A new species of Fredlanea Martins and Galileo, 1996 from Peruvian Andes (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Hemilophini)

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Gino Juarez-Noé ◽  
Uzbekia Gonzalez-Coronado
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Longitudinal Strip ◽  
A New Species

A new species of genus Fredlanea Martins and Galileo, 1996 is described from Peru: Fredlanea wilderi sp. nov., based on a specimen collected from the Cuyas cloud forest in Piura region, important mountain rainforest of Peruvian Andes. The new taxon is closely related to Fredlanea guaranitica (Lane, 1966) but can be distinguished by presence of yellowish pubescence on proepisterna, mesepimera and metepisterna, and absence of longitudinal strip of yellow pubescence on epipleural margins. A key to Peruvian species of Fredlanea Martins and Galileo, 1996 is provided.

scholarly journals A new species of Rhipidocladum (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Arthrostylidiinae) from Mexico

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 420 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-263
Author(s):  
EDUARDO RUIZ SANCHEZ ◽  
CHRISTOPHER D. TYRRELL ◽  
ANDRÉS E. ORTIZ-RODRIGUEZ ◽  
VICTORIA SOSA ◽  
HÉCTOR GÓMEZ-DOMÍNGUEZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Field Work ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Species Overlap ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
Leaf Surfaces ◽  
Taxonomic Novelty ◽  
A New Species

Mexico has a rich woody bamboo flora with over 52 species, 66% of which are endemic. Mexico represents the northernmost extent for many Neotropical bamboo genera such as the widespread Rhipidocladum, a genus with characteristic fan-like branching and variable synflorescence morphologies. Only four species of Rhipidocladum are known from Mexico: R. bartlettii, R. martinezii, R. pittieri and R. racemiflorum. Remarkably, the ranges of all four species overlap in the Mexican state of Chiapas. During field work in Chiapas, a flowering population of Rhipidocladum was discovered that had two glumes and retrorsely scabrous abaxial leaf surfaces, and lacked foliage leaf fimbriae. This combination of characters is unlike that of any known species in the genus. We conducted a comprehensive morphological study of specimens from this population and confirmed the existence of a new species of Rhipidocladum. We describe and illustrate the new taxon, discuss its diagnostic characters and provide an updated key to the species of Rhipidocladum distributed in Mexico. This taxonomic novelty increases the richness of the genus to 20 species and adds a new endemic woody bamboo to the flora of Mexico. The new species inhabits montane cloud forest, an important yet threatened vegetation type in Mexico.

Ternstroemia acajetensis (Pentaphylacaceae), a new species from the cloud forest in central Veracruz, Mexico

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 418 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
GONZALO CASTILLO-CAMPOS ◽  
OLIVIA M. PALACIOS-WASSENAAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Cloud Forests ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Quercus Forests

Ternstroemia acajetensis Cast.-Campos & Palacios-Wassenaar sp. nov. is described and illustrated. This new taxon is part of the arboreal and shrub strata of cloud forests, Quercus forests, and Pinus-Quercus forests in the mountains of the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Oaxaca, Mexico. This species is related to T. sylvatica and T. huasteca, which grow in similar environments. However, the new species can be differentiated from the others by the length of the peduncle, the shape of the petals, the color of the flowers, and the length of the prolongation of the connective in the anthers.

A new species of Bolitoglossa (Caudata: Plethodontidae) of the Bolitoglossa franklini group from an isolated cloud forest in northern Guatemala

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4966 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-214
Author(s):  
HELLEN DAHINTEN-BAILEY ◽  
MARCELO J. SERRANO ◽  
MARGARITA ALONSO-ASCENCIO ◽  
JOSE J. CRUZ-FONT ◽  
ISABELLA ROSITO-PRADO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Mountain Ridge ◽  
Sister Clade ◽  
Biogeographic Barrier ◽  
Conservation Actions ◽  
Alta Verapaz ◽  
A New Species

We describe Bolitoglossa qeqom sp. nov. from an isolated cloud forest in Cerro Guachmalén, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, based on multiple lines of evidence (morphological, molecular, and biogeographic data). This region comprises a mountain ridge without previous herpetological surveys. The new species is a large salamander with uniform purplish-black coloration and is distinguished by having relatively long legs with only one costal groove between adpressed limbs, numerous maxillary teeth, few vomerine teeth, only one phalange free of webbing in digit III of feet, and a relatively short tail. It is geographically closest to its sister clade of B. lincolni + B. franklini and the xeric Chixoy river canyon appears to be the major biogeographic barrier that isolated the new taxon. The cloud forest inhabited by this species has undergone severe habitat destruction in the region and land conservation actions are urgent. 

scholarly journals Una especie nueva notable de Pinguicula (Lentibularianceae) de los estados de Querétaro y San Luis Potosí, México

2017 ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Zamudio-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
San Luis ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
Especie Nueva ◽  
A New Species ◽  
San Luis Potosí

Pinguicula calderoniae is described as a new species to science. It grows on calcareous rocks in the cloud forest in the border of Querétaro and San Luis Potosí states. On account of its bilabiate corolla with long-infundibuliform tube, as long as or shorter than the spur, it is placed in subgenus Pinguicula, section Longitubus. This new taxon is clearly differentiated from other members of this group by its long lanceolatelinear summer leaves, which are unique in the section.

A new species of Sclerocephalus with a fully ossified endocranium gives insight into braincase evolution in temnospondyls

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rainer R. Schoch ◽  
Gabriela Sobral
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Character Evolution ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Early Permian ◽  
Top Predator ◽  
Central European ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The late Paleozoic temnospondyl Sclerocephalus formed an aquatic top predator in various central European lakes of the late Carboniferous and early Permian. Despite hundreds of specimens spanning a wide range of sizes, knowledge of the endocranium (braincase and palatoquadrate) remained very insufficient in Sclerocephalus and other stereospondylomorphs because even large skulls had unossified endocrania. A new specimen from a stratigraphically ancient deposit at St. Wendel in southwestern Germany is recognized as representing a new taxon, S. concordiae new species, and reveals a completely ossified endocranium. The sphenethmoid was completely ossified from the basisphenoid to the anterior ethmoid region, co-ossified with the parasphenoid, and the basipterygoid joint was fully established. The pterygoid bears a slender, S-shaped epipterygoid, which formed a robust pillar lateral to the braincase. The massive stapes was firmly sutured to the parasphenoid. In the temnospondyl endocranium, character evolution involved various changes in the epipterygoid region, which evolved distinct morphologies in each of the major clades. UUID: http://zoobank.org/5e6d2078-eacf-4467-84cf-a12efcae7c0b

A New Species ofPristimantis(Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Cloud Forest of Sangay National Park, Ecuador

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Brito M. ◽  
Reed Ojala-Barbour ◽  
Diego Batallas R. ◽  
Ana Almendáriz C.
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
A New Species

scholarly journals <i>Navilithus altivelum</i>: a remarkable new genus and species of deep photic coccolithophores

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy R. Young ◽  
Harald Andruleit
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Genetic ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Significant Addition ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Genetic Results ◽  
Basal Structure

Abstract. A very distinctive new deep-photic coccolithophore is described from the NE Indian Ocean. The new species is trimorphic with: 200–300 body coccoliths bearing low spines attached by narrow stems to a basal narrow-rimmed placolith structure; up to 18 circum-flagellar coccoliths with tall sail-like spines; and up to 22 coccoliths with moderately elevated spines occurring both around the circum-flagellar coccoliths and antapically. These features make the coccolithophore unique and require placement in a new species and genus. The basal structure, however, shows similarities to a recently recognized group of narrow-rimmed placoliths. Hence, the new coccolithophore provides some support for this grouping as a significant addition to our understanding of coccolithophore biodiversity, and potentially an explanation for a set of anomalous molecular genetic results. In addition the new taxon provides further evidence that the deep-photic coccolithophore community is more diverse than has been assumed.

Cyclotella deceusteriana, a new centric diatom species (Bacillariophyta) from the sub-Antarctic Region

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 333 (1) ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
BART VAN DE VIJVER ◽  
STEVEN DESSEIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Centric Diatom ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Antarctic Region ◽  
Distribution And Ecology ◽  
Electron Microscopical ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Freshwater Diatom

During a survey of the freshwater diatom flora of the sub-Antarctic region (Iles Kerguelen and Iles Crozet) in the southern Indian Ocean, an unknown Cyclotella taxon was observed that was formerly identified as the presumed cosmopolitan C. meneghinana. Detailed morphological analysis based on light and scanning electron microscopical observations and comparison with several similar Cyclotella taxa worldwide justified the description of this unknown taxon as a new species: Cyclotella deceusteriana sp. nov. The new taxon is characterized by the presence of marginal fultoportulae on every costa, hyaline furrows between the raised marginal parts on which the striae are located, 2, occasionally 1, 3 or 4 central fultoportulae and an entirely flat, smooth, relatively small central area. The new species is described and compared with other Cyclotella taxa. Notes on its distribution and ecology are added.

Euphorbia mongoliensis (Euphorbiaceae), a new species from Inner Mongolia, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-161
Author(s):  
ER-HUAN ZANG ◽  
MING-XU ZHANG ◽  
WEN-LE WANG ◽  
CHUN-HONG ZHANG ◽  
MIN-HUI LI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Pollen Morphology ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Euphorbia Esula ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Flora Of China ◽  
A New Species

In May 2020, a new taxon of Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae was collected from a dry hillside of Dongsheng District, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. The morphological characteristics of the specimens analyzed differ from those of the known Euphorbia species from this region; therefore, we suspected this may be a new species, and we set to analyze the ITS2 sequences of some Euphorbia species. The results show that the new taxon belongs to the sect. Esula of Euphorbia subg. Esula. It is similar to Euphorbia esula (description from Flora of China) but does not belong to the same species. Concomitantly, plant morphological data and pollen morphology results show significant differences between the new taxon, E. esula and E. caesia, a finding that supports the delimitation of this new taxon, which is named Euphorbia mongoliensis in accordance with its geographical distribution.

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