A new species of the genus Scolopsis Cuvier, 1830 (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from southern India and Sri Lanka

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3609 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. MISHRA ◽  
SUDEEPTA BISWAS ◽  
BARRY C. RUSSELL ◽  
K. K. SATPATHY ◽  
M. SELVANAYAGAM
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Anterior Nostril ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
White Band ◽  
Bony Ridge ◽  
A New Species

Scolopsis igcarensis, a new species of monocle bream (family Nemipteridae) from the coastal waters of southern India and Sri Lanka is described. The species is distinguished from other species of the genus Scolopsis by a combination of the following characters: scales on top of head reaching forward to between anterior nostril and snout tip; lower margin of eye below the line from snout tip to upper pectoral fin base; a bony ridge below eye; a white band from behind eye to level of end of dorsal fin base.

Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3348 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
RALF BRITZ ◽  
ANVAR ALI ◽  
SIBY PHILIP
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Small Stream ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Anterior Dorsal ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Fin Spines

Dario urops, new species, is described from a small stream of the Barapole tributary of Valapattanam River in southern Karna-taka and from Wayanad District, Kerala. It can be distinguished from its congeners by the presence of a conspicuous blackblotch on the caudal peduncle and a horizontal suborbital stripe, by the anterior dorsal fin lappets in males not being produced beyond fin spines, and by its vertebral count.

scholarly journals Arnoglossus nigrofilamentosus n. sp., a new species of flounder (Teleostei: Bothidae) from off the Mediterranean coast of Israel, probably a new case of Lessepsian migration

2017 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Fricke ◽  
Daniel Golani ◽  
Brenda Appelbaum-Golani
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Ocular Side ◽  
Fin Rays ◽  
Bony Ridge ◽  
Lessepsian Migration ◽  
Northern Red Sea ◽  
A New Species

The filamentous flounder Arnoglossus nigrofilamentosus n. sp. is described from four specimens collected in the southeastern Mediterranean near Tel-Aviv, Israel on 5 May 2017. The new species is characterized as follows: second to sixth dorsal-fin rays elongate and filamentous, dorsal-fin rays 78-84, anal-fin rays 61-66, pectoral-fin rays on ocular side 12-13, on blind side 7-9, caudal-fin rays iii,11,iii , lateral-line scales 52-54, gill rakers 0 + 4-5, not serrated, interorbital a narrow bony ridge without scales in the middle, interorbital width 11% to 16% of upper orbit diameter, no enlarged teeth anteriorly in upper jaw, and prevomer small, not enlarged, weakly projecting into mouth cavity; body in fresh specimens pale (may have been dark before the epidermis was abrased), head, peritoneum and vertical fins black. The new species is described and compared with similar species. Though the species has not yet been observed in the northern Red Sea, it probably originates from the Gulf of Suez, so this finding represents a probable new case of Lessepsian migration.

A new species of the genus Xya Latreille, 1809 from Fujian, China (Orthoptera, Tridctyloidea, Tridactylidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4731 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHENG-QUAN CAO ◽  
SHEN-ZHI CHEN ◽  
ZHAN YIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Hind Femur ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Yellow Band ◽  
White Band ◽  
The World ◽  
Normal University ◽  
A New Species

The genus Xya Latreille, 1808 obtains 58 known species in the world, among them 18 species distributed in Asia and 8 species in China only i.e. Xya japonica (Haan, 1842), Xya riparia (Saussure, 1877), Xya nitobei (Shiraki, 1911), Xya apicicornis (Chopard, 1928), Xya manchurei Shiraki, 1936, Xya lehsanensis Cao et al, 2017, Xya sichuanensis Cao et al, 2018, Xya shandongensis, Zhang et al, 2018; [Latreille, 1809; Haan, 1844; Walker, 1871; Saussure, 1877, 1896; Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893; Bolivar, 1900(1899); Shiraki,1911, 1936; Chopard, 1920, 1928, 1936, 1968; Tindale, 1928; Willemse, 1954; Bey-Bienko, 1967; Harz, 1970, 1971; Günther, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1990, 1995, 1998; Ingrisch, 1987, 2006; Baehr, 1988; Yin et al, 1996; Murai, 2005; Yin et al, 2013; Heads & Hollier, 2016; Kuravova & Kocarek, 2016; Cao et al, 2017; Cao et al, 2018; Zhang et al, 2018; Cigliano, et al, 2019]. In the present paper, a new species of the genus Xya Latreille, 1809 from Fujian, China is described. The new species Xya fujianensis sp. nov. is similar to Xya lehsanensis Cao et al, 2017, but differs from the latter by head black, with a yellow band along inner margin of eye; pronotum black, with a white band on the lower margin; fore wing black, with two yellow spots near base and two yellow spots near top and hind femur black with two large yellow spots on upper side. Type specimens are deposited in the College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan 614004, China.  

The millipede genus Klimakodesmus Carl, 1932, with the description of a new species from Kerala state, southern India (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4980 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-382
Author(s):  
MATHILAKATH DASAN ASWATHY ◽  
SERGEI I. GOLOVATCH ◽  
AMBALAPARAMBIL VASU SUDHIKUMAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Tamil Nadu State ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
A New Species

Klimakodesmus Carl, 1932 is briefly redescribed, rediagnosed, and shown to be an oligotypic genus endemic to southern India and distinct from the particularly similar genus Pyrgodesmus Pocock, 1892, monobasic and endemic to Sri Lanka, by several important features of peripheral and, especially, gonopodal structure. A new species, Klimakodesmus bilobocaudatus sp. nov., is described from Kerala state, India, differing from the sole accepted, and type species K. gravelyi Carl, 1932, from Tamil Nadu state, primarily by the laterally trilobate paraterga, the caudally more deeply bilobate mid-dorsal keel on ring 19, and certain minor details of the gonopodal structure. 

Review of the Oriental genus Indocloeon Müller-Liebenau 1982 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) with descriptions of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4779 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKITA J. KLUGE ◽  
CHANAPORN SUTTINUN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The genus Indocloeon Müller-Liebenau 1982 (s. l.) is divided into two subgenera, the subgenus Indocloeon (s. str.) and the subgenus Hindocloeon subgen. n. which differ one from another by certain characters of larvae, winged stages and eggs. The subgenus Indocloeon is distributed in Sri Lanka only and includes two species, Indocloeon (Indocloeon) primum Müller-Liebenau 1982, and Indocloeon (Indocloeon) secundum sp. n., which are described here based on larvae, subimagines, imagines of both sexes and eggs associated by rearing. The subgenus Hindocloeon (type species Indocloeon indonesiae Kluge 2012) is widely distributed in the Oriental region. A new species Indocloeon (Hindocloeon) continentale sp. n. is described from Thailand based on larvae, subimagines, imagines of both sexes and eggs associated by rearing; subimagines presumably placed in this species, are reported from southern India. Some characters of Indocloeon (Hindocloeon) indonesiae Kluge 2012 are illustrated for the first time. The species originally described as Cloeon longistylus Demoulin 1969 is placed in Indocloeon as Indocloeon (Hindocloeon) longistylus comb. n. Subimagines of two unnamed species of Hindocloeon are reported from Vietnam and Java. Keys to known larvae and imagines are given. 

Species of Wadicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae): a new species close to W. quadrifera (Gravely) from the Western Ghats, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4300 (2) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
TORBJÖRN KRONESTEDT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Wolf Spider ◽  
Species Specificity ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Spider Species ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

The wolf spider species Wadicosa ghatica sp. nov. is described on material of both sexes from the states of Karnataka and Kerala in India. The species is morphologically close to W. quadrifera (Gravely, 1924), a widespread species from Sri Lanka and southern India. For comparison, the copulatory organs of both species are illustrated in detail. The males of both species are characterized by a corkscrew-like embolus which exhibits species-specificity in details of configuration. The embolus shape is unique to these two species. 

A new species of Secutor (Teleostei: Leiognathidae) from the Western Indian Ocean

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2998 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZACHARY H. BALDWIN ◽  
JOHN S. SPARKS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Pectoral Fin ◽  
Pigmentation Pattern ◽  
Shaped Body ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
A New Species

A new species of ponyfish, Secutor mazavasaoka, is described from coastal waters of the Western Indian Ocean. Together, the new species, S. indicius, and S. insidiator are readily distinguished from congeners by more or less oval-shaped elongate bodies (vs. markedly deep and disk-shaped). The new species is distinguished from S. hanedai by the presence of scales on the chest (vs. chest asquamate), and from S. indicius and S. insidiator by a deeper, hatchet-shaped body (vs. uniformly oval) and pigmentation pattern on the dorsal flank comprising eight to eleven well-defined columns of irregular small spots and blotches (vs. 14 to 17 thin columns of spots or vertical lines in S. indicius, or larger irregular blotches arrayed in poorly defined columns in S. insidiator). Additionally, the new species is distinguished from S. insidiator by a strongly upturned mouth and compressed pug-like snout, a pronounced concavity dorsal to the orbit, a dorsally-projecting nuchal spine, and dorsal-fin insertion well posterior to vertical through pectoral-fin base (vs. at about level of pectoral-fin base in S. insidiator).

scholarly journals A new species of bumblebee catfish of the genus Microglanis (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae) from the upper rio Paraguay basin, Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Akio Shibatta
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lateral Line ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Dorsal Region ◽  
Anterior Nostril ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Light Area ◽  
Adipose Fin ◽  
A New Species

ABSTRACT A new species of Microglanis from upper rio Paraguay basin is described. The species differs from congeners by the following combination of characters: deeply forked caudal fin with pointed lobes, bifurcated hook between antrorse and retrorse hooks on anterior margin of pectoral-fin spine, lateral line relatively long, surpassing the vertical through end of dorsal fin but not reaching adipose fin, color pattern of dorsal region of head dark brown with a restrict thin light area between anterior nostril and eye, broad light stripe on supraoccipital region.

scholarly journals A new species of the sandperch genus Parapercis from the Philippines Perciformes: Pinguipedidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4341 (4) ◽  
pp. 563
Author(s):  
HSUAN-CHING HO ◽  
MIRANDA VAN HEDEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lateral Side ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Black Spots ◽  
A New Species

A new species sandperch, Parapercis altipinnis, is described based on the holotype collected from Cebu, the Philippines at 55–65 m by SCUBA. The new species belongs to the P. cylindrica complex and can be distinguished by an extremely high first dorsal fin, the first spine slightly longer than the head; 3 predorsal scales; 42 or 43 lateral-line scales; teeth present on vomer and palatines. The body is reddish dorsally and blackish ventrally, with 5 large brownish saddles alternating with white bands on dorsal surface; scattered dots on top of head, first dorsal fin and dorsal surface; first dorsal fin milky white with 5 black marks on anterior margin; a black broad band below eye; cheek and throat blackish red surrounding by white color; row of 10 short white bars along the lateral side of body axis; row of 9 deep red to blackish bars on lower half of lateral side of body; base of pelvic fin and lower margin of caudal fin blackish; rows of black spots on soft dorsal fin. A key to the species of the complex is provided. 

A new species of Paratus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Liocranidae, Paratinae) from India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4286 (1) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
PRADEEP M. SANKARAN ◽  
JOBI J. MALAMEL ◽  
MATHEW M. JOSEPH ◽  
POTHALIL A. SEBASTIAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Taxonomic Treatment ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
A New Species

Paratus Simon, 1898 is a small and ill-defined liocranid genus distributed in the Oriental region (World Spider Catalog 2017) at altitudes of 27 (present data) to 2020 metres (Guchengshan [Zhao & Peng 2013]). Simon (1898) proposed this genus for a single female from Sri Lanka (Kandy) described as Paratus reticulatus Simon, 1898. Since the original description of the genus (Simon 1898) failed to provide diagnostic illustrations, the genus, after its erection, received no significant taxonomic treatment and remained dormant for a period of 103 years, until Deeleman-Reinhold (2001) re-examined and provided a detailed, illustrated redescription of the type of P. reticulatus, placing Paratus among ‘Liocraninae s.l. incertae sedis’. Marusik et al. (2008) revised, rediagnosed the genus, and assigned it into a newly proposed subfamily, Paratinae Marusik, Zheng & Li, 2008. The genus currently comprises five nominal species, two of which are known from both sexes, two only from males, and one only from the female (World Spider Catalog 2017). In this paper we describe a new species of Paratus from southern India, known from both sexes. Additionally the distribution of all known Paratus spp. is mapped. 

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