On the Anatomy and Histology of Phreoryctes

1890 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 117-119
Author(s):  
Frank E. Beddard
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Reproductive System ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Published Account ◽  
A New Species

(Abstract.)The genus Phreoryctes has been known to zoologists since the year 1843, but there is no published account of the reproductive system sufficiently detailed to permit of comparison with other Oligochæta. The gonads (testes and ovaries) and spermathecœ were discovered by Leydig, who did not distinguish between ovaries and testes, owing to the immature condition of the specimens studied. This writer considered that the genital products were evacuated through the nephridia of their segment. The supposition is, however, incorrect, as genital ducts exist. Mr W. W. Smith of Ashburton, New Zealand, forwarded to the author in the spring of 1888 a single specimen of a new species of Phreoryctes, which was described in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for June 1888 as Phreoryctes Smithii. In that paper the gonads and their ducts were briefly described and figured.

On Styphlodora elegans n.sp. and Styphlodora compactum n.sp., trematode parasites of Python reticulatus in Malaya, with a key to the species of the genus Styphlodora Looss, 1899

Parasitology ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Dawes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Trematode Parasites

Numerous specimens of a trematode which has proved to be a new species were collected from the kidneys of 'Ular sawa’ (Python reticulatus) at Alor Star and at Kedah, Malaya, by Mr G. B. Purvis, F.R.C.V.S. One batch comprises about 350 specimens, another one more than 150, and the entire collection of five batches exceeds 600 specimens. For this new species the name Styphlodora elegans is proposed. Mr Purvis also collected a single specimen of what seems to be a second new species from the stomach of the python at Alor Star, and for this the name Styphlodora compactum is proposed. Type specimens of the two new species are lodged in the British Museum (Natural History), London.

scholarly journals Sphaeropezia leucocheila sp. nov. (Stictidaceae): a liverwort pathogen from New Zealand

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 409 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-226
Author(s):  
P. R. JOHNSTON ◽  
D. PARK ◽  
M. A. M. RENNER
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Fruiting Bodies ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
A New Species

Sphaeropezia leucocheila is described as a new species from New Zealand. Known from a single specimen, its fruiting bodies were consistently associated with a patch of dead and dying leaves in a liverwort colony that included several species of Lepidoziaceae. A phylogenetic analysis places this fungus in Sphaeropezia, a genus that includes several putative parasites of liverworts and mosses from the Northern Hemisphere.

A new species of Oligosoma (Squamata: Scincidae) from the northern North Island, New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5047 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-415
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN P. BARR ◽  
DAVID G. CHAPPLE ◽  
RODNEY A. HITCHMOUGH ◽  
GEOFF B. PATTERSON ◽  
NGĀTIWAI TRUST BOARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Conservation Priorities ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Cool Temperate ◽  
A New Species

New Zealand is home to a diverse cool temperate assemblage of skinks, with 60+ identified taxa (genus Oligosoma Girard), of which only 50 have been formally described. Here we describe a new species (Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov.) from Bream Head Scenic Reserve, near Whangārei Heads, Northland. This species is considered to be conspecific with a single specimen (Oligosoma “Whirinaki”) previously reported (in 2003) from Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park ~370 km further south. Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other members of the genus by a combination of a distinctive “teardrop” marking below the eye, a distinctive mid-lateral stripe, and the colouration and pattern on its ventral surface. Our phylogenetic analyses indicate that Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov. is most closely related to O. zelandicum (Gray), and more distantly to O. striatum (Buller) and O. homalonotum (Boulenger). Sea level changes during the Pliocene, such as the formation of the Manawatū Strait, may have contributed to the divergence between Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov. and O. zelandicum. We discuss the distribution, ecology and conservation of Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov., and outline future research and conservation priorities for the species.  

scholarly journals Anthrenus (s. str.) corona (Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Anthrenini): a new species in the A. pimpinellae Fabricius, 1775 complex from Turkey

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4991 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-560
Author(s):  
GRAHAM J. HOLLOWAY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Median Lobe ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Large Size ◽  
External Feature ◽  
A New Species

A new species from Turkey, Anthrenus (s. str.) corona, belonging to the Anthrenus pimpinellae complex is presented. The species is described from a single specimen discovered in the collection held by the Natural History Museum, London. The species was uncovered during the dissection of many specimens for the purpose of curation. The species is compared in detail to A. goliath, the most likely confusion species. An obvious external feature of the specimen is its large size, putting it apart from nearly all other species within the complex. The parameres and median lobe are slim, differing in many ways from A. goliath.  

Crescenticythere, a new enigmatic ostracode from the Tertiary of New Zealand

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 905-906
Author(s):  
Michael A. Ayress
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Unusual Shape

During examination of the large ostracode assemblage collections at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Geology & Geophysics, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a single specimen of unusual shape was encountered. So unusual is the crescentic outline and infolding of the entire shell periphery that assignment even to a phylum was difficult, and it was only upon scanning electron microscopic study that subcentral muscle scars were clearly observed and these enabled confident identification of the specimen as an ostracode. One specimen is not usually considered sufficient to propose a new taxon; however, in this case there is no doubt that this unique specimen clearly represents a new species, genus, and probably family of Ostracoda. A search for additional specimens from the type unit is underway, but has, as yet, been unsuccessful to find this rare intriguing ostracode. Unlike other unusual ostracodes described from the Southern Hemisphere such as the punciids, this specimen appears to have no similarity with Paleozoic taxa.

Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London 2: New species and records from P. Hammond's visit to New Zealand in 1983–84

2018 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Michael Darby
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
North And South

Some 2,000 Ptiliidae collected in the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1983/1984 by Peter Hammond of the Natural History Museum, London, are determined to 34 species, four of which are new to the country. As there are very few previous records, most from the Auckland district of North Island, the Hammond collection provides much new distributional data. The three new species: Nellosana insperatus sp. n., Notoptenidium flavum sp. n., and Notoptenidium johnsoni sp. n., are described and figured; the genus Ptiliodes is moved from Acrotrichinae to Ptiliinae, and Ptenidium formicetorum Kraatz recorded as a new introduction. Information is provided to aid separation of the new species from those previously recorded.

A new species of Hersilia Audouin, 1826 (Araneae: Hersiliidae) from India, with notes on its natural history

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2613 (1) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. MAQSOOD JAVED ◽  
STEFAN H. FOORD ◽  
FARIDA TAMPAL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Hersilia Audouin, H. orvakalensis sp. nov., is described from Andhra Pradesh, India. The taxonomic affinities of the species are discussed and a brief note on its natural history is provided.

A New Species of Catallagia Rothschild from Arizona (Siphonaptera: Hystrichopsyllidae: Neopsyllinae)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 768-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
George P. Holland
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Research Station ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
A New Species

In 1957 James R. Beer, Edwin F. Cook and Robert G. Schwab, of the University of Minnesota, conducted an investigation of mammals and their ectoparasites in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona. The area studied included varied habitats in the general vicinity of the Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History at Portal. An account of this investigation has now been published (Beer et al., 1959).

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