scholarly journals Taxonomy and chorology of Corbichonia (Lophiocarpaceae s.l.) with further description of a new species from Southern Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 218 (3) ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander P. Sukhorukov ◽  
Maria Kushunina
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Herbarium Material ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
A New Species

A re-examination of the herbarium material has allowed to describe a new species, Corbichonia exellii, occurring in Southern Africa (Angola, Namibia and South Africa). C. exellii represents the third species in the genus. Morphological differences between all three Corbichonia species (C. decumbens, C. rubriviolacea, and C. exellii) are provided. The description of the genus is defined using the newly discovered characters (reproductive features). The taxonomy of all Corbichonia species (synonyms included) is provided, as well as maps for all species. The lectotypes of Orygia decumbens (basionym of Corbichonia decumbens) and O. mucronata (synonym of C. decumbens) are designated on specimens preserved, respectively, at BM and K. The genus Corbichonia, recently placed in Lophiocarpaceae, is markedly different from the core genus Lophiocarpus on the basis of embryological, morphological and carpological characters, and deserves further investigation concerning its taxonomic status.

Taxonomic Review of the perciform fish genus Acanthistius from the east coast of southern Africa, with description of a new species and designation of a neotype for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2352 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Shallow Waters ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Warm Temperate ◽  
A New Species

The genus Acanthistius Gill, 1862 comprises ten putative valid species occurring in shallow warm-temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere: South America (coasts of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina) southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa), southern Australia, New Zealand, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec and Easter, and Sala y Gómez islands. Two species: Acanthistius sebastoides (Castelnau, 1861) and Acanthistius sp are known from shallow waters of the east coast of South Africa (Heemstra and Randall, 1986). The latter taxon, previously known from a brief description of a single specimen, is here described from 23 specimens and named Acanthistius joanae. Acanthistius sebastoides is redescribed from 13 specimens and compared with A. joanae and species of Acanthistius known from South America and Australia. A neotype is designated for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861, as the two syntypes are apparently lost.

Notes on Phalangiidae (Arachnida: Opiliones) of southern Africa with description of new species and comments on within-species variation

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4272 (2) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER K. TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Species Variation ◽  
Male Dimorphism ◽  
California Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
A New Species

Notes are provided on a collection of Afrotropical harvestmen (Opiliones: Palpatores: Phalangiidae) from the California Academy of Sciences. A new species of Rhampsinitus, R. conjunctidens n. sp., is described from Limpopo province of South Africa. Rhampsinitus flavobrunneus Staręga 2009 and R. silvaticus Lawrence 1931 are recognised as junior synonyms of R. nubicolus Lawrence 1963 and R. vittatus Lawrence 1931, respectively. Both R. conjunctidens and R. nubicolus are recognised as exhibiting strong male dimorphism with major males exhibiting larger body size and greatly enlarged chelicerae relative to minor males; minor males cannot be readily identified to species without examination of genitalia. A discussion is also provided on generic boundaries within Afrotropical Phalangiidae, and a generic key to males of the region is presented.

scholarly journals Gymnosporia swazica (Celastraceae), a new species from southern Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 192 (4) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Marie Jordaan ◽  
Abraham E. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Small Tree ◽  
African Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
A New Species

Gymnosporia swazica, a new restricted-range southern African species, is described and illustrated here. Known from only a few localities in Swaziland and bordering parts of South Africa (Mpumalanga and northeastern KwaZulu-Natal), G. swazica grows as an understorey shrub or small tree in forest, often among granite boulders. Diagnostic characters for G. swazica include chartaceous leaves, usually shorter than 25 mm, 3-valved capsules usually 6–7 mm long, which are smooth, green turning yellow, and a white aril partially covering the brownish seed. Its closest relative appears to be G. buxifolia (capsules rugose, mottled white-and-brown), one of the most widespread members of the genus in southern Africa, but it can also be confused with G. maranguensis (capsules red, 2-valved) and G. harveyana (capsules pink to red, 3-valved; aril orange, completely covering the seed).

A new species of arboreal microteiid lizard of the genus Euspondylus (Gymnophtalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the Andean slopes of central Peru with comments on Peruvian Euspondylus

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4350 (2) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERMÁN CHÁVEZ ◽  
ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI ◽  
PABLO J. VENEGAS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of arboreal gymnophtalmid lizard from the eastern Andean slopes in central Peru. Euspondylus excelsum sp. nov. is assigned tentatively to this genus for the presence of a transparent and divided lower palpebral disc, a pair of prefrontals, striated, subimbricated and homogeneous dorsal scales, lateral scales reduced in proximity to ventrals, and a discontinuous series of femoral pores in males and females. We include a revision of the type material of E. maculatus and clarify morphological differences with the new species. Finally, we discuss the taxonomic status of Peruvian species of Euspondylus. 

Description of a new, possibly extinct, species of flightless Trox F. (Coleoptera: Trogidae) from South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarke H. Scholtz ◽  
Werner P. Strümpher
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new species, which may already be extinct, of flightless Trox, T. youngai sp.n., is described based on specimens collected 30 years ago from a now severely transformed area in South Africa. It is one of seven members of the natalensis-group of Trox species. All have very localised distributions in small fragments of once considerably larger habitats along the greater eastern escarpment and the coastal edge of southern Africa. is description brings the total number of endemic flightless Trox in the region to 14. A key to the species in the natalensis-group is provided. Furthermore, pronotal and elytral features of diagnostic value are tabulated to aid in the identification of members of this group. All species are illustrated by photographs of habitus and male aedeagi. A map is provided showing the distributions for each of them.

scholarly journals Eliokarmos humanii (Hyacinthaceae, Ornithogaloideae), a new species from Namaqualand in South Africa and a new combination in the genus

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 474 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
MARIO MARTÍNEZ-AZORÍN ◽  
MANUEL B. CRESPO ◽  
MARÍA ÁNGELES ALONSO-VARGAS ◽  
MICHAEL PINTER
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Endemic Genus ◽  
Northern Cape ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the southern Africa endemic genus Eliokarmos, that includes the well-known chincherinchees, is described from the vicinity of Kotzesrus, Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Eliokarmos humanii sp. nov. is unique in the genus based on its single, slightly fleshy, suborbicular, convex leaf with ciliate margin, and the short subspiciform inflorescence with almost sessile flowers. A complete description is presented for this species, and data on morphology, ecology, and distribution are reported. In addition, Ornithogalum richtersveldensis, recently described from northwestern South Africa, is transferred to Eliokarmos based on its morphology and biogeography, and a new combination is presented for this species in the latter genus.

scholarly journals Austronea phyllopogon (Hyacinthaceae, Urgineoideae), a new species from the Kamiesberg, Northern Cape Province in South Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 449 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-206
Author(s):  
MARIO MARTÍNEZ-AZORÍN ◽  
MICHAEL PINTER ◽  
MANUEL B. CRESPO ◽  
MARÍA ÁNGELES ALONSO-VARGAS
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Early Developmental Stages ◽  
Northern Cape ◽  
Early Developmental ◽  
A New Species

Among the recently described genera in Hyacinthaceae subfamily Urgineoideae (= Asparagaceae subfam. Scilloideae tribe Urgineeae), Austronea Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo, M.Pinter & Wetschnig in Martínez-Azorín et al. (2018: 105) includes 20 species restricted to southern Africa (Martínez-Azorín et al. 2018, 2019a, 2019b). Some such species were traditionally included in Urginea Steinheil (1834: 321) or Drimia Jacq. ex Willdenow (1799: 165) sensu lato and resemble those of Fusifilum Rafinesque (1837: 27), a phylogenetic relationship supported by molecular data (Martínez-Azorín et al. in prep.). However, species of Austronea are easily identified by a unique syndrome of morphological characters, the most characteristic being the subcorymbose or congested raceme that commonly nods during early developmental stages, the green to yellowish ovary (in contrast to the white gynoecium of Fusifilum) and the tetrahedrally folded seeds with narrowly winged angles (see Martínez-Azorín et al. 2018).

On the identities of Pinnotheres villosissimus Doflein, 1904, P. dofleini Lenz, in Lenz & Strunck, 1914, and P. pilumnoides Nobili, 1906 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) from the western Indian Ocean

Crustaceana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter K. L. Ng
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
The Third ◽  
A New Species

Abstract Doflein (1904) accidentally transposed the figures for the third maxillipeds of two species of pinnotherid crabs he described, a mistake which has taxonomic consequences. The species he described, Pinnotheres villosissimus Doflein, 1904, from Sumatra, is here referred to its own genus, Trichobezoares n. gen. The specimen Doflein identified as “Pinnotheres sp.” from South Africa was referred to a new species, Pinnotheres dofleini by Lenz (in Lenz & Strunck, 1914) partly based on Doflein’s (1904) incorrect figure of the third maxilliped. To stabilize the taxonomy of this species, Doflein’s specimen is selected as the lectotype; fixing the species as a member of Afropinnotheres Manning, 1993. Pinnotheres pilumnoides Nobili, 1906 (Djibouti) was differentiated from the taxon T. villosissimus partially on differences in the third maxilliped. It is redescribed, figured and shown to be a second species of Trichobezoares. The correct authorship for the species established in Lenz & Strunck (1914) is also discussed.

scholarly journals First record of the genus Paranebalia Claus, 1880 (Crustacea: Leptostraca) from the Mediterranean Sea

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
J. MOREIRA ◽  
J. JUNOY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
A New Species

Benthic monitoring of the marine shallow bottoms off Menorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean) has yielded several specimens of the leptostracan genus Paranebalia Claus, 1880. This finding constitutes the first report of the genus from European latitudes and the Mediterranean Sea and therefore the third leptostracan genus known from the Mediterranean. Specimens are described, illustrated and compared to other known species; they might represent a new species but their state of maturity and the lack of an appropriate diagnosis for the type species of the genus, Paranebalia longipes (Willemöes-Suhm, 1875), did not allow to confirm its taxonomic status.

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