scholarly journals First record of the “small cave bear” in Bulgaria and the taxonomic status of bears of the Ursus savini Andrews – Ursus rossicus Borissiak group

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Spassov ◽  
Latinka Hristova ◽  
Stefanka Ivanova ◽  
Ivan Georgiev
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Common Origin ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Mosaic Landscape ◽  
Hilly Terrain ◽  
Cave Bear ◽  
Motor Abilities ◽  
Late Form

Abstract The discovery of rich, well preserved skull material in the latest Middle Pleistocene deposits of Mishin Kamik cave (N-W Bulgaria) presents an opportunity for a new analysis of the taxonomy and the phylogeny of the so called “small cave bears”. Not all the small cave bears known would have necessarily had a common origin, the size decrease could be related in a number of cases to a parallelism. The bear from Mishin Kamik is identical with “Ursus rossicus” Borissiak from Krasnodar (S. Russia). Both these samples must be referred to U. savini Andrews from Bacton near Cromer (England). The specimens from Krasnodar and Mishin Kamik could be classified as U. sa. rossicus, a late form of the species. This species may have affinities with some Middle Pleistocene Siberian forms. U. savini is a small but very robust spelaeoid bear which is more advanced in a number of features than U. deningeri. In several aspects it attained the evolutional adaptations of the cave bears of the U. spelaeus-U. ingressus group and represents an independent lineage of spelaeoid bears. The Mishin Kamik population was adapted to a mosaic landscape of forests and open areas in hilly terrain. This bear had well developed grazing adaptations but had weak motor abilities.

scholarly journals First report of caper (Capparis spinosa) serious infestation by Eurydema eckerleini in Cyclades Islands, Greece (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Pentatomidae)

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Konstantinos B. Simoglou ◽  
Paride Dioli
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Climate ◽  
First Record ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Hilly Terrain ◽  
First Report ◽  
Drought Conditions ◽  
Capparis Spinosa ◽  
Heteroptera Pentatomidae ◽  
The Mediterranean

The islands of Tinos and Syros in the Cyclades Archipelago, Greece, have a hilly terrain, a mild Mediterranean climate and vegetation adapted to drought conditions. Caper (<em>Capparis</em> <em>spinosa</em> L.) is highly adapted to arid environments and grows successfully during the Mediterranean summer. In August 2015, we detected serious infestations on wild caper by <em>Eurydema</em> <em>eckerleini</em> (Pentatomidae), which was formerly considered a species endemic to Crete and the Peloponnese, with an isolated report in Turkey. This is the first record of the presence of<em> E. eckerleini</em> in the Cyclades.

scholarly journals Insecticide Resistance in Anopheles Albitarsis S.S. From a Rice Production Field, With the First Record of Kdr Mutation in This Species 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taiza Andrade Braga ◽  
Aline Cordeiro Loureiro ◽  
José Bento Pereira Lima ◽  
Ademir J Martins
Keyword(s):  
Insecticide Resistance ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Blood Feeding ◽  
Resistance Mechanisms ◽  
Field Population ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Laboratory Colony ◽  
Field Samples ◽  
Rice Plantation

Abstract Background: Although there is a vast literature concerning insecticide resistance (IR) in Plasmodium vectors from African and Asian continents, similar studies with Neotropical anophelines are scares. Herein we evaluated the IR profile of Anopheles albitarsis s.s. of a laboratory colony and a natural population collected around a rice plantation field. The laboratory colony is original from a collection performed in this same region more than two decades ago. Methods: We collected An. albitarsis females while resting after blood feeding, around rice field plantations in Massaranduba, SC, Brazil. These females laid their eggs in the laboratory, and the larvae were raised in parallel with our lab colony. To be sure about the field samples’ taxonomic status, we amplified and sequenced the mitochondrial COI gene of a sampling of field captured mosquitoes. We performed a simplified knockdown test with larvae exposed to permethrin and deltamethrin and submitted adult females to a WHO like tube test with the pyrethroids permethrin, deltamethrin, and etofenprox, in addition to the organophosphate malathion. A segment of the voltage-gated sodium channel gene (NaV) was amplified and cloned. Based on the observed sequences, we developed a TaqMan genotyping assay for the variation L1014F and calculated the genotypic and allelic frequencies concerning this SNP in the field population.Results: The COI analyses confirmed the taxonomic status of An. albitarsis s.s in laboratory and field samples. The field population was resistant to pyrethroids but not to malathion. We observed the substitutions L1019R, F1020S, and the classical kdr L1014F in the NaV gene. This classical kdr allele was present under low frequencies in the overall field population (2%), although more frequent in pyrethroid-resistant insects.Conclusions: The An. albitarsis s.s. population from Massaranduba was resistant to pyrethroids, likely due to selection pressure exerted by agrochemical pesticides. We registered the classical kdr mutation in a Brazilian Anopheles species for the first time. Further investigations are necessary to disclose additional resistance mechanisms.

scholarly journals New records of the William’s Jerboa, Paralactaga cf. williamsi (Thomas, 1897) (Rodentia: Dipodidae) from northeastern Iran with notes on its ecology

Check List ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kordiyeh Hamidi ◽  
Jamshid Darvish ◽  
Maryam M. Matin
Keyword(s):  
Species Identification ◽  
Cytochrome B ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Records ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Western Iran ◽  
Eastern Iran ◽  
Molar Teeth

Paralactaga williamsi, a five-toed jerboa, is known to occur in Anatolian Turkey, northern Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan and western Iran. Here, we report the first record of this species in Kopet-Dag Mountains, northeastern Iran. Species identification was based on external morphology, skull and molar teeth morphology and morphometrics studies, as well as molecular an­al­yses. Brief notes on the ecology of the species are also provided. This new record expands the distribution of P. williamsi in Iran about 850 km eastward, however further sampling will be needed for a better judgment on the taxonomic status of this species in eastern Iran and to determine the patterns of its distribution. Since the specimen did not group with other P. williamsi in the cytochrome b analysis, we provisionally classify the specimens as P. cf. williamsi.

scholarly journals Morphology and sexual dimorphism of living mature adults of Amphiduros fuscescens (Marenzeller, 1875) (Annelida, Hesionidae, Amphidurine), first reported for the Iberian Peninsula

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Martin ◽  
Chiara Romano
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Single Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Body ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Mature Adults ◽  
Nw Mediterranean ◽  
Cryptic Species Complex

To date, the genus Amphiduros (Annelida: Hesionidae: Amphidurine) is considered as monotypic. Its single species, Amphiduros fuscescens (Marenzeller, 1875), is well characterised by lacking proboscideal papillae and emerging acicular chaetae, as well as by having three antennae, eight pairs of tentacular cirri and inflated dorsal cirri with characteristic alternating length and colour (transparent, with median orange band and white tips) in live animals. Three specimens, one male and two females, were found below boulders at 5–7 m depth in Punta Santa Anna, Blanes and Cala Maset, Sant Feliu de Guixols (Catalan Sea, NW Mediterranean, Iberian Peninsula). Our finding allowed us to describe different, unreported morphological traits and lead us to support the existence of sexual dimorphism (in terms of colouring, cirri morphology and distribution of sexual products along the body). Despite A. fuscescens having been previously reported from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean (particularly in SE French coasts), the specimens from Blanes represent the first record of the species from the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, our molecular results strongly support that Amphiduros pacificus Hartman, 1961 from California (currently synonymised with A. fuscescens) requires to be re-described and reinstalled as a valid species. In turn, our morphological observations support suggesting all other non-Mediterranean reports of A. fuscescens, including the species still under synonymy (i.e. Amphidrornus izukai Hessle, 1925 and Amphidromus setosus Hessle, 1925) as likely being a cryptic species complex whose the taxonomic status requires further assessment.

Taxonomic status of male salamanders of the Ambystoma jeffersonianum complex from an Ontario population, with the first record of the Jefferson salamander, A. jeffersonianum (Green), from Canada

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 1270-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne F. Weller ◽  
W. Gary Sprules
Keyword(s):  
Diploid Species ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Tail Length ◽  
First Record ◽  
Total Length ◽  
Ambystoma Jeffersonianum ◽  
Morphological Criteria ◽  
G Ratio ◽  
Jefferson Salamander

Nine morphological criteria were used to determine the taxonomic status of the male salamanders of the Ambystoma jeffersonianum complex from a population near Streetsville, Toronto Township, Peel County, Ontario: (a) snout–vent length; (b) ratio of tail length to snout–vent length; (c) internarial width; (d) extent of separation or overlap of the toes of adpressed limbs; (e) total length; (f) ratio of tail length to total length; (g) ratio of internarial width to snout–vent length; (h) colouration of dorsal, lateral, and ventral body surfaces; and, (i) extent and distribution of the bluish spotting. The results indicate that all of these males resemble A. jeffersonianum or A. platineum rather than A. latérale. Since A. platineum males occur very rarely in nature, these Streetsville individuals are logically assigned to A. jeffersonianum. This represents the first record of this species from Canada. Based upon this new distributional datum of A. jeffersonianum and of the two Diploid species from the literature, we suggest that these triploid species may have originated in post-Wisconsin times and subsequently dispersed northward.

An integrative description of Pilatobius nuominensis sp. nov. (Tardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5026 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
XUE-LING SUN ◽  
JING-YU ZHANG ◽  
NING WANG ◽  
MIN ZHAO ◽  
XUE-GANG LUO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
18S Rrna ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Nucleotide Sequences ◽  
28S Rrna ◽  
Dna Fragments ◽  
Caudal Region ◽  
Mitochondrial Coi ◽  
Independent Verification

A newly identified tardigrade species from China, Pilatobius nuominensis sp. nov., belongs to the group of species with cuticle of the dorsal and lateral caudal region with evident irregular polygonal sculpture. Nucleotide sequences of two nuclear (18S rRNA, 28S rRNA) and one mitochondrial (COI) DNA fragments of the new species are provided, which allows an independent verification of the taxonomic status of the new species. This is the first record of the genus Pilatobius in the Great Hinggan Mountains.  

Taxonomic status of Protankyra ramiurna and Protankyra benedeni (Holothuroidea: Apodida: Synaptidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4324 (3) ◽  
pp. 518 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÉSSICA PRATA ◽  
MICHELA BORGES ◽  
CYNTHIA L. C. MANSO ◽  
MARTIN LINDSEY CHRISTOFFERSEN
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Brazilian Coast ◽  
Single Variable ◽  
Variable Species

This study presents a review of the species Protankyra ramiurna Heding, 1928 and Protankyra benedeni (Ludwig, 1881) from the Brazilian coast. Some authors consider that these two taxa represent a single variable species. Our comparative analysis of external characters, anatomy and ossicle morphology indicates that they represent distinct species. This is the first record of Protankyra ramiurna from Brazil. 

First record of Myotis flavus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from mainland China and a reassessment of its taxonomic status

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2414 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
TINGLEI JIANG ◽  
KEPING SUN ◽  
CHENGHAN CHOU ◽  
ZHENZHEN ZHANG ◽  
JIANG FENG
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Similarity ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
Cytb Sequence ◽  
Locality Record ◽  
Intraspecific Divergence ◽  
Phylogenetic Grouping

Myotis flavus, a synonym of M. formosus found in Taiwan, is reported for the first time for mainland China. We captured one bat in Jiangxi province in Southeast China and identified the taxon as M. flavus based upon its external, cranial and baculum morphology. The uncorrected cytb sequence divergence between M. flavus from Jiangxi and specimen from Taiwan was only 0.61%, indicating intraspecific divergence. Both, morphological and genetic evidence indicated that the specimen from mainland China was a new locality record of M. flavus. In contrast, M. flavus from Jiangxi and from Taiwan exhibited 15.53–16.67% sequence divergence from samples of M. formosus obtained from locations outside Taiwan, and they were not sister lineages. Therefore M. flavus should be recognized as a species from M. formosus. In addition, the sequence similarity between M. watasei from Taiwan and M. formosus from mainland China and their phylogenetic grouping strongly suggests that M. watasei is a synonym of M. formosus.

scholarly journals Scinax nebulosus (Spix, 1824) (Amphibia: Hylidae): review of distribution and new record from Sergipe, Brazil

Check List ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1660
Author(s):  
Eduardo José Dos Reis Dias ◽  
Rony Peterson Santos Almeida ◽  
Maria Aldenise Xavier ◽  
Mayara De Lima Mota ◽  
Adriano Da Cunha Lima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
New Record ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
First Record ◽  
Careful Evaluation ◽  
Temporary Water Bodies ◽  
Temporary Water ◽  
Taxonomic Studies

We present the first record of Scinax nebulosus for the State of Sergipe, in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Scinax nebulosus is a small hylid which inhabits the Amazon and Atlantic Forest. Its main microhabitat is temporary water bodies in tropical forests. This species can be recognized by the presence of many scattered glandules on the dorsal surface, especially on the head, upper eyelids and margins of the members. Some taxonomic studies and vocals records suggest careful evaluation of the taxonomic status of S. nebulosus along its geographical distribution.

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