Description and systematic affinity of Alaninema ngata n. sp. (Alaninematidae: Panagrolaimorpha) parasitising leaf-veined slugs (Athoracophoridae: Pulmonata) in New Zealand

A new Alaninema species associated with leaf-veined slugs (Athoracophoridae) in New Zealand is described and illustrated. Alaninema ngata n. sp. is characterised by a very long, cylindrical body, rounded head bearing two circles of cephalic papillae and amphids, shallow stoma with three bifid teeth, muscular, cylindroid pharynx lacking valves, enlarged, rounded cardia, nerve ring crossing the anterior intestine, excretory pore situated just posterior to nerve ring, monodelphic females with post-median vulva, thick-shelled eggs covered with prominent tubercles, monorchic males with short testis reflection, reduced number of male genital papillae, strong equal spicules and gubernaculum and tail tip bearing about 20 digitate processes. It is distinguished from A. venmansi and A. njoroensis by having a larger body size (mean 8.3 mm and 13.8 mm in males and females, respectively vs 8.2 mm females in A. venmansi and 4.8 mm and 5.5 mm in A. njoroensis males and females, respectively) and more anterior vulval position (V = 51.6 vs 70 and 66.4 in A. venmansi and A. njoroensis, respectively). Analyses of a partial 18S rDNA sequence indicate that A. ngata n. sp. is affiliated to the Panagrolaimorpha. The systematic position, host range and distribution of A. ngata n. sp. are discussed.

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Teratodiplogaster variegatae n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) isolated from the syconia of Ficus variegata Blume on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan

Nematology ◽

10.1163/15685411-00002843 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. 1153-1166 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Natsumi Kanzaki ◽

Gavin C. Woodruff ◽

Ryusei Tanaka

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Reproductive Organs ◽

Ishigaki Island ◽

Stomatal Morphology ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Receptaculum Seminis ◽

Males And Females ◽

Tail Tip ◽

Close Relatives ◽

Male Genital

Teratodiplogaster variegatae n. sp. is described and illustrated from Ficus variegata on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan. Teratodiplogaster variegatae n. sp. is characterised by its scoop-like lip, the presence of large sac-like receptaculum seminis in the female gonads, and eight pairs of male genital papillae with an arrangement of (P1, P2, P3, vs, C, (P4, P5d), (P6, P7), P8d, Ph). It is distinguished from its close relatives T. fignewmani and T. martini by its stomatal morphology, spicule and gubernaculum morphology, structure of female reproductive organs, and the characteristic star-shaped appendage on the tail tip of males and females. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based upon near-full-length SSU and D2-D3 expansion segments of LSU corroborate a monophyletic origin of the genus Teratodiplogaster.

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Zeatylenchus pittosporum gen. n., sp. n. (Tylenchida: Anguinata), from leaves of Pittosporum tenuifolium (Pittosporaceae) in New Zealand

Nematology ◽

10.1163/15685411-00002671 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 197-212

Author(s):

Zeng Qi Zhao ◽

Kerrie A. Davies ◽

Brett J.R. Alexander ◽

Ian T. Riley

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

New Genus ◽

Large Subunit ◽

Small Subunit ◽

Rrna Genes ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Pore Opening ◽

Males And Females ◽

Stylet Length ◽

Tail Tip

A new genus and species of anguinid nematode, Zeatylenchus pittosporum gen. n., sp. n., was recovered from leaves of Pittosporum tenuifolium from Hahei, Coromandel Region, North Island, New Zealand. The genus is characterised by having slender males and females, excretory pore opening near the lips and level with the knobs of the retracted stylet, pharynx with a weak non-muscular median bulb, pharyngeal glands overlapping the intestine, females with a single gonad with a quadricolumella and post-uterine sac; and males with slender arcuate spicules and the bursa arising <1 anal body diam. anterior to the cloacal aperture and extending ca 30% of distance to the tail tip. Its feeding does not induce galls, only foliar chlorosis. The species has particular characters, including a short, robust stylet with conus forming ca 40% of stylet length and small rounded compact knobs, and tail offset dorsally with a pointed tip. Molecular phylogeny of near full length small subunit, D2/D3 expansion segments of the large subunit and internal transcribed spacer rRNA genes support the description of Zeatylenchus pittosporum gen. n., sp. n. as a new genus and species.

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An enigmatic cap-shaped fossil from the Middle Cambrian of North Greenland

Bulletin Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse ◽

10.34194/bullggu.v169.6729 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 169 ◽

pp. 149-155

Author(s):

J.S Peel

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Systematic Position ◽

Middle Cambrian ◽

The Family ◽

New Form ◽

Invertebrate Fossils ◽

North Greenland

Nyeboeconus robisoni gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Middle Cambrian Henson Gletscher Formation of western North Greenland. Some authors have interpreted similar shelIs as chondrophorine hydrozoans or invertebrate fossils of uncertain systematic position. The coiled, cap-shaped shell and the presence of an internal plate, or pegma, suggest, however, that this new form is the second genus to be described of the Family Enigmaconidae MacKinnon, 1985 (Mollusca, Class Helcionelloida), otherwise known only from rocks of similar age in New Zealand.

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Preliminary Note on the Structure and Affinities of Phoronis

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s0370164600050057 ◽

1897 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 59-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Arthur T. Masterman

Keyword(s):

Distinct Species ◽

Systematic Position ◽

Nerve Ring ◽

The Body ◽

Serial Sections ◽

Preliminary Note ◽

Mouth Region ◽

Careful Comparison ◽

A New Species ◽

Different Parts

In spite of the great amount of attention which has been bestowed upon this group by many workers, it must still be said that our knowledge of its systematic position is very meagre and uncertain, and that there are points in its anatomy which require elucidation. Through the kindness of Professor M‘Intosh I have been enabled to examine some specimens of P. australis, and also a Phoronis, which appears to be a new species. I reserve a detailed account of my results for later publication, and here only refer very briefly to leading points. I may mention that Professor M‘Intosh has also allowed me the inspection of his serial sections of P. buskii. M‘Intosh, and after a careful comparison I have not the slightest doubt that this is a distinct species from P. australis—it has been usual to regard the distinction between these two forms as not of specific value.Divisions of the Body.—It is usual, in describing the structure of Phoronis, to refer to two different parts of the body which lie before and behind the septum respectively. I propose, for reasons shown later, to emphasise the division of the body into—(1) The epistome, lying dorsally to the mouth, and having very definite, though somewhat involved, relationship to the next part; (2) the tentacular region, which I prefer to call the collar, consisting of a ring round the mouth region, the oral part being produced into two arms or processes which bear tentacles and are coiled, and the aboral end being limited superficially by the nerve ring and fundamentally by the so-called septum; (3) the trunk, including all the region behind the septum.

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Managing New Zealand Women in IT

Managing IT Professionals in the Internet Age ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-917-5.ch001 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Keri A. Logan ◽

Barbara Crump

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

New Zealand ◽

Work Environment ◽

Qualitative Studies ◽

It Professionals ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Women In It ◽

It Workforce ◽

Workplace Attitudes ◽

Males And Females

This chapter discusses workplace attitudes and policies that continue to affect women’s participation, retention, and promotion in the information technology (IT) workforce. It draws on data collected from two qualitative studies of New Zealand women working in the industry. The findings reveal that there are some distinct differences in the way in which males and females operate in the workplace, and that women’s values and different work practices are often not taken into account by management. Managers of IT professionals who recognise the subtleties of the gendered culture of the IT work environment and who develop and implement equitable policies and strategies will be rewarded by a creative, innovative, and productive workforce.

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Litylenchus coprosma gen. n., sp. n. (Tylenchida: Anguinata), from leaves of Coprosma repens (Rubiaceae) in New Zealand

Nematology ◽

10.1163/138855410x499076 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 29-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Kerrie Davies ◽

Zeng Qi Zhao ◽

Brett Alexander ◽

Ian Riley

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

New Genus ◽

Large Subunit ◽

Small Subunit ◽

Rrna Genes ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Pore Opening ◽

Terminal Bulb ◽

Stylet Length ◽

Tail Tip

AbstractA new genus and species of anguinid nematode, Litylenchus coprosma gen. n., sp. n., was recovered from leaves of Coprosma repens A. Rich. from an amenity planting in Wellington, New Zealand. The genus is characterised by having slender males and slender or semi-obese females, pharynx with a weak non-muscular median bulb, a terminal bulb containing the pharyngeal glands, female with a single gonad having a quadricolumella and post-uterine sac; male with arcuate spicules and the bursa arising 1-2 anal body diam. anterior to the cloacal aperture and extending nearly to the tail tip, and does not induce galls, only foliar chlorosis. The species is characterised by having a short, robust stylet with conus forming ca 40% of stylet length and three well developed rounded knobs, secretory/excretory pore opening posterior to the nerve ring, terminal bulb abutting the intestine, and tail tip of variable form. Molecular phylogeny of near full length small subunit, D2/D3 expansion segments of the large subunit and internal transcribed spacer rRNA genes support the description of L. coprosma gen. n., sp. n. as a new genus and species.

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External features and life cycle of Cucumaricola notabilis nov.gen. et sp., a copepod parasite of the holothurian, Cucumaria

Parasitology ◽

10.1017/s0031182000021247 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 48 (3-4) ◽

pp. 269-290 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Nellie F. Paterson

Keyword(s):

Systematic Position ◽

Sexually Dimorphic ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Cape Peninsula ◽

Short Period ◽

Copepodid Stage ◽

Males And Females ◽

Living Material ◽

Copepod Parasites ◽

Active Swimming

1. Cucumaricola notabilis, a new genus and species of Copepoda, occurs in cysts in the coelom of Cucumaria frauenfeldi Ludwig collected at Sea Point, Blaauwberg Strand and Dalebrook in the Cape Peninsula.2. An account is given of the features of the sexually dimorphic males and females.3. Fertilized eggs and nauplius larvae are also contained in the cysts and, from observations on living material, it has been established that, after escaping from the cysts, the larvae metamorphose within a short period into the copepodid stage. There are two copepodid stages, the first an active swimming form and the second a quiescent phase from which the juvenile parasite develops.4. Although of uncertain systematic position, this parasite seems to be nearly related to the Chondracanthidae. This conclusion is based on the similarity of the trunk appendages of the adult female to those of Acanthochondria as described by Oakley (1930), and also on the general agreement of the ontogeny with that of Acanthochondria cornuta investigated by Heegaard in 1947. It is further suggested that it may be assigned to the key devised by Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes-Ruivo (1955) for certain copepod parasites having some affinity with the Chondracanthidae.

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Myxidium shedkoae Sokolov, 2013 (Myxozoa: Myxidiidae), a parasite of the gallbladder of Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 (Actinoptrygii: Odontobutidae): Supplementary data on morphology and phylogenetic position based on 18s rDNA sequence analysis

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica ◽

10.1556/004.2018.024 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 66 (2) ◽

pp. 258-268

Author(s):

Sergey Sokolov ◽

Daria Lebedeva

Keyword(s):

Sequence Analysis ◽

18S Rdna ◽

Rdna Sequence ◽

Phylogenetic Position ◽

Amur Sleeper ◽

Molecular Characterisation ◽

Perccottus Glenii ◽

Supplementary Data ◽

18S Rdna Sequence ◽

Partial 18S

This paper is the first report on the molecular characterisation of myxozoan parasites from the odontobutid fish Chinese (Amur) sleeper (Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877). The authors determined the partial 18S rDNA sequence of Myxidium shedkoae Sokolov, 2013 from the gallbladder of the fish. Phylogenies reconstructed using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analysis revealed that M. shedkoae belongs to the hepatic biliary group of myxozoans (after Kristmundsson and Freeman, 2013) as a member of the clade consisting of Zschokkella sp. KLT-2014, Myxidium truttae and Zschokkella nova. Some new morphological features of the parasite are also presented.

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The circumscription and systematic position of Carpodetaceae

Australian Systematic Botany ◽

10.1071/sb96030 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 855 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Mats H. G. Gustafsson ◽

Kåre Bremer

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Wood Anatomy ◽

Solomon Islands ◽

Sister Group ◽

Systematic Position ◽

Sister Group Relationship ◽

Seed Structure ◽

Morphological Comparison ◽

The Family ◽

Rbcl Sequences

The genus Carpodetus from New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, traditionally has been included in the extremely heterogeneous Saxifragaceae sensu lato, but on account of morphological peculiarities it has sometimes been classified in its own family. On palynological grounds it has been suggested to belong near the Ericales. Parsimony analyses of matrices comprising rbcL sequences of 80 taxa sampled from the entire Asteridae and Rosidae provide support for a sister group relationship between Carpodetus and a clade comprising the closely related Australian genera Abrophyllum and Cuttsia, also formerly placed in Saxifragaceae sensu lato, but recently shown to belong within the order Asterales sensu lato. A morphological comparison between the three interrelated genera is provided. They have in common an indumentum of thick-walled unicellular hairs with warty cuticle, and are also uniform in wood anatomy as well as fruit and seed structure. It is proposed that the family Carpodetaceae be expanded to encompass Abrophyllum and Cuttsia.

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Australian pirates: systematics and phylogeny of the Australasian pirate spiders (Araneae:Mimetidae), with a description of the Western Australian fauna

Invertebrate Systematics ◽

10.1071/is08015 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 231 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Danilo Harms ◽

Mark S. Harvey

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Morphological Character ◽

Systematic Position ◽

Taxonomic Changes ◽

Species Groups ◽

First Time ◽

Expanded Concept ◽

Western Australian ◽

The Web

Pirate spiders (Mimetidae) are well known for their specialised feeding ecology. They are vagrant araneophagic predators, enter the webs of their prey spiders and exhibit patterns of aggressive mimicry to overcome the web owner. The mimetid fauna of Australia and New Zealand currently consists of 26 species in the following three genera: Australomimetus Heimer, 1986 (18 species), Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (six species), and Ero C.L. Koch, 1836 (two species). The systematic position of the majority of Australasian mimetids was investigated through phylogenetic techniques utilising morphological character systems of 29 exemplar taxa and 87 characters, including the first examination of spinneret structure in species of Australomimetus. The results support an expanded concept for Australomimetus, which, apart from the introduced Ero aphana (Walckenaer, 1802), is found to contain the entire Australian and New Zealand mimetid fauna, also recorded from Asia. The following taxonomic changes are proposed: A. catulli (Heimer, 1989), comb. nov., A. hannemanni (Heimer, 1989), comb. nov., A. japonicus (Uyemura, 1938), comb. nov., A. mendicus (O. P. Cambridge, 1879), comb. nov. and A. sennio (Urquhart, 1891), comb. nov.; Ero luzoniensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 is synonymised with Ero aphana, and A. andreae Heimer, 1989 is synonymised with A. daviesianus Heimer, 1986; Mimetus tikaderi Gajbe, 1992 from India is excluded from Mimetidae, and referred to Liocranidae. The Western Australian mimetid fauna is described for the first time and comprises nine species of Australomimetus, including the following five new species: A. diabolicus, sp. nov., A. djuka, sp. nov., A. dunlopi, sp. nov., A. nasoi, sp. nov. and A. stephanieae, sp. nov. Several species-groups of Australomimetus are identified.

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