First record of Pampus minor (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Stromateidae) from the coastal waters of Wenzhou, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Cheng Liu ◽  
Zhijin Yang ◽  
Pan Liu ◽  
Shen Ye ◽  
Fozia Khan Siyal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
First Record ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Morphometric Measurements ◽  
Meristic Counts ◽  
Commercial Species ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1

Pampus fishes (Perciformes: Stromateidae) are important commercial species and include six valid species in China. The southern lesser pomfret (Pampus minor Liu and Li, 1998) is a species of Pampus for which knowledge is incomplete. This report confirms the occurrence of P. minor in the coastal waters of Wenzhou, China, by analyzing five specimens of P. minor obtained in Wenzhou in March 2019. Morphometric measurements and meristic counts were performed. The diagnostic morphological features of these species were consistent with those of the neotype specimen of P. minor and sufficient for separating the examined specimens from other Pampus species. This study was based on the Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1 (CO1) gene, which was sequenced for the purpose of identification. The genetic distances between P. minor and other Pampus species ranged from 13.4% to 15.5%, and the mean genetic distance within the P. minor group was 0.2%. Given that P. minor has not been reported in this region, our findings represent the first record from the coastal waters of Wenzhou and extend the distribution range of this species to the central and northern East China Sea. The reason for the observed northward migration of some P. minor individuals from their northernmost recorded habitat (Taiwan Strait) might be global warming. The collection of additional specimens is needed to further study the geographic limits of P. minor and its presumed northern expansion.

Pamphilius japonicus feeds on Cornus: the first Old World record of Pamphiliidae (Hymenoptera) associated with Cornaceae

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4585 (2) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
AKIHIKO SHINOHARA ◽  
SHIN-ICHI IBUKI ◽  
TSUNEO KAKUDA ◽  
YUICHI KAMEDA
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
First Record ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome ◽  
World Record ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Old World ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1 ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase

We identified newly discovered pamphiliid larvae feeding on Cornus in Tochigi and Ibaraki Prefectures, Honshu, Japan, with Pamphilius japonicus Shinohara, 1985, by molecular methods using mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene sequences. The host plant of P. japonicus was unknown. This is the first record of the Cornaceae as a host plant of the Pamphiliidae in the Old World. The larvae were solitary leaf-rollers on Cornus and discovered mainly on small young trees in shadowy forests. 

Rediscovery and elaborate description of Platycephalus cultellatus Richardson, 1846 collected from the coastal waters of South China Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Chen ◽  
Na Song ◽  
Jianwei Zou ◽  
Tianxiang Gao
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Genetic Distance ◽  
South China ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Meristic Counts ◽  
The Mean

Platycephalus cultellatus Richardson, 1846 was originally found and named in its type locality, Canton, Guangdong Province, China. However, this species was very rare in the coastal waters of China. Except that Qin et al. simply mentioned the original literature records of this species in 2013, no Chinese taxonomy books or publications have ever recorded or described local P. cultellatus. We collected P. cultellatus individuals from the coastal waters of South China Sea and gave valid identification and detailed descriptions of this species. The diacritically meristic counts were listed as follows: first dorsal fin usually with two small isolated spine anteriorly; second dorsal-fin and anal-fin usually with 13 soft rays; pectoral fin usually with 17–19 soft rays and without very small dark spots; caudal fin with 3–6 horizontal blackish bands, but without yellow marking on the middle when fresh; gill rakers 7–10 and pored lateral line scales 65–76. These conclusive characters were consistent with typical P. cultellatus individuals and could thoroughly separate them from other Platycephalus species. The fragment of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene of mitochondrial DNA was also sequenced for the classification of specimens. The mean genetic distance within P. cultellatus was 0.25%, net genetic distance between P. cultellatus and other 14 species of the genus Platycephalus ranged from 11.59 to 25.48%. The phylogenetic analysis supported the validity of P. cultellatus existed in the coastal waters of South China Sea. This study will contribute to species identification within this genus distributed in Chinese seas.

scholarly journals Record of Caromiobenella (Copepoda, Monstrilloida) in Brazil and Discovery of the Male of C. brasiliensis: Morphological and Molecular Evidence

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Judson da Cruz Lopes da Rosa ◽  
Cristina de Oliveira Dias ◽  
Eduardo Suárez-Morales ◽  
Laura Isabel Weber ◽  
Luciano Gomes Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
First Record ◽  
Complex Life Cycle ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Local Abundance ◽  
Males And Females

Monstrilloid copepods are protelean parasites with a complex life cycle that includes an endoparasitic juvenile phase and free-living early naupliar and adult phases. The monstrilloid copepod genus Caromiobenella Jeon, Lee and Soh, 2018 is known to contain nine species, each one with a limited distribution; except for two species, members of this widespread genus are known exclusively from males. Hitherto, members of Caromiobenella have not been recorded from tropical waters of the South Western Atlantic (SWA). The nominal species Monstrilla brasiliensis Dias and Suárez-Morales, 2000 was originally described from female specimens collected in coastal waters of Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), but the male remained unknown. The failure to reliably link both sexes of monstrilloid species is one of the main problems in the current taxonomy of the group, thus leading to a separate treatment for each sex. New zooplankton collections in coastal waters and intertidal rocky pools of the SWA yielded several male and female monstrilloid copepods tentatively identified as Monstrilla brasiliensis. Our results of both morphologic and molecular (mtCOI) analyses allowed us to confirm that these males and females were conspecific. We also found evidence suggesting that Caromiobenella is not a monophyletic taxon. Our male specimens are morphologically assignable to Caromiobenella, therefore, females of the nominal species Monstrilla brasiliensis, are matched here with the aforementioned males and, thus, the species should be known as C. brasiliensis comb. nov. (Dias and Suárez-Morales, 2000). This finding represents the third documented discovery of a female of Caromiobenella, the first record of the genus in the Southwestern Atlantic, and the first documented record of monstrilloids from coastal tidepools. With the addition of C. brasiliensis, Caromiobenella now includes 10 valid species worldwide. This work represents the second successful use of molecular methods to link both sexes of a monstrilloid copepod. The male of C. brasiliensis is herein described, and a key to the known species of Caromiobenella and data on the habitat and local abundance of C. brasiliensis are also provided.

scholarly journals Undocumented translocations spawn taxonomic inflation in Sri Lankan fire rasboras (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae)

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e6084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiranya Sudasinghe ◽  
Jayampathi Herath ◽  
Rohan Pethiyagoda ◽  
Madhava Meegaskumbura
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Shared Haplotype ◽  
Selective Sampling ◽  
Taxonomic Analysis ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1

A recent (2013) taxonomic review of the freshwater-fish genus Rasboroides, which is endemic to Sri Lanka, showed it to comprise four species: R. vaterifloris, R. nigromarginatus, R. pallidus and R. rohani. Here, using an integrative-taxonomic analysis of morphometry, meristics and mitochondrial DNA sequences of cytochrome b (cytb) and cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (coi), we show that R. nigromarginatus is a synonym of R. vaterifloris, and that R. rohani is a synonym of R. pallidus. The creation and recognition of unnecessary taxa (‘taxonomic inflation’) was in this case a result of selective sampling confounded by a disregard of allometry. The population referred to R. rohani in the Walawe river basin represents an undocumented trans-basin translocation of R. pallidus, and a translocation into the Mahaweli river of R. vaterifloris, documented to have occurred ca 1980, in fact involves R. pallidus. A shared haplotype suggests the latter introduction was likely made from the Bentara river basin and not from the Kelani, as claimed. To stabilize the taxonomy of these fishes, the two valid species, R. vaterifloris and R. pallidus, are diagnosed and redescribed, and their distributions delineated. We draw attention to the wasteful diversion of conservation resources to populations resulting from undocumented translocations and to taxa resulting from taxonomic inflation. We argue against translocations except where mandated by a conservation emergency, and even then, only when supported by accurate documentation.

scholarly journals Potvrđeni nalaz Cheilodipterus novemstriatus (Osteichthyes: Apogonidae) u Levantinskom moru

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Malek Ali ◽  
Majd Khaddour
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphometric Measurements ◽  
Meristic Counts ◽  
Viable Population ◽  
New Finding ◽  
Levant Basin ◽  
Syrian Coast

The authors present the first record of Indian Ocean twospot Cardinalfish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus from the Syrian coast (eastern Mediterranean).The species is described including morphometric measurements and meristic counts. This new finding confirms the establishment of a viable population of C. novemstriatus occurs at present in the Levant Basin.

Genetically variant populations of Paragonimus proliferus Hsia & Chen, 1964 from central Vietnam

2012 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.N. Doanh ◽  
H.V. Hien ◽  
N. Nonaka ◽  
Y. Horii ◽  
Y. Nawa
Keyword(s):  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Distinct Group ◽  
First Record ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Indochina Peninsula ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Central Vietnam ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1 ◽  
Second Internal Transcribed Spacer

AbstractAmong about 50 nominal Paragonimus species, Paragonimus proliferus is rather a rare species, found only in Yunnan province, China, until our recent discovery of this species in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam close to Yunnan, China. Here we add Quang Binh province, central Vietnam as a new endemic area of P. proliferus. Large excysted metacercariae found in mountainous crabs, Potamiscus tannanti, were morphologically identified as P. proliferus, which was confirmed further by molecular analyses. Second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) sequences of the P. proliferus population in Quang Binh province were completely (100%) identical with those of P. proliferus populations in Lai Chau province, northern Vietnam and Yunnan province, China. However, cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (CO1) gene sequences of Quang Binh population were significantly different (5.6%) from that of previously reported northern Vietnam and Yunnan, China populations. A phylogenetic tree revealed that all CO1 sequences of P. proliferus Quang Binh population formed a distinct group, which was clustered with northern Vietnam and Yunnan, China populations with the bootstrap value of 75%. This is the first record of the genetically variant population of P. proliferus, distribution of which is geographically remote from the previously reported endemic areas in the border between northern Vietnam and Yunnan, China, suggesting that P. proliferus may be much more widely distributed in the Indochina peninsula (or South-East Asia) than expected.

scholarly journals The features of the coastal fronts in the Eastern Guangdong coastal waters during the downwelling-favorable wind period

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaoyu Yang ◽  
Haibin Ye
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Ekman Pumping ◽  
Zonal Distribution ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model ◽  
The Mean

AbstractA coastal front was detected in the eastern Guangdong (EGD) coastal waters during a downwelling-favorable wind period by using the diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (Kd(490)). Long-term satellite data, meteorological data and hydrographic data collected from 2003 to 2017 were jointly utilized to analyze the environmental factors affecting coastal fronts. The intensities of the coastal fronts were found to be associated with the downwelling intensity. The monthly mean Kd(490) anomalies in shallow coastal waters less than 25 m deep along the EGD coast and the monthly mean Ekman pumping velocities retrieved by the ERA5 dataset were negatively correlated, with a Pearson correlation of − 0.71. The fronts started in October, became weaker and gradually disappeared after January, extending southwestward from the southeastern coast of Guangdong Province to the Wanshan Archipelago in the South China Sea (SCS). The cross-frontal differences in the mean Kd(490) values could reach 3.7 m−1. Noticeable peaks were found in the meridional distribution of the mean Kd(490) values at 22.5°N and 22.2°N and in the zonal distribution of the mean Kd(490) values at 114.7°E and 114.4°E. The peaks tended to narrow as the latitude increased. The average coastal surface currents obtained from the global Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) showed that waters with high nutrient and sediment contents in the Fujian and Zhejiang coastal areas in the southern part of the East China Sea could flow into the SCS. The directions and lengths of the fronts were found to be associated with the flow advection.

scholarly journals Faecal bacteria in Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mollusca: Bivalvia) for biomonitoring coastal waters and seafood quality

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (spe3) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Igawa Martinez ◽  
Ana Júlia Fernandes Cardoso de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Microbiological Quality ◽  
Perna Perna ◽  
Clearance Rates ◽  
Bacterial Concentration ◽  
Allometric Relations ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Faecal Bacteria

Urban development in coastal areas is intense and leads to the increase of sewage outfall and other negative impacts as consequences. Thus, stringent regulations establishing limits to the microbiological contamination of water and seafood are needed. The objective of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of Enterococci and Thermotolerant Coliform densities in the flesh of mussels Perna perna as an alternative tool for monitoring the microbiological quality of coastal waters. The study also considers allometric relations applied to clearance rates to understand rates of bacterial concentration. Bacterial loads obtained in mussels' flesh were from 50 to 4,300 times greater than in the water sampled in the vicinity of the mussels and some were considered inappropriate for consumption even when the water presented no restrictions. The mean clearance rate obtained for Enterococci retention was 317.7 ml h-1 and this rate (CR) is related to the mussels' size (L) by the equation CR = 28.3229L1.6421. The results showed that bacterial densities in the mussels' tissues may reflect chronic contamination of the environment and that clearance rates are important for taking the best decision in situations where, for example, it is desired to introduce mussels for aquaculture and the evaluation of the water concerned is required.

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