Two new species of the genus Chironephthya (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Nidaliidae, Siphonogorgiinae) from the Gulf of Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4780 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
YUKIMITSU IMAHARA ◽  
SUCHANA CHAVANICH ◽  
VORANOP VIYAKARN ◽  
YUKA KUSHIDA ◽  
JAMES D. REIMER ◽  
...  

Two new species of the genus Chironephthya, C. sirindhornae sp. nov. and C. cornigera sp. nov., are described based on three specimens collected from the Gulf of Thailand. Both species are well distinguished from the previously described species of the genus Chironephthya by their colonies consisting of multiple stems that stand upright from a common base, and by a significantly thinner canal wall without large spindles. As a result of phylogenetic analyses using COI, mtMutS, and 28S rDNA sequences of these two species, these three specimens constituted an independent small clade within a large mixed clade of Siphonogorgia and Chironephthya, with the two species slightly different from each other. The discrepancy in the morphology suggested the erection of a new genus to accommodate these species, however, as the subclade was included in a large mixed clade of Siphonogorgia and Chironephthya, we place these species within genus Chironephthya. Our results further highlight the continuing confusion between Siphonogorgia and Chironephthya, and demonstrate the need for taxonomic revision of these genera. 

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (9) ◽  
pp. 1570-1583 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Gams ◽  
K O'Donnell ◽  
H -J Schroers ◽  
M Christensen

Unlike most phialide-producing fungi that liberate a multiplicity of conidia from each conidiogenous cell, only single conidia are formed on phialide-like conidiogenous cells in Aphanocladium, Verticimonosporium, and some species of Sibirina. A group of isolates obtained from soil of native Artemisia tridentata (sagebrush) grassland in Wyoming and from desert soil in Iraq is compared with these genera and classified as a fourth genus, Stanjemonium, honouring Stanley J. Hughes. Phylogenetic analyses of partial nuclear small- (18S) and large-subunit (28S) rDNA sequences indicate that Stanjemonium spp. form a monophyletic group with Emericellopsis. Sequences from the nuclear 18S and 28S rDNA were too conserved to resolve morphological species of Stanjemonium; however, phylogenetic analysis of b-tubulin and translation elongation factor 1a gene exons and introns resolved all species distinguished morphologically. Numerous conidiogenous cells or denticles are scattered along the cells of aerial hyphae in Aphanocladium and Stanjemonium spp., very rapidly collapsing into denticles in the former, somewhat more persistent and leaving broad scars in the latter. In Cladobotryum-Sibirina and Verticimonosporium spp., conidiogenous cells are discrete in terminal and intercalary whorls; phialides of the latter taxon are particularly swollen. The taxonomy of Aphanocladium is not yet resolved. Two species are recognized in Verticimonosporium. Three new species of Stanjemonium are described, and one new combination from Aphanocladium is proposed, along with one new species of Cladobotryum.Key words: Aphanocladium, Cladobotryum, conidiogenesis, hyphomycetes, molecular phylogeny, phialide, Stanjemonium, systematics, Verticimonosporium.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 350 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
YANG GAO ◽  
SHU-ZHEN YAN ◽  
GAO-WEI WANG ◽  
SHUANG-LIN CHEN

Two new myxomycetes from subtropical forests of China, Arcyria aeruginosa sp. nov. and Diderma subochraceum sp. nov., are described and illustrated. Arcyria aeruginosa occurred on rotten stem of bamboo and differs from all known species of the genus in having dense spines on inner surface of cups. The diagnostic feature of D. subochraceum is single-layered peridium which dehisces by longitudinal or stellate slit. Preliminary phylogenetic analyses based on partial 18S rDNA sequences support the establishment of the two new species. Additionally, Didymium saturnus H.W. Keller and Fuligo luteonitens L.G. Krieglst. & Nowotny are reported from China for the first time.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Feng ◽  
Shu-Yan Liu ◽  
Uwe Braun ◽  
Susumu Takamatsu ◽  
Michael Bradshaw ◽  
...  

Abstract Recently performed phylogenetic-taxonomic analyses of species belonging to Erysiphe sect. Uncinula on willows (Salix spp.) demonstrated a much higher diversity than previously assumed. Phylogenetic analyses and morphological examinations of Chinese Erysiphe collections on Salix abscondita (= S. raddeana), S. sinica and S. taraikensis, all belonging to Salix subgen. Vetrix sect. Vetrix, revealed an additional cryptic species in sister position to the E. salicis clade, which is described as Erysiphe salicina. The new species clearly distinguished from all allied species in morphological and genetical results. The phylogeny of the new species and closely related species on Populus and Salix spp. (Salicaceae) was reconstructed and discussed using a combined alignment of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions and 28S rDNA sequences. The present phylogenetic analyses suggest that the recently described E. salicicola (on Salix gracilistyla in South Korea) has to be reduced to synonymy with E. salicis var. salicis-gracilistylae (º Uncinula salicis-gracilistylae).


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 839-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng-Chen Yu ◽  
Benny K K Chan ◽  
Gregory A Kolbasov ◽  
Monthon Ganmanee

Abstract We examined the diversity and host use of sponge-associated barnacles of Thailand (Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand) using a combined morphological and molecular approach. Eight barnacle species (including two new species) were collected from 12 host sponges. Host-specific barnacle species includes Acasta lappasp. nov., which exclusively inhabits the sponge Mycale sp. Acasta milkaesp. nov. was only collected from the sponge Callyspongia cf. diffusa (Ridley, 1884). Multatria filigranus (Broch, 1916) were found in the encrusting soft sponges Monanchora unguiculata (Dendy, 1922) and Clathria sp. Pyrgospongia stellula (Rosell, 1975) inhabits the sponges Spheciospongia vagabunda (Ridley, 1884). Generalist barnacle species includes Euacsta ctenodentia (Rosell, 1972), E. porata (Nilsson-Cantell, 1921), E. zuiho (Hiro, 1936), and Acasta cyathus Darwin, 1854, which inhabit a wide range of sponges with various textures.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2701 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
OSAMI NAKAMURA

The family Eosentomidae from Japan is revised. A new genus, Osientomon, is erected and a new species is ascribed to this genus. This new genus is characterized by the short, setiform sensillum g, absence of sensilla e and b'1 on foretarsus, and S-shaped processus sternalis and duck’s head type caput processus on the female squama genitalis. Two new species are added to the genus Pseudanisentomon and 19 new species and 1 new record of the genus Eosentomon are described. As a result, 43 species belonging to 4 genera are now recognized from Japan. Taxonomic keys are provided for the identification of the genera and species from Japan.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 309 (3) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUAN-YUAN CHEN ◽  
MIN WANG ◽  
BO ZHANG ◽  
BAO-KAI CUI

We describe herein the Neoalbatrellus odorus sp. nov. accounting on its peculiar morphological features and molecular data. It is characterized by fleshy basidiomata with a deep violet to dark violet pileal surface, which turns blackish blue and glossy after drying. It also has a white pore surface, light violet to bluish violet stipe, simple septate generative hyphae, and thick-walled, non-amyloid basidiospores. The phylogenetic analyses, based on ITS and 28S rDNA sequences of Neoalbatrellus and its related genera, were performed using Maximum Parsimony, Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference, confirming the affiliation of the new species to Neoalbatrellus.


ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 790 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yee Wah Lau ◽  
Frank Robert Stokvis ◽  
Leendert Pieter van Ofwegen ◽  
James Davis Reimer

A new genus and two new species of stoloniferous octocorals (Alcyonacea) within the family Arulidae are described based on specimens collected from Okinawa (Japan), Palau and Dongsha Atoll (Taiwan).Hanagen. n. is erected within Arulidae.Hanahanagasasp. n.is characterised by large spindle-like table-radiates andHanahanatabasp. n.is characterised by having ornamented rods. The distinction of these new taxa is also supported by molecular phylogenetic analyses. The support values resulting from maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses for the genusHanaand new speciesH.hanagasaandH.hanatabaare 82/1.0, 97/1.0 and 61/0.98, respectively.Hanahanagasasp. n.andHanahanatabasp. n.are the first arulid records for Okinawa, Palau, and Dongsha Atoll, and represent species of the second genus within the family Arulidae.


MycoKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Peng-Lei Qiu ◽  
Uwe Braun ◽  
Yu Li ◽  
Shu-Yan Liu

A powdery mildew (Erysiphales) has recently been collected on leaves of an ornamental shrub Deutziaparviflora in Baihua Mountain, Beijing, China. Microscopic examination of the chasmothecia suggested a species belonging to Erysiphesect.Erysiphe, above all due to mycelioid chasmothecial appendages, although circinate apices of the appendages were rather in favour of Erysiphesect.Uncinula, which is a fairly rare combination of appendage characteristics in Erysiphe. Phylogenetic analyses of ITS and 28S rDNA sequences demonstrated that the two examined powdery mildew collections on D.parviflora clustered together as an independent lineage within Erysiphe with 100% bootstrap support, representing a species of its own, which is phylogenetically allied to, but clearly distinct from Erysiphedeutziae and, in addition, morphologically quite different from all known Erysiphe species on hosts belonging to the Hydrangeaceae. The new species on D.parviflora is described as Erysiphedeutziicola.


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4790 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75
Author(s):  
JINTANA PLATHONG ◽  
SAKANAN PLATHONG ◽  
MARÍA CAPA

Despite being a great species-rich area, the Gulf of Thailand has been relatively poorly studied and new species are awaiting to be described. In the present study two new species of Sphaerodoridae (Annelida), Geminofilum thailandica sp. nov. and Sphaerodoridium songkhlaensis sp. nov. were collected in shallow soft bottoms at Songkhla Sea. Geminofilum thailandica sp. nov. is characterised by bearing sessile and elongated dorsal macrotubercles, arranged in two transverse rows per segment, lacking other dorsal papillae, having parapodia with a single papilla at the base and compound chaetae with blades 4–6 times as long as wide and serration showing variation within fascicles. Sphaerodoridium songkhlaensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from other congeners by the singular morphology of the short stalked dorsal macrotubercles as inverted cones, with a conspicuous rim encircling the flattened distal surface, and two longitudinal rows of smaller sessile tubercles, as inverted cones, along ventrum, with four pairs of tubercles per segment. Chaetae show variation in the serration within fascicles. The present study highlights the need for further biodiversity studies on benthic communities in this area. 


MycoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Zhaoxue Zhang ◽  
Taichang Mu ◽  
Shubin Liu ◽  
Rongyu Liu ◽  
Xiuguo Zhang ◽  
...  

Species of Tubakiaceae have often been reported as plant pathogens or endophytes, commonly isolated from a wide range of plant hosts. The isolated fungi were studied through a complete examination, based on multilocus phylogenies from combined datasets of ITS/LSU/rpb2 and ITS/tef1/tub2, in conjunction with morphological characteristics. Five strains isolated from Lithocarpus fohaiensis and Quercus palustris in China represented a new genus of Tubakiaceae, Obovoideisporodochium and three species, viz. Obovoideisporodochium lithocarpi sp. nov., Tubakia lushanensis sp. nov. and T. dryinoides.


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