Solanum fernandesii (Solanaceae): A new species of ‘spiny solanum’ of the Gardneri clade from northeastern Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 270 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALÉRIA DA SILVA SAMPAIO ◽  
RICARDO LOYOLA DE MOURA ◽  
MARIA IRACEMA BEZERRA LOIOLA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Coastal Plains ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Disturbed Areas ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

A new spiny species of Solanum L., member of the Gardneri clade, is described from northeastern Brazil. Solanum fernandesii is found in open disturbed areas of coastal plains (tabuleiros) in the caatinga biome of the states of Alagoas, Bahia, and Ceará, from sea level to 900 m of altitude. It is morphologically similar to S. agrarium Sendtn., a neotropical species known from hot and dry areas of Colombia, Venezuela, the Caribbean, and central-eastern Brazil. The two species differ mainly in their habit, blade margins, shape of the calyx in fruit, and seeds. The new species is here described and illustrated. According to IUCN, Solanum fernandesii should be regarded as Least Concern (LC).

scholarly journals Vascular flora of semi-arid region, São José do Piauí, state of Piauí, Brazil

Check List ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maura Rejane de Araújo Mendes ◽  
Antonio Alberto Jorge Farias Castro
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Semi Arid

The Caatinga biome is located in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil and covers about 37 % of Piauí state. The main objective of the present study was a characterization of the Caatinga flora of the farm of Morro do Baixio, in state of Piauí, Brazil (06°51’13” S; 41°28’15” W, at 400 to 540 m above sea level) in view of the fact that very few such surveys were conducted in the state. The flora of the farm was surveyed monthly, during a year, to gather herbs, epiphytes, parasites, sub shrubs, shrubs and trees. We encountered 136 species belonging to 46 families, including a new species of Bauhinia. The richest families were Caesalpiniaceae (15 spp.), Fabaceae (11 spp.), Bignoniaceae and Mimosaceae (both with nine spp.). We observed a higher frequency of typical species from sedimentary Caatinga. However, local conditions favor the appearance of species that occur in Carrasco and Cerrado.

scholarly journals Ocellus-bearing Neobythites species (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) from the West Atlantic with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2228 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN ◽  
FRANZ UIBLEIN ◽  
MICHAEL M. MINCARONE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Black Spot ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
The West ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Small Black Spot ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
A New Species

Three species of the ophidiid genus Neobythites containing ocelli in the dorsal fin are known from the West Atlantic: Neobythites gilli Goode and Bean 1885, N. ocellatus Günther 1887 and N. monocellatus Nielsen 1999. In the year 2000, 18 specimens of Neobythites were caught on the upper continental slope off eastern Brazil. This is the first documented record of a Neobythites specimen off Brazil since the holotype of N. ocellatus was caught in 1873. Seventeen of the specimens are referable to N. ocellatus and one to N. monocellatus. Until now the distribution of N. ocellatus was considered to be from off Atlantic Florida, the Caribbean Sea and then a gap of 4500 km to the type locality off Brazil. However, the holotype and the 17 specimens differ from the more northerly recorded specimens in pattern and number of spots and ocelli on the dorsal fin. The 18 Brazilian specimens have two distinct ocelli, one near the origin of the dorsal fin and one above the midpoint of the fish, and further back occasionally a small, black spot, while the northern specimens occasionally have a small, black spot near the origin of the fin, a distinct ocellus above the midpoint and up to three ocelli further posteriorly. Consequently a new species, N. multiocellatus, is described based on 59 specimens from the Caribbean Sea to off Atlantic Florida. The record of the N. monocellatus specimen extends its distribution about 3000 km southwards. A comparison of the four ocellus-bearing species from the West Atlantic is made.

A new species of Dendrophidion (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Atlantic Rain Forest of Northeastern Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2719 (1) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZA MARIA XAVIER FREIRE ◽  
ULISSES CARAMASCHI ◽  
UBIRATAN GONÇALVES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tail Length ◽  
Species Group ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Atlantic Rain Forest ◽  
Basal Region ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Dendrophidion belonging to the D. dendrophis species group is described from Mata do Engenho Coimbra (08°59’S, 35°53’W; 526 m above sea level), Municipality of Ibateguara, in the Atlantic Rainforest remnants of the State of Alagoas, northeastern Brazil. Dendrophidion atlantica sp. nov. is characterized by having 154–163 ventral scales, 140–160 subcaudal scales, tail length 62.2–74.8% of snout–vent length, collar absent, head uniformly brown and dorsal ground color brown, paler on anterior third, with cream transversal lines (one half a scale long), bordered anteriorly and posteriorly by dark brown lines (one half a scale long), distributed from the neck to the tail; hemipenis single, subcylindrical, unicapitate, and unicalyculate; calyces large, well defined, papillate; a series of 12 large spines just below the capitulum, on the asulcate and lateral sides; a series of four spines, two large laterals and two small between them, in the basal region of the asulcate side of the organ body; two large spines on the lateral distal areas of the sulcate side of the hemipenial body; sulcus spermaticus centrolineal, bifurcating at the tip of the capitulum.

Taxonomic notes on Chiococca and Salzmannia (Rubiaceae, Chiococceae) in northeastern Brazil, with a new combination and a new species

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 202 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jomar Gomes Jardim ◽  
CHARLOTTE M. TAYLOR ◽  
Maria REGINA BARBOSA ◽  
MARIA DO CÉO R. PESSOA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Fernando De Noronha ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

Chiococca and Salzmannia are similar and related, but have not been well studied. A review of their morphology clarified their separation and found that some variation documented in Chiococca has been overlooked, and the corolla lobes of Salzmannia are narrowly imbricated, not valvate in bud, and its flowers are protandrous and homostylous, with the style markedly elongated after anthesis. Chiococca is represented in northeastern Brazil by four species, and their distinctions are clarified. The problematic species Erithalis insularis, of Fernando de Noronha Island, better agrees morphologically and biogeographically with Chiococca, and is here transferred to this genus with the new combination Chiococca insularis; Erithalis is therefore restricted to the Caribbean basin. Salzmannia is endemic to coastal eastern and northeastern Brazil, and comprises two species; S. arborea, described here, is found along the coast of Bahia and notable in its tree habit and dimorphic vegetative and reproductive stems.

A new species of Phaenostoma d’Orchymont, 1937 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4236 (2) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUNO CLARKSON ◽  
DANIELA MAEDA TAKIYA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Phaenostoma d’Orchymont, 1937 (Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Coelostomatini) from Brazil is des-cribed and illustrated. Phaenostoma tupiniquim sp. nov. is described based on an adult male specimen from the Caatinga biome in Ceará State (Northeastern Brazil) and two specimens from uncertain localities, but most likely Mato Grosso and Pará States (Central-western and Northern Brazil, respectively). An updated key to the five known species is provided. 

A new species of Geogamasus Lee (Mesostigmata: Ologamasidae), with morphological details on species of the genus

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
Avyla R. A. Barros ◽  
Emiliano B. De Azevedo ◽  
Edmilson S. Silva ◽  
Gilberto J. De Moraes ◽  
Raphael C. Castilho
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural Vegetation ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Tabular Format ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
The World ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
A New Species

Geogamasus lasaroi Barros, Azevedo & Castilho sp. nov. is described based on the morphology of adult females collected from soil-litter of a well preserved fragment of the natural vegetation of the Caatinga biome, in Alagoas state, northeastern Brazil. In addition, key information on the morphology of the world Geogamasus species is presented in a tabular format.

Description of Psidium brevipedunculatum (Myrtaceae), and considerations about the high diversity and endemism for the genus Psidium from Bahia, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 461 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
AMÉLIA CARLOS TULER ◽  
JAIR EUSTÁQUIO QUINTINO DE FARIA ◽  
LESLIE ROGER LANDRUM
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Small Tree ◽  
Leaf Surfaces ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
Herbarium Collections ◽  
A New Species ◽  
High Diversity

Increased sampling in under-collected areas and the digitization of herbarium collections have led to recent findings revealing the high diversity and endemism of the genus Psidium in the state of Bahia. This paper describes a new species of Psidium (Myrtaceae, Myrteae) occurring in the Caatinga biome of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil. It is a shrub or small tree up to 1.5–5 m tall, with of short peduncles (1.5–5 mm long), blades elliptic to obovate, apex with a cuspidate tip, lower leaf surfaces densely tomentose, hairs yellowish brown. The calyx is closed and tears irregularly. An illustration and comments about morphology, distribution and threats are provided.

A new species of Rhabdias (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae), a lung parasite of Pseudopaludicola pocoto (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from north-eastern Brazil: description and phylogenetic analyses

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.H. Morais ◽  
M.I. Müller ◽  
F.T.V. Melo ◽  
A. Aguiar ◽  
Y. Willkens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
South American ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Caatinga Biome ◽  
A New Species ◽  
New Discovery

Abstract Rhabdias pocoto n. sp. is herein described from the lungs of the swamp frog Pseudopaludicola pocoto Magalhães, Loebmann, Nogueira, Kokubum, Baptista, Haddad & Garda, 2014, from the Caatinga biome in the state of Ceará, in north-eastern Brazil. The new species is characterized by a body that dilates posteriorly, six small lips (protuberances) and two rounded lateral expansions of cuticular inflation on the anterior end, each containing an amorphous gland-like structure inside and a short and conical tail. Additionally, molecular analysis and comparison of the partial mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I sequence of R. pocoto n. sp. revealed genetic divergence between the new species and the sequences of Rhabdias spp. previously deposited in GenBank. Phylogenetic analysis grouped the new taxon into the R. pseudosphaerocephala species complex + R. glaurungi clade. The new discovery represents the 19th species of Rhabdias spp. described in the Neotropical region, the ninth in Brazil and the first species of Rhabdias found parasitizing South American frogs of the genus Pseudopaludicola, as well as the first Caatinga biome species of Rhabdias.

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