Holotypes for three Caspian gastropods of the family Hydrobiidae tracked down: description and taxonomic interpretations

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5027 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-416
Author(s):  
VITALIY V. ANISTRATENKO ◽  
TATIANA YA. SITNIKOVA ◽  
OLGA YU. ANISTRATENKO
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Position ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Taxonomic Rank ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Third ◽  
Distribution Ranges ◽  
The Family ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Type series of three nominal taxa of the hydrobiid gastropods inhabiting the Caspian Sea were traced recently in the uncatalogued part of the malacological collection of the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg. Images of the holotypes and some paratypes of Pyrgula isseli Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1969, P. sowinskyi Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1969 and P. derzhavini Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1969 are presented. The first two species belong to the genus Clathrocaspia (subfamily Caspiinae) and P. sowinskyi is considered a junior synonym of C. pallasii (Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1887). The attribution of the third species, P. derzhavini, to Laevicaspia (Pyrgulinae) is confirmed based on the newly discovered type material. Based on the additional information we update ecological data and distribution ranges of the species, provide comments on their nomenclature, systematic position and taxonomic rank.  

scholarly journals Comparative Study of Antennal Sensilla of Corixidae and Micronectidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Corixoidea)

Insects ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 734
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Nowińska ◽  
Ping-ping Chen ◽  
Jolanta Brożek
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Antennal Sensilla ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sensilla Trichodea ◽  
The Family ◽  
Distributional Patterns ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Eleven Species

The goal of this study was to analyze the types and distributional patterns of sensilla in Corixoidea, which is part of the approach to the phylogeny study of Nepomorpha, based on the morphological characters of sensilla. This paper presents the results of the study, with the use of a scanning electron microscope (SEM), on the antennae of species from the families Corixidae and Micronectidae. The antennal sensilla of eleven species from Corixidae and two species from Micronectidae were studied. Five main types of sensilla with several subtypes of sensilla trichodea were found and described. The study has shown that the family Corixidae has a strong uniformity when it comes to antennal sensilla (similar patterns of sensilla trichodea and basiconica), and a similarity to the types and distributions of sensilla in two species of the family Micronectidae. However, significant differences between the families were also discovered (differences in sensilla presence on the first and second antennomeres, lack of sensilla coeloconica on the third antennomere in Micronectidae), which leads to a supportive conclusion of the systematic position of Micronectidae as a family.

Taxonomic notes on the genus Gonycentrum Bergroth (Hemiptera: Tingidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1364 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
BARBARA LIS ◽  
JERZY A. LIS
Keyword(s):  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Buenos Aires Province ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fossil Genus

The monotypic phatnomatine genus Pampacader (with its single species P. cicchinoi) was recently described from Argentina (Carpintero & Montemayor 2005) as the first genus of the tribe Phatnomatini recorded from Buenos Aires province and the third (after Phatnoma Fieber and Eocader Drake & Hambelton) known from Argentina. The genus was then soon compared with Ambarcader Perrichot, Nel, Guilbert & Néraudeau, described from the Lower Cretaceous amber of France, in a discussion of the systematic position of this new fossil genus within the family (Perrichot et al. 2006).

scholarly journals S. GMELIN’S TRAVEL TO THE EASTERN TRANSCAUCASIA AND NORTHERN REGIONS OF IRAN

2018 ◽  
pp. 76-87
Author(s):  
GOHAR MKHITARYAN
Keyword(s):  
Caspian Sea ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
The People ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Imperial Academy ◽  
Material Values ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

During the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) the expedition organized by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences building in Saint Petersburg, in the person of S. Gmelin, for research purposes explored the western shores of the Caspian Sea and the northern regions of Iran. As a result of their research, the ethnography, history and the materials on the customs of the people of these territories are accepted as public value, the spiritual and material values are revealed as well. During the study of the northern provinces of Iran and the Eastern Transcaucasia the expedition had to overcome many obstacles by putting S. Gmelin’s life on the line.

scholarly journals Squamanitaceae and Three New Species of Squamanita Parasitic on Amanita Basidiomes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Wei Liu ◽  
Zai-Wei Ge ◽  
Egon Horak ◽  
Alfredo Vizzini ◽  
Roy. E. Halling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Fungal Species ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Data Line ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

Abstract The systematic position of the enigmatic genus Squamanita (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) is largely unknown. Together with Cystoderma and Phaeolepiota, they were categorized as belonging in the tribe Cystodermateae. In this study, with newly generated sequences of the type species of the genus Squamanita, namely S. schreieri, and sequences of a few species of Cystodermateae, the phylogeny of this “tribe” is reinvestigated with a concatenated (28S-5.8S-18S) dataset. Our study reveals that Squamanita and Phaeolepiota-Cystoderma are indeed sister groups with moderate statistic support (MLBS/PP = 80/1), and Squamanita is a monophyletic clade with highly statistic support (MLBS/PP = 92/1). The family name Squamanitaceae is resurrected and emended to accommodate the three genera. Meanwhile, another concatenated (ITS-28S-18S) dataset is used to investigate the phylogenetic relationship and species delimitation in Squamanita. Our data indicated that “S. umbonata” from North America, Europe, East Asia, and Central America harbors a complex of species, and species of Squamanita can parasitize species of Amanita, besides other fungal species. Squamanita mira parasitizes A. kitamagotake (A. sect. Caesareae), while S. orientalis and S. sororcula are parasites of species belonging to the A. sepiacea complex (A. sect. Validae). “Squamanita umbonata” from Italy occurs on A. excelsa (A. sect. Validae). Three new species of Squamanita from East Asia, viz. S. mira, S. orientalis and S. sororcula are documented with morphological, multi-genes phylogenetic, ecological data, line drawings, and photographs and compared with similar species.

The Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth Huntington

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Family ◽  
Weather Changes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The climate work of the unrestrained and undisciplined geographic determinist, eugenicist, and popular writer Ellsworth Huntington (1876–1947) can be categorized into three large themes: the influence of weather and weather changes on workers and students, the influence of climate on world civilizations, and the influence of solar variations on climate change. The first represented a sort of meteorological Taylorism, the second a reprise of enlightenment determinism, and the third a simplistic and wholly unrealistic pseudoscientific theory. Why, then, should we bother with him? One answer was provided by the historian Arnold Toynbee, who was “enormously influenced” by Huntington’s ideas about the relation between human beings and their physical environments. It was Toynbee’s opinion that “[s]tudents of human affairs may agree or disagree with Huntington, but in either case they will be influenced by him, so it is better that they should be aware of him.” Although Huntington’s thought was indeed influential in its time, since then his racial bias and crude determinisms have been largely rejected. Nonetheless, his categorical errors seem destined to be repeated by those who make overly dramatic claims for weather and climatic influences. Ellsworth Huntington was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on September 16, 1876, the third child and eldest son of Henry Strong Huntington, a Congregationalist minister, and Mary Lawrence Herbert. The Huntingtons were proud of their Puritan ancestry, which they traced to 1633. Following the call of the ministry, the family moved to Gorham, Maine, in 1877 and then in 1889 to Milton, Massachusetts, a wealthy suburb of Boston. Ellsworth attended the public high school, where he excelled in athletics and academics. His biographers have called him reclusive, but his brother suggested that perhaps he was humble rather than shy. Huntington passed the Harvard entrance examinations, but family finances precluded his enrollment there. Instead, he attended Beloit College, where he boarded with a maternal aunt, from 1893 to 1897. Following in the footsteps of T. C. Chamberlin (Beloit 1866), Huntington studied both classics and geology, publishing his first article, on local road-making materials, in the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences.

scholarly journals New species of caddisflies with bipectinate antennae from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Trichoptera: Odontoceratidae, Calamoceratidae)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfried Wichard ◽  
Marianne Espeland ◽  
Patrick Müller ◽  
Bo Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Fossil Genus

Three new fossil species from Burmese amber are described, one clearly in family Calamoceratidae, the other two in the highly variable family Odontoceridae. The family Odontoceridae contains 18 disparate genera, but there are no good diagnostic characters, which makes it difficult to place fossil taxa in this family. We here offer a revised diagnosis for the family, highlighting the lack of good diagnostic characters, and the need to use sets of characters to place (extinct) taxa in this family. On this taxonomic basis we describe two new species in the hitherto monotypic fossil genus Palaeopsilotreta Wichard & Wang, 2017 (Odontoceridae), Palaeopsilotreta burmanica sp. nov. and P. cretacea sp. nov., redescribe the type species based on additional information, and describe features of the female, based on two specimens, one of which is embedded adjacent to a male identified as P. xiai. Males of Palaeopsilotreta bear bipectinate antennae; the antennae of the females are simple and filiform. Similarly, bipectinate antennae are present in the third species we describe, Bipectinata orientalis gen. et sp. nov., which otherwise lacks the character combinations associated with the Odontoceridae, but clearly can be assigned to the family Calamoceratidae.

scholarly journals New genus and new species of the subfamily Pharsalinae (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae) from Eastern Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 323 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-586
Author(s):  
V.M. Gnezdilov
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
The State ◽  
Single Female ◽  
The Third ◽  
Eastern Brazil ◽  
The Family

Ricamela lata gen. et sp. nov. is described from the state of Bahia in Brazil based on a single female from L. Melichar’s collection in the Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic. The new genus belongs to the subfamily Pharsalinae Gnezdilov of the family Ricaniidae Amyot et Serville and represents the third genus of this group. The systematic position of the American Ricaniidae are discussed. A key to genera of Pharsalinae is given.

Zakat as a Measure of Social Justice in Islamic Finance : An Accountant’s Overview

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranam Dhar
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Additional Amount ◽  
Important Form

Zakat is an important form of religiously mandated charity under Islam. It is the third pillar of Islam. The giving of Zakat is important for Muslims, as this leads to purification of their wealth from all sins. This paper examines the role of Zakat as an instrument of social justice and poverty eradication in society. Each Muslim calculates his or her own Zakat individually. Generally, this involves the payment each year of two and a half percent of one's capital, after the needs of the family have been met. One can donate additional amount as an act of voluntary charity but Zakat is fundamental to every Muslim. Zakat is the Islamic contribution to social justice: those who have to give charity share the benefit of their prosperity to those who have fallen short. This is the Islamic approach to remove greed and envy and to purify one's soul based on good intentions. This is the institution of Zakat in Islam. The institution of Zakat serves to eradicate poverty in the community and uphold the light of Islam. Allah says “whatever is paid as Zakat for the sake of Allah shall be rewarded in manifolds”.

ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКАЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ СТАТИСТИЧЕСКИХ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙ ЗАПАДНОЙ СИБИРИ ВО ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЕ XIX – НАЧАЛЕ XX ВВ. КАК ЭЛЕМЕНТ ПОПУЛЯРИЗАЦИИ ЗНАНИЙ О РЕГИОНЕ// Academy Journal No.6(18), 2019/ Chief Editors Susan Belih & Jaak Järv /OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences) & Estonian Academy of Sciences. Tallinn, Estonia. 09.06.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - PP. 19-31 (ISBN:9781073495887, ISSN 1736-7530 (electronic)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Виталий Александрович Скопа
Keyword(s):  
Western Siberia ◽  
European Academy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Periodicals

В статье рассматривается издательская деятельность статистических учреждений Западной Сибири во второй половине XIX – начале XX в. Выделены и систематизированы группы изданий. Первую группу изданий представляли «Отчеты», «Протоколы» и «Журналы» заседаний центров статистического учета; вторую - «Обзоры», которые прилагались к ежегодному всеподданнейшему отчету губернатора; третью группу- «Губернские и областные ведомости»; четвертую - «Памятные книжки»; пятую - научные периодические издания; шестую – отдельные самостоятельные публикации по отраслям статистического учета региона.The article discusses the publishing activities of statistical institutions in Western Siberia in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries. Selected and systematized groups of publications. The first group of publications was presented by “Reports”, “Protocols” and “Journals” of meetings of statistical accounting centers; the second is the “Reviews”, which were attached to the Governor’s annual, all-submitted report; the third group- "Provincial and regional statements"; the fourth is “Memorable Books”; fifth - scientific periodicals; the sixth one is separate independent publications on branches of statistical accounting of the region.

On the type locality of the steppe ribbon racer, Psammophis lineolatus (Brandt, 1838) (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 324 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-272
Author(s):  
I.V. Doronin ◽  
T.N. Dujsebayeva ◽  
K.M. Akhmedenov ◽  
A.G. Bakiev ◽  
K.N. Plakhov
Keyword(s):  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Original Species ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Made In

The article specifies the type locality of the Steppe Ribbon Racer. The holotype Coluber (Taphrometopon) lineolatus Brandt, 1838 is stored in the reptile collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZISP No 2042). Literature sources provide different information about the type locality. A mistake has been made in the title of the work with the original species description: the western coast of the sea was indicated instead of the eastern one. The place of capture was indicated as “M. Caspium” (Caspian Sea) on the label and in the reptile inventory book of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. The specimen was sent to the museum by G.S. Karelin. The “1842” indicated on the labels and in the inventory book cannot be the year of capture of the type specimen, just as the “1837” indicated by A.M. Nikolsky. In 1837, Karelin was in Saint Petersburg and in 1842 in Siberia. Most likely, 1837 is the year when the collection arrived at the Museum, and 1842 is the year when the information about the specimen was recorded in the inventory book (catalog) of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. In our opinion, the holotype was caught in 1932. From Karelin’s travel notes of the expedition to the Caspian Sea in 1832, follows that the snake was recorded in two regions adjacent to the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea – Ungoza Mountain (“Mangyshlak Mountains”) and site of the Western Chink of Ustyurt between Zhamanairakty and Kyzyltas Mountains (inclusive) on the northeast coast of Kaydak Sor (“Misty Mountains”). In our article, Karelin’s route to the northeastern coast of the Caspian Sea in 1832 and photographs of these localities are given. The type locality of Psammophis lineolatus (Brandt, 1838) should be restricted to the Mangystau Region of the Kazakhstan: Ungoza Mountain south of Sarytash Gulf, Mangystau (Mangyshlak) Penninsula (44°26´ N, 51°12´ E).

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