First record of the Rat Snake,Zamenis hohenackeri(Strauch, 1873), from north-eastern Iraq with notes on other colubrid snakes

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saman R. Afrasiab ◽  
Sarbaz I. Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Rat Snake

Pontobdella muricata infection of Raja clavata and Dasyatis pastinaca off the coast of Lesvos, Greece

2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasileios Bakopoulos ◽  
Vasiliki-Chrysa Ksidia
Keyword(s):  
Microscopic Observation ◽  
First Record ◽  
Eastern Aegean ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Raja Clavata ◽  
Investigation Period

An investigation of ectoparasites of skates caught off the coast of Lesvos Island, north-eastern Aegean, Greece was performed from May 2010 to February 2012. One parasite, identified as the marine leech Pontobdella muricata, was found on the skin of 0.43% of Raja clavata and 3.6% of Dasyatis pastinaca specimens examined during the investigation period. This is the first record of D. pastinaca as being a host to P. muricata. Macroscopic and microscopic observation of the lesions caused by the parasitism, revealed haemorrhages and swelling of the skin of R. clavata, a milder inflammation of the skin of D. pastinaca, congestion, necrosis and liquefaction of the skin at the site of leech attachment and a lesion with disappearance of upper skin layers after the detachment of the leech.

scholarly journals The first record of The Blue Admiral Kaniska canace Linnaeus, 1763 (Nymphalidae: Lepidoptera) from Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 12429-12431
Author(s):  
Amit Kumer Neogi ◽  
Md Jayedul Islam ◽  
Md Shalauddin ◽  
Anik Chandra Mondal ◽  
Safayat Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Local Time ◽  
First Record ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Reserve Forest ◽  
Current Article ◽  
North Eastern Part

Moulvibazar district has been recognized as one of the biodiversity rich pockets close to the boundary side of Assam of India and situated in the North-eastern part of Bangladesh. Adompur reserve forest is one of the biodiversity hotspot  in the North-eastern. The current article confirm, the presence of  Kaniska canace Linnaeus, 1763, (Nymphalidae: Lepidoptera) which was not previously recorded in Bangladesh. This species was first recorded on 17 March 2017 at 15.30 (GMT+6) local time in the coordination of  N 24°18'9.46"; E 91°55'4.23" at Kauyargola   forest   beat, Adampur reserve forest in Moulvibazar District.  

scholarly journals First record of Octomacrum europaeum Roman et Bychowsky, 1956 on the gills of spirlin Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch, 1782) in north-eastern Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-188
Author(s):  
E. Dzika
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Original Description ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphometric Characters ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
First Time

AbstractOctomacrum europaeum (Monogenea: Octomacridae) was collected, for the first time in north-eastern Europe, from the gills of spirlin (Alburnoides bipunctatus). Morphometric characters were compared with those of other populations and conform to the original description of the species.

First record of the oceanic hyperiid Platyscelus armatus (Amphipoda: Platyscelidae) in the Canary Islands (subtropical north-eastern Atlantic)

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Del Carmen Mingorance ◽  
Fernando Lozano-Soldevilla ◽  
José María Espinosa ◽  
Alejandro Escánez ◽  
Natacha Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
First Record ◽  
North Eastern

scholarly journals Whalesuckers and a spinner dolphin bonded for weeks: does host fidelity pay off?

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Martins Silva-Jr ◽  
Ivan Sazima
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Host Fidelity ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
Individual Host ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Fernando De Noronha ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Spinner Dolphins ◽  
First Time

The whalesucker Remora australis (Echeneidae) is an oceanic diskfish found attached to cetaceans only and its habits are therefore poorly known. At the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off North-eastern Brazil, spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris (Delphinidae) regularly congregate in large groups in a shallow bay, which allows for underwater observations of their behaviour and their fish associates. In the course of a broader study of this elusive diskfish, we had the opportunity to made multiple records of two whalesucker couples (three of the fish naturally marked) attached to the same individual dolphin in two different years, over periods of 47 and 87 days respectively. In all the sightings the whalesucker individuals of a couple were recorded side-by-side and positioned on their host’s belly. We surmise that at least one of the couples was a reproductive pair, as the belly of the larger fish was noticeably swollen in the last sighting, and the bulge on its belly was bilateral and extended almost uniformly to the vent, a strong indication of fully mature gonads. Moreover, its size matched those of the mature females of this diskfish species. To our knowledge, this is the first time that attachment fidelity of the whalesucker to any cetacean host is documented in the wild. We hypothesize that attachment fidelity to the same individual host increases the whalesucker’s chance to mate, and suggest further that the highly social nature of the spinner dolphins facilitates encounters between potential mating partners. Our study indicates that host fidelity possibly is not an uncommon feature of the whalesucker behaviour, albeit difficult to recognise. In one of the above recorded whalesuckers the natural marking was a crescentic scar characteristic of the wounds inflicted by the cookiecutter Isistius brasiliensis (Dalatiidae), a first record of the attack of this shark to any diskfish species.

First Record of the Cornich Blackfish Schedophilus Medusophagus (Pisces: Centrolophidae) Larvae from the Adriatic Sea

1998 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 1035-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakov Dulčić
Keyword(s):  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
The North ◽  
Pelagia Noctiluca ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Town ◽  
North Western ◽  
Mesopelagic Species

The capture of the cornich blackfish, Schedophilus medusophagus, larvae from the Adriatic Sea represents an easterly extension in range of this species, and the first larval record in Adriatic waters.Schedophilus medusophagus Cocco, 1839, is a mesopelagic species from temperate waters of the north-eastern and north-western Atlantic and the western Mediterranean (Bini, 1968; Tortonese, 1975; Haedrich, 1986). The first record of this fish from the Adriatic Sea was reported in 1880 according to Ninni (1912). The second record was during the invasion of medusae Pelagia noctiluca (Malej, 1982; Rottini-Sandrini & Stravisi, 1982; Vučetić, 1982,1983) in Pelješac channel near the town of Korčula-island Koršula (central Adriatic) in 1982 (Onofri, 1986). Ten juvenile specimens, from 10·0 to 20·0cm total length (TL), were collected with medusae at 2m depth. This record Onofri (1986) connected with the ingression of inter-median waters (50–100 m) in the central Adriatic influenced the increase of salinity and temperature in 1982. Jardas (1996) noted that S. medusophagus is a very rare species in the Adriatic Sea.

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