scholarly journals More cautionary tales: family, generic and species synonymies of recently published taxa of ghost and mud shrimps (Decapoda: Axiidea and Gebiidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4394 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER C. DWORSCHAK ◽  
GARY C. B. POORE
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Mediterranean Species ◽  
Banc D’Arguin ◽  
The Common ◽  
Cautionary Tales ◽  
Callianassa Subterranea ◽  
Northeastern Atlantic ◽  
Banc D'arguin

Re-examination of the holotype of Neoaxius nicoyaensis Sakai, 2017 showed that it is conspecific with the axiid Guyanacaris caespitosa Squires, 1979 and thus Neoaxius Sakai, 2017 and Neoaxiidae Sakai, 2017 are respectively subjective junior synonyms of Guyanacaris Sakai, 2011 and Axiidae Huxley, 1879. The types and numerous specimens of the callianassid Trypaea vilavelebita Sakai & Türkay, 2012 are juveniles of the common northeastern Atlantic-Mediterranean species, Callianassa subterranea (Montagu, 1808); the name is therefore a subjective junior synonym. The monotypic callianopsid genera Pleurocalliax Sakai, 2011, Neocallianopsis Sakai, 2011 and Phaetoncalliax Sakai, Türkay, Beuck & Freiwald, 2015 are found not to differ from Callianopsis de Saint Laurent, 1973, the only alleged differences found to be untrue or trivial. Phaetoncalliax mauritana Sakai, Türkay, Beuck & Freiwald, 2015 and Neocallianopsis africana Sakai, Türkay, Beuck & Freiwald, 2015 are thereby transferred to Callianopsis, the latter a subjective junior synonym of the former. Contrary to the assertion of its author, the gourretiid Pseudogourretia portsudanensis Sakai, 2005, the only species in its genus, has no pleurobranchs. The genus Pseudogourretia Sakai, 2005 is therefore synonymised with Gourretia de Saint Laurent, 1973. The respective holotypes of Paracalliax stenophthalmus Sakai, Türkay, Beuck & Freiwald, 2015 and Paracalliax bollorei de Saint Laurent, 1979 were re-examined. Both are from the Banc d’Arguin, off Mauritania, and are identical at the species level. The upogebiid Kuwaitupogebia nithyanandan Sakai, Türkay & Al Aidaroos, 2015 from Kuwait is identical to Upogebia balmaorum Ngoc-Ho, 1990 from the Seychelles, Madagascar and tropical Western Australia. Kuwaitupogebia Sakai, Türkay & Al Aidaroos, 2015 is therefore synonymised with Upogebia Leach, 1814 and Kuwaitupogebiidae Sakai, Türkay & Al Aidaroos, 2015 with Upogebiidae Borradaile, 1903. 

Fouille de la butte de FA 10 (Banc d'Arguin) et son apport à la connaissance de la culture épipaléolithique de Foum Arguin, nord-ouest du Sahara

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vernet ◽  
Marcel Ott ◽  
Liliane Tarrou ◽  
Annabelle Gallin ◽  
Jade Géoris-Creuseveau
Keyword(s):  
Banc D’Arguin ◽  
Banc D'arguin

Admissibility of confession evidence: Principles of hearsay and the rule of voluntariness

2021 ◽  
pp. 136571272110022
Author(s):  
Jennifer Porter
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Common Law ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Judicial Discretion ◽  
Trial Judge ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
Confession Evidence

The common law test of voluntariness has come to be associated with important policy rationales including the privilege against self-incrimination. However, when the test originated more than a century ago, it was a test concerned specifically with the truthfulness of confession evidence; which evidence was at that time adduced in the form of indirect oral testimony, that is, as hearsay. Given that, a century later, confession evidence is now mostly adduced in the form of an audiovisual recording that can be observed directly by the trial judge, rather than as indirect oral testimony, there may be capacity for a different emphasis regarding the question of admissibility. This article considers the law currently operating in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia to see whether or not, in the form of an audiovisual recording, the exercise of judicial discretion as to the question of the admissibility of confession evidence might be supported if the common law test of voluntariness was not a strict test of exclusion.

scholarly journals Molecular Correlation between Larval, Deutonymph and Adult Stages of the Water Mite Arrenurus (Micruracarus) Novus

Life ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Pedro María Alarcón-Elbal ◽  
Ricardo García-Jiménez ◽  
María Luisa Peláez ◽  
Jose Luis Horreo ◽  
Antonio G. Valdecasas
Keyword(s):  
Culex Pipiens ◽  
Adult Stage ◽  
Gravid Female ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Water Mite ◽  
Molecular Correlation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Morphological Transformations

The systematics of many groups of organisms has been based on the adult stage. Morphological transformations that occur during development from the embryonic to the adult stage make it difficult (or impossible) to identify a juvenile (larval) stage in some species. Hydrachnidia (Acari, Actinotrichida, which inhabit mainly continental waters) are characterized by three main active stages—larval, deutonymph and adult—with intermediate dormant stages. Deutonymphs and adults may be identified through diagnostic morphological characters. Larvae that have not been tracked directly from a gravid female are difficult to identify to the species level. In this work, we compared the morphology of five water mite larvae and obtained the molecular sequences of that found on a pupa of the common mosquito Culex (Culex) pipiens with the sequences of 51 adults diagnosed as Arrenurus species and identified the undescribed larvae as Arrenurus (Micruracarus) novus. Further corroborating this finding, adult A. novus was found thriving in the same mosquito habitat. We established the identity of adult and deutonymph A. novus by morphology and by correlating COI and cytB sequences of the water mites at the larval, deutonymph and adult (both male and female) life stages in a particular case of ‘reverse taxonomy’. In addition, we constructed the Arrenuridae phylogeny based on mitochondrial DNA, which supports the idea that three Arrenurus subgenera are ‘natural’: Arrenurus, Megaluracarus and Micruracarus, and the somewhat arbitrary distinction of the species assigned to the subgenus Truncaturus.

Reproduction in the common sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous georgianus (Thomas) (Microchiroptera : Emballonuridae), in Western Australia

1973 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ Kitchener
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Luteum ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Reproductive Tract ◽  
Vas Deferens ◽  
Gestation Period ◽  
Early Winter ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right

The reproductive and associated organs of both male and female T. georgianus are briefly described. In females, only the right ovary is functional and pregnancies occur only in the right horn. They are monovular and the corpus luteum occupies most of the ovary and is deeply embedded in its stroma. Females are monotocous and the gestation period is probably about 4 months, young being born from October to February. They are monestrous and there is an autumn and early winter dioestrousanoestrous period. Spermatozoa are not stored in the reproductive tract of females and copulation appears to coincide with the oestrous condition. In males, spermatogenesis proceeds throughout the year and spermatozoa are present in the epididymis and vas deferens in all months that males were collected (no records for December). Spermatozoa are also found in the ampulla of Henle and vesicula seminalis in most months of the year. The position of the testes varies with season: in summer they descend to the scrota1 sacs; in autumn, winter, and spring they are more abdominal.

Banc d’Arguin (Mauritania)

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Antonio Araujo ◽  
Pierre Campredon
Keyword(s):  
Banc D’Arguin ◽  
Banc D'arguin

scholarly journals Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2505 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN E. McCOSKER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Gulf Of Aden ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
Depth Distributions

The 19 Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (family Ophichthidae, subfamily Ophichthinae) that live at or below 200 m are reviewed. Included are: Ophichthus aphotistos, O. brachynotopterus, O. echeloides, O. exourus, O. genie, O. kunaloa, O. megalops, O. mystacinus, O. serpentinus, O. urolophus, and nine new species which are described: O. alleni from 115–200 m off eastern Australia; O. aniptocheilos from 391–421 m off Tonga; O. congroides from 300 m off the Tuamotu Islands; O. hirritus from 600 m off the Seychelle Islands; O. humanni from 254–300 m off Vanuatu; O. ishiyamorum from 258–400 m off the Gulf of Aden, Somalia; O. lentiginosus from 400 m off Vanuatu and New Caledonia; O. microstictus from 362–450 m off Tonga, Fiji, and possibly New Caledonia; and O. tomioi from 300– 423 m off the Philippines, Marquesas, Fiji, and the Seychelle Islands. The range and depth distributions of the following are expanded to include: O. brachynotopterus to New Caledonia and Vanuatu between 541–580 m; O. mystacinus to Tonga, Fiji, and the Philippines between 371–824 m; and O. urolophus to Western Australia and Indonesia between 40– 420 m. An identification key is provided. Characteristics and the behavior of species of the subgenus Coecilophis, to which all treated species except O. aphotistos belong, is discussed. Ophichthys madagascariensis Fourmanoir (1961) is proposed to be a junior synonym of Pisodonophis cancrivorus (Richardson 1848).

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