The first record of Bergamina lineolata (Chydoridae; Aloninae) from Colombia

The Neotropical freshwater cladoceran Bergamina lineolata (Sars, 1901) was found in a small temporal pond in the Magdalena department. Hitherto, it has been reported in Brazil and El Salvador. It was originally described as Alonella lineolata by Sars, 1901 from Brazil and then placed to the genus Bergamina by Elmoor-Loureiro et al. (2013). This is the first record of this species in Colombia. B. lineolata can be identified by a unique combination of characters including: 1) a remarkably large and oblong postabdomen, with three denticles on distal corner; 2) basal spine of the claw very short, length less than the half claw diameter at base; 3) IDL with two setae shorter than ODL seta, armed with fine setules unilaterally in terminal half; 4) endite 1 of trunk limb I with a long smooth seta between endites 1 and 2.

Two new sympatric species of freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Southern Zagros Region, Iran

Gammarus zagrosensis n. sp. and Gammarus sepidannus n. sp., both from Gammarus pulex–group, are described from Sepidan County, Fars Province. They inhabit mountainous springs and were found co-occuring in some localities. Many clear morphological differences were recognized, including the setation of the second antenna and pereopods, length of antennal gland cone, postero-inferior protruding lobe and postero-distal corner setation in the basis of P6–7, endopodite/exopodite ratios of uropod 3, dorsal elevation of urosomites, and setation of lower distal margin of epimeral plates 2 and 3. Gammarus zagrosensis is distinguished from G. pseudosyriacus by having setae on the distal segments of pereopod 5–7, a less pointed epimeral plate 2, posterior-inferior corner setae, and the longer setae on uropod 3. The closest species to G. sepidannus are G. balutchi and G. lobifer, the most evident differences of which are the eye size, setosity of first antennal peduncles and flagellum of second antenna, length of gland cone, and uropod rami length ratios. Comparison of the head cuticular micro-structures gives more arguments for separating the two new species from each other, as well as from the previously studied, related species.

Two new Parastenocarididae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from India: Parastenocaris muvattupuzha n. sp. from a river and P. kotumsarensis n. sp. from a cave

To date, 11 harpacticoid species from the family Parastenocarididae are known to occur on the Indian subcontinent. Of these, ten species belong to the genus Parastenocaris Kessler, 1913, and one to the genus Kinnecaris Jakobi, 1972. Two new species of the genus Parastenocaris, viz. P. muvattupuzha n. sp. and P. kotumsarensis n. sp., are described and illustrated herein from India and their taxonomic position within the genus Parastenocaris discussed. Parastenocaris muvattupuzha n. sp. was found in the hyporheic zone of the River Muvattupuzha in the State of Kerala, southwestern India. Having a unique set of morphological characters, this new species does not perfectly fit into any of the known Parastenocaris species-groups; it is treated as Parastenocaris s. l. It stands out in the genus, inter alia, by the presence of a distinct unguiform process at the inner distal corner of each caudal ramus in both sexes and a club-shaped, distally spinulose leg 4 endopod in the male. Parastenocaris kotumsarensis n. sp. is described based on specimens collected from Kotumsar Cave in the State of Chhattisgarh, central India. This species shares features with the brevipes-group of Parastenocaris (i.e. similar endopodal complex of the male leg 4) and the recently redefined genus Kinnecaris (i.e. presence of the triangular platelike fifth legs, which are similar in both sexes, and paired ventrolateral integumental windows on the antepenultimate and penultimate urosomites). Hence, for the time being, this species, like the preceding one, is also treated as Parastenocaris s. l. Parastenocaris kotumsarensis n. sp. is the first cavernicolous parastenocaridid from India and, on a broader geographical scale, from southern Asia.

Bathycopea (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea: Ancinidae) from Japan, with descriptions of two new species and redescription of B. parallela Birstein

Two new species of Bathycopea Tattersall, 1905 are described from Japan. Bathycopea oculata sp. nov. differs from its congeners in having laterally rounded pleonite 1, well-developed eye lobes with 43–57 ommatidia, uropod about 4–4.7 times as long as wide, blunt and broadly rounded distal corner of carpus of pereopod 1, and the propodus of male pereopod 2 about 2.9 times as long as carpus. Bathycopea dicarina sp. nov. is distinctive in having pleotelson with two dorsal carinae and the merus and carpus of male pereopod 2 slightly longer than ischium. Bathycopea parallela Birstein, 1963 is redescribed using newly collected specimens from the region of the type locality. A key to species of the genus is provided.

A new Tropocyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) from Lake Matano, Indonesia

A new species of Tropocyclops, from the subfamily Eucyclopinae (Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae) is described on the basis of specimens recently collected from the deep waters of the ancient Lake Matano, Indonesia. Tropocyclops matanoensis n. sp., is distinguished from other species in the genus by the armature of P5 (with one seta and one spine) and the absence of lateral hairs on the somite bearing it, the antenna with only one seta on the antero-distal corner, the special shape of the seminal receptacle in female, and several other characters detailed in this study. A discussion of the genus Tropocyclops and the morphological characteristics of its representatives is given.

A new species of Parabradya Lang, 1944 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin

Parabradya samsoni sp. nov. is described from deep-sea samples collected from the Angola Basin during the DIVA-1 campaign in July 2000. Parabradya samsoni can be distinguished from its congeners by: its bigger size, the ornamentation of the body, the cuticula (except for that of the cephalic shield and the genital field) is covered with spinules, the multipinnate setae of A1, A2, mouthparts, P1–P5 and caudal rami, and the position of the innermost seta of P5, which is not directly situated at the inner distal corner, but displaced towards the outer edge. Full generic rank is assigned to both Bradya Boeck, 1873 and Parabradya Lang, 1944. With P. samsoni sp. nov. Parabradya includes five species.

To the Jejunostomiae technique

Abstracts. Surgery. To the Jejunostomiae technique. Winckelbauer (Zntrlbl. F. Chir. 1929 No. 34) proposes in the production of jejunostomiae to use a method similar to gastrostomy or the Coffey method for transplantation of the ureters into the colon. A 5 cm incision is made through the serosa and muscle tissue of the intestinal loop without opening the mucos'bi. In the distal corner of the wound, the muscles are stupidly divided, and the mucous membrane is opened. A catheter is inserted into this opening and is positioned between the muscles. The wound over the located catheter is sutured tightly with single knotty sutures. The intestine is fixed with a catheter to the abdominal wall of the incision site or to the side through a special opening of the abdominal cavity.

On some nondescript Anoplura and Mallophaga

This parasite approaches Neumann's Haematopinus (Polyplax) maniculatus, but is immediately recognised by the truncate proboscis, by the “ olecranon process ” of the hind pair of legs, and by the remarkable “ comb ” which terminates the abdomen of the ♀. Perhaps a new genus should be made to receive it.Linear, abdomen about four times the length of the head and thorax together. Head very broad, proboscis truncate, its lateral margins diverging to as far as the antennae, behind which the head enlarges at right angles. Post-antennal area rectangular, broad ; the occipital margin a little convex. At each posterior angle a long hair ; on the under surface, at about the level of the antennae, two short bristles, one on each side. Antennae of five segments, the first being thick and stout, the second narrower and the longest, the third short, and the fourth broad with a sharp prominence at the post-axial distal corner. Adjoining the prominence a small circular sense-organ which crosses the joint and occupies part of the base of the terminal segment. The latter is longer than the third or fourth, and has several spines at the end. Thorax broader than the head and broader behind than in front. A large flattened spheroidal spiracle at each lateral margin.