scholarly journals A new species of Erythrolamprus from the oceanic island of Tobago (Squamata, Dipsadidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 817 ◽  
pp. 131-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Murphy ◽  
Alvin L. Braswell ◽  
Stevland P. Charles ◽  
Renoir J. Auguste ◽  
Gilson A. Rivas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Distinct Taxon ◽  
A New Species

Tobago is a small island on the southeast edge of the Caribbean Plate with a continental flora and fauna. Using DNA sequences from Genbank, new sequences, and morphological data from the snakesErythrolamprusepinephalus,E.melanotus,E.reginae, andE.zweifeli, the species status of specimens of a Tobago snake previously considered to beErythrolamprusreginaewas assessed.Erythrolampruszweifeli, long considered a subspecies ofE.reginae, was found to be a northern Venezuela-Trinidad endemic and the sister toE.reginae. The trans-Andean speciesE.epinephalusis shown to be non-monophyletic while the Costa Rican lineage ofE.epinephalusis weakly supported as the sister to the Tobago population. The TobagoErythrolamprusis described as a distinct taxon based upon five specimens from four localities in lower montane rainforest. Much of the new species range includes the Main Ridge Forest Reserve of Tobago, the oldest protected forest in the Western Hemisphere. All known locations fall within a 400-ha area, and its total geographic distribution is likely to be less than 4,566 ha. The restricted distribution of this new snake makes it a likely candidate for threatened status. The new species also becomes another biogeographic link between northern Venezuela and Tobago.

Morphological and molecular evidence of some Minuartia species (Caryophyllaceae) from Turkey, with a desciption of a new species

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 391 (2) ◽  
pp. 122 ◽  
Author(s):  
MURAT KOÇ ◽  
ERGIN HAMZAOĞLU ◽  
AHMET AKSOY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
A New Species

The genus Minuartia is represented in Turkey by 34 taxa. Some interesting specimens were collected from Antalya province, and examined. These specimens resemble Minuartia meyeri, and M. multinervis from which differ by characters (macro-, and micromorphological) of inflorescence, alar pedicels, petals, sepals, capsules and seeds. Moreover, by using the DNA sequences of the ITS genes, phylogenetic relationships between this collected species, and the related species were investigated. As a result of the evaluation of molecular, and morphological data, we proposed to described the population from Antalya as a new species for the science. A description, pictures, distribution, habitat, and IUCN category are given.

Description of a new species of Caridina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) from two Micronesian islands (Guam and Babeldaob)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4377 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALENTIN DE MAZANCOURT ◽  
GERARD MARQUET ◽  
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS ◽  
PHILIPPE KEITH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Genetical Analysis ◽  
Freshwater Shrimps ◽  
The Status ◽  
De Man ◽  
A New Species

During field trips to Guam and Babeldaob Islands in Micronesia, freshwater shrimps were sampled and assigned either to Caridina brachydactyla De Man, 1908 or C. mertoni J. Roux, 1911 (Decapoda: Atyidae), following previous inventories. In combining morphological data with a genetical analysis, it appeared that all the specimens belonged to a new species, Caridina variabilis sp. nov., here described with its distribution. The status of this new species is clarified and finally, neither C. brachydactyla, nor C. mertoni occur in these two islands. DNA sequences of 16S were obtained from the syntypes of C. mertoni. 

scholarly journals A new species of Leptobrachella (Anura, Megophryidae) from Guizhou Province, China

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 923 ◽  
pp. 115-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Luo ◽  
Ning Xiao ◽  
Kai Gao ◽  
Jiang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Habitat Variation ◽  
A New Species

This study describes a new species of the genus Leptobrachella, Leptobrachella suiyangensissp. nov. from the Huoqiuba Nature Reserve, Suiyang County, Guizhou Province, China, based on morphological data and phylogenetic analyses (16S rRNA mtDNA). The new species can be distinguished from other congeners by the molecular divergence and by a combination of morphological characters, including body size, dorsal and ventral patterns, dorsal skin texture, size of the pectoral and femoral glands, degree of webbing and fringing on the toes and fingers, dorsum coloration, and iris coloration in life. Currently, the genus Leptobrachella contains 75 species, 21 of which are found in China, including seven species reported from Guizhou Province. The uncorrected sequence divergence percentage between Leptobrachella suiyangensissp. nov. and all homologous DNA sequences available for the 16S rRNA gene was found to be >4.7%. The new record of the species and its relationships with others in the same genus imply that species distribution, habitat variation, environmental adaptation, and diversity of the genus Leptobrachella in southwest China need to be further investigated.

scholarly journals A new species of Petrolisthes (Crustacea, Anomura, Porcellanidae) inhabiting vermetid formations (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Vermetidae) in the southern Caribbean Sea

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 876 ◽  
pp. 143-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Hiller ◽  
Bernd Werding
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Water Movement ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
16S Rdna Gene ◽  
Southern Caribbean ◽  
Beach Rock ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

Petrolisthes virgiliussp. nov. from the Caribbean Sea of Colombia is described. The new species resembles P. tonsorius morphologically but differs from it principally by its color and habitat. Petrolisthes tonsorius is brown or blueish brown and occurs under intertidal boulders strongly exposed to water movement. Petrolisthes virgiliussp. nov. is pale brown to beige and lives exclusively in intertidal areas dominated by vermetid snails, exposed to heavy wave action. The entangled tubular shells of vermetids are cemented to each other and to a hard substrate like beach rock, forming a microhabitat for the new crab species and other porcellanids of the genera Neopisosoma and Clastotoechus. Large genetic distances between DNA sequences of the mitochondrial 16S rDNA gene from P. virgiliussp. nov. and P. tonsorius confirmed that they comprise different species. Petrolisthes virgiliussp. nov. is the 53rd member of the West Atlantic porcellanid fauna.

Molecular Phylogeny of the Cuscuta californica Complex (Convolvulaceae) and a New Species from New Mexico and Trans-Pecos

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Costea ◽  
Saša Stefanović
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Western North America ◽  
The Third ◽  
26S Rdna ◽  
Nuclear Its ◽  
A New Species

Multiple DNA sequences from plastid (trnL–F region and rbcL) as well as nuclear (ITS and 26S rDNA) genomes were used to infer the phylogeny of the Cuscuta californica complex. This group is currently circumscribed to include nine species distributed mostly in western North America. Four well-supported lineages have been revealed within this complex. The first lineage includes the controversial C. californica s. l., an assemblage of taxa characterized by their lack of infrastaminal scales; the second lineage consists of a single species, C. subinclusa, with short fimbriate scales. The third lineage groups C. howelliana, C. salina, and C. suksdorfii, with scales that exhibit a reduction trend, while the forth includes C. decipiens and a new species from New Mexico and trans-Pecos Texas, C. draconella, both with well-developed infrastaminal scales. Stereo, compound, and scanning electron microscopy were used to investigate the new species and compare it with C. decipiens, its closest relative, as well as to update the taxonomic treatment of C. californica s. l. Cuscuta decipiens, in its original delimitation, is polyphyletic and was thus recircumscribed. In contrast to previous taxonomic treatments of C. californica s. l., phylogenetic relationships in conjunction with morphological data support the delimitation of three species: C. brachycalyx, C. californica, and C. occidentalis.

scholarly journals Revision of the genus Schoenlandella (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cardiochilinae) in the New World, with a potential biological control agent for a lepidopteran pest of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Ilgoo Kang ◽  
Michael J. Sharkey ◽  
Rodrigo Diaz
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Biological Control Agent ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Control Agent ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Lepidopteran Pest ◽  
Lepidopteran Host ◽  
A New Species

Schoenlandella Cameron, 1905 is the second largest genus of Cardiochilinae. Most members are recorded from the Old World, with a small number of species in the New World. Herein, the New World species of Schoenlandella are revised based on morphological data. This work entails a description of a new species: S. montserratensis Kang, sp. nov. and potential lepidopteran host information of the new species associated with bitter gourds on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat. Schoenlandella diaphaniae (Marsh, 1986) and S. gloriosa Mercado & Wharton, 2003 are re-described, and a key to species of New World Schoenlandella is provided. The taxonomic status of Schoenlandella is discussed.

Molecular and morphological evidence for a new species in the genus Sirodotia (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) from the State of Assam, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 437 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
NATALIA L. ROSSIGNOLO ◽  
FARISHTA YASMIN ◽  
JOHN A. WEST ◽  
E.K. GANESAN ◽  
ORLANDO NECCHI JUNIOR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Full Description ◽  
Rbcl Gene ◽  
A New Species

In India the genus Sirodotia has been documented solely on morphological data. A new species of Sirodotia (Sirodotia assamica sp. nov.) was found in two localities in the State of Assam, India. Phylogenetic relationships of the new species were inferred on the basis of DNA sequence data for the plastid rbcL gene and the barcode region of the mitochondrial COI-5P gene. Taxonomic affinities of the new species were determined by morphological analyses and a distinctive character was found for this species: spermatangia arranged in clusters. Although this character is also observed in S. huillensis, both species are genetically highly divergent (4.5–5.0% for rbcL and 9.6–10.1% for COI-5P). DNA sequences from Indian specimens formed a well-supported clade, sister to S. delicatula from Malaysia. DNA sequence divergence between S. assamica and S. delicatula varied from 2.5–2.7% for rbcL and COI-5P. Intraspecific divergence between the two sequences from India were low (0.4–0.5%). A full description and photographs of the new species are provided, as well as a comparison with morphologically similar and phylogenetically allied species reported from India and other Asian regions.

scholarly journals Phylogeny and taxonomy of Catenularia and similar fungi with catenate conidia

MycoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Martina Réblová ◽  
Jana Nekvindová ◽  
Andrew N. Miller
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Transverse Section ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Generic Level ◽  
Diagnostic Values ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Eleven Species

The genus Catenularia (Chaetosphaeriaceae) was reviewed, and its relationships with morphologically similar fungi were evaluated using molecular and morphological data. Eleven species are accepted, four of which have been verified with molecular DNA data. The correct epithet ‘cupulifera’ is proposed for the type species C. cupuliferacomb. nov. Four other combinations are proposed, namely C. catenulatacomb. nov., C. elsikiicomb. nov., C. minorcomb. nov. and C. novae-zelandiaecomb. nov.Catenularia is an uncommon fungus inhabiting mainly decaying bark, wood and bamboo culms of various hosts and shows a widespread geographical distribution. It is circumscribed for fungi with mononematous, macronematous, simple conidiophores with terminal monophialides, usually accompanied with capitate hyphae. The conidia are aseptate, brown, cuneiform to rounded-obconic with an angular outline, adhering in chains. The diagnostic values of taxonomic characteristics of capitate hyphae and conidia (i.e. colour, shape in transverse section, setulae and formation) at the generic level were evaluated. An account of morphology, taxonomy and phylogeny of species accepted in Catenularia is provided. Based on ribosomal DNA sequences, Chalarodes obpyramidatasp. nov., characterised by catenate, angular, hyaline conidia with apical setulae, is revealed as closely related to Catenularia. The new genus Fuscocatenulagen. nov. is proposed for catenularia-like fungi having pigmented conidia with protracted maturation and round outline, with two species accepted, F. submersacomb. nov. and F. variegatacomb. nov. A new species Nawawia antennatasp. nov. is introduced and Nawawia is compared with morphologically similar taxa.

Mangrove sponges from Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) with the description of a new species

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 1417-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Calcinai ◽  
Azzurra Bastari ◽  
Daisy M. Makapedua ◽  
Carlo Cerrano
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Sponge Species ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Few Data ◽  
A New Species

Mangroves create unique ecological environments, furnishing a habitat opportunity for many species. The majority of published information on mangrove sponges comes from the Caribbean while few data are available from Indo-Pacific mangrove sponges. In general, species diversity of sponges in mangroves is lower than adjacent subtidal habitats in both the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific. The aim of this study is to report the first data about sponge species diversity of two mangrove forests from Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) and to describe a new sponge species associated with the mangroves. The survey found 19 species, belonging to 11 families and 15 genera; the samples were collected on mangrove trunks, on the roots or on the surrounding bottom. The majority of the species are typical of coral reef but two of them have been previously found only in lagoons or in mangrove habitats. These new data enlarge our knowledge about Indonesian sponges diversity and suggest the urgency to consider Indonesian mangroves as an important but underestimated element in coral reef ecological dynamics.

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