scholarly journals Fossil Land Tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from the Dominican Republic, West Indies, with a Description of a New Species

2018 ◽  
Vol 3904 (3904) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Albury ◽  
Richard Franz ◽  
Renato Rimoli ◽  
Phillip Lehman ◽  
Alfred L. Rosenberger
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
West Indies ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Caribbean toad (Bufonidae, Peltophryne) from southern Hispaniola

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4403 (3) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
MIGUEL A. LANDESTOY T. ◽  
DANIEL B. TURNER ◽  
ANGELA B. MARION ◽  
S. BLAIR HEDGES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Larval Morphology ◽  
The South ◽  
Adult Morphology ◽  
A New Species

Peltophryne armata sp. nov. is described from the South paleoisland of Hispaniola, West Indies. This is the only native toad species known to inhabit the Barahona Peninsula, Dominican Republic, in the southernmost part of Hispaniola, and it is allopatric with the widely distributed Hispaniolan toad species, P. guentheri Cochran. However, in a molecular phylogeny, the closest relative of P. armata sp. nov. is the Puerto Rican species P. lemur Cope, with which it shares a protrusive snout, large orbits, a depressed head, indistinct or absent infraorbital crests, and a long and complex advertisement call, but differs from it greatly by the very long cephalic crests, and in the massive and spinose parotoid glands that converge medially on the dorsum. The new species is similar in ecology and larval morphology to the Cuban P. florentinoi Moreno & Rivalta, but differs from it in adult morphology. The tadpole of the new species is described. Peltophryne fracta is placed in the synonymy of P. guentheri. 

The genus Cittarium (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea) in the Upper Miocene of the Dominican Republic with the description of a new species

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-593
Author(s):  
Bernard Landau ◽  
Gijs C. Kronenberg ◽  
Carlos M. da Silva
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Record ◽  
Single Species ◽  
The West ◽  
Upper Miocene ◽  
Upper Oligocene ◽  
Tropical America ◽  
A New Species

AbstractToday, the marine gastropod genus Cittarium is present only in the West Indies faunas, represented by a single species C. pica, also known from the Pleistocene of Bermuda. Herein Cittarium praepica n. sp. is described from the Upper Miocene Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic. This is the oldest fossil record for the genus in the eastern Tropical America. The new species is compared to the Pleistocene to Recent Caribbean C. pica and to C. maestratii Lozouet, 2002 of the Upper Oligocene of France. The importance of this new record for the geological history and the biogeography of the genus are discussed.

Fossil land tortoises (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the Dominican Republic, West Indies, with a description of a new species

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Ann Albury ◽  
Richard Franz ◽  
Phillip. Lehman ◽  
Renato O. Rímoli ◽  
Alfred L. Rosenberger
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
West Indies ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Picrasma, P. nanophylla (Simaroubaceae), from the Dominican Republic

Brittonia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas C. Majure ◽  
Teodoro Clase ◽  
Allison Blankenship ◽  
Alfredo Noa-Monzón
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
A New Species

A new species and taxonomic changes relating to the Notodontidae (Lepidoptera) of Trinidad, West Indies

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5020 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
MATTHEW J.W. COCK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
General Account ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
A New Species

In preparation for a general account of the Notodontidae of Trinidad and Tobago, the following taxonomic acts are required. Apella [sic] ovalis Rothschild, 1917 (Notodontidae) is transferred to the combination Lephana ovalis (Rothschild) comb. nov. (Erebidae, Anobinae). Crinodes insularis Rothschild, 1917 stat. nov. is removed from synonymy with C. fuscipennis Rothschild, 1917. Oligocentria brunnipennis Kaye, 1923 stat rev. is reinstated as a valid species. The following are new synonyms: Anoba suffusa Hampson, 1924 syn. nov. of Lephana muffula Guenée, 1852 (Erebidae, Anobinae); Farigia xenopithia Druce, 1911 syn. nov. of F. magniplaga Schaus, 1905; Oligocentria guianensis Thiaucourt, 2015 syn. nov. of Oligocentria brunnipennis Kaye, 1923; Skaphita aroensis (Schaus, 1901) and S. sexnotata (Kaye, 1925) syn. nov. of S. cubana (Grote, 1865). The holotype of S. kalodonta (Kaye, 1923) is recognised. Skaphita indirae sp. nov. is described from Trinidad.  

Studies in Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) of Hispaniola

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 420 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
ELADIO FERNÁNDEZ ◽  
IRINA FERRERAS ◽  
BRIAN D. FARRELL ◽  
BRUNO A. S. De MEDEIROS ◽  
GUSTAVO A. ROMERO-GONZÁLEZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Photographic Record ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species

A review of the literature at large and the field photographic record of the senior author of this study indicate that there are several undescribed species of Aristolochia in Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), related to A. bilobata. Here we show that A. mirandae is a synonym of A. bilobata and that what appears as A. bilobata in Marión H. (2011: 76–77) is a new species here described as Aristolochia adiastola. In addition, two new species, A. bonettiana and A. marioniana, also related to A. bilobata, are described and illustrated herein.

A new species of Woodcock (Aves: Scolopacidae: Scolopax) from Hispaniola, West Indies

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4032 (1) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
OONA M. TAKANO ◽  
DAVID W. STEADMAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
A New Species
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