DAVID G. CHAPPLETRENT R BELLSTEPHANIE NJ. CHAPPLEKIMBERLY A. MILLER...
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查看更多>>摘要：The New Zealand skink fauna is highly diverse and contains numerous cryptic, undescribed or hitherto undiscovered species. We completed a taxonomic revision of the cryptic skink (Oligosoma inconspicuum) species complex using molecular (550 bp of the ND2 mitochondrial gene) and morphological analyses. Four new species are described, with each diagnos-able by a range of morphological characters and genetic differentiation from several closely related species: O. inconspicuum (sensu stricto), O. notosaurus, O. maccanni, O. stenotis and O. grande. Oligosoma tekakahu sp. nov. is restricted to Chalky Island in Fiordland, and is most closely related to O. inconspicuum and O. notosaurus. The other three new species are restricted to particular mountainous regions in central and westem Otago (O. burganae sp. nov., Lammermoor and Rock and Pillar Ranges; O. toka sp. nov., Nevis Valley; O. repens sp. nov.. Eyre Mountains) and are most closely related to O. stenotis and O. grande. We also re-described O. inconspicuum. Two proposed new taxa, the 'Big Bay' skink and 'Mahogany' skink, were found to represent Westland/Fiordland populations of O. inconspicuum rather than distinct taxa. We discuss the evolutionary and phylogeographic implications of cryptic and 'anti-cryptic' species within the O. inconspicuum species complex, and suggest that morphologically aberrant populations are the result of local adaptation to novel selective regimes.
查看更多>>摘要：Dysderid spiders are common in ground habitats, especially leaf litter, and are often found in caves (Chatzaki & Arnedo 2006). The genus Harpactea Bristowe currently includes 5 species in Serbia, i.e. Harpactea hombergi (Scopoli), Harpactea lepida (C.L. Koch), Harpactea pr. incerta Brignoli, Harpactea rubicunda (C.L. Koch), Harpactea saeva (Herman) (Deltshev et al. 2003). They are known from the territory of Europe, widespread mainly in central, southern and eastern parts (Platnick 2011). Harpactea complicata sp. nov. (male/female) is here described and illustrated. The new species was collected in South Western Serbia, Javor Mountain, also in caves. To clear the situation with Harpactea pr. incerta needs additional investigations.
查看更多>>摘要：The aim of this study was to provide a revised taxonomic catalogue of Spionidae species recorded from the Grand Caribbean. The names included were compiled from the checklists of Salazar-Vallejo (1996) and Perkins and Savage (1975). Names were revisedand updated based on recent revisions. For each species, the original name is included together with current and previous names under which it has been recorded; all with associated citations. The type locality of each species, museum or institution where the type materials are deposited, and comments on systematics and geographic distributions are also included. The catalogue lists 66 species in 24 genera and at the end a list of species with questionable distribution in the Grand Caribbean is included.
查看更多>>摘要：The generic name Heliopathes Opresko, 2003 (see also Opresko 2005) proposed for an antipatharian coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) of the family Cladopathidae, subfamily Hexapathinae (Opresko, 2003), is preoccupied by the darkling beetle genusHeliopathes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), proposed by Mulsant (1854). Therefore the substitute name Heteropathes is proposed for the antipatharian.
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