Three new species of Chordodes and new data on hairworms (Nematomorpha) from Ecuador

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2205 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
CRISTINA DE VILLALOBOS ◽  
FERNANDA ZANCA ◽  
ALVARO BARRAGAN YANEZ

The presently known freshwater Nematomorpha from Ecuador include only three species. Seven species of hairworms are herein firstly recorded from this country, which makes 10 the known species inhabiting Ecuador. Four of them are redescribed and three new species of Chordodes (C. alticuspis, C. ecuatoriensis and C. ruginosus) are described. All species are described using scanning electron microscopy. A list of all species known from Ecuador is also included.

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2506 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIANG LI ◽  
HONG-ZHANG ZHOU

Three new species of the genus Craspedomerus from China are described and illustrated: C. giganteus Li & Zhou sp. n. from Sichuan, C. gongshanus Li & Zhou sp. n. from Yunnan and C. zhangi Li & Zhou sp. n. from Tibet. Four species are reported for the first time from China: C. sinetuber (Coiffait, 1977a) from Tibet, C. cyanipennis Scheerpeltz, 1976b, C. ganeshensis Coiffait, 1983 and C. glenoides (Schubert, 1908) from Yunnan. These four and two additional species previously recorded from China (C. beckeri Bernhauer, 1934 and C. violaceipennis Cameron, 1928 are redescribed and illustrated. Sensory peg setae located on the underside of the paramere of the aedeagus of all nine Chinese species are compared using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the result shows that this character is useful for species identification. A key to the Chinese species of Craspedomerus is presented and geographical distribution of all sixteen species of Craspedomerus is mapped.


Author(s):  
Piotr Kuklinski ◽  
Paul D. Taylor

Study of type and other material using scanning electron microscopy has permitted the recognition of three new species and one new genus of Arctic and boreal calloporid anascans. Originally described from the Gulf of St Lawrence, Callopora whiteavesi is reassigned to Flustrellaria, a calloporid genus not previously reported extant. Material from north-east Greenland misidentified as C. whiteavesi is described as C. weslawski sp. nov. The new genus Septentriopora is introduced for calloporids lacking pore chambers, with a distolateral pair of small interzooidal avicularia that face proximally or proximolaterally, and a reduced ovicell. The type species of Septentriopora, Tegella nigrans, has frequently been misidentified. Many of the supposed records of this species belong to two other species, described here as Septentriopora karasi sp. nov. and S. denisenkoae sp. nov. The apparent ovicell in S. karasi is particularly unusual, being vestigial and kenozooid-like in morphology.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4571 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
ASAKO K. MATSUMOTO ◽  
LEEN P. VAN OFWEGEN ◽  
FREDERICK M. BAYER

Octocorals of the Acanthogorgiid genus Calcigorgia have been examined, from Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Bering Sea. The four known species are re-described and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of sclerites presented. Three other species are described and depicted, bringing the total number of Calcigorgia species to seven. Calcigorgia simushiri, Dautova 2018 is synonymized with C. spiculifera Broch, 1935. A neotype for C. spiculifera has been designated. 


Lankesteriana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Wilson ◽  
Luis Baquero ◽  
Katharine Dupree ◽  
Marco M. Jiménez ◽  
Cheryl M. LeBlanc ◽  
...  

The history of the taxonomy of Pleurothallis R.Br. subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae and recent descriptions in that group are summarized. The phylogenetic position of the group based on preliminary molecular data and the appropriateness of the proposed genera Acronia C.Presl. and Zosterophyllanthos Szlach. & Marg. for this group are discussed. Three new species from northern South America are described: Pleurothallis rubrifolia from southeastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru; Pleurothallis nangaritzae from southeastern Ecuador; and Pleurothallis castanea. Labellar micromorphology examined by scanning electron microscopy for P. rubrifolia and P. nangaritzae is discussed in relation to taxonomy and possible pollinator interactions.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 306 (4) ◽  
pp. 241 ◽  
Author(s):  
BING LIU ◽  
DAVID M. WILLIAMS ◽  
LIN TAN

Three new species of Ulnaria from the Wuling Mountains Area, China, have been studied by light and scanning electron microscopy. All possess at least six closed girdle bands. The pattern of valve striation is not uniform as some do not have a corresponding opposite structure. The cells of Ulnaria sinensis sp. nov. are linked and form colonies with frustules connected by interlocking linking spines. U. sinensis has very long valves (296–512 µm) and uniseriate striae. Both Ulnaria ulnabiseriata sp. nov. and Ulnaria gaowangjiensis sp. nov. have biseriate striae. U. ulnabiseriata differs from U. gaowangjiensis in LM by its more lanceolate valve shape as the valves of U. ulnabiseriata taper towards the pole from one third of the length of the valve, whist U. gaowangjiensis tapers towards the pole from two thirds of the length of the valve, and by its larger valve length (105–229 µm vs 61–108 µm). The three new species are all epilithic and were found in freshwater streams in or near nature reserves.


2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Stephenson ◽  
Yu. K. Novozhilov ◽  
P. Wellman

A new species of Cribraria, described herein as C. bicolor, appeared in moist chamber cultures on samples of the bark of Eucalyptus sp. collected at two localities in Australia. The morphology of representative specimens was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy, and micrographs of relevant morphological details of sporocarps and spores are provided. The species has a number of distinct and unique morphological features, including a glossy bright-violet globose sporotheca and a two-colored long stalk which is bright-red over the lower one-third and light yellow or lemon-yellow over the upper two-thirds. The combination of these characteristics as well as a shallow calyculus which is dark-violet when viewed under a dissecting microscope and bright red in transmitted light when mounted in lactophenol makes C. bicolor a well-defined morphospecies when compared to all other species of Cribraria. The stability of the taxonomic characters of the species was confirmed by an examination of a number of specimens.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 480 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-290
Author(s):  
QI LIU ◽  
JIAJIA LI ◽  
QUANXI WANG ◽  
JOHN PATRICK KOCIOLEK Patrick Kociolek ◽  
Shulian Xie

A new species, Encyonema oblonga Liu & Xie, is collected during a survey of the freshwater diatom flora of Manghe River, Shanxi, China. The valves of this new species are oblong with rounded apices and have the features typical of Encyonema, including complex areolae. We compare the new species with the most similar taxa, E. leei, E. leei var. sinensis and E. appalachianum and consider that  E. leei var. sinensis is the valid name.  The morphology of E. oblonga is documented with light and scanning electron microscopy.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 496 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
HRISTINA KOCHOSKA ◽  
DUŠICA ZAOVA ◽  
ANASTASIJA VIDESKA ◽  
DANIJELA MITIC-KOPANJA ◽  
HRISTINA NAUMOVSKA ◽  
...  

Lowland intermittent ponds, although biologically important, are poorly studied water habitats. During the analyses of the material taken from lowland pond in Pelagonia Valley, and Vitachevo, Republic of North Macedonia, the diatom Sellaphora pelagonica sp. nov. was recorded and described based on light and scanning electron microscopy. The species is characterized by a strictly linear valve outline with parallel to slightly concave margins and broadly rounded ends, 15.0–40.0 µm long and 5.0–7.0 µm wide. These features, together with raphe structure and areolar shape are compared with several similar taxa currently ascribed to Sellaphora.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 494 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-218
Author(s):  
DMITRY CHUDAEV ◽  
INGRID JÜTTNER ◽  
ZLATKO LEVKOV

This is the first detailed taxonomic study of the genus Navicula in the Krasnodar Territory of the Caucasus region, Russia. During the study of the genus in waterbodies of the Adegoy River valley 15 taxa were recorded. Two species, N. adegoyensis sp. nov. and N. pseudocryptofallax sp. nov., are described as new to science. Their morphology is studied by light and scanning electron microscopy, and comparisons with morphologically similar species are provided. The use of the name N. avenacea for N. lanceolata sensu auct. is discussed. Navicula diversity was higher in the Adegoy River than in pools elsewhere in the river valley.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 508 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
DMITRY CHUDAEV ◽  
INGRID JÜTTNER ◽  
BART VAN DE VIJVER

During a survey of the diatom flora of the Adegoy River (Krasnodar Territory, Russia), an unknown Fragilaria species (Bacillariophyta) was found that could not be identified using the currently available literature and here we describe it as a new species. The morphology of Fragilaria irregularis sp. nov. was studied using light and scanning electron microscopy and compared to similar species including Fragilaria deformis, F. rinoi, F. septentrionalis and Fragilariforma bicapitata. It differed from these taxa in several characters. Most observed valves showed an irregular striation pattern, a feature not observed in other species. Other important differences include valve outline (linear with parallel margins) and stria density (7–14 in 10 µm, lower compared to all other species). The new taxon has a linear valve outline with parallel to weakly convex margins, subcapitate apices and a very irregular, coarse striation pattern.


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