A new cryptic species in the “Calcinus anani Poupin & McLaughlin, 1998” species complex (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae): evidence from colouration and molecular genetics

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3367 (1) ◽  
pp. 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA CELIA (MACHEL) D. MALAY ◽  
TOMOYUKI KOMAI ◽  
TIN-YAM CHAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Molecular Genetics ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase I ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Calcinus is described from western Pacific material, including specimens previously identified as Cal-cinus anani Poupin & McLaughlin, 1998. The new species C. fuscus n. sp. differs from C. anani in the colouration in life,and their specific distinction is genetically supported by the barcoding gene cytochrome oxidase I (COI). The two speciesalso have different geographic distributions, with C. fuscus n. sp. ranging from Japan to the Philippines, Papua New Guin-ea, and New Caledonia, while C. anani is restricted to French Polynesia. Moreover C. fuscus n. sp. is found at shallower depths than its sister species C. anani.

Review of Sebadexius Ledoyer, 1984 (Amphipoda, Dexaminidae, Dexamininae) based on new material from The Philippines, with Sebadexius cebuense sp. nov.

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4500 (4) ◽  
pp. 596
Author(s):  
JEAN JUST
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
New Material ◽  
A New Species

The amphipod genus Sebadexius Ledoyer, 1984 (New Caledonia) is reviewed, based on new material from Cebu in The Philippines. Some characters are re-interpreted, and a new species, Sebadexius cebuense, is described. 

The Madagascan genus Dolurgocleptes Schedl (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae): description of a new species and transfer to the tribe Polygraphini

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
BJARTE H. JORDAL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Elongation Factor ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase I ◽  
Elongation Factor 1Α ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the Malagasy genus Dolurgocleptes Schedl, 1965 is described and illustrated. This is the second species known for the genus, which is restricted to the montane rainforests of north-eastern Madagascar. Dolurgocleptes is transferred from the tribe Dryocoetini to Polygraphini and placed near Polygraphus Erichson, based on examination of internal and external morphological characters and molecular data from Elongation Factor-1α and Cytochrome Oxidase I.

scholarly journals On the evolution of the species complex Pachycondyla chinensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae), including the origin of its invasive form and description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2685 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOSHIHISA YASHIRO ◽  
KENJI MATSUURA ◽  
BENOIT GUÉNARD ◽  
MAMORU TERAYAMA ◽  
ROBERT R. DUNN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
The United States ◽  
Invasive Ant ◽  
The World ◽  
Pachycondyla Chinensis ◽  
A New Species

Ants are one of the most successful and widespread organisms in the world. Although ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) are predominantly tropical in distribution, Pachycondyla chinensis (Emery) is especially abundant in temperate zones in Asia. Recently, P. chinensis has also become an abundant invasive ant species in the United States. However, it was well-known that the Pachycondyla chinensis species complex remained unresolved. Our molecular and morphological results allow us to distinguish two species in the species complex: the species P. chinensis and the new cryptic species P. nakasujii sp. nov., and these two species are widely and sympatrically distributed and abundant in temperate forests in Japan. Moreover, phylogenetic analysis showed that P. chinensis has been introduced into the United States from Japan. In conclusion, our finding of the new species P. nakasujii suggests that much remains undiscovered even in biologically fascinating and well-studied organisms.

scholarly journals Notes on identity, new synonymy and larva of Ivalia Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1363 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE N. DUCKETT ◽  
K. D. PRATHAPAN ◽  
ALEXANDER S. KONSTANTINOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
South India ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase I ◽  
Larval Morphology ◽  
Flea Beetles ◽  
New Synonymy ◽  
A New Species

Genus Ivalia Jacoby is characterized morphologically, and Amphimeloides Jacoby syn. nov. and Taizonia Chen syn. nov. are junior synonyms with it. Several Ivalia species are figured, including Ivalia bella (Chen) comb. nov., I. dorsalis (Jacoby) comb. nov., and I. viridipennis Jacoby. A new species of Ivalia from the Nilgiri Hills in south India, I. korakundah sp. nov., is described and illustrated, including the larvae. Larvae were associated with adults by sequencing a fragment of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase I. Larval morphology is discussed and compared with that of other flea beetles.

Lithodes formosae, a new species of king crab from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2332 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHANE T. AHYONG ◽  
TIN-YAM CHAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Gene Sequences ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I ◽  
Spine Length ◽  
King Crab ◽  
A New Species

A new species of king crab is described from Taiwan, Lithodes formosae sp. nov. The new species resembles L. longispina Sakai, 1971, from Japan, L. megacantha Macpherson, 1991, from French Polynesia, and L. paulayi Macpherson & Chan, 2008, from Guam, in having long dorsal spines in adults, though it is most similar to L. paulayi. Lithodes formosae is distinguished from the aforementioned species primarily by differing branchial spine arrangement and proportional spine length. Comparison of partial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequences from L. formosae sp. nov., L. paulayi and L. longispina supports the specific status of the new species. Six species of Lithodidae are known from Taiwan, of which L. formosae sp. nov. is the first to be described as new from Taiwan.

Two new species of Foa (Apogonidae) from the Pacific Plate, with redescriptions of Foa brachygramma and Foa fo

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2988 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS H. FRASER ◽  
JOHN E. RANDALL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Hawaiian Islands ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Pacific Plate ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Gill Rakers ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Anterior Body ◽  
A New Species

Species of the Indo-Pacific apogonid fish genus Foa known from the Pacific Plate are reviewed. The type species of Foa, F. brachygramma, is redescribed including information on the distribution of lateralis canal pores and free neuromasts on the head, body and caudal fin. This species, formerly ascribed as having a wide Indo-Pacific distribution, is restricted to the Hawaiian Islands. Foa fo, type locality Philippines, with an apparent Indo-Pacific distribution (but not the Hawaiian Islands), has 12–15 gill rakers (14–16 for F. brachygramma), and four or five irregular dark bars and whitish spots on the head and body (F. brachygramma has dark edging on the scales and lacks whitish spots). A lectotype from the Philippines is selected for Foa fo. Foa leisi is described as a new species from French Polynesia, olivaceous with three faint brown bars on body, one under each dorsal fin and on anterior on caudal peduncle; head and anterior body with dark-edged whitish spots. Foa nivosa is described as new species from Palau, Marshall Islands and Fiji, pale yellowish tan with numerous red-edged whitish spots, smaller on head. The axial skeletons are compared for Foa brachygramma, F. fo, F. hyalina, F. leisi, and F. nivosa. Foa madagascariensis and its synonym Apogonichthys zuluensis are not treated here, but Petit’s species is recognized as valid. The following characters can be used to identify species: color patterns, pored lateral-line scales as they vary with standard length, number of gill rakers and rudiments, mandibular pore and certain free neuromast patterns.

scholarly journals A new cryptic species of ground-dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern India

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeeshan A. Mirza
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome B ◽  
Karnataka State ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome B Gene ◽  
A New Species

A new cryptic species of ground-dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern India. Recently collected specimens of a gecko resembling Hemidactylus reticulatus from northern Karnataka State in southwestern India led me to investigate variation in the species with regards to its morphology and molecular divergence. Results based on existing museum material, combined with molecular data for the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene support the presence of cryptic species within the broadly distributed H. reticulatus complex. Here, I describe a new species of Hemidactylus from northern Karnataka as the frst contribution in resolving the species complex. The integration of molecular and morphological data supports the distinctness of the new species described herein.

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