Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of the rare Lyperosomum sarothrurae Baer, 1959 (Digenea: Dicrocoeliidae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Hildebrand ◽  
Eric E. Pulis ◽  
Vasyl. V. Tkach
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
National Park ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Kibale National Park ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Belgian Congo

AbstractLyperosomum sarothrurae Baer, 1959 is a rare dicrocoeliid described based on a single specimen from Belgian Congo, now Democratic Republic of the Congo, and never reported again. The original description lacked several important details of the species morphology. This work provides morphological redescription of Lyp. sarothrurae based on specimens from Kibale National Park, Uganda which is about 200 kilometres from the type locality. Results of re-examination of the holotype are also provided. Morphology of Lyp. sarothrurae shows some characteristics intermediate between those of the species rich genus Lyperosomum Looss, 1899 and Megacetabulum Oshmarin, 1964 that includes only 3 species. Due to the lack of clear morphological differences between the two genera, Megacetabulum is considered here as a junior synonym of Lyperosomum. Molecular phylogenetic analysis including Lyp. sarothrurae and all currently available partial sequences of the nuclear ribosomal 28S RNA gene of dicrocoeliid species is also included and its results are discussed

scholarly journals Repenser Le Rôle Des Institutions De Conservation De La Nature À L’ère De La Globalisation En Afrique: À Propos Du Parc National De La Salonga (RDC)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Mampeta Wabasa Salomon
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Contemporary Management

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the protectionist conservatism influenced by colonialism, which exploited African countries for the prosperity of the colonizing countries, still has a high visibility in the Salonga National Park (PNS). If, in theory, the Central Africans seem to free themselves from the colonial powers on their land, in practice they are still there. The hostility of settlers who have become neo-colonists to the development of Central Africa remains intact, he adds (Ndinga, 2003). This reflects a "logic from above" that has disregarded local values. Yet, in the era of sustainable development and globalization, African protected areas appear to be essential tools for States to reposition themselves in a complex set of actors with the aim of capturing and using the new environmental rent (Giraut, Guyot, & Houssay-Holzschuch, 2003). This is a "bottom-up logic", placing people at the heart of all activities and aiming to reorganize their long-term relationships with the environment. From these two logics, a third "logic from the other side" emerges, reflecting a collective awareness of the fragility of the planet. The restoration of the rights of Africans in the various national frameworks constitutes a major challenge for the contemporary management of African protected areas. Because the protected areas inherited from the different colonial systems must accompany the change in management methods and the redefinition of their functions in order to better serve the local community in the long-term.

scholarly journals In vivo deciduous dental eruption in LuiKotale bonobos and Gombe chimpanzees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M Lee ◽  
L. J. Sutherland ◽  
Barbara Fruth ◽  
Carson M. Murray ◽  
Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Substantial Variation ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Dental Eruption ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
Range Of Variation

Existing data on bonobo and chimpanzee dental eruption timing are derived predominantly from captive individuals or deceased wild individuals. However, recent advances in noninvasive photographic monitoring of living, wild apes have greatly expanded our knowledge of chimpanzee dental eruption in relatively healthy individuals under naturalistic conditions. We employ similar methods to expand on this knowledge by reporting deciduous dental eruption ages in living, wild bonobos and chimpanzees from LuiKotale, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gombe National Park, Tanzania, respectively. Deciduous dental eruption ages in our sample generally fall within the range of variation previously documented for captive chimpanzees. We also found substantial variation in deciduous canine eruption timing, particularly among bonobos. One bonobo had a deciduous canine present by 227 days old while another did not have a deciduous canine present at 477 days old. As more data accumulate from these populations, future studies should consider sources of variation in deciduous canine eruption timing and relationships with other aspects of life history.

Circinella simplex—a misapplied name of Mucor circinatus sp. nov.

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 329 (3) ◽  
pp. 269 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIOGO X. LIMA ◽  
CRISTINA M. SOUZA-MOTTA ◽  
LYSETT WAGNER ◽  
KERSTIN VOIGT ◽  
CARLOS A. F. DE SOUZA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Genus Mucor ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Sporangial Wall

Circinella (Mucorales, Mucoromycotina) is morphologically similar to Mucor, differing by the production of circinate sporangiophores and sporangia with a persistent and incrusted sporangial wall. During a study on the diversity of Mucorales in areas of the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil, we isolated a strain that fits the current morphological concept of C. simplex of Hesseltine and Fennell (1955) by forming simple circinate sporangiophores with secondary branches and angular sporangiospores. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on three different markers (ITS, LSU and MCM7) confirmed conspecificity of the Brazilian strain with other angular spored strains of the CBS collection including the strain studied by Hesseltine & Fennell (1955). The molecular phylogenetic analyses clearly placed these strains in the genus Mucor in the close relationship to M. laxorrhizus and M. fuscus. However, in his original description van Tieghem (1875) described and illustrated C. simplex with sporangiophores without secondary branches and globose sporangiospores. Based on these striking morphological differences combined with a differing geographic distribution, we conclude that the angular-spored strains represent a separate undescribed species for which we propose the name Mucor circinatus sp. nov.

scholarly journals Using local knowledge and camera traps to investigate occurrence and habitat preference of an Endangered primate: the endemic dryas monkey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Oryx ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Daniel Alempijevic ◽  
John A. Hart ◽  
Terese B. Hart ◽  
Kate M. Detwiler
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
National Park ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Camera Trap ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

Abstract The Endangered dryas monkey Cercopithecus dryas, endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of Africa's most enigmatic primates. The discovery of a dryas monkey killed by a hunter in the buffer zone of Lomami National Park in 2014 prompted field research on the species’ distribution, habitat use and stratum preference. We used local knowledge to determine the distribution of this species and to select sites for camera-trap surveys in Lomami National Park and its buffer zone. We employed a multi-strata (0–29 m) camera-trap placement technique to determine habitat use at Camp Bartho in Lomami National Park and Bafundo Forest in the Park's buffer zone. We confirmed the occurrence of the dryas monkey at seven locations over a total area of 3,453 km2, in both the Park and its buffer zone. Dryas monkeys were detected most frequently (2.22 events/100 trap-days) in disturbed areas of Bafundo Forest and less in mature forest in Camp Bartho (0.82 events/100 trap-days). Dryas monkeys appear to prefer structurally complex understories and forest edges. We found that camera traps at 2–10 m above ground over at least 365 trap-days are required to determine if the species is present. We recommend utilizing local knowledge and using this species-specific camera-trap method in other areas of the central Congo basin to determine the wider distribution of the dryas monkey.

A new species of Typhonoya Prozorov (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Gastropachini) from the moist broadleaf forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5067 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-428
Author(s):  
ALEXEY M. PROZOROV ◽  
TATIANA A. PROZOROVA ◽  
JEAN JOSEPH MAPILANGA ◽  
AXEL HAUSMANN ◽  
GÜNTER C. MÜLLER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Broadleaf Forest ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
One Year ◽  
A New Species

The second species of the genus Typhonoya Prozorov 2011—T. kravchenkoi Prozorov, Müller & Zolotuhin sp. n. from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is described. A previously monotypic genus becomes bitypic. One paratype specimen was collected in the buffer zone of the southern part of the Salonga National Park during a one year-long stationary expedition (June 2017–June 2018). Spread imagoes, heads, legs, venations and genitalia of both species are figured and compared. Additional notes on the genus description and previously known species are added.  

Description of the lucky Cophyla (Microhylidae, Cophylinae), a new arboreal frog from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4651 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDOLALAO RAKOTOARISON ◽  
MARK D. SCHERZ ◽  
MOLLY C. BLETZ ◽  
JARY H. RAZAFINDRAIBE ◽  
FRANK GLAW ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Candidate Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Rag 1 ◽  
Spectral Frequency ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of arboreal microhylid frog from northern Madagascar. The new species is assigned to the genus Cophyla based on molecular phylogeny and morphological similarities to other species of this genus. Molecular phylogenetic analysis resolved Cophyla fortuna sp. nov. as closely related to C. noromalalae. However, the two species were reciprocally monophyletic both in a tree reconstructed from a combination of mitochondrial genes, and in a tree based on the nuclear RAG-1 gene. The new species, previously identified as candidate species Cophyla sp. Ca4, occurs in lowland bamboo forests around the Marojejy Massif in northeastern Madagascar. It differs from the allopatric C. noromalalae, so far only known from the Montagne d’Ambre Massif in northern Madagascar, by slightly smaller body size and shorter duration and higher spectral frequency of advertisement calls. Several additional genetically divergent mitochondrial lineages of Cophyla, related to the C. fortuna/noromalalae complex and to C. phyllodactyla, occur in intervening areas between Montagne d’Ambre and Marojejy, and their status requires further study. 

Rediscovery of Dacrymyces pezizoides (Dacrymycetes, Basidiomycota) 80 years after its original description

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 371 (5) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKASHI SHIROUZU ◽  
KOJIN SANJO
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Fruiting Bodies ◽  
Its Regions ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
The Dead ◽  
First Time ◽  
Warm Temperate ◽  
Lsu Nrdna

Dacrymyces pezizoides has been rediscovered for the first time since its original description in 1939. Dacrymycetous fruiting bodies recently collected from the dead branches of broad-leaved trees in Japan were identified as D. pezizoides based on their morphological characteristics, i.e., turbinate or discoid basidiocarps, hyphae without clamp connections, thick-walled marginal hyphae, and 3-septate basidiospores. Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the LSU nrDNA and ITS regions revealed that D. pezizoides forms a clade with other Dacrymyces spp., such as D. stillatus and D. chrysospermus, and Guepiniopsis buccina. Dacrymyces pezizoides is considered to form basidiocarps in autumn on the dead branches of broad-leaved trees in warm-temperate areas of Japan.

scholarly journals Bushmeat hunting around Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Oryx ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigue Batumike ◽  
Gerard Imani ◽  
Christian Urom ◽  
Aida Cuni-Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Red River ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Preferred Species

Abstract For most of the Democratic Republic of the Congo quantitative data on bushmeat exploitation are scarce. We conducted focus group discussions on preferred species for household consumption and income generation in 24 villages around Lomami National Park, created in 2016. We also carried out a bushmeat market survey in Kindu, a major town in the study area, to estimate annual sales volumes and retail values. Villagers reported household consumption of 22 mammal species, with the most important being the African brush-tailed porcupine, Peters's duiker, bay duiker and red river hog. The latter three were also the most important for income generation. A greater number of smaller species were consumed at the household level, compared with those traded. A total of 17 mammal and one reptile species were traded in Kindu. Those traded in greater numbers were the African brush-tailed porcupine, blue and bay duiker, red river hog, red-tailed monkey and the sitatunga. We estimated > 40,000 carcasses were traded in Kindu annually, with a retail value of USD 725,000. Several species of conservation concern, such as the bonobo, were mentioned or observed. Few rodents and numerous large animals were traded in Kindu, suggesting resources have not yet been depleted. However, both villagers and urban vendors perceived a decline of many species and reported an increase in the use of firearms and the number of foreign hunters in the area. Among other interventions, we discuss how local communities could be encouraged to help preserve wildlife in the Park's buffer zone.

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