New Zealand exports: Pseudosphaeroma Chilton, 1909 (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae), a Southern Hemisphere genus introduced to the Pacific coast of North America

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1908 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIEL L. BRUCE ◽  
REGINA WETZER
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
First Time ◽  
Coast Region

Collections made along the coast of California have revealed the presence of a species of Pseudosphaeroma Chilton, 1909, a genus common in New Zealand coastal waters. The genus is entirely Southern Hemisphere in distribution, and this record reports the introduction of a species of Pseudosphaeroma into the San Francisco and Central Coast region of California, the first reported occurrence of the genus as an invasive taxon, and the first record of the genus from the Northern Hemisphere. The genus is also recorded for the first time from the Galapagos and Argentina.

LICHENS AND LICHENICOLOUS FUNGI NEW FOR ISRAEL AND OTHER COUNTRIES

1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.L. Navrotskaya ◽  
S.Y. Kondratyuk ◽  
S.P. Wasser ◽  
E. Nevo ◽  
S.D. Zelenko
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Lichen Species ◽  
European Countries ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Lichenicolous Fungi ◽  
First Time

Thirteen lichen species (Arthopyrenia punctiformis, Bactrospora patellarioides, Caloplaca saxicola, C. ulcerosa, Lempholemma chalazanellum, Lichenothelia scopularia, Maronea constans, Micarea nitschkeana, Opegrapha rufescens, O. vulgata var. subsiderella, Physcia caesia, Schismatomma pericleum, and Thelenella modesta), one nonlichenized ascomycetes (Peridiothelia fuliguncta), and 5 species of lichenicolous fungi (Arthonia molendoi, Endococcus parietinarius, Guignardia Olivieri, Opegrapha physciaria, and Zwackhiomyces coepulonus) are recorded as new for Israel. Lichenochora wasseri S.Kondr. sp. nov. from Caloplaca species from Israel and Sweden is described. Lichenochora xanthoriae is reported for the first time from Austria for Europe as well as from Auckland Islands, New Zealand, for the Southern Hemisphere. Seven taxa mentioned (Caloplaca ulcerosa, Endococcus parietinarius, Guignardia olivieri, Micarea nitschkeana, Opegrapha physciaria, Peridiothelia fuliguncta, Zwackhiomyces coepulonus) are reported here for the first time for Asia as well. Guignardia Olivieri is first reported here from some European countries (Finland, Russia, Ireland, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Ukraine), and Zwackhiomyces coepulonus from North America and Africa as well. Synonyms, references to a modern description, ecological peculiarities, locations and dates of collection in Israel, general distribution, as well as taxonomical remarks regarding the foregoing lichens and lichenicolous fungi species are given.

Late Pleistocene stratigraphy of south-central British Columbia

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Fulton ◽  
Geoffrey W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Coastal Regions ◽  
South Central ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Valley Area ◽  
Coast Region

The late Pleistocene deposits of south-central British Columbia record two major glacial and two major nonglacial periods of deposition. The oldest recognized Pleistocene deposits, called Westwold Sediments, were deposited during a nonglacial interval more than 60 000 years ago. Little information is available on the climate of this period, but permafrost may have been present at one time during final stages of deposition of Westwold Sediments. The latter part of this nonglacial period is probably correlative with the early Wisconsin Substage of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Valley area. However, deposition of the Westwold Sediments may have begun during the Sangamon Interglacial.Okanagan Centre Drift is the name applied to sediments deposited during the glaciation that followed deposition of Westwold Sediments. Okanagan Centre Drift is known to be older than 43 800 years BP and probably is older than 51 000. It is considered to correlate with an early Wisconsin glacial period.Bessette Sediments were deposited during the last major nonglacial period, which in south-central British Columbia persisted from at least 43 800 years BP (possibly more than 51 000) to about 19 000 years BP. This episode corresponds to Olympia Interglaciation of the Pacific Coast region and the mid-Wisconsin Substage of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Valley area. During parts of Olympia Interglaciation the climate was probably as warm as the present-day climate in the interior of British Columbia. Information from coastal regions indicates that there may have been periods of cooler and moister climate.Kamloops Lake Drift was deposited during the last major glaciation of south-central British Columbia. Ice occupied lowland areas from approximately 19 000 to 10 000 years BP. This period corresponds approximately to the Fraser Glaciation of the Pacific Coast region and the late Wisconsin Substage of central and eastern parts of North America.

REDISTRIBUTION AND GROWTH OF THE CASPIAN TERN POPULATION IN THE PACIFIC COAST REGION OF NORTH AMERICA, 1981–2000

The Condor ◽  
10.1650/7508 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Suryan ◽  
David P. Craig ◽  
Daniel D. Roby ◽  
Nathan D. Chelgren ◽  
Ken Collis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Caspian Tern ◽  
Coast Region

First record of Litarachna caribica (Acari, Pontarachnidae) from the Pacific coast of Panama

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Pešić ◽  
Tapas Chatterjee ◽  
Nikolaos V. Schizas
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Central American ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Southern Caribbean ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
First Time

We documented the existence of a population of the southern Caribbean pontarachnid miteLitarachna caribicafor the first time on the Pacific coast of Panama. Based on morphological observations, this is the first record of a pontarachnid mite with a trans-isthmian distribution, which can be explained by either modern biological dispersal or historical vicariance hypotheses.Litarachna caribicahad either passed through the Panama Canal, successfully colonizing the opposite coast, or previously continuously distributed populations had become disjunct after the rise of the Central American land.

scholarly journals First record and geographic range extension of the coccolithophore Scyphosphaera apsteinii Lohman, 1902 (Haptophyta: Pontosphaeraceae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico

Check List ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco O. López-Fuerte ◽  
Ismael Gárate-Lizárraga ◽  
David A. Siqueiros-Beltrones ◽  
Ricardo Yabur
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
The West ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time

The coccolithophorid Scyphosphaera apsteinii is here reported for the first time from waters off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula. Scypho­sphaera apsteinii is the type species of the genus Scyphosphaera and had hitherto been recorded only in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean Seas. Specimens were found in samples collected in nets off Isla de Guadalupe in January 2013. This recording thus extends the geographical distribution of S. apsteinii from the Central Pacific (Hawaii) to the Eastern Pacific (NW Mexico).

Mexicope sushara sp. nov., the first New Zealand record of the isopod crustacean family Acanthaspidiidae (Asellota)

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 489 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
NIEL L. BRUCE
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Family

Mexicope sushara sp. nov. is recorded from southeastern New Zealand coastal waters, the first record of the genus from the Pacific and the first record of the Acanthaspidiidae from New Zealand. The species is from the continental shelf, taken in association with a bryozoan colony at a depth of 80 metres on the Otago Shelf, southeastern South Island. The distinguishing characters are a rostral spine and prominent and acute pre-ocular lobes; these characters in conjunction with stalked eyes separate the species from all others in the family.

THE BEES OF ALBERTA.—I

1936 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 274-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. D. A. Cockerell
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The University ◽  
Coast Region

It is proposed to offer a series of papers, based primarily on the material collected by Professor E. H. Strickland of the University of Alberta at Edmonton.Chelynia nitida (Cresson). This genus of parasitic bees has over twenty species in North America, the majority from the Pacific Coast region. There are two closely allied species described from females, black with cream-coloured abdominal bands. For some years I have had in my collection a male from Tolland, Colorado, July 1915, at flowers of Frasera, collected by L. A. Kenoyer, determined by me as C. nitida (Cress). I now receive a very similar but distinct male from Professor E. H. Strickland, collected by O. Peck at Beaverlodge, Alberta, July 6, 1931. I conclude that this must be the genuine C. nitida, and the Tolland one the undescribed male of the related C. idahoensis Swenk.

ARYTAINILLA SPARTIOPHILA (FOERSTER) (HOMOPTERA: PSYLLIDAE) ON CYTISUS SCOPARIUS (L.) LINK IN VIRGINIA: FIRST RECORD IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Cytisus Scoparius ◽  
Scotch Broom ◽  
The Pacific

The psyllid Arytainilla spartiophila (Foerster) was collected from Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link, at several locations in Virginia. This is the first North American record for this insect outside of the Pacific Coast Area.

First record of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Actiniaria: Edwardsiidae) in Southern Hemisphere waters

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2343 (1) ◽  
pp. 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANINE F. SILVA ◽  
CARLOS A. C. LIMA ◽  
CARLOS D. PEREZ ◽  
PAULA B. GOMES
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sea Anemone ◽  
Nematostella Vectensis ◽  
Brazilian Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Usa

This is the first record of the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis Stephenson, 1935, in Southern Hemisphere waters. Specimens of N. vectensis were collected in the surroundings of the Port of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. The species is native to the Atlantic coast of the United States of America; populations along the Pacific coast of the USA and the coasts of England are the result of anthropogenic introduction, probably associated with ships and boats used in oyster commerce (Sheader et al. 1997; Pearson et al. 2002; Reitzel et al. 2008). The present study extends the latitudinal distribution of this species, and we discuss the presence on the Brazilian coast of this exotic species.

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