Resolution of taxonomic problems associated with the complex publication history of the seminal Torre and Bartsch monograph on Cuban Urocoptidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3362 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN R. KABAT ◽  
ROBERT HERSHLER ◽  
ADRIAN González-Guillén
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Identification Keys ◽  
History Of ◽  
Valid Evidence ◽  
Article 50

This paper clarifies the confusion relating to the publication of Carlos de la Torre & Paul Bartsch’s taxonomic study of theCuban Urocoptidae. This massive work, which described >500 new taxa, was completed in manuscript form in 1943, butwas not published during the authors’ lifetime. In 1972 Miguel Jaume and Alfredo de la Torre (a nephew of C. de la Torre)published a slightly modified version of a large portion of this manuscript in the Circulares del Museo y Biblioteca deZoología de la Habana, a mimeographed journal which is available for taxonomic purposes per ICZN Code Article 8. The420 new taxa introduced in this paper were made available under the ICZN Code (even though many were differentiatedonly in identification keys) and should be attributed to C. de la Torre & Bartsch because the descriptions were copied fromthe 1943 manuscript and Jaume & A. de la Torre explicitly credited this work to the former two authors (per Article 50 ofthe 1964 edition of the ICZN Code). The 1972 paper does not delineate type material for most of the new species-grouptaxa; however the detailed information provided in the 1943 manuscript constitutes valid evidence of the type series perICZN Code (1999) Article 72.2. The 1972 paper was republished by Jaume & A. de la Torre in 1976 in the Ciencias Bi-ológicas of the Universidad de la Habana. In 1980 Jaume & A. de la Torre prepared a typescript describing the remainingnew taxa from the 1943 manuscript, which was slated to be published in the Circulares; however we have not found anyevidence that it was distributed or otherwise made available in a manner satisfying the ICZN Code criteria for availability.In 2008 Carolina de la Torre, grand-niece of C. de la Torre, published the entire 1943 manuscript in a book of more than760 pages that was printed in Havana. The authorship of this book was credited to C. de la Torre & Bartsch. The bookdescribes as new the taxa already treated in the 1972 paper as well as 130 additional taxa, which also should be attributedto C. de la Torre & Bartsch. We briefly discuss the disposition of the Cuban urocoptid material studied by C. de la Torre & Bartsch and the subsequent citations to their taxonomic study of this fauna.

NOTES RELATING TO THE FLORA OF BHUTAN: XLIII. SCROPHULARIACEAE (PEDICULARIS)

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. MILL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Type Material ◽  
New Variety ◽  
Infrageneric Classification ◽  
Emended Description

Problems of infrageneric classification in Pedicularis L. (Scrophulariaceae), and the phytogeography of the genus in the Flora of Bhutan area, are discussed. Six new species and one new variety of Pedicularis L. are described. Pedicularis garckeana Prain ex Maxim. is separated from P. ser. Robustae Prain as the new, monospecific series Garckeanae R. R. Mill (Sikkim and adjacent Xizang). Six of these new taxa are endemic to Bhutan (P. dhurensis R. R. Mill sp. nov., P. longipedicellata P. C. Tsoong var. lanocalyx R. R. Mill var. nov., P. melalimne R. R. Mill sp. nov., P. microloba R. R. Mill sp. nov., P. sanguilimbata R. R. Mill sp. nov. and P. woodii R. R. Mill sp. nov.) and one (P. yarilaica R. R. Mill sp. nov.) occurs in N Bhutan and S Xizang. The type material of Phtheirospermum auratum Bonati (=Pedicularis aurata (Bonati) H. L. Li) is shown to be a mixed gathering; the name is lectotypified and an emended description of P. aurata given. Several other names are lectotypified. Three sectional names originally proposed by Yamazaki (each ‘based’ on invalid ‘names’ of groups earlier recognized as subgreges by Tsoong) are validated as P. sect. Asthenocaulus [P. C. Tsoong ex] R. R. Mill, P. sect. Nothosigmantha T. Yamaz. ex R. R. Mill, and P. sect. Rhizophyllastrum T. Yamaz. ex R. R. Mill, while a fourth invalid section (‘P. sect. Brachystachys (P. C. Tsoong) T. Yamaz.’) is here recognized and described as P. sect. Brevispica R. R. Mill, sect. nov. Pedicularis sect. Cryptorhynchus T. Yamaz. and P. sect. Elephanticeps T. Yamaz. are provided with emended descriptions. The nomenclature of P. pennelliana P. C. Tsoong and related taxa of the P. gracilis Wall. ex Benth. complex is discussed.

Review of Paracerella Imadate (Protura: Acerentomidae, Nipponentominae) with identification key and description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3509 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIA SHRUBOVYCH ◽  
JERZY SMYKLA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Tergite Viii ◽  
A New Species

Paracerella americana Imadate is redescribed based on the type material. The original description is corrected and supplemented with new characters, including head chaetotaxy, seta length, porotaxy and shape of the male squama genitalis. Paracerella monterey sp. nov. is described from specimens that were originally part of the "Paracerella americana type series". Paracerella americana is characterized by presence of seta P1a on tergites I-VI and absence of seta on tergite VII, presence of 4 P-setae on sternite I, and concave hind margin of the comb on tergite VIII. Paracerella monterey sp. nov. is characterized by absence of seta P1a on tergites I-VII, presence of 2 P-setae on sternite I, and straight hind margin of the comb. A key to Paracerella species is provided.

Taxonomic study and morphology based phylogeny of the patagonic clade Liolaemus melanops group (Iguania: Liolaemidae), with the description of three new taxa

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3163 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABDALA C. S. ◽  
R. V. SEMHAN ◽  
D. L. MORENO AZOCAR ◽  
M. BONINO ◽  
M. M. PAZ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
Rio Negro ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
The One ◽  
Patch Group

The genus Liolaemus is a group of lizards with more than 230 recognized species, which have been grouped in differentclades and subgroups. One of the monophyletic groups is the one of Liolaemus boulengeri or “the patch group”; this cladeitself is integrated by several monophyletic groups: the groups Liolaemus anomalus, Liolaemus wiegmanii, Liolaemusdarwinii and Liolaemus melanops. The latter group is constituted almost exclusively by Patagonian lizards, and it is ourfocal group. In the present work we describe three new species belonging to the Liolaemus melanops group. One of thenew taxon described, Liolaemus tromen sp. nov., is related to the Liolaemus fitzingerii clade, inhabits in the Center-Westof Neuquén Province, and was confused initially with Liolaemus hermannunezi, a mountain Chilean species. The secondspecies described, Liolaemus purul sp. nov., belongs to the Liolaemus telsen clade, inhabits in the center and north-westof Neuquén Province, and was confused first with Liolaemus boulengeri and then with Liolaemus loboi. While the thirdspecies, Liolaemus dumerili sp. nov., is basal of the L. goetschi group, inhabits in the center-south of Río Negro provinceand was considered as Liolaemus melanops. In addition, we present a phylogenetic analysis based in the morphology and we contribute with a dichotomic key for males of the Liolaemus melanops group.

Biodiversity, systematics, and new taxa of cladid crinoids from the Ordovician Brechin Lagerstätte

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Wright ◽  
Selina R. Cole ◽  
William I. Ausich
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Unexpected Result ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Major Lineage ◽  
Lake Simcoe

AbstractUpper Ordovician (Katian) strata of the Lake Simcoe region of Ontario record a spectacularly diverse and abundant echinoderm fauna known as the Brechin Lagerstätte. Despite recognition as the most taxonomically diverse Katian crinoid paleocommunity, the Brechin Lagerstätte has received relatively little taxonomic study since Frank Springer published his classic monograph on the “Kirkfield fauna” in 1911.Using a new collection of exceptionally preserved material, we evaluate all dicyclic inadunate crinoids occurring in the Brechin Lagerstätte, which is predominantly comprised of cladids (Eucladida and Flexibilia). We document 15 species across 11 genera, including descriptions of two new genera and four new species. New taxa include Konieckicrinus brechinensis n. gen. n. sp., K. josephi n. gen. n. sp., Simcoecrinus mahalaki n. gen. n. sp., and Dendrocrinus simcoensis n. sp.Although cladids are not commonly considered major components of the Early Paleozoic Crinoid Macroevolutionary Fauna, which is traditionally conceived as dominated by disparids and diplobathrid camerates, they are the most diverse major lineage of crinoids occurring in the Brechin Lagerstätte. This unexpected result highlights the important roles of specimen-based taxonomy and systematic revisions in the study of large-scale diversity patterns.UUID: http://zoobank.org/09dda7c2-f2c5-4411-93be-3587ab1652ab

New species and new records of the lichen genus Porpidia (Lecideaceae) from western China

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 619-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Yu WANG ◽  
Lu Lu ZHANG ◽  
Yogesh JOSHI ◽  
Hai Ying WANG ◽  
Jae Seoun HUR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Records ◽  
Western China ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
Taxonomic Descriptions ◽  
Chemical Characters

AbstractA taxonomic study of the genus Porpidia in western China revealed two species hitherto unknown to science, Porpidia squamosa and P. shangrila, along with three new records for the country: P. flavicunda, P. soredizodes and P. thomsonii. Detailed taxonomic descriptions, ecological and chemical characters, and illustrations are provided for the new taxa, and brief taxonomic descriptions provided for the newly reported taxa. A key to all known Chinese Porpidia species is also provided.

Revision of the subgenus Marquesania (Acari : Atopomelidae : Listrophoroides)

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre V. Bochkov ◽  
Alex Fain
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Reconstruction ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Diagnosis

The subgenus Marquesania Womersley (Acari : Atopomelidae : Listrophoroides) is revised. The species of this subgenus are permanent parasites living in the fur of rats (Rodentia : Murinae) in the Oriental region, Australia and New Guinea. Most of the type material has been examined. Two new species, Listrophoroides melomys, sp. nov. from Melomys moncktoni (Thomas) and L. mordax, sp. nov. from Rattus mordax (Thomas) are described from New Guinea. A new diagnosis of the subgenus Marquesania, detailed descriptions, and a key for all species is provided. The phylogenetic reconstruction of the subgenus Marquesania was effected by the method of parsimonius cladistics. The monophyly of the subgenus is strongly supported by this analysis, and most species from the Oriental region fall at the base of the cladogram. The distribution of Marquesania species on their hosts is discussed. It is suggested that these mites originated in the Oriental region and then migrated to Australia and New Guinea. The distribution of Marquesania species in the Australian and New Guinean regions is noticeably complicated, reflecting the complex settling history of their hosts.

New species, redescriptions and a new combination of Acanthocyrtus Handschin, 1925 and Amazhomidia Cipola & Bellini, 2016 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Entomobryinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4387 (3) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKOLAS GIOIA CIPOLA ◽  
JOSÉ WELLINGTON DE MORAIS ◽  
BRUNO CAVALCANTE BELLINI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Type Material ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Identification Keys ◽  
One New Species

Herein one new species of Amazhomidia Cipola & Bellini from Brazilian Amazon is described and illustrated: A. thaisae sp. nov., plus one specimen no nominal due to lack of material for formal descriptionend point.  Acanthocyrtus guianiensis Womersley is redescribed and transferred to Amazhomidia by presence of prelabral chaetae bifurcated, macrochaetotaxy pattern, manubrium laterally with long distal mac finely ciliate and dens ventrally unscaled. Acanthocyrtus croceus Womersley is confirmed as a junior synonymy of A. guianiensis. The juvenile description of Amazhomidia ducke is provided, and changes in chaetotaxy nomenclature are made based on them. Acanthocyrtus lineatus Womersley is redescribed based on type material and new diagnostic characters are revealed. Identification keys for both genera and a comparison for Entomobryinae genera with dental spines are provided. Amazhomidia has now three and Acanthocyrtus Handschin six valid species. 

scholarly journals The original descriptions of reptiles and their subspecies

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4375 (2) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER UETZ ◽  
ALEXANDREA STYLIANOU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Supplementary File ◽  
Constant Rate ◽  
History Of

By August 2017 an estimated 13,047 species and subspecies of extant reptiles have been described by a total of 6,454 papers and books which are listed in a supplementary file. For 1,052 species a total of 2,452 subspecies (excluding nominate subspecies) had been described by 2017, down from 1,295 species and 4,411 subspecies in 2009, due to the elevation of many subspecies to species. Here we summarize the history of these taxon description beginning with Linnaeus in 1758. While it took 80 years to reach the first 1,000 species in 1838, new species and subspecies descriptions since then have been added at a roughly constant rate of 1000 new taxa every 12-17 years. The only exception were the decades during World Wars I and II and the beginning of this millennium when the rate of descriptions increased to now about 7 years for the last 1,000 taxa. The top 101 most productive herpetologists (in terms of “taxon output”) have described more than 8,000 species and subspecies, amounting to over 60% of all currently valid taxa. More than 90% of all species were described in either English (68.2%), German (12.7%) or French (9.3%). 

New species of Neocorynura Schrottky from Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4542 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
RODRIGO BARBOSA GONÇALVES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Identification Keys ◽  
Faunal List ◽  
Primary Type ◽  
First Time

Neocorynura Schrottky is one of the most speciose genera in the Augochlorini with about 80 species. Neocorynura is primarily distributed in the Neotropical region, from Argentina to Mexico. New species have been described recently, but the Brazilian fauna has not been studied at the same rate. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide a revision of Neocorynura species from Brazil. More than 2,500 specimens were studied along with the examination of primary type specimens and/or high resolution photographs of type material. A total of 44 species were recognized, 24 new species are added to the fauna and figured as N. acuta sp.nov., N. aethra sp.nov., N. amabilis sp.nov., N. arethusa sp.nov., N. aurantia sp.nov., N. carmenta sp.nov., N. dictyata sp.nov., N. eliasi sp.nov., N. hebe sp.nov., N. hyalina sp.nov., N. insolita sp.nov., N. laevistriata sp.nov., N. lamellata sp.nov., N. meloi sp.nov., N. nambikwara sp.nov., N nicolle sp.nov., N. olivacea sp.nov., N perfida sp.nov., N. pilosifacies sp.nov., N. proserpina sp.nov., N. rubicunda sp.nov., N. surrufa sp.nov., N. truncata sp.nov., and N. veneta sp.nov. I designate the lectotype for Corynura oiospermi Schrottky and consider this name as a junior synonym of Halictus codion Vachal. Augochloropsis celaeno Schrottky is considered a junior synonym of Corynura pseudobaccha Cockerell. Casosoma semimarginata Cockerell is resurrected from synonymy with Cacosoma aenigma Gribodo. Neocorynura aenigma (Gribodo) and Neocorynura caligans (Vachal) are removed from the faunal list for Brazil. Half of species recognized here are known only for the female. The males of N. atromarginata (Cockerell), N. cuprifrons (Smith), N. dilutipes (Vachal), N. erinnys (Schrottky), N. melamptera (Moure), N. roxane (Schrottky) and N. semimarginata (Cockerell) and females of N. iopodion (Vachal) and N. jucunda (Smith) are described for the first time. Identification keys to females and males are presented. 

TWO SPECIES OF PALPITA HÜBNER DESCRIBED BY JANSE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE: PYRAUSTINAE)

1977 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Type Material ◽  
New Combination ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Species Inquirenda ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

AbstractLectotypes are designated for Margaronia curvilinea Janse, 1924, and Margaronia pratti Janse, 1924. These species are referred to Palpita Hübner, [1808], as new combinations. They are redescribed and differentiated from certain closely related species. Phalaena Geometra annulata Fabricius, 1794, and Botys partialis Lederer, 1863, are treated as species inquirenda in the absence of type material. Glyphodes celsalis Walker, 1859, and Margaronia inusitata Butler, 1879, are treated as distinct species and are transferred to Palpita as new combinations. Margaronia warrenalis Swinhoe, 1894, is transferred to Palpita as a new combination; a lectotype is designated for this species and its characters are compared with those of P. curvilinea. Palpita varii n. sp., from Manusela, Ceram, and P. jansei n. sp., from the Island of Mioswar, Geelvink Bay, New Guinea, are described from holotypes drawn from the type-series of P. pratti; characters differentiating these three species are given.

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