The giant purple pedinid—a new species of Caenopedina (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Pedinidae) from New Zealand and Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2007 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
OWEN F. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Hawaiian Islands ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Brown Colour ◽  
The Rich ◽  
A New Species

Echinoids of the genus Caenopedina are widely distributed in continental shelf and slope waters of tropical to subAntarctic regions. A new species, Caenopedina porphyrogigas sp. nov. is described from temperate and sub-Antarctic areas of New Zealand and southeastern Australia in depths of 350–1200 m. This species is distinctive for the rich brown colour of its spines, purple apical and oral regions, large size, wide interambulacral plates, lack of obvious sexual dimorphism, and few forms of pedicellariae. The first confirmed records outside of the Hawaiian Islands and neighbouring atolls of another species in the genus, C. pulchella, reveal its existence also in northern New Zealand, and C. otagoensis, previously considered endemic to New Zealand is recorded from additional locations in the region as well as from a seamount west of Tasmania. An updated key to the species of Caenopedina is provided to include the four Australasian species most recently described.

scholarly journals A new species of sea urchin associating clingfish of the genus Dellichthys from New Zealand (Teleostei, Gobiesocidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 740 ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin W. Conway ◽  
Andrew L. Stewart ◽  
Adam P. Summers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Sea Urchin ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Sensory System ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Shallow Coastal Waters

A new species of clingfish, Dellichthystrnskii sp. n. is described on the basis of 27 specimens, 11.9–46.0 mm SL, collected from intertidal and shallow coastal waters of New Zealand. It is distinguished from its only congener, D.morelandi Briggs, 1955 by characters of the cephalic sensory system and oral jaws, snout shape, and colouration in life. A rediagnosis is provided for D.morelandi, which is shown to exhibit sexual dimorphism in snout shape.

First record of the tribe Diglottini from South America with description of Diglotta brasiliensis n. sp. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1776 (1) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDILSON CARON ◽  
CIBELE STRAMARE RIBEIRO-COSTA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
South America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
Fiji Islands ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The tribe Diglottini Eichelbaum, 1909 comprises two halophilous rove beetle genera Diglotta Champion, 1899, and Paradiglotta Ashe & Ahn, 2004. The tribe contains eight known species distributed in the Nearctic and West-Palaearctic regions, and also Fiji Islands and New Zealand. This tribe is recorded for the first time from South America with the description of a new species, Diglotta brasiliensis n. sp. from southern Brazil (Paraná). Characters of the mouthparts, aedeagus and spermatheca of the new species are illustrated and compared with other Diglotta species. Sexual dimorphism is reported for the first time in the genus.

Cirrhigaleus australis n. sp., a new Mandarin dogfish (Squaliformes: Squalidae) from the south-west Pacific

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1560 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM T. WHITE ◽  
PETER R. LAST ◽  
JOHN D. STEVENS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Western North Pacific ◽  
Pectoral Fins ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
South West ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Mandarin dogfish, Cirrhigaleus australis n. sp., is described based on specimens from southeastern Australia. Australian populations were previously considered to be conspecific with Cirrhigaleus barbifer from the western North Pacific and Indonesia, but recent investigations revealed that the two forms differ in morphology and in the structure of the CO1 gene. Cirrhigaleus australis has a smaller eye, shorter dorsal-caudal space, and smaller pectoral fins and dorsal fins and spines. These species are clearly separable from the only other congener, C. asper, and all other members of the family Squalidae, by the possession of a greatly produced barbel on their anterior nasal flap. The new species occurs in temperate waters of eastern Australia, and possibly New Zealand.

Neolithodes flindersi, a new species of king crab from southeastern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2362 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHANE T. AHYONG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
King Crab ◽  
Juvenile Female ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
A New Species

A new species of king crab (Lithodidae) is described from southeastern Australia, Neolithodes flindersi sp. nov. It is the twelfth known species of Neolithodes, the first to be described and the largest lithodid known from Australia. Neolithodes flindersi sp. nov. most closely resembles N. brodiei Dawson & Yaldwyn, 1970, from New Zealand and N. nipponensis Sakai, 1971, from Japan and Taiwan. The new species differs from N. nipponensis chiefly in being less prominently spinose: the secondary spines covering the surfaces of the walking legs are distinctly shorter, and the antennal peduncle is only sparsely granulate or spinulate, rather than prominently spinulate. Neolithodes flindersi sp. nov. is most easily distinguished from N. brodiei by patterns of spination: the ventral surfaces of the coxae of the walking legs in males and juvenile female N. flindersi sp. nov. are covered in short conical spines, rather than low, blunt tubercles as in N. brodiei, and the meral extensor spines of the walking legs are of similar size rather than markedly uneven. Two specimens of N. flindersi sp. nov. were collected on gorgonacean corals, representing the first records of a gorgonaceanlithodid association.

Morphology and relationships of a new species of Henicops (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales and Queensland, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 961 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE ◽  
LAUREN M. HOLLINGTON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
South Wales ◽  
A New Species

The henicopid centipede Henicops Newport, 1845, is common and widespread in wet forests in Australia and New Zealand. A new species of Henicops, H. washpoolensis, is widely distributed in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, ranging into the wet tropics of north Queensland. Parsimony analysis of morphological characters identifies the monophyly of an Australasian group within Henicops relative to more distantly allied species from Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia. The most parsimonious cladograms unite the three species from southeastern Australia and New Zealand to the exclusion of congeners from Western Australia and north Queensland or unite all Australasian species to the exclusion of H. washpoolensis.

Ahnea, a new genus from New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), with description of a new species

2014 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Seok Park ◽  
Christopher E. Carlton
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
A New Species

AbstractAhnea keejeongi Park and Carlton (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), a new genus and new species of New Zealand endemic beetle belonging to the supertribe Faronitae is described. Six previously described species are included to this genus and four species are synonymised as follow: Sagola dissonans Broun, 1921 and S. planicula Broun, 1921 under Ahnea ventralis (Broun, 1912); S. carinata Broun, 1912 and S. lineiceps Broun, 1921 under Ahnea lineata (Broun, 1893). A key to species, habitus photographs, line drawings of diagnostic characters, and distribution maps are provided.

Zoopsis nitida(Hepaticae: Lepidoziaceae), a new species from New Zealand

1997 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Glenny ◽  
John Braggins ◽  
Rudolf M. Schuster
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
A New Species
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