A new genus and species of an unusual Australian winter bee fly (Diptera: Bombyliidae) with discussion on its phylogenetic position

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-203
Author(s):  
Xuankun Li ◽  
David K Yeates
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
New Genus And Species

Pseudoditrichum mirabile gen. et sp. nov. (Musci: Pseudoditrichaceae fam. nov.), a unique moss from Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Campbell Steere ◽  
Zennoske Iwatsuki
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
New Family ◽  
Bear Lake ◽  
Evolutionary Level

The name Pseudoditrichum mirabile Steere et Iwatsuki is proposed for a minute moss with leafy stem 1-3 mm high and seta 6 mm long; it was collected on calcareous silt near the Sloan River, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, only a few miles south of the Arctic Circle. The gametophytic characters agree well with those of the Ditrichaceae, a relatively primitive family, but the peristome is clearly double, with the inner and outer teeth opposite, which thereby indicates a much more advanced phylogenetic position, perhaps at the evolutionary level of the Funariaceae. As the combination of gametophytic and sporophytic characteristics exhibited by this moss does not occur in any existing family of mosses, it is therefore deemed necessary to create the new family Pseudoditrichaceae for the new genus and species described here.

scholarly journals Crocodyliform affinities for Kemkemia auditorei Cau & Maganuco, 2009 from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco

2012 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Lio ◽  
Federico Agnolin ◽  
Andrea Cau ◽  
Simone Maganuco
Keyword(s):  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Caudal Vertebra ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Theropod Dinosaur ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
Theropod Dinosaurs ◽  
Neural Canal ◽  
Posterolateral Margin

<em>Kemkemia auditorei</em> Cau &amp; Maganuco, 2009 was recently described as a new genus and species of theropod dinosaur on the basis on an isolated distal caudal vertebra. The holotype and only known specimen comes from Kem Kem beds (Upper Cretaceous) of Morocco. In the present paper we review the phylogenetic position of <em>Kemkemia</em> and we conclude that this taxon belongs to Crocodyliformes. It shares with crocodyliforms the presence of a concavity at the posterolateral margin of neural spines, an inflated neural canal, and reduced prezygapophyses, among other traits. This combination of characters clearly distinguishes <em>Kemkemia</em> from theropod dinosaurs. In this way, <em>Kemkemia</em> is here considered as a Crocodyliformes <em>incertae sedis</em>, and based on the absence of unique characters, the genus and species <em>Kemkemia</em> auditorei is proposed as a nomen <em>dubium</em>.

scholarly journals Description and relationships of Otothyropsis marapoama, a new genus and species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from rio Tietê basin, southeastern Brazil

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre C. Ribeiro ◽  
Murilo Carvalho ◽  
Alex L. A. Melo
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Headwater Stream ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Paraná Basin ◽  
Parana Basin

Otothyropsis marapoama, a new genus and species, is described based on specimens recently collected in a headwater stream of the middle stretch of the rio Tietê, a river from the upper rio Paraná basin in southeastern Brazil. The new taxon belongs to a clade also encompassing the genera Schizolecis, Otothyris and Pseudotothyris. Otothyropsis marapoama is hypothesized to be the sister-group of Pseudotothyris and Otothyris based mainly on the presence of several derived characters of the swimbladder capsule and associated bones. Several paedomorphic characters shared by Pseudotothyris and Otothyris and their significance for the phylogenetic position of the new genus are discussed.

scholarly journals Mediocremonas mediterraneus, a New Member within the Developea

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley A. Weiler ◽  
Elisabet L. Sà ◽  
Michael E. Sieracki ◽  
Ramon Massana ◽  
Javier del Campo
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Grazing Rate ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Free Swimming ◽  
Batch Cultures ◽  
Marine Systems ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Genomic Studies ◽  
Oval Body

ABSTRACTThe Stramenopiles are a large and diverse group of eukaryotes that possess various lifestyles required to thrive in a broad array of environments. The stramenopiles branch with the alveolates, rhizarians, and telonemids, forming the supergroup TSAR. Here, we present a new genus and species of aquatic nanoflagellated stramenopile: Mediocremonas mediterraneus, a free-swimming heterotrophic predator. M. mediterraneus cell bodies measure between 2.0-4.0 μm in length and 1.2-3.7 μm in width, possessing two flagella and an oval body morphology. The growth and grazing rate of M. mediterraneus in batch cultures ranges from 0.68 to 1.83 d-1 and 1.99 to 5.38 bacteria h-1, respectively. M. mediterraneus was found to be 93.9% phylogenetically similar with Developayella elegans and 94.7% with Develorapax marinus, two members within the class Developea. The phylogenetic position of the Developea and the ability of M. mediterraneus to remain in culture makes it a good candidate for further genomic studies that could help us to better understand phagotropy in marine systems as well as the transition from heterotrophy to phototrophy within the stramenopiles.

Opaepupu, a new genus and species of bivalve-associated shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Hawai’i

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4903 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
ARTHUR ANKER ◽  
SAMMY DE GRAVE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Posterior Margin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Dorsal Surface ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Third ◽  
Small Tooth ◽  
Female Holotype ◽  
A New Species

A new palaemonid shrimp genus, Opaepupu gen. nov., is established to accommodate a new species of bivalve-associated shrimp, Opaepupu huna sp. nov. from Hawaii. A single mated pair, the female holotype and the male allotype, were found inside the trapezid bivalve Trapezium oblongum (Linnaeus, 1758) at a depth of 14 m in Kâne’ohe Bay, Hawai’i. The new genus is characterised by the rostrum being proximally broad, distally pointed, mid-dorsally carinate, and non-dentate; the anterolateral margin of the carapace without supraorbital, hepatic or epigastric teeth, but with a strong sharp antennal tooth; the sixth pleonite posteriorly unarmed; the telson medially depressed, with the dorsal surface armed with two pairs of submarginal cuspidate setae and with the posterior margin armed with two pairs of spiniform setae; the distolateral angle of the first article of the antennular peduncle without a sharp tooth; the mandible without a palp; the maxillular palp furnished with one long stiff seta dorsal to a small tooth-like extension; the first maxilliped without a palp; the third maxilliped not being operculate; the second pereiopods moderately robust, relatively slender, subequal, subsymmetrical, with simple teeth on the cutting edges of the fingers; the ambulatory pereiopods being slender, each ending in an elongate biunguiculate dactylus; and the uropodal exopod with a faint diaeresis and greatly reduced distolateral spiniform seta. The phylogenetic position of Opaepupu gen. nov. remains unclear, although it does not appear to be closely related to other bivalve-associated palaemonid genera. 

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