A redescription of Uncinaria lucasi stiles, a hookworm of seals

Parasitology ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Baylis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Small Intestine ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
Type Host ◽  
Fur Seal ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
The Bering Sea

In an earlier paper (1933) the writer drew attention to the inadequacy of the only existing description of Uncinaria lucasi, given, under the name of Uncinaria sp., by Stiles & Hassall (1899). Through the kindness of Dr E. C. Dougherty, it has now been possible to examine specimens of an Uncinaria from the type-host of U. lucasi (the Alaskan fur-seal, Callorhinus alascanus). These were collected by Dr V. B. Scheffer, of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, from the small intestine of a furseal pup at Polovina, St Paul Island (Pribylov group), in the Bering Sea in July 1945. There seems to be no reasonable doubt that they are of the same species as those originally described by Stiles & Hassall, the principal evidence being the identity of the host and locality, and the length of the spicules of the male worms. A new description is therefore presented, which it is hoped will place the species on a more satisfactory footing.

scholarly journals The Pacific Walrus

Oryx ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 332-340
Author(s):  
Karl W. Kenyon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific Walrus ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service ◽  
Aerial Observation ◽  
The Bering Sea

During recent years there have been repeated reports of extravagant exploitation of the walrus by Eskimos and these have been strengthened by aerial observation of many headless carcasses on beaches of the Bering Sea. So in 1958 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service decided upon an inquiry into the Pacific Walrus, and its hunting and utilization by Eskimo in the Bering Sea region.

Reminiscences of the Bering Sea Arbitration

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Fur Seals ◽  
Keen Observer ◽  
The Bering Sea

On February 29, 1892, a treaty was celebrated between the United States and Great Britain providing for the submission to arbitration of the issues which had arisen between those countries respecting the preservation of the valuable herd of fur seals of the Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea. These issues had come to a head in 1886 under President Cleveland, had remained very active throughout the whole of the succeeding administration of President Harrison and had lasted into the second administration of President Cleveland. During part of this period the feelings of the two governments ran high while the issues held the attention of the thinking public. Today, however, they have been largely forgotten and it would not have occurred to me to revive them during these stirring times had not my friend Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, who accompanied his distinguished father to Paris in 1893 as a youthful but very keen observer, requested that as the sole surviving member of the American delegation I review the salient features of this great effort to compose international controversies by reason rather than by a resort to arms. In complying with this request I shall at the same time seek to correct an impression held by many that the United States had a poor case, whereas in respect of one of the two principal issues, namely that of its ownership in the seals, it had a very good case, and in respect of the other, namely the regulations necessary for their preservation should ownership be denied by the tribunal, it had an unanswerable case on which it won what our opponents considered at the time to be a substantial victory though it turned out to be an inadequate one. The position of the United States on this second issue was fully vindicated several years after the arbitration.

Eumops floridanus (Chiroptera: Molossidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1009) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Jessica M Vannatta ◽  
Jeffery A Gore ◽  
Verity L Mathis ◽  
Brian D Carver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Population Size ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Small Population Size ◽  
Restricted Distribution ◽  
Dead Trees ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service

Abstract Eumops floridanus (Allen, 1932) is a molossid commonly called the Florida bonneted bat or the Florida mastiff bat. Eumops floridanus is the largest species of bat in Florida and is one of 16 species in the genus Eumops. With one of the smallest distributions of any bat in the United States, it is endemic to southern peninsular Florida where it roosts in cavities of live and dead trees and man-made structures. Eumops floridanus was formerly classified as a subspecies of E. glaucinus but has been elevated to species level based on morphology. Due primarily to its restricted distribution, small population size, and the continued loss of habitat, E. floridanus is federally listed as “Endangered” (EN) by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

scholarly journals Determining Sexual Dimorphism of Living Aquatic Beetles, Stygoparnus comalensis (Coleoptera: Dryopidae) and Heterelmis comalensis (Coleoptera: Elmidae), Using Internal Abdominal Structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ely Kosnicki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Edwards Aquifer ◽  
Aquatic Beetles ◽  
Fish And Wildlife Service

Abstract The Comal Springs dryopid beetle, Stygoparnus comalensis Barr and Spangler, and the Comal Springs riffle beetle, Heterelmis comalensis Bosse, Tuff, and Brown, are protected by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the development of a captive self-propagating refuge is of importance to stakeholders within the Edwards Aquifer. Being able to reliably distinguish the sex of living subjects is desirable for establishing a successful refuge program. Ventrite, elytron, and pronotum measurements of S. comalensis were taken to determine if there were sexually dimorphic allometries. Various lighting techniques were also implemented to see if there were other characters that could potentially be used to distinguish females and males. Measurements were not found to satisfactorily separate sexes; however, lateral lighting was found to consistently illuminate internal abdominal structures of S. comalensis where sternite 8 was viewable in males and the fused gonocoxites were viewable in females. Lateral lighting was used to examine living specimens of H. comalensis, and it was found that sternite 8 could be viewed in both sexes where the anterior strut of females was much longer and discernible from the anterior strut of males. Commentary regarding the use of cameras and photography for observing living subjects is given.

Early sealing regimes: the Bering Sea fur seal regime vis-à-vis Finnish–Soviet fishing and sealing agreements

Polar Record ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolas Sellheim
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Fur Seal ◽  
Seal Population ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Bering Sea

ABSTRACTEnvironmental management had its early stages in the early years of the 20th century. This note contrasts the different regimes that emerged with regard to the management of seals and the seal hunt: the well-researched Bering Sea regime and the little known regimes between Finland and the Soviet Union. While the former shaped and already embedded principles of modern environmental law and has the seal population as its primary focus, the latter agreements did not make reference to the environmental dimension of the seal hunt, but must be read against the backdrop of the difficult border situations between the two countries.

Oxyspirura lumsdeni n. sp. (Nematoda:Thelaziidae) from Tetraonidae in North America

1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1223-1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward M. Addison ◽  
Roy C. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Centrocercus Urophasianus ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bonasa Umbellus ◽  
Tympanuchus Cupido ◽  
Type Host ◽  
Tympanuchus Pallidicinctus

Oxyspirura lumsdeni n. sp. from the orbit of Pedioecetes phasianellus (type host), Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, Centrocercus urophasianus, Bonasa umbellus, and hybrids of P. phasianellus and Tympanuchus cupido in Canada and the United States is distinguished from other members of the subgenus Oxyspirura by the absence of a gubernaculum, the presence and arrangement of three preanal pairs and three postanal pairs of caudal papillae, the presence of deirids, and the length and morphology of the spicules.

Guilty Things

boundary 2 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-198
Author(s):  
Colin Dayan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
Procedural Safeguards ◽  
Asset Forfeiture ◽  
Fail Safe

What kind of legal history might account for the unique and continued practice of forfeiture in the United States? Law enforcement, as many recent writers have argued, has grown increasingly dependent on this fail-safe way to gain revenue, since civil asset forfeiture has few procedural safeguards. Unlike criminal forfeiture (in personam), civil forfeiture generally proceeds against the offending property (in rem), not against the person. A piece of property does not have the rights of a person; so, instead of proving crime beyond “a reasonable doubt,” suspicion equal to “probable cause” is enough. Your property is guilty until you prove it innocent. With civil forfeiture, owners do not have to be charged with a crime, let alone be convicted, to lose homes, cars, cash—or dogs. This effort to sharpen our understanding of dispossession is preeminently a legal project. It takes its meaning and garners its effects from the division between value and disregard, things and persons, human and nonhuman. In analyzing how legal reasoning has historically contributed to literal expropriation, I examine the generally invisible nexus of animality, human marginalization, and juridical authority.

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