scholarly journals A New Genus and Two New Species of the Crustacean Order Thermosbaebacea from the West Indies

1976 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Stock
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
The West ◽  
New Members ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
Deep Wells ◽  
Saint Croix ◽  
The One

Up to now, the crustacean order Thermosbaenacea contained two genera with only six valid species, five from the panmediterranean region, one from Texas. Two new members of this curious group of “living fossils” have been discovered in the West Indies. The one, from two deep wells not far from the sea coast in Saint Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands), belongs to an undescribed species of the amphiatlantic genus Monodella, and is called M. sanctaecrucis. The other was found in several localities in Curaçao (Netherlands’ Antilles), in coral débris of rubble walls on the shore; it belongs to a new genus, Halosbaena showing several remarkable adaptations, e.g. having a uniramous first pereiopod and reductions in the maxilliped. The presence of very numerous specialized elements on the second maxilla and some other characters relate Halosbaena remotely to a species from Jugoslavia, described as Monodella finki. Several other characters of the latter species justify the erection of a new genus for it, called Limnosbaena. The literature on the possible origin of the Thermosbaenacea is reviewed. Based on the present and other recent discoveries, the origin of the genera Limnosbaena and Monodella (and possibly also of Thermosbaena) at the end of the Tethys period, from marine ancestors, is considered to be the most likely. For the genus Halosbaena a Pleistocene invasion of haline interstitial waters cannot be excluded.

Caribbean Commission

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-216 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
The West ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
The Caribbean

A special session of the West Indian Conference convened on July 28, 1959, in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, to consider revision of the agreement which established the Caribbean Commission in October 1946. The delegates were welcomed by Mr. John Merwin, Governor of the Virgin Islands, who referred to the proposed revision for the transfer of control to local governments as an exciting new concept which would witness the withdrawal from active membership of the metropolitan powers and the taking over of these functions by the non-self-governing territories and possessions. Before starting deliberations on the successor body, delegates went on record in support of a continuation of regional cooperation in the area through some machinery similar to the Caribbean Commission, the good work of which was unanimously acclaimed. After several days of discussion and working in committees, the Conference accepted a Statute for a new Caribbean Organization to succeed the present Caribbean Commission, agreeing that it should be submitted to the governments concerned. The statute gave the Organization consultative and advisory powers and defined the areas of its concern as being those social, economic, and cultural matters of common interest in the Caribbean area. Eligible for membership were the Republic of France for the Departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique; the Netherlands Antilles; Surinam; the Bahamas; British Guiana; British Honduras; British Virgin Islands; the West Indies; Puerto Rico; and the Virgin Islands. The governing body of the new organization would be the Caribbean Council, which would hold annual meetings and to which each member would be entitled to nominate one delegate. The Organization was to come into being after an agreement with the members of the present Caribbean Commission—namely, the governments of France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States—for its establishment had been ratified. Following an offer from the government of Puerto Rico to contribute 44.3 percent of the total budget on the understanding that the new Organization would have its headquarters in that country, the Conference agreed on the following apportionment of costs to cover its proposed budget: France, $50,560; Netherlands Antilles, $24,490; Surinam, $19,750; British Guiana, $11,760; the West Indies, $44,240; Puerto Rico, $140,000; and the Virgin Islands, $25,200. As an interim step designed to facilitate the transition, the Conference recommended that the Commission appoint a working group of experts to examine the problems which would arise from the change-over, and to give its attention as well to the task of formulating guiding principles for the work of the Organization.

scholarly journals A New Genus of Flea-Beetles From the West Indies

1950 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doms H. Blake
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The West ◽  
Flea Beetles

Chronique d’une écologie décoloniale dans C’est ma terre de Fabrice Bouckat

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Naudillon
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Agent Orange ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
The One

The documentary film C’est ma terre by Fabrice Bouckat screened during the 2019 edition of Terrafestival is one of the first large-scale films produced locally on the crisis of the chlordecone molecule. This article will examine from a decolonial perspective, how its director, a Martinican with Gabonese origins who lives and works in Guadeloupe, develops a synthetic and universal vision of environmental crises, and thus demonstrates that destruction of ecosystems crosses time and space, cultures and lands, languages and peoples by bringing ecological crisis in the West Indies closer to the one experienced by the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.

scholarly journals A New Genus of the Spider Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies

2010 ◽  
Vol 3705 ◽  
pp. 1-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Sánchez-Ruiz ◽  
Norman I. Platnick ◽  
Nadine Dupérré
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The West

STREPSIPTERA OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE BAHAMAS WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND NEW SPECIES OF CORIOXENIDAE

1994 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeyaraney Kathirithamby ◽  
Stewart B. Peck
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Fire Ants ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Andros Island ◽  
First Time

AbstractEight species of Strepsiptera have been reported so far from Florida, but none from the Bahamas. This study reports five species from southern subtropical Florida, and one species from Andros Island, the Bahamas. Of these, Floridoxenos monroensis gen.nov., sp.nov. Kathirithamby and Peck (Corioxenidae: Corioxeninae) is described and added to the subfamily Corioxeninae based on the 4-segmented tarsi without claws; Strichotrema beckeri (Oliveira and Kogan) (Myrmecolacidae) of Brazil is reported from the United States for the first time; a second record for Elenchus koebelei Pierce (Elenchidae) from Florida is reported; and Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce (Myrmecolacidae) is a new record for Bahamas. This latter species is generally a widespread parasite of fire ants in the southern parts of North America, in the West Indies, and in the northern Neotropics.

Wave effect on sea grasses in the West Indies: the formation of the bare sand zone

1975 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 515-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Mitchell-Tapping
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Present Author ◽  
Patch Reef ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
The West ◽  
Wave Effect ◽  
Bare Sand ◽  
Sea Grass ◽  
Wave Patterns ◽  
The U.S

SummaryAn examination of narrow zones of bare sand, usually averaging 10 m in width, situated between the patch reef and the sea grass beds (Thalassia and Cymodocea), shows that they appear to be primarily the result of wave action. Experiments were conducted in the U.S. Virgin Islands over a period of 5 years, which show the effect of subsurface interference of wave patterns in the forming of these bare sand zones. It is thought by the present author that these sand zones are a major factor in the equilibrium balance of sand quantity necessary for on and offshore transportation, and also in the balance of sand retained behind the patch reefs of the West Indies.

Overview of Candoninae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) of South America and the West Indies, with the description of two new species and one new genus

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2267 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVANA KARANOVIC ◽  
THIBAULT DATRY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Type Material ◽  
The West ◽  
Madre De Dios ◽  
Two New Species

The present paper contains descriptions of two new species and one new genus: Latinopsis patagonica gen. nov., sp. nov., and Candona quasiincarum sp. nov. Both species were collected during a two-month Franco-Chilean expedition to Madre de Dios archipelago in January and February 2006. The following new systematic arrangements are proposed: L. anisitsi (Daday, 1905) comb. nov., L. columbiensis (Mehes, 1914) comb. nov., and L. falclandica (Vavra, 1898) comb. nov. Latinopsis anisitsi is redescribed from the type material and a lectotype is designated. Two species are excluded from the subfamily Candoninae, one of which is Danielocandona albida (Sars, 1901). After examination of the type material the species is reclassified as Neocypridopsis albida (Sars, 1901) comb. nov. A checklist of the known species of Candoninae of South America and the West Indies is provided.

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