An aberrant specimen of the genus Laomedia De Haan, 1841, with an additional description of Laomedia astacina De Haan, 1841 and a new genus, Heteroaxianassa (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Laomediidae)

Crustaceana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 595-602
Author(s):  
Katsushi Sakai
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Material

The genusLaomediaDe Haan, 1841 of the family Laomediidae Borradaile, 1903 includes four known species,L. astacinaDe Haan, 1841,L. healyiYaldwyn & Wear, 1970,L. paucispinosaNgoc-Ho, 1997, andL. barronensisNgoc-Ho & Yaldwyn, 1997. Herein, a fifth, possibly new species is described that, because of the lack of undamaged, adult specimens and the absence of locality data, is designated provisionally asLaomediasp. A. Furthermore, an extended description ofLaomedia astacinais provided, based on new material from Japan and also a newly revised key to the species of the genusLaomediais presented. In addition, a new genus,Heteroaxianassagen. nov., is proposed.

scholarly journals Re-evaluation of the Cancridae Latreille, 1802 (Decapoda: Brachyura) including three new genera and three new species

2000 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie E. Schweitzer ◽  
Rodney M. Feldmann
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Generic Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Material ◽  
Three New Species

New fossils referable to the Cancridae Latreille, 1802 extend the known stratigraphic range of the family into the middle Eocene and the geographic range into South America. Each genus within the family has been reevaluated within the context of the new material. A suite of diagnostic characters for each cancrid genus makes it possible to assign both extant and fossil specimens to genera and the two cancrid subfamilies, the Cancrinae Latreille, 1802, and Lobocarcininae Beurlen, 1930, based solely upon dorsal carapace morphology. Cheliped morphology is useful in assigning genera to the family but is significantly less useful at the subfamily and generic level. Each of the four subgenera sensu Nations (1975), Cancer Linnaeus, 1758, Glebocarcinus Nations, 1975, Metacarcinus A. Milne Edwards, 1862, and Romaleon Gistl, 1848, are elevated to full generic status. Additionally, three new genera and three new species accommodate the new, as well as some previously described taxa, and include Anatolikos new genus, Anisospinos berglundi new genus and species, and Notocarcinus sulcatus new genus and species and several new combinations. Recognition of new genera and reassignment of several species within the Cancrinae indicates that that subfamily may have arisen in the southern hemisphere, contrary to the previous interpretation of the subfamily as a primarily North Pacific or Tethyan group. The Lobocarcininae was primarily a Tethyan group.

scholarly journals The first Paratropididae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from Colombia: new genus, species and records

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 830 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Carlos Perafán ◽  
William Galvis ◽  
Fernando Pérez-Miles
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Material ◽  
First Time

The family of mygalomorph spiders Paratropididae Simon, 1889 is here reported for the first time for Colombia, where it is represented by three genera (Anisaspis, Paratropis, Stormtropisgen. n.) and eight species. One genus, Stormtropis, and six species constitute new taxa that are here diagnosed, described and illustrated. The geographical distribution of Paratropispapilligera FO Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 and Paratropiselicioi Dupérré, 2015 are also redescribed and expanded on the basis of new material examined. The diagnosis of the subfamily Paratropidinae, Paratropis Simon, 1889 and Anisaspis Simon, 1892 are emended including the variations of the new species. Likewise, a geographic distribution map for the entire family and a taxonomic key for the males of Paratropidinae are included. Other biogeographic, morphological, and taxonomic aspects are discussed.

Cryptofavognathus, a new genus of the family Cryptognathidae Oudemans (Acari: Raphignathoidea), with the description of a new species from Turkey

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2533 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
SALİH DOĞAN ◽  
GÜLDEM DÖNEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new genus, Cryptofavognathus is proposed for two species, Cryptofavognathus afyonensis (Koç & Akyol, 2004) comb. nov. and C. anatolicus sp. nov. The adult female and male of C. anatolicus sp. nov. collected from moss and a bird’s nest are herein described and figured.

Cassiavellia galtarae, new species, new genus: a new Permian bivalve and its significance for pterioidean systematics

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1152-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Tëmkin ◽  
John Pojeta
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Larval Shell ◽  
Upper Permian ◽  
Taxonomic Significance ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Dental Ontogeny

An exceptionally well-preserved silicified bivalve from the Upper Permian of Texas is described and assigned to a new genus and species,Cassiavellia galtarae, placed in the family Bakevelliidae. The species represents one of the earliest and best characterized unequivocal occurrences of the multivincular ligament in the superfamily Pterioidea. The silicified material provides a wealth of information on the morphology of inadequately known Paleozoic pterioideans, including hitherto undescribed aspects of the larval shell, auricular sulcus, muscle scars, and dental ontogeny. The discovery of the condyle-fossa complex on the anteroventral shell margin, a feature previously undescibed in Bivalvia, raises the question of the homology and taxonomic significance of the problematic subumbonal ridge-like structures in Pterioidea. In life,C. galtaraewas probably an epifaunal right-pleurothetic bivalve, byssally attached to hard or raised flexible substrata. In addition toC. galtarae, another new species,C. nadkevnae, is placed inCassiavellia.

New genus and four new species of the family Cunaxidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea) from Zambia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabella Laniecka ◽  
Ronald Laniecki ◽  
Andrzej Kazmierski
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Family

New genus and four new species of the family Cunaxidae: Quasiscutopalus impala gen. nov., sp. nov., Armascirus livingstoni sp. nov., Cunaxa mukuni sp. nov. and Cunaxa niedbalai sp. nov. are described and figured from Zambia. Additionally, Cunaxa gazella (Berlese, 1916) is recorded and discussed.

Two Ordovician asterozoans (Echinodermata) of problematic affinities

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 1163-1173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Blake
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Early Ordovician ◽  
Class Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
Evolutionary Radiation ◽  
Frame Construction

Phragmactis grayaeSpencer andSwataria derstlerinew genus new species are early (Ordovician) asterozoans (Echinodermata) that comprise the Phragmactinidae. Asterozoans are complexly varied, but as is true for other echinoderms, ambulacral construction is critical to interpretation. Phragmactinids share plesiomorphic aspects of ambulacral form and articulation with basal somasteroids and stenuroids whereas the apomorphic ambulacral expressions of asteroids and ophiuroids are lacking. Phragmactinids, like asteroids and ophiuroids, have only one virgal-series ossicle associated with each ambulacral, unlike the multiple ossicles of somasteroids and stenuroids. Virgal morphology of phragmactinids is reminiscent of expressions in somasteroids and stenuroids. Aspects of phragmactinid mouth frame construction are apomorphic. Morphologies of other ossicular series are similarly varied, and as a result, the family cannot be easily fitted into a recently proposed class-level taxonomy of early asterozoans; it is left in open nomenclature. Phragmactinid morphology does not indicate behavior significantly different from that of other early asterozaons. Asterozoan diversity suggests an early period of rapid evolutionary radiation.

Mimaporia, a new genus of Epicopeiidae (Lepidoptera), with description of a new species from Vietnam

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4254 (5) ◽  
pp. 537 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHIA-HSUAN WEI ◽  
SHEN-HORN YEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

The Epicopeiidae is a small geometroid family distributed in the East Palaearctic and Oriental regions. It exhibits high morphological diversity in body size and wing shape, while their wing patterns involve in various complex mimicry rings. In the present study, we attempted to describe a new genus, and a new species from Vietnam, with comments on two assumed congeneric novel species from China and India. To address its phylogenetic affinity, we reconstructed the phylogeny of the family by using sequence data of COI, EF-1α, and 28S gene regions obtained from seven genera of Epicopeiidae with Pseudobiston pinratanai as the outgroup. We also compared the morphology of the new taxon to other epicopeiid genera to affirm its taxonomic status. The results suggest that the undescribed taxon deserve a new genus, namely Mimaporia gen. n. The species from Vietnam, Mimaporia hmong sp. n., is described as new to science. Under different tree building strategies, the new genus is the sister group of either Chatamla Moore, 1881 or Parabraxas Leech, 1897. The morphological evidence, which was not included in phylogenetic analyses, however, suggests its potential affinity with Burmeia Minet, 2003. This study also provides the first, although preliminary, molecular phylogeny of the family on which the revised systematics and interpretation of character evolution can be based. 

scholarly journals A new genus of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Tajikistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 583-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri M. Marusik ◽  
Alexander A. Fomichev
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Family Group ◽  
The Family ◽  
Unique Pair ◽  
Three New Species

A new genus, Platnickgen. n., with three new species, P. shablyaisp. n. (♂, type species), P. astanasp. n. (♀) and P. sangloksp. n. (♀), are described from Tajikistan. The male of the type species has a unique pair of longitudinal ventral postgastral scuta. Females have such scuta also, but they are much shorter. The new genus is placed in Liocranidae Simon, 1897. A discussion on the subfamilies of Liocranidae and comments on the family-group names are provided.

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