New species of Latrunculia from the Agulhas shelf, South Africa, with designation of a type species for subgenus Biannulata (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Latrunculiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3395 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOUFIEK SAMAAI ◽  
LIESL JANSON ◽  
MICHELLE KELLY
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
South African ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Latrunculia are described from Algoa Bay, and Alphard and 45-Mile Banks, on the Agulhascontinental shelf off the southern coast of South Africa. Latrunculia gotzi sp. nov., from Alphard Banks, forms a thickraised pad with broad, low, meandering areolate porefields that are characteristically lighter in colour than the surroundingmahogany brown ectosome. Latrunculia kerwathi sp. nov., from 45-Mile Banks, forms a thin, dark greenish brownencrustation, with very small, discrete, crater-shaped porefields. Latrunculia algoaensis sp. nov., from Algoa Bay, is agreen hemisphere with relatively large, thick-lipped, circular areolate porefields. While the megascleres in these newspecies vary specifically in their dimensions, the former two species have small irregular spines on the styles. Theanisodiscorhabds of the new species also vary specifically in dimensions and degree of ornamentation, but have anundifferentiated basal whorl and manubrium, with only median and subsidiary whorls around the shaft. These are identicalin overall form to the anisodiscorhabds in several South African and New Zealand species currently recognised within thesubgenus Latrunculia (Biannulata) Samaai et al., 2006, a group of 13 species for which no type species was ever assigned. A type species is designated herein.

scholarly journals Capalictus, a new subgenus of Lasioglossum Curtis 1833 from South Africa, with description of three new species (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae)

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Pauly ◽  
Jason Gibbs ◽  
Michael Kuhlmann
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Basal Clade ◽  
Three New Species

Capalictus, a new subgenus of Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halic-tidae), endemic to the South African Cape Province, is described. The type species is Halictus mosselinus Cockerell, 1945. Evylaeus (Sellalictus) fynbosensis (Pauly et al., 2008) is a new junior synonym of L. (C.) mosselinum. Three new species are described: Lasioglossum (Capalictus) hantamense sp. nov., L. (C.) tigrinum sp. nov. and L. (C.) timmermanni sp. nov. DNA sequence data from three nuclear genes support morphologically-determined species limits. Capalictus is a basal clade of the Hemihalictus series of Lasioglossum.

A new genus and three new species of South African Cicadettini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4885 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-590
Author(s):  
ALLEN F. SANBORN ◽  
MARTIN H. VILLET
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Three New Species

Ingcainyenzane irhiniensis n. gen., n. sp. and Ingcainyenzane nolukhanyoensis n. gen., n. sp. are described from Eastern Cape and Ingcainyenzane umgeniensis n. gen., n. sp. is described from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Notes on its biology of the species and a key to species of the genus are also provided. 

Remarks on Macrobiotus furciger Murray, 1906 and description of three new species of the furciger group (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1075 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA GRAZIA BINDA ◽  
GIOVANNI PILATO ◽  
OSCAR LISI
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cosmopolitan Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
A New Species

Macrobiotus furciger Murray, has been considered a probable cosmopolitan species. The authors examined specimens named M. furciger from two subantarctic areas from New Zealand, and from South Africa and noted that in the subantarctic area two species are present: M. furciger and a new species here described and named Macrobiotus aradasi sp. nov. The specimens from New Zealand belong to a different species here described and named Macrobiotus divergens sp. nov., and the specimens from South Africa belong to a third new species here described and named Macrobiotus sicheli sp. nov. The authors also hypothesize that the records of Macrobiotus furciger from Andamane Islands and from Europe may refer to different species.

scholarly journals Review of the fish parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 841 ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serita van der Wal ◽  
Nico J. Smit ◽  
Kerry A. Hadfield
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
South African ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Worldwide Distribution ◽  
Lateral Margins ◽  
Three New Species

The branchial-attaching cymothoid genus, Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 is a genus with a worldwide distribution of 36 species, including the three species described here. Elthusaraynaudii (Milne Edwards, 1840) is the only species that has been described from southern Africa. All South African material held at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France (MNHN) and the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC) identified as, or appearing to belong to, Elthusa was examined. Four species were identified, Elthusaraynaudii and three species that proved to be undescribed. Elthusaxenasp. n. can be distinguished by an evenly rounded pereonite 1 anterior margin, a roughly rectangular pleotelson, and narrowly rounded uropod apices that extend to more than half the length of the pleotelson. Elthusaacutinasasp. n. is identified by the produced and narrowly rounded cephalon anterior margin, acute uropods that are shorter than half the length of the pleotelson, and pereonite 1 anterior margin with medial projection. Elthusarotundasp. n. is characterised by the round body shape, broadly rounded uropod apices, and protrusions on the proximal and lateral margins of the merus and carpus of pereopod 7. A key to the South African Elthusa species is provided, together with a table summarising the hosts and localities of the 33 previously known species of Elthusa.

Three New South African Embrithini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4555 (2) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
ROMAN BOROVEC
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
New South ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Embrithini from South Africa are described: Heisonyx griseoviridis sp. nov., H. oberprieleri sp. nov., and Porpacus wanati sp. nov. The male of Heisonyx giustocaroli Borovec, Colonnelli & Osella, 2009 is newly described. 

Four new South African monotypic grass-feeding leafhopper genera and a revision of Lecacis (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Cicadellidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3126 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
MICHAEL STILLER
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New South ◽  
Male Type ◽  
Two New Species

Four new monotypic leafhopper genera in Deltocephalinae and their type species are described: Ochromelanus brachyphallus gen.n. & sp.n. (Deltocephalini), Teinopterus microphallus gen.n. & sp.n. (Paralimnini), Tytthuspilus onychophallus gen.n. & sp.n. (Paralimnini) and Umeqi okhahlamba gen.n. & sp.n. (Paralimnini). These genera and species are associated with grass mainly in the Fynbos and Grassland Biomes of South Africa. The revision of Lecacis Theron (Paralimnini) concerns the redescription of the male type species of L. platypennis, the new description of the female, and two new species. Lecacis species appear to be distributed somewhat randomly in the Grassland and Savanna Biome of South Africa.

Review of the deep-water asellote genus Notopais Hodgson, 1910 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) with description of three new species from the south-western Pacific.

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 513 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KELLY L. MERRIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Ventral Side ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Three New Species

The munnopsidid genus Notopais Hodgson, 1910 is taken out of synonymy with Echinozone Sars, 1897. The type species Notopais spicata Hodgson, 1910 and Notopais quadrispinosa (Beddard, 1886) are redescribed and three new species described: Notopais beddardi n. sp. collected from Antarctica at a depth of less than 37 metres; Notopais minya n. sp. collected from the south-eastern Australian continental slope between the depths of 429 466 metres; and Notopais zealandica n. sp. collected from the Chatham Rise between the depths of 1386 1640 metres, off the south-eastern New Zealand coast. Notopais is distinguished from Echinozone by three defining characters: the flattened appearance of the ventral side of the cephalon, the presence of pedestal setae on the pereonites and antenna 2 article 1 with produced distolateral angle with prominent spine and distal robust seta. This genus is exclusively found in the Southern Hemisphere and is known from Antarctica and the south-western Pacific.

New Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the Agulhas ecoregion of temperate southern Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4896 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOUFIEK SAMAAI ◽  
MICHELLE KELLY ◽  
BENEDICTA NGWAKUM ◽  
ROBYN PAYNE ◽  
PETER R. TESKE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
Mitochondrial Coi ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Nuclear Its ◽  
Recent Addition ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
African Genus

Sixteen species of Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922, belonging to the genera Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869, Strongylodesma Lévi, 1969, Cyclacanthia Samaai & Kelly, 2004, Samaai & Kelly, 2002, are currently known from the temperate waters of South Africa. Extensive new sponge collections from the Amathole region of South Africa revealed the existence of three new species of Tsitsikamma, T. amatholensis sp. nov., T. madiba sp. nov., and T. beukesi sp. nov., and a new species of the endemic South African genus Cyclacanthia, C. rethahofmeyri sp. nov. With the recent addition of two new species of Tsitsikamma from Algoa Bay and Tsitsikamma National Park (T. michaeli Parker-Nance, 2019; T. nguni Parker-Nance, 2019) the total number of known South African Latrunculiidae is now 20 species in four genera. Here we propose two new subgenera of Tsitsikamma, Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly, 2002 and Clavicaulis subgen. nov., based on the morphological groups “favus” and “pedunculata” hypothesized by Parker-Nance et al. (2019). Species in the nominotypical subgenus Tsitsikamma, containing the type species, are thick encrusting to hemispherical with a rigid honeycombed choanosome, while species in the new subgenus Clavicaulis subgen. nov. have a purse or sac-like morphology with little choanosomal structure. Despite the obvious species-level differences in morphology, multivariate analysis based on spicule measurements (anisostyle length, discorhabd length, shaft and whorl length) was not able to distinguish between the proposed Tsitsikamma species, but separated known species T. favus Samaai & Kelly, 2002, T. pedunculata Samaai & Kelly, 2003, and T. scurra Samaai & Kelly, 2003, from each other. Similarly, DNA barcoding of the mitochondrial COI  and the nuclear ITS of Tsitsikamma specimens failed to clearly differentiate between species, but was able to differentiate sister taxon relationships within the Latrunculiidae. 

scholarly journals Polymastiidae (Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with ornamented exotyles: a review of morphological affinities and description of a new genus and three new species

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 1351-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Plotkin ◽  
Christine Morrow ◽  
Elena Gerasimova ◽  
Hans Tore Rapp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Antarctic Species ◽  
Unique Shape ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
The Antarctic

All polymastiid sponges displaying ornamented exotyles are reviewed and their morphological affinities are reconsidered. The study embraces all known species ofProteleia,Sphaerotylus,TrachyteleiaandTylexocladusas well as several species ofPolymastia. A new genus,Koltunia, is established for the Antarctic speciesProteleia burtonibased on the unique shape of distal ornamentations of its giant exotyles and on the absence of a spicule palisade in its cortex, a rare feature among the polymastiids. Three new species ofSphaerotylusare described –S. renoufifrom the British Isles,S. strobilisfrom South Africa andS. tjalfeifrom West Greenland. Transfer of one New Zealand species fromPolymastiatoProteleiaand of one Chilean species fromPolymastiatoSphaerotylusis proposed. The present study provides a background for future integrative phylogenetic analyses based on comprehensive molecular and morphological datasets which should reveal the natural relationships between the polymastiid taxa.

An overview of the African genera of Prodidominae spiders: descriptions and remarks (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4799 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-80
Author(s):  
BRUNO V. B. RODRIGUES ◽  
CRISTINA A. RHEIMS
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
One New Species

A taxonomic revision of exclusively African genera of Prodidominae (Gnaphosidae), with the exception of Theuma, is provided. Austrodomus Lawrence, 1947 is revised. The type species A. zuluensis Lawrence, 1947 is redescribed, the male of A. scaber (Purcell, 1904) is described for the first time, and one new species, A. gamsberg sp. nov. (♂), is described from Namibia. Katumbea Cooke, 1964 is considered a junior synonym of Austrodomus and A. oxoniensis (Cooke, 1964) comb. nov. from Tanzania is redescribed. Eleleis Simon, 1893 is revised. The type species, E. crinita Simon, 1893, is redescribed and eight new species are described: E. limpopo sp. nov. (♂♀) from South Africa and Zambia, E. okavango sp. nov. (♂♀) from Botswana and Namibia, E. etosha sp. nov. (♂♀), E. himba sp. nov. (♂) and E. luderitz sp. nov. (♀) from Namibia, E. leleupi sp. nov. (♂) and E. haddadi sp. nov. (♀) from South Africa, and E. solitaria sp. nov. (♀) from Cape Verde. Purcelliana Cooke, 1964 is revised. The type species, P. problematica Cooke, 1964, is redescribed and three new species are described: P. kamaseb sp. nov. (♂♀) and P. khabus sp. nov. (♂♀) from Namibia, and P. cederbergensis sp. nov. (♂) from South Africa. Plutonodomus Cooke, 1964 is redescribed based solely on the type species, P. kungwensis Cooke, 1964. In addition, three new genera are described: Kikongo gen. nov., to include K. ruwenzori sp. nov. (♂♀) and K. buta sp. nov. (♂♀) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R. Congo), and K. rutshuru sp. nov. (♂♀) from D.R. Congo and Kenya; Kituba gen. nov., to include K. mayombensis sp. nov. (♂♀) and K. langalanga sp. nov. (♀) from D.R. Congo; and Yoruba gen. nov., to include Y. ibadanus sp. nov. (♂♀) from Nigeria and Y. toubensis sp. nov. (♂♀) from Ivory Coast. Distribution maps are provided for the species discussed in this study and an identification key is provided for all twelve genera of Prodidominae recorded in Africa. 

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