. It is distinguished from previously described species in particular owing to the squared denticles on the posterior dorsal margins of the pleonites. The species has been collected using baited traps, and has been the subject of previous study of its behaviour and demography. Laboratory culture of immature males has revealed that passage to maturity involved a sudden and dramatic lengthening of the antennae within the space of a single moult. This is only the second description of nebaliacean species from Asia.

A new species of Amphimedon (Porifera, Demospongiae, Haplosclerida, Niphatidae) from the Capricorn-Bunker Group of Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: target species for the ‘sponge genome project’

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1314 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN N.A. HOOPER ◽  
ROB W.M. VAN SOEST
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Genome Project ◽  
Tree Islands ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Amphimedon Queenslandica ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Globally Distributed ◽  
A New Species

A new niphatid demosponge, Amphimedon queenslandica sp.nov., is described from Heron and One Tree Islands, southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. The new species is of particular significance as it is currently the subject of the first sponge genome project. The species is characterized within the globally distributed genus Amphimedon by its distinctive blue-green colour, and the combination of encrusting-lobate growth form, spongin-rich spiculofibres and feeble spicule size, The new species is compared and contrasted with known or suspected Amphimedon species of Australia and adjacent territories of Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Indonesia.

Chloromyxum pristiophori, a New Species of Myxosporidia Parasitic in the Gall-Bladder of Pristiophorus cirratus (Saw-Shark)

Parasitology ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violet Woolcock
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Gall Bladder ◽  
First Record ◽  
First Report ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A New Species

Within recent years a considerable amount of work has been done on the Myxosporidia, especially, as pointed out by Kudo (1919), in North America, Asia, and to a lesser degree in Japan (Fugita, 1912, 1913, 1925). Few investigations, however, have been carried out in Australia, and consequently very little is known concerning the distribution of the group in this country. There appear to be as yet only two contributions to the subject, papers by T. Harvey Johnston and M. J. Bancroft (1918, 1919). As far as can be ascertained, my paper is the first report concerning Myxosporidia from fishes of Southern Australian waters, and contains the first record of a species of Chloromyxum from Australia.

scholarly journals A NEW PLANT LOUSE ON TOBACCO

1898 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 300-301
Author(s):  
Theodore Pergande
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Tomato Plant ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Tobacco Plants ◽  
Rumex Crispus ◽  
Egg Plant ◽  
General Article ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A New Species

Dr. L. O. Howard, who is preparing a general article on the subject of insects affectin tobacco, for the Year Book of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1898, has called my attention to a plant louse feeding upon tobacco plants grown on the grounds of the Department, which he wishes to mention specifically in his article, and since it is a new species, at his request, I submit for pulication the following description.I had been familiar with this undescribed species since 1897, and had found it on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture in smaller colonies on Rumex crispus, Leucanthemum vulgare, Forsythia viridissima, and also on the leaves of the apple, pear, and egg-plant. Specimens have also been received from Mt. Holly, Md., where they were reported to feed in immense numbers on the tomato plant.

A New Species of the Genus Acanthephyra [Crustacea: Natantia]: First Discovered and Described in Ms Notes by Dr Stanley W. Kemp

1971 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Foxton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Decapod Crustacea ◽  
Reference Collection ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
International Indian Ocean Expedition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eastern North Atlantic ◽  
A New Species

During recent cruises of R.R.S. ‘Discovery’ in the eastern North Atlantic an investigation has been made of the depth distribution and diurnal migration of the pelagic fauna in selected oceanic areas. This continuing programme has entailed intensive mid-water sampling with opening-closing nets, fishing discrete depth horizons mainly within the upper 1000 m but also on occasion at greater depths. Hauls made during the cruise of January-April 1968 in a position 11°N, 20°W, south-east of the Cape Verde Islands, yielded 43 specimens of an apparently new species of the genus Acanthephyra. A further 113 specimens were taken during a subsequent cruise to the same area and the species has also been recorded in a sample collected in the Indian Ocean during the International Indian Ocean Expedition.Having examined the literature and concluded that the species was undescribed the author referred to the large collection of decapod Crustacea that had been amassed as a result of cruises of ships of the Discovery Committee made prior to 1939. This material, together with that taken on the Dana Expeditions, had formed the subject of Dr Stanley W. Kemp's extensive studies on the Oplophoridae (Kemp, 1939), consequently the carefully preserved, labelled, and identified specimens represent a unique reference collection. It proved to contain five specimens identical to those taken at 11°N in 1968. Not unexpectedly Kemp had realized their uniqueness and had not only designated the type but named it. A description, however, was never published although it was prepared and has in part survived.

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