Kinorhyncha from the Iberian Peninsula: new data from the first intensive sampling campaigns

Data are presented from the first intensive sampling of Kinorhyncha around the Iberian Peninsula over a 21-year periodfrom 1990 to 2011, from 81 sites mostly in less than 100 m water depth. Light-microscopic examination of approximately2000 specimens yielded 11 genera and 29 species, only 11 of which were previously recorded from peninsular waters. Thebalance comprises ten new species records for the peninsula and eight new species that are yet to be described. The mostspeciose genus is Echinoderes, with ten species, two of them new, followed by Pycnophyes (nine species, three new).There are two species of Antygomonas (one new), and one each for the genera Campyloderes, Centroderes, Condyloderes(one new), Dracoderes, Meristoderes, Semnoderes, Kinorhynchus (one new), and Paracentrophyes. The most ubiquitousspecies in the samples, appearing at nearly all localities was Pycnophyes dentatus, newly recorded for the Iberian Penin-sula and found at nearly all sampled localities and in high numbers. Echinoderes cantabricus, E. hispanicus and E. dujar-dinii also have a wide distribution along both Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Known information on diversity, biogeography and ecology (depth, sediment and abundance) is discussed.

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The first hypogean dipluran from Portugal: description of a new species of the genus Litocampa (Diplura: Campodeidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2728.1.4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2728 (1) ◽

pp. 50 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

ANA SOFIA P. S. REBOLEIRA ◽

ALBERTO SENDRA ◽

FERNANDO GONÇALVES ◽

PEDRO OROMÍ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Atlantic Ocean ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Mainland Portugal ◽

Cave Environment ◽

Intensive Sampling ◽

A New Species

Knowledge of Portuguese Campodeidae is scant, with only 7 previous papers (Wygodzinsky 1944a; Condé 1951; Sendra 1990; Sendra & Moreno 2004, 2006; Gama et al. 2000a,b), with a total of 13 epigean species: Eutrichocampa Silvestri (1 sp.), Campodea Westwood (6 spp.) and Podocampa Silvestri (6 spp.). Three of these species are endemic to mainland Portugal: C. machadoi Condé, 1951, P. jorgei Wygodzinsky, 1944 and P. seabrai Wygodzinsky, 1944. Only one species, Podocampa cardini Silvestri, 1932, has been recorded from a Portuguese cave environment (Condé 1955); this species previously had been known as an epigean species from Sierra de Aralar in Navarra, Spain (Silvestri 1932). Intensive sampling efforts over the last four years in Portuguese karstic caves revealed the presence of a morphospecies originally assigned to Podocampa fragiloides Silvestri, 1932, which is often found in moist epigean environments of the Iberian Peninsula influenced by the Atlantic Ocean (A. Sendra, pers. obs.).

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A new groundwater species of Pseudoniphargus (Amphipoda: Pseudoniphargidae) fromAlgeria

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.5 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4482 (1) ◽

pp. 125

Author(s):

MARIE-JOSE DOLE-OLIVIER ◽

HINDA HAFID ◽

CHRISTOPHE PISCART

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Canary Islands ◽

North Africa ◽

Mediterranean Islands ◽

Intensive Sampling ◽

A New Species ◽

Northeastern Algeria

Intensive sampling performed in the area of Oum El Bouaghi (Northeastern Algeria) yielded a new species of the stygobiont amphipod Pseudoniphargus, P. djemoi, in wells located in the plain of Tamlouka. The new species belongs to a group that shares the display of a uropod 3 exopod extremely elongate and upcurved in the male, whereas its peduncle is only moderately elongate. This cluster of species appears scattered across the southern Iberian Peninsula, Northern Morocco and the Canary Islands. This discovery increases the number of described species of the stygobiont amphipod genus Pseudoniphargus in north Africa to eight. A key to the species of Pseudoniphargus living in Continental Africa and Mediterranean Islands is provided.

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Two New Species of Aira (Poaceae) from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands

Systematic Botany ◽

10.1600/036364420x15801369352324 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 75-84

Author(s):

Llorenç Sáez ◽

Javier López-Alvarado ◽

Pere Fraga ◽

Regina Berjano ◽

M. Ángeles Ortiz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

New Species ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Diploid Species ◽

Balearic Islands ◽

Similar Species ◽

Chromosome Counts ◽

Two New Species

Abstract—Two new diploid species, Aira minoricensis and Aira hercynica, are described and illustrated, along with chromosome counts, risk assessment, distribution and habitat, phenology, and comparisons with morphologically similar species. A comparative table and a key for the species of Aira for the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands are provided to assist in the identification of these overlooked species, and their relationships to other taxa are discussed.

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An outer shelf shelly fauna from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/jpa.2020.112 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 95 (S83) ◽

pp. 1-41

Author(s):

John S. Peel

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New Species ◽

North America ◽

World Wide ◽

Wide Distribution ◽

East Greenland ◽

North East ◽

Small Shelly Fossils ◽

Stage 4 ◽

North Greenland

AbstractAn assemblage of 50 species of small shelly fossils is described from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) strata in North Greenland, the present day northernmost part of the paleocontinent of Laurentia. The fossils are derived from the basal member of the Aftenstjernesø Formation at Navarana Fjord, northern Lauge Koch Land, a condensed unit that accumulated in a sediment-starved outer ramp setting in the transarctic Franklinian Basin, on the Innuitian margin of Laurentia. Most other small shelly fossil assemblages of similar age and composition from North America are described from the Iapetan margin of Laurentia, from North-East Greenland south to Pennsylvania. Trilobites are uncommon, but include Serrodiscus. The Australian bradoriid Spinospitella is represented by a complete shield. Obolella crassa is the only common brachiopod. Hyoliths, including Cassitella, Conotheca, Neogloborilus, and Triplicatella, are abundant and diverse, but most are represented just by opercula. Sclerites interpreted as stem-group aculiferans (sachitids) are conspicuous, including Qaleruaqia, the oldest described paleoloricate, Ocruranus?, Inughuitoconus n. gen., and Hippopharangites. Helcionelloid mollusks are diverse, but not common; they are associated with numerous specimens of the bivalve Pojetaia runnegari. The fauna compares best with that of the upper Bastion Formation of North-East Greenland, the Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland, and the Browns Pond Formation of New York, but several taxa have a world-wide distribution. Many specimens are encrusted with crystals of authigenic albite. New species: Anabarella? navaranae, Stenotheca? higginsi, Figurina? polaris, Hippopharangites groenlandicus, Inughuitoconus borealis, and Ocruranus? kangerluk.UUID: http://zoobank.org/160a17b1-3166-4fcf-9849-a3cabd1e04a3

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Studies on the genus Aporcelaimellus Heyns, 1965 (Nematoda, Dorylaimida, Aporcelaimidae). Four new species with complex uterus from Southeastern Iberian Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3551.1.1 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3551 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SERGIO ÁLVAREZ-ORTEGA ◽

JOAQUÍN ABOLAFIA ◽

GRACIA LIÉBANAS ◽

REYES PEÑA-SANTIAGO

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Natural Areas ◽

Line Drawings ◽

C 63

Four new species with complex uterus of the genus Aporcelaimellus, collected mainly in natural areas in the IberianPeninsula, are identified and described here. Aporcelaimellus alpujarrensis sp. n. is characterized by having body1.72–1.91 mm long, lip region offset by constriction and 14–15μm broad, odontostyle 14–16μm long with apertureoccupying 67–70% its length, neck about 455μm long, pharyngeal expansion about 224μm long, uterus tripartite and145–206μm long, V = 53–55, tail convex conoid (27–34μm, c = 55–71, c’ = 0.9–1.1), spicules 56–60μm long, and 7–9irregularly spaced ventromedian supplements with hiatus. Aporcelaimellus castaneanus sp. n. is characterized by havingbody 2.18–2.83 mm long, lip region offset by constriction and 20–23μm broad, odontostyle 22–24μm long with apertureoccupying 62–67% its length, neck 581–662μm long, pharyngeal expansion 300–355μm long, uterus tripartite and164–348μm long, V = 52–58, tail conical with rounded terminus (44–52μm, c = 48–60, c’ = 0.8–1.1), spicules 94–103μm long, and 14–15 irregularly spaced ventromedian supplements which lack hiatus. Aporcelaimellus communis sp. n. ischaracterized by having body 2.56–4.22 mm long, lip region offset by constriction and 19–25μm broad, odontostyle19–26μm long with aperture occupying 64–74% its length, neck 595–750μm long, pharyngeal expansion 321–427μmlong, uterus bipartite and 190–450μm long, V = 51–60, tail short and convex conoid (29–50μm, c = 63–109, c’ = 0.5–1.0),spicules 89–118μm long, and 16–25 irregularly spaced ventromedian supplements with hiatus. Aporcelaimellus tenuis sp.n. is characterized by having body 1.89–2.70 mm long and comparatively slender (a = 35–49), lip region offset byconstriction and 15–18μm broad, odontostyle 15–21μm long with aperture occupying 60–70% of its length, neck488–645μm long, pharyngeal expansion 251–366μm long, uterus bipartite and 135–213μm long, V = 55–58, tail convexconoid with rounded terminus (25–40μm, c = 64–92, c’ = 0.8–1.1), spicules 52–66μm long, and 11–12 irregularly spaced SEM pictures, are given for the four species.ventromedian supplements with hiatus. Measurements and illustrations, including line drawings, LM pictures and and/or

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Metahadzia Uncispina, A New Amphipod from Phreatic Ground-Waters of the Guadalquivir River basin of Southern Spain

Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde ◽

10.1163/26660644-05801007 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 58 (1) ◽

pp. 79-87

Author(s):

Jos Notenboom

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

River Basin ◽

Southern Spain ◽

The South ◽

Apical Spine ◽

Ground Waters ◽

Guadalquivir River ◽

Original Concept

Metahadzia uncispina n. sp. is described, being the second species of the genus on the Iberian Peninsula. The new species, well characterized by the transformation of the apical spine on the endopodite of the male uropod 2, is undoubtedly closely related with M. tavaresi (Mateus & Mateus, 1972) from the south of Portugal. Comments are made about recent emendations of the original concept of the genus Metahadzia Stock, 1977.

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Waynea giraltiae, a new lichen species from the Iberian Peninsula

The Lichenologist ◽

10.1017/s0024282909990326 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 29-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Pieter P.G. van den BOOM

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Lichen Species ◽

Southern Portugal

AbstractA new lichen species, Waynea giraltiae van den Boom, is described from southern Portugal and Spain. It is characterized by a very fine tomentum on the squamulose thallus, fusiform, 3-septate ascospores, and strongly curved filiform conidia. It is the first species of the genus containing argopsin. The new species is compared with related Waynea species. Waynea cretica is recorded as new to the Iberian Peninsula.

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