scholarly journals Amblyomma scalpturatum Neumann, 1906 (Acari: Ixodidae): confirmation in Acre State, Brazil, and description of parasitism in a human

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-478
Author(s):  
André de Abreu Rangel Aguirre ◽  
Vinícius da Silva Rodrigues ◽  
Ivaneide Nunes da Costa ◽  
Marcos Valério Garcia ◽  
Bárbara Guimarães Csordas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Tick Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
Amazon Forest ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Free Living ◽  
The North ◽  
Complete Life Cycle

Abstract Amblyomma scalpturatum is a tick species that is unique to South America. It is commonly associated with the Amazon biome and has been reported in some Brazilian states. This tick species exhibits host specificity: it parasitizes tapirs and suidae. Its role in transmitting pathogens to humans is still unknown. Amblyomma scalpturatum is known to be a human-biting tick; however, there is only one report showing that humans make suitable hosts for this species. The knowledge of tick fauna is lacking in the Acre State. This study collected free-living ticks with the aim of finding new records in Acre State. Collections were carried out in Amazon forest fragments in Rio Branco municipality. An A. scalpturatum specimen was identified and submitted sequencing of the ITS-2 gene. This study presents the first molecular confirmation of A. scalpturatum collected in situ in Acre State, North Region, Brazil. This study also presents the first record of a successfully completed feeding by an A. scalpturatum nymph on a human host in the North region of Brazil. Further investigation is needed to ascertain the complete life cycle of this tick species, its seasonality in the environment, and its relationship to pathogens and competence to transmit them.

Observing microscopic phases of lichen life cycles on transparent substrata placed in situ

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 373-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. SANDERS
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Potential Significance ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Lichen Community ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Observation Period

The utility of plastic cover slips as a substratum for in situ study of lichen developmental stages is further explored in a neotropical foliicolous lichen community and in a European temperate corticolous community. Twenty-one months after placement in the tropical forest, the cover slips bore foliicolous lichen thalli with several species producing characteristic ascocarps and ascospores, indicating the suitability of the substratum for completion of the life cycle of these lichens. On cover slips placed within the temperate corticolous community, lichen propagules anchored to the substratum with relatively short attachment hyphae but did not develop further within the one year observation period. Intimately intermixed microbial communities of short-celled, mainly pigmented fungi and chlorophyte algae developed upon the transparent substratum. Among the algae, Trebouxia cells, often in groups showing cell division and without associated lichenizing hyphae, were commonly observed. The potential significance of the free-living populations in the life cycle of Trebouxia and in those of Trebouxia-associated lichen fungi is discussed.

scholarly journals EXPANSÃO DA ÁREA DE OCORRÊNCIA DO LOBO-GUARÁ, Chrysocyon brachyurus (CARNIVORA, CANIDAE) NO BIOMA AMAZÔNICO

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 928-937
Author(s):  
Odair Silva-Diogo ◽  
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Larissa Gabriela Araujo Goebel ◽  
Marco Rodrigo de Sousa ◽  
Almério Câmara Gusmão ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
New Records ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Amazon Forest ◽  
Gray Literature ◽  
The North ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Maned Wolf ◽  
Chrysocyon Brachyurus

The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus; Carnivora, Canidae) is the South America's largest canid, typically occurring in open areas of Cerrado, Chaco and Pampa. Its geographical distribution is historically limited to the north by the Amazon forest, and to the northeast by the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest biomes. However, recent studies have reported that its occurrence has recently been expanded to the boundaries of its distribution range. In this study, we presented 22 records of the maned wolf for the Amazon biome, including six records from gray literature, six records of scientific articles from indexed journals and 10 new records, expanding the northwest limit of its geographical range in 51,178.78 km². The presence of the maned wolf in protected and unprotected areas of the Amazon biome, as reported in this study, can play a complementary role in the conservation of species, since its historically boundaries are becoming increasingly permeable.

A proposed three-host life history of Monascusfiliformis (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea: Fellodi-stomidae) in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1198-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
SR Martorelli ◽  
F Cremonte
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
First Record ◽  
Final Host ◽  
Full Description ◽  
Intermediate Hosts ◽  
Southwest Atlantic ◽  
Experimental Scheme ◽  
The North

This is the first record of cercariae of Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) and of Chaetognatha as a secondintermediate host in the southwest Atlantic Ocean. The morphology of the sporocyst and cercaria from Nucula obliqua (Bivalvia:Nuculidae) and a full description of the metacercaria from hydromedusae are given. The life cycle of M. filiformis involves threehosts. The bivalve N. obliqua is the first intermediate host, Chaetognatha and medusae are the second intermediate hosts, and thejurel Trachurus lathami (Pisces: Carangidae) is the final host. The life cycle of M. filiformis occurs in shallow waters in theArgentine Sea and differs from Køie’s experimental scheme for the North Sea in the addition of planktonic invertebrates assecond intermediate hosts. The life cycle proposed here follows the general pattern given for the family Fellodistomidae.

scholarly journals New records of Niceforo’s big-eared bat, Trinycteris nicefori (Sanborn, 1949) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae), from the state of Maranhão, Brazil

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
Amanda Cristiny da Silva Lima ◽  
Fabio Henrique Souza Cardoso ◽  
Samira Brito Mendes ◽  
Elmary Costa Fraga ◽  
Maria Claudene Barros
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Morphological Identification ◽  
Amazon Forest ◽  
Gene Sequences ◽  
Brazilian State

Niceforo’s big-eared bat, Trinycterisnicefori (Sanborn, 1949), is a monotypic species which has been recorded in a number of Brazilian states, but has a disjunct distribution in this country. This study presents the first record of T.nicefori in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The specimens were collected in the municipalities of Godofredo Viana and Cândido Mendes, in fragments of the Amazon forest. One male (forearm: 38.00 mm, weight: 6 g) and one female (39.68 mm, 8 g) specimens were collected. The specimens presented chestnut-colored fur, and a chin with a pair of dermal pads arranged in a V-shape, without a central papilla. The COI gene sequences were plotted in the BOLD Systems platform, which confirmed the morphological identification of the species, with a 99.1% similarity in the male, and 99.4% in the female to existing sequences. This record extends the known distribution of T.nicefori in Brazil by approximately 310 km to the most eastern part of the Amazon Biome.

Rickettsial survey and ticks infesting small mammals from the Amazon forest in midwestern Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cláudia Colle ◽  
Ravena Fernanda Braga Mendonça ◽  
Maerle Oliveira Maia ◽  
Leodil Costa Freitas ◽  
Thiago Fernandes Martins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammals ◽  
Spotted Fever ◽  
First Record ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Amazon Forest ◽  
Spotted Fever Group ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Amblyomma Ticks ◽  
Tick Tissue

In the present study, samples of tick, tissue and blood from free-living wild small mammals (rodents and marsupials) captured in two municipalities from the Amazon biome of the Mato Grosso state, were molecularly tested for rickettsial infection. A total of 148 mammal specimens (46 rodents and 102 marsupials) were trapped, and 2,700 Amblyomma ticks (2,000 larvae and 700 nymphs) were collected. Ticks were recognized into four Amblyomma species: Amblyomma cajennense sensu stricto, Amblyomma coelebs, Amblyomma humerale, and Amblyomma scalpturatum, with new data for tick-host associations from small mammals in the Amazon biome. All tissue and blood samples of small mammals tested by PCR for rickettsial detection were negative. However, concerning tick-Rickettsia associations, Rickettsia amblyommatis was detected in all four tick species identified in the present study, being the first record for A. scalpturatum ticks. Furthermore, an uncharacterized species of Rickettsia belonging to the spotted fever group was detected in A. humerale as well. 

scholarly journals New records from the southern North Sea and first records from the Baltic Sea of Kornmannia leptoderma

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Florian Weinberger ◽  
Sophie Steinhagen ◽  
Dmitry F. Afanasyev ◽  
Rolf Karez
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
North Sea ◽  
New Records ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Green Algal ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract Combined genetic, morphological and ontogenetic observations show that the circumarctic boreal green algal macrophyte Kornmannia leptoderma has expanded its distribution range into the Baltic Sea, on a German coastal section of 220 km length. The species is also again (or still) established at its former extreme southern distribution limit in the North Sea, the German island of Helgoland, where it has not been detected during the last four decades. Macroscopic visible sporophytes of K. leptoderma are nowadays present in the Baltic Sea and at Helgoland from February to September, while they were in the past only detected from February to May at Helgoland. This capacity for formation of sporophytes in summer correlates with the circumstance that K. leptoderma from the Baltic Sea can complete its life cycle at 15°C while several studies conducted decades ago with material from Helgoland and from Pacific coasts consistently reported an inhibition of the algal gametogenesis at temperatures that exceed 12°C. Possibly K. leptoderma has undergone adaptations that facilitate its spread into warmer environments, unless the Kornmannia present in the Baltic Sea and on Helgoland today represents a newly introduced cryptic species.

Recent Cyprididae and Ilyocyprididae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lake Biwa, Japan, including a summary of the lake’s ostracod fauna

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2874 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBIN J. SMITH ◽  
HORST JANZ ◽  
ICHIRO OKUBO
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Lake Biwa ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
Ancient Lake ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Ostracod Species

Sampling between 1999 and 2007 of the recent ostracod fauna of Lake Biwa, an ancient lake located in Japan, produced ten Cyprididae and one Ilyocyprididae species. One Cyprididae species, belonging to the genus Ilyodromus is described herein, Ilyodromus intermedius Okubo n. sp., and Bradleytriebella lineata (Victor & Fernando, 1981c) is redescribed. One Cyprididae species is a new record for Japan, namely Stenocypris malayica Victor & Fernando, 1981a, while seven others are new records for Lake Biwa. The family Ilyocyprididae is represented by only one species in Lake Biwa, Ilyocypris salebrosa Stepanaitys, 1960. The Lake Biwa population of this species is the first record of males and they are described in this paper. Including this study, forty ostracod species have now been reported from Lake Biwa. Most species (70%) were found at depths of less than 1 meter. Only four species were found below 44 m, the mean depth of the north basin.

FIRST RECORD OF LARVAL WATER MITES (ACARI: LEBERTIOIDEA: SPERCHONTIDAE) PARASITIC ON MOUNTAIN MIDGES (DIPTERA: DEUTEROPHLEBIIDAE)

1992 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory W. Courtney ◽  
Ian M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
First Record ◽  
Host Tissue ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Water Mites ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Attachment Sites ◽  
Lotic Habitats ◽  
Anterior Segments ◽  
Nearctic Region

Members of the Holarctic genus Sperchon Kramer are among the most common and widespread water mites in lotic habitats. Approximately 225 species and subspecies of Sperchon have been described worldwide (Viets 1987), and about 25 of them have been reported from North America (Habeeb 1967). Smith and Cook (1991) estimate that over 100 species, mostly undescribed, occur in the Nearctic region. Adults and deutonymphs of this genus are free-living predators (Smith and Oliver 1986; Proctor and Pritchard 1989). Larval Sperchon are typically parasites of adult nematocerous Diptera, especially Chironomidae (Smith 1982; Smith and Oliver 1976, 1986) and Simuliidae (Davies 1959; Smith and Oliver 1986), but have also been reported to use certain Trichoptera as hosts (Smith and Oliver 1986). Larvae of Sperchon are initially aquatic, and actively crawl or swim to locate the prepupae or pupae of appropriate hosts. They transfer to host adults during ecdysis, embed their chelicerae in host tissue, and engorge rapidly, often within a few hours, on fluids before dropping off the host and into the water where the life cycle continues. Larvae preferentially select attachment sites on the thorax of hosts, but can utilize sites on the anterior segments of the abdomen when thoracic sites are already occupied. Most larval Sperchon are evidently specialized to parasitize hosts whose immature stages inhabit stenothermal, lotic habitats. We report here on the first records of larval Sperchon parasitic on mountain midges.

scholarly journals New Records for the Aesculapian Snake (Zamenis longissimus) (Reptilia: Colubridae) in Romanian Moldova

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Alexandru Strugariu ◽  
Iulian Gherghel ◽  
Tiberiu C. Sahlean ◽  
Eugen Ungureanu ◽  
Ştefan R. Zamfirescu
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Far East ◽  
First Record ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Species Being

Abstract The Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus) is a widespread colubrid species, being present in much of central and southern Europe, with isolated populations occuring as far east as Iran. In Romania, the species is known from most of the country’s regions, although it has been reported from very few areas from the Moldova region (eastern and north–eastern Romania). Here we present three new records for Z. longissimus in Romanian Moldova, including the first record for the species in Botoșani County, the north–easternmost region of Romania.

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