Revisiting the type of Cespitularia stolonifera Gohar, 1938 leads to the description of a new genus and a species of the family Xeniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea)

Because of the problematical identity and status of the type of the xeniid soft coral genus Cespitularia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1850, the species C. stolonifera Gohar, 1938 is revised. Examination of the type colonies has led to the establishment of the new genus Unomia gen. n. which is described and depicted. This genus features a stalk, commonly divided into branches featuring a diffuse polypiferous part consisting of distal clustered polyps and proximal individual ones on the stalk or the basal membranous part of the colonies. The sclerites are ellipsoid platelets composed of dendritic calcite rods whose tips are distinct on the surface of the platelets. Freshly collected material from Venezuelan reefs where the species is invasive was subjected to molecular phylogenetic analysis, the results of which substantiate the taxonomic assignment of the new genus under U. stolonifera comb. n. A new species, U. complanatis, from Japan and Green Island (Taiwan) is described and further illustrates the extent of the interspecific morphological variation within the genus. The results reveal that the biogeographic distribution of Unomia gen. n. includes Pacific Ocean reefs in addition to the previously reported invaded Caribbean reefs.

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Evaluating the genus Cespitularia MilneEdwards & Haime, 1850 with descriptions of new genera of the family Xeniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea)

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.754.23368 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 754 ◽

pp. 63-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Yehuda Benayahu ◽

Leen P. van Ofwegen ◽

Catherine S. McFadden

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Genus ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Genera ◽

Taxonomic Assignment ◽

The Family ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

Generic Position

Several species of the family Xeniidae, previously assigned to the genus Cespitularia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 are revised. Based on the problematical identity and status of the type of this genus, it became apparent that the literature has introduced misperceptions concerning its diagnosis. A consequent examination of the type colonies of Cespitularia coerulea May, 1898 has led to the establishment of the new genus Conglomeratuscleragen. n. and similarly to the assignment of Cespitularia simplex Thomson & Dean, 1931 to the new genus, Caementabundagen. n. Both new genera are described and depicted and both feature unique sclerite morphology, further highlighting the importance of sclerite microstructure for generic position among Xeniidae. Freshly collected material was subjected to molecular phylogenetic analysis, whose results substantiated the taxonomic assignment of the new genera, as well as the synonymies of several others.

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A new species of Pilarella (Copepoda, Calanoida, Arietellidae) from the hyperbenthic layer of Japan, with a molecular phylogenetic analysis of some representative genera of the Arietellidae

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.1038.63170 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1038 ◽

pp. 179-194

Author(s):

Sota Komeda ◽

Kenta Adachi ◽

Susumu Ohtsuka

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

Posterior Border ◽

The Third ◽

The Family ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

New Diagnosis ◽

Caudal Rami ◽

A New Species

A new species of the continental shelf hyperbenthic genus Pilarella is described, the first from the Indo-Pacific. This is the second species of Pilarella known, and the first description of a male in the genus. The new species is easily distinguished from other species of Pilarella (P. longicornis) based on: (1) short caudal rami, approximately 1.5 times longer than wide; (2) 2 setae on the mandibular endopod; (3) 6 setae on the maxillular coxal epipodite; and (4) in the female, a short left antennule reaching the posterior border of the genital double-somite. The new diagnosis of Pilarella differs from Metacalanus in the separation of ancestral segments IX–XII and XIV–XV of the antennule, and the presence of 5–6 setae on the maxillular praecoxal arthrite. Pilarella is also separated from Metacalanalis based on the absence of a seta on the third ancestral segment of the antennary exopod, the symmetry of legs 1–3, the presence of a medial basal seta on the female leg 5, and 2 lateral exopodal spines on the female leg 5. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of some representative genera of the family Arietellidae, including the present new species, recovers two arietellid clades (Metacalanus- and Arietellus-clades) as in previous studies. Dichotomous keys for the genera of Arietellidae and the species of Pilarella are included.

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The first representatives of the millipede family Glomeridellidae (Diplopoda, Glomerida) recorded from China and Indochina

ZooKeys ◽

10.3897/zookeys.954.54694 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 954 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Weixin Liu ◽

Sergei Golovatch

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Dna Barcoding ◽

Southern China ◽

Mitochondrial Gene ◽

Guizhou Province ◽

The Family ◽

Structural Details ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

A New Species

A new species of glomeridellid millipede is described from Guizhou Province, southern China: Tonkinomeris huzhengkunisp. nov. This new epigean species differs very clearly in many structural details, being sufficiently distinct morphologically and disjunct geographically from T. napoensis Nguyen, Sierwald & Marek, 2019, the type and sole species of Tonkinomeris Nguyen, Sierwald & Marek, 2019, which was described recently from northern Vietnam. The genus Tonkinomeris is formally relegated from Glomeridae and assigned to the family Glomeridellidae, which has hitherto been considered strictly Euro-Mediterranean in distribution and is thus new to the diplopod faunas of China and Indochina. Tonkinomeris is re-diagnosed and shown to have perhaps the basalmost position in the family Glomeridellidae. Its relationships are discussed, both morphological and zoogeographical, within and outside the Glomeridellidae, which can now be considered as relict and basically Oriental in origin. Because of the still highly limited array of DNA-barcoding sequences of the COI mitochondrial gene available in the GenBank, the first molecular phylogenetic analysis of Glomerida attempted here shows our phylogram to be too deficient to consider meaningful.

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Pinnule-less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo-Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1400.2 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1400 (1) ◽

pp. 27 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

PHILP ALDERSLADE ◽

CATHERINE S. McFADDEN

Keyword(s):

New Genus ◽

Soft Coral ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Mitochondrial Genes ◽

New Combination ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Coral Genus ◽

The Family ◽

Lateral Margins ◽

Number Of Authors

Clavularia amboinensis Burchardt, a species described as possessing simple, pinnule-less tentacles (a fact refuted by later authors) is confirmed to be as described and is transferred as a new combination to Acrossota Bourne — a genus dismissed until now by a number of authors. The species is compared to recently collected material with live photographs. A second new genus and species, Knopia octocontacanalis, is also described. This taxon resembles Acrossota in general form, but has tentacles where the pinnules appear as though they are fused side to side along the tentacles’ lateral margins. Preliminary phylogenetic analyses of two mitochondrial genes support placement of Knopia in Clavulariidae and retention of genus Acrossota in Bourne’s unrecognised family Acrossotidae.

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Isleria, a new genus of antwren (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3195.1.5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3195 (1) ◽

pp. 61 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

GUSTAVO A. BRAVO ◽

R. TERRY CHESSER ◽

ROBB T. BRUMFIELD

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Sister Group ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

The Family ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic

A comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analysis of the family Thamnophilidae indicated that the genus Myrmotherula is not monophyletic. The clade composed of M. guttata and M. hauxwelli is only distantly related to other members of the genus and should be removed from Myrmotherula. The phenotypic distinctiveness of the clade argues against merging it with its sister group Thamnomanes and no generic name is available for the guttata-hauxwelli clade. Consequently, we describe the genus Isleria for these two species, and designate Myrmothera guttata as its type species.

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Neochloroglyphica, a new genus of Geometrinae from China (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4571 (1) ◽

pp. 99

Author(s):

HONGXIANG HAN ◽

PEDER SKOU ◽

RUI CHENG

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Nuclear Genes ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

A New Species

Neochloroglyphica gen. nov. and its type species N. perbella sp. nov. are described from Yunnan, China. Morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analysis, based on one mitochondrial and three nuclear genes, support the hypothesis that Neochloroglyphica is a member of the tribe Neohipparchini, and that it is a sister genus to Chloroglyphica. Morphological characters, including those of the genitalia, are figured and compared with related genera, especially Chloroglyphica, Neohipparchus and Chlororithra. Diagnoses for the genus and the species are provided and illustrations of external features and genitalia are presented.

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Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals the New Genus Hemisphaericaspora of the Family Debaryomycetaceae

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0103737 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. e103737 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fengli Hui ◽

Yongcheng Ren ◽

Liang Chen ◽

Ying Li ◽

Lin Zhang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Genus ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

The Family ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic

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A new species of Elixia (Umbilicariales) from Greece

The Lichenologist ◽

10.1017/s0024282910000058 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 365-371

Author(s):

Toby SPRIBILLE ◽

H. Thorsten LUMBSCH

Keyword(s):

Phylogenetic Analysis ◽

New Species ◽

New Hampshire ◽

Small Subunit ◽

Eastern North America ◽

Monotypic Genus ◽

The Third ◽

The Family ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

A New Species

AbstractElixia cretica T. Sprib. & Lumbsch is described as a new species from the mountains of western Crete. The second member of the previously monotypic genus and only the third member of the family Elixiaceae, it is distinguished by its surficial thallus, larger ascospores and corticolous habit. Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on a sequence of mitochondrial small subunit DNA confirms the position of the new species. We also report E. flexella from New Hampshire (USA) as new to eastern North America.

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