scholarly journals Deep-water Photinae (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) from eastern Africa, with descriptions of five new species

2020 ◽  
Vol 720 ◽  
pp. 144-169
Author(s):  
Koen Fraussen ◽  
Lee Ann Galindo ◽  
José Rosado
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
Water Species

Deep-water species from the western Indian Ocean off the East African coast and Madagascar, belonging to the subfamily Photinae, are discussed and compared with species from the West Pacific. Phos elegantissimus Hayashi & Habe, 1965, P. hirasei Sowerby, 1913 and P. laevis Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961 are recorded from Mozambique and/or from Madagascar, hereby extending their known range considerably into the western Indian Ocean. The East African specimens formerly assigned to Phos roseatus Hinds, 1844 are found to differ from this West Pacific species. In total, five species are described as new: Phos ganii sp. nov., P. geminus sp. nov., P. ladoboides sp. nov., P. pulchritudus sp. nov. and P. testaceus sp. nov.

scholarly journals Impact of the East African Rift System on the routing of the deep‐water drainage network offshore Tanzania, western Indian Ocean

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 789-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vittorio Maselli ◽  
Dick Kroon ◽  
David Iacopini ◽  
Bridget S. Wade ◽  
Paul N. Pearson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
East African Rift ◽  
Rift System ◽  
Drainage Network ◽  
East African Rift System ◽  
Water Drainage ◽  
East African ◽  
African Rift

Ceramics in Indian Ocean Trade

Matatu ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Villoo Nowrojee
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Indian Ocean Trade ◽  
African Coast

Abstract Ceramics have been extensively imported on the East African Coast over many centuries. The principal sources have been Iran and China, the latter trans-shipped through the port of Malacca and the Indian ports of the western Indian Ocean. These ceramics were used to embellish the gates and mihrabs of mosques, and the exteriors of elaborate tombs. They were vessels in homes and decorations on buildings. In the last two centuries, the old ceramics came to be supplanted by imported ware more utilitarian in make and appearance. These came in mainly from Holland, England and Germany. These products of Western Europe were influenced by the Islamic markets they had entered, while in turn these plates became an important part of the East African Coast’s architecture and Swahili traditions and homes.

Calappa karenae, a new species of box crab from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Calappidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3393 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
PETER K. L. NG ◽  
JOELLE C. Y. LAI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Water Species

A new deep-water species of box crab, Calappa karenae sp. nov. (Brachyura: Calappidae) is described from Guam. Thenew species differs from its congeners by its distinctive colouration and conspicuously wide carapace. It is one of the largest Calappa species known from the Indo-West Pacific.

Burcad Badeed as Grounds and Method in Literary Expressions of Somali Piracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
Kelsey McFaul
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Maritime Piracy ◽  
African Coast ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
The Relationship

The emergence of maritime piracy in the western Indian Ocean captured global attention from 2007 to 2012, resulting in simplistic and racialized representations of piracy in news and other media. In 2011, two diasporic Somali writers published literary works intervening in this representation: Nuruddin Farah’s novel Crossbones and Ubax Cristina Ali Farah’s essay “Un sambuco attraversa il mare” [“A dhow is crossing the sea”]. This essay reads Farah and Ali Farah’s alternative narratives of piracy through the Somali phrase burcad badeed, which both translate as ‘sea bandits’ or ‘pirates.’ As a method burcad badeed first historicizes contemporary piracy within the longue durée of the Indian Ocean world. Second, it draws on the ocean as an analogy and aggregator of dispersed forms of knowledge, thereby inviting comparative reading across conventional boundaries of generation, language, and form, and making visible practices of collective, embodied, and polyvocal knowledge production. Finally, burcad badeed complicates the distinctions between land and sea which undergird legal definitions of piracy to focalize particular landscapes: Namely the beach and the relationship between coast and hinterland. The beach foregrounds the ecological devastation to which piracy is a response, while the relationship between coast and hinterland frames practices of movement, complex racializations, and senses of belonging in Somalia and on the east African coast.

A new deep-water species of Alpheopsis Coutière, 1897 from the Indo-West Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4226 (4) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
ARTHUR ANKER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Field Data ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Species Group ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
Water Species

Alpheopsis keijii sp. nov. is described on the basis of material collected between 90 and 487 m in Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Réunion Island. The new species belongs to the A. trispinosa species group and is morphologically closest to A. trispinosa (Stimpson, 1860), A. garricki Yaldwyn, 1971, A. shearmii (Alcock & Anderson, 1899), and especially A. africana Holthuis, 1952. Field data indicates that A. keijii sp. nov. may be associated with deep-water sponge grounds. A provisional key to the currently known species of the A. trispinosa group is provided. 

Bougainvillia aberrans (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), a new species of hydroid and medusa from the upper bathyal zone off Bermuda

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 997-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale R. Calder
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
North Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Deep Water Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Water Species

Bougainvillia aberrans n.sp. is described from Bermuda in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Specimens were collected at a depth of 150 fathoms (274 m) from the polypropylene buoy line of a crab trap. The hydroid colony of B. aberrans is erect, with a polysiphonic hydrocaulus, a smooth to somewhat wrinkled perisarc, hydranths having a maximum of about 16 tentacles, and medusa buds arising only from hydranth pedicels. Medusae liberated in the laboratory from these hydroids differ from all other known species of the genus in having a long, spindle-shaped manubrium, lacking oral tentacles, having marginal tentacles reduced to mere stubs, and being very short-lived (surviving for a few hours at most). Gonads develop in medusa buds while they are still attached to the hydroids, and gametes are shed either prior to liberation of the medusae or shortly thereafter. The eggs are surrounded by an envelope bearing nematocysts (heterotrichous microbasic euryteles). The cnidome of both hydroid and medusa stages consists of desmonemes and heterotrichous microbasic euryteles. The diagnosis of the genus Bougainvillia is modified to accommodate this new deep-water species.

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