Comments on “Is Copytus Skogsberg, 1939 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) a neocytherideid? With description of a new family and two new species” by Coimbra, Bergue & Ramos (2020)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4950 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-400
Author(s):  
OKAN KÜLKÖYLÜOĞLU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
New Family ◽  
As Species ◽  
Diagnostic Characteristics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species

Most recently, Coimbra et al. (2020) published an article in this journal (Zootaxa, 4729 (2): 177–194) questioning the taxonomic position of the genus Copytus Skogsberg, 1939 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) along with proposing it as the type genus of their new family (Copytidae Coimbra et al., 2020), and erecting two new species that were listed by previous authors as Copytus sp. 1 and Copytus sp. 2. The main diagnostic characteristics of their new proposed family (and the genus Copytus) are the hinge type and muscle scars on the carapace and/or valves (see lines 6–8 from the bottom, p. 179 in Coimbra et al. 2020). They also underlined that (p. 179) “...this study is based exclusively on the morphology of the animals’ hard parts”. While the authors considered another genus (Neocopytus) proposed by Külköylüoğlu, Colin & Kılıç (2007) of the family Neocytherididae as invalid, they interestingly transferred some species of Neocopytus to Copytus as species of their new family (Coimbra et al. 2020). Herein, my point with the comments listed below is to clarify that, when possible, both soft and hard parts should be considered in taxonomy, and such an integrated approach clearly indicates that Neocopytus is a valid and taxonomically useful genus. 

scholarly journals Svenzea, a new genus of Dictyonellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) from tropical reef environments, with description of two new species

2002 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Alvarez ◽  
Rob W.M. van Soest ◽  
Klaus Rützler
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Reef Environments ◽  
Tropical Reef ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Developmental Features

The new genus Svenzea is created to group three sponge species from tropical reef environments of the Caribbean Sea and Indonesia: Pseudaxinella (?) zeai Alvarez, Van Soest & Rützler, Svenzea cristinae n. sp. and S. devoogdae n. sp. The genus shows affinities with members of both Halichondrida and Haplosclerida but it is assigned to the family Dictyonellidae based on shared microanatomical and developmental features. The higher taxonomic position of Svenzea is a subject for future investigations.

A taxonomic review of hymenolepidids (Eucestoda, Hymenolepididae) from dormice (Rodentia, Gliridae), with descriptions of two new species

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arseny A. Makarikov
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species

AbstractIn present study the systematic and taxonomic position of hymenolepidids parasitizing rodents of the family Gliridae from Europe and Central Asia is discussed.

Is Copytus Skogsberg, 1939 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) a neocytherideid? With description of a new family and two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4729 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
JOÃO CARLOS COIMBRA ◽  
CRISTIANINI TRESCASTRO BERGUE ◽  
MARIA INÊS FEIJÓ RAMOS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bottom Sediments ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
The South ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species

The genus Copytus Skogsberg, 1939 was erected based on C. caligula, recovered from bottom sediments of the South Georgia Island, Antarctica. However, we propose herein that Skogsberg’s species is a junior synonym of Cytherideis laevata Brady, 1880 also collected from Antarctica and, therefore, Copytus laevata (Brady, 1880) becomes the type species. The position of the genus Copytus in the family Neocytherideidae is discussed, and a new family is proposed. In addition, we consider the genus Neocopytus Külköylüoðlu, Colin & Kiliç, 2007 invalid, and some of its species are transferred to Copytus. Finally, two new species of Copytus are herein described, C. cuspidata sp. nov. and C. wuerdigae sp. nov., and their geographic, bathymetric and stratigraphic distributions are discussed. 

Cancrion khanhensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Entoniscidae) infesting Monomia haanii (Stimpson, 1858) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Nha Trang Bay, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, with remarks on larval stages of entoniscids and description of a new family, genus and two new species of hyperparasites infesting entoniscids

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4894 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-386
Author(s):  
LE THI KIEU OANH ◽  
CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Larval Stages ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Portunid Crab ◽  
Nha Trang Bay ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

An undescribed entoniscid isopod was found to parasitize Monomia haani, a common portunid crab in Khanh Hoa province of Vietnam. The new species is the eighth in the genus Cancrion, the second species of Cancrion found parasitizing hosts in the family Portunidae, and the first member of the family Entoniscidae to be described from southeast Asia. The cryptoniscius larva of a species of Cancrion is described for the first time. The new entoniscid infests hosts with a prevalence of 10.1% and intensity of 1 or 2 females per host. A new family, genus and species of cryptoniscoid hyperparasite with novel female and cryptoniscus body morphology is also described; this is the first record of a hyperparasite found infesting an entoniscid isopod. The purported cryptoniscus larva of Tiarinion texopallium Shields & Ward, 1998 is shown to be that of a hyperparasitic cryptoniscoid isopod closely allied to the new Vietnamese hyperparasite and is described as a new species belonging to the new family and genus. 

A review of mesozoic acanthopterygian fishes, with special reference to those of the English chalk

1964 ◽  
Vol 247 (739) ◽  
pp. 213-482 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Order ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species

Acid preparation of fishes from the English Chalk allows very detailed descriptions to be prepared. The acanthopterygians of the English Chalk are redescribed, and members of all the genera known by more than one specimen are treated at length. The English Chalk genera of Ctenothrissiformes, a group confined to the Cenomanian and Lower Turonian, are also described in detail, since this group is often cited as possibly ancestral to the acanthopterygians. The acanthopterygians and Ctenothrissiformes of all other Mesozoic deposits are more briefly described. The main systematic conclusions are as follows. A new order Ctenothrissiformes is made, to replace the Bathyclupeiformes, since Bathyclupea is a percoid. Within the Ctenothrissiformes, a new family Aulolepidae is made to contain Aulolepis and Pateroperca (the latter was formerly thought to be a percoid). The order Berycifbrmes is divided into three new sub-orders, Polymixioidei, Dinopterygoidei and Berycoidei. The Polymixioidei contains two families, the Polymixiidae, ranging from the Cenomanian to the present, and a new monotypic family Sphenocephalidae, confined to the Upper Senonian. The family Berycopsidae is rejected, and Berycopsis is placed in the Polymixiidae. Platycormus is shown to be a synonym of Berycopsis. The Dinopterygoidei contains the Upper Senonian Dinopterygidae and three new monotypic families, the Aipichthyidae, Pharmacichthyidae and Pycnosteroididae, all of which are confined to the Cenomanian. The Berycoidei contains eleven families, all with living representatives, of which only the Trachichthyidae and Holocentridae are present in the Mesozoic. A new genus of Trachichthyidae, Tubantia, from the Upper Senonian of Westphalia, is made. The genus Hoplopteryx, previously placed in the Berycidae, is shown to be a trachichthyid, and two new species of H. macranthus and H. gephyrognathus, both from the English Chalk, are described. Among the Perciformes, a new genus of Serranidae, Proseanu, is made for a species from the Danian of Sweden, and Bathysoma, from the same horizon and locality, is shown to be a member of the Menidae. The genus previously thought to be a percoid, is shown to be a member of the Tselfatiidae (Beloniformes). It is suggested that Protiacnhus, previously placed in the perciform sub-order Balistoidei, may be related to the Aulostomiformes.

Late Paleozoic Problematic sclerites of hercolepadid affinities

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Hoare ◽  
R. H. Mapes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Anterior Posterior

Disarticulated spines and sclerites of assumed multiple row problematic organisms are present in several Mississippian and Pennsylvanian stratigraphic units. Marginal spines and dorsal spinose sclerites are present. Marginal sclerites are distinguishable into anterior, posterior, and left- and right-handed lateral forms. The new family Aenigmatectidae and genus Aenigmatectus with two new species, A. hystricosus and A. magnacavus, are recognized. Aenigmatectus sp. from the Mississippian is also described. The family is tentatively assigned to the order Hercolepadida Dzik, 1986.

scholarly journals Two new species of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick from China (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 871 ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aihui Yin ◽  
Yanpeng Cai
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Guangxi Province ◽  
Southeastern China ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Study ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

Two new species of Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914a (Gelechioidea, Xyloryctidae) from southeastern China are described: Meleonoma foliiformis Yin, sp. nov. from Guangxi Province and M. projecta Yin, sp. nov. from Fujian Province. Adults and male genitalia are described in detail. A list of the Meleonoma species occurring in China is given. The taxonomic position of Meleonoma has been unstable, and under debate. Nonetheless, it is here tentatively placed in the family Xyloryctidae, following the latest molecular phylogenetic study concerning this genus.

The oldest representatives of the family Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) from the Lowermost Eocene Oise amber (France)

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.G. Kirejtshuk ◽  
A. Nel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Short Review ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Fossil Records ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Eocene Amber

In the paper two new species of the genus Rhyzobius Stephens, 1829 (R. antiquus sp. nov. and R. gratiosus sp. nov.) and one new species of the genus Nephus Mulsant 1846 (N. subcircularis sp. nov. without a certain subgeneric placement) from the Lowermost Eocene amber of Oise are described. A short review of known fossil records of the family Coccinellidae is given.

Three new species, two new genera, and new family Biphragmosagittidae (Сhaetognatha) from Southwest Pacific Ocean

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-173
Author(s):  
A.P. Kassatkina
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Order ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

Resuming published and own data, a revision of classification of Chaetognatha is presented. The family Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905 is given a rank of subclass, Sagittiones, characterised, in particular, by the presence of two pairs of sac-like gelatinous structures or two pairs of fins. Besides the order Aphragmophora Tokioka, 1965, it contains the new order Biphragmosagittiformes ord. nov., which is a unique group of Chaetognatha with an unusual combination of morphological characters: the transverse muscles present in both the trunk and the tail sections of the body; the seminal vesicles simple, without internal complex compartments; the presence of two pairs of lateral fins. The only family assigned to the new order, Biphragmosagittidae fam. nov., contains two genera. Diagnoses of the two new genera, Biphragmosagitta gen. nov. (type species B. tarasovi sp. nov. and B. angusticephala sp. nov.) and Biphragmofastigata gen. nov. (type species B. fastigata sp. nov.), detailed descriptions and pictures of the three new species are presented.

Two new species of the genus Syngastes (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tegastidae) from South Korea

Crustaceana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Tae Won Jung ◽  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Tae Won Jung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Korea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Exopodal Segment ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Korean Waters ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Almost All

Herein two new species of the genusSyngastesMonard, 1924 are described from South Korea, with detailed descriptions and illustrations. Both new copepods,Syngastesmulticavussp. nov. andS. pseudofoveatussp. nov., have two inner setae on the first exopodal segment of P2 and P3.Syngastesmulticavussp. nov. most closely resemblesS. gibbosusBartsch, 1999 reported from Australia, as they both have a five-segmented antennule in the female. However,Syngastesmulticavussp. nov. has a rounded body outline instead of the gibbose outline observed inS. gibbosus.Syngastespseudofoveatussp. nov. resemblesS. foveatusBartsch, 1994 in almost all aspects. However, they differ clearly in the number of setae on the first exopodal segment of P2 and P3. We also provide a key to species of the genusSyngastesworldwide. The present study is the first record of the family Tegastidae in Korean waters.

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