scholarly journals A range extension of Gentiana capitata Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don subsp. harwanensis (G.Singh) Halda (Gentianaceae) to Ladakh Trans-Himalaya, India

Check List ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-108
Author(s):  
Mohd Shabir ◽  
Anzar A. Khuroo ◽  
Priyanka Agnihotri ◽  
Jay Krishan Tiwari ◽  
Tariq Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Western Himalaya ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Biogeographic Region ◽  
First Time

We collected Gentiana capitata subsp. harwanensis for the first time from Suru valley in Kargil district of Ladakh region, India, and thus extend this subspecies’ geographic distribution to the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region. This subspecies is endemic to India and so far recorded from the North-west and Western Himalaya of India. 

scholarly journals New records and update on the geographic distribution of the Bonyeared Assfish, Acanthonus armatus Günther, 1878 (Ophidiidae, Neobythitinae), in the Caribbean region

Check List ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Polanco F. ◽  
Luisa F. Dueñas ◽  
Jorge Leon ◽  
Vladimir Puentes
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Current Distribution ◽  
New Records ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Continental Coast ◽  
Remote Operate Vehicle ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time

Acanthonus armatus Günther, 1878 is reported for the first time in the southwestern Caribbean region, off Colombia. Remote Operate Vehicle videos and towed camera still photographs captured 13 images of A. armatus between 2215 and 2564 m. These are the first records of the species in the Caribbean continental coast of Colombia, representing a range extension to the southwestern Caribbean region, since previous records are from the northeastern Caribbean. Some photos of the specimens and the current distribution of the species in the Caribbean region are provided and reviewed.

Expelling demons at Nineveh: The visibility of benevolent demons in the palaces of Nineveh

Iraq ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Tallay Ornan
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Religious Subject ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Themes ◽  
First Time

As has been shown and extensively dealt with in early and more recent scholarship, Neo-Assyrian palatial wall reliefs went through many thematic changes throughout their two hundred and fifty years of existence. One of their conspicuous traits was a gradual abandoning of magical-religious subject matters, represented by protective supernatural beings, in favour of larger and more detailed historical compositions — mostly of a belligerent nature — revealing, for the first time in antiquity, a truer sense of narrative display. As the narrative-historical themes were rightly considered to be an innovative and prominent contribution of Assyrian imagery to the history of art, extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of these compositions within the context of Assyrian palaces.In the present contribution I intend, however, to concentrate on the “losing” side of Assyrian palatial decoration, namely to focus on the visibility of apotropaic fantastic creatures rendered on wall reliefs and to offer some explanation for their gradual expulsion from the pictorial display of the Assyrian palace. Following Porada, in this essay these hybrids are called demons, in accordance with the Greek term daimon. Benevolent demons appear already in early ninth-century Neo-Assyrian wall reliefs, both in temples, as shown by a small number of slabs from the Ninurta Temple at Nimrud, and much more commonly in palaces, in particular within the North-West Palace.

Report on four deep-water barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the north west Pacific, with remarks on Trianguloscalpellum regium (Wyville-Thomson, 1873)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4565 (2) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHIBIN GAN ◽  
XINZHENG LI
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Mariana Trench ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Distribution Record ◽  
Water Species ◽  
New Distribution

Four deep-water species of stalked barnacles were collected by the manned submersibles Jiaolong and Shenhaiyongshi during recent expeditions. Trianguloscalpellum regium (Wyville-Thomson, 1873), collected from the Mariana Trench at a depth of 5,462 m, represents a new distribution record. Glyptelasma gigas (Annandale, 1916), Poecilasma litum Pilsbry, 1907 and Poecilasma obliqua Hoek, 1907, collected from the South China Sea, are recorded for the first time from a mud volcano environment. Detailed photographs of these four species are presented and their partial sequences of 16S rRNA and mt COI genes are provided. 

COI variation in Scandinavian marine species of Tubificoides (Annelida: Clitellata: Tubificidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 1121-1126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christer Erséus ◽  
Sebastian Kvist
Keyword(s):  
Random Distribution ◽  
Dna Barcode ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Interspecific Variation ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Swedish West Coast ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Southern Scandinavia ◽  
First Time

Intra- and interspecific variation in a 658 bp long part of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene of the mitochondrial genome, i.e. a suggested ‘DNA barcode’, was assessed in four north-west European species of the marine tubificid genus Tubificoides: T. benedii, T. amplivasatus, T. heterochaetus and T. kozloffi. Within species mean genetic distance was from 0.10% (T. amplivasatus) to 0.14% (T. benedii), between species from 19.3% to 22.9%. For T. benedii and T. amplivasatus, material collected in two separate areas, The Sound between Denmark and Sweden, and the Koster area about 330 km to the north along the Swedish west coast, showed a geographically random distribution of COI haplotypes, suggesting that each of these two species forms a continuous population in southern Scandinavia. We conclude that the COI gene is suitable as a barcode marker for the secure identification of these species, at least within the area investigated. Tubificoides heterochaetus is reported for the first time from Denmark.

scholarly journals XXIV.—The History of Malmesbury as a Village Community

Archaeologia ◽  
1887 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-438
Author(s):  
G.L. Gomme
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
North West ◽  
Village Community ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

In the north-west of Wilts is a district which contains some remarkable reminiscences of the two dominant races who have influenced the history of this country. In tracing out the history of this district, as it has come down to us by the traditions and records of early chronicle writers, we arrive at an important epoch when for the first time is brought into strongly marked prominence the outline of the community which had settled there. This community, known to us later under the local name of Malmesbury, is one of the most perfect types of the primitive village which has survived in England, and to the elucidation of its chief characteristics it is proposed to devote some little attention. Keeping before us the outline made known from early records we shall see how this is gradually filled in from facts, which though gleaned from later and modern records, are nevertheless stamped as belonging to the earliest stages of history. And when this local mosaic is completely pieced in we shall be able, I think, to satisfy ourselves that what has so persistently clung to locality in later days originally belonged to a social group, types of which are still to be found in Eastern Europe and India, where society is in a state of arrested progress and has not advanced along the lines which mark its development in Western Europe.

First record of Polyneura bonnemaisonii (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Atlantic Ocean of Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustapha Hassoun ◽  
Hanaa Moussa ◽  
Hanaa Zbakh ◽  
Hassane Riadi ◽  
Mohamed Kazzaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Algal Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
North West ◽  
Red Algal ◽  
First Time

A red algal species,Polyneura bonnemaisonii(Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta), is described for the first time in the Atlantic Ocean of Morocco. This is also the first reference of the occurrence of this species in Africa. This species was collected in the lower intertidal to subtidal zones, from Hyayda (north-west of Morocco). The Moroccan specimen is studied in detail and compared with other closely related species. Habitat, geographic distribution, description and illustration of the macroscopic and microscopic characters are presented and discussed in this work.

scholarly journals Siwalik basin of Arunachal Himalaya, India: a case study

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Das ◽  
H. Baruah
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Facies ◽  
Western Himalaya ◽  
Large River ◽  
Ocean Basin ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Neogene ◽  
Main Boundary Fault ◽  
Uplift And Erosion ◽  
Arunachal Himalaya

The Siwalik basin of Arunachal Himalaya is a part of the Himalayan foreland. Due to continental collision between Indian and Eurasian plates, the Himalayan mountain system experienced intense uplift and erosion and as a result, a large amount of siliciclastic sediments accumulated within the foreland and a remnant ocean basin (which was commonly known as foredeep) was developed during Eocene. Moreover, the sediments were deposited by a large river draining the uplifted Himalayan belt during late Neogene. From the pattern of lithofacies, the river may be envisaged as braided type and was a bit shallow relative to its width, floored by bars and channels of low sinuosity and with a bed load of sand and pebbly sediments. These sediments present in the Arunachal foothills are bounded by the Brahmaputra Alluviums in the south and the Gondwana belt in the north and, by a system of frontal faults and the Main Boundary Fault, respectively. The sediments are mostly of molasse type (Upper Tertiary sediments), of different sedimentary facies present in the form of thick accumulation of multilateral and multistoried bodies. Moreover, the depositional basin suffered from some tectonic disturbances for which open folds and many reverse faults were formed. With the formation of foredeep infront of the Himalaya, a reversal of slope towards north-west took place in post-Barail times and during the later part of the Tertiary, the Himalayan and the Upper Assam basin were continuous below the Brahmaputra Alluviums as evidenced by field and laboratory observations. From these observations, it is seen that the Siwalik basin of Arunachal Himalaya has close resemblance with the Tertiary basin (Neogene basin) of Upper Assam rather than the Siwalik basin of western Himalaya and thus, this basin may be treated as a separate basin which may be renamed as "Tertiary basin of Arunachsl".

scholarly journals Investigation on the Occurrence of Aedes Species in Borderline of Iran and Azerbaijan for Control of Arboviral Diseases

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eslam Moradi-Asl ◽  
Hassan Vatandoost ◽  
Davod Adham ◽  
Daryosh Emdadi ◽  
Hassan Moosa-Kazemi
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Aedes Mosquitoes ◽  
Arboviral Diseases ◽  
First Time ◽  
North Western

Background: To investigate the diversity of the genus Aedes present in the natural areas of Ardabil Province, north-west of Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out from Apr to Oct 2016 in North-western of Iran. Thirty-three areas of 10 cities which are border areas were selected randomly. The larvae were collected 2 times in each month during the seasonal activities of mosquitoes and the larvae were identified morphologically according to the ap­propriate identification keys.  Results: Overall, 694 larvae were collected from four counties, from which only 7.2% were Aedes larvae. Three species of Aedes were identified which include Ae. caspius, Ae. vexans and Ae. flavescens. Aedes flavescens is reported from Ardabil Province for the first time. Conclusion: Aedes species were a high density in borderline of Iran and Azerbaijan. Therefore, the north parts of Ardabil Province are a suitable habitat for Aedes species mosquitoes. Care should be taken for vector control in the case of occurrence of any arboviruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes.

scholarly journals An investigation into the spatiotemporal patterns of the Nymphalid butterfly Vagrans egista sinha (Kollar, [1844])

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Pop ◽  
Kuldeep Singh Barwal ◽  
Randeep Singh ◽  
Puneet Pandey ◽  
Harminder Pal Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Range Shift ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Science Data ◽  
The West ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Spatial Differences ◽  
The Impact

Vagrans egista sinha (Kollar, [1844]), the Himalayan Vagrant is a subspecies of Nymphalid (Brush-footed) butterflies spread across Asia, whose western limit is in the north-west India. Observations of this subspecies have considerably increased over the past half-a-decade, with a spike in new sightings to the west of their previously known range. This has been considered as a range extension. The current study reports new records of this species from Bilaspur District, Himachal Pradesh, India (which are the first records for the district), through systematic and opportunistic sampling. This raises the question of whether the purported range extension towards the west could instead be a range shift or vagrancy, and whether there is any shift in elevational ranges in the populations across their known range. Questions pertaining to spatial differences in elevational ranges and seasonal variation, across their range, also piqued our curiosity. Using data from academic sources (such as published literature and museum collections), supplemented by data from public participation in scientific research and personal observations, these research questions are addressed. The accuracy of results when using citizen science data is also explored using the same dataset, focused on the impact of method of extraction of coordinates, and elevation derived from it under different scenarios. It was discovered that there has not been a range shift (either longitudinal or latitudinal) and observations do not suggest vagrancy but a case of range extension. Other results indicated that there was no climb of population to higher elevations, no spatial differences in elevational ranges in the populations, or seasonal variation in activities across their range. It was also discovered that the method of data collection by, and extraction from, citizen science databases, can influence the accuracy of the results. Some problems involved in collecting data are discussed, and remedial solutions are suggested.

Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Godfrey ◽  
Pamela Cox ◽  
Heather Shore ◽  
Zoe Alker
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Care ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
North West ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The North ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Industrial Schools ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Early English ◽  
First Time

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, ‘difficult’, and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile industrial school and reformatory system. Applying biographical research methodologies to digital data, we have reconstructed the lives, families, and neighbourhoods of 500 children who were sent to reformatory and industrial schools in the north-west of England from courts around the UK over a fifty-year period from the 1860s onwards. For the first time, we have been able to follow these children on their journey in and out of institutional care, and then though to their adulthood and old age. We centre on institutions celebrated in this period for their pioneering approaches to child welfare and others that were investigated for cruelty and scandal. Both were typical of the new kind of state-certified provision offered, from the 1850s onwards, to children who had committed criminal acts, or who were considered ‘vulnerable’ to predation, poverty, and the ‘inheritance’ of criminal dispositions.

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