Primulina cataractarum sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from limestone landform in Southern Hunan, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 511 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
CONG DING ◽  
ANG LIU ◽  
XUN-LIN YU ◽  
CHUN-PING ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Corolla Tube ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Southern Hunan ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Primulina cataractarum (Gesneriaceae) from limestone areas in southern Hunan, China, is described and illustrated with photographs based on morphological and molecular data. This new species is slightly similar to P. porphyrea and P. rubribracteata in morphology, but it can be easily distinguished by its smaller rounder leaves, large repand green bracts and purple corolla tube. Phylogenetic analysis proved that these three species are different, and their relationships are relatively distant. It also reveals that P. cataractarum is genetically similar to P. jiangyongensis, which is geographically next to the type locality of the new species, but they differ greatly in morphology. Following the IUCN Red List Criteria, P. cataractarum is assessed as Critically Endangered (CR B2a; C2b) because of its limited populations and vulnerable habitat.

Primulina jiangyongensis (Gesneriaceae), a new species from Southern Hunan, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 177 (4) ◽  
pp. 244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Li ◽  
Xun-Lin Yu ◽  
Qi-Xia Ma
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Lower Lip ◽  
Yellow Corolla ◽  
Southern Hunan ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Primulina jiangyongensis (Gesneriaceae) from limestone areas in southern Hunan, China, is described and illustrated. The new species differs from other species of Primulina mainly by its yellow corolla, with the lower lip having several dark purple stripes, peduncle and bracts densely spreading villous, pedicel densely glandular-villous, and filaments dark purple. According to the IUCN Red List Criteria, P. jiangyongensis is assessed as Critically Endangered (CR B2a; C2b) because of its limited populations and vulnerable habitat.

scholarly journals Novitates neocaledonicae I: An additionnal new species of Planchonella (Sapotaceae) endemic to the Roches de la Ouaième

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 201 (1) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Munzinger
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Risk Of Extinction ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Planchonella, endemic to the Roches de la Ouaième in northeastern New Caledonia, is described and illustrated. Planchonella ulfii morphologically resembles P. roseoloba, while molecular data indicate a closer relation to P. minutiflora and P. koumaciensis, with all three species belonging to a clade characterized by ridged fruits. The new species brings the total for the genus to 37 species in New Caledonia, 36 of which are endemic to the archipelago. With a single known population comprising 10 individuals, a preliminary risk of extinction assessment using the IUCN Red List criteria indicates that it is Critically Endangered due to risk of fire faced by the shrubby vegetation found of the summit crest of the Roches de la Ouaième. The level of micro-endemism found at this site is discussed.

A new species of Cynomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the northwestern slope of the Andes

Mammalia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Arenas-Viveros ◽  
Pamela Sánchez-Vendizú ◽  
Alan Giraldo ◽  
Jorge Salazar-Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Western Side ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Abstract The systematics and taxonomy of the broadly distributed bats of the genus Cynomops has changed considerably in the last few years. Among the major changes, Cynomops abrasus was split into two species of large-bodied forms (Cynomops mastivus and C. abrasus) distributed east of the Andes. However, large Colombian specimens identified as C. abrasus from the western side of the Andes had yet to be included in any revisionary work. Phylogenetic analysis performed in this study, using mtDNA sequences (Cytochrome-b), revealed that these Colombian individuals are more closely related to Cynomops greenhalli. Morphological and molecular data allowed us to recognize populations from western Colombia, western Ecuador and northwestern Peru, as members of a new species of Cynomops. Characters that allow for its differentiation from C. greenhalli include a larger forearm, paler but more uniform ventral pelage, more globular braincase, and well-developed zygomatic processes of the maxilla (almost reaching the postorbital constriction). This study serves as another example of the importance of including multiple lines of evidence in the recognition of a new species. Given its rarity and the advanced transformation of its habitat, this new species is particularly important from a conservation perspective.

Description of a new species of Auriculostoma (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) from Characidium heirmostigmata (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from Argentina, using morphological and molecular data

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Montes ◽  
J. Barneche ◽  
Y. Croci ◽  
D. Balcazar ◽  
A. Almirón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
28S Rrna ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parasitological Survey ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
A New Species

Abstract During a parasitological survey of fishes at Iguazu National Park, Argentina, specimens belonging to the allocreadiid genus Auriculostoma were collected from the intestine of Characidium heirmostigmata. The erection of the new species is based on a unique combination of morphological traits as well as on phylogenetic analysis. Auriculostoma guacurarii n. sp. resembles four congeneric species – Auriculostoma diagonale, Auriculostoma platense, Auriculostoma tica and Auriculostoma totonacapanensis – in having smooth and oblique testes, but can be distinguished by a combination of several morphological features, hosts association and geographic distribution. Morphologically, the new species can be distinguished from both A. diagonale and A. platense by the egg size (bigger in the first and smaller in the last); from A. tica by a shorter body length, the genital pore position and the extension of the caeca; and from A. totonacapanensis by the size of the oral and ventral sucker and the post-testicular space. Additionally, one specimen of Auriculostoma cf. stenopteri from the characid Charax stenopterus (Characiformes) from La Plata River, Argentina, was sampled and the partial 28S rRNA gene was sequenced. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that A. guacurarii n. sp. clustered with A. tica and these two as sister taxa to A. cf. stenopteri. The new species described herein is the tenth species in the genus and the first one parasitizing a member of the family Crenuchidae.

scholarly journals Chiococca grandiflora (Rubiaceae), a new species from Northern Mexico

PhytoKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Lorence ◽  
Thomas R. Van Devender ◽  
George M. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species

The new species Chiococcagrandiflora Lorence & T.Van Devender from Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico differs from its congeners by its larger, showy white flowers in compact cymes of 3–9, and infundibuliform corollas 16–20 mm long with tubes 13–17 mm long and lobes 3–3.5 mm long. Its distribution, habitat, and relationships are outlined. The conservation status for this species is estimated to be Endangered (EN) based on IUCN Red List Criteria.

A new species of small, long-snouted Hypogeophis Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the highest elevations of the Seychelles island of Mahé

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4450 (3) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON T. MADDOCK ◽  
MARK WILKINSON ◽  
DAVID J. GOWER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Global Distribution ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Gene Sequences ◽  
The Third ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species

A new species of indotyphlid caecilian amphibian, Hypogeophis montanus sp. nov., is described based on a series of specimens from the Seychelles island of Mahé, collected from two localities in 2013 and 2015. The new species most closely resembles the Seychelles (Mahé) endemic H. brevis in being short (maximum known total length in life ca. 110 mm) and long snouted, but differs by having more vertebrae, a relatively smaller head, and substantially distinct mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences. Hypogeophis montanus sp. nov. is known from higher elevations (718–731 m) than H. brevis (ca. 350–650 m), and its elevationally restricted distribution on a single small island likely renders it threatened under IUCN Red List criteria. Hypogeophis montanus sp. nov. is the third species of small and long-snouted caecilian reported from the Seychelles. Along with H. brevis and H. pti, H. montanus sp. nov. is among the smallest known species of caecilian and possibly has the smallest global distribution. 

Begonia tinuyopensis (sect. Petermannia, Begoniaceae), a new species from Zamboanga Del Norte, Philippines

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 516 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
KEAN ROE F. MAZO ◽  
LOWELL G. ARIBAL ◽  
RENE ALFRED ANTON BUSTAMANTE ◽  
YU PIN ANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Terminal Inflorescence ◽  
Entire Plant ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species

Begonia tinuyopensis is described and illustrated as a new species from Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. This new species resembles B. mearnsii by having a decumbent stem, scattered hairs over the entire plant, terminal inflorescence bearing 2 staminate tepals and 5 pistillate tepals. However, Begonia tinuyopensis is distinct by having sparse pilose (vs. matted with long brown hairs) stems, ovate (vs. suborbicular to subreniform) leaves and glabrous (vs. densely pubescent) ovary. We assign B. tinuyopensis as Endangered (EN) following IUCN Red List Criteria.

Begonia kekarmonyingensis (Begoniaceae), a new species from Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 494 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-272
Author(s):  
MOMANG TARAM ◽  
DIPANKAR BORAH ◽  
MARK HUGHES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Begonia sect. Platycentrum, B. kekarmonyingensis, from Kekar Monying, a place of historical significance in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India is illustrated and described. It is allied to B. cathcartii and B. menglianensis, and morphological similarities and differences between the species are discussed. It has been assessed as Vulnerable according to IUCN Red List criteria.

A new grass frog with rupicolous tadpoles from northern Zambia (Anura: Ptychadenidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4462 (3) ◽  
pp. 349
Author(s):  
ALAN CHANNING ◽  
FRANK WILLEMS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Near Threatened

We describe a new species of Ptychadena from Mutinondo Wilderness in northern Zambia. It has rupicolous tadpoles that develop in a film of water. The species is distinguished on morphology, advertisement call and DNA sequences from other grass frogs and was found to be most closely related to P. broadleyi. It has no contrasting longitudinal bands on the posterior thigh, the foot is longer than half SVL, it has no light triangle on the snout, three phalanges of the fourth toe free of web and the snout has no skin folds. The species should be considered Near Threatened in terms of the IUCN Red List criteria given its limited extent of occurrence and population size. 

scholarly journals Astragalus wulingensis (Leguminosae), a new species from Hunan China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 159 (4) ◽  
pp. 279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaxiang Li ◽  
Xunlin Yu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Iucn Red List Criteria ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Astragalus Linn. (Leguminosae) from Wuling Mountain of Hunan province, China, Astragalus wulingensis Jia X. Li & X. L. Yu sp. nov. is described, illustrated, and compared with its close relatives. It belongs to section Lotidium Bunge, subgen. Astragalus Bunge. The new species is endemic to Wuling Mountain in NW Hunan Province and has limited populations and vulnerable habitat. Astragalus wulingensis is assessed as Critically Endangered (CR B2c) according to IUCN Red List criteria.

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