scholarly journals A new species of Petta (Annelida, Pectinariidae), with comments on Petta assimilis McIntosh, 1885

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1067 ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Jinghuai Zhang ◽  
Pat Hutchings
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Similar Area ◽  
A New Species

The genus Petta Malmgren, 1866 is a small and poorly known genus of the annelid family Pectinariidae Quatrefages, 1866. A previous revision of the genus found that the type material of the species P. assimilis McIntosh, 1885 had been lost. While searching for material from the type locality, we were able to examine material from a similar area but collected in much shallower water from off South Africa which represents another undescribed species of Petta. The new species, Petta brevissp. nov., is described and compared to P. assimilis McIntosh, 1885, and a revised key to all species in the genus is provided.

The identity of Maladera infuscata (Moser, 1915), with description of a new species from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 392 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
DIRK AHRENS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
A New Species

During a revision of type material of Asian Sericini, the identity of Maladera infuscata (Moser, 1915) was clarified and the following new synonymies were established: Maladera infuscata (Moser, 1915) (= Autoserica koreana Moser, 1919 syn. n.; Aserica okamotoi Murayama, 1938 syn. n.). Taiwanese specimens formerly identified as Maladera infuscata belong to a hitherto undescribed species described herein as Maladera howdeni sp. n.

Redescription of Microprosthema semilaeve (von Martens, 1872) (Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae) and description of a new species of Microprosthema from Dry Tortugas, Florida

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3630 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH W. GOY ◽  
JOEL W. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Western Atlantic ◽  
Dry Tortugas ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
A New Species

Microprosthema semilaeve, a fairly common spongicolid shrimp of reefal habitats in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean is redescribed and figured based on type material and an additional 78 specimens from the majority of its known zoogeographical range. It is distinguished from the Indo-Pacific species of M. validum and an undescribed species of Microprosthema with which it has been confused in the literature by a number of morphological characters. A new species of Microprosthema from deeper waters off the Dry Tortugas and closely related to M. inornatum Manning & Chace, 1990, is described and illustrated. Microprosthema jareckii Martin, 2002 is synonymized with M. manningi Goy & Felder, 1988. A key to the Western Atlantic species of Microprosthema is presented.

Anatomical deviation of male organs of land planarians from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with description of two new species of Cratera (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida)

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3931 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
FERNANDO CARBAYO ◽  
ANA LAURA ALMEIDA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Ejaculatory Duct ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Anterior Portion ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Land Planarian

Two new land planarian species, collected in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are described. Their external aspect is similar to that of Imbira marcusi Carbayo et al., 2013 and Pseudogeoplana theresopolitana (Schirch, 1929), respectively. The analysis of the internal organs, however, revealed they belong to the genus Cratera. The male copulatory organs of one species is very different from any other geoplaninid, for the penis papilla holds a large, distal cavity receiving the ejaculatory duct and, furthermore, the papilla projects vertically downwards from the roof of the male atrium. Thus we consider it as a new species, Cratera cuarassu sp. nov. The second species differs from its congeners in that the dorsal insertion of the penis papilla is anterior to the ventral one, and in that the female atrium is narrowed in the anterior portion. The species was found in the type locality of Pseudogeoplana theresopolitana (Schirch, 1929) and compares well with it in the external features. However, since its internal organs are unknown and the type material of the species is seemingly lost, we describe it as Cratera anamariae Carbayo, sp. nov. 

scholarly journals Revision of the southern African genus Stuckenbergomyia Smith, 1971 (Diptera, Empidoidea) and proposal of a new subfamily

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
A New Species ◽  
African Genus

The genus Stuckenbergomyia Smith is revised with the description of a new species from Namibia (S.namibiensissp. nov.) and an undescribed species based on females from Western Cape Province of South Africa. The genus is fully illustrated and its phylogenetic relationships within the Hybotidae are discussed with the proposal of a new subfamily, Stuckenbergomyiinaesubfam. nov.

A new species of Lovenula Schmeil (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Crustaceana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Suárez-Morales ◽  
R. J. Wasserman ◽  
T. Dalu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ephemeral Habitat ◽  
The Right ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Female Genital

Recent collections from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa yielded an undescribed species of the freshwater diaptomid copepod genus Lovenula. It is probably the largest paradiaptomine known and closely resembles L. falcifera (Lovén, 1845). This species, L. raynerae n. sp., differs in several characters, including the shape of the female genital operculum, but particularly in details of the male and female leg 5: on the female the size of the endopod, a distinctive protuberance on the first exopodal segment; on male leg 5, the features of the seta adjacent to the claw of the right leg, a subdistal endopodal spine of the same ramus and details of the claw, with a middle gap on the inner margin. As with L. falcifera, the new species was collected from an ephemeral habitat. A record of L. falcifera from Ethiopia probably represents an undescribed species. A key to the species of the genus is provided.

scholarly journals Lost and found – Fritz Müller´s type material of Glossiphonia verrucata (Fr. Müller, 1844) (Hirudinida, Glossiphoniidae) with notes on the leech fauna of lake Tegel in Berlin (Germany)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Jueg ◽  
Peter Michalik
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
Lost And Found ◽  
Dissertation Research ◽  
The University ◽  
A New Species

In 1844, the famous German biologist Fritz Müller published his dissertation about the leech fauna of lakes in Berlin. This study not only addressed the occurrence of leeches in the different lakes, but also contains the description of a new species -Glossiphoniaverrrucata(Fr. Müller, 1844). Unfortunately, he never mentioned how many specimens he found and where he deposited the material of his dissertation research. Thus, it came as a surprise that the material appeared in the small leech collection of the Zoological Museum of the University of Greifswald. Here, we provide an overview of the material focusing especially on the four syntypes ofG.verrucata. Since this is a rarely found species, we further explored historical material from the type locality, Lake Tegel, held in other museums. Our survey revealed that the material collected by Müller is the only one known to date from the species-rich Lake Tegel, which is inhabited by 14 species of freshwater leeches.

Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3640 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
KERRY A. HADFIELD ◽  
NIEL L. BRUCE ◽  
NICO J. SMIT
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Nomen Dubium ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Southwestern Indian Ocean

The genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 is revised for southwestern Indian Ocean waters. Cymothoa borbonica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 and C. eremita Brünnich, 1783 are redescribed. Cymothoa rotundifrons Haller, 1880, from Mauritius lacks type material and the host is unknown, therefore it is here relegated to nomen dubium. Cymothoa sodwana sp. nov., from Trachinotus botla (Carangidae), collected from the Kwazulu-Natal coast of South Africa, is described and is distinguished by the large, ovoid, hunched body with rugose dorsal surfaces; the anterolateral angles of pereonite 1 are narrow and rounded reaching half the length of the cephalon; the ischium of pereopod 7 has a large protrusion and pereonite 7 which laterally overlaps the pleon margins, extending posteriorly to the pleotelson.

Sticta viviana (lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigerales: Lobariaceae), a new species from Colombian paramos

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra SUÁREZ ◽  
Robert LÜCKING
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Basal Membrane ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Orange Yellow ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe new species Sticta viviana A. Suárez & Lücking is described from Colombian paramos. It superficially resembles S. fuliginosa s. str. but differs by the small lobes with a shiny surface, the strongly branched, corymbose isidia, the dark lower tomentum, the smaller, usually sessile and urceolate cyphellae with one papilla-like outgrowth per cell of the basal membrane, and the K+ orange-yellow medulla. In contrast, Sticta fuliginosa s. str., as represented by the type material, a sequenced topotype, and specimens from North America and Colombia falling into the same clade, is defined by an uneven lobe surface, simple to branched but not corymbose isidia, a pale lower tomentum, larger, immersed to erumpent cyphellae, with each cell of the basal membrane having 2–4 papillae, and a K− medulla. The new species is not closely related to S. fuliginosa s. str. but falls within a clade of several, as yet undescribed, species with S. fuliginosa gross morphology.

scholarly journals Vera-duthiea zebrina (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new species from eastern South Africa, and a first genus record for southern Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 375 (4) ◽  
pp. 283 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIO MARTÍNEZ-AZORÍN ◽  
NEIL R. CROUCH ◽  
MANUEL B. CRESPO
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
A New Species

In the course of revising the subfamily Urgineoideae of the Hyacinthaceae it became evident, based on molecular and morphological data, that some plants usually named ‘Drimia indica’ from northeastern South Africa represent rather an undescribed species of Vera-duthiea. This is the first record of this genus occurring in southern Africa. The new species (V. zebrina) was collected and illustrated some 50 years ago, but never validly published. We here provide data on its morphology, ecology, and distribution.

scholarly journals Austronea patersoniae (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new species from the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 400 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
MARIO MARTÍNEZ-AZORÍN ◽  
ANTHONY P. DOLD ◽  
MANUEL B. CRESPO
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Description ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Erect Leaves ◽  
A New Species

Our fieldwork in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa revealed an undescribed species of Austronea which was named by Schonland as “Urginea Patersoniae Schonl. Ms.”, but never validly published. We here describe Austronea patersoniae to include plants showing bulbs with loose scales; 5–9 narrowly linear erect leaves with papillate margins; elongate peduncle; lowermost bracts with a broad, flat, papery spur and reddish flowers with papillate filaments. We provide a complete morphological description as well as data on ecology and distribution.

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