The odd one in: re-diagnosis and phylogenetic placement of the Assam Day Gecko, Cnemaspis assamensis Das & Sengupta 2000 (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5048 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-593
Author(s):  
SHRUTI SENGUPTA ◽  
JAYADITYA PURAKAYASTA ◽  
NITESH ANANDAN ◽  
MADHURIMA DAS ◽  
KIN ONN CHAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Sister Taxon ◽  
Morphological Parameters ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
New Information ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Genetic Assessment

Herein we provide new information on Cnemaspis assamensis, the only species of Cnemaspis known from north-eastern India.  Based on five new samples, morphological parameters are described. The species was found to have pre-cloacal and femoral pores, not accounted for in the original description. Genetic assessment of the species was made using a 914 bp fragment of the ND2 mitochondrial gene and the species was recovered as the sister taxon of the C. podihuna clade from Sri Lanka.  

scholarly journals Redescription and lectotype designation of Gynaikothrips microchaetus Ananthakrishnan & Jagadish (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4701 (6) ◽  
pp. 588-590
Author(s):  
M. SHYAM ◽  
T.H. JOHNSON ◽  
R. R. RACHANA ◽  
R. VARATHARAJAN ◽  
L.A. MOUND
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Tergite ◽  
Original Description ◽  
The Other ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Type Material ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Tiger Reserve ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Microscope Slides

Gynaikothrips microchaetus Ananthakrishnan and Jagadish (1969) was described from Dharwar in Karnataka, and until now has been known only from southern India (Ananthakrishnan & Sen 1980). The original description was based on an unspecified number of syntypes, with no depositary indicated. However, one of the authors (R. Varatharajan) acquired four slides that are labelled by Ananthakrishnan as this species and bear the same collection details as given in the original description. These are assumed to be syntypes, and one female is here designated as lectotype. The other three slides are of males and are considered as paralectotypes. Further, during extensive surveys for thrips at Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram (23.320 N 92.130 E) and Manipur University campus (24.820 N 93.900 E) during 2014–18, we have collected both sexes of this species from the leaves of Ficus curtipes. The freshly collected specimens were mounted onto microscope slides in Canada balsam, and identified using the keys provided by Ananthakrishnan and Sen (1980). Hence, the species is illustrated and re-described with additional features, based on the type material together with freshly collected specimens from north eastern India, Manipur and Mizoram. The following abbreviations are used for pronotal setae: am—anteromarginals; aa—anteroangulars; pa—posteroangulars; ml—midlaterals; po—postocular; epim—epimerals; abdominal tergite IX setae S1, S2 & S3—setal pairs I, II and III respectively (S1 nearest the mid-line). 

scholarly journals Contribution to the knowledge of the rare “Famatina tuco-tuco”, Ctenomys famosus Thomas 1920 (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)

Mammalia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
R. Tatiana Sánchez ◽  
H. Ivanna Tomasco ◽  
M. Mónica Díaz ◽  
Rubén M. Barquez
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Information ◽  
Phylogenetic Hypotheses ◽  
La Rioja ◽  
Unpublished Information

AbstractCtenomys famosusis one of the less known species of the genus, both in systematic and in phylogenetic aspects, as well as in its distribution and natural history. So far the only known specimens of this species are those from the type series, collected at the two localities mentioned in the original description, in La Rioja province, Argentina. We here provide new information about the species as well as some comments about the type locality, and add a new point to its known geographical distribution. In addition, the capture of topotypes allowed us to add unpublished information on molecular, morphological and cranial variables of the species. The phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial gene cytochromebsequences positionsC. famosusin the context of the existing phylogenetic hypotheses and proposals for the genus as belonging to the “mendocinusgroup”. This information can serve as a basis for future research that favors clarifying the evolutionary panorama of the group at the regional level, as well as for completing the existing relationships within the complex of the Argentine species of the genus.

Risk factors associated with hepatitis B virus disease in different states of North Eastern India and their distribution

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 756-761
Author(s):  
Namrata Kumari ◽  
Priyanka Kashyap ◽  
Snigdha Saikia ◽  
Kangkana Kataki ◽  
Subhash Medhi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Hepatitis B Virus ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
B Virus ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
North Eastern India

Problems of the modern society and ethnic separatism in North-Eastern India (NER)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-328
Author(s):  
Sergey Aleksandrovich Mikhailov
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Resource Search ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
North Eastern India

This article deals with the issue of North-Eastern India, its current social and economic problems in the context of long-term demonstrations of the ethnic separatism. The main aim of the research implies systematic analysis and identification of key factors and reasons perpetuating separatism in NER as well as resource search which determines Indian strategy in solving this problem. The first part of the article is devoted to separatism peculiarities in the region which remains withdrawn and underexplored in many respects. Apart from this, the author provides a quite detailed analysis of negative mentality of the certain part of NER population which justifiably reproaches New Delhi for “discrimination” and inability to solve many problems of the region. Then the author paid the detailed attention to these problems of NER modern society (ethnic, demographic, economic, transport, social etc.) as well as measures undertaken by the Indian government for its settlement.

scholarly journals Redescription of Charaxicephaloides polyorchis Groschaft and Tenora 1978 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) from the green turtle Chelonia mydas in Costa Rica

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Santoro ◽  
P. Brandmayr ◽  
E. Greiner ◽  
J. Morales ◽  
B. Rodríguez-Ortíz
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Host Species ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Green Turtles ◽  
New Information

AbstractCharaxicephaloides polyorchis Groschaft and Tenora, 1978 is redescribed on the basis of specimens collected from the stomach of green turtles Chelonia mydas in Costa Rica. Our specimens are consistent with the original description which was based on four flukes from the same host species from the northwest coast of Cuba. Our redescription provides a new range of variations and adds new information on this species. This represents only the second record of C. polyorchis in green turtles.

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