A new species of soil predatory flagellate, Colponema edaphicum sp. n., from Vorontsovskaya Cave, North Caucasus (Protista, Alveolata: Colponemidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
A.P. Mylnikov ◽  
D.V. Tikhonenkov

A new species of soil predatory flagellate, Colponema edaphicum sp. n., is described from Vorontsovskaya Cave (Krasnodar Terr.). This species is characterized by the smallsized flattened oval cell with small rostrum and pointed distal part as well as by amphorashaped toxicysts. Morphological diagnoses of other known Colponema species are given. Intrageneric distinctions are discussed.

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 325-334
Author(s):  
Ivan I. Kropachev ◽  
Nikolai L. Orlov ◽  
Hoa Thi Ninh ◽  
Tao Thien Nguyen

We describe a new species of the Rhacophorus genus, which differs from all species known in Asia by the combination of characters. It strongly differs also from small and middle-sized species of Rhacophorus sensu lato: Rhacophorus calcaneus Smith, 1924, Leptomantis cyanopunctatus (Manthey et Steiof, 1998), Rhacophorus hoabinhensis Nguyen, Pham, Nguyen, Ninh et Ziegler, 2017, Rhacophorus hoanglienensis Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy et Ho, 2001, Zhangixalus jarujini (Matsui et Panha, 2006), Rhacophorus laoshan Mo, Jiang, Xie et Ohler, 2008, Rhacophorus pardalis Günther, 1858, Rhacophorus rhodopus Liu et Hu, 1960, Rhacophorus robertingeri Orlov, Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Ananjeva, Nguyen, Sang, and Geissler, 2012, Leptomantis robinsonii (Boulenger, 1903), Rhacophorus spelaeus Orlov, Gnophanxay, Phimminith, and Phomphoumy, 2010, Rhacophorus translineatus Wu, 1977, Rhacophorus turpes Smith, 1940, Rhacophorus vampyrus Rowley, Le, Thi, Stuart et Hoang, 2010, Rhacophorus viridimaculatus Ostroshabov, Orlov et Nguyen, 2013 by having brown color with two green dorsolateral stripes starting at the groin level and connecting through the distal part of eyelid with green triangle on the head, slender body and head, lower ratio HW/HL 0.86, lower HW/SVL 0.28 and lower ratio HL/SVL 0.32.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 358 (3) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER V. FATERYGA ◽  
ANTON V. POPOVICH ◽  
VALENTINA V. FATERYGA ◽  
ELENA A. AVERYANOVA ◽  
KAREL (C.A.J.) KREUTZ

A new self-pollinating species, Epipactis euxina, is described from Gelendzhik District of Krasnodar Territory. The species is closely related to E. persica from which it differs by its remarkable long pedicel, distinctly longer epichile, and indistinct or absent viscidium. It grows in sparse pine forest mixed with oak, on calcareous soils. Four other taxa collected in different localities of Krasnodar Territory are new for the North Caucasus: E. krymmontana, E. leptochila subsp. leptochila, E. leptochila subsp. neglecta, and E. muelleri. A new synonymy is proposed for E. persica = E. helleborine subsp. transcaucasica. An updated key to the species of the genus Epipactis in the North Caucasus is provided. The lectotype of E. muelleri is designated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Federica Semprucci ◽  
Maria Balsamo

Maldivea Gerlach, 1962 is a possible endemic genus of the Maldivian archipelago for which only M. xarifae Gerlach, 1962 has been described so far. A new species of this genus, M. complexa n.sp., was recently found in Felidhoo atoll. It reveals a more complex structure of gubernaculum than in type species which appears to be divided into two pieces: one is a sort of long wing in the ventral part of the spicule and the other one, more complex, is characterized by several curved stripes which envelop the dorsal side of the spicule distal part. According to the present considerations, diagnoses of Paroxystomininae and Maldivea are emended.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 195 (4) ◽  
pp. 291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Sergeevich Gusev

Mallomonas fimbriata, sp. nov. is described from bog pool, located in Cam Ranh Peninsula, Khanh Hoa Province, Central Vietnam. The description is based on silica-scale morphology studied by means of transmission and scanning electron microscopy. New species has 3 types of scales: oval body scales, caudal ones with robust, long, forward pointing spines and elongated, widened to distal part apical scales. Scales are thick, 3-layered, with inner reticulation. Mallomonas fimbriata and the similar M. fenestrata form a special group with unique features of scales structure close to the sections Retrorsae and Quadratae.


Crustaceana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (9) ◽  
pp. 991-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong-Li Sha ◽  
Xian-Qiu Ren

A new species of the neoverrucid barnacle genusNeoverrucaNewman, 1989,N. intermediasp. nov., collected from a hydrothermal vent area in the Okinawa Trough, is described and illustrated. It differs fromN. brachylepadoformisNewman, 1989 by the apical end of the inner surface of the movable scutum being in a pocket-form, with a longitudinal groove upwards, and without median ridges; the adductor ridge (or myophore) of the fixed scutum stout and the inner distal part of the scutum without longitudinal ridge.


Zoosymposia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKOLAY M. PARAMONOV

A new species, Pedicia (Pedicia) savtshenkoi, is described from Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia. This species of nominative subgenus Pedicia is discovered for the first time in the Caucasus. A key to males of West Palaearctic species of Pedicia (Pedicia) is presented.


Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2196 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANA BEDEK ◽  
STEFANO TAITI

A new species of Strouhaloniscellus (S. biokovoensis) (Trichoniscidae, Haplophthalminae) is described and illustrated from specimens collected at the bottom of a vertical cave in Mt Biokovo, Croatia. The new species is characterised by its small size (2.8 mm long), unpigmented body, absence of eyes, cephalon with three rows of tubercles, pereion with an oblique ridge on the epimera and 2+2 large tubercles on pereionites 1–6 and 1+1 on pereionite 7, pleon narrow with no dorsal ornamentation, male pereiopod 7 with a stout apically rounded seta on carpus, and male pleopod 1 exopod with a quadrangular distal part bent outwards and a rounded lobe on medial margin. Strouhaloniscellus biokovoensis n. sp. represents the second known species of the genus Strouhaloniscellus. The differences with S. anophthalmus (Strouhal) are discussed and an emended diagnosis of the genus Strouhaloniscellus is given.


2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Pountougnigni Oumarou Farikou ◽  
Piscart Christophe ◽  
Sob Nangou Paul Bertrand ◽  
Zebaze Togouet Serge Hubert

During recent investigations of the groundwater fauna of Cameroon, specimens of a new species of the stygobitic genus Metastenasellus, M. boutini sp. nov. were collected in wells of the city of Douala. The new species can be easily distinguished from the other species of the genus by its relatively large size (up to 11 mm), pleonite 1 and 2 half the length of pereonite 7, the shape of pleopod 2 in males (presence of an external lobe on the protopodite, distal part of the spermatic duct slightly protruding out of the second article, lack of a distal seta on the exopodite), and uropod half the length of the pleotelson. Ecological data and a key to Metastenasellus species are provided. We also performed an exhaustive analysis of the literature on Stenasellidae in Africa to study the geographical distribution of the family in this continent and discuss some hypotheses about the origin of African species.


Zootaxa ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUT COLLADO ◽  
RÜDIGER M. SCHMELZ

A new species of the oligochaete genus Pristina (Naididae) is described from Central Amazonian soil and litter samples. Investigations were carried out on living and preserved material, with emphasis on characters of the soft-bodied anatomy as seen in living specimens, including the sexual organs. Regarding the chaetal pattern, Pristina trifida is almost indistinguishable from the syntopic P. silvicola Collado & Schmelz, 2000. Conspicuous differences exist, however, in the presence of a stomach with intracellular canals, in the location of the first nephridium in segment IX, and in details of the male reproductive system such as a large prostate gland and a widening of the distal part of the vas deferens. The new species resembles also a group of taxonomically problematic species, P. sima, P. minuta, and P. osborni, whose synonymy has been assumed by several authors. Pristina trifida differs from this group mainly by smaller needle and ventral chaetae and by equally long teeth in the anterior ventral chaetae. The high similarity in the chaetal pattern between P. trifida and P. silvicola implies that there are more species in Pristina than the chaetae might suggest. It further questions the accuracy of chaetae-based species identifications and synonymizations in the group of P. osborni, P. minuta, and P. sima, and possibly the genus in general.


2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-196
Author(s):  
A.K. Heinrich

Pontella aculeata sp. n. from the eastern part of the Indian Ocean is described and illustrated. It is closely related to P. novaezelandiae Farran, 1929. The new species is distinguished from it by the shorter processes of Me5. Right P5 of P. aculeata male has in proximal part of Re1 a branching process with two long, slender, and one wide short branches. P. novaezelandiae has there one long process and short forked projection at its base. The posterior process on dorsal side of the genital somite in the female of the new species is short, with rounded edges, in P. novaezelandiae long and sharp. P. aculeata female has right P5 Re with 2 processes in the distal part of the inner edge. P. novaezelandiae has one only. P. aculeata is smaller than P. novaezelandiae.


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