A new species of Echidnodella (Asterinales, Lembosiaceae) from Western Ghats of Kerala State, India 

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 496 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-280
Author(s):  
HINA MOHAMED ◽  
JACOB THOMAS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Host Genus ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Endemic Medicinal Plant ◽  
Foliicolous Fungi ◽  
Black Mildews ◽  
A New Species

Black mildews belong to a wide range of leaf inhabiting fungal genera, which causes severe damage to the living leaves, affect photosynthetic efficiency, cause physiological imbalances, and reduces the plants’ aesthetic value. During a survey of foliicolous fungi in Vagamon hills of Kerala state’s Western Ghats region, an endemic medicinal plant Xanthophyllum arnottianum was found infected with an undescribed species of black mildew causing fungal genus Echidnodella.  Their mycelia are non-appressoriate and devoid of hypostroma. Thyriothecia are oval, ellipsoidal, X or Y shaped, elongated producing eight uniseptate brown coloured ascospores in each bitunicate asci. Echidnodella was distinguished from the allied genus Echidnodes in the absence of paraphyses and from the genera Lembosia and Morenoella in the lack of appressoria (haustoria). This new species, Echidnodella vagamonensis is described and illustrated in detail to provide the consolidated account of the species known on this host genus.

A new species of Philautus Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1621 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
KOTAMBYLU VASUDEVA GURURAJA ◽  
K. P. DINESH ◽  
MUHAMED JAFER PALOT ◽  
C. RADHAKRISHNAN ◽  
T. V. RAMACHANDRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Posterior Part ◽  
Upper Eyelid ◽  
Golden Yellow ◽  
Reserve Forest ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the oriental shrub frog genus Philautus is described from Kakkayam Reserve Forest of Calicut district, Kerala state, in the southern Western Ghats. This species is distinguished from congeners by the combination of characters such as body small, elongate, squat and flat; head arched, wider than long; snout short rounded, equal or sub equal to diameter of eye; canthus rostralis rounded; tympanum indistinct but visible; eyes protruding, pupil with striking golden yellow dentition like marks; belly granular; vocal sac unpigmented; fleshy brown to cream yellow dorsum with two distinct golden yellow lateral bands bordered by dark brown from upper eyelid to the posterior part of flanks. A description of the advertisement calls and ecology and natural history notes are also provided for the new species which so far is only known from the type locality.

scholarly journals A NEW SPECIES OF SALACIA (HIPPOCRATEACEAE) FROM SOUTH INDIA

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Udayan ◽  
Regy Yohannan ◽  
M. S. Devipriya ◽  
V. Devipriya ◽  
A. K. Pradeep
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
South India ◽  
Habitat Distribution ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species from South India, Salacia agasthiamalana Udayan, Regy Yohannan & Pradeep (Hippocrateaceae), is described from the Western Ghats of Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala State. An illustration and data on habitat, distribution and phenology are provided.

A new species of Tyrannomyrmex Fernández 2003 (Formicidae, Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini) from Western Ghats, Kerala, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4344 (2) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
KALESH SADASIVAN ◽  
MANOJ KRIPAKARAN
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Worker Castes ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Scanning Electron

A new species of Tyrannomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), T. alii sp. nov., is described from the Western Ghats of Kerala State in southern India. This new species can be distinguished from other Tyrannomyrmex species using morphological characters, from T.dux by the petiolar shape, and from T. legatus and T.rex by surface sculpture and pilosity. The gyne of the genus is described for the first time. We provide detailed morphological descriptions of the gyne and worker castes, images from scanning electron microscopy, a key to all four known species of Tyrannomyrmex, and a note on the ecology of this rare genus. 

Utricularia sunilii (Lentibulariaceae), a striking new species from southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 371 (2) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
VANNARATTA VEETTIL NAVEEN KUMAR ◽  
KONICKAL MAMBETTA PRABHUKUMAR ◽  
RAVEENDRAN JAGADEESAN ◽  
CHERUPPOYILATH MANA HARINARAYANAN ◽  
MAYA C. NAIR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Capsule Wall ◽  
Lower Lip ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
A New Species

Utricularia sunilii, a new species of Utricularia Sect. Oligocista from Kerala state of Western Ghats is described here. The new species shows similarities with U. graminifolia in having 3-nerved foliar organs and thickened capsule wall along the margin of dehiscence but differs by deeply 3-lobed lower lip of corolla.

Prillieuxina aporosae sp. nov. (Asterinales, Asterinaceae) from southern Western Ghats, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 487 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Author(s):  
GOPINATHAN NAIR GOKUL ◽  
JACOB THOMAS ◽  
NISHA MATHEW
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Host Family ◽  
First Report ◽  
Forest Division ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the fungus Prillieuxina causing black mildew disease on Aporosa cardiosperma (Euphorbiaceae) is described and illustrated from Konni forest division of Kerala state, India. This is the first report of the genus Prillieuxina growing as a biotroph on host family Euphorbiaceae.

A new species of the previously monotypic genus Iningainema (Cyanobacteria, Scytonemataceae) from the Western Ghats, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yevhen Maltsev ◽  
Elena Kezlya ◽  
Svetlana Maltseva ◽  
Balasubramanian Karthick ◽  
Petr Dvořák ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Sclerocephalus with a fully ossified endocranium gives insight into braincase evolution in temnospondyls

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rainer R. Schoch ◽  
Gabriela Sobral
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Character Evolution ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Early Permian ◽  
Top Predator ◽  
Central European ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The late Paleozoic temnospondyl Sclerocephalus formed an aquatic top predator in various central European lakes of the late Carboniferous and early Permian. Despite hundreds of specimens spanning a wide range of sizes, knowledge of the endocranium (braincase and palatoquadrate) remained very insufficient in Sclerocephalus and other stereospondylomorphs because even large skulls had unossified endocrania. A new specimen from a stratigraphically ancient deposit at St. Wendel in southwestern Germany is recognized as representing a new taxon, S. concordiae new species, and reveals a completely ossified endocranium. The sphenethmoid was completely ossified from the basisphenoid to the anterior ethmoid region, co-ossified with the parasphenoid, and the basipterygoid joint was fully established. The pterygoid bears a slender, S-shaped epipterygoid, which formed a robust pillar lateral to the braincase. The massive stapes was firmly sutured to the parasphenoid. In the temnospondyl endocranium, character evolution involved various changes in the epipterygoid region, which evolved distinct morphologies in each of the major clades. UUID: http://zoobank.org/5e6d2078-eacf-4467-84cf-a12efcae7c0b

A new species of Syzygium (Myrtaceae) from the southern Western Ghats of Kerala, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. SHAREEF ◽  
E. S.SANTHOSH KUMAR ◽  
T. SHAJU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species
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