Discovery of the westernmost population of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka (Anura, Bufonidae) with the description of a new species from the Shan Plateau of eastern Myanmar

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4656 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
EVAN S. H. QUAH ◽  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
PERRY L. JR. WOOD ◽  
MYINT KYAW THURA ◽  
JAMIE R. OAKS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Hind Limbs ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Spot 5 ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Made In

A new species of Ansonia is described from the Shan Plateau of Myanmar based on an integrative taxonomic analysis that differentiates it from all other congeners. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the mitochondrial genes 12S and 16S rRNA and tRNA-val recover A. kyaiktiyoensis sp. nov. as the sister species to A. inthanon from Thailand but differs from it and other congeners by at least a 5.0% sequence divergence. It is further differentiated by the following combination of morphological characters: (1) maximum SVL 24 mm in males and females; (2) first finger shorter than second; (3) absence of interorbital and tarsal ridges; (4) presence of light-coloured interscapular spot; (5) presence of yellow rictal tubercle; (6) absence of wide, light-coloured patch below eye; (7) presence of large, discrete, bright-yellow submandibular spots along the underside of lower jaw; (8) iris yellow-gold; (9) presence of markings on the snout consisting of streaks below the eye to the lip, and on the canthus rostralis to the nostril; (10) dorsum grey-brown with orange-beige spots, a dark-brown X-shaped marking on the back surrounding the interscapular spot, and dark-coloured markings on rump; (11) fore- and hind limbs with orange-beige cross-bars; and (12) venter light-gray with yellow spotting, especially near flanks and underside of hind limbs. Ansonia kyaiktiyoensis sp. nov. is the westernmost known record for the genus and the only species west of the Salween Basin. Its discovery echoes the increasing number of herpetological discoveries being made in upland regions fringing the Ayeyarwady and Salween Basins. 

Leptolejeunea nigra (Lejeuneaceae), a new species with brownish black ocelli based upon morphology and DNA sequences

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 427 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
LEI SHU ◽  
RUI-LIANG ZHU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Molecular Dating ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Brownish Black ◽  
A New Species

Based on molecular phylogenetic analyses and morphological characters, a new species from Bangladesh, northern Vietnam, and southwestern China, Leptolejeunea nigra, is described. It is mostly similar to L. balansae but remarkable for having brownish black ocelli in its leaf lobes. In the molecular phylogeny, the samples of L. nigra are not nested within any clade and form an independent lineage. In particular, the molecular dating suggested that the divergence of L. nigra happened in time span of the formation of the Himalayas.

scholarly journals Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses of Serpentirhabdias viperidicus n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) from the lancehead snake Bothrops moojeni Hoge, 1966 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) in Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.H. Morais ◽  
A. Aguiar ◽  
M.I. Müller ◽  
R.B. Narciso ◽  
L.A.F. da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
South American ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Molecular Approaches ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Bothrops Moojeni ◽  
A New Species

AbstractSerpentirhabdias viperidicus n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) is described from the lungs of the ‘Brazilian lancehead’ Bothrops moojeni (Hoge, 1966) from the savannah in São Paulo State, Brazil. The new species is the eighth species of Serpentirhabdias described in the Neotropical region, and differs from other species mainly by a combination of characters: lips slightly notable, presence of fine striations at posterior ends, presence of two parallel lines with intercalated pores, a pore-shaped phasmid situated at the level of the anal aperture and another two in the posterior half of the tail. It is the first species of Serpentirhabdias reported in this snake host and the second species of this genus found parasitizing South American viperidian snakes. Molecular phylogenetic analysis using ribosomal (ITS and 28S partial) genes confirms Serpentirhabdias viperidicus n. sp. as a new species that clustered in the Serpentirhabdias clade, sister taxon to Serpentirhabdias fuscovenosa and Serpentirhabdias elaphe. This is the first description of Serpentirhabdias species from Brazil using molecular approaches and morphological characters to confirm the monophyly of this recent genus.

Melanoleuca kashmirensis sp. nov. in subg. Urticocystis from Pakistan

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 434 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
ZIA ULLAH ◽  
RUBAB KHURSHED ◽  
MUHAMMAD BINYAMIN KHAN ◽  
ISRAR AHMAD ◽  
SANA JABEEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Phylogenetic Data ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

During this investigation, a new species of Melanoleuca subg. Urticocystis with urticiform cheilocystidia is proposed. The identification is based on morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analyses using ITS and 28S sequences. A comparison of the morphological features and molecular phylogenetic data with the taxa of subg. Urticocystis confirms the identity of the species as a new taxon. The detailed descriptions, line drawings and phylogenetic results are given.

Dentipellicula guyanensis sp. nov. (Hericiaceae, Basidiomycota) from French Guiana

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 478 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-267
Author(s):  
MENG ZHOU ◽  
JIA-JIA CHEN ◽  
JOSEF VLASÁK ◽  
YUAN YUAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Growth Habit ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Rdna Sequences ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

Dentipellicula guyanensis, a new species of Hericiaceae, is described and illustrated based on morphological characters and supported by molecular phylogenetic analyses using ITS and nLSU rDNA sequences. D. guyanensis is characterized by an annual and resupinate growth habit, a monomitic hyphal structure with non-amyloid, non-dextrinoid and acyanophilous generative hyphae, the presence of gloeoplerous hyphae in hymenophoral trama, the presence of gloeocystidia, and rough basidiospores measuring as 2.8–3.1 × 1.9–2.1 µm. A key to accepted species of Dentipellicula is provided.

Pythium cedri sp. nov. (Pythiaceae, Pythiales) from southern China based on morphological and molecular characters

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 309 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIA-JIA CHEN ◽  
LI LÜ ◽  
WEN-WU YE ◽  
YUAN-CHAO WANG ◽  
XIAO-BO ZHENG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Slow Growth ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Cedrus Deodara ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Coi Sequences ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Molecular Characters

A new species of Pythiales: Pythium cedri, isolated from Cedrus deodara (Pinaceae) in Jiangsu Province of China is described and illustrated based on morphological characters and supported by molecular phylogenetic analyses using ITS+COI sequences. Pythium cedri belongs to Pythium clade D and is characterized by presence of hyphal swellings, toruloid sporangia, ornamented oogonia with blunt spines, monoclinous antheridia, plerotic or nearly plerotic oospores, and relatively slow growth (11–15 mm d–1). A key to accepted species of Pythium clade D is provided.

scholarly journals A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella Smith, 1925 (Anura, Megophryidae) from northwest Guizhou Province, China

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1021 ◽  
pp. 81-107
Author(s):  
Yan-Lin Cheng ◽  
Sheng-Chao Shi ◽  
Jiaqi Li ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Shi-Ze Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Leaf Litter ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
The Body ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Dorsal Skin ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella is described from Guizhou Province, China. Molecular phylogenetic analyses support the new species as an independent lineage deeply nested in the Leptobrachella clade. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characters: body size medium (SVL 29.7–31.2 mm in five adult males); dorsal skin shagreened, some of the granules forming longitudinal short skin ridges; tympanum distinctly discernible, slightly concave; supra-axillary, femoral, pectoral and ventrolateral glands distinctly visible; absence of webbing and lateral fringes on fingers; toes with narrow lateral fringes but without webbing; heels overlapping when thighs are positioned at right angles to the body; tibia-tarsal articulation reaching the middle of eye when leg stretched forward. The discovery highlighted the underestimated species diversity in the Leptobrachella toads in southwestern China.

Phytopythium nanjingense sp. nov. (Pythiaceae, Peronosporales) from southern China based on morphological and molecular characters

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 403 (3) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
JIA-JIA CHEN ◽  
HUI FENG ◽  
YUAN-CHAO WANG ◽  
XIAO-BO ZHENG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Mtdna Sequences ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Thin Walled ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Molecular Characters

A new species of Peronosporales: Phytopythium nanjingense, isolated from the lake water of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province of China is described and illustrated based on morphological characters and supported by molecular phylogenetic analyses using ITS rDNA and Cox1 and Cox2 mtDNA sequences. Phytopythium nanjingense is heterothallic and characterized by aquatic habitat, ellipsoid, mostly obpyriform to ovoid-obpyriform, internally or internally nested proliferating sporangia with conspicuous apical papillae, smooth oogonia, hypogynous antheridia, filamentous antheridial cells, and plerotic or nearly plerotic and thin-walled oospores (0.5–1.6 µm). Differences between the new species and phylogenetically related and morphologically similar species are discussed.

Neohygrocybe griseonigra (Hygrophoraceae, Agaricales), a new species from subtropical China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 350 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
CHAO-QUN WANG ◽  
MING ZHANG ◽  
TAI-HUI LI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Subtropical China ◽  
Rdna Sequences ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

A new species in genus Neohygrocybe sect. Neohygrocybe, N. griseonigra, is described from the Chebaling National Nature Reserve in Guangdong province, China. It is characterized by its dark brown dry fibrillose pileus, whitish to grayish white lamellae that stain red then dark gray or blackish when bruised, smooth basidiospores, long sterigmata of basidia, and lanceolate pseudocystidia. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the ITS rDNA sequences also confirm the taxonomic status of the new species as the morphological characters indicated. A key to all known members of Neohygrocybe is provided in this study.

scholarly journals A New Species of the Genus Zhangixalus (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoa Thi NINH ◽  
Tao Thien NGUYEN ◽  
Nikolai ORLOV ◽  
Truong Quang NGUYEN ◽  
Thomas ZIEGLER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Species Number ◽  
White Stripe ◽  
Hind Limbs ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of the genus Zhangixalus Li, Jiang, Ren & Jiang, 2019 from Ha Giang Province, Vietnam based on morphological and molecular data. In the molecular phylogenetic analyses, the new species is nested in the Zhangixalus duboisi (Ohler, Marquis, Swan & Grosjean, 2000) group, where it is sister to Z. duboisi with a genetic distance of 2.51%. The new species, Zhangixalus franki sp. nov., differs from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characters: size large, SVL 77.9–85.8 mm in males; finger webbing formula I1-1II0-1III½-0IV; dorsal surface of head and body green with dark brown spots; ventral surface grey or dark grey, white stripe along edge of jaw, insertion of limbs, and along lateral ridges of fore and hind limbs and flank, separating upper green part from lower grey part. The new species occurs in evergreen montane tropical forests at an elevation of ca 1300 m a.s.l. The new discovery brings the total number of known species in the genus Zhangixalus to 38 and the species number reported from Vietnam to nine.

A new species of the genus Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura: Megophryidae) from Hunan, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4695 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
LU WANG ◽  
XUEJIAN DENG ◽  
YONG LIU ◽  
QIANQIAN WU ◽  
ZHAO LIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Hunan Province ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of Megophryidae frog, Megophrys shunhuangensis sp. nov., from Hunan Province, Southern China. It can be distinguished from other known species in the subgenus Panophrys by morphological characters, bioacoustic data and a molecular divergence in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene similar to that found among other species of Panophrys. M. shunhuangensis sp. nov. is characterized by a relatively small body size, with adult females measuring 37.6 mm and adult males measuring 30.3–33.6 mm in snout to vent length; maxillary teeth present, vomerine teeth absent; tongue smooth, not notched behind; hindlimb slender, heels overlapping, tibio-tarsal articulation reaches forward between the nasal and tip of snout. Molecular phylogenetic analyses also show that M. sp. 6 from (Mao’er Shan, China) from Chen et al. (2017) and M. sp. 24 (Anjiangping and Mao’er Shan, China) from Liu et al. (2018) may be the same species as M. shunhuangensis sp. nov., we consequently speculate that the new species also distributed in Anjiangping and Mao’er Shan, China. At present, the genus Megophrys contains 85 species of which 48 species are distributed in China, and 30 belong to the subgenus Panophrys. 

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