L.—The fishes of the family Pseudogrammidae from East Africa

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (67) ◽  
pp. 548-560
Author(s):  
J.L.B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
The Family

Molecular evidence for the assignment of the Cameroonian freshwater crab genus Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994, to the Afrotropical subfamily Potamonautinae Bott, 1970 (Crustacea: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4286 (3) ◽  
pp. 439 ◽  
Author(s):  
PIERRE A. MVOGO NDONGO ◽  
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE ◽  
THEODOR S. POETTINGER ◽  
THOMAS VON RINTELEN ◽  
JOSEPH L. TAMESSE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Freshwater Crab ◽  
Continental Islands ◽  
The Family ◽  
Molecular Studies ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Zoogeographical Region

The family Potamonautidae Bott, 1970, currently comprises 19 genera assigned to two subfamilies (Potamonautinae Bott, 1970, and Deckeniinae Hilgendorf, 1869) based on morphological and molecular studies (Cumberlidge 1999; Daniels et al. 2006a, 2015; Cumberlidge et al. 2008; Cumberlidge & Ng 2009). All members of this family are endemic to the Afrotropical zoogeographical region that includes most of continental Africa plus the continental islands of Madagascar, the granitic Seychelles, Socotra, and the southern Arabian Peninsula. Seven genera from sub-Saharan Africa are presently assigned to Potamonautinae (see Cumberlidge et al. 2008; Daniels et al. 2015): Erimetopus Rathbun, 1894, Liberonautes Bott, 1955, Louisea Cumberlidge, 1994, Potamonautes Bott, 1970, Potamonemus Cumberlidge & Clark, 1992, Sudanonautes Bott, 1955, and Platythelphusa A. Milne-Edwards, 1887. Twelve genera from West and East Africa, Seychelles, and Madagascar are assigned to Deckeniinae (see Cumberlidge et al. 2008; Meyer et al. 2014; Daniels et al. 2015): Deckenia Hilgendorf, 1869, Seychellum Ng, Števčić & Pretzmann, 1995, Globonautes Bott, 1959, Afrithelphusa Bott, 1969, Boreas Cumberlidge & Sternberg, 2002, Foza Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006a, Hydrothelphusa A. Milne-Edwards, 1872, Madagapotamon Bott, 1965, Malagasya Cumberlidge & Sternberg, 2002, Marojejy Cumberlidge, Boyko & Harvey, 2000, Skelosophusa Ng & Takeda, 1994, and Glabrithelphusa Meyer, Cumberlidge & Koppin, 2014. 

New species and new records of Nycteribiidae from the Ethiopian, Oriental and Pacific Regions

Parasitology ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Theodor
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
New Records ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Family ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago

The present paper deals with material examined since the revision of the family (Theodor, 1967) was sent to the press. Material was sent by Mr F. R. Allison from Ghana, by Dr D. Minter, Mr T, S Jones and Mr J. C. Cunningham from East Africa and by Dr F. Zumpt from South Africa and other localities in Africa. The material collected by the Noona Dan Expedition to the Bismarck Archipelago and the Philippines (1961, 1962) was examined. The collection of Nycteribiidae in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa was examined and several new species were found among the material. The types of Stylidia euxesta Speiser in the collection proved different from the species considered as 8. euxesta in the past and to consist of two species. The types of S. euxesta are redescribed.

A gigantic Protostrongylus, P. africanus sp.nov., and other lung nematodes of antelopes in the Serengeti, Tanzania

Parasitology ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 819-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Dinnik ◽  
R. Sachs
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
The Family

It was found that antelopes in the Serengeti area, Tanzania, East Africa, are heavily infested with lung nematodes. Five species of the family Protostrongylidae, namely, Protostrongylus africanus sp.nov., P. etoshai Ortlepp, P. gazellae Yeh, Pneumostrongylus calcaratus Mönnig and P. cornigerus Ortlepp, as well as one species of the family Dictyocaulidae, Dictycaulus viviparus (Bloch), were recorded.A detailed description of Protostrongylus africanus sp.nov., which is conspicuous for its gigantic size, is given, and the lesions caused by this lung nematode are described.The distribution and incidence of lung nematodes in the various antelope species are discussed.

Blixen, Karen (1885–1962)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisli Magnusson
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Financial Problems ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Family ◽  
Karen Blixen ◽  
Coffee Farm

Karen Blixen was a singular figure in 20th century Danish literary life. In the 1930s, when Blixen started writing, Danish literature was dominated by social realism centred on the contemporary world. Blixen nourished the myth of herself as the timeless aristocratic storyteller who wrote her works independently of her own historical context. However, by drawing lines to Nietzsche, existentialism, and psychology, Blixen scholars have clearly demonstrated that she belongs to modernism. As her contemporary Samuel Becket, she was a bilingual author (she wrote her works in English and Danish). Karen Blixen’s life can be divided into three different phases: During the first (1903–1913), Blixen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and wrote her first works under the pseudonym Osceola. The second begins in 1914, when she moved to Kenya (British East Africa) with Bror Blixen. The two were separated in 1921, leaving Karen Blixen to run the coffee farm at Ngong Hills alone until financial problems forced her to sell it in 1932. Finally, in 1931, Blixen returned to Denmark and remained at the family manor Rungstedlund until her death in 1962.

Paramphistomum sukumum sp.nov. and other stomach-flukes from cattle in the Sukumaland area of the Lake Region, Tanganyika

Parasitology ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Dinnik
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Bos Indicus ◽  
Lake Region ◽  
The Family

The morphology of Paramphistomum sukumum sp.nov. from Bos indicus in the Lake Region of Tanganyika, East Africa, is described and illustrated.A list is given showing the incidence of nine species of the family Paramphistomatidae and three species of the family Gastrothylacidae found in cattle in the Sukumaland area of the Lake Region of Tanganyika.

scholarly journals Morphological re-description and molecular identification of Tabanidae (Diptera) in East Africa

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 769 ◽  
pp. 117-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire M. Mugasa ◽  
Jandouwe Villinger ◽  
Joseph Gitau ◽  
Nelly Ndungu ◽  
Marc Ciosi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Animal Diseases ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cow Urine ◽  
Morphological Species ◽  
Shimba Hills ◽  
Human And Animal Diseases

Biting flies of the family Tabanidae are important vectors of human and animal diseases across continents. However, records of Africa tabanids are fragmentary and mostly cursory. To improve identification, documentation and description of Tabanidae in East Africa, a baseline survey for the identification and description of Tabanidae in three eastern African countries was conducted. Tabanids from various locations in Uganda (Wakiso District), Tanzania (Tarangire National Park) and Kenya (Shimba Hills National Reserve, Muhaka, Nguruman) were collected. In Uganda, octenol baited F-traps were used to target tabanids, while NG2G traps baited with cow urine and acetone were employed in Kenya and Tanzania. The tabanids were identified using morphological and molecular methods. Morphologically, five genera (Ancala, Tabanus, Atylotus, Chrysops and Haematopota) and fourteen species of the Tabanidae were identified. Among the 14 species identified, six belonged to the genus Tabanus of which two (T.donaldsoni and T.guineensis) had not been described before in East Africa. The greatest diversity of tabanid species were collected from the Shimba Hills National Reserve, while collections from Uganda (around the shores of Lake Victoria) had the fewest number of species. However, the Ancala genus was found in Uganda, but not in Kenya or Tanzania. Maximum likelihood phylogenies of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (COI) genes sequenced in this study show definite concordance with morphological species identifications, except for Atylotus. This survey will be critical to building a complete checklist of Tabanidae prevalent in the region, expanding knowledge of these important vectors of human and animal diseases.

scholarly journals A new species of Mermiglossa from Kenya, with comments on the arrangement of Old World Panurginae (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
John S. Ascher ◽  
Michael S. Engel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
New World ◽  
Group Classification ◽  
Compound Eyes ◽  
Namib Desert ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the panurgine bee genus Mermiglossa Friese (Panurginae) is described and figured from females captured near Voi in the southern part of the former Coast Province, Kenya, a historical type locality for several bee species.  Mermiglossa voicola Ascher & Engel, new species, is distinguished from the only other species of the genus, M. rufa Friese from central Namibia.  The new species is readily identified due to its black rather than red metasoma and compound eyes slightly convergent above rather than parallel-sided.  The new species raises the total number of described bee species for Kenya to 343, extends the known distribution of its genus and subtribe from the Namib Desert of southwestern Africa to the western edge of the Nviri Desert of East Africa, and provides further evidence of extensive biogeographic connections between these disjunct xeric areas.  Recent changes in the family-group classification of Old World Panurginae are discussed in relation to recognition of Mermiglossina as a valid subtribe within an expanded tribe Panurgini also including the New World perditines.

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