First description of the tadpole of Kurixalus baliogaster (Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam, with comments on reproductive biology

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5039 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-148
Author(s):  
IVAN I. KROPACHEV ◽  
ANNA B. VASSILIEVA ◽  
NIKOLAI L. ORLOV ◽  
EVGENY M. RYBALTOVSKY ◽  
TAO THIEN NGUYEN
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Reproductive Biology ◽  
Southern China ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Species Description ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
South And Southeast Asia

To date, 20 species of Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois have been described, and all of these species are distributed throughout South and Southeast Asia, from eastern India, throughout Myanmar and the mountainous regions of southern China, to Indochina, western and northern peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines (Frost 2021). Descriptions of the tadpoles of only 6 species have been published: K. berylliniris and K. wangi Wu, Huang, Tsai, Li, Jhang, & Wu (Wu et al. 2016); K. eiffingeri (Boettger) (Kuramoto & Wang 1987); K. idiootocus (Kuramoto & Wang) (Kuramoto & Wang 1987); K. cf. verrucosus (Boulenger) (Ziegler & Vences 2002), and Kurixalus yangi Yu, Hui, Rao, & Yang (Humtsoe et al. 2020). A description of the tadpoles of K. baliogaster (Inger, Orlov, & Darevsky) is also given in the species description (Inger et al. 1999), but described larvae are “assigned tentatively to this species” in the published text. Additional studies on the identification of the conspecificity of the described tadpoles with K. baliogaster have not been conducted. Based on the much larger size of the tadpole body (TL up to 40.3 mm), as well as the labial tooth row formula 6(2–6)/5(1) given by Inger et al. (1999), we concluded that these described tadpoles cannot be larval K. baliogaster and most likely belong to some other species of rhacophorid frogs.  

What drives consumer demand for rice fragrance? Evidence from South and Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (11) ◽  
pp. 3473-3498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subir Bairagi ◽  
Matty Demont ◽  
Marie Claire Custodio ◽  
Jhoanne Ynion
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Choice Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Asian Consumers

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze geographic heterogeneity of consumer preferences for intrinsic quality attributes of rice in South and Southeast Asia and the drivers of demand for these attributes, with a particular focus on rice fragrance and the role of gender.Design/methodology/approachStated-preference surveys were conducted with 4,231 urban and rural consumers in 37 cities across seven countries (Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) during 2013–2014 and analyzed through a rank-ordered logistic regression with incomplete ranking choice data.FindingsPreferences for rice attributes are found to be significantly heterogeneous among consumers in South and Southeast Asia. Urban Thai consumers tend to prioritize appearance and cooking characteristics over taste and nutritional benefits, relative to all other surveyed consumers. In contrast with South Asian consumers, Southeast Asian consumers have largely adopted Thai preferences for rice texture and fragrance, a trend that was earlier coined “Jasminization.” We find that demand for rice fragrance is mainly driven by women, educated consumers, large families, families spending a lower share of their food expenditures on rice, and consumers in Southeast Asia (particularly the Philippines and Cambodia).Originality/valueLittle is known about geographic heterogeneity, drivers, and the role of gender in demand for rice fragrance. This paper fills these knowledge gaps. Our findings suggest that the more women are empowered in grocery decision-making, the more demand for aromatic rice is expected to rise. These insights can assist market-driven and gender-responsive rice breeding programs in simultaneously enhancing rice farmers' livelihoods and gender equity.

New species of pinnotherid crabs from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4816 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHANE T. AHYONG ◽  
PETER K.L. NG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
First Time ◽  
Pacific Species

Three new Indo-West Pacific species of pinnotherid crabs are described, one each of Arcotheres, Buergeres and Nepinnotheres. Arcotheres pollus, described from Paway Island, Mergui Archipelago, is most similar to A. boninensis (Stimpson, 1858), A. pernicola (Bürger, 1895) and A. purpureus (Alcock, 1900), sharing a transversely ovate carapace and long, slender, almost styliform dactyli of P4 and 5 that are about twice the length of those of P2 and 3. Buergeres choprai, described from Papua New Guinea, is most similar to B. deccanesis (Chopra, 1931) from eastern India but differentiated by segment proportions and setation of the walking legs. Buergeres tenuipes (Bürger, 1895) is synonymised with B. ortmanni (Bürger, 1895), which is also reported for the first time from Indonesia. A male of an undetermined species of Buergeres from the Philippines, possibly B. ortmanni, is figured and described, documenting the gonopod morphology in Buergeres for the first time. A key to the species of Buergeres based on females is provided. Nepinnotheres fulvia sp. nov. is also described from Papua New Guinea, and resembles N. cardii (Bürger, 1895) from the Philippines and Malaysia but can be distinguished by features of the chelipeds and maxilliped 3. 

scholarly journals A taxonomic revision of taxa in Styrax series Cyrta (Styracaceae) with valvate corollas

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-641
Author(s):  
Gary Li ◽  
Peter W. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Southern China ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
As Species ◽  
Conservation Assessments ◽  
Conservation Concern

Several taxonomic treatments of Styrax (Styracaceae) exist in regional floras of Asia, but the Asian species of the genus have not been comprehensively revised since 1907. A treatment of the Asian taxa of S. series Cyrta with imbricate floral aestivation was accomplished in 2003. To complete the taxonomic revision of S. series Cyrta, we conducted a taxonomic revision of the species of the series with valvate aestivation of the corolla lobes. Our revision comprises 11 species with a combined distribution from eastern India through southern China and Malesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, although the group is absent from the Philippines. We resurrected S. bracteolatus, S. rubifolius, and S. warburgii as species to be recognized, and we corrected the misapplication of S. finlaysonianus, previously used for a species in S. series Benzoin. Styrax finlaysonianus and S. warburgii are segregated from the broader concept of S. agrestis recognized in prior treatments. The circumscriptions of the heretofore poorly delimited species S. confusus, S. faberi, and S. fortunei are clarified and their possible introgressants discussed. We observed unique combinations of characters in some problematic specimens whose taxonomic status remains unresolved because only single specimens with either flowers or fruits were available; at least some of these may represent undescribed species. Lectotypes are designated for Cyrta agrestis, S. argyi, S. bracteolatus, S. calvescens, S. casearifolius, S. confusus var. microphyllus, S. dasyanthus, S. dasyanthus var. cinerascens, S. faberi, S. finlaysonianus, S. formosanus, S. fortunei, S. fukienensis, S. henryi, S. henryi var. microcalyx, S. iopilinus, S. philadelphoides, S. rostratus, S. rubifolius, S. serrulatus var. agrestis, and S. virgatus. A neotype is designated for S. warburgii. Keys, descriptions, distribution maps, and conservation assessments are provided for all species. Styrax agrestis, S. bracteolatus, and S. rubifolius are rare endemics of conservation concern, with highly restricted distributions. 

Consultative Committee on Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-310
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Consultative Committee ◽  
Member States ◽  
South And Southeast Asia

The sixth meeting of the Consultative Committee on Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia took place at Ottawa from September 20 to October 9, 1955. Present at the meeting were representatives of the member states, and observers from Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand; these latter three countries were accepted as full members of the Consultative Committee during the meeting, raising the membership to seventeen.

The Hepu Han tombs and the maritime Silk Road of the Han Dynasty

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (342) ◽  
pp. 1229-1243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiong Zhaoming
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Other ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
The Status ◽  
Trading Network

The extensive cemetery at Hepu in southern China represents one of the best-preserved tomb complexes of the Han period. It contains many elaborate tombs with exotic luxury materials that testify to the status of Hepu as the home port of the maritime Silk Road. This trading network carried Chinese products (notably silks) by sea to kingdoms and communities of South and Southeast Asia, and was the southern counterpart to the more famous overland Silk Road through Central Asia. The materials found in the Hepu tombs demonstrate the range and geography of contacts, including semi-precious beads from India and ceramics from the Parthian empire. This far-flung trade network had major impacts both on southern China and on the other regions that it connected.

“Anti-Communism” in Japanese-Philippine Relations during the 1930s

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant K. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The Pacific

This paper derives from a larger study of the nature of Japan's relations with colonial South and Southeast Asia in the period between the Russo-Japanese War and the Pacific War. By means of a detailed examination of a single facet of Japanese-Philippine relations, it is hoped that a greater insight may be gained into the often convolute processes of the interactions between, on the one hand, the dominant Asian power of the inter-war period, and on the other hand, colonial entities and personalities still beholden to Western European or North American rulers. However, two caveats need to be put forward about this essay: (1) the case of the Philippines was unique in colonial Asia since the United States had fully committed itself to a policy of withdrawal, thus facilitating contacts between the local ruling elite and Japanese diplomats; (2) despite pre-war and wartime propaganda to the contrary, the principal concern of Japan in all its dealings with colonial South and Southeast Asia before the Pacific War was economic. In the prior instance, therefore, the paragraphs that follow will demonstrate an apparently remarkable degree of freedom of action on the part of the Filipinos in authority under the Commonwealth Administration (1935–46) in spite of the continuing legal responsibility of the United States for Philippine foreign affairs under the provisions of the Tydings-McDuffie (Independence) Act of 1934. The second caveat will be evidenced by the unstinting and continuous attention of Japanese diplomats to the development of ever closer economic ties between the Philippines and Japan.

Book reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 167 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-598
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Its Region ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
South And Southeast Asia

Esther Captain en Guno Jones, Oorlogserfgoed overzee: De erfenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Aruba, Curaçao, Indonesië en Suriname (Fridus Stijlen) Cynthia Chou, The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia: The inalienable gift of territory (Timothy P. Barnard) Marshall Clark, Maskulinitas: Culture, gender and politics in Indonesia (Will Derks) Matthew Isaac Cohen, Performing otherness: Java and Bali on international stages, 1905-1952 (Suryadi) Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning and Peter Post (eds), Chinese Indonesians and regime change (Dewi Anggraeni) Wim van den Doel, Zo ver de wereld strekt: De geschiedenis van Nederland overzee vanaf 1800 (Hans Hägerdal) Michael Feener and Terenjit Sevea (eds), Islamic connections: Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia (Michael Laffan) R. Michael Feener, Muslim legal thought in Modern Indonesia (Stijn Cornelis van Huis) Zane Goebel, Language, migration, and identity: Neighbourhood talk in Indonesia (Sheri Lynn Gibbings) Lizzy van Leeuwen, Lost in mall: An ethnography of middle-class Jakarta in the 1990s (Andy Fuller) Alfred W. McCoy, Policing America’s empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state (Florentino Rodao) Frans H. Peters, Vervlogen verwachtingen: De teloorgang van Nieuw-Guinea in 1961-1962 (Jaap Timmer) Christina Schwenkel, The American war in contemporary Vietnam: Transnational remembrance and representation (Hans Hägerdal) Yeoh Seng Guan, Loh Wei Leng, Khoo Salma Nasution and Neil Khor, Penang and its region: The story of an Asian entrepôt (David Kloos)

scholarly journals Green public spaces in the cities of South and Southeast Asia. Protecting needs towards sustainable well-being

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlyne Sahakian ◽  
Manisha Anantharaman ◽  
Antonietta Di Giulio ◽  
Czarina Saloma ◽  
Dunfu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Sampling Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Metro Manila

The significance of green public spaces is well documented in relation to social inclusiveness, human health, and biodiversity, yet how green public spaces achieve what Gough (2017) has termed ‘sustainable wellbeing’ is less understood. This contribution presents preliminary results from a study of green public spaces in four mega-cities of South and Southeast Asia: Chennai (Republic of India), Metro Manila (Republic of the Philippines), Singapore, and Shanghai (People’s Republic of China), cities that have climates ranging from tropical, to subtropical and temperate. The conceptual framework brings together social practice theories with human development theories, methodological implications for the study of park usage, and Protected Needs. This study sets out to understand how parks satisfy human needs by uncovering practices in relation to activities and material arrangements. Central to the research design and sampling strategy is a desire to understand park-related practices in all of their diversity, and accounting for how different activities are carried out by diverse groups of people. The paper presents exemplary results showing that parks provide a space in which a multitude of needs are satisfied, and that parks cannot be substituted by other settings such as commercialized spaces. The paper will conclude by discussing tensions between types of park usage, and in relation to commercial encroachments on public space.

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