On the synonymy of Marshallagia orientalis (Bhalerao, 1932) with Marshallagia marshalli and a record of its occurrence from the mountainous region of the punjab

Parasitology ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 125-125
Author(s):  
M. M. Sarwar
Keyword(s):  
Haemonchus Contortus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mountainous Region ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Marshallagia Marshalli ◽  
Small Intestines

In June 1946, one male and one female helminth of the species Marshallagia marshalli (Ransom, 1907) were collected from one of two goats (Capra sibirica), at Manali, which had been slaughtered soon after their arrival from Spiti (Kangra district, Punjab, India). The abomasa, small intestines, lungs and livers of both the animals were available for examination. The lungs, livers and small intestines did not yield any helminths, but one male and one female of Marshallagia marshalli, were collected from the abomasum of one goat, and a single male specimen of Haemonchus contortus was collected from the abomasum of the other goat.

scholarly journals A New Genus of Nematodes Parasitic in Elephants

Parasitology ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Baylis
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
African Elephant ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen

A Re-Examination of the type-specimens of “Sclerostoma” clathratum Baird from the African elephant, which are in the British Museum, has led to a rather interesting discovery. The material was contained in two bottles, labelled in Baird's own handwriting. One bore the name “Sclerostoma clathratum Baird,” and contained a single male specimen of the form now known as Grammocephalus clathratus. The other bottle was labelled “Sclerostoma clathratum Baird, ♀,” and proved to contain worms of both sexes and of quite a different type from Grammocephalus.

Reappraisal and redescription of the three species of the recently defined genus Guinearma Shahdadi & Schubart, 2017, with a key to the West African Sesarmidae (Decapoda, Brachyura)

Crustaceana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Shahdadi ◽  
Pierre A. Mvogo Ndongo ◽  
Theresa Suess ◽  
Christoph D. Schubart
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
West African ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Diagnostic Key ◽  
De Man ◽  
Established Genus

Abstract West African mangroves host seven species of sesarmid crabs; three of which belong to the recently established genus Guinearma Shahdadi & Schubart, 2017, i.e., G. alberti (Rathbun, 1921), G. huzardi (Desmarest, 1825), and G. kamermani (De Man, 1883). The last species was originally described based on a single male specimen, and no further record has been published so far. Moreover, the three species of Guinearma were previously only briefly and superficially described. Along with some new records for G. kamermani, here we newly describe and illustrate the three species of Guinearma in detail, and discuss their diagnostic key features (mostly chelar characters). To facilitate their identification in the field, the other four species of West African Sesarmidae (i.e., Armases elegans (Herklots, 1851), Chiromantes angolense (De Brito Capello, 1864), C. buettikoferi (De Man, 1883), and Metagrapsus curvatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)) are also illustrated and an identification key is provided.

Macrotylus (Alloeonycha) xantii Günther, 2018, (Hemiptera: Miridae, Phylinae) new to Portugal, with a description of the female

2019 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
Stuart Foster
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Sandy Substrate

The plant bug Macrotylus (Alloeonycha) xantii Günther, 2018, is reported as new to Portugal from the Algarve. This species was described from a single male specimen captured on dry grass in a calcareous area of Andalusia, Spain. The female was previously unknown, so the presence of both sexes in reasonable numbers on sparsely vegetated sandy substrate in Portugal extends its known range and habitat preferences, and has enabled the female to be described.

Immune responses of Texel sheep to excretory/secretory products of adult Haemonchus contortus

Parasitology ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. F. H. Schallig ◽  
M. A. W. van Leeuwen ◽  
W. M. L. Hendrikx
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Haemonchus Contortus ◽  
Lymphocyte Proliferation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Proliferation Index ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Immunoblotting Analysis ◽  
Molecular Weights ◽  
Secretory Products

SUMMARYThe excretory/secretory (E/S) products of adult Haemonchus contortus comprise of at least 15 polypeptides with molecular weights ranging from 10 to > 100 kDa. These E/S products induce an immune response in infected Texel sheep, as demonstrated by specific IgGI levels and a significant lymphocyte proliferation index. Moreover, immunoblotting analysis revealed that sera of primary H. contortus-infected sheep specifically recognize a 24 kDa E/S product. In addition, sera of challenged sheep react strongly with a 15 kDa E/S product. The other E/S products of H. contortus showed immunoreactivity with serum samples of Haemonchus-infected sheep as well as with samples of sheep harbouring other trichostrongylid infections. These cross-reacting epitopes are the main cause of the lack of specificity of an E/S material- based ELISA. This ELISA can differentiate Haemonchus infections from Nematodirus battus infections, but not from Ostertagia circumcincta or Trichostrongylus colubriformis infections.

A new species of the genus Gabrius Stephens from Sweden (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-85
Author(s):  
Gösta Gillerfors
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
A New Species

AbstractGabrius dufbergi sp. n. is described and illustrated from a single male specimen collected in the province of Scania (SkÅne), Sweden. Collection data are given.

Redescription of the Siberian species Pardosa jeniseica (Araneae: Lycosidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4497 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
YURI M. MARUSIK
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Description ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
State University ◽  
Scanning Microscope ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
East Kazakhstan ◽  
The University ◽  
Moscow State University ◽  
Siberian Species

The male of Pardosa jeniseica, collected in the East-Kazakhstan Area, was first illustrated in Eskov & Marusik (1995). The authorship of the species was given as “Zyuzin, 1991”, because A.A. Zyuzin informed the authors in 1990 that a description of the species was in press. Because no such description ever appeared the authorship was given to Eskov & Marusik, and a single male specimen from East-Kazakhstan is now considered to be the holotype. It is kept in Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. Esyunin et al. (1999) illustrated and described a female from the Urals thought to be conspecific with P. jeniseica. Conspecifity of the illustrated specimen with P. jeniseica was doubted by Marusik et al. (2000). Kronestedt (2013) was the first to illustrate the epigyne of P. jeniseica and Azarkina & Trilikauskas (2013) provided both verbal and illustrated descriptions of the female, and its epigyne and endogyne. Both sexes taken from one locality were never depicted, nor was peculiar pubescence of the male's leg I. Therefore, I decided to provide detailed illustrations and a verbal description of this species based on specimens from the place considered to be the type locality.Specimens were photographed at the Zoological Museum (University of Turku, Finland) with a Canon EOS 7D camera attached to an Olympus SZX16 stereomicroscope and a SEM JEOL JSM-5200 scanning microscope. Digital images were montaged using Helicon focus 3.10 image stacking software. All measurements are given in millimeters. The following abbreviations are used for leg segments: Fe femur, Pa patella, Ti tibia, Mt metatarsus, Ta tarsus; leg spination abbreviations: d dorsal, p prolateral, r retrolateral, v ventral. Material used in this study is deposited in the Moscow State University (ZMMU) and Zoological Museum of the University of Turku (ZMUT). I thank Seppo Koponen (Turku, Finland) for providing museum facilities and Don Buckle (Saskatoon, Canada) for editing English in the earlier draft of the manuscript. 

On the taxonomic status of Monstrilla leucopis Sars (Crustacea: Copepoda: Monstrilloida) from Norway, with comments on the male of M. longiremis Giesbrecht

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2510 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDUARDO SUAREZ-MORALES
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Female Type ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Valid Taxon ◽  
University Of Oslo

Specimens of monstrilloid copepods collected and described in the early 20 th century by G.O. Sars from the coasts of Norway and deposited in the Sars Collection (University of Oslo) were re-examined. Monstrilla leucopis Sars, 1921 was described based on female and male specimens, but the species was later synonymized with M. conjunctiva Giesbrecht, 1902 by several authors. Females of this species were analyzed and compared with closely related congeners, particularly with M. conjunctiva. This analysis includes the description of previously unknown morphological details following upgraded descriptive standards in this group. Evidence was found to support the notion that the female type specimens from Kvalø, Norway represent a distinct species; thus, M. leucopis is redescribed and reinstated as a valid taxon. Previous tropical records of female M. conjunctiva are questionable, but differences with M. leucopis can be found in body and antennule proportions, the structure of the genital spines and fifth legs, and most probably, their geographical ranges. Furthermore, M. leucopis has a modified thick-walled seta on the endopods of legs 2–4, so far a unique character among monstrilloids. The single male specimen labeled as M. leucopis in the Sars Collection was also examined and it is not the male of this species as depicted by G.O. Sars (1921). It is in fact a male of M. longiremis Giesbrecht, 1893, a species for which a short supplementary description and taxonomic comments are also provided herein. The male of M. leucopis also shares some important characters with that of M. conjunctiva, but also with another male specimen that was questionably assigned to the latter species; this male probably represents an undescribed species.

A new natricine snake of the genus Amphiesma (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from the central Truong Son, Vietnam

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1225 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS ZIEGLER ◽  
LE KHAC QUYET
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Slender Body ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Anal Plate ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Eye Diameter ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Amphiesma is described from the Truong Son (Annamite mountain range) of Quang Binh Province in central Vietnam. This new species is characterized by the combination of the distinct coloration and pattern, the slender body and tail (tail/total length ratio 0.31), the large eye diameter, a single loreal and preocular, three postoculars, a single anterior and posterior temporal, nine supralabials (fourth to sixth reach the eye), nine infralabials, 179 ventrals (plus two preventrals), anal plate divided, 99 divided subcaudals, dorsal scales in 19-19-17 keeled rows, 34 maxillary teeth (the two posteriormost enlarged), hemipenis simple, with undivided sperm groove, covered with small spines except for a single, strongly enlarged spine next to the sperm groove at the hemipenis base and except for irregularly arranged medium-sized spines that encircle the organ horizontally at the trunco-pedicel area. The new taxon is known only from a single male specimen that was collected in a limestone forest valley.

A new species of Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz, 2011 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Byrrhidiini) from the Brandberg Mountain, Namibia

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4671 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN M. DESCHODT ◽  
CATHERINE L. SOLE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dung Beetle ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Current Definition ◽  
Constituent Species ◽  
Procavia Capensis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
A New Species

The recently described dung beetle tribe Byrrhidiini currently comprises seven genera and nineteen species (Davis et al. 2019). During a recent collecting expedition to the Brandberg Mountain [S21.11° E14.69°] in Namibia, a single male specimen, together with various disarticulated body parts of a new species belonging to this tribe were collected. It was found amongst dried hyrax (Procavia capensis) dung pellets between large granite boulders. This new species clearly fits the current definition of the genus Versicorpus Deschodt, Davis & Scholtz, 2011. This raises the number of the constituent species of Versicorpus to three and that for Byrrhidiini to twenty. 

Agriculture in the Days of the Early California Padres

1948 ◽  
Vol 4 (03) ◽  
pp. 325-344
Author(s):  
Edith Webb
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mountainous Region ◽  
Dominican Order ◽  
Central Belt ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

The study of agriculture, as it was practiced by the early California Padres, should begin in the rough, mountainous region of the Sierra Gorda of Mexico. There, in 1744, Franciscan missionaries began the work of evangelizing the Indians of the central belt of that region. Fathers of the Dominican Order had already established missions along one side of this range, while others of the Augustinian Order were laboring among the Indians of the other side, leaving the middle strip untouched. The Reverend Father Fr. Pedro Pérez de Mezquía, Superior of the recently founded College of San Fernando in the City of Mexico, had accompanied the Franciscan Padres to aid them in the founding of five missions. From his experience in the missions in Texas whither he had gone with Fr. Margil, Fr. Mezquía had formulated a set of rules and regulations for both the spiritual direction and the temporal government of the Indians of the region. Unfortunately the climate of the Sierra Gorda did not agree with most of those first Padres. Some became ill and were obliged to retire to the College, others died, making frequent changes of missionaries necessary. Few stayed long enough to acquire a knowledge of the language of the Pame people, consequently little progress was made in the conversion of those Indians.

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