First record for the flora of Italy and lectotypification of the name Linum elegans (Linaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 296 (2) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT P. WAGENSOMMER ◽  
FABRIZIO BARTOLUCCI ◽  
MICHELE FIORENTINO ◽  
WOLFGANG LICHT ◽  
SIMONETTA PECCENINI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
First Record ◽  
Flora Of Italy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gargano Promontory ◽  
Italian Flora ◽  
Iucn Assessment

Linum elegans has been detected in calcareous rocky garrigues on the Gargano promontory (Apulia, SE-Italy), representing the first record for the Italian flora and the first one outside the Balkan Peninsula. The geographical disjunction may provide evidence for past amphi-Adriatic/amphi-Ionic terrestrial connections. The population found was ascribed to L. campanulatum in the past. As a consequence, a comparison between these two species is undertaken. Furthermore, the name L. elegans is here lectotypified on a specimen preserved at G, and the IUCN assessment of the species in Italy is briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Poa jubata (Poaceae), a rare Balkan species, first record for the Italian flora

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Brullo ◽  
Cristian Brullo ◽  
Salvatore Cambria ◽  
Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo ◽  
Pietro Minissale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
First Record ◽  
Temporary Ponds ◽  
Winter Period ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Species ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Italian Flora ◽  
First Time

Abstract Poa jubata A. Kern., an annual South-eastern European species, is reported for the first time from Italy. It is a therophyte linked to temporary ponds with soils flooded during the winter period. It is a very rare and enigmatic species, currently known only from a few localities of the Balkan Peninsula. Recently, it was surveyed in an Apulian wetland, near Brindisi, where it grows with several other annual hygrophytes. For its taxonomical isolation, it is included in a monospecific section, as P. sect. Jubatae. In addition to a detailed description, the chromo-some complement (2n = 14) of this species is examined for the first time and a new iconography is provided.

scholarly journals First record ofPhormia regina(Meigen, 1826) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from mummies at the Sant’Antonio Abate Cathedral of Castelsardo, Sardinia, Italy

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgia Giordani ◽  
Fabiola Tuccia ◽  
Ignazio Floris ◽  
Stefano Vanin
Keyword(s):  
Warm Season ◽  
First Record ◽  
Phormia Regina ◽  
Calliphora Vicina ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Decomposition ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Biodiversity Changes

The studies of insects from archaeological contexts can provide an important supplement of information to reconstruct past events, climate and environments. Furthermore, the list of the species present in an area in the past allows the reconstruction of the entomofauna on that area at that time, that can be different from the nowadays condition, providing information about biodiversity changes. In this work, the results of a funerary archaeoentomological study on samples collected from mummified corpses discovered during the restoration of the crypt of the Sant’Antonio Abate Cathedral of Castelsardo (Sardinia, Italy) are reported. The majority of the sampled specimens were Diptera puparia, whereas only few Lepidoptera cocoons and some Coleoptera fragments were isolated. Among Diptera, Calliphoridae puparia were identified asPhormia regina(Meigen, 1826) andCalliphora vicina, (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) both species typical of the first colonization waves of exposed bodies. Three puparia fragments were also identified as belonging to aSarcophagaMeigen, 1826, species (Sarcophagidae). Several Muscidae puparia of the speciesHydrotaea capensis(Weidmermann, 1818), a late colonizer of bodies, and typical of buried bodies were also collected. The few moth (Lepidoptera) cocoons were identified as belonging to the family Tineidae. This family comprises species feeding on dry tissues and hair typical of the later phases of the human decomposition. Among Coleoptera a single specimen in the family Histeridae,Saprinus semistriatus(Scriba, 1790) and a single elytra, potentially of a species in the family Tenebrionidae, were also collected. Overall, the samples collected indicated an initial colonization of the bodies in an exposed context, mainly in a warm season. This research allows the finding of elements indicating the presence, at least in the past, ofP. reginain Sardinia. This species at the moment seems extinct from Sardinia while it is quite common in the continent.

scholarly journals Thirty thousand years of vegetation development and climate change in Angola (Ocean Drilling Program Site 1078)

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Dupont ◽  
H. Behling ◽  
J.-H. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Vegetation History ◽  
First Record ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Temperatures ◽  
Miombo Woodlands ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Surface Temperatures

Abstract. ODP Site 1078 situated under the coast of Angola provides the first record of the vegetation history for Angola. The upper 11 m of the core covers the past 30 thousand years, which has been analysed palynologically in decadal to centennial resolution. Alkenone sea surface temperature estimates were analysed in centennial resolution. We studied sea surface temperatures and vegetation development during full glacial, deglacial, and interglacial conditions. During the glacial the vegetation in Angola was very open consisting of grass and heath lands, deserts and semi-deserts, which suggests a cool and dry climate. A change to warmer and more humid conditions is indicated by forest expansion starting in step with the earliest temperature rise in Antarctica, 22 thousand years ago. We infer that around the period of Heinrich Event 1, a northward excursion of the Angola Benguela Front and the Congo Air Boundary resulted in cool sea surface temperatures but rain forest remained present in the northern lowlands of Angola. Rain forest and dry forest area increase 15 thousand years ago. During the Holocene, dry forests and Miombo woodlands expanded. Also in Angola globally recognised climate changes at 8 thousand and 4 thousand years ago had an impact on the vegetation. During the past 2 thousand years, savannah vegetation became dominant.

scholarly journals Eastern spread of the invasive Artemia franciscana in the Mediterranean Basin, with the first record from the Balkan Peninsula

Hydrobiologia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 822 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsófia Horváth ◽  
Christophe Lejeusne ◽  
Francisco Amat ◽  
Javier Sánchez-Fontenla ◽  
Csaba F. Vad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
First Record ◽  
Artemia Franciscana ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

The first record of snakes on the Canary Islands: a vertebra from the Upper Miocene of Lanzarote

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco García-Talavera ◽  
Jean-Claude Rage ◽  
Fabiola Barahona
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
First Record ◽  
First Report ◽  
Upper Miocene ◽  
The Past ◽  
Faunal Diversity ◽  
Fossil Site

AbstractThe Upper Miocene fossil site of Orzola in Lanzarote (Canary Islands) has produced an isolated snake vertebra attributable to the Boidae. This is the first report of a snake, either fossil or living, from these islands, which provides further evidence of a greater faunal diversity in the past.

First record of brachyuran crab Heteropanope glabra Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pilumnidae) from India

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jigneshkumar N. Trivedi ◽  
Gunjan M. Soni ◽  
Kauresh D. Vachhrajani
Keyword(s):  
Related Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Brachyuran Crab ◽  
The Past ◽  
De Man ◽  
First Time

Heteropanope glabraStimpson, 1858 belonging to family Pilumnidae is reported for the first time from the mangrove mudflats of India. The identification of the species is difficult because the species shares similar morphological characters with other closely related species likeBenthopanope indica(De Man, 1887). Studies in the past have reported the presence ofH. glabrafrom coastal areas of Burma to Japan. The present study reports the presence ofH. glabraon the western coast of India, which lies outside the old distribution range of the species.

scholarly journals Pulicaria sicula (L.) Moris, a new species in the flora of Montenegro and the westernmost record in the Balkan Peninsula

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Danka Caković ◽  
Danijela Stešević ◽  
Snežana Vuksanović
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
First Record ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Iucn Criteria

This paper presents the details of the first record of Pulicaria sicula in Montenegro and provides the assessment of its conservation category according to the IUCN criteria.

scholarly journals Thirty thousand years of vegetation development and climate change in Angola (Ocean Drilling Program Site 1078)

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Dupont ◽  
H. Behling ◽  
J.-H. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation History ◽  
First Record ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Temperatures ◽  
Miombo Woodlands ◽  
Ocean Drilling Program ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Surface Temperatures

Abstract. ODP Site 1078 situated under the coast of Angola provides the first record of the vegetation history for Angola. The upper 11 m of the core covers the past 30 thousand years, which has been analysed palynologically in decadal to centennial resolution. Alkenone sea surface temperature estimates were analysed in centennial resolution. We studied sea surface temperatures and vegetation development during full glacial, deglacial, and interglacial conditions. During the glacial the vegetation in Angola was very open consisting of grass and heath lands, deserts and semi-deserts, which suggests a cool and dry climate. A change to warmer and more humid conditions is indicated by forest expansion starting in step with the earliest temperature rise in Antarctica, 22 thousand years ago. We infer that around the period of Heinrich Event 1 a northward excursion of the Angola Benguela Front and the Congolian Air Boundary resulted in cool sea surface temperatures and a northward extension of desert vegetation along the coast. Rain forest and dry forest returned 15 thousand years ago. During the Holocene, dry forests and Miombo woodlands expanded. Also in Angola globally recognised climate changes at 8 thousand and 4 thousand years ago had an impact on the vegetation. During the past 2 thousand years, savannah vegetation became dominant.

scholarly journals First record of the genus <i>Beela</i> Banner & Blow, 1960, in upper Pleistocene sediments (past 600Ka) from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning A. Bauch
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Mesh Size ◽  
First Record ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Greenland Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
Neogloboquadrina Pachyderma ◽  
Polar Species ◽  
Continuous Presence ◽  
Almost Continuous

Abstract. Planktonic foraminifers from Pleistocene sediments from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea (NGS) have been subject to intense investigation during the past 20 years. This is mainly due to their almost continuous presence in glacial and interglacial times, and hence, their utility for establishing sound O18-isotopic curves. Traditionally, all are assigned to a polar and subpolar group. Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral) is the only polar species, whereas the subpolar group is made up of Globigerina quinqueloba, G. bulloides, G. universa, N. pachyderma (dextral), N. dutertrei, Globigerinita glutinata, Gl. uvula, Globorotalia inflata, Glr. truncalutinoides, Glr. scitula. N. pachyderma (sinistral) is almost continuously present during glacial/interglacial times. This is in contrast to the subpolar species that show main abundances in interglacial maxima only. Prior to this study, a species belonging to the genus Beela has never been mentioned to occur in Pleistocene sediments north of 55° latitude (Holmes, 1984). My specimens exhibit a thin-walled spinose test; trochospiral becoming streptospiral; last chamber radially elongated but never pointed or digitate; aperture very variable from small umbilical to larger extraumbilical-umbilical. Its size ranges from 200–660μm, but is mainly confined to the 250–500μm mesh-size fraction.These general characteristics agree well with the emendation of the genus Beela by Holmes (1984). Accordingly, the described species will in future be assigned to Beela megastoma (Earland).There is good evidence that Beela megastoma is not simply a ‘warmer water form’ being swept into the NGS by North Atlantic Waters as some of those mentioned above, but a species that seems to. . .

scholarly journals The first record of the Siberian northern shrike (Lanius borealis sibiricus) in Lithuania with molecular confirmation

Biologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vytautas Eigirdas ◽  
Vesta Jonikė
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Species ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome B ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species

Climate change significantly affects biological diversity around the world. Trends of this phenomenon have also been noticed in Lithuania: in the past decades, 55 new bird species have been recorded. The recent record of a new species was done on 3 December 2019. During ordinary birds ringing carried out in Ventės Ragas Ornithological Station in Lithuania, an individual Siberian northern shrike (Lanius borealis sibiricus) was caught and ringed. Additional blood sample was collected for species confirmation. Based on identification keys and molecular mitochondrial cytochrome b analysis, we report that this is the first record of the Siberian northern shrike in Lithuania.

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