Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected during F. J. F. Meyen’s circumnavigation in 1830–1832

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4250 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ MLÍKOVSKÝ ◽  
SYLKE FRAHNERT
Keyword(s):  
Bird Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Egretta Eulophotes

At least 32 bird species were described as new to science on the basis of material collected by Franz Meyen during his circumnavigation in 1830–1832. We identified the type specimens and determined the type localities of these species, which are currently housed in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Ardea longicollis Meyen, 1834, is identified as a senior synonym of Egretta eulophotes (Swinhoe, 1860), but is set aside as a nomen oblitum. The name of a Neotropical dove is corrected from Metriopelia ceciliae zimmeri (Peters, 1937) to Metriopelia ceciliae gymnops (Chubb, 1917). A lectotype is designated for Nectarinia philippensis Meyen, 1834a. 

Redescription of Anthias xanthomaculatus Fourmanoir and Rivaton, and its reassignment in the genus Odontanthias Bleeker (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4568 (1) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
ANTHONY C. GILL ◽  
BARRY C. RUSSELL
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Data ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Fin Shape

Anthias xanthomaculatus is redescribed from re-examination of the holotype. On the basis of fin shape, meristic details and presence of two closely spaced supraneural bones, it is assigned to the genus Odontanthias Bleeker. It is compared with known Odontanthias species, and shown to be a valid species of the genus and a possible senior synonym of O. grahami Randall & Heemstra. Comparative data for the holotype and three non-type specimens of O. grahami are provided. 

Scalpellum multangulatum (H. C. Lea, 1843) (Cirripedia, Scalpellidae), senior synonym of S. gibbum Pilsbry, 1907

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Author(s):  
Lyle D. Campbell ◽  
Victor A. Zullo
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Molluscan Fauna ◽  
Academy Of Natural Sciences

H. C. Lea (1843, 1846), in papers on molluscs from the Tertiary of Virginia, described and illustrated the scutum and carina of a scalpellid barnacle, which he mistakenly identified as two new species of molluscs. The scutum was described as Avicula multangulata (after 1843 as A. multangula) and the carina as Patella acinaces. Conrad (1863), Meek (1864), d'Orbigny (1852), and Heilprin (1884) listed these species in their enumerations of the Tertiary molluscan fauna. Meyer (1888, p. 138) was the first to recognize the cirriped nature of these fossils. He correctly identified the plates as scutum and carina, assigned them to Scalpellum magnum Darwin, 1851, an English Pliocene species, and provided detailed figures of the type specimens from the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Meyer, 1888, figs. 11, 12a).

The fossil mite family Archaeorchestidae (Acari, Oribatida) II: redescription of Plategeocranus sulcatus and family-group relationships

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3051 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
EKATERINA A. SIDORCHUK ◽  
ROY A. NORTON
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The World ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Group Relationships ◽  
Mite Family ◽  
Direct Investigation

The oribatid mite family Archaeorchestidae was proposed based on a single specimen of Archaeorchestes minguezae Arillo & Subías, 2000, from Lower Cretaceous amber (Spain). In a previous paper we redescribed Strieremaeus illibatus Sellnick, 1918, from Eocene Baltic and Rovno amber, and considered Strieremaeus a senior synonym of Archaeorchestes. Herein, we transfer a second genus, Plategeocranus, to Archaeorchestidae. This is based on a redescription of the type species, P. sulcatus (Karsch, 1884), using non-type specimens (44 adults and 2 immatures from Baltic and Rovno ambers). Among these are eight Baltic amber specimens identified by Max Sellnick and currently housed in two museums in Kaliningrad: from the Museum of the World Ocean we designate specimen #39 as neotype and specimens 22, 30, 33, 35 and 37 as paraneotypes; from the Kaliningrad Museum of Amber we designate specimens 197-22 and 197-54 as paraneotypes. The contention of Arillo and Subías that Archaeorchestidae is a member of Zetorchestoidea (Eremaeoidea auct.), and is the extinct sister-family of Zetorchestidae, is supported with additional characters that relate to leg setation and the morphology of immatures. The possible inclusion of another Cretaceous fossil mite, Rasnitsynella punctulata Krivolutsky, in Archaeorchestidae or Zetorchestoidea was rejected, leaving it in Plateremaeidae pending the direct investigation of specimens. New diagnoses are presented for Plategeocranus, Archaeorchestidae, and Zetorchestoidea.

Revision of Chaetacanthus Seidler, 1922 (Annelida, Phyllodocida, Polynoidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4885 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-422
Author(s):  
PATRICIA SALAZAR-SILVA ◽  
DANIEL A. LÓPEZ-SÁNCHEZ ◽  
SERGIO I. SALAZAR-VALLEJO
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
The Body ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Tropical Eastern Pacific ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
South Central ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
The Caribbean

The polynoid genus Chaetacanthus Seidler, 1922 currently includes three nominal species provided with parapodial branchiae. Members of this taxon have palps with longitudinal rows of papillae, notochaetae abundant and neurochaetae spinulose. Most Chaetacanthus species were originally described as belonging to Lepidonotus Leach, 1816, and some of them were later regarded as subjective synonyms of Iphione magnifica Grube, 1876, the type species for Chaetacanthus. This species was described from the Caribbean Sea and later recorded for the tropical Eastern Pacific. After the supposed Amphi-American distribution, a revision of all available material was performed in order to clarify the generic delineation, and to improve the understanding of species systematics. Further, some non-type specimens collected in Panama allowed us to have a better understanding of the variation of elytral shape and ornamentation along the body. The type material of Polynoe brasiliensis de Quatrefages, 1866 was examined and despite its poor condition, it shows parapodial branchial filaments which were overlooked in the original description; these branchiae are also present in the holotype of I. magnifica. We identify that there are no relevant difference between both species, and they are regarded as synonyms, and Chaetacanthus brasiliensis (de Quatrefages, 1866) is newly combined and is the senior synonym. On the other hand, Chaetacanthus pilosus (Treadwell, 1937), from the Eastern Pacific, and C. pomareae (Kinberg, 1856) from the South Central Pacific are redescribed, and C. harrisae n. sp., and C. ornatus n. sp. are both newly described from the Eastern Pacific. A key to identify all species of Chaetacanthus of the World, together with an appendix for the reversal of precedence of Lepidonotus Leach, 1816 over Eumolpe Oken, 1807 are also included. 

A revision of the Neotropical species of the lynx spider genus Peucetia Thorell 1869 (Araneae: Oxyopidae)

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adalberto Santos ◽  
Antonio Brescovit
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The West ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Nomina Dubia ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
One New Species

AbstractThe spider genus Peucetia includes 54 species of medium-sized and widely distributed spiders. The majority of its species occurs in the tropical regions, of which only the African fauna has been recently revised. In the Neotropical Region 26 species were described, of which 17 are here synonymyzed. Peucetia tranquillini Mello-Leitão 1922, P. rubrigastra Mello-Leitão 1929, P. meridionalis Mello-Leitão 1929, P. villosa Mello-Leitão 1929, and P. viridisternis Mello-Leitão 1945 are considered junior synonyms of P. flava Keyserling 1877. Eight names, Peucetia similis Keyserling 1877, P. amazonica Mello-Leitão 1929, P. heterochroma Mello-Leitão 1929, P. maculipedes Piza 1938, P. trivittata Mello-Leitão 1940, P. duplovittata Mello-Leitão 1941, and P. roseonigra Mello-Leitão 1943 and Tapinillus argentinus Mello-Leitão 1941 are considered junior synonyms of P. rubrolineata Keyserling 1877. Both senior species are extremelly common, occurring from Colombia to northern Argentina. Peucetia macroglossa Mello-Leitão 1929, recorded only from Central Brazilian Amazonia and Guyana is considered a senior synonym of P. melloleitaoi Caporiacco 1947. Two species occur from Southern USA to northern Colombia: Peucetia viridans (Hentz 1832) and P. longipalpis F. O. P.-Cambridge 1902. The former is recognized as a senior synonym of P. poeyi (Lucas 1857), P. bibranchiata F. O. P.- 1902 and P. rubricapilla Petrunkevitch 1925 and the later as a senior synonym of P. cauca Lourenço 1990. Peucetia viridis (Blackwall 1858), known from Africa, southern Spain and Middle East is newly recorded from the West Indies. One new species, Peucetia cayapa sp. n., is described and illustrated based on males and females from Ecuador and Peru. Peucetia caldensis Garcia-Neto 1989, from Brazil, is transferred to Tapinillus Simon 1898. The type specimens of three species, P. quadrilineata Simon 1891 and P. thalassina (C. L. Koch 1847) from Central America, and P. smaragdina Mello-Leitão 1941 from Colombia are probably lost. Since their original descriptions are not sufficiently clear for their recognition, they are considered nomina dubia.

scholarly journals Taxonomic changes resulting from a review of the types of Australian Anoplognathini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) housed in Swedish natural history collections

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4908 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
MATTHIAS SEIDEL ◽  
CHRIS A.M. REID
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
New Synonym ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
First Time ◽  
Total Type

The type material of Australian Anoplognathini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) housed in Swedish natural history collections is reviewed, concerning three genera: Anoplognathus Leach, 1815, Amblyterus MacLeay, 1819, and Repsimus MacLeay, 1819. The species were described by G.J. Billberg, J.W. Dalman, L. Gyllenhal, C.J. Schönherr, O. Swartz, and C.P. Thunberg. The contemporary type material of W.S. MacLeay in the Macleay Museum, Sydney, is also examined as it has been overlooked by previous researchers. In total, type specimens for 12 species described between 1817 and 1822 were found in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stockholm the Evolutionsmuseet in Uppsala and the Macleay Museum. Five of these species are valid: Anoplognathus brunnipennis, (Gyllenhal, 1817); A. olivieri (Schönherr & Dalman, 1817); A. porosus (Dalman, 1817); Amblyterus cicatricosus (Gyllenhal, 1817); and Repsimus manicatus (Swartz, 1817). The other seven species are junior synonyms, as follows (senior synonym first): A. brunnipennis = Rutela chloropyga Thunberg, 1822 (new synonym); A. olivieri = Rutela lacunosa Thunberg, 1822 (new synonym); A. viridiaeneus (Donovan, 1805) = A. latreillei (Schönherr & Gyllenhal, 1817); A. viriditarsus Leach, 1815 = Rutela analis Dalman, 1817; and R. manicatus = Anoplognathus brownii W.J. MacLeay, 1819 = A. dytiscoides W. J. MacLeay, 1819 = Rutela ruficollis Thunberg, 1822 (new synonym). Authorship of A. latreillei and A. olivieri is corrected, as noted above. Anoplognathus brunnipennis has been misidentified for the last 60 years at least, leading to the synonymy noted above. Anoplognathus flavipennis Boisduval, 1835 (revised status), is reinstated as the oldest available name for the misidentified A. brunnipennis and the types of A. flavipennis in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, are illustrated. Lectotypes are designated for: Anoplognathus brownii, A. flavipennis, A. dytiscoides, Melolontha cicatricosa, Rutela analis, R. brunnipennis, R. lacunosa, R. latreillei, R. manicata, R. olivieri, R. porosa, R. ruficollis, and R. chloropyga. Photographs of all type specimens examined are presented for the first time. 

On the Taxonomic Identity of the Planktonic Foraminiferal Species Globorotalia Barisanensis Le Roy, 1939

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-398
Author(s):  
Willem Jan Zachariasse ◽  
William A. Berggren ◽  
Weimin Si ◽  
Brian T. Huber
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Foraminiferal Species ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Central Sumatra ◽  
Final Chamber ◽  
Type Sample

Abstract Examination of the holotype of Globorotalia barisanensis Le Roy, 1939, has revealed that this species from the Middle Miocene of central Sumatra is non-keeled, contradicting the synonymizing of G. barisanensis with Globorotalia fohsi. Because the type sample is untraceable, we examined the available type specimens (holotype and eight paratypes), notes and data presented by previous researchers, and material from the near-topotype locality of Paragloborotalia siakensis, to clarify Le Roy's concept of G. barisanensis. Our investigation has revealed that the Middle Miocene of central Sumatra contains two different groups of globorotaliids: the Globorotalia menardii group and the G. fohsi group, and that G. barisanensis belongs to the latter. The paratypes examined belong to Globorotalia peripheroacuta and to forms transitional between G. peripheroacuta and Globorotalia praefohsi. The holotype, as described by Le Roy, is included in G. peripheroacuta as well, despite the observation that it differs from the paratypes in the abnormally inflated final chamber. In retrospect, the specimen selected as the holotype was an unfortunate choice as it has long been misinterpreted and used to denominate the earliest representatives of the G. fohsi group (viz. G. fohsi barisanensis) until G. barisanensis was reinterpreted as a junior synonym of G. fohsi based on a flawed redrawing of a fully keeled holotype of G. barisanensis. We conclude that Le Roy's concept of G. barisanensis was broad and may have included G. fohsi and Globorotalia peripheroronda as well. Remarkably, after 67 years of misinterpretation since Bolli (1950), G. barisanensis appears to be a valid name and a senior synonym of G. peripheroacuta. However, we recommend that it will be more practical to conserve the latter name, which is well established in the literature.

Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Eduard Eversmann and Christian Pander during the Negri Expedition to Bukhara in 1820–1821

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2297 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ MLÍKOVSKÝ ◽  
SYLKE FRAHNERT
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Tarim Basin ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Strong Type ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museums

At least nine bird species were described as new to science on the basis of material collected by Eduard Eversmann and Christian Pander during a Russian embassy headed by Aleksandr Negri to Bukhara in 1820–1821. We identified the type specimens and determined the type localities of these species, which are currently housed in natural history museums of Berlin, Germany, and Moskva, Russia. We suggest that, if only two subspecies of Otus brucei are recognized, the larger northern migratory one should be recognized as O. b. brucei (Hume, 1872), and the smaller southern nonmigratory one as O. b. semenowi (Zarudnyj & Härms, 1902), and we show that the name semenowi has been misapplied to the population from the Tarim Basin. We designate a lectotype for the nominal species Scops obsoleta Cabanis.

Type locality and identity of Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii (Regan, 1908), a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus cinctus (Lin, 1931) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2684 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
LE–YANG YUAN ◽  
E ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Precise Location ◽  
Lake System ◽  
Senior Synonym

Although Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii has been treated as a valid species since its original description, the type locality and identity of this species have hitherto remained uncertain. It is shown in this study that its precise location of ‘Tinghsiang’ or ‘Pinghsiang,’ the type locality of Gymnostoma kreyenbergii Regan, is the present Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, in the Gan Jiang, a tributary flowing to the Boyang Lake system, or in the Yangtze River drainage. Observation of the type specimens of this species and further comparison with those of other barred congeners reveal that G. kreyenbergii is in fact a senior synonym of Barbus cinctus Lin.

Phylogenetic relationships within Nereididae (Annelida : Phyllodocida)

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinthya S. G. Santos ◽  
Fredrik Pleijel ◽  
Paulo Lana ◽  
Greg W. Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Spherical Shape ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Parsimony Analysis ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Clade B ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Clade C ◽  
Good Support

Nereididae Johnston, 1865, part of the large clade Phyllodocida, is one of the best-known annelid groups. Presently, there are some 500 nominal species grouped into 42 genera, although there is little consensus among different authors as to how they should be classified. The relationships of nereidids were assessed in a morphology-based parsimony analysis of 41 terminal taxa, with members of Chrysopetalidae and Hesionidae used as outgroups. Type species for the majority of currently recognised nereidid genera were used as terminal taxa, and character information was based on examination of type and non-type specimens, together with literature descriptions. High degrees of homoplasy were found for several features that are traditionally applied to delineate subgroups of Nereididae, including the presence of paragnaths and the distribution of different kinds of chaetae. Six major groups were recovered: Namanereidinae, including Namalycastis and Namanereis, characterised by spherical shape of palpostyles and ventrally displaced notoaciculae; one clade corresponding in part to previous authors concepts of Nereidinae, including Nereis, Eunereis, Hediste and Platynereis (the relationships of several well known nereidids, such as Neanthes and Perinereis, commonly referred to Nereidinae, could not be unambiguously resolved); one unnamed and not previously recognised clade (A), including Australonereis, Laeonereis, Dendronereides and Olganereis, characterised by the presence of papillae on the maxillary ring; a second unnamed clade (B), including Leptonereis, Sinonereis, Tylonereis and Tylorrhynchus, characterised by enlarged notopodial ligulae; a well supported Gymnonereidinae, restricted to Ceratocephale, Gymnonereis, Tambalagamia and Micronereides; and a third unnamed clade (C), including Ceratonereis, Solomononereis, Unanereis, Cheilonereis and Websterinereis, characterised by unilobated neuropodial postchaetal lobes. Among these groups we found good support for the Namanereidinae, the Gymnonereidinae and for the whole of Nereididae. The subfamilies Dendronereidinae and Notophycinae (based on Micronereis, senior synonym of Notophycus) are regarded here as monotypic.

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