Taxonomy and nomenclature of black nerites (Gastropoda:Neritimorpha:Nerita) from the South Pacific

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamish G. Spencer ◽  
Jonathan M. Waters ◽  
Thomas E. Eichhorst
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Genetic Analysis ◽  
Easter Island ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The World ◽  
Austral Islands ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
Southern Half

Members of the genus Nerita are abundant components of the intertidal fauna in many parts of the world and yet Nerita taxonomy remains unsettled. Here, the relationships among black-shelled Nerita populations from Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, the Kermadec Islands and Easter Island are discussed. Four species are recognised: N. atramentosa Reeve, 1855 from the southern half of Australia; N. melanotragus E.A. Smith, 1884 from eastern Australia, northern New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands; N. morio (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) from Easter Island and the Austral Islands; and N. lirellata Rehder, 1980 from Easter Island alone. These species are of great importance in studies of intertidal community structure and yet two of them have been consistently confused in the ecological and taxonomic literature. Moreover, the relationships among the species are not at all as implied by recent subgeneric classifications; it is argued that all four species should be placed in the subgenus Lisanerita Krijnen, 2002. The superficially similar N. picea Récluz, 1841 is not closely related. An accurate taxonomy of the genus will almost certainly require considerable genetic analysis. The nomenclature for each species is herein established by complete synonymies, and lectotypes for both N. atramentosa and N. melanotragus are selected.

Review of the Australian fish family Arripididae (Percomorpha), with the description of a new species

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 459 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Paulin
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Gill Arch ◽  
Caudal Fin ◽  
Fish Family ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
Australian Fish

The family Arripididae contains one genus, Arripis Jenyns, with four species endemic to areas within temperate Australian and New Zealand waters. A. georgianus (Valenciennes), found throughout cool temperate Australia, is identified by having more than 27 rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch. A. truttaceus (Cuvier), found in Western and South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, has fewer than 17 rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch. A. trutta (Bloch & Schneider), found in eastern Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand, has 20-24 rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch and a small caudal fin whose length is equal to or less than the length of the head. A. xylabion sp, nov., found in northern New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands, is identified by having 20-25 rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch and a large caudal fin whose length is longer than that of the head. A neotype is designated for A. trutta.

Phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian centipede Henicops (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha): A combined morphological and molecular approach

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Colgan ◽  
Gregory Edgecombe ◽  
Deirdre Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
28S Rrna ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Eastern Australia

AbstractThe lithobiomorph centipede Henicops is widely distributed in Australia and New Zealand, with five described species, as well as two species in New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. Parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of ca. 800 aligned bases of sequence data from 16S rRNA and 28S rRNA were conducted on a dataset including multiple individuals of Henicops species from populations sampled from different parts of species' geographic ranges, together with the allied henicopines Lamyctes and Easonobius. Morphological characters are included in parsimony analyses. Molecular and combined datasets unite species from eastern Australia and New Zealand to the exclusion of species from Western Australia, New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. The molecular data favour these two geographic groupings as clades, whereas inclusion of morphology resolves New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, southwest Western Australia and Queensland as successive sisters to southeastern Australia and New Zealand. The basal position of the Lord Howe Island species in the phylogeny favours a diversification of Australasian Henicops since the late Miocene unless the Lord Howe species originated in a biota that pre-dates the island. The molecular and combined data resolve the widespread morphospecies H. maculatus as paraphyletic, with its populations contributing to the geographic groupings New South Wales + New Zealand and Tasmania + Victoria.

New species of Crotonia (Acari: Oribatida: Crotoniidae) from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands: further evidence of long-distance dispersal events in the biogeography of a genus of Gondwanan relict oribatid mites

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2650 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Oceanic Islands ◽  
Long Distance Dispersal ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Norfolk Island

Three new species of oribatid mite belonging to the genus Crotonia are described: one from Lord Howe Island (C. gorgonia sp. nov.) and two (C. norfolkensis sp. nov. and C. utricularia sp. nov.) from Norfolk Island, South-west Pacific. Crotonia gorgonia sp. nov. belongs to the Capistrata species group which reaches its highest diversity in Australia but is absent from New Zealand. Crotonia norfolkensis sp. nov. is a member of the Cophinaria group, recorded from Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, but with closest morphological similarity to C. brachyrostrum (Hammer, 1966) from New Zealand. Crotonia utricularia sp. nov. belongs to the Unguifera group, which reaches its highest diversity in New Zealand, is absent from Australia, and is present on Vanuatu and the Marquesas. The distribution of members of the species-groups of Crotonia in the south-western Pacific indicates that the species from Lord Howe Island has affinities with species from Australia, while the species from Norfolk Island are both most similar to species from New Zealand, and represents further evidence of the capacity of Crotonia spp. for long-distance dispersal to oceanic islands.

scholarly journals A new species ofTriteSimon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Zealand, with remarks onTriterelationships and radiation

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Patoleta ◽  
Marek Żabka
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
A New Species

A species known from earlier behavioural studies as “Holoplatys sp.”, is described asTrite pollardisp. nov. Within the genusTrite, two species groups are distinguished: theplaniceps-group (found in New Caledonia, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island) and theincognita-group (limited to New Zealand). The three alternative scenarios of theTriteorigin, relationships and radiation in New Zealand, New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island are discussed. Three species are considered to be excluded fromTrite.

A new species of Priolepis (Teleostei; Gobiidae) from the Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, with comments on relationships

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (10) ◽  
pp. 2077-2079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Winterbottom ◽  
Mary Burridge
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Southwest Pacific ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Austral Islands ◽  
Transverse Pattern ◽  
Pacific Species ◽  
A New Species

Priolepis psygmophilia is described from four specimens from the Kermadec Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The new species lacks scales in the predorsal midline and has a very faintly developed pattern of bars on the head and a reduced transverse pattern of cheek papillae, and thus apparently falls into the P. semidoliatus clade. However, the strongly outlined scale pockets indicate that it may be related to the portion of the P. cintus grade that shares this characteristic. If so, its relationships seem to lie with P. limbatosquamis (Hawaii) and an undescribed species (P. DFH sp. 3) from Lord Howe Island and eastern Australia, and another (P. RW sp. 20) from Lord Howe, Easter, and Austral islands, in which the predorsal midline scalation is reduced or absent. Thus, scales in the predorsal midline appear to have been lost independently in the P. cinctus grade and P. semidoliatus clade. There are now 29 Indo-Pacific species of Priolepis (of which 3 remain to be described by other workers), and 4 Atlantic species.

Hypselodoris jacksoni, a new species from the south-western Pacific Ocean (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae), with a discussion on intraspecific variation  in mantle glands in Chromodoris willani Rudman, 1982

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1549 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
NERIDA G. WILSON ◽  
RICHARD C. WILLAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Western Pacific Ocean ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
Receptaculum Seminis ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Hypselodoris (Chromodorididae) is described from the subtropical and temperate south-western Pacific Ocean (eastern Australia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island). The colouration of Hypselodoris jacksoni sp. nov. is distinctive, though highly variable intraspecifically. Hypselodoris jacksoni belongs to the Indo-Pacific Hypselodoris clade (for which the key synapomorphy is a minute receptaculum seminis) and, based on comparisons of internal and external morphology, appears to belong to a subclade characterised by an elevated branchial sheath, probably most closely related to H. krakotoa Gosliner & Johnson, 1999, H. reidi Gosliner & Johnson, 1999 and H. regina Ev. & Er. Marcus, 1970. Intraspecific variation in the arrangement of mantle glands in H. jacksoni prompted a preand post-fixation comparison of mantle glands in another chromodorid, Chromodoris willani Rudman, 1982. These results indicate these structures can vary significantly within a population (and thus species), and it is likely that too much emphasis has been placed on mantle glands for separating species in the recent literature.

Pantomorus cervinus. [Distribution map].

1966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Easter Island ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
St Helena ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Distribution In Europe ◽  
Tristan Da Cunha Islands

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Pantomorus cervinus (Boh.) (= Asynonychus godmani Crotch) (Col., Curculionidac) (Fuller's Rose Beetle or Weevil). Host Plants: Citrus, polyphagous. Information is given on the geographical distribution in EUROPE (excl. USSR), Azores, France, Italy, Portugal, Sicily, Spain, AFRICA, Basutoland, Canary Islands, Egypt, Eritrea, Madeira, Morocco, Republic of South Africa, St. Helena, Spanish, Morocco, Tristan da Cunha Islands, AUSTRALIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Easter Island, Hawaii, Juan Fernandez Island, Lord Howe Island, Midway Island, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, NORTH AMERICA, Canada, Mexico, U.S.A., SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay.

scholarly journals Malay

1917 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
C. O. Blagden
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Extreme Points ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Easter Island ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Extensive Area ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Asiatic Origin

The Malay language is one of the leading vernaculars of the world, and has been growing in importance of late years owing to the development of trade and particularly of the rubberplanting industry. It is an easy language to acquire a smattering of, as it involves few difficulties of phonetics, accidence, or syntax in the form of it which is current as a lingua franca. But this jargon bears the same relation to the real Malay language as the Pidgin English of the China ports does to our own English. The real Malay is the speech of the Malays themselves. It is a leading member of a vast family of languages, commonly styled the Austronesian, or Malayo-Polynesian, or Oceanic, family, which is of Asiatic origin, but has an almost entirely insular domain. It includes Madagascar, Indonesia, with a part of Formosa, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia, as well as the greater part of the Malay Peninsula, a portion of the coast of New Guinea, the Mergui Archipelago off the coast of Tenasserim, and a small tract in Eastern Indo-China, which was probably the original centre of dispersion of the whole family. Its extreme, points in Polynesia are (inclusively) the Sandwich Islands, Easter Island, and New Zealand. With the exception of the languages of Northern Halmahera and a few Papuan ones in or near New Guinea, all the numerous native languages of this extensive area are related together and to Malay.

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