scholarly journals Sphaeropezia leucocheila sp. nov. (Stictidaceae): a liverwort pathogen from New Zealand

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 409 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-226
Author(s):  
P. R. JOHNSTON ◽  
D. PARK ◽  
M. A. M. RENNER
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Fruiting Bodies ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
A New Species

Sphaeropezia leucocheila is described as a new species from New Zealand. Known from a single specimen, its fruiting bodies were consistently associated with a patch of dead and dying leaves in a liverwort colony that included several species of Lepidoziaceae. A phylogenetic analysis places this fungus in Sphaeropezia, a genus that includes several putative parasites of liverworts and mosses from the Northern Hemisphere.

On the Anatomy and Histology of Phreoryctes

1890 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 117-119
Author(s):  
Frank E. Beddard
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Reproductive System ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Published Account ◽  
A New Species

(Abstract.)The genus Phreoryctes has been known to zoologists since the year 1843, but there is no published account of the reproductive system sufficiently detailed to permit of comparison with other Oligochæta. The gonads (testes and ovaries) and spermathecœ were discovered by Leydig, who did not distinguish between ovaries and testes, owing to the immature condition of the specimens studied. This writer considered that the genital products were evacuated through the nephridia of their segment. The supposition is, however, incorrect, as genital ducts exist. Mr W. W. Smith of Ashburton, New Zealand, forwarded to the author in the spring of 1888 a single specimen of a new species of Phreoryctes, which was described in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for June 1888 as Phreoryctes Smithii. In that paper the gonads and their ducts were briefly described and figured.

A new species of Conocybe (Bolbitaceae) from Punjab, Pakistan

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 402 (5) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
AIMAN IZHAR ◽  
HIRA BASHIR ◽  
ABDUL NASIR KHALID
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Fruiting Bodies ◽  
Germ Pore ◽  
Central Disc ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

Conocybe punjabensis sp. nov., a species belonging to the saprobic family Bolbitaceae, is illustrated and described from Pakistan based on morphology and molecular evidence. The species can be distinguished on the basis of medium-sized fruiting bodies, a pileus with a dark brown central disc, a fibrillose stipe, forked lamellae near pileus margin, ellipsoid angular basidiospores with an apical germ pore, cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia varying from catenulate, lecythiform to clavate, and lecythiform caulocystidia. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the nuclear ribosomal ITS region also supports the recognition of this new species in Conocybe. Detailed descriptions, photographs, illustrations and comparison with allied taxa are given.

scholarly journals The fungal genus Tricholomopsis (Agaricales) in New Zealand, including Tricholomopsis scabra sp. nov.

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 288 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
JERRY A. COOPER ◽  
DUCKCHUL PARK
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Pinus Radiata ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Native Forests ◽  
Conifer Plantations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fungal Genus

The status of the genus Tricholomopsis (Agaricales) in New Zealand is reviewed. T. rutilans is a species described from the northern hemisphere and recorded from plantations of exotic Pinus radiata in New Zealand. Historical collections identified as T. rutilans were subjected to morphological and phylogenetic analysis. The results show that most of these collections refer to T. ornaticeps, originally described from New Zealand native forests. The presence in New Zealand of T. rutilans was not confirmed. Collections of Tricholomopsis from native forests and bush also include a newly described species, T. scabra, which is characterised by a distinctly scabrous pileus. The new species is phylogenetically and morphologically distinct but related to T. ornaticeps. T. ornaticeps and T. scabra are currently known only from New Zealand and the former has extended its habitat to include exotic conifer plantations.

scholarly journals A new species of Polycoelia (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta), P. kurariirapa, from the Three Kings Islands/Manawatāwhi, New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
R D'Archino ◽  
B Ngauma ◽  
JH Norman ◽  
Giuseppe Zuccarello
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
First Record ◽  
Sister Relationship ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
A New Species

© 2020, © 2020 International Phycological Society. A new species of Polycoelia, P. kurariirapa, is described from the Three Kings Islands/Manawatāwhi, representing the first record of the genus in New Zealand. Polycoelia includes two species from Australia, P. laciniata (generitype) and P. fastigiata, and one from South Africa, P. harveyana. Polycoelia kurariirapa shares with the two Australian species the characteristic vegetative anatomy of the genus consisting of a single layer of medullary cells surrounded by a cortex of small-celled, anticlinal filaments, and branched thalli. The rbcL phylogenetic analysis confirmed the close, and sister, relationship of P. kurariirapa with the Australian taxa, while they were only weakly grouped with P. harveyana. This new genus adds to the unique seaweed flora of these islands in northern New Zealand and indicates that this area may harbour even more hidden diversity.

A new species of Oligosoma (Squamata: Scincidae) from the northern North Island, New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5047 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-415
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN P. BARR ◽  
DAVID G. CHAPPLE ◽  
RODNEY A. HITCHMOUGH ◽  
GEOFF B. PATTERSON ◽  
NGĀTIWAI TRUST BOARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Conservation Priorities ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Cool Temperate ◽  
A New Species

New Zealand is home to a diverse cool temperate assemblage of skinks, with 60+ identified taxa (genus Oligosoma Girard), of which only 50 have been formally described. Here we describe a new species (Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov.) from Bream Head Scenic Reserve, near Whangārei Heads, Northland. This species is considered to be conspecific with a single specimen (Oligosoma “Whirinaki”) previously reported (in 2003) from Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tāne Conservation Park ~370 km further south. Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other members of the genus by a combination of a distinctive “teardrop” marking below the eye, a distinctive mid-lateral stripe, and the colouration and pattern on its ventral surface. Our phylogenetic analyses indicate that Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov. is most closely related to O. zelandicum (Gray), and more distantly to O. striatum (Buller) and O. homalonotum (Boulenger). Sea level changes during the Pliocene, such as the formation of the Manawatū Strait, may have contributed to the divergence between Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov. and O. zelandicum. We discuss the distribution, ecology and conservation of Oligosoma kakerakau sp. nov., and outline future research and conservation priorities for the species.  

scholarly journals New species of Marthamyces and Ramomarthamyces gen. nov. from New Zealand and the Cook Islands

Mycotaxon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-516
Author(s):  
Peter R. Johnston ◽  
Duckchul Park
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Cook Islands ◽  
Fallen Leaves ◽  
A New Species

A leaf-spotting fungus common on Phormium tenax in New Zealand is described here as Marthamyces harakeke sp. nov. The phylogenetic analysis prepared for the description of this new species showed Marthamyces to be polyphyletic. To resolve this, three Marthamyces species from Australia and New Zealand, M. barbatus, M. dracophylli, and M. gilvus, are recombined in the new genus Ramomarthamyces. Morphologically the Ramomarthamyces species differ from Marthamyces in having paraphyses distinctly branched, rather than propoloid. A fungus common on recently fallen leaves of Metrosideros spp. in New Zealand has been previously referred to as Marthamyces emarginatus, but is recognised here as a new species, Marthamyces metrosideri. In addition, two new Marthamyces species, M. maccormackii on Metrosideros collina, and M. renga on Metrosideros collina, Vaccinium cereum, and Weinmannia samoensis, are described from the Cook Islands, and a new Ramomarthamyces species, R. tuku on Juncus sp., is described from New Zealand. Finally, Naemacyclus culmigenus is recombined in Marthamyces .

scholarly journals A new species of Polycoelia (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta), P. kurariirapa, from the Three Kings Islands/Manawatāwhi, New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
R D'Archino ◽  
B Ngauma ◽  
JH Norman ◽  
Giuseppe Zuccarello
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
First Record ◽  
Sister Relationship ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
A New Species

© 2020, © 2020 International Phycological Society. A new species of Polycoelia, P. kurariirapa, is described from the Three Kings Islands/Manawatāwhi, representing the first record of the genus in New Zealand. Polycoelia includes two species from Australia, P. laciniata (generitype) and P. fastigiata, and one from South Africa, P. harveyana. Polycoelia kurariirapa shares with the two Australian species the characteristic vegetative anatomy of the genus consisting of a single layer of medullary cells surrounded by a cortex of small-celled, anticlinal filaments, and branched thalli. The rbcL phylogenetic analysis confirmed the close, and sister, relationship of P. kurariirapa with the Australian taxa, while they were only weakly grouped with P. harveyana. This new genus adds to the unique seaweed flora of these islands in northern New Zealand and indicates that this area may harbour even more hidden diversity.

Crescenticythere, a new enigmatic ostracode from the Tertiary of New Zealand

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 905-906
Author(s):  
Michael A. Ayress
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Unusual Shape

During examination of the large ostracode assemblage collections at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Geology & Geophysics, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a single specimen of unusual shape was encountered. So unusual is the crescentic outline and infolding of the entire shell periphery that assignment even to a phylum was difficult, and it was only upon scanning electron microscopic study that subcentral muscle scars were clearly observed and these enabled confident identification of the specimen as an ostracode. One specimen is not usually considered sufficient to propose a new taxon; however, in this case there is no doubt that this unique specimen clearly represents a new species, genus, and probably family of Ostracoda. A search for additional specimens from the type unit is underway, but has, as yet, been unsuccessful to find this rare intriguing ostracode. Unlike other unusual ostracodes described from the Southern Hemisphere such as the punciids, this specimen appears to have no similarity with Paleozoic taxa.

Culex (Culex) longitubus, A New Species of the Mimeticus Subgroup (Diptera: Culicidae) From Bhutan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradya Somboon ◽  
Thanari Phanitchakun ◽  
Jassada Saingamsook ◽  
Rinzin Namgay ◽  
Ralph E Harbach
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
High Altitudes ◽  
Coi Sequences ◽  
Anal Papillae ◽  
A New Species

Abstract Culex longitubus Somboon, Namgay & Harbach is described as a new species of the Mimeticus Subgroup of the subgenus Culex. The larva is most similar to the larva of Cx. tianpingensis Chen from China, but is distinguished by the length of the siphon and the anal papillae, the form of the comb scales and pecten spines, and the development of setae 7-P, 13-T, 1-X, and 4-X. The adults have wing markings and male genitalia similar to those of species of the Mimeticus Complex. Phylogenetic analysis of COI sequences revealed that the new species is closely related to Cx. murrelli Lien of the Mimulus Complex. The immature stages of the new species were found in stagnant pools and marshes at high altitudes in several districts of Bhutan.

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