A new species of pitviper of the genus Popeia (Squamata: Viperidae) from Pulau Tioman, Pahang, West Malaysia

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1305 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
JESSE L. GRISMER ◽  
JIMMY A. MCGUIRE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Thin Body ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Body Proportions ◽  
Biogeographic Patterns ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Active Forager ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of pitviper Popeia buniana from Pulau Tioman, Pahang State, West Malaysia based on it having unique aspects of scalation, body proportions, and color pattern. Its long, thin body is in contrast with the shorter, more robust bodies of other arboreal pitvipers, suggesting it may be an active forager rather than an ambush feeder. Its close relationship to P. barati and P. sabahi of Sumatra and Borneo, respectively, rather than with species of the adjacent Malay Peninsula is in accord with biogeographic patterns of other flora and fauna endemic to the islands of the Outer Arc of the Seribuat Archipelago.

A new species of insular pitviper of the genus Cryptelytrops (Squamata: Viperidae) from southern Vietnam

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1715 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
NGO VAN TRI ◽  
JESSE L. GRISMER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Body Proportions ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Insular Endemic ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of pitviper Cryptelytrops honsonensis sp. nov. from Hon Son Island in Rach Gia Bay, Kien Giang Province of southern Vietnam based on it having unique aspects of scalation, body proportions, and color pattern. It is similar to C. venustus in morphology and color pattern and the putative close relationship between these species would corroborate a biogeographical link across southern Indochina seen in a number of other taxa. The presence of this newly discovered insular endemic in Rach Gia Bay and other insular endemics of Rach Gia Bay addressed herein, underscores the understudied nature of these islands and the need for their continued conservation.

A new spiny, prehensile-tailed species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia with a preliminary hypothesis of relationships based on morphology

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2625 (1) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
SHAHRUL ANUAR ◽  
EVAN QUAH ◽  
MOHD ABDUL MUIN ◽  
CHAN KIN ONN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Sister Species ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Cyrtodactylus durio sp. nov., is described from northwestern Peninsular Malaysia on the basis of its head, body, limbs, and tail being extremely spinose as well as other unique combinations of squamation and color pattern. It is proposed that C. durio sp. nov. forms a clade with C. brevipalmatus, C. elok, C. spinosus, and C. stresemanni on the basis of having a spiny, prehensile tail and that it is the sister species of C. stresemanni based on unique caudal tuberculation. Cytrodactylus durio sp. nov. is the latest in a growing list of new species of amphibians and reptiles recently described from the Malay Peninsula, and Peninsular Malaysia in particular, that clearly underscores the need for continuing exploratory research in these regions.

A new species of Ansonia Stoliczka 1872 (Anura: Bufonidae) from Central Peninsular Malaysia and a revised taxonomy for Ansonia from the Malay Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1327 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The State ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Head Morphology ◽  
A New Species

A new, montane species of Ansonia is described from the state of Pahang in central, peninsular Malaysia on the basis of having a unique combination of head, body, digit, and color pattern characteristics. This new species is similar to A. malayana, to which it is closest geographically, but differs greatly in aspects of head morphology and body tuberculation. A review of Ansonia from the Malay Peninsula demonstrates that the population of A. malayana from Tasan, Chumphon Province, Thailand is A. kraensis and A. penangensis from Ulu Tahan, Pahang in peninsular Malaysia is not conspecific with A. penangensis from Pulau Penang but an additional, undescribed species ranging throughout northwestern, peninsular Malaysia.

A new species of insular skink (Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger 1843) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, West Malaysia with the first report of the herpetofauna of Pulau Singa Besar and an updated checklist of the herpetofauna of Pulau Langkawi

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1691 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Forest Floor ◽  
New Records ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Small Satellite ◽  
First Report ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

A new species of small, insular, forest floor skink, Sphenomorphus langkawiensis sp. nov. is described from the islands of Langkawi and Singa Besar in the Langkawi Arichipelago, Kedah, West Malaysia. This species is differentiated from all other 35 Sundaland and Malay Peninsula species of Sphenomorphus on the basis of a unique suite of morphological and color pattern characteristics. The discovery of the first endemic reptile in the Langkawi Archipelago and the addition of nine new records of species to Pulau Langkawi underscores the unrealized biodiversity of the herpetofauna of this archipelago. Twelve species (one frog, nine lizards, and two snakes) are reported for the first time from Pulau Singa Besar, a small satellite island off the southern coast of Pulau Langkawi.

A new species of pitviper of the genus Protobothrops from China (Squamata: Viperidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2936 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIAN-HUAN YANG ◽  
NIKOLAI L. ORLOV ◽  
YING-YONG WANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Karst Region ◽  
Body Proportions ◽  
History Of ◽  
A New Species ◽  
New Discovery

A new species of pitviper, Protobothrops maolanensis sp. nov. is described from the forested karst region in Maolan National Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China based on scalation, body proportions and color pattern. Data on the natural history of the new species are provided and a new key to the currently recognized species of Protobothrops is given. The new discovery and other recent findings suggest that further research is desirable in the karst regions in southern China and adjacent Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar.

scholarly journals Discovery of the freshwater sponge genus Corvospongilla Annandale (Porifera: Spongillida) in Australia with the description of a new species and phylogeographic implications

Limnology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Manconi ◽  
Dirk Erpenbeck ◽  
Jane Fromont ◽  
Gert Wörheide ◽  
Roberto Pronzato
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Freshwater Sponge ◽  
Freshwater Sponges ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
Biogeographic Patterns ◽  
Hydrographic Basin ◽  
Integrative Systematics ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA recent discovery of freshwater sponges in an unexplored hydrographic basin in north-western Australia provided the opportunity to investigate the genus Corvospongilla Annandale (Spongillida: Spongillidae) using integrative systematics. Emendation of the genus diagnosis is provided. A comparative analysis of a Corvospongilla global dataset of morphological traits together with biogeographic patterns disclosed a new Australasian Corvospongilla species and along with molecular analyses provided the basis for a phylogenetic and phylogeographic tree for some Asian, Afrotropical and Australasian lineages.

A new species of free-living marine nematode, Diplolaimella ariakensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Monhysteridae) from the Ariake Sea, Japan

Nematology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Daisuke Shimada ◽  
Toshiki Komiya ◽  
Toyoshi Yoshiga
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Buccal Cavity ◽  
Marine Nematode ◽  
Ariake Sea ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
Anterior Position ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
A New Species

Summary A new species of free-living marine nematode, Diplolaimella ariakensis n. sp., is described from a muddy tidal flat of the Ariake Sea, southern Japan. Diplolaimella ariakensis n. sp. differs from its congeners by the following: presence of ocelli, absence of denticles in the buccal cavity, a long tail (11-14 cloacal body diam., c = 3.2-4.0 in male, 17-21 anal body diam., c = 2.9-3.4 in female), spicules as long as 1.4-1.8 cloacal body diam., gubernaculum 0.4-0.5 cloacal body diam. long with a dorsocaudal apophysis 0.5-0.7 cloacal body diam. long, presence of a precloacal supplement, absence of postcloacal papillae, presence of seven pairs of body pores in male, and the anterior position of the vulva (V = 43-46). A dichotomous key to Diplolaimella species is provided. Almost full-length 18S rRNA and partial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene sequences were determined for D. ariakensis n. sp. A maximum likelihood tree of 18S sequences supported a close relationship between D. ariakensis n. sp. and D. dievengatensis.

Poecilia (Pamphorichthys) akroa, a new poeciliid species (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from the Rio Tocantins basin, Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4461 (3) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
CARLOS AUGUSTO FIGUEIREDO ◽  
CRISTIANO R. MOREIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sensory System ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Distal Portion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Posterior Portion ◽  
Anterior Branch ◽  
Black Blotch ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Poecilia (Pamphorichthys) akroa, is described from the Rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil. The new species differs from the remaining species of the genus by the possession of 10 or 11 pectoral-fin rays, entire preopercular ramus and posterior portion of the supraorbital ramus of the cephalic sensory system enclosed in canals, a faint longitudinal band along the body, a single gonapophysis, a homogeneous reticulate color pattern on sides of body, urogenital region of females heavily pigmented, distalmost segments of the anterior branch (4a) of the fourth gonopodial ray fused into an elongated segment turned anteriorly, subdistal segments of anterior branch (5a) of fifth gonopodial ray simple, without anterior (ventral) projections, dorsal fin with pigmentation at its distal portion and with a basal black blotch, and chromatophores more concentrated on the posterior margin of the mid-ventral scale series of the caudal peduncle and ventrolateral margin of the adjacent scales forming a series of rhombi posterior to anal fin. 

scholarly journals Microglanis carlae, a new species of bumblebee catfish (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the río Paraguay basin in Paraguay

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor S. Vera Alcaraz ◽  
Weferson J. da Graça ◽  
Oscar A. Shibatta
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Fin Ray ◽  
Pectoral Spine ◽  
Adipose Fin ◽  
A New Species

Microglanis carlae, new species, is described from the río Paraguay basin and distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: paired and anal fins mottled or with thin faint bands, trunk with dark-brown saddles, anterior margin of pectoral spine with serrations retrorse proximally and antrorse distally, tip of pectoral spine as a distinct bony point, continuous portion of lateral line reaching vertical through last dorsal-fin ray, caudal peduncle with irregularly shaped, faint to dark blotch, maxillary barbel surpassing vertical through dorsal-spine origin, and dark bar on posterior flank continuous from base of adipose fin to that of anal fin. The new species is included in the Microglanis parahybae species complex on the basis of color pattern.

A new species of Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) from Hubei, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 350 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
RUI-HONG WANG ◽  
MAO-QIN XIA ◽  
JIN-BO TAN ◽  
CHUAN CHEN ◽  
XIN-JIE JIN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Species Delimitation ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Central China ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Leaf Margin ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Scrophularia jinii (Scrophulariaceae), from Central China is described and illustrated. This new species was formerly misidentified as S. fargesii, from which it differs in many morphological characters. Moreover, it is distinct with all known Scrophularia species in its unique deeply double serrate leaf margin with 3–7 big teeth on each side. Molecular phylogenetic analysis further supports its species delimitation and suggests a close relationship with several Japanese and North American species.

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