Desquamatia and related atrypid brachiopods from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Bergisches Land, GermanyThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme The dynamic reef and shelly communities of the Paleozoic. This Special is in honour of our colleague and friend Paul Copper.

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Xueping Ma ◽  
Volker Ebbighausen ◽  
R. Thomas Becker
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Rhine River ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rhenish Massif ◽  
Dental Cavities ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Selection Of

Tropical shallow-water deposits of the Refrath Formation (topmost Lower to lower part of Middle Frasnian) of the Bergisch Gladbach area (Rhenish Massif, Germany) yielded diverse, well-preserved shelly faunas. New collections show that there are in total over 30 brachiopod species, of which the Atrypida, Rhynchonellida, Spiriferida, and Athyridida orders are the most dominant groups. Serial transverse sections show that Pseudoatrypa schroeteri possesses small dental cavities, and their spiralia have a whorl number ranging from 12–13 in ca. 29–30 mm wide specimens to 15–16 in ca. 32–33 mm wide specimens. Desquamatia (Seratrypa) pectinata has slightly more numerous spiralial whorls, from 14–15 in ca. 27 mm wide specimens to 18 in ca. 35 mm wide specimens. A new species, Desquamatia (Seratrypa) refrathensis , is described based on material from the Refrath Formation in Refrath, near Köln (Cologne), east of the Rhine River, Germany. It includes finely ribbed, longer than wide, moderate- to large-sized shells of Desquamatia , which possess tiny dental cavities to nuclei and 20–21 spiralial whorls in ca. 30 mm wide and long specimens.

scholarly journals Anchialine biodiversity in the Turks and Caicos Islands: New discoveries and current faunal composition

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Brett Gonzalez ◽  
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Alejandro Martínez ◽  
Jørgen Olesen ◽  
Sarit Truskey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
New Records ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
Faunal Composition ◽  
Turks And Caicos Islands ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Faunal List ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Blue Holes

Lying at the southernmost point of the Lucayan Archipelago, the Turks and Caicos Islands are amongst the better studied localities for anchialine cave biodiversity. For nearly five decades, novel invertebrate fauna, comprised primarily of crustaceans, have been collected from these tidally influenced pools – but new findings are always on the horizon. Herein we present new records of crustaceans and annelids from anchialine blue holes and horizontal caves of the Turks and Caicos. These findings include two potentially new species of meiofaunal annelids and a new species of remipede collected from a shallow water cave pool. Our 2019 expedition additionally expands known faunal distributions for several taxa across the Caicos islands, and raises the biodiversity of the region to 35 species, 13 of them considered endemic. This is the first comprehensive faunal list for the anchialine systems in the Caicos Bank.

Turleania rubriguttatus, a new species of pagurid hermit crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) from shallow water in Japan, with notes on T. senticosa (McLaughlin & Haig, 1996)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4834 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Hermit Crab ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Status ◽  
Shallow Subtidal ◽  
The Right ◽  
Kochi Prefecture ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the pagurid hermit crab genus Turleania McLaughlin, 1997, T. rubriguttatus, is described on the basis of two specimens, including one male and one female, from shallow subtidal waters in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. The new species appears close to T. albatrossae (McLaughlin & Haig, 1996), known from the Philippines, but the proximally unarmed dorsal surface of the right chela palm and the lack of a dorsomesial row of spines on the left cheliped carpus easily distinguish T. rubriguttatus n. sp. from T. albatrossae. Examination of the type material of T. similis Komai, 1999 and T. spinimanus Komai, 1999, and supplemental material from Japan, confirms that the two taxa are synonymous with T. senticosa (McLaughlin & Haig, 1996), as was suggested by previous authors. Re-examination clarified that in T. senticosa the maxilliped 3 has no developed arthrobranchs, and this led the author to assess the status of T. sinensis Han, Sha & An, 2016, which is also synonymised with T. senticosa. 

On a new species of Siboglinum (Pogonophora), found on both sides of the North Atlantic

1963 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve C. Southward
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Related Species ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
A New Species

A description is given of Siboglinum holmei sp.nov., a shallow-water Atlantic species. It is compared with S. caulleryi, a related species from the Pacific.

A new deep-sea species of the caridean genus Bresilia Calman, 1896 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from Sagami Bay, central Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4299 (3) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
HISANORI KOHTSUKA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Ovigerous Female ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Ryukyu Islands ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Sagami Bay ◽  
Central Japan ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the rare caridean genus Bresilia Calman, 1896, B. cinctus, is described and illustrated on the basis of a single ovigerous female specimen collected from Sagami Bay, central Japan, at 218–318 m depth. The new species is morphologically most similar to B. rufioculus Komai & Yamada, 2011, known only from shallow water cave of Ie Island (depths 14–17 m), Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Islands, but many characters, including the proportionally shorter rostrum, the well developed suborbital lobe of the carapace, and the presence of a spiniform seta on the ventral surface of the pereopod 1 palm, immediately distinguish the new species from B. rufioculus. Bresilia cinctus n. sp. is the first species of the genus known from the Japanese main islands. The discovery of the new species led us to reassess the merit of the informal division of Bresilia proposed by Komai & Yamada (2010). An identification key to the ten named species of Bresilia is presented. 

A review of the genus Tryphosella (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Britain and Ireland, with the description of a new species Tryphosella lowryi

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 1067-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.M. Kilgallen ◽  
A.A. Myers ◽  
D. McGrath
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Shallow Water Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Water Species

A review of the shallow-water species of the genus Tryphosella from the British Isles is presented and a new species, Tryphosella lowryi, is described. In addition, Tryphosella minima is recorded from this region for the first time. This brings to five the total number of species of this genus now known from the British Isles. All taxa are fully described and illustrated, and a key to the species is provided.

A new species of Hyattechinus (Echinoidea) from the type Devonian of the United Kingdom and implications for the distribution of Devonian proterocidarid echinoids

2018 ◽  
Vol 156 (5) ◽  
pp. 801-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEFFREY R. THOMPSON ◽  
TIMOTHY A. M. EWIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Appalachian Basin ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Late Devonian ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Palaeozoic ◽  
Diversity Dynamics ◽  
A New Species

AbstractMany of the most diverse clades of Late Palaeozoic echinoids (sea urchins) originated in the Devonian period. Our understanding of diversity dynamics of these Late Palaeozoic clades are thus informed by new systematic descriptions of some of their earliest members. The Proterocidaridae are a diverse and morphologically distinct clade of stem group echinoids with flattened tests and enlarged adoral pore pairs, which are first known from the Upper Devonian. We herein report on a new species of Hyattechinus, Hyattechinus anglicus n. sp., from the Upper Devonian of the North Devon Basin, Devon, UK. This is the first Devonian Hyattechinus known from outside of the Appalachian Basin, USA, and provides novel information regarding the palaeogeographic and stratigraphic distribution of proterocidarids in Late Devonian times. We additionally update the stratigraphic distribution of Devonian Hyattechinus from the Appalachian Basin, following recent biostratigraphic resolution of their occurrences. Hyattechinus appears to have been present in the Rheic echinoderm fauna during Late Devonian times, and comparison of the palaeoenvironmental setting of Hyattechinus anglicus with that of other Hyattechinus from the Famennian of the Appalachian Basin suggests that the genus may have preferred siliciclastic settings. Furthermore, this new taxon increases the diversity of echinoids from the Upper Devonian of Devon to three species.

Ascidians of the genus Aplidium collected on shallow hard-bottom reefs of coastal Georgia (Atlantic coast of N America, U.S.A.)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2066 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
KAREN SANAMYAN ◽  
DANIEL F. GLEASON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Shallow Water Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Water Species ◽  
Colonial Ascidians

Four shallow-water species of colonial ascidians of the genus Aplidium are identified in the collections made by divers off the coast of Georgia, U.S.A. One of the specimens, Aplidium ruzickai n. sp., is characterized by a combination of high numbers of rows of stigmata and stomach folds and is described as a new species.

Monelasmina besti, a new Schizophoriid Brachiopod from the Upper Devonian of Western Canada

1959 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 470-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. H. Pedder
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
A New Species

AbstractMonelasmina, previously known only from the Frasnian of Europe, is described and figured from the Hay River formation (Frasnian) of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The specimens are referred to a new species, M. besti.

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