A new species of Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from West Bengal State, Eastern India

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4691 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAYADITYA PURKAYASTHA ◽  
MADHURIMA DAS ◽  
KINGSHUK MONDAL ◽  
SHIBAJEE MITRA ◽  
ANIRBAN CHAUDHURI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
The State ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Single Female ◽  
A New Species

A new species of frog belonging to the genus Polypedates Tschudi is described from the state of West Bengal, Eastern India. A mid-sized frog, SVL ranges from 47.9–53.6 mm in males and 72.0 mm in the single female. The species is diagnosable in showing the following suite of characters: digits lack webbing, inner and outer metacarpal tubercles present; no dermal fold on forearm; toes webbed, webbing formula I1–1 II0.5–2III1–2IV2–0.5V; an inner metatarsal tubercle present; tibio-tarsal articulation reaches between eye and nostril; and skin on forehead co-ossified to cranium. Additionally, males possess paired vocal sacs. The new species is compared with known species of the genus Polypedates. 

A new species of Drypetes (Putranjivaceae/Euphorbiaceae s.l.) from West Bengal, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 319 (3) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
GOPAL KRISHNA ◽  
K. KARTHIGEYAN ◽  
W. ARISDASON ◽  
T. CHAKRABARTY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
The State ◽  
Subtropical Forests ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Drypetes kalamii, collected from the subtropical forests of two different Protected Areas, Buxa National Park and Jaldapara National Park in the state of West Bengal, India, is described and illustrated. This new species closely resembles Drypetes ellisii, but differs in being small shrub (female plants) or scrambling shrub (male plants) with corrugated branches and puberulous branchlets, longer petioles, laminae abruptly acuminate with pointed apices, slender and puberulent fruiting pedicels with bracts and bracteoles and smaller, ovoid-globose drupes.

scholarly journals A new species of Platylestes Selys (Odonata: Zygoptera: Lestidae) from the coastal area of Kannur District, Kerala, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 16854-16860
Author(s):  
K.G. Emiliyamma ◽  
Muhamed Jafer Palot ◽  
C. Charesh
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
A New Species

The genus Platylestes Selys, 1862 is known from India, by only one species, P. platystylus from eastern India, West Bengal, and recently from Kerala.  Here, we describe a new species Platylestes kirani from the coastal tracts of the northern part of Kerala, southern India.  The new species differs from all other known species of the genus by its unique coloration, distinct marking on synthorax, and the shape of anal appendages.  

scholarly journals A new species of the genus Euphlyctis (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from West Bengal, India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somnath Bhakat ◽  
Soumendranath Bhakat
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Hind Limb ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Relative Length ◽  
Green Frog ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Snout Length ◽  
Body Parameters ◽  
A New Species

A new species of green frog of the genus Euphlyctis Fitzinger, 1843 is described from West Bengal, a state of eastern India. A robust frog, SVL of male 86mm and that of female 132mm. The species is diagnosed by the presence of following characters: green dorsum and female with a greenish white mid-dorsal line, tibiotarsal articulation reaches eye, male with two vocal sac openings at the junction of jaw, female is larger than male though body parameters is proportionately longer in male, nostril snout length 3.45% of SVL, nostril much closer to snout tip than eye, units of hind limb i. e. thigh, shank and foot are almost equal in length, relative length of finger: II < IV < I < III. The new species is compared with existing eight species of the genus Euphlyctis.

A new species of Agaricus sect. Brunneopicti from Eastern India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 374 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
ENTAJ TARAFDER ◽  
ARUN KUMAR DUTTA ◽  
JIT SARKAR ◽  
KRISHNENDU ACHARYA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
A New Species

Agaricus duplocingulatoides (Agaricaceae, Agaricales, Basidiomycota) is proposed here as new to science based on collections made from West Bengal, Eastern India. The morphological features together with molecular data confirms its placement in Agaricus sect. Brunneopicti within Agaricus subg. Pseudochitonia. A comprehensive description, illustrations and comparison with morphologically and phylogenetically related taxa are provided.

Review of the millipede tribe Polydrepanini, with the description of a new species from Kerala state, southern India (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Alogolykinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5068 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-516
Author(s):  
SERGEI I. GOLOVATCH ◽  
MATHILAKATH DASAN ASWATHY ◽  
USHA BHAGIRATHAN ◽  
AMBALAPARAMBIL VASU SUDHIKUMAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Nomen Nudum ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
A New Species

The tribe Polydrepanini is rediagnosed through an elongate, mostly slender, sometimes twisted/helicoid gonofemorite and a more or less thin, mostly flagelliform, suberect, apical or subapical solenomere often forming a conspicuous loop/curve near the base. The tribe presently encompasses seven genera, all redefined, illustrated and keyed: Dasypharkis Attems, 1936, stat. revalid., Delarthrum Attems, 1936, Grammorhabdus Carl, 1932, stat. revalid., Pocockina Jeekel, 1965, Polydrepanum Carl, 1932 (= Gyrodrepanum Carl, 1932 and Hindomorpha Golovatch, 1984, both syn. nov.), Telodrepanum Carl, 1932, and Xiphidiogonus Carl, 1932. The genus Polydrepanum is shown to currently comprise only four described species, all also redefined, depicted and keyed: Polydrepanum tamilum Carl, 1932 (the type species), P. horridum Golovatch, 1984, P. granuliferum (Attems, 1936), comb. nov. ex Hindomorpha, and P. lamprum (Chamberlin, 1920), comb. nov. ex Gyrodrepanum. Grammorhabdus fissus (Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018) is formally transferred from Polydrepanum, comb. nov. Because Polydrepanum implicatum Carl, 1941 shows a strongly shortened gonopodal femorite, coupled with a distal and flagelliform solenomere, this species is considered as not only somewhat intermediate between the tribes Alogolykini and Polydrepanini as redefined here, but it is formally assigned to Alogolykini as the type species of Carlogonopus gen. nov. (masculine), with C. implicatus (Carl, 1941), comb. nov. ex Polydrepanum, as well as a comb. nov. ex Telodrepanum. A somewhat similar situation concerns Manikidesmus suriensis Bhakat, 2021, a still invalid genus and species from West Bengal, eastern India that likewise shows a clearly shortened gonofemorite. However, this being even more important, Manikidesmus suriensis is a “nomen nudum” not available yet for zoological nomenclature. The large and mainly Himalayan genus Delarthrum is briefly reassessed, mainly in connection with a new species, D. anomalans sp. nov., described from Kerala, southern India and placed in a species-group of its own. Some general considerations concerning the diversity and distribution of the subfamily Alogolykinae are presented.  

scholarly journals A new species of the genus Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from eastern India with notes on Indian species

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somnath Bhakat
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dorsal View ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Dorsal Side ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Foot Length ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the genus Microhyla, Microhyla bengalensis sp. nov., described from West Bengal state, India. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following morphological characters: 1) Small in size (SVL= 16.2 mm. in male); 2) truncated snout in dorsal view; 3) head wider than long (HW: HL= 1.36); 4) canthus rostralis and tympanum are indistinct; 5) nostril placed on the dorsal side of the snout; 6) tibiotarsal articulation not reaching the eye; 7) fingers and toes without disc; 8) toe webbing basal; 9) thigh and foot length are equal and smaller than shank; 10) skin tuberculated on dorsum; 11) 'teddy bear' dark brown mark on dorsum; 12) an inverted 'V'-shaped dark brown mark above the vent. A comparative morphological data of all the 14 Indian species of Microhyla is also provided.

A new species of Neorhynchoplax Holthuis, 1968 (Brachyura, Hymenosomatidae) from West Bengal, India

Crustaceana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1345-1357
Author(s):  
Santanu Mitra ◽  
Peter K. L. Ng
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Distal Part ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Western India ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Indian Waters ◽  
A New Species

Abstract The hymenosomatid crab Neorhynchoplax devroyi sp. nov. is described here from West Bengal in eastern India. The species is most similar to N. demeloi Kemp, 1917, described from Cochin in western India, but can easily be distinguished by its proportionately longer and more slender ambulatory legs, truncate cutting teeth on the chelipeds, relatively broader first pleonal somite and the distal part of the male first gonopod being stout and short. Ten species of Neorhynchoplax Holthuis, 1968, are now known from Indian waters.

scholarly journals Description of a new species of Tityus (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from the Parque Estadual de Vila Velha in the State of Paraná (Brazil)

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson R. Lourenço
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Group ◽  
The State ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Environmental Characteristics ◽  
A New Species

Tityus pintodarochai sp. n., pertencente ao grupo de espécies de Tityus bahiensis (Scorpiones, Buthidae) é descrito com base em um único exemplar coletado no ‘Parque Estadual de Vila Velha’, Estado do Paraná, Brazil. São comentadas a posição taxonômica da espécie nova e as características ambientais da localidade do tipo. É provida uma chave para as espécies pertencentes ao Grupo Tityus bahiensis, distribuídas no sul do Brasil, assim como em países vizinhos como Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Abstract Tityus pintodarochai sp. n., belonging to the Tityus bahiensis species group (Scorpiones, Buthidae) is described on the basis of a single female specimen collected in the ‘Parque Estadual de Vila Velha’, State of Paraná, Brazil. Comments on the taxonomic position of the new species and on the environmental characteristics of the type locality are given. A key is provided to the species belonging to the Tityus bahiensis group, distributed in the southern range of Brazil as well as in nearby countries such as Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Résumé Tityus pintodarochai sp. n., espèce appartenant au groupe d’espèces Tityus bahiensis, (Scorpiones, Buthidae) est décrit à partir d’un seul exemplaire femelle collecté dans le ‘Parque Estadual de Vila Velha’, dans l’Etat du Paraná, Brésil. Des commentaires sur la position taxonomique de la nouvelle espèce, ainsi que sur les caractéristiques écologiques de la localité typique sont apportés. Une clé est proposée pour les espèces appartenant au group Tityus bahiensis, distribuées dans la région Sud du Brésil, ainsi que dans les pays limitrophes tels l’Argentine, le Paraguay et l’Uruguay.

A Synopsis of Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) in Brazil, with the Description of Two New Species

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-348
Author(s):  
James Lucas da Costa-Lima ◽  
Earl Celestino de Oliveira Chagas
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
The North ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul ◽  
A New Species

Abstract—A synopsis of Dicliptera (Acanthaceae) for Brazil is presented. Six species are recognized: Dicliptera ciliaris, D. sexangularis, and D. squarrosa, widely distributed in South America; D. purpurascens, which ranges from the North Region of Brazil (in the state of Acre) to eastern Bolivia; D. gracilirama, a new species from the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil; and D. granchaquenha, a new species recorded in dry and semideciduous forests in Bolivia and western Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Furthermore, we propose new synonyms and designate lectotypes for eleven names. An identification key to the six accepted Dicliptera species in Brazil is provided.

A new species of the genus Lobus Martin (Diptera: Asilidae) from West Bengal, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 367 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
A. Naskar ◽  
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A. Maity ◽  
S. Homechaudhuri ◽  
P. Parui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
A New Species
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