scholarly journals Western Australian Onychophora (Peripatopsidae): a new genus, Kumbadjena, for a southern species-complex

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Reid
Keyword(s):  
Species Complex ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
Southern Species

Ebbepterote, a new genus for the Australian 'Eupterote' expansa (T. P. Lucas), with a revised classification of the family Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera)

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Oberprieler ◽  
W. A. Nässig ◽  
E. D. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Monophyletic Group ◽  
Tarsal Segment ◽  
The Family

The single and endemic species of Eupterote Hübner recorded from Australia is shown not to possess the male genitalia typical of this genus, nor of any other genus of Eupterotidae, and it is consequently placed in a new genus, Ebbepterote Oberprieler, Nässig & Edwards, as E. expansa (T. P. Lucas, 1891), comb. nov. Its genitalia are compared with those of many Asian and African genera of Eupterotidae, resulting in a revised classification and redefinition of the major eupterotid lineages. Five groups are defined: a probably paraphyletic 'basal' Ganisa-group and likely monophyletic subfamilies Janinae (including Tissanga Aurivillius and Hibrildes Druce), Striphnopteryginae, Eupterotinae and Panacelinae. Ebbepterote and the New Guinean 'Eupterote' styx Bethune-Baker species-complex are included in Striphnopteryginae, which is otherwise restricted to Africa. Cotana Walker is reassigned to Eupterotinae from Panacelinae and Sphingognatha Felder is resurrected from synonymy with Eupterote. The genitalia of Ebbepterote and several other critical genera are illustrated, demonstrating that the shape of the uncus does not constitute a suitable synapomorphy for defining the Eupterotidae as a monophyletic group. Another alleged eupterotid synapomorphy, the presence of a row of midventral spurs on the apical tarsal segment of the hindleg of the female, is shown to occur only sporadically in the family but also outside of it, in the lemoniid–brahmaeid–sphingid clade of Bombycoidea. As a result, the monophyly of the Eupterotidae currently rests only on a single, cryptic character of the mesoscutum of the imago and is in urgent need of substantiation.

Cladistics, Phenetics and Biogeography of Populations of Boronia inornata Turcz. (Rutaceae) and the Eucalyptus diptera Andrews (Myrtaceae) Species Complex in Western Australia

1985 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
MA Burgman
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Morphometric Data ◽  
Species Overlap ◽  
Replacement Pattern ◽  
Western Australian

Numerical cladistic and phenetic analyses were undertaken on morphometric data from 22 Western Australian populations of the southern Australian shrub Boronia inornata and from the southern Western Australian tree Eucalyptus diptera and its unnamed allies. The E. diptera species complex includes four taxa, three of which are at present unnamed. These species are largely allopatric, although in one location the ranges of two species overlap. Two subspecies of Boronia inornata are described and one of them, subsp. leptophylla, contains three informal variants. Subsp. inornata and two of the variants of subsp. leptophylla are restricted to Western Australia. One variant of subsp. leptophylla is sympatric with subsp. inornata in Western Australia and also occurs in southern South Australia. The events which gave rise to the four species of the E. diptera complex and to the subspecies and variants of B. inornata occurred within the semiarid mallee zone of Western Australia, probably during the Quaternary. Speciation has occurred in a replacement pattern across the southern transitional rainfall zone, which is reflected in at least one other, unrelated taxon.

scholarly journals A newly recognised species of Cryptes Maskell 1892 (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from Western Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4508 (1) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
YEN-PO LIN ◽  
TAKUMASA KONDO ◽  
TAKUMASA KONDO ◽  
PENNY J. GULLAN ◽  
LYN G. COOK
Keyword(s):  
Adult Female ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Nuclear Loci ◽  
Acacia Aneura ◽  
Western Australian

Cryptes utzoni Lin, Kondo & Cook sp. n. (Hemiptera: Coccidae) is described based on adult female morphology and DNA sequences from mitochondrial and nuclear loci. This Australian endemic species was found on the stem of Acacia aneura (Fabaceae) in Western Australia. All phylogenetic analyses of three independent DNA loci show that C. utzoni is closely related to C. baccatus (Maskell), the type and only species of Cryptes Maskell, 1892. The adult female of C. utzoni is described and illustrated and a table is provided of the characters that differ among adult females of the two species of Cryptes now recognised (C. baccatus and C. utzoni) and a morphologically similar Western Australian species, Austrolichtensia hakearum (Fuller). There is deep genetic divergence in COI among samples of C. baccatus, suggesting the possibility of a species complex in this taxon. 

On the “Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925” species complex (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae), with the designation of a new genus and description of two new species from the Indo-West Pacific

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2768 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAN MARIN ◽  
JUNJI OKUNO ◽  
TIN-YAM CHAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Soft Corals ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Incisor Process

Only one species of hippolytid shrimp, namely Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925, was previously known to be associated with alcyonacean soft corals (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) in the Indo-West Pacific. Recent collections revealed that at least three distinct hippolytid species are associated with alcyonacean soft corals. Moreover, these alcyonacean-associated hippolytids differ considerably from all other species of the genus Hippolyte Leach, 1814 in having a smooth rostrum bearing a single subapical ventral tooth, reduced styliform incisor process of the mandible, the basal antennular segment without ventromedial tooth, and the ambulatory pereiopods lacking or with only relatively small distoventral spines. A new genus, Alcyonohippolyte gen. nov., is thus established for Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925 and two new species. Alcyonohippolyte dossena sp. nov. (the type species of the new genus) mainly differs from the congeners in having a humpbacked carapace. Alcyonohippolyte maculata sp. nov. closely resembles A. commensalis but clearly differs in having a furry carapace and distinct coloration, as well as in association with different alcyonacean host. An identification key is provided as well as information on the live coloration and host for all species of Alcyonohippolyte gen. nov.

A Morphological and Electrophoretic Examination of Hydrobia Buccinoides, a Variable Brackish-Water Gastropod From Temperate Australia (Mollusca, Hydrobiidae)

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 661 ◽  
Author(s):  
WF Ponder ◽  
GA Clark
Keyword(s):  
Brackish Water ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New South ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
Intrapopulation Variation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Western Australian

The morphology of the abundant brackish-water hydrobiid snail known as 'Hydrobia buccinoides' is described. A new genus, Ascorhis, is provided for it and the valid species name for the southern (South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania) and eastern (New South Wales, Queensland) populations is shown to be victoriae T. Woods. The species name buccinoides is based on Assiminea tasmanica and is an earlier name for that species. Morphological and allozyme differences indicate that the Western Australian populations should be distinguished as a separate species and a new name (A. occidua) is provided for these. Both species show a considerable intrapopulation variation in shell sculpture. Salinity tolerance experiments on three Sydney populations indicate that Ascorhis victoriae tolerates a wide range of salinities, the middle of the preferred range being about that of normal seawater.

Discordant patterns of morphological and genetic divergence in the 'Austrocochlea constricta' (Gastropoda: Trochidae) species complex

1996 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 981 ◽  
Author(s):  
KE Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Divergence ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Allele Frequencies ◽  
Morphological Divergence ◽  
Enzyme Loci ◽  
Spatial Isolation ◽  
Western Australian

Patterns of genetic and morphological divergence were examined among Western Australian (Abrolhos Islands and Albany) and Tasmanian members of the highly variable 'Austrocochlea constricta' species complex. Analyses of allele frequencies at 13 enzyme loci confirmed the presence of three species within this complex in Tasmania, revealing additional diagnostic differences not previously detected. Where combinations of species sympatry were examined in Tasmania, seven diagnostic loci separated A. constricta and A. brevis, four separated A. porcata and A. brevis, and one separated A. porcata and A. constricta. Western Australian animals were genetically most similar to Tasmanian A. constricta populations, separated from them by genetic distances of just 0.018 (Albany) to 0.107 (Abrolhos), despite spatial isolation over ~3000 km. These genetic distances, in addition to that separating Abrolhos and Albany populations (0.138), are considered within the range possible for allopatric conspecifics. In comparison, genetic distances separating A. constricta from sympatric A. porcata (0.191) and A. brevis (0.803) in Tasmania were much larger. However, on the basis of a range of morphological traits, which were species-diagnostic in Tasmania, Abrolhos animals most closely resembled A. porcata, and Albany animals appeared intermediate to A. porcata and A. constricta. This suggests Australia-wide discordance among genetic and morphological characters of the 'A. constricta' complex.

IV.—On the New Brachiopod Genus, Liothyrella, of Thomson

1918 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wilfrid Jackson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dorsal Valve ◽  
Southern Species ◽  
A New Species

The new genus, Liothyrella, has recently been created by Dr. J. Allan Thomson for the reception of a series of recent and fossil Terebratulids commonly ascribed to the genus Liothyrina. The chief characters upon which the genus is founded are the presence of fine radial ribbing on the surface of the shells and the possession of a short, low, thin, mesial septum in the dorsal valve. In the thickness of the shell, Liothyrella is said to stand between Liothyrina (genotype L. vitrea) and Terebratula, sensu str., all three genera being finely punctate. Thomson takes the; recent Magellanic species L. uva (Brod.) as the genotype of Liothyrella, and includes in the same genus L. uva, var. notorcadensis, Jackson, from Scotia Bay, South Orkneys, and a new species dredged off Tasmania by the Mawson Expedition, as well as two Australian Tertiary species, Terebratula tateana, Tenison-Woods, and T. concentrica (Hutton). He remarks that “probably also many of the other southern species ascribed to Liothyrina will be included here, but the descriptions do not state whether or not a mesial septum is present” (op. cit., p. 44).

scholarly journals A new genus and four new species of sea cucumbers (Echinodermata) from Admiralty Bay, King George Island

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Mark O’Loughlin ◽  
Anna Stępień ◽  
Marek Kuźniak ◽  
Didier Van Den Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Body Wall ◽  
New Genus ◽  
King George Island ◽  
Sea Cucumbers ◽  
Body Form ◽  
Admiralty Bay

Abstract Four new Antarctic holothuroid species are described for specimens from Admiralty Bay in King George Island. A new genus Dendrelasia O’Loughlin is erected for new cucumariid species Dendrelasia sicinski with dendrochirotid body form and elasipodid− type spinous rod ossicles. Cucumariid Staurocucumis krzysztofi has bowl ossicles predominantly with marginal teeth. Provisionally−assigned thyonid Allothyone presleri has table ossicles with spires comprising predominantly four pillars. Molpadiid Molpadia magdae has a prickly cover of irregular table ossicle spires and fusiform table discs in both body wall and tail. Staurocucumis liouvillei (Vaney) is a “species complex”

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