Multigene phylogeny and morphology reveal a new species, Ophiocordyceps vespulae, from Jilin Province, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 478 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
FENG-YAO LONG ◽  
LI-WU QIN ◽  
YUAN-PIN XIAO ◽  
KEVIN D. HYDE ◽  
SHAO-XIAN WANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Changbai Mountains ◽  
Evolutionary Relationships ◽  
Multigene Phylogeny ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
A New Species

Ophiocordyceps is entomopathogenic and is the best studied genus in Ophiocordycipitaceae. Members of Ophiocordyceps and ants form sophisticated interactions. However, taxonomy and evolutionary relationships of this group of pathogens remain unclear. During a survey in Changbai Mountains, Jiling Province, China, a new entomogenous species, Ophiocordyceps vespulae sp. nov. was found as a parasite on wasps (Hymenoptera). The new species is introduced with evidence from morphology and molecular analysis. This species is distinguished from closely related species by white to faint yellow stromata, shorter ascomata and asci, and smaller ascospores. We provide a phylogeny for Ophiocordyceps based on combined LSU, ITS, TEF1α and RPB2 DNA sequence data and the taxonomic status of the species is briefly discussed.

A new Liopeltis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4766 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-484
Author(s):  
HANNAH E. SOM ◽  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
PERRY L. JR. WOOD ◽  
EVAN S. H. QUAH ◽  
RAFE M. BROWN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Tropical Asia ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Liopeltis is a genus of poorly known, infrequently sampled species of colubrid snakes in tropical Asia. We collected a specimen of Liopeltis from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia, that superficially resembled L. philippina, a rare species that is endemic to the Palawan Pleistocene Aggregate Island Complex, western Philippines. We analyzed morphological and mitochondrial DNA sequence data from the Pulau Tioman specimen and found distinct differences to L. philippina and all other congeners. On the basis of these corroborated lines of evidence, the Pulau Tioman specimen is described as a new species, L. tiomanica sp. nov. The new species occurs in sympatry with L. tricolor on Pulau Tioman, and our description of L. tiomanica sp. nov. brings the number of endemic amphibians and reptiles on Pulau Tioman to 12. 

A new species of trypanosome, Trypanosoma desterrensis sp. n., isolated from South American bats

Parasitology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. GRISARD ◽  
N. R. STURM ◽  
D. A. CAMPBELL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
South American ◽  
Sequence Variability ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Hybridization Probes ◽  
5S Rrna Gene ◽  
A New Species

Trypanosomes isolated from South American bats include the human pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi. Other Trypanosoma spp. that have been found exclusively in bats are not well characterized at the DNA sequence level and we have therefore used the SL RNA gene to differentiate and characterize kinetoplastids isolated from bats in South America. A Trypanosoma sp. isolated from bats in southern Brazil was compared with the geographically diverse isolates T. cruzi marinkellei, T. vespertilionis, and T. dionisii. Analysis of the SL RNA gene repeats revealed size and sequence variability among these bat trypanosomes. We have developed hybridization probes to separate these bat isolates and have analysed the DNA sequence data to estimate their relatedness. A new species, Trypanosoma desterrensis sp. n., is proposed, for which a 5S rRNA gene was also found within the SL RNA repeat.

scholarly journals Helminthosporium velutinum and H. aquaticum sp. nov. from aquatic habitats in Yunnan Province, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 253 (3) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAN ZHU ◽  
ZONG-LONG LUO ◽  
DARBHE JAYARAMA BAHT ◽  
ERIC.H.C. MCKENZIE ◽  
ALI H. BAHKALI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Tree ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Its Sequence ◽  
Aquatic Habitats ◽  
Submerged Wood ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
A New Species

Helminthosporium species from submerged wood in streams in Yunnan Province, China were studied based on morphology and DNA sequence data. Descriptions and illustrations of Helminthosporium velutinum and a new species H. aquaticum are provided. A combined phylogenetic tree, based on SSU, ITS and LSU sequence data, place the species in Massarinaceae, Pleosporales. The polyphyletic nature of Helminthosporium species within Massarinaceae is shown based on ITS sequence data available in GenBank.

A new species of big-headed, fanged dicroglossine frog (Genus Limnonectes) from Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1807 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID S. McLEOD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Base Pairs ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
16S Gene ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the dicroglossine genus Limnonectes from eastern Thailand and its tadpole are described. Analysis of DNA sequence data from 2518 base-pairs of the mitochondrial 12S and 16S gene regions places the species within the complex of frogs currently referred to as Limnonectes kuhlii and demonstrates it to be a separate lineage (>18% sequence divergence from type-material of L. kuhlii from Java). The new species differs from L. kuhlii by having nuptial pads, a greater snout–vent length, and different relative finger lengths than specimens from Java. It has more extensive toe webbing, a different arrangement of nuptial pads, and a greater snout–vent length than Limnonectes laticeps. The new species, which lacks vocal slits, also can be distinguished from the morphologically similar Limnonectes namiyei from Japan, which possesses vocal slits.

Eupholidoptera karatolosi sp.n. and E. mirzayani sp.n. (Orthoptera,  Tettigoniidae), two new bushcrickets from Greece and Iran

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1562 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
MOHSEN MOFIDI-NEYESTANAK ◽  
DONALD L.J. QUICKE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Species Relationships ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Two New Species

Eupholidoptera karatolosi Mofidi-Neyestanak & Quicke from Greece and E. mirzayani Mofidi-Neyestanak & Quicke from Iran, two new species of bushcrickets (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae: Platycleidini), are described and distinguished from closely related species based on morphology. Species relationships within Eupholidoptera Maran are discussed and some species are given new assignments. A simplified illustrated identification key to the species of Eupholidoptera is provided to accommodate the new species. They are being described since they have been used to generate DNA sequence data that will be published elsewhere as part of a phylogenetic study of the tribe Platycleidini.

scholarly journals A new species of the blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3616 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
HELEN K. LARSON ◽  
RALPH FOSTER ◽  
WILLIAM F. HUMPHREYS ◽  
MARK I. STEVENS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
The Third ◽  
Blind Cave ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the eyeless eleotrid genus Milyeringa is described from wells sunk on Barrow Island, Western Australia. Milyeringa justitia n. sp. is the third species of the genus to be named. Morphological data and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) DNA sequence data from a wide sample of localities at which the genus occurs was used to evaluate relationships and species limits. Milyeringa veritas is redescribed, and M. brooksi is synonymised with M. veritas. The unique form and ecology of these fishes, plus the threats to their survival, warrants immediate and continuing attention in management.

Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4755 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. DEEPAK ◽  
SURYA NARAYANAN ◽  
SANDEEP DAS ◽  
K.P. RAJKUMAR ◽  
P.S. EASA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Palghat Gap ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

We reassessed the systematics of the Indian (semi)fossorial snake Xylophis perroteti (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) based on morphological and DNA sequence data for type, historical, and new specimens. A population from the Anamalai Hills is distinct from broadly topotypic X. perroteti from the Nilgiri Hills (from which they are separated geographically by the lowland Palghat Gap) on the basis of both external morphology and DNA sequence data. We describe the Anamalai form as a new species, Xylophis mosaicus sp. nov. The new species is more closely related to X. perroteti than to X. stenorhynchus and X. captaini. A new key to identify the species of Xylophis is presented. 

Cymbidium yunnanensis: a new orchid species (Orchidaceae; Epidendroideae) from China based on morphological and molecular evidence

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 387 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUO-QIANG ZHANG ◽  
GUI-ZHEN CHEN ◽  
LI-JUN CHEN ◽  
SI-REN LAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Orchid Species ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
A New Species

A new orchid species, Cymbidium yunnanensis (Orchidaceae; Epidendroideae; Cymbidieae), from Yunnan Province, China, is described and illustrated. Based on morphological and molecular analyses, we demonstrate that this new species is similar to C. floribundum, but it differs in its smaller size, leaves 5–15 cm, shorter scape, white flowers with pale purplish markings on its sepals and petals, lip with purplish red blotch, petals narrowly falcate oblong and lip midlobe nearly round with column foot 1.5–2.0 mm long. Phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear ribosomal ITS and plastid (matK, rbcL) DNA sequence data support C. yunnanensis as a new species.

A New Species of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) from a Madagascan Lineage Discovered in Coastal Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau ◽  
Mwadime Nyange ◽  
Neng Wei ◽  
Benjamin W. van Ee ◽  
Paul E. Berry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Coastal Forests ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Coastal Kenya ◽  
A New Species

Abstract—Croton kinondoensis, a new species from Kenya, is described and illustrated here with photographs. It is found in the sacred Kaya Kinondo Forest, one of the last remaining coastal forests patches in Kenya. Its morphology and systematic position based on ITS and trnL-F DNA sequence data clearly place it within the Adenophorus Group of Croton, a clade of ca. 15 species otherwise known only from Madagascar and the Comoros Archipelago. Its closest affinities appear to lie with Croton mayottae, from the island of Mayotte, and C. menabeensis, from northwestern Madagascar. This new species likely represents an independent dispersal of Croton from Madagascar to mainland Africa.

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