Paracarphalea, a new genus of the coffee family segregated from the Malagasy endemic genus Carphalea (Rubiaceae, Rubioideae, Knoxieae)

The Malagasy genus Carphalea (Rubiaceae) consists of six species (C. angulata, C. cloiselii, C. kirondron, C. linearifolia, C. madagascariensis, C. pervilleana) of shrubs or small trees and is recognizable by a distinctly lobed calyx, 2(–4)-locular ovaries, each locule with several ovules on a rod-like stalk arising from the base of the locule, and indehiscent fruits. Carphalea linearifolia, rediscovered in 2010, has not previously been included in any Rubiaceae molecular phylogenetic studies. We re-investigated the monophyly of Carphalea using sequence data from chloroplast (rps16 and trnT-F) and nuclear (ITS and ETS) markers analysed with parsimony and Bayesian methods. Carphalea linearifolia forms a clade with C. cloiselii and the type species C. madagascariensis. This clade is sister to a clade consisting of the rest of the Carphalea species plus the genus Triainolepis. According to these results, the new genus Paracarphalea is here described to accommodate Carphalea angulata, C. kirondron, and C. pervilleana. The conservation status of Carphalea linearifolia is assessed as critically endangered according to IUCN criteria.

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Nothodissotis (Melastomataceae), a new genus from Atlantic Central Africa, including the new species N. alenensis from Equatorial Guinea

PhytoKeys ◽

10.3897/phytokeys.118.31572 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 118 ◽

pp. 89-103

Author(s):

Marie Claire Veranso-Libalah ◽

Olivier Lachenaud ◽

Robert Douglas Stone ◽

Gudrun Kadereit

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Central Africa ◽

Equatorial Guinea ◽

Rock Outcrops ◽

Forested Region ◽

Iucn Criteria

Based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence, a new genus of Melastomataceae (Melastomateae), Nothodissotis Veranso-Libalah & G.Kadereit, gen. nov., is described from Atlantic Central Africa. Nothodissotis is distinguished from other African Melastomateae genera by its calyx-lobes that are notched at apex and asymmetrical (vs. entire and symmetrical). Nothodissotis includes two species: the type species N.barteri (Hook.f.) Veranso-Libalah & G.Kadereit, comb. nov. (syn. Dissotisbarteri Hook.f.), and the new species N.alenensis Veranso-Libalah & O. Lachenaud, sp. nov., described and illustrated here. Both species are restricted to open vegetation on rock outcrops within the forested region of Atlantic Central Africa. Nothodissotisbarteri has a scattered distribution in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Príncipe Island, while N.alenensis is endemic to the Monte Alén massif in Equatorial Guinea, an area where N.barteri does not occur. Nothodissotisalenensis differs from N.barteri by its hypanthium bearing sessile appendages with penicillate hairs (vs. stalked stellate appendages) and its staminal appendages that are much smaller in antepetalous than in antesepalous stamens (vs. subequal in all stamens). The conservation status of both N.barteri and N.alenensis is assessed as Vulnerable in accordance with IUCN criteria.

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A new genus and species of mud crab (Crustacea, Brachyura, Panopeidae) from shoreline waters of the western Gulf of Mexico

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4845.3.7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4845 (3) ◽

pp. 425-435

Author(s):

DARRYL L. FELDER ◽

BRENT P. THOMA

Keyword(s):

Gulf Of Mexico ◽

New Genus ◽

Sequence Data ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Taxonomic Description ◽

Phylogenetic Studies ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Rocky Habitats ◽

Sequence Quality ◽

Unique Species

Several specimens of a small panopeid crab from coastal waters of the western Gulf of Mexico were long suspected to represent an undescribed species and are herein designated as representatives of a new genus. While the originally collected specimens from over four decades ago were not of gene-sequence quality, later collections from the same locality produced materials that yielded sequence data for inclusion in molecular phylogenetic studies. Building on results of those analyses, the present taxonomic description draws upon morphology to support the description of a unique species in which especially the male first gonopods differ from those of all other described panopeid genera. To date, the species remains known from only two western Gulf of Mexico sites, both of which are wave-washed intertidal rocky habitats where substrates are heavily burrowed by boring bivalves and sipunculans. While we cannot exclude the possibility that the species was introduced, recurrent collections show its populations to be at very least persistent, the species most likely being a long-overlooked among a confusing hard-substrate assemblage of small panopeid crabs.

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Lintersemina (Rubiaceae: Condamineeae), a new and enigmatic genus from the Magdalena Medio Region of Colombia

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.451.1.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 451 (1) ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

HUMBERTO MENDOZA-CIFUENTES ◽

ANGELA CELIS ◽

EDUARDO TOVAR ◽

MAILYN A. GONZÁLEZ

Keyword(s):

Population Density ◽

National Park ◽

New Genus ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Single Species ◽

Sister Group ◽

Central Portion ◽

Full Description ◽

Iucn Criteria

A new genus, Lintersemina (Condamineeae, Rubiaceae), with a single species, L. chucuriensis is here described, based on recent collections made during a biological exploration to the Magdalena Medio Region of Santander Department, central portion of Colombia. This region is of high interest for both the high endemicity of its flora and fauna and the critical conservation status of this biodiversity due to high levels of deforestation. Lintersemina is unique within the tribe Condamineeae for the following combination of characters: axillary, long-pedunculate inflorescences, loculicidal capsules with 1-2 seeds per locule, and large navicular seeds. Based on phylogenies obtained using plastid and nuclear sequence data, the genus is positioned in the Condamineeae (subfamily Ixoroideae), as a sister group to the genera Simira and Parachimarrhis. This new genus is only known from two localities at the foothills of the Yariguíes National Park, in the municipalities of El Carmen de Chucurí and Zapatoca, at 400–800 m elevation, in forest undercanopy, near streams. Threats of deforestation and a very low population density were assessed, and this species classified as Critically Endangered (CR) following IUCN criteria. Full description and illustrations are also included.

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A new genus for the tiny hawk Accipiter superciliosus and semicollared hawk A. collaris (Aves: Accipitridae), with comments on the generic name for the crested goshawk A. trivirgatus and Sulawesi goshawk A. griseiceps

Vertebrate Zoology ◽

10.3897/vz.71.e67501 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 71 ◽

pp. 419-424

Author(s):

George Sangster ◽

Guy M. Kirwan ◽

Jérôme Fuchs ◽

Edward C. Dickinson ◽

Andy Elliott ◽

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Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Sister Species ◽

Generic Level ◽

Phylogenetic Studies ◽

Phylogenetic Data ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Data ◽

Osteological Characters

Abstract Multiple molecular phylogenetic studies have demonstrated that two Neotropical raptors, tiny hawk Accipiter superciliosus and its sister species semicollared hawk A. collaris, are not closely related to core Accipiter, and that A. superciliosus, at least, possesses osteological characters not replicated in the remainder of the genus. Based on these data, there is a need to recognise their distinctiveness at generic level. However, as recently noted in two global bird checklists, no name is available to accommodate them, so we provide a new nomen here. Furthermore, two Asian accipitrids, crested goshawk A. trivirgatus and its presumed closest relative Sulawesi goshawk A. griseiceps, are also phylogenetically distinctive; in this case the genus-group name Lophospiza is applicable. We also designate type species for two genus-group names (Hieraspiza and Eusparvius) currently in the synonymy of Accipiter, and, as an aid to future workers, we provide a synonymy of the genus Accipiter and a list of species currently included in Accipiter for which published molecular phylogenetic data are apparently lacking.

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Taxonomic novelties in Neotropical Chrysobalanaceae: towards a monophyletic Couepia

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.172.3.2 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 172 (3) ◽

pp. 176 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Cynthia Sothers ◽

Ghillean Prance ◽

Sven Buerki ◽

Rogier De Kok ◽

Mark Chase

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Phylogenetic Studies ◽

The Family ◽

Cast Doubt ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Taxonomic Changes ◽

Taxonomic Novelties

Recent molecular phylogenetic studies in Chrysobalanaceae as well as new analyses presented in this study cast doubt on the monophyly of the three largest genera in the family, Couepia, Hirtella and Licania. Couepia, a Neotropical genus, had species appearing in four separate clades, the majority of species sequenced, however, form a highly supported clade, referred to here as core Couepia (including the type species). These results lend support to a revised taxonomy of the genus, and to resolve Couepia as monophyletic the following taxonomic changes are here proposed: Couepia recurva should be transferred to Hirtella, C. platycalyx transferred to Licania, C. longipendula and C. dolichopoda transferred to Acioa, and a new genus, Gaulettia, is proposed to accommodate species of the Gaulettia clade and allies.

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Crossopsorella, a new tropical genus of rust fungi

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.375.3.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 375 (3) ◽

pp. 189

Author(s):

ERICA S. C. SOUZA ◽

M. CATHERINE AIME ◽

SAMUEL G. ELIAS ◽

DANILO B. PINHO ◽

ROBERT. N. G. MILLER ◽

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Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Rust Fungi ◽

28S Rdna ◽

Phylogenetic Studies ◽

The Subject

Prior phylogenetic studies of rust fungi have shown the Phakopsoraceae as polyphyletic. However, most of the ca. 13 genera currently placed in Phakopsoraceae s.l. have not been the subject of phylogenetic analyses. In this study we examine the placement of several species of Crossopsora (Phakopsoraceae) from newly generated nuc 28S rDNA (28S) sequence data. While the type species, C. ziziphi, cannot be excluded from the Phakopsoraceae s.s., several other species, including C. byrsonimae, are not congeneric with the type. Herein we describe the new genus Crossopsorella, based on C. byrsonimae as the type, to accommodate specimens of this species found in four different Byrsonima species.

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Asian Betylobraconinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with description of a new genus and phylogenetic affinities of the tribe Facitorini

Insect Systematics & Evolution ◽

10.1163/187631208788784110 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 133-154 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Alberto Sáez ◽

Kaoru Maeto ◽

Alejandro Zaldivar-Riverón ◽

Sergey Belokobylskij

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

28S Rrna ◽

Asian Region ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Phylogenetic Affinities ◽

One New Species ◽

Rrna Sequences

AbstractThe taxonomy of the Asian genera of the subfamily Betylobraconinae, a small and understudied group within the hymenopteran family Braconidae, is revised. A new genus exclusively from the Asian region, Asiabregma gen. nov., containing three species (A. ryukyuensis sp. nov. (type species, Japan and Malaya), A. makiharai sp. nov. (Japan) and A. sulaensis (van Achterberg), comb. nov. (Indonesia)) is described. One new species of Aulosaphobracon, A. striatus sp. nov. from Vietnam, and one of Facitorus, F. amamioshimus sp. nov. from Japan, are also described. Based on molecular phylogenetic analyses using COI mtDNA and 28S rRNA sequences, the three genera previously placed in the tribe Facitorini, Facitorus, Conobregma and Jannya, together with Asiabregma gen. nov., are transferred to the rogadine tribe Yeliconini.

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Apertochrysa (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae): A heterogeneric phantom?

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.4 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4238 (1) ◽

pp. 58 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

ATSUSHI MOCHIZUKI ◽

CHARLES S. HENRY ◽

PETER DUELLI

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

Morphological Traits ◽

New Genus ◽

Sequence Data ◽

New Combination ◽

Wing Venation ◽

Monophyletic Clade ◽

Molecular Sequence Data ◽

Molecular Sequence ◽

Group Relationships

The small lacewing genus Apertochrysa comprises species from Africa, Asia and Australia. All lack a tignum, but otherwise resemble distantly related genera. We show that Apertochrysa does not form a monophyletic clade, based on analyses of molecular sequence data and morphological traits such as the presence and shape of the male gonapsis, wing venation, and larval setae. Apertochrysa kichijoi forms a clade with Eremochrysa, Suarius and Chrysemosa, whereas A. albolineatoides belongs to a clade that includes Cunctochrysa. Apertochrysa albolineatoides should become a new combination as Cunctochrysa albolineatoides, while A. kichijoi will have to be transferred to a new genus. The Australian A. edwardsi, the African A. eurydera and the type species of the genus Apertochrysa, A. umbrosa, join the large Pseudomallada group. Relationships of A. umbrosa are less certain, because for it we could amplify only one of the three nuclear genes used in the overall analysis. However, in all morphological traits tested, that species strongly resembles A. edwardsi and A. eurydera and thus is very likely just another exceptional Pseudomallada lacking a tignum. The fate of the genus name Apertochrysa depends on additional molecular and morphological analyses of A. umbrosa.

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Phylogenetic relationships of Mediterranean black corals (Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Hexacorallia) and implications for classification within the order Antipatharia

Invertebrate Systematics ◽

10.1071/is17043 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (5) ◽

pp. 1102 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

M. Bo ◽

M. Barucca ◽

M. A. Biscotti ◽

M. R. Brugler ◽

A. Canapa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Coral Fauna ◽

Black Coral ◽

Phylogenetic Studies ◽

Black Corals ◽

The Family ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Its1 And Its2 Rdna ◽

Its1 And Its2

The Mediterranean black coral fauna includes type species of four antipatharian genera belonging to four different families, therefore phylogenetic studies hold great potential for enhancing systematics within the order. The analysis of six Mediterranean antipatharian species by means of nuclear sequence data of internal transcribed spacer (ITS1 and ITS2) rDNA confirms the separation into different families, as was previously noted on a morphological basis, with a clear distinction of the family Leiopathidae, whose position is supported by a unique number of mesenteries and lack of spines on thicker ramifications. The position of a newly recorded black coral species for the Mediterranean basin belonging to the genus Phanopathes is discussed. Antipathes dichotoma, the type species of the genus Antipathes, on which the order Antipatharia was based, does not group with other members of the family Antipathidae. Supporting a recent finding based on mitochondrial markers, this suggests a critical need for revision of the families that will be impacted by reassignment of this nomenclaturally important taxon.

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A molecular phylogenetic and DNA barcode assessment of the tribe Pterosiphonieae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) emphasizing the Northeast Pacific

Botany ◽

10.1139/cjb-2016-0083 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 94 (10) ◽

pp. 917-939 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Amanda M. Savoie ◽

Gary W. Saunders

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

North American ◽

New Genus ◽

Sequence Data ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Dna Barcode ◽

Sensu Stricto ◽

North American Species ◽

African Species ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic

Sequence data (COI-5P and rbcL) for North American members of the tribe Pterosiphonieae were compared with collections from around the world. Phylogenetic analyses resolved Pterosiphonia as polyphyletic and many species required transfer to other genera. In our analyses Pterosiphonia sensu stricto included only the type species P. cloiophylla (C. Agardh) Falkenberg and P. complanata (Clemente) Falkenberg, as well as the South African species P. stegengae sp. nov. A new genus, Xiphosiphonia gen. nov., was described for X. ardreana (Maggs & Hommersand) comb. nov., X. pennata (C. Agardh) comb. nov., and X. pinnulata (Kützing) comb. nov. Some Asian, European and North American species previously attributed to Pterosiphonia were transferred to Symphyocladia including S. baileyi (Harvey) comb. nov., S. dendroidea (Montagne) comb. nov., S. plumosa nom. nov. (for P. gracilis Kylin), and S. tanakae (S. Uwai & M. Masuda) comb. nov. We also described two new North American species, Symphyocladia brevicaulis sp. nov. and S. rosea sp. nov. Other species formed a well-supported clade for which the genus name Polyostea Ruprecht was resurrected. Included in Polyostea were P. arctica (J. Agardh) comb. nov., P. bipinnata (Postels & Ruprecht) Ruprecht, P. hamata (E.S. Sinova) comb. nov., and P. robusta (N.L. Gardner) comb. nov.

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