scholarly journals An annotated list of reptiles and amphibians from the 1905 Hamburg expedition to southwest Australia deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Jakob Hallermann
Keyword(s):  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Precise Locality ◽  
Southwest Australia

The herpetological material of the 1905 Hamburg expedition to southwest Australia is redetermined and listed with precise locality data and habitat details. Of this material, 275 specimens of 57 species are still part of the herpetological collection of the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH). A map showing 47 (out of 167) collecting points is provided. Some of the type specimens described in the original material by Prof. Franz Werner have been destroyed. A single paratype of Crinia michaelseni (Werner, 1914) now Geocrinia leai (Flecher, 1898), formerly thought to be lost, was recovered in the ZMH collection. This historical collection is a valuable resource for understanding the composition of the herpetofauna of the previous century.

Aulacophoroides (Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae), a generic account, description of a new species from Hong Kong (China) and a key to species

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1299 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEXIA X. QIAO ◽  
LIYUN Y. JIANG ◽  
JON H. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Species ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Beijing China ◽  
A New Species

The aphid genus Aulacophoroides Eastop and Hille Ris Lambers is reviewed. Aulacophoroides millettiae sp. nov. is described from Millettia sp. in Hong Kong, China. A key to the described species of Aulacophoroides is provided. The type specimens studied are deposited in the Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

Lectotypification of the name Agrostis ventricosa Gouan (Poaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 490 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
ANNA SCOPPOLA ◽  
ENRICO BANFI
Keyword(s):  
Original Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
Carl Linnaeus

Gastridium ventricosum (Poaceae) is the currently accepted name of Gouan’s Agrostis ventricosa, whose previous unclear type designation is briefly discussed and superseded. All relevant sources, specimens, illustrations, and the author’s relevant correspondence are carefully evaluated, the original material and possible type specimens are thoroughly discussed for the purpose to fix the precise taxonomic application of the name. We have chosen as the best admissible lectotype a newly discovered, well-preserved specimen enclosed in a letter sent by Antoine Gouan to Carl Linnaeus in 1761. This letter, Ref. L2998, is preserved in the Linnean Society of London’s collections (LINN) and was drawn up a year before the publication of the species name.

A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 1. Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (ZMUC)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2093 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG ◽  
WIM VADER
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
The Other ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
New Material ◽  
Scanning Electron

This paper presents redescriptions of amphipods in the genus Metopa (Stenothoidae) in the type-collections of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. For Metopa clypeata and M. abyssalis we redescribe the type-specimens, for M. glacialis and M. groenlandica the redescriptions are based on new material and checked against the type-specimens. For all except M. abyssalis a combination of new line drawings and scanning electron microscope (SEM) pictures is provided, for M. abyssalis, line drawings only. A summary of the other species having earlier been designed to Metopa in the Copenhagen collections is given, with a list of their present taxonomic position.

Redescriptions of three species of Pulvinaria (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) in Japan

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4779 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
HIROTAKA TANAKA
Keyword(s):  
Adult Female ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Morphological Character ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Japanese Species

Three Japanese species of the genus Pulvinaria Targioni Tozzetti (P. araliae Shinji, 1935, P. enkianthi Takahashi, 1955 and P. flava Takahashi, 1955) are redescribed and illustrated based on type specimens and some newly collected adult female specimens. Lectotypes are designated for P. enkianthi and P. flava from syntypes of these species and, in the absence of any original material, a neotype is designated for P. araliae using a specimen collected from the type locality. To facilitate comparisons, a table of diagnostic morphological character states of the redescribed species and the type species of the genus, P. vitis (Linnaeus, 1758), is also provided. 

scholarly journals Fossil flora of Middle Jurassic Grojec clays (southern Poland). Raciborski’s original material reinvestigated and supplemented. I. Sphenophytes

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-181
Author(s):  
Agata Jarzynka ◽  
Grzegorz Pacyna
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Vascular Bundles ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Time

AbstractSphenopsid remains from Grojec clays (Grojec, Poręba, Mirów) collected and described by Raciborski in 1894 are re-examined for the first time and supplemented by Raciborski’s unpublished material housed at the Jagiellonian University (Institute of Botany) and by Stur’s preliminarily described material stored at the Geological Survey of Austria. Three species of Equisetum created by Raciborski (Equisetum renaulti, E. remotum, E. blandum) are now attributed to the common Jurassic species Equisetites lateralis, and the earlierundescribed Equisetites cf. columnaris is recognised. The occurrence of Neocalamites lehmannianus (originally described by Raciborski as Schizoneura hoerensis) has been confirmed from Grojec. The material that Raciborski referred to this species seems to be heterogeneous, and some specimens are now removed to the new proposed species Neocalamites grojecensis Jarzynka et Pacyna sp. nov. The new species is diagnosed by the following features: only a few prominent ribs present on shoot, leaf scars relatively large and ellipsoidal, numerous free leaves, vascular bundles alternate at node. Possibly the new species derives from Neocalamites lehmannianus or at least is closely related to it. Part of the poorly preserved remains can be determined only as Neocalamites sp. Another species created by Raciborski, Phyllotheca (?) leptoderma, is based on poorly preserved type specimens. Some of the unpublished specimens stored at the Jagiellonian University (Institute of Botany) correspond to Raciborski’s description, but considering the poor preservation of the original material and the not very realistic published illustrations of this species, they rather should be regarded as indeterminate cortical fragments of Neocalamites lehmannianus and/or badly preserved external cortical surfaces of the new species Neocalamites grojecensis. Phyllotheca (?) leptoderma should be considered a nomen dubium.

Checklist of the freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Mongolia

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4317 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAXIM V. VINARSKI ◽  
DMITRY M. PALATOV ◽  
VADIM V. MARINSKIY
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Freshwater Snails ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Southern Siberia ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central South ◽  
Made In

The paper is the first illustrated check-list of the freshwater Gastropoda of the state of Mongolia. The authors examined their own samplings made in 2009–2012 as well as collections of other explorers and zoological museums (mostly those of Russia). In total, 35 nominal species of four families (Valvatidae, Lymnaeidae, Physidae, and Planorbidae) have been included into annotated list, with remarks on their distribution, ecology, taxonomic status, and nomenclature. All species are illustrated by pictures of their shells (including some type specimens). The fauna of freshwater Gastropoda of Mongolia is taxonomically impoverished as compared to the fauna of southern Siberia and other adjacent areas. In particular, no representatives of such families as Acroloxidae and Bithyniidae were found to live there as well as no species of Anisus, Aplexa, Planorbarius, Planorbis, Stagnicola and some other genera of aquatic snails broadly distributed in Palearctic. From the zoogeographic point of view, the recent fauna of aquatic Gastropoda of Mongolia consists of species belonging to three diversification centers—northwestern Palearctic, Siberian, and Central-South Asian. The only species endemic to Mongolia is Choanomphalus mongolicus inhabiting the Hövsgöl Lake. A brief history of formation of the recent Mongolian fauna of freshwater snails is provided. 

scholarly journals Cryptophagidae (Coleoptera) in the collections of Ukraine: Species, Specimens, and Collectors

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The Family ◽  
National University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Taxonomic Changes ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The collections of Cryptophagidae beetles stored in the natural museums of Ukraine were studied: three academic and two university collections – State Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Natural History and I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zoological Museum of T. Shevchenko Kyiv National University and Museum of Natural History of V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, and also author’s work collection. The volumes and the state of their preservation have been analyzed. The representation of different species in collections, as a whole, and in relation to the Carpathian fauna is evaluated. In general, museum collections contain 1346 samples of Cryptophagids, in each of which – about 210-340 individuals, all of them are stored in separate boxes and punctured by entomologic needles. The author's collection includes 1657 specimens of 57 species, which are mostly stored on cotton mattresses. All six collections include 122 species of 16 genera, containing from 21 to 85 species of this family. Some samples in collections have been lost for various reasons, in 10 cases there are only needles with labels without the samples themselves, therefore, some species (eg Cryptophagus nitidulus, C. hexagonalis) are represented in collections conditionally, only in labels. At the revision of materials attention is paid to taxonomic changes, through which in the publications and in the actual material different species or generic synonymic names were used. The author also took into account the uniqueness of each of the collections, which was determined by several important parameters, including the number of samples that are presented exclusively in some of the museum of species and genera of the family, the number of samples and type specimens in collection. For most of these parameters the leader is the collection of Zoological Museum of T. Shevchenko Kyiv National University. All data is included in the author's database, which contains summaries of annotations containing collections of samples, names of regions and localities of collection, dates, collectors, or owners of the collection, and also notes with clarifications of places or details of reidentifications.

Lectotypifications of 10 species of Pteris (Pteridaceae) from India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 414 (6) ◽  
pp. 296-300
Author(s):  
PIU DAS ◽  
JAIDEEP MAZUMDAR
Keyword(s):  
Original Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The Family

Pteris is the largest genus of the family Pteridaceae in India. Ambiguities persist about statuses of type specimens of some species of Pteris in India. Protologues and original material were consulted to provide unambiguous applications of names. As a result, ten species of Pteris are lectotypified here.

A contribution to the fauna of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of Belarus

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-302
Author(s):  
V.V. Sakhvon
Keyword(s):  
Published Data ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Robber Flies ◽  
First Time

An annotated list of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) occurring in Belarus is presented based on the original material and published data. Totally 36 species are recorded, 35 of them based on the author’s material. Ten species are recorded from Belarus for the first time.

Type specimens in the molluscan collection of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, Florida, USA

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4951 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
JOSÉ H. LEAL
Keyword(s):  
Strong Type ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Annotated List

This article lists and comments on the primary and secondary types represented in the collection of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum (BMSM), on Sanibel, Florida, USA. The collection includes 464 type specimens, of which 15 are holotypes, representing 149 taxa, of which 145 are species and four subspecies. The BMSM collection is fully catalogued and posted online via the Museum’s website, in addition to iDigBio and GBIF. The publication of this annotated list intends to improve on the accessibility and promote this important group of name-bearing specimens, which includes, among other cases, types originating from orphaned collections and material poorly documented in the original descriptions. Eighty-two types were selected for illustration, and the photos of all BMSM types are available as part of the BMSM online collection catalog. 

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