scholarly journals A new species of Brachyorrhos from Seram, Indonesia and notes on fangless homalopsids (Squamata, Serpentes)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Lower Number ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Endemic Genus ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
A New Species

Homalopsid snakes are monophyletic and contain two major subclades: a fangless clade and rear-fanged clade. They are distributed in South Asia, Australasia, and the Western Pacific. The fangless clade is restricted to the eastern Indonesian Archipelago and the island of Sumatra and is poorly known in terms of its natural history. Molecular data support the eastern Indonesian fangless endemic genus Brachyorrhos as the sister to the rear-fang clade. Here we recognize the identity of the Brachyorrhos population from the island of Morotai as B. wallacei and describe a new species of dwarf Brachyorrhos from the island of Seram, Malukus, Indonesia. The new species can be distinguished from all congeners by a lower number of ventral scales, the presence of a preocular scale and a loreal scale, as well as its exceptionally diminutive size. The new species is a candidate for the smallest alethinophidian snake. The three fangless genera, Brachyorrhos, Calamophis, and Karnsophis, have been suggested to form a clade of homalopsid snakes restricted to the Indonesian Archipelago, and we discuss their biogeography. KEYWORDS: biogeography, Calamophis, Homalopsidae, Karnsophis, small snakes

scholarly journals A new species of the genus Dysommina (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae: Ilyophinae) from the Western Pacific

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4454 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
KENNETH A. TIGHE ◽  
HSUAN-CHING HO ◽  
KIYOTAKA HATOOKA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Lower Number ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Head Length ◽  
Eye Size ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
A New Species

Dysommina orientalis, a new species of Ilyophine eel from off Taiwan and Japan is described and illustrated. The species had long been recognized as Dysommina rugosa in the western Pacific and is distinguished from D. rugosa by a lower number of predorsal vertebrae, a higher number of total vertebrae, shorter head length, smaller eye size, reduced vomerine dentition, and an increased number of both mandibular and maxillary teeth, as well as significant differences in DNA sequence in COI and 16S.

Uca jocelynae sp. nov., a new species of fiddler crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Western Pacific

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2337 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
HSI-TE SHIH ◽  
TOHRU NARUSE ◽  
PETER K. L. NG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Fiddler Crab ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
A New Species

A new species of fiddler crab, Uca jocelynae sp. nov., belonging to the U. vocans complex, is described from the islands in Western Pacific on the basis of morphological and molecular data. The new species was previously identified with U. neocultrimana (Bott, 1973) (= U. vocans pacificensis Crane, 1975). The two species can be readily distinguished by characters of the male major chelae, carapace features, and the form of the vulvae. The molecular data of parts of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA and cytochrome oxidase I (COI) genes support that both are sister taxa but nevertheless distinct enough to be regarded as separate species. Uca jocelynae is widely distributed from the islands in the Western Pacific, while U. neocultrimana occurs in Fiji and eastwards.

Cycloachelous levigatus sp. nov., a new swimming crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) from the South China Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4970 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
MILAN KOCH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Swimming Crab ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Portunid Crab ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Pacific Area

A new species of portunid crab from the genus Cycloachelous Ward, 1942 is described from Vietnamese waters. Cycloachelous levigatus sp. nov. is morphologically most similar to C. orbitosinus (Rathbun, 1911), which was originally described from the syntype series collected from Western Pacific area (Cargados Carajos Islands, Amirante Islands, Seychelles) and C. octodentatus (Gordon, 1938) described from one single male from Singapore. There are differences in the sternal segments, third maxilliped, chela, abdomen and male gonopode shapes. The specific status of C. levigatus sp. nov. is also clearly supported by molecular data. Aside from a comparison of this new species with other known congeners, new photographs of syntypes of C. orbitosinus and the holotype of C. octodentatus are also provided. 

scholarly journals Annonaceae in the Western Pacific: geographic patterns and four new species

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian M. Turner ◽  
Timothy M.A. Utteridge
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Geographic Patterns ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
A New Species

The taxonomy and distribution of Pacific Annonaceae are reviewed in light of recent changes in generic delimitations. A new species of the genus Monoon from the Solomon Archipelago is described, Monoon salomonicum I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov., together with an apparently related new species from New Guinea, Monoon pachypetalum I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov. The confirmed presence of the genus in the Solomon Islands extends the generic range eastward beyond New Guinea. Two new species of Huberantha are described, Huberantha asymmetrica I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov. and Huberantha whistleri I.M.Turner & Utteridge sp. nov., from the Solomon Islands and Samoa respectively. New combinations are proposed: Drepananthus novoguineensis (Baker f.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge comb. nov., Meiogyne punctulata (Baill.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge comb. nov. and Monoon merrillii (Kaneh.) I.M.Turner & Utteridge comb. nov. One neotype and four lectotypes are designated. The geographic patterns exhibited by nine native Annonaceae genera, that range in the Pacific beyond New Guinea, are discussed.

scholarly journals A new species of vent associated Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the Western Pacific, with notes on its genetic identification

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1435 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHINJI TSUCHIDA ◽  
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX ◽  
RYUSUKE KADO ◽  
SEIICHI WATANABE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Hydrothermal Vents ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Genetic Identification ◽  
Mitochondrial Sequences ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
A New Species

Munidopsis myojinensis n. sp., herein described and illustrated from Myojin Knoll and Northwest Eifuku Seamount in the Western Pacific, is the tenth species of Munidopsis known to be associated with active hydrothermal vents. It resembles M. starmer Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1992 in general ornamentation and spination of the body but differs in the erectness of the eyespine and form of the telson plates. Information on genetic identification using mitochondrial sequences (COI) is provided. Distributions of the vent associated Munidopsis in the Western Pacific and the habitat of the new species are briefly described.

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