Discovery of the genus Plethodontohyla (Anura: Microhylidae) in dry western Madagascar: description of a new species and biogeographic implications

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1577 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANK GLAW ◽  
JÖRN KÖHLER ◽  
PARFAIT BORA ◽  
NIRHY H.C. RABIBISOA ◽  
OLGA RAMILIJAONA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Gallery Forest ◽  
Humid Climate ◽  
High Plateau ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Karstic Limestone ◽  
Central High ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Continuous Strip

The cophyline anuran genus Plethodontohyla is considered to be restricted to humid eastern and central Madagascar. Recent surveys of the herpetofauna in the karstic limestone massif "Tsingy de Bemaraha" revealed a distinctive new species which constitutes the first record of this genus in central-western Madagascar. Plethodontohyla fonetana sp. nov. is characterized by large size (snout-vent length up to 65 mm in females), enlarged fingertips, sinuous dorsal folds, and a reticulated dorsal coloration. It is probably closely related to the other Plethodontohyla species with enlarged fingertips. The discovery of the new species suggests the existence of forest corridor between the eastern rainforest stretch and the relatively dry Tsingy de Bemaraha massif during a period of more humid climate. A continuous strip of gallery forest along a river running from the central high plateau to the west might have been sufficient to allow dispersal to the Bemaraha plateau.

scholarly journals Glochinema bathyperuvensis sp. n. (Nematoda, Epsilonematidae): A new species from Peruvian bathyal sediments, SE Pacific Ocean

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Neira ◽  
Gunnar Gad ◽  
Nina L. Arroyo ◽  
Wilfrida Decraemer
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
First Record ◽  
Cervical Region ◽  
Head Region ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Minimum Zone ◽  
Muddy Sediments ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Oxygen Minimum

Glochinema bathyperuvensis sp. n., the first record of Epsilonematidae from bathyal muddy sediments of the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) off Callao, Peru (eastern Pacific Ocean) is described. The new species belongs to the subfamily Glochinematinae and is characterized by the possession of more than 8 pairs of subdorsal thorns asymmetrically arranged and a single dorsal one in the pharyngeal region, as well as by the presence of ten to thirteen blade-like cuticular protrusions forming a latero-dorsal palisade around the posterior head region and anterior cervical region. In addition, G. bathyperuvensis is characterized by its large size, more than 240 cuticular annules, provided with an extremely dense „hairy“ body ornamentation and, four rows of ambulatory setae: two inner subventral ones with 8 to 9 setae in males, and 5 to 6 setae in females, and two outer subventral rows composed each of 9-12 ambulatory setae followed by a large number of modified somatic setae. The dense hairy body spines, the large number of modified somatic setae, its dominant occurrence exclusive in oxygen-depleted, organic-rich soupy surface sediments indicate an adaptation to the stressed OMZ habitat conditions.

scholarly journals First record of a nonpaleotropical intejocerid cephalopod from Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) strata of central Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-278
Author(s):  
Björn Kröger ◽  
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
First Record ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Spain ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe order Intejocerida is an enigmatic, short-lived cephalopod taxon known previously only from Early–Middle Ordovician beds of Siberia and the United States. Here we report a new genus, Cabaneroceras, and a new species, C. aznari, from Middle Ordovician strata of central Spain. This finding widens the paleogeographic range of the order toward high-paleolatitudinal areas of peri-Gondwana. A curved conch, characteristic for the new genus, was previously unknown from members of the Intejocerida.UUID: http://zoobank.org/21f0a09c-5265-4d29-824b-6b105d36b791

A new species of the genus Odorrana (Amphibia: Ranidae) and the first record of Odorrana bacboensis from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3999 (2) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
YING-YONG WANG ◽  
MICHAEL WAI-NENG LAU ◽  
JIAN-HUAN YANG ◽  
GUO-LING CHEN ◽  
ZU-YAO LIU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Crossodactylodes (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Minas Gerais, Brazil: first record of genus within the Espinhaço Mountain Range

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3731 (4) ◽  
pp. 552 ◽  
Author(s):  
IZABELA M. BARATA ◽  
MARCUS T.T. SANTOS ◽  
FELIPE S.F. LEITE ◽  
PAULO C.A. GARCIA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Spiroberotha Adams 1989 (Neuroptera: Berothidae) and the first record of the genus in Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4093 (1) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
RENATO JOSE PIRES MACHADO ◽  
TIAGO KÜTTER KROLOW
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Golinca Thomson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae): first record of the genus for Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3919 (1) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
M. VALOIS ◽  
F. SILVA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
A New Species

Golinca trevisani Valois & Silva, new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini: Incina) from Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondônia, and Amazonas, Brazil is described, representing the first record of the genus Golinca for Brazil. Diagnosis, illustrations of key morphological characters, the first male genitalia description in the genus, and a key for identification of four species of Golinca are provided. 

First Record and Description of a New Species ofSynosis(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) FROM Brazil

2012 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Herrera ◽  
J. F. Sobczak ◽  
A. M. Penteado-Dias
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
A New Species
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