scholarly journals Freshwater Ribbon Worms (Nemertea) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2014 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Benny C. Glasgow ◽  
Paula Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Species Identification ◽  
National Park ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains

Abstract Freshwater ribbon worms collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from 9 June 2007 until 28 September 2010 are reported. All six specimens are identified as genus Prostoma. Species identification is not concluded and also no conclusion is made whether any of the specimens are of a new or undescribed species. Some specimen photographs are provided and a discussion is given on specimen characteristics and their possible identification. Ribbon worms are not previously reported in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A preliminary checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1856 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUCE A. SNYDER
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
National Park ◽  
Appalachian Mountains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Biodiversity Inventory ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
Near Future

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited National Park in the United States, is home to a wide diversity of millipede species. A preliminary list of these species is provided, based on literature records and new collections from the All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory and the author’s research. This report establishes that the Park’s presently known fauna consists of 62 species (one of which contains two subspecies) in 21 families and all 10 orders known from eastern North America, and includes at least five new state records and 18 new Park records. In the near future several undescribed species will likely be added to the list, as well as described species that are currently known to occur near the Park, but have never been reported from within the Park’s boundary.Key words: Appalachian Mountains, ATBI, North Carolina, Tennessee, biodiversity, inventory, GSMNP

scholarly journals Soil collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park yielded a novel Listeria species, L. swaminathanii, effectively expanding the sensu stricto clade to ten species

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catharine Rose Carlin ◽  
Jingqiu Liao ◽  
Lauren K Hudson ◽  
Tracey L Peters ◽  
Thomas G Denes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Identification ◽  
Type Strain ◽  
National Park ◽  
Draft Genome ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Whole Genome Sequence ◽  
Whole Genome ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Listeria Species ◽  
Smoky Mountains

Soil samples collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park yielded a Listeria isolate that could not be classified to the species level. Whole-genome sequence-based average nucleotide identity BLAST and in silico DNA-DNA Hybridization analyses confirmed this isolate to be a novel Listeria sensu stricto species with the highest similarity to L. marthii (ANI=93.9%, isDDH=55.9%). Additional whole-genome-based analysis using the Genome Taxonomy Database Toolkit, an automated program for classifying bacterial genomes, further supported delineation as a novel Listeria sensu stricto species, as this tool failed to assign a species identification but identified L. marthii as the closest match. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization results indicate that this species is nonpathogenic. Specifically, the novel Listeria species described here is phenotypically (i) non-hemolytic and (ii) negative for phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C activity; the draft genome lacks all virulence genes found in the Listeria pathogenicity island 1 (LIPI-1), as well as the internalin genes inlA and inlB. While the type strain for the new species is phenotypically catalase-negative (an unusual characteristic for Listeria sensu stricto species), its genome contained an apparently intact catalase gene (kat); hence assessment of this phenotype with future isolates will be important. Rapid species identification systems (Listeria API, VITEK 2, VITEK MS) misidentified this novel species as either L. monocytogenes, L. innocua, or L. marthii. We propose the name L. swaminathanii, and the type strain is FSL L7-0020T (=ATCC TSD-239T).

Diversity and taxonomic review of Leptusa Kraatz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A., with descriptions of four new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2662 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONG-SEOK PARK ◽  
CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON ◽  
MICHAEL L. FERRO
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
First Time

A taxonomic review of the genus Leptusa Kraatz from Great Smoky Mountains National Park is presented. Ten species are recognized, and four new species are described and illustrated: L. (Adoxopisalia) pseudosmokyiensis Park & Carlton, sp. nov., L. (A.) stocksi Park & Carlton, sp. nov., L. (Dysleptusa) gimmeli Park & Carlton, sp. nov., and L. (Eucryptusa) ferroi Park & Carlton, sp. nov. The previously undescribed female of L. (D.) pusio (Casey) is also reported for the first time. Descriptions, habitus illustrations and line drawings of diagnostic characters of all species occurring in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are provided. A key is provided that will allow discrimination of 16 of the 18 species of Leptusa known to occur in the eastern United States. “Overlooked Syndrome”, the phenomena where undescribed species persist in a well known fauna, is defined and discussed.

Using Spatial Modeling to Improve Wetland Inventories in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 482
Author(s):  
Alix A. Pfennigwerth ◽  
Joshua Albritton ◽  
Troy Evans
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Modeling ◽  
National Park ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains

scholarly journals Description of Mesocriconema ericaceum n. sp. (Nematoda: Criconematidae) and notes on other nematode species discovered in an ericaceous heath bald community in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

Nematology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 879-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O. Powers ◽  
Peter Mullin ◽  
Rebecca Higgins ◽  
Timothy Harris ◽  
Kirsten S. Powers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Parasitic Nematodes ◽  
Soil Nematode ◽  
Coastal Forests ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains

A new species of Mesocriconema and a unique assemblage of plant-parasitic nematodes was discovered in a heath bald atop Brushy Mountain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mesocriconema ericaceum n. sp., a species with males, superficially resembles M. xenoplax. DNA barcoding with the mitochondrial COI gene provided evidence of the new species as a distinct lineage. SEM revealed significant variability in arrangement of labial submedian lobes, plates, and anterior and posterior annuli. Three other nematodes in the family Criconematidae were characterised from the heath bald. Ogma seymouri, when analysed by statistical parsimony, established connections with isolates from north-eastern Atlantic coastal and north-western Pacific coastal wet forests. Criconema loofi has a southern Gulf Coast distribution associated with boggy soils. Criconema cf. acriculum is known from northern coastal forests of California. Understanding linkages between these species and their distribution may lead to the broader development of a terrestrial soil nematode biogeography.

Reconnaissance of cumulative risk of pesticides and pharmaceuticals in Great Smoky Mountains National Park streams

2021 ◽  
pp. 146711
Author(s):  
Paul M. Bradley ◽  
Matt Kulp ◽  
Bradley J. Huffman ◽  
Kristin M. Romanok ◽  
Kelly L. Smalling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Cumulative Risk ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains
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