Salsola strobilifera (Chenopodiaceae), a new combination for a remarkable Australian taxon

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 409 (5) ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
SERGEI L. MOSYAKIN
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The new combination Salsola strobilifera is proposed for the morphologically remarkable Australian taxon originally described by Bentham as S. kali var. strobilifera (basionym). The latter name is lectotypified on a specimen from K (barcode K000899590) that was collected in New South Wales by Beckler during the Burke and Wills Victoria Exploring Expedition of 1860–1861, and was studied by Bentham for his Flora Australiensis. Earlier taxonomic treatments and other studies of “strobiliferous” native Australian plants (having short ovoid to almost globular strobile-like terminal inflorescences which are easily broken off at maturity) are briefly discussed and summarized. Judging from available morphological and partly molecular evidence, there are at least two “strobiliferous” morphotypes in Australia, one probably more closely related to S. australis sensu stricto and another more similar to S. sabrinae (= S. tragus subsp. grandiflora). It is concluded that Salsola sensu stricto is represented in Australia and adjacent islands by several (four or five, probably more) rather distinct native taxa that should be better recognized as separate species. On the basis of their morphological distinctiveness, these taxa are comparable to many other currently recognized Eurasian ones. The presence of Eurasian alien species also cannot be excluded. The need for a comprehensive study of Australian taxa of Salsola is emphasized.

Redescription of Orthoprotella mayeri K.H. Barnard, 1916 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from Cape Province, South Africa and description of O. berentsae sp. nov. from New South Wales, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1632 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
ICHIRO TAKEUCHI ◽  
JAMES K. LOWRY
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
South Wales

Close examination of Orthoprotella mayeri K.H. Barnard, 1916 (sensu lato) which has been recorded from South Africa and New South Wales, Australia, revealed that there are two distinct species from Cape Province, South Africa and New South Wales, Australia, respectively. The present paper provides a redescription of O. mayeri K.H. Barnard, 1916 (sensu stricto) from South Africa and a description of O. berentsae sp. nov. from New South Wales, Australia. The two species can be identified based on the morphology of antenna 2, pereonites 6 and 7, and the uropods, although characteristic body somites of both species resemble other species.

New and interesting Saxicolous species of strigula

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 513-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.M. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
South Wales

AbstractThe saxicolous Strigula fractans sp. nov. and S. rupestris sp. now are described from Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia. A new combination, S. decipiens (Malme) P. M. McCarthy, is proposed for Porina decipiens Malme, and a key to the 17 saxicolous species of Strigula is provided.

scholarly journals The genera Carpias Richardson, Ianiropsis Sars and Janaira Moreira & Pires (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae) from Australia, with description of three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2625 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRENDA LÍA DOTI ◽  
GEORGE D. F. WILSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Shallow Waters ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of janirid isopods are described: Carpias montaguensis sp. nov., Ianiropsis alanmillari sp. nov. and Janaira platyoura sp. nov.; all three were collected in shallow waters of southern New South Wales, Australia. Our report represents new records for these genera in Australian waters. Janaira platyoura sp. nov. is the second species added to this genus, so a revision of generic diagnosis was required. The diagnostic features of Carpias and Ianiropsis are also discussed and a new combination for the species Ianiropsis varians Winkler & Brandt, 1993 is proposed. Keys to the species of Carpias and Ianiropsis are presented.

Taxonomy and Aspects of the Life History of Australian Beachworms (Polychaeta : Onuphidae)

1979 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 265 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Paxton
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Electrophoretic Mobility ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Glucosephosphate Isomerase ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Polymorphic Species ◽  
History Of

Australian beachworms, recognized by specialists as one species Onuphis teres (Ehlers 1868), and by fishermen as a number of forms, were studied to determine whether more than one species was involved. Monthly sampling at a study site (Narrabeen, New South Wales) and collections from other localities were undertaken to study the morphology of beachworms, electrophoretic mobility of glucosephosphate isomerase and aspects of their life history. Three forms of beachworms-slimy, stumpy and kingworm-occur at the study site. Stumpies were found to be young kingworms, while slimy represents a separate species. The two species belong to Americonuphis Orensanz, 1974; the name is preoccupied and is replaced with Australonuphis. The holotype of A. teres is a kingworm and the closely related slimy is described as A. Parateres, sp. nov. Four other forms of beachworms were collected from northern New South Wales and Queensland: stripey, giant, wiry and white-headed wiry. These forms are referred to Onuphis. Stripey and giant are morphologically distinct and are described as O. taeniata, sp. nov., and O. gygis, sp. nov., respectively. Wiry and white-headed wiry belong to a polymorphic species described as O, mariahirsuta, sp. nov.

Additions to the Family Megalosporaceae in Tasmania and Mainland australia

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gintaras Kantvilas
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
New Records ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Combination ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Ecological Patterns

AbstractTwo new species are described: .Megalospora occidentalis Kantvilas from Western Australia, with solitary muriform ascospores; M. pulverata Kantvilas from Tasmania, with typically two-spored asci and bicellular ascospores. The new combination M. melanodermia var. galactocarpa (Zahlbr.) Kantvilas is proposed. Megalospora taylori Dodge, described from Tasmania, is a synonym of M. gompholoma subsp. fuscolineata Sipman. New records are reported for Megaloblastenia flavidoatra(Nyl.) Sipman (from Tasmania), .Megalospora disjuncta Sipman (from New South Wales and Queensland), and M. subtuberculosa (Knight) Sipman (from New South Wales). Additional data for Austroblastenia pupa Sipman, M. gompholomasubsp. fuscolineata Sipman and M. lopadioides Sipman, and a key for the family in Australia are presented. M. disjuncta Sipman is lectotypified. Biogeographical and ecological patterns are discussed briefly.

Cyanea capillata is not a cosmopolitan jellyfish: morphological and molecular evidence for C. annaskala and C. rosea (Scyphozoa:Semaeostomeae:Cyaneidae) in south-eastern Australia

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Sequence Difference ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
South Eastern Australia

The taxonomic status of the lion’s mane jellyfish, Cyanea, of south-eastern Australia has been unsettled since 1884 when medusae from Port Jackson were described as a new variety of C. annaskala von Lendenfeld rather than assigned to C. rosea Quoy & Gaimard described previously from the same location. Cyanea annaskala was later combined with C. mullerianthe Haacke then synonymised with C. capillata (Linnaeus), which is now considered a circumglobal species, before being resurrected as a subspecies, C. capillata annaskala, in 1986. Here I demonstrate that Cyanea in southern New South Wales and Cyanea in Tasmania and Victoria constitute two distinct morphological groups separated by >10% sequence difference in both cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and internal transcribed spacer 1. Moreover, these clades are molecularly distinct (>6%) from C. capillata collected in its North Sea type locality. Analyses of medusae from another type locality, Port Philip Bay, Victoria, demonstrate that Cyanea annaskala von Lendenfeld is a valid species. Cyanea rosea is tentatively resurrected for medusae from New South Wales, pending confirmation by analyses of medusae from the vicinity of Sydney. Assigning other south-eastern Australian Cyanea specimens from museum collections to species is difficult in the absence of molecular analyses because biogeographic and morphological inferences sometimes conflict. Integrative molecular and morphological analyses of medusae from type localities may offer the most robust approach to straightening out the often convoluted systematics of scyphomedusae.

scholarly journals Following the Phoenician example: western Mediterranean colonization by Spirobranchus cf. tetraceros (Annelida: Serpulidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Ferran Palero ◽  
Hector Torrado ◽  
Orly Perry ◽  
Elena Kupriyanova ◽  
Aylin Ulman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
New South ◽  
First Record ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Large Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Taxonomic Research ◽  
Established Population

A newly established population of the fouling polychaete Spirobranchus cf. tetraceros is reported from the western Mediterranean (Valencia Port). Despite previous intensive surveys, this is the first record for the taxon in the Iberian Peninsula. Molecular analyses revealed that S. cf. tetraceros from Valencia are genetically identical to specimens from Heraklion, Crete, but different from those collected in the Red Sea and S. tetraceros sensu stricto from the type locality in Australia. Mediterranean and Red Sea S. cf. tetraceros form a well-supported monophyletic clade but are clearly distinct from New South Wales specimens of S. tetraceros. Our new molecular evidence supports the hypothesis that S. tetraceros is not a global invader of Australian origin but rather a large species complex in need of a comprehensive worldwide revision. These results highlight the importance of integrative taxonomic research for species with reported global distributions because these taxa may include cryptic invaders. An illustrated morphological account of the Valencia and Heraklion specimens and a taxonomic key for Spirobranchus species in the Mediterranean Sea are provided.

Biosystematics of the Brachyscome aculeata (Labill.) Less. sensu G.L. Davis species complex (Compositae: Asterae).

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 425 ◽  
Author(s):  
HM Stace
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Sympatric Species ◽  
B Chromosomes ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Genetic Barriers

B. aculeata (Labill.) Less. (New South Wales and Victoria), B. cuneifolia Tate (South Australia), B. sieberi var. gunnii DC. (Tasmania) and B. spathulata Gaudich. ( = B. scapiformis DC.) (New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) are names shown to refer to separate species. The two varieties of B. spathulata have been recognized as two subspecies: subsp. spathulata (mainland Australia) and subsp, glabra (Tasmania). All species are n = 9 or polyploid on n = 9. Small B-chromosomes have been found at high frequency in B. sieberi var. gunnii and B. aculeata, but rarely in B. spathulata. Strong genetic barriers separate pairs of sympatric species.

A review of the Australian rutelinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaedae)

1958 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
PB Carne
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Sensory Organs ◽  
South Wales

The subfamily Rutelinae is represented in Australia (including Tasmania) by 21 genera comprising 96 species and 6 subspecies. Of these, two species belong to the tribe Anomalini, one to the Adoretini, and the remainder to the indigenous tribe Anoplognathini. The subfamily is well represented in Queensland and in New South Wales, poorly so in Tasmania and in Western Australia. Of the two subtribes of the Anoplognathini, the Schizognathina is the more highly specialized. Some genera include forms that have sexually dimorphic modifications of the mouthparts and sensory organs that are very similar to those of some Dynastinae. The following alterations and additions are made to the taxonomy of the group : New genera. - Exochogenys, Dungoorus. New species. - Paraschizognathus brunneus, elgatus, elgatus subsp. kiewarrus, ocularis, pinarus, queenslandicus, tubrabuccae; Schizognathus rugulosus; Amblyterus deuqueti, simplicitarsus bundabergensis, tibialis; Mesystoechus costatus; Dungoorus murrumbullus. Species names placed in synonymy. - Repsirnus purpureipes Macleay (under R. aeneus (F.)) ; Calloodes nitidissimus Lea (frenchi Ohaus); Anoplognathus antiquus Arrow (Trioplognathus griseopilosus Ohaus) ; Pseudoschizognathus occidentalis Ohaus (schoenfeldti Ohaus). New combination. - Exochogenys nigripennis (Blanchard). Changes of status. - Repsimus manicatus (Swartz) var. montanus Lea given subspecific status. Genus Mesystoechus Waterhouse transferred from tribe Rutelini to tribe Anoplognathini.

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