Macrobrachium agwi - a new species of freshwater prawn (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from East Bengal, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1844 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
WERNER KLOTZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Freshwater Prawn ◽  
Aquarium Trade ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Inland River ◽  
De Man ◽  
A New Species

Freshwater prawns do not only have economic importance in hydroponics and fisheries for food purposes, but also recently receive increasing attention in aquarium trade (Karge & Klotz 2007). An examination of some prawns imported as ‘ornamental shrimps’ from Cooch Behar, East Bengal, India to Europe revealed that they belong to a hitherto undescribed species of the genus Macrobrachium and are described here in detail. The new species belong to the group of specimen with large eggs, indicating abbreviated or direct larval development in freshwater, occurring in inland river systems (Tiwari 1955b). Morphological M. agwi nov.sp. is most similar to M. kempi (Tiwari, 1947) first described from Chittagong, Bangladesh, M. altifrons altifrons (Henderson, 1893) from Northern India and Nepal and M. hendersoni (De Man, 1906) known from hill streams in East India and Myanmar. Though the proposed new species can be distinguished from M. kempi by lacking a dense fur of setae on the lower margin of the propodus of male large cheliped, from M. altifrons by the shape and armature of second chelae and from M. hendersoni by lacking longitudinal groves covered with fine hairs on fingers of second chelipeds.

A new species of Bondarzewia (Russulales) from Indian Himalaya

Nova Hedwigia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-456
Author(s):  
Upendra Singh ◽  
Manoj E. Hembrom ◽  
Rajendra P. Bhatt ◽  
Kanad Das
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Temperate Forest ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
Indian Himalaya ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
Northern India ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Uttarakhand Himalaya

Bondarzewia indohimalayana, a species collected from mixed temperate forest of Uttarakhand Himalaya in northern India, is proposed here as new to science. This mushroom is characterized by zonate pilei with different shades of brown, pale yellow margin with reddish tinge, irregular pores, thick context that turns pink to dark red with guaiacol, clavate to cylindrical basidia and narrow subconical to winged warts of basidiospores. The present communication deals with the morphological details and a combined (nrITS and nrLSU) phylogeny of this undescribed species. Its relation to allied (Asian and extralimital) species is discussed and a provisional key to the species of Bondarzewia is presented.

A new species of the genus Parapachymorpha Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Phasmida, Phasmatidae, Clitumninae) from Laos

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4732 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
CHANG-MOON JANG ◽  
YANG˗SEOP BAE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Lateral View ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Egg Capsule

Parapachymorpha is one of eight genera within the tribe Medaurini of subfamily Clitumninae (Phasmatidae). It was established by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1893), with the type species Parapachymorpha nigra by subsequent designation of Kirby (1904), from Myanmar. Species of this genus are widely distributed in oriental tropics (Laos, China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia), with only 11 known species in the world (Brock et al. 2018, Ho 2017). Species of the genus Parapachymorpha can be recognized by following characters (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893;1907, Henmemann & Conle 2008, Ho 2017): 1) body robust in female and slender in male with long leg in relation to the length; 2) body surface of female granulose or spinose; 3) mesonotum of female more and less expanded posteriorly; 4) abdominal tergites lacking expanded prostero–lateral angles in both sexes; 5) laminal supraanalis undeveloped in female; 6) semi–tergite of male irregularly rectangular, with an additional finger­–like ventro–apical appendix on the lower margin and reduced or absent; 7) egg capsule oval to oblong and covered with a raised net–like structure in lateral view; 8) micropylar plate oval; 9) operculum concave or convex. In the present study, we describe additional species, Parapachymorpha minuta sp. nov. from Laos, with photographs of both sexes of adults and egg. 

The genus Xylaria (Xylariaceae) in the south of China—6. A new Xylaria species based on morphological and molecular characters

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 147 (2) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAI-XIA MA ◽  
LARISSA VASILYEVA ◽  
YU LI
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Its Sequences ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Nrdna Its ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
The South ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Molecular Characters

Xylaria fusispora, an undescribed species of Xylaria (Xylariales, Xylariaceae), is described and illustrated as a new species based on collections from Guizhou Province, China. Both morphology and phylogenetic analysis of nrDNA ITS sequences support the establishment of this new species. The fungus is characterized by its fusoid-equilateral ascospores and an ascus apical ring not bluing in Melzer’s reagent. The differences between the new species and the related fungi are discussed.

Taxonomic revision of four species of the Neotropical land planarian genera Cratera and Geoplana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) with a description of two new species and an emendation of Cratera

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4500 (4) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOMINGO LAGO-BARCIA ◽  
FERNANDO CARBAYO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Variation ◽  
Morphological Feature ◽  
Ejaculatory Duct ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Terminal Portion ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Land Planarian

The Brazilian land planarians Cratera crioula, C. joia, Geoplana hina, and G. taxiarcha (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) are revised taxonomically from type material and additional specimens. Geoplana hina sensu Carbayo et al. (2013) was found to be an undescribed species and therefore is described and named as Cratera picuia sp. n. A new species of the genus is also described and named as Cratera arucuia sp. n. G. hina and G. taxiarcha are transferred to Cratera. The most remarkable morphological feature of Cratera—a dilated terminal portion of the ejaculatory duct—is either absent, inconspicuous, or variable in C. hina, C. joia, C. picuia sp. n., and C. arucuia sp. n. Based on the monophyletic status of Cratera inferred elsewhere, an emendation of the genus is here proposed to encompass the morphological variation observed in the genus. 

Confirmation of Upogebia Pugnax De Man, 1905 From Japan (Decapoda, Thalassinidea)

Crustaceana ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-389
Author(s):  
Katsushi Sakai
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Adult Specimen ◽  
De Man ◽  
A New Species

AbstractAn adult specimen of Upogebia pugnax is described, and the occurrence of the species in Japan is confirmed. New Caledonian specimens previously assigned to U. pugnax probably belong to a new species.

scholarly journals The caridean shrimps of the genus Lysmata Risso, 1816 (Decapoda: Lysmatidae) from Madagascar collected during the Atimo-Vatae expedition: a new species and two new records

2021 ◽  
Vol 774 ◽  
pp. 155-177
Author(s):  
Hossein Ashrafi ◽  
J. Antonio Baeza ◽  
Zdeněk Ďuriš
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
De Man ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The present study focuses on shrimps belonging to the genus Lysmata Risso, 1816, collected from Madagascar during the Atimo Vatae expedition carried out in 2010. Lysmata malagasy sp. nov. is a new species belonging to the clade named “long accessory ramous” or “cosmopolitan” in previous phylogenetic studies. The new species can be distinguished from the only two other representatives of this group in the Indo-west Pacific, L. ternatensis De Man, 1902, and L. trisetacea (Heller, 1861), by the accessory ramus of the lateral antennular flagellum consisting of four elongated articles. Lysmata lipkei Okuno & Fiedler, 2010 is reported here from Madagascar with a remarkable extension of its known range after its original description from Japan. This species has also been reported from Singapore and, as alien species, from Brazil. Lastly, L. kuekenthali De Man, 1902 known from numerous localities in the Indo-West Pacific biogeographic area, is reported for the first time from Madagascar. Results of the present morphological and molecular analyses suggest that L. hochi Baeza & Anker, 2008 from the Caribbean Sea is a synonym of the Indo-West Pacific L. kuekenthali, and thus the latter species is alien in the western Atlantic.

scholarly journals Amaioua longipedicellata (Rubiaceae, Gardenieae), a new species from the Brazilian Atlantic coast

2019 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
Piero G. Delprete ◽  
Jomar G. Jardim
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Semideciduous Forest ◽  
A New Species

Background – Ongoing studies of Brazilian Rubiaceae revealed an undescribed species of Amaioua endemic to Atlantic Forest (Restinga and Semideciduous forest) of the state of Bahia, which is here described and illustrated, and its morphological characters are discussed and compared with those of similar species. Methods – This study is based on examinations of herbarium specimens, samples preserved in 60% ethanol, field observations, and digital images. Herbarium specimens of the CAY, CEPEC, HBR, IBGE, K, MBM, NY, RB, U, UB, UFG, and US herbaria were directly studied. Additional images of herbarium specimens were studied online. Results – Amaioua longipedicellata Delprete & J.G.Jardim is here described, illustrated and compared with the two most similar species, i.e., A. glomerulata (Lam. ex Poir.) Delprete & C.H.Perss. and A. intermedia Mart. A table comparing the morphological characters of these three species, and an appendix with selected specimens studied of A. glomerulata and A. intermedia are included.

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