A new species of Biemna Gray, 1867 (Demospongiae,  Poecilosclerida) from the north coast of Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1087 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
BEATRIZ MOTHES ◽  
MAURÍCIO CAMPOS ◽  
CLÉA LERNER ◽  
JOÃO LUÍS CARRARO ◽  
ROB W.M. VAN SOEST

Biemna spinomicroxea sp. nov. is described from the coast of Amapá State, Brazil. It differs from all other Biemna species in lacking smooth sigmas. The spiculation consist of oxea megascleres, spined small sigmas and microxeas. A key to the tropical West Atlantic species of Biemna is provided.

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 639 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Mothes ◽  
Maurício A. De Campos

A new species of Biemna Gray, 1867, B. trisigmata sp. n., is described from the northern Brazilian coast, Amap State. The new species is compared to other tropical West Atlantic species of Biemna, from which it differs in having three categories of sigmas and two categories of microxeas.


Brunonia ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
DJ Boland ◽  
DA Kleinig ◽  
JJ Brophy

A new species, Eucalyptus fusiformis Boland et Kleinig, from the north coast of New South Wales is described. Its taxonomic position is in E. subgenus Symphyomyrtus series Paniculatae following the informal classification of eucalypts proposed by Pryor and Johnson (1971). E. fusiformis is characterised by its flowers, fruits and adult leaves. In the bud the staminal filaments are fully inflected while the androecium has outer staminodes and the anthers are cuboid and adnate. The fruits are narrow, often truncate fusiform, tapering into long slender pedicels. The adult leaves are dull grey, concolorous and hypoamphistomatic. The species resembles the more numerous and often co-occurring ironbark E. siderophloia which has similar adult and seedling leaves. The volatile oils of both species are very similar. The ecology, distribution, taxonomic affinities and conservation status are discussed.


Author(s):  
Odile Volonterio ◽  
Paul E. Brewin

South Georgia is a remote sub-Antarctic island, considered a marine biodiversity ‘hotspot’ in the Southern Ocean. During a survey along the north coast of South Georgia several marine planarians were found. One of the specimens was a new species ofAllogenus(Uteriporidae), which is described here asAllogenus sluysisp. nov. The new species has the characteristics of the genus and can be distinguished from the type and only known species,Allogenus kerguelensis, by its smaller size, blackish-brown pigmentation, presence of three retinal cells in each eye cup, position of its testes half-way between the ventral and dorsal body surfaces or at a slightly more ventral position, and by having an ejaculatory duct that opens centrally at the tip of the penis papilla. The presently known geographical distribution ofAllogenus, the heterogeneous marine planarian species composition in South Georgia, and the distribution of these species in this region are in agreement with a previously proposed vicariance hypothesis, albeit that dispersal cannot be ruled out.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 393 (1) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
KYEONGHEE KIM ◽  
CHAN-SOO KIM ◽  
SANG-HUN OH ◽  
CHONG-WOOK PARK

A new species, Peucedanum chujaense K. Kim, S.-H. Oh, C.-S. Kim & C.-W. Park (Apiaceae), is described and illustrated. The new species distributed in the Chuja Islands off the north coast of Jeju Island in South Korea. It is morphologically similar to P. litorale, but is distinct from the latter in having 2-pinnate leaves (vs. 1-pinnate leaves), conspicuous calyx teeth 0.4–1 mm long (vs. minute calyx teeth 0.1–0.3 mm long), 20–24 (vs. 10–18) flowers per umbellet, seeds oblong (vs. semicircular) in cross section.


2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-415
Author(s):  
Leonardo Santos de Souza ◽  
Alexandre Dias Pimenta

A new genus and a new species of Eulimidae are described based on the shell morphology and on the host-parasite relationship of the type species. Eulimacrostomamicrosculpturata Souza & Pimenta gen. nov. and sp. nov. parasitizes a starfish of the genus Luidia and has an elongated, conical, straight, or slightly curved shell, a protoconch with a brownish spiral band and convex whorls, a peculiar large and broad aperture with a strongly protruding outer lip, and microsculpture of axial lines on the teleoconch. Four other species are included in the genus, all from the western Atlantic: Eulimacrostomachascanon (Watson, 1883), comb. nov., Eulimacrostomafusus (Dall, 1889), comb. nov., Eulimacrostomalutescens (Simone, 2002), comb. nov., and Eulimacrostomapatula (Dall & Simpson, 1901), comb. nov. Newly available material of Eulimacrostomapatula expands the known geographic distribution of this species in the Caribbean to the north coast of Brazil. Eulimacrostomachascanon and Eulimacrostomafusus and Eulimacrostomalutescens are known only by the type series which was re-examined. A redescription is provided for Eulimacrostomachascanon and Eulimacrostomafusus. Species within Eulimacrostoma differ mainly by teleoconch sculpture, the presence or absence of an umbilical fissure, and shell dimensions. Lectotypes are designated for Eulimacrostomachascanon, Eulimacrostomafusus, and Eulimacrostomapatula.


Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 913 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTOFER M. HELGEN

The amphibious murine rodents of New Guinea have traditionally been classified in three genera: Hydromys E. Geoffroy, 1804, Parahydromys Poche, 1906, and Crossomys Thomas, 1907. Species currently classified in Hydromys can be further divided into two cladistic groups: species distributed in lowland habitats (below 2000 m) with glossy, dark brown dorsal pelage, and species restricted to upper montane rivers and lakes (generally above 2000 m) with soft, silvery grey dorsal pelage. These two groups differ not only in pelage traits and habitat association but also in craniodental and phallic anatomy. The generic-level name Baiyankamys Hinton, 1943, is resurrected for the latter cluster (which includes two species, B. shawmayeri of eastern New Guinea and B. habbema of west-central New Guinea). Additionally, a new species of Hydromys (H. ziegleri n. sp.) is described from the southern foothills of the Prince Alexander Range of Papua New Guinea. Mammalian zoogeography in the North Coast Ranges, an area of considerable geographicallyrestricted mammalian endemism, is reviewed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-348
Author(s):  
James Lucas da Costa-Lima ◽  
Earl Celestino de Oliveira Chagas

Abstract—A synopsis of Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) for Brazil is presented. Six species are recognized: Dicliptera ciliaris, D. sexangularis, and D. squarrosa, widely distributed in South America; D. purpurascens, which ranges from the North Region of Brazil (in the state of Acre) to eastern Bolivia; D. gracilirama, a new species from the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil; and D. granchaquenha, a new species recorded in dry and semideciduous forests in Bolivia and western Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Furthermore, we propose new synonyms and designate lectotypes for eleven names. An identification key to the six accepted Dicliptera species in Brazil is provided.


1851 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 239-240
Author(s):  
Thomas Anderson

About thirty years ago a species of manna, obtained from the Eucalyptus Mannifera, was brought from New South Wales, and was examined by Dr Thomas Thomson, and afterwards by Professor Johnston, both of whom ascertained it to contain a new species of sugar, different from the mannite which exists in ordinary manna. The author had, through the kindness of Mr Sheriff Cay, an opportunity of examining a very different species of manna, remarkable both from its chemical constitution, and from its possessing a definitely organised structure. This substance was discovered by Mr Robert Cay in 1844, in the interior of Australia Felix, to the north and north-west of Melbourne, where it occurs at certain seasons on the leaves of the Mallee plant, Eucalyptus Dumosa, and is known to the natives by the name of Lerp.


Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3620 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID EVANS WALTER ◽  
SARAH LATONAS

The oribatid mite genus Protoribates Berlese (Haplozetidae) is reviewed for North America and the genus diagnosis is revised to account for the North American species, Protoribates robustior (Jacot, 1937) is redescribed and newly reported from western North America and a new species from Alberta is described. Protoribates haughlandae sp. n. is bisexual, heterotridactylous, and lives primarily in the peat soils of fens and bogs. Protoribates robustior is all-female, monodactylous, and occurs primarily in dry forests or in dry, treeless sites dominated by grasses, sedges, and shrubs. Both species feed on fungal hyphae and spores, but P. haughlandae also is an opportunistic predator and/or necrophage of small arthropods and P. robustior gut contents often include material that resembles plant cell walls. Examination of type specimens confirms that Protoribates prionotus (Woolley, 1968) is a junior synonym of the widespread Protoribates lophotrichus (Berlese, 1904). A key to differentiate Lagenobates from Protoribates and to identify the 7 species of the latter that are known or reported from North America is provided.


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