Syllidae (Annelida) from East Timor and the Philippines (Pacific Ocean), with the description of three new species of Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1818

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4834 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-263
Author(s):  
MARÍA JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ ◽  
GUILLERMO SAN MARTÍN
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Tropical Asia ◽  
The North ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Anterior Segments

East Timor is an island located to the south of the Indonesian Archipelago and to the north of Australia, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is included in the Coral Triangle and houses an amazing quantity of marine biodiversity. However, only two species of Syllidae (Annelida) have been reported up to now: Trypanosyllis migueli and T. devae. Based on a small collection from the Australian Museum, we have identified nine genera and 17 species: Brevicirrosyllis mariae, Opisthodonta morena, Sphaerosyllis densopapillata, Branchiosyllis australis, B. exilis, B. maculata, B. verruculosa, Haplosyllis djiboutiensis, Opisthosyllis brunnea, Syllis alternata, S. broomensis, S. corallicola, S. erikae, S. gerlachi, S. hyalina, S. setoensis and Trypanosyllis luzonensis. This is the first record of S. gerlachi outside the Indian Ocean, and B. mariae, O. morena, S. densopapillata, H. djiboutiensis, S. corallicola and S. erikae have not been previously reported in tropical Asia. A specimen of Parahaplosyllis sp. could not be identified due to its poor condition. Three species belonging to Syllis are herein described as new: S. cambuk n. sp. has a large size body, with anterior segments much wider and shorter than posterior ones, long whip-shaped dorsal cirri and bidentate midbody and posterior chaetae, with both teeth equal in size and shape; Syllis hampirmenyatu n. sp. has three chaetae per posterior parapodium, with short and wide blades appearing to be fused with shafts, but still clearly distinguishable from each other, bidentate, with proximal tooth clearly smaller and thinner than distal one; and S. maganda n. sp. is easily recognizable because of its spectacular orange and blue colouration, only observable in living specimens, with broad transverse red stripes on the dorsum forming a distinctive pattern and red spots on the cirri and prostomium observable in both living and fixed specimens. Additionally, Philippine samples from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales of Madrid have been examined corresponding to S. maganda n. sp. A Philippine specimen of S. maganda n. sp. had a small unidentified specimen of Haplosyllis attached to a posterior dorsal cirrus, which is the first documented case of such an interaction between two species of Syllidae. This provisionally called Haplosyllis sp. is characterized by its simple chaetae with short spur and two very long, distinct curved teeth, very close to each other. A regenerated prostomium and a stolon were also found in other Philippine specimens of S. maganda n. sp. 

Two new species and new records of the genus Paraopisthosyllis Hartmann-Schröder, 1991 (Annelida: Syllidae) from northeastern Brazil and Philippine Islands

Zootaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4178 (1) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARLA PARESQUE ◽  
GUILLERMO SAN MARTÍN ◽  
PATRICIA ÁLVAREZ-CAMPOS ◽  
JOÃO MIGUEL DE MATOS NOGUEIRA ◽  
MARCELO VERONESI FUKUDA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
First Report ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Anterior Segments

Two new species of Paraopisthosyllis are described herein, P. correiae sp. nov. (State of Pernambuco, NE Brazil) and P. kuluguhin sp. nov. (Philippines). Paraopisthosyllis correiae sp. nov. represents the first record for the genus in Brazilian waters and it is also the second species known to occur outside the Pacific Ocean. This species is characterized by having a marked color pattern, with a transverse red stripe between dorsal cirri on each segment and an inverted V anteriorly and a V posteriorly on some segments, small papillae on body, large, distinct papillae on dorsal cirri, compound chaetae with elongated, bidentate blades, shafts with moderate subdistal serration on margin, pharyngeal tooth located on anterior third of pharynx, near the pharyngeal opening, and reproduction by schizogamy. Paraopisthosyllis kuluguhin sp. nov. represents the first report of the genus for the Philippines, together with P. pardus, originally known from Australia and also found in the Philippines in the present study. This new species is characterized by its color pattern, with dark patches irregularly distributed on anterior segments, forming one anterior pigmented short band and two lateral areas on each chaetiger after the proventricle, club-shaped dorsal cirri, and short, bidentate compound chaetae. Our findings allow us to synonymize the genus Basidiosyllis to Paraopisthosyllis and represent the first report of sexual stolons (scissiparity) in this genus, which supports its allocation into the subfamily Syllinae.  

Three new species of Chapsa (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae) from tropical Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gothamie WEERAKOON ◽  
Eimy RIVAS PLATA ◽  
H. Thorsten LUMBSCH ◽  
Robert LÜCKING
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Tropical Asia ◽  
Discs Large ◽  
The Family ◽  
Secondary Substances ◽  
Three New Species

AbstractThree new species of Chapsa in the family Graphidaceae are described from tropical Asia. Chapsa mastersonii Rivas Plata, Lumbsch & Lücking from the Philippines is characterized by large apothecia with thickly white-pruinose discs, large, muriform, non-amyloid ascospores, and the stictic acid chemosyndrome. Chapsa wijeyaratniana Weerakon, Lumbsch & Lücking from Sri Lanka has apothecia similar to the preceding species but forms an ecorticate thallus with maculiform to capitate soralia, has small, submuriform ascospores, and lacks secondary substances. Chapsa wolseleyana Weerakon, Lumbsch & Lücking forms apothecia with red to pinkish or purplish red discs and large, muriform ascospores becoming pale brown.

scholarly journals A Latest Discovery of Austronesian Rock Art in the North Peninsula of Buano Island, Maluku

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Muhammad Al Mujabuddawat ◽  
Godlief Arsthen Peseletehaha
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Early Period ◽  
First Record ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
The People

Gambar cadas merupakan salah satu tradisi yang tertua dan paling banyak tersebar di penjuru dunia. Gambar cadas menjadi bagian dari data penting dalam mempelajari masa lalu, karena gambar cadas kemungkinan mengandung makna pada pemikiran simbolik manusia yang membuatnya. Gambar cadas di Indonesia merupakan budaya yang berlangsung berkesinambungan sejak periode awal gelombang migrasi manusia di Kepulauan Indonesia sekitar puluhan ribu tahun hingga kedatangan penutur budaya Austronesia yang membuka periode Neolitik sekitar ribuan tahun lalu. Gambar cadas di Kawasan Kepulauan Maluku Bagian Tengah pada khususnya secara umum dikenali berciri Tradisi Gambar Austronesia atau lebih dikenal dengan sebutan APT (Austronesian Painting Tradition). Penelitian ini melaporkan temuan baru gambar cadas di di Situs Tanjung Bintang, Pulau Pua, Pesisir Utara Pulau Buano. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode kualitatif dan analitis dalam mendeskripsikan objek motif gambar cadas berdasarkan kajian literatur terkait referensi-referensi yang merujuk pada kajian gambar cadas di Maluku. Penelitian ini mengenali bahwa gambar cadas di Situs Tanjung Bintang berciri Tradisi Gambar Austronesia. Kajian ini merupakan  yang pertama kali melaporkan keberadaan Situs Tanjung Bintang, gambar cadas di Pesisir Utara Pulau Buano, Kepulauan Maluku. Rock art is one of the oldest and most widespread traditions around the world. Rock art is part of essential data in studying the past because rock art has the potential to tell us something of the symbolic concerns of the people that created it. Rock art in Indonesia is a culture that has been ongoing since the early period of the wave of human migration in the Indonesian Archipelago for about tens of thousands of years until the arrival of the Austronesian speaker’s culture who opened the Neolithic period around thousands of years ago. Rock art in the Central Maluku Islands Region in particular, is generally recognized as characterized by the Austronesian Painting Tradition. This research reports new rock art findings at Tanjung Bintang Site, Pua Island, North Coast of Buano Island. This research applies qualitative and analytical methods in describing the object of rock art motifs based on a literature review related to references that refer to the study of rock art in Maluku. This research recognizes that the Tanjung Bintang Site is characterized by the Austronesian Painting Tradition. This study is the first record of the Tanjung Bintang Site rock art in the North Coast of Buano Island, Maluku.

scholarly journals Two new genera and three new species of subterranean cyclopoids (Crustacea, Copepoda) from New Zealand, with redescription of Goniocyclops silvestris Harding, 1958

2005 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 223-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Karanovic
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lake Baikal ◽  
Sandy Beach ◽  
Present Report ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The North ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
Western Shore ◽  
Systematic List ◽  
Three New Species

A small collection of copepod samples from several wells in the Canterbury region, South Island, was examined. It contained a few cosmopolitan cyclopoid species, three interesting harpacticoids, as well as two new cyclopoid genera. The latter are presented in this paper, together with a redescription and first description of the male of Goniocyclops silvestris Harding, 1958, a cyclopoid species previously known only from North Island. Both new genera are from the Diacyclops-Acanthocyclops complex. Abdiacyclops gen. nov. is easily distinguishable from the complex by its unique swimming legs segmentation formula (2/2, 3/3, 3/3, 3/3), and is so far monospecific and known only after females. The most important characters of the second new genus, Zealandcyclops gen. nov. are: the swimming legs segmentation formula of 2/2, 3/2, 3/2, 3/2; a very small and two-segmented fifth leg; 11-segmented antennula; and sexual dimorphism in the swimming legs, with a transformed apical spine on the third leg endopod in the male. Four species were included in this genus: Zealandcyclops fenwicki sp. nov., from a well in the South Canterbury region; Z. haywardi sp. nov., from a well in the North Canterbury region; Z. eulitoralis (Alekseev and Arov, 1986) comb. nov., from the interstitial of several beaches on the southern shore of Lake Baikal; and Z. biceri (Boxshall et al., 1993) comb. nov., from a sandy beach on the western shore of Lake Baikal. Zealandcyclops gen. nov. seems to be an archaic cyclopoid genus, having survived only in New Zealand and in the ancient Lake Baikal. With the present report, the New Zealand cyclopoid fauna numbers 16 species, a systematic list of which is presented in this paper. The majority of them are cosmopolitan elements, probably introduced here by early European settlers. Only one genus (8%) and six species (38%) are endemic, which is probably a reflection of the absence of any comprehensive research on the New Zealand cyclopoids.

Redescription of Callianassa jousseaumei Nobili, 1904, a junior subjective synonym of Callianassa indica de Man, 1905 with description of a new species of Neocallichirus (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2746 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER C. DWORSCHAK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Variability ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
De Man ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Subjective Synonym

Investigation of newly collected material from the Philippines during the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004, together with re-examination of the type material of Callianassa jousseaumei Nobili, 1904 and numerous specimens identified as Neocallichirus indicus (de Man, 1905), revealed that the latter is identical with the former and has to be considered a junior synonym of Callianassa jousseaumei. A redescription of this species is presented together with notes on its morphological variability and its ecology. A new species of Neocallichirus, N. vaugelasi, is described for specimens from Aqaba, previously attributed erroneously to C. (or N.) jousseaumei, and N. natalensis Barnard, 1947 is removed from the synonymy of the latter. This is the first record of this species for the Philippines and Thailand.

scholarly journals Pericelis cata Marcus and Marcus, 1968 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida): first record from northeast of Brazil

Check List ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinicius Queiroz ◽  
Licia Sales ◽  
Elizabeth G. Neves ◽  
Rodrigo Johnsson
Keyword(s):  
Cold Water ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
First Record ◽  
Transitional Zone ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
The North ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Important Center ◽  
Janeiro State

The polyclad Pericelis cata has been reported in two distinct localities along the North Atlantic: Curaçao and the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Recently identified from the Southwestern Atlantic, the species was first described from the Cabo Frio region (23°S) (Rio de Janeiro State), a transitional zone between warm and cold water species located southeastern Brazil. The second location is in the northeastern coast in warm waters, in the entrance of the Todos-os-Santos Bay, a geographic area within the Brazilian Biotic Province, an important center of marine biodiversity of the Tropical Atlantic.

Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the Spirit Collection of the Natural History Museum, London 2: New species and records from P. Hammond's visit to New Zealand in 1983–84

2018 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Michael Darby
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
North And South

Some 2,000 Ptiliidae collected in the North and South Islands of New Zealand in 1983/1984 by Peter Hammond of the Natural History Museum, London, are determined to 34 species, four of which are new to the country. As there are very few previous records, most from the Auckland district of North Island, the Hammond collection provides much new distributional data. The three new species: Nellosana insperatus sp. n., Notoptenidium flavum sp. n., and Notoptenidium johnsoni sp. n., are described and figured; the genus Ptiliodes is moved from Acrotrichinae to Ptiliinae, and Ptenidium formicetorum Kraatz recorded as a new introduction. Information is provided to aid separation of the new species from those previously recorded.

First record of Norwegian killer whales attacking and feeding on a harbour porpoise

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mel Cosentino
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Marine Mammals ◽  
First Record ◽  
Harbour Porpoise ◽  
Sperm Whales ◽  
Killer Whales ◽  
Strait Of Gibraltar ◽  
Cetacean Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Bottlenose Whales

Orcinus orcais a cosmopolitan species and the most widely distributed marine mammal. Its diet includes over 140 species of fish, cephalopods, sea birds and marine mammals. However, many populations are specialised on certain specific prey items. Three genetically distinct populations have been described in the North Atlantic. Population A (that includes the Icelandic and Norwegian sub-populations) is believed to be piscivorous, as is population C, which includes fish-eating killer whales from the Strait of Gibraltar. In contrast, population B feeds on both fish and marine mammals. Norwegian killer whales follow the Norwegian spring spawning herring stock. The only description in the literature of Norwegian killer whales feeding on another cetacean species is a predation event on northern bottlenose whales in 1968. Daily land-based surveys targeting sperm whales were conducted from the Andenes lighthouse using BigEyes®binoculars (25×, 80 mm). The location of animals at sea was approximated through the use of an internal reticule system and a graduated wheel. On 24 June 2012 at 3:12 am, an opportunistic sighting of 11 killer whales was made off Andenes harbour. The whales hunted and fed on a harbour porpoise. Despite these species having overlapping distributions in Norwegian waters, this is the first predatory event reported in the literature.

scholarly journals Biogeography of acoustic biodiversity of NW Mediterranean coralligenous reefs

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Di Iorio ◽  
Manon Audax ◽  
Julie Deter ◽  
Florian Holon ◽  
Julie Lossent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Predator Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Mediterranean Habitats ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Nw Mediterranean

AbstractMonitoring the biodiversity of key habitats and understanding the drivers across spatial scales is essential for preserving ecosystem functions and associated services. Coralligenous reefs are threatened marine biodiversity hotspots that are challenging to monitor. As fish sounds reflect biodiversity in other habitats, we unveiled the biogeography of coralligenous reef sounds across the north-western Mediterranean using data from 27 sites covering 2000 km and 3 regions over a 3-year period. We assessed how acoustic biodiversity is related to habitat parameters and environmental status. We identified 28 putative fish sound types, which is up to four times as many as recorded in other Mediterranean habitats. 40% of these sounds are not found in other coastal habitats, thus strongly related to coralligenous reefs. Acoustic diversity differed between geographical regions. Ubiquitous sound types were identified, including sounds from top-predator species and others that were more specifically related to the presence of ecosystem engineers (red coral, gorgonians), which are key players in maintaining habitat function. The main determinants of acoustic community composition were depth and percentage coverage of coralligenous outcrops, suggesting that fish-related acoustic communities exhibit bathymetric stratification and are related to benthic reef assemblages. Multivariate analysis also revealed that acoustic communities can reflect different environmental states. This study presents the first large-scale map of acoustic fish biodiversity providing insights into the ichthyofauna that is otherwise difficult to assess because of reduced diving times. It also highlights the potential of passive acoustics in providing new aspects of the correlates of biogeographical patterns of this emblematic habitat relevant for monitoring and conservation.

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