A new species of Cuora (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Miocene of Thailand and its evolutionary significance

2013 ◽  
Vol 150 (5) ◽  
pp. 908-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILAILUCK NAKSRI ◽  
HAIYAN TONG ◽  
KOMSORN LAUPRASERT ◽  
VARAVUDH SUTEETHORN ◽  
JULIEN CLAUDE

AbstractA new species of Cuora, Cuora chiangmuanensis sp. nov., is described on the basis of a nearly complete shell with limb bones from the late Middle – early Late Miocene Chiang Muan Mine, Phayao Province (Northern Thailand). C. chiangmuanensis is distinguished from other fossil and living Cuora species mainly on the basis of its plastral morphology. Among fossil and extant Cuora taxa, the new species appears to be a missing link between the taxa from Southeast Asia and those from East Asia. It represents the earliest record of the genus and demonstrates that by 11–12 Ma, Asian box turtles were already present in Southeast Asia.

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-443
Author(s):  
XINGYUE LIU

The genus Rapisma McLachlan, 1866 (montane lacewings) is a rare and little known group of the family Ithonidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). There have been 21 described species of Rapisma, and all of them are distributed from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Here I report a new species of Rapisma from northwestern Yunnan, China, namely Rapisma weixiense sp. nov. The new species belongs to a group of Rapisma species with very short antennae. 


2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geerat J. Vermeij ◽  
Frank P. Wesselingh

Two neogastropod species occur in brackish intervals in the Pebas Formation (late Middle to early Late Miocene) of Peru and Colombia in western Amazonia. Purpura woodwardi Roxo, 1924, is assigned to Melongena Schumacher, 1817 (Melongenidae), and ?Nassarius reductus (Nassariidae) is recognized as a new species. These gastropods are among the very few marine invaders in the otherwise freshwater Pebas fauna. The small number of marine to freshwater transitions among South American molluscs contrasts with the situation among South American fishes and southeast Asian molluscs. It may be related to seasonal fluctuations in water level and anoxia in present-day South American freshwater environments, as well as to predation and productivity.


Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1397 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
THANAPHUM CHAMI-KRANON ◽  
NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN ◽  
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL

A new species of the funnel-web spiders from Thailand, Allagelena monticola sp. n., is described and illustrated. The types of this species were collected from remnant patches of pristine evergreen hill forest in the Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. The new species resembles the widely distributed species A. opulenta (L. Koch), which is known from China, Korea and Japan. This discovery expands the known zoogeographical distribution of the genus Allagelena southwards into tropical Southeast Asia.


2003 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Wang ◽  
Jian-Xiu Chen ◽  
Kenneth Christiansen

AbstractWe examined and keyed out the subgenera of the genus Lepidocyrtus mostly created by Yoshii. Although many of these subgenera of the genus Lepidocyrtus are difficult to apply in Europe, America, and Africa, they are easily applicable in East and Southeast Asia. The species of Southeast Asia are placed in these subgenera and a key to the subgenera is provided. A new species, Lepidocyrtus (Lanocyrtus) felpei from Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, is described and the species Lepidocyrtus (Lanocyrtus) fimetarius Gisin is redescribed. Although the Lepidocyrtus fauna of the whole of East Asia differs from the Holarctic fauna, the Central and Northeast Asian fauna are similar in subgeneric make up to the North American fauna, slightly less similar to the European fauna, and totally unlike the Southeast Asian fauna.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Zhu Hua

The new genus Paralasianthus is described from South-East Asia. Five species are recognised in the genus, four of which required new combinations, P. brevipes, P. dichotomus, P. lowianus and P. hainanensis, and one is described as a new species, P. zhengyianus. A key to the species is presented.


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4851 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-558
Author(s):  
JUSTIN M. BERNSTEIN ◽  
AARON M. BAUER ◽  
JIMMY A. MCGUIRE ◽  
EVY ARIDA ◽  
HINRICH KAISER ◽  
...  

Cylindrophis is a genus of secretive, semi-fossorial, non-venomous snakes comprising 14 species, characterized by a generally cylindrical body, uniform scales (with barely enlarged ventrals), and vestiges of pelvic and limb bones, the latter terminating in a claw lateral to the vent. We reconstructed a concatenated molecular phylogeny of seven taxa of Cylindrophis taxa based on one nuclear (R35) and two mitochondrial (16S, ND2) genes. Analyses recovered the Sri Lankan endemic C. maculatus as sister to all other sampled Cylindrophis. The mainland Southeast Asian species C. burmanus and C. jodiae form successive sister lineages to a monophyletic Wallacean island group containing C. boulengeri, C. isolepis, and C. yamdena. We also describe a new species of Cylindrophis, morphologically similar to C. burmanus, from Kachin State in northern Myanmar. Cylindrophis slowinskii sp. nov. is distinguished from all congeners by the following combination of characters: 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody, 216–220 ventrals, eight subcaudals, a dark venter with > 60 very narrow diffuse pale blotches, and a pale bar running along the posterior border of the prefrontals. In our phylogeny, the new species is strongly supported as the sister species of C. burmanus. It is the 15th currently recognised species in the genus, and the fourth from mainland Southeast Asia. 


2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroon Duangkrayom ◽  
Shi-Qi Wang ◽  
Tao Deng ◽  
Pratueng Jintasakul

AbstractLower and upper third molars of a proboscidean from the Tha Chang sand pits, Nakhon Ratchasima, northeastern Thailand, show a zygodont pattern. The crescentoids are less well developed than those of the type specimen ofZygolophodon gobiensisbut similar to those of late Miocene specimens from south China assigned toZ.lufengensisandZ.chinjiensis. On the other hand, the loph(id)s are less oblique and the zygodont crests are less well developed than inZ.lufengensisandZ.chinjiensis. However, it is difficult to erect a new species for these specimens because their anterior loph(id)s are so deeply worn that the morphology of the conelets on these loph(id)s is unclear. Thus, we identify the specimens asZygolophodonsp.Zygolophodonis known from lower and middle Miocene sediments in Africa while they are usually dated to the early–late Miocene in Europe, South Asia such as Pakistan, and Central and North China. Based on its apparent grade of dental evolution, the new material ofZygolophodonfrom Thailand is probably late Miocene in age. In addition, this discovery is the first record of a zygodont proboscidean in Southeast Asia.


Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1397 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
THANAPHUM CHAMI-KRANON ◽  
NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN ◽  
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL

A new species of the funnel-web spiders from Thailand, Allagelena monticola sp. n., is described and illustrated. The types of this species were collected from remnant patches of pristine evergreen hill forest in the Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. The new species resembles the widely distributed species A. opulenta (L. Koch), which is known from China, Korea and Japan. This discovery expands the known zoogeographical distribution of the genus Allagelena southwards into tropical Southeast Asia.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4353 (3) ◽  
pp. 584
Author(s):  
MARKKU J. PELLINEN

One new Saliocleta (type-species nonagrioides Walker, 1862), S. puyak sp. n., and the female of S. notia Schintlmeister, 1997 are described from Northern Thailand. The male genitalia structure of Saliocleta is examined in detail. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
RYUDAI ITO ◽  
TOSHIHARU MITA

Odontepyris costatus sp. nov. is described from Japan and Taiwan. This new species is most similar to O. formosicola Terayama, 1997 known from Cambodia and Taiwan according to the key to the Eastern Palaearctic Odontepyris. O. costatus sp. nov. can be distinguished from the latter by the relatively small eye and the wide metapectal-propodeal disc. It is also similar to O. telortis Lim & Lee, 2009 known from South Korea, but it is distinguished from O. telortis by the imbricate median area of metapostnotum. The morphological variations and diagnostic characters of the Eastern Palaearctic species are briefly discussed and the modified key to species is provided. Key words: new species, Japan, Taiwan, wing venation


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