scholarly journals A new locality and the first record of juvenile specimens of the Sashed Catfish, Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874 (Pisces, Siluriformes, Ariidae), in northern Chile

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2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-136
Author(s):  
Felipe Méndez-Abarca ◽  
Enrique A. Mundaca ◽  
Renzo Pepe-Victoriano

We report the observation of two juvenile specimens of Sashed Catfish, Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874, south of Arica, Chile, which expands the current known distributional range of the species, by adding a previously unrecorded locality. The importance of the presence of breeding populations in the northern coast of Chile is discussed.

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3538
Author(s):  
Juan Francisco Araya ◽  
Abraham S.H. Breure

A new species of Scutalus Albers, 1850 (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae), Scutalus chango sp. n., is described from a coastal area of northern Chile. Empty shells of this new species were found buried in sand and under boulders and rocks in the foothills of the Chilean Coastal Range at Paposo, Región de Antofagasta. This new species is distinguished from all other Chilean terrestrial snails by its slender shell with a flared and reflected aperture, and by the presence of a columellar fold. This is the first record of Scutalus in Chile, and the southernmost record for this endemic South American bulimulid genus. The presence of this species in Paposo highlights the need for further research and for conservation guidelines in coastal areas of northern Chile, which have comparatively high levels of biodiversity and endemism.


1988 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 118-118
Author(s):  
T.P Fletcher ◽  
A.K Higgins ◽  
J.S Peel

The first record of Middle Cambrian faunas of 'Atlantic' affinity from the Franklinian basin sequence of North Greenland was made by Poulsen (1969) who noted that previously described Greenland faunas were of 'Pacific' type. Field work by the Geological Survey of Greenland during the last decade has established that 'Atlantic' faunas are widespread in more outer shelfsequences along the northern coast of North Greenland while the 'Pacific' faunas occur within inner shelfsequences more to the south, near the margin of the Inland Ice. North Greenland preserves both faunas in dose geographical juxtaposition in only slightly tectonised geological settings. Thus, alatest Middle Cambrian trilobite fauna described by Robison (in press) from the Holm Dal Formation in an area some 40 km south of the presently discussed locality (and more inner shelf) includes a mixture of polymeroids characteristic of the Cedaria Zone of North America and agnostoids characteristic of the Lejopyge laevigata Zone of the Swedish standard zonation.


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2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1115-1121
Author(s):  
Pamela Sánchez-Vendizú ◽  
Joseph A. Cook ◽  
James Wood ◽  
Jorge Salazar-Bravo

Proechimys pattoni da Silva, 1998 is one of the 3 small-bodied species of Proechimys and its geographic range is only known in western Brazil and eastern and southern Peru. However, based on morphological and molecular analyses, we report P. pattoni from the lowland forest of Bolivia (Pando: Rio Madre de Dios, near San Rosa). This is the first report of P. pattoni in Bolivia and extends its distributional range 315 km to the southeast in the Amazon biogeographic region of Bolivia, representing the southeastern most record. Furthermore, we document the karyotype (2n = 40 / FN = 56) and morphological variation in diagnostic characters.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4476 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
SHIH-YU WANG ◽  
JHEN-NIEN CHEN ◽  
BARRY C. RUSSELL ◽  
WEI-JEN CHEN

Trachinocephalus gauguini Polanco, Acero & Betancur, 2016 was described based on eighteen specimens collected from off the Marquesas Islands, the only location where this species has been recorded until now. Through morphological and molecular examination of Trachinocephalus specimens collected from an exploratory cruise conducted in June 2014 under the Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos program along the northern coast of the New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, we demonstrate the presence of this species in Papua New Guinea waters. This new record suggests a wide distribution for this rarely collected species in the western Pacific Ocean.


2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (04) ◽  
pp. 727-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gengo Tanaka ◽  
Hiroshi Moriwaki

AbstractGenus Neosinocythere is described from the upper Miocene Itahana Formation in Central Japan, documenting the first record from Japan. The Neosinocythere species were discovered in gravity-flow sediments that were deposited below a depth of 84.9 m with a paleo-summer bottom temperature of 23.7°C and a paleo-winter bottom temperature of 14.1°C, based on a modern analog technique using the ostracode assemblage. Paleobiogeographical and paleoenvironmental analyses indicate that Neosinocythere appeared around the southeastern coast of the Eurasian continent, extended distribution in the northern coast of the Eurasian continent before migrating southward along the coast of the Eurasian continent as global temperatures decreased. The high-diversity area shifted from high latitudes to low latitudes.


2006 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Francis Cook

Errata: The Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(2)Table of contents outside back cover:Conservation evaluation of Dwarf Wolly-heads, Psilocarphus brevissimus var. brevissimus, in CanadaGEORGE W. DOUGLAS, JENIFER L. PENNY, and KSENIA BARTON“Wolly-heads” should read Woolly-heads.Article page 235:First record of a River Otter, Lontra canadensis, captured on the northern coast of AlaskaSHAWN P. HASKELLIn abstract and citation “Lutra“ should be Lontra.Errata: The Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(3)Table of contents outside back cover:Recent invasion, current status, and invasion pathway of European Common Reed, Phragnites australis subspecies australis, in the southern Ottawa DistrictPAUL M. CATLING and SUSAN CARBYN“Phragnites“ should read Phragmites.Pacific Hagfish, Eppptatretus stoutii, Spotted Ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei, and scavenger activity on tethered carrion in subtidal benthic communities off western Vancouver IslandSARAH DAVIES, ALI GRIFFITHS, and T. E. REIMCHEN“Eppptatretus“ should read Eptatretus.


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2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Leonan Morim Novaes ◽  
Renan De França Souza ◽  
Saulo Felix ◽  
Cristal Sauwen ◽  
Gabriella Jacob ◽  
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Furipterus horrens is an insectivorous bat that occurs from Costa Rica to southeastern Bolivia and southern Brazil, with records in the Amazon, Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes. Despite this broad distributional range across South America, the species is currently known from few localities, and its habitat preferences are poorly known. We report the first record of Furipterus horrens for the Tocantins state, northern Brazil, based on four individuals collected in two caves surrounded by Neotropical savanna (Cerrado) in the Aurora do Tocantins municipality.


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2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1546
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Vallabharay Pandit ◽  
Deepika Eknath Walunj ◽  
Sameer Kumar Pati

Lymnaea biacuminata Annandale & Rao, 1925, is a rare freshwater snail with less than 10 locality records in the states of Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand of India. This species is taxonomically problematic and its relationship to the morphologically similar L. acuminata Lamarck, 1822, unresolved. We identify L. biacuminata from Maharashtra for the first time and this species’ distributional range to Pune, about 500 km westwards from the type locality at Hosainsagar lake between Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Telangana. In Maharashtra, we found L. cf. biacuminata sympatric with L. acuminata. To aid in distinguishing between these two species, additional information on breeding behaviour and shell morphometry of both species are provided.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
Rodrigo M. Barahona-Segovia ◽  
Laura Pañinao-Monsálvez

In this note we report the presence of Beelzebub bee-eater fly Mallophora leschenaulti Macquart, 1938 (Diptera: Asilidae) from northern Chile. A female was collected from highland scrublands in Chapiquiña town, Arica y Parinacota region. In addition, two females are reported from Lluta valley near Peru border. This is the second Mallophora species registered in Chile, distributed in scrubland and cropland ecosystems. We discuss some native carpenter bees and bumblebees as potential preys


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