A small world: Uncovering hidden diversity in Frullania – a new species from Aotearoa-New Zealand

Abstract Frullania is a large and taxonomically complex genus. Here a new Frullania, F. toropuku von Konrat, de Lange & Larraín, sp. nov. is described from New Zealand. Frullania toropuku is placed in F. subg. Microfrullania. The new species is readily recognised by a combination of morphological characters associated with branching, the perianth, sexuality, and sporophyte, which distinguish it from all other New Zealand and regional species of Frullania. However, morphologically F. toropuku most closely resembles the widespread F. rostrata, which might well be regarded as a Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Holarctic F. tamarisci species-complex in terms of its cryptic diversity. A combination of morphological characters associated with branching, the perianth, sexuality, and sporophyte distinguish F. toropuku from all other New Zealand and regional species of Frullania. A comparison is made between F. toropuku and morphologically allied species of botanical regions outside the New Zealand region and an artificial key is provided. In a prior investigation, maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses of nuclear ribosomal ITS2 and plastidic trnL-trnF sequences from purported related species confirms its independent taxonomic status and corroborates its placement within F. subg. Microfrullania. The ongoing studies of Frullania species-complexes reveal the urgent need for more species-level phylogenies with extensive population sampling to approximate the actual diversity of Frullania, and to elucidate speciation processes and distribution range formation.

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Contribution to the knowledge of the oribatid mite genus Leptotocepheus (Acari, Oribatida, Otocepheidae)

Systematic and Applied Acarology ◽

10.11158/saa.23.11.18 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (11) ◽

pp. 2269

Author(s):

Sergey G. Ermilov ◽

Maria Minor

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Oribatid Mite ◽

Taxonomic Status ◽

Identification Key ◽

First Time ◽

Australasian Region ◽

A New Species ◽

Mite Genus

The otocepheid oribatid mite genus Leptotocepheus Balogh, 1961 is recorded in the Australasian region for the first time. The taxonomic status of the genera Leptotocepheus Balogh, 1961 and Longocepheus Balogh & Mahunka,1966 is discussed, resulting in the recognition of Longocepheus as a subgenus (stat. nov.) of Leptotocepheus and the following recombinations: Leptotocepheus (Longocepheus) australis (Balogh & Mahunka, 1966) comb. nov., Leptotocepheus (Longocepheus) globosus (Grobler, 1995) comb. nov., Leptotocepheus (Longocepheus) longus (Balogh, 1961) comb. nov., Leptotocepheus (Longocepheus) youngai (Mahunka, 1984) comb. nov. A new species of Leptotocepheus (Longocepheus) is described from New Zealand, Leptotocepheus (Longocepheus) neozealandicus sp. nov., which differs from other species of the subgenus by the presence of short, slightly developed prodorsal costulae. Revised generic and subgeneric diagnoses, an identification key and distributions for the known taxa of Leptotocepheus are presented.

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Hidden in plain sight—a new Strigula species segregated from Strigula novae-zelandiae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Strigulaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.424.5.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 424 (5) ◽

pp. 267-281 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MARLEY FORD ◽

DAN J. BLANCHON ◽

ANDREW VEALE ◽

ERIN J. DOYLE ◽

JEREMY R. ROLFE ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Its Sequence ◽

Nrdna Its ◽

Its Nrdna ◽

A New Species

A new species, Strigula oleistrata, segregated from S. novae-zelandiae is described. The new species is widely sympatric with Strigula novae-zelandiae from which it is separated by a range of morphological characters and also by its nrDNA ITS sequence. As a result of this segregation, a new circumscription of S. novae-zelandiae is also provided. Comments on the ecology and conservation status of both species, and a revised key to the foliicolous Strigula species of New Zealand are provided.

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Miocene Astelia (Asparagales: Asteliaceae) macrofossils from southern New Zealand

Australian Systematic Botany ◽

10.1071/sb10035 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 19 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Elizabeth Maciunas ◽

John G. Conran ◽

Jennifer M. Bannister ◽

Rosemary Paull ◽

Daphne E. Lee

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Early Miocene ◽

Bootstrap Support ◽

Individual Species ◽

Good Opportunity ◽

Phylogenetic Placement ◽

A New Species ◽

Combined Data

The discovery of Early Miocene Asteliaceae fossils at Foulden Maar in southern New Zealand provided a good opportunity to assess the usefulness of cuticular information for identifying members in this family. On the basis of cuticular morphology, the Foulden specimens are assigned to Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R.Br. and described as a new species, A. antiquua Maciunas et al. They are shown to have some affinities with A. alpina, A. linearis and also an apparently unnamed Astelia taxon from southern Westland, New Zealand. Although cuticular characteristics alone were of help in identifying individual species, the addition of gross morphological characters facilitated the differentiation between Asteliaceae genera, greatly improving the phylogenetic placement of the fossil. On the basis of analysis of the combined data, Astelia and Collospermum formed a clade and were sister to a Milligania and Neoastelia clade, albeit with most branches showing little overall bootstrap support.

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A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alvinocarididae) and new records of alvinocaridids from hydrothermal vents north of New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.444.1.1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 444 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

W. RICHARD WEBBER

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Hydrothermal Vents ◽

New Records ◽

Distal Segment ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Depth Range ◽

Basal Segment ◽

Pairwise Correlations ◽

A New Species

Alvinocaris niwa n. sp. is described from hydrothermal vents at the Brothers Caldera and Rumble V Seamount on the southern Kermadec Ridge, midway between the Kermadec Islands and Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Four hundred specimens of Alvinocaris longirostris Kikuchi & Ohta, 1995, described from Japan, are recorded at the Brothers. The presence of a possible third Alvinocaris at Rumble V and one or two species of Chorocaris at Brothers are also reported. Eighty-eight specimens of A. niwa and 41 of A. longirostris were measured and examined to assess morphological variation. Morphological characters used to distinguish alvinocaridids are shown to be highly variable. Pairwise correlations with carapace length indicate that numbers of teeth, spines and setae are generally not related to shrimp size. Descriptions based on small numbers of specimens are thus questionable. The new species is characterised by: short rostrum; paired sternal spines on abdominal somites I III; long stylocerite and robust distolateral spine on the antennular proximal segment, with a subterminal spine; two ventral spines on antennal basal segment; row of spines on distal segment of maxilliped III; and two rows of spines on flexor surface of P3 P5 dactyls. It is the shallowest alvinocaridid yet discovered and also inhabits the greatest depth range, at over 700 m.

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Examples of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Bathysiphon (Foraminiferida) from the Pacific Rim and the taxonomic status of Terebellina Ulrich, 1904

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000035162 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 69 (4) ◽

pp. 624-634 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

William Miller

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Taxonomic Status ◽

Trace Fossils ◽

The Body ◽

Trace Fossil ◽

Large Species ◽

The Pacific ◽

A New Species

The generic name Terebellina was proposed by E. O. Ulrich for large (> 100 mm long, several millimeters wide), siliceous, tubular fossils from Cretaceous rocks of southern Alaska. Originally interpreted as annelid tubes, these unusual agglutinated fossils are locally abundant in Triassic to Neogene flysch and other basinal deposits of the Pacific borderlands. Other generic names employed for the same fossils include Torlessia (used in New Zealand) and Yokoia (in Japan). Although most authors have regarded the tubes as body fossils of worms, some workers have speculated recently that Pacific Terebellina are really large bathysiphonid foraminiferids. At the same time, the name has been co-opted by trace fossil workers for thick-walled, grain-lined burrows usually occurring in outer-shelf to slope facies.Based on comparisons with modern and fossil bathysiphonids, including a new species (Bathysiphon harperi) from the Cretaceous of southwestern Oregon, the body fossils called Terebellina are here reinterpreted as large species of Bathysiphon, and the name Terebellina is therefore a junior synonym of this foraminiferid genus. Except for the compression and recrystallization of tubes, Pacific Terebellina resemble very closely the tests of larger species of modern Bathysiphon. Terebellina should not be salvaged for use as an ichnogenus. Most of the trace fossils identified with this name in the recent literature could be accommodated in other established ichnogenera, primarily Palaeophycus (where grain-lined burrows occur individually and are dominantly horizontal) and Schaubcylindrichnus (where they occur in curved bundles).

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A New Species of Pittosporum Described from the Poor Knights Islands, Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Systematic Botany ◽

10.1600/036364418x697355 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 633-643 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sophie N. Carter ◽

Steven Miller ◽

Stacey J. Meyer ◽

Chrissen E. C. Gemmill

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

The Poor ◽

A New Species

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A new species of Paralamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.451.1.1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 451 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Zealand ◽

Cladistic Analysis ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

A New Species

Paralamyctes (Paralamyctes) rahuensis n. sp. is endemic to the Buller area of South Island, New Zealand. Cladistic analysis of morphological characters indicates closest relations to P. (P.) harrisi Archey, 1922, from North Island, and P. (P.) monteithi Edgecombe, 2001, from Queensland, Australia.

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Detection of Cryptic taxa in the genus Leptophryne (Fitzinger, 1843) (Amphibia; Bufonidae) and the description of a new species from Java, Indonesia

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4450.4.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4450 (4) ◽

pp. 427 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

AMIR HAMIDY ◽

MISBAHUL MUNIR ◽

MUMPUNI MUMPUNI ◽

MILA RAHMANIA ◽

AZIS ABDUL KHOLIK

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Small Body ◽

Taxonomic Status ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Rrna Gene ◽

Cryptic Taxa ◽

Morphological Differences ◽

Yellow Mottling ◽

A New Species ◽

Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis

We investigated phylogenetic relationships among populations of two species within the genus Leptophryne, L. cruentata and L. borbonica, using the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. As a result, we identified two distinct lineages within populations currently considered Leptophryne cruentata: 1) a lineage containing L. cruentata from the type locality, and 2) a lineage from Mt. Slamet and Mt. Ciremai. On the basis of genetic and morphological differences, we describe the Mt. Slamet and Mt. Ciremai populations as a new species, L. javanica sp. nov. The new species is distinguished from L. cruentata and L. borbonica by the following combination of morphological characters: the presence of distinct yellow mottling on the dorsum; relatively small body size (SVL male 22.2–24.0 mm, female 29.6 mm); relatively short hindlimbs (HLL 37.0–40.9 mm); relatively short fourth toe (4ToeL 4.3–6.0 mm); basal webbing on the hands, but well developed on toes; very protruding snout and an indistinct tympanum. In our preliminary phylogenetic analysis, we also detected four distinct lineages within Leptophryne borbonica: 1) a lineage containing true L. borbonica from west Java, 2) a lineage from Lampung (Sumatra I), 3) a lineage from northern Borneo, and 4) a lineage from Bengkulu (Sumatra II). Further studies are needed to determine taxonomic status of these lineages.

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On the spider genus Weintrauboa (Araneae, Pimoidae), with a description of a new species from China and comments on its phylogenetic relationships

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1814.1.1 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1814 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

GUSTAVO HORMIGA

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Phylogenetic Relationships ◽

Taxonomic Status ◽

Sister Group ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

New Combination ◽

Sister Group Relationship ◽

Parsimony Analysis ◽

Phylogenetic Placement ◽

A New Species

Weintrauboa yele new species (Pimoidae) is described and illustrated based on specimens collected in China. The taxonomic status and distribution of Weintrauboa insularis (Saito, 1935) new combination and of W. chikunii (Oi, 1979) are discussed and the former species is illustrated based on specimens from the Sakhalin islands. Parsimony analysis of morphological characters provides support for the monophyly of Weintrauboa and for its sister group relationship to the genus Putaoa Hormiga and Tu, 2008. Some comments on the phylogenetic placement of the recently erected family “Sinopimoidae” are provided.

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Neohygrocybe griseonigra (Hygrophoraceae, Agaricales), a new species from subtropical China

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.350.1.7 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 350 (1) ◽

pp. 64

Author(s):

CHAO-QUN WANG ◽

MING ZHANG ◽

TAI-HUI LI

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Nature Reserve ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Taxonomic Status ◽

Guangdong Province ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Subtropical China ◽

Rdna Sequences ◽

Molecular Phylogenetic ◽

A New Species

A new species in genus Neohygrocybe sect. Neohygrocybe, N. griseonigra, is described from the Chebaling National Nature Reserve in Guangdong province, China. It is characterized by its dark brown dry fibrillose pileus, whitish to grayish white lamellae that stain red then dark gray or blackish when bruised, smooth basidiospores, long sterigmata of basidia, and lanceolate pseudocystidia. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the ITS rDNA sequences also confirm the taxonomic status of the new species as the morphological characters indicated. A key to all known members of Neohygrocybe is provided in this study.

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