查看更多>>摘要：The 1824 expedition to Lebanon by Wilhelm Hemprich and Christian Ehrenberg resulted in the description of at least 28 bird species new for science. Despite its importance, however, this collection has never been fully studied or published. We used manuscripts, catalogues, and specimens archived at the Museum fur Naturkunde (ZMB), Berlin, to identify the type specimens, revise nomenclatural and (where appropriate) taxonomic status of species described on the basis of Hemprich and Ehrenberg's material,and determine type localities and collection dates of these taxa.
查看更多>>摘要：Larval development of the symbiotic crab Sestrostoma balssi (Shen, 1932) (Varunidae: Gaeticinae) inhabiting Russian waters of the Sea of Japan is described and illustrated for the first time from material reared in the laboratory. The development includes five zoeal and a single megalopal stages. The first megalopa was attained at 20-22°C 35 days after hatching. The present paper is the first description of the complete larval development in the genus Sestrostoma. The larvae of S. balssi share all principal characters of the family Varunidae but are distinguished from the typical varunid larvae by the absence of a well-developed antennal exopod in the zoea and the presence of an 8-segmented antennal flagellum in the megalopa.
查看更多>>摘要：We describe a new species of Oedipina (subgenus Oedopinola) from Parque Nacional Pico Bonito in the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios in north-central Honduras. The new species was previously assigned to O. gephyra, but a combination ofmolecular analyses and its differences in foot morphology diagnose it from O. gephyra.
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