scholarly journals Cerrorchestia taboukeli sp. nov., a new terrestrial amphipod (Amphipoda, Talitridae) from Martinique Island

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Piscart ◽  
Khaoula Ayati ◽  
Mathieu Coulis
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
Forest Floor ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Terrestrial Invertebrates ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

During recent investigations on the terrestrial invertebrates of the tropical rainforest on Martinique Island (Pitons du Carbet), specimens of a new species of the terrestrial amphipod genus Cerrorchestia Lindeman, 1990, C. taboukeli sp. nov., were collected by means of different quantitative and non-quantitative methods (hand collection and Tullgren extraction) in the forest floor. The new species can be easily distinguished from the only other species of the genus, C. hyloraina Lindeman, 1990, by gnathopod 2 (carpus short, palm longer than wide), pereopod 4 dactylus with a denticulate patch, pereopod 5 basis ovate with a deep posterodistal lobe reaching the distal end of the ischium, pleopod 3 ramus with more than six articles. Cerrorchestia tabouleki sp. nov. is the first forest-hopper discovered in the Lesser Antilles, raising the question of island colonization by terrestrial amphipods. Ecological data and a key to terrestrial Talitridae of Central America and the Caribbean islands are provided.

scholarly journals Cerrorchestia taboukeli sp. nov., a new terrestrial amphipod (Amphipoda, Talitridae) from Martinique Island

2020 ◽  
Vol 576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Piscart ◽  
Khaoula Ayati ◽  
Mathieu Coulis
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
Forest Floor ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Terrestrial Invertebrates ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

During recent investigations on the terrestrial invertebrates of the tropical rainforest on Martinique Island (Pitons du Carbet), specimens of a new species of the terrestrial amphipod genus Cerrorchestia Lindeman, 1990, C. taboukeli sp. nov., were collected by means of different quantitative and non-quantitative methods (hand collection and Tullgren extraction) in the forest floor. The new species can be easily distinguished from the only other species of the genus, C. hyloraina Lindeman, 1990, by gnathopod 2 (carpus short, palm longer than wide), pereopod 4 dactylus with a denticulate patch, pereopod 5 basis ovate with a deep posterodistal lobe reaching the distal end of the ischium, pleopod 3 ramus with more than six articles. Cerrorchestia tabouleki sp. nov. is the first forest-hopper discovered in the Lesser Antilles, raising the question of island colonization by terrestrial amphipods. Ecological data and a key to terrestrial Talitridae of Central America and the Caribbean islands are provided.

scholarly journals A new species of Quadrivisio (Amphipoda, Maeridae) from coastal tropical lagoons (Benin, West Africa)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Gnohossou ◽  
Christophe Piscart
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Coastal Lagoons ◽  
Benthic Macrofauna ◽  
The Other ◽  
Artificial Substrates ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Mandibular Palp ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Southern Benin

During a recent investigation of the benthic macrofauna from coastal lagoons of southern Benin (Ahémé, Nokoué and Porto-Novo lagoons), a new species of the amphipod genus Quadrivisio Stebbing, 1907, Q. laleyei sp. nov. was collected by means of different quantitative and non-quantitative methods (plastic baskets, wooden artificial substrates, uprooted plants and Surber net) in their intertidal macrophyte zone. The new species can be easily distinguished from most of the other species of the genus by the setation of the mandibular palp and telson and a reduced number of articles (4–6) on the accessory flagellum of the first antenna. The new species closely resembles to Q. lutzi (Shoemaker, 1933) but clearly differ by a reduced armature of the urosomites 1 and 2 and by the geographical distribution (Q. lutzi being known only in Central and South America). Ecological data and an updated key to a species in the genus Quadrivisio are provided. 

scholarly journals The largest blindsnake in Mesoamerica: a new species of Typhlops (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from an isolated karstic mountain in Honduras

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1932 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSIAH H. TOWNSEND ◽  
LARRY DAVID WILSON ◽  
LORRAINE P. KETZLER ◽  
ILEANA R. LUQUE-MONTES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

A distinctive new species of Typhlops is described from Parque Nacional Montaña de Santa Bárbara, 1550 m elevation, Departamento de Santa Bárbara, Honduras. The holotype and only known specimen of this new taxon is the largest specimen of the genus thus far reported from Mexico and Central America, and is further differentiated from all other Mesoamerican Typhlops by having 22–22–22 scales around the body and by having a dark brownish gray dorsum with a well-defined pale yellowish gray to immaculate white ventral coloration. This species is a member of the Caribbean Arc Group of Typhlops. An updated key to the Typhlopidae of Mesoamerica is provided.

Systematics of the Dendrophidion nuchale complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) with the description of a new species from Central America

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3513 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN E. CADLE ◽  
JAY M. SAVAGE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Apical Region ◽  
The North ◽  
The Andes ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Eastern Half

We review the systematics of the Dendrophidion nuchale complex in Central America and northern South America andrecognize three species. The names D. nuchale (W. Peters) and D. clarkii Dunn apply to two of the species. The third isdescribed as a new species, D. rufiterminorum. It differs from D. clarkii and D. nuchale in coloration and hemipenial char-acters but all three species of the nuchale complex are very similar in scutellation characters. Dendrophidion nuchale isdistributed in the coast ranges and adjacent foothills of northern Venezuela, and in a seemingly disjunct population in theSerranía de Perijá in western Venezuela. The name clarkii was recently applied to all populations of the nuchale complexfrom Belize and Guatemala in the north to western Colombia and Ecuador in the south. Herein, we restrict the name D.clarkii to populations in lower Middle America (Costa Rica and Panama) and west of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador.Dendrophidion rufiterminorum is distributed in northern Central America (Belize, Guatemala, northern Honduras) fol-lowed by a broad disjunction without records of the species throughout most of Honduras and Nicaragua; thereafter, a fewspecimens and photographs document the presence of D. rufiterminorum on the Caribbean versant of southern Nicaraguaand Costa Rica, and uplands of northwestern Costa Rica (Pacific versant). Two localities of sympatry between D. rufiter-minorum and D. clarkii are known in Costa Rica (one on the Atlantic versant, the other on Pacific versant). Nonetheless,there is sparse documentation of either species in Costa Rica. The populations referred to D. clarkii in southwestern CostaRica, the eastern half of Panama, and western Colombia and Ecuador need further study. Hemipenes of species of thenuchale complex are described. All three species have a pair of enormously enlarged sulcate spines and a regular lineararray of enlarged spines (spinose annulus) encircling the base of the apical region. These characters are also shared with D. dendrophis sensu lato but not other members of the dendrophis species group.

scholarly journals Floresorchestia kongsemae sp. n. a new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anotai Suklom ◽  
Patchara Danaisawadi ◽  
Koraon Wongkamhaeng
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Left Mandible ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

The genus Floresorchestia Bousfield, 1984 is widely distributed in terrestrial and marine coastal habitats. It has been found from coastal South Africa through to the Indo-Pacific region and the Caribbean Sea in Central America. Two species of Floresorchestia have been reported in Thailand, Floresorchestia boonyanusithii Wongkamhaeng et al. 2016 and Floresorchestia buraphana Wongkamhaeng et al. 2016. This work reports on a new species of Floresorchestia found at Kasetsart University in a man-made pond and neighbouring areas. Classification of the new species was achieved by considering the left mandible 5-dentate; gnathopod 2 posterior margin merus carpus and propodus of gnathopod 2 covered in palmate setae, palm reaching about 33% along posterior margin; uropod 3 peduncle with three robust setae; telson dorsal mid-line half the length of its breadth and four robust setae per lobe.

scholarly journals The fossil record of turtles and tortoises (Testudines) of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Islands, with comments on its taxonomy and paleobiogeography: a bibliographic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-283
Author(s):  
Gerardo Carbot-Chanona ◽  
Gustavo Rivera-Velázquez ◽  
Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo ◽  
Víctor Hugo Reynoso
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Crown Group ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean

Testudines is the crown-group that includes all living forms of turtles and their closest relatives. This group is known from the late Triassic and persists to this day. The fossil record of Testudines in Mexico is scarce and has been previously compiled in several papers. Here we present an update including all osteological and ichnological records from México and Central America. In Mexico, the Testudines fossil record extends from the Late Triassic to the Pleistocene, being widely abundant during the Pleistocene. Kinosternon and Gopherus are the best represented taxa, known from the late Miocene (Hemphillian) to the late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean). Fossil turtles are well represented in Mexico, excluding the states of Campeche, Mexico City, Colima, Guerrero, Queretaro, Quintana Roo and Sinaloa. On the contrary, the ichnological records are only known in Coahuila, Puebla and Zacatecas. In Central America there are records of fossil turtles in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama, the latter being the country holding most records. Finally, nine new species have been described in the region, six for Mexico (Notoemys tlaxiacoensis, Yelmochelys rosarioae, Mexichelys coahuilaensis, Gopherus donlaloi, G. auffenbergi and G. pargensis, of which G. auffenbergi is synonymous with G. berlandieri and G. pargensis is considered a nomen vanum) and three in Central America (Rhinoclemmys nicoyama from Costa Rica, and Rhinoclemmys panamaensis and Staurotypus moschus from Panama).

scholarly journals Hylaeus (Hylaeana) dominicalis, a new species and the first colletid bee recorded from Dominica, Lesser Antilles

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jason Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Commonwealth Of Dominica ◽  
A New Species

A new species of colletid bee, Hylaeus (Hylaeana) dominicalis Gibbs, new species, is described and figured from the Commonwealth of Dominica. The new species can be distinguished from consubgeneric species in the Caribbean Islands based on the integumental coloration, facial fovea, and pubescence. A list of all known Hylaeus from the Caribbean Islands is provided.

scholarly journals A new species of Grotea Cresson, the first record of Labeninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in the Greater Antilles

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Marissa Sandoval ◽  
Bernardo F. Santos
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Greater Antilles ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

Grotea ambarosasp. nov. is described, illustrated and compared to currently described species of the genus. The new species is characterized mainly by having the mesosoma 2.9× as long as high; genal projection distinct and apically subquadrate; pleural carina distinct only anteriorly to anterior transverse carina; mesosoma almost entirely amber-orange and legs with complex dark brown and white marks. This is the first record of any labenine species for the Greater Antilles; the few distribution records elsewhere in the Caribbean Islands are reviewed and discussed in the context of the biogeography of Labeninae.

A new species of freshwater shrimp of the genus Micratya (Decapoda: Atyidae: Caridea) from Puerto Rico

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3608 (5) ◽  
pp. 357-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREAS KARGE ◽  
TIMOTHY J. PAGE ◽  
WERNER KLOTZ
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
Distal Margin ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Appendix Masculina ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

The atyid genus Micratya Bouvier, 1913 was previously considered to be monotypic. The area in which the genus is dis-tributed is limited to the islands of the Antilles and Central America, with the type locality of Micratya poeyi being in Cuba. A recent molecular phylogenetic analysis of atyid shrimps from the Caribbean indicated the probable existence of a second species of Micratya from samples collected in Puerto Rico. Here it is described as the new species Micratya cooki sp. nov., differing from its congener in the armature of the dactyli on the fifth pereiopod, the uropodal diaeresis, the distal margin of the telson and by the spinulation of the appendix masculina in male specimens. Because the type specimens of M. poeyi are most probably lost, a neotype for M. poeyi was designated.

Guatteria darienensis (Annonaceae), a new species from Panama and Colombia

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 173 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
SUSANA ARIAS GUERRERO ◽  
DARIO SANCHEZ SANCHEZ ◽  
PAUL J.M. MAAS ◽  
ROY H.J. ERKENS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Coastal Forests ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Neotropical Forests ◽  
Canopy Trees ◽  
Gallery Forests ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A New Species

Guatteria Ruiz & Pavón (1794: 85) is the largest genus of Annonaceae with about 210 recognized species (Chatrou et al. 2012, Maas et al. 2011). It comprises small- to medium- sized trees, rarely canopy trees or shrubs, and only two species are lianas, Guatteria scandens Ducke (1925:10) and G. fractiflexa Maas & Westra (2008: 491; Erkens et al. 2008). It is widely distributed throughout Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and tropical South America (Erkens & Maas 2008). Species of Guatteria are common members of Neotropical forests where they occupy a wide variety of habitats, such as lowland rain forests, gallery forests, semideciduous forests, coastal forests, inundated forests, savannas and montane forests (Erkens et al. 2007b). However, the highest species diversity is found in the Amazon Basin with approximately half of the species occurring there. Central America harbours ca. 30 species, mostly endemics (Erkens et al. 2008) of which ca. 20 species occur in Panama, a highly under-collected country with respect to Guatteria (Erkens et al. 2006). In the adjacent Colombian Chocó region, we found ca. ten endemic species, and to date, only two species, Guatteria aberrans Erkens & Maas (2006: 201) and the new species described in this paper, are restricted to Panama and northwestern Colombia.

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