scholarly journals Α new tropical invader in Greece: The lantana plume moth Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jakovos Demetriou ◽  
Christos Kazilas ◽  
Evangelos Koutsoukos ◽  
Konstantinos Kalaentzis
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
The University

This study documents the first known record of the lantana plume moth Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864) in Greece. The moth was observed in four localities from April 2018 to November 2019, and four individuals were collected and deposited in the Zoological Museum of the University of Athens (ZMUA). All specimens were identified as L. pusillidactylus, an alien species in Europe, that has been recently introduced in Spain, Italy (Sicily), Portugal, and Malta. The possible pathways of its introduction, as well as potential ecological implications, are discussed.

scholarly journals First record of the alien exotic sap beetle Phenolia (Lasiodites) picta (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Greece

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Kalaentzis ◽  
Athanasios Mpamnaras ◽  
Christos Kazilas
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
First Record ◽  
Photographic Material ◽  
Sap Beetle ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
First Time

The exotic sap beetle Phenolia (Lasiodites) picta (Macleay, 1825) is recorded for the first time in Greece. In August 2018, a nitidulid beetle was found near Mt. Pelion of Central Greece. It was later identified as P. picta, a recent alien species in Europe, previously recorded from Spain, France, and Turkey. Photographic material and information on the species’ distribution, biology, and potential economic and ecological implications are presented and discussed.

Redescription of the Siberian species Pardosa jeniseica (Araneae: Lycosidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4497 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
YURI M. MARUSIK
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Description ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
State University ◽  
Scanning Microscope ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
East Kazakhstan ◽  
The University ◽  
Moscow State University ◽  
Siberian Species

The male of Pardosa jeniseica, collected in the East-Kazakhstan Area, was first illustrated in Eskov & Marusik (1995). The authorship of the species was given as “Zyuzin, 1991”, because A.A. Zyuzin informed the authors in 1990 that a description of the species was in press. Because no such description ever appeared the authorship was given to Eskov & Marusik, and a single male specimen from East-Kazakhstan is now considered to be the holotype. It is kept in Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. Esyunin et al. (1999) illustrated and described a female from the Urals thought to be conspecific with P. jeniseica. Conspecifity of the illustrated specimen with P. jeniseica was doubted by Marusik et al. (2000). Kronestedt (2013) was the first to illustrate the epigyne of P. jeniseica and Azarkina & Trilikauskas (2013) provided both verbal and illustrated descriptions of the female, and its epigyne and endogyne. Both sexes taken from one locality were never depicted, nor was peculiar pubescence of the male's leg I. Therefore, I decided to provide detailed illustrations and a verbal description of this species based on specimens from the place considered to be the type locality.Specimens were photographed at the Zoological Museum (University of Turku, Finland) with a Canon EOS 7D camera attached to an Olympus SZX16 stereomicroscope and a SEM JEOL JSM-5200 scanning microscope. Digital images were montaged using Helicon focus 3.10 image stacking software. All measurements are given in millimeters. The following abbreviations are used for leg segments: Fe femur, Pa patella, Ti tibia, Mt metatarsus, Ta tarsus; leg spination abbreviations: d dorsal, p prolateral, r retrolateral, v ventral. Material used in this study is deposited in the Moscow State University (ZMMU) and Zoological Museum of the University of Turku (ZMUT). I thank Seppo Koponen (Turku, Finland) for providing museum facilities and Don Buckle (Saskatoon, Canada) for editing English in the earlier draft of the manuscript. 

An updated checklist of caridean shrimps of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4747 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-534
Author(s):  
HOSSEIN ASHRAFI ◽  
AMIR DEHGHANI ◽  
ALIREZA SARI ◽  
REZA NADERLOO
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
New Records ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Actual Number ◽  
Seagrass Bed ◽  
Gulf Of Oman ◽  
Species Complexes ◽  
Shallow Subtidal ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
The University

The material of the present checklist has been collected from the Iranian intertidal and shallow subtidal shores of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman from 2015 to 2019, in addition to re-examining all the materials deposited in the Zoological Museum of the University of Tehran. This checklist providing 16 new records for the Persian Gulf and 15 for the Gulf of Oman raised the number of recorded caridean shrimps to 109 and 49 for these gulfs, respectively. However, the actual number of these shrimps are higher than these numbers due to two facts. Firstly, most of the subtidal diverse ecosystems, e.g. coral reefs and seagrass bed have not been seriously investigated taxonomically. Secondly, there are some members of species complexes and probably some new species in the study which need to be carefully treated. 

James Cossar Ewart, 1851 - 1933

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Bacillus Anthracis ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Original Research ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Umbilical Arteries ◽  
The University ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Different Parts

James Gossar Ewart, the younger son of John Ewart, of Penicuik, Midlothian, was born in November, 1851. He passed his boyhood at his native place and received his early education there. At the age of 19 he matriculated in the University of Edinburgh as a medical student, and graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery in 1874. He was then appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy under Turner, but shortly afterwards he migrated to London, becoming Curator of the Zoological Museum at University College. In order to learn his work the more thoroughly he visited various continental museums and worked for a time at Strassburg in 1876. In London he occupied himself by making preparations for the Museum at the College, showing a great proficiency, and in addition he assisted Lankester, who held the Professorship of Zoology in organizing and conducting the practical classes which were then instituted. He also began to do original research, his earlier papers being upon the structure of different parts of the eye, upon the anatomy of the lamprey (in which he investigated the vascular peribranchial spaces, the valves of the umbilical arteries and certain of the sexual organs) and upon the placentation and fecundity of the Shanghai River deer. Other work which he did in London was upon certain bacterial organisms and he was awarded a gold medal for a thesis, on Bacillus anthracis, presented for the degree of M.D. at Edinburgh.

VIII.—Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: A Description of the Systematic Anatomy of a Fœtal Sea-Leopard (Stenorhynchus leptonyx), with Remarks upon the Microscopical Anatomy of some of the Organs.

1914 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Axel Haig
Keyword(s):  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Systematic Anatomy ◽  
Antarctic Expedition ◽  
University College ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

During the Scottish Antarctic Expedition of 1892–93 Dr W. S. Bruce secured fœtuses of Stenorhynchus leptonyx and Lobodon Carcinophaga, and on his return passed them over, with other material, to Professor D'Arcy W. Thompson for the Zoological Museum of University College, Dundee. While some of the material has unfortunately been lost sight of during these twenty-one years, one specimen, viz. that of a fœtus of Stenorhynchus leptonyx, was still in existence, and was returned by Professor D'Arcy Thompson to Dr Bruce, who in turn asked me to examine and report upon it. Furthermore, during the voyage of the Scotia embryos of Leptonychotes weddelli were obtained by the Scotia naturalists, and these were passed on for description to Professor Waterston, at that time in the University of Edinburgh. It is on this material that the present monograph is based.

Johan Hjort 1869-1948

1950 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 167-181 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
International Council ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Complete Part ◽  
Physiological Chemistry ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Stazione Zoologica

Johan Hjort died on 7 October 1948 at the age of seventy-nine; he was one of the great leaders in oceanography whose names will live in the annals of this science, and his influence will be felt for many years to come. His fame will last both for the contributions he made to oceanic biology, especially in that classic The depths of the ocean which he published with Sir John Murray as a result of their North Atlantic expedition in 1910, and equally for his remarkable pioneer achievements in practical fisheries research. All in a position to judge, would, I am sure, regard him as the most outstanding personality in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea since its foundation in 1902; from that date until his death he remained the Norwegian delegate and became its President in 1938. He was born in Oslo (then Christiania) on 18 February 1869, the son of Johan S. A. Hjort, Professor of Ophthalmology. Since his school days he had wanted to be a biologist, but to please his father he undertook to complete part of a medical course before leaving for Munich to study zoology under Richard Hertwig. He then went to Naples to work at the Stazione Zoologica on an embryological problem, the development of the bud in the ascidian Botryllus , a study which won for him his doctorate at Munich in 1892. He returned to Norway to become curator of the University Zoological Museum and to develop a more modern course of instruction based on the experience he had gained at Munich. He was soon, however, destined to forsake academic zoology and to embark upon his life’s work in oceanography, for in 1894 he succeeded G. O. Sars as Research Fellow in Fisheries. He now felt the need of widening his knowledge of physiological chemistry and went to study at Jena from 1895 to 1896. Upon his return he was appointed in 1897 to be Director of the University Biological Station at Drøbak.

scholarly journals On a mounted skeleton of apparently the extinct Cape Lion, Panthera leo melanochaita (Ch. H. Smith, 1842)

1998 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.J.H. van Bree
Keyword(s):  
Panthera Leo ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Oil Painting ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Recently, the skeleton of apparently a Cape Lion was discovered in the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam. The history of the specimen as far as known is summarized and its attribution to Panthera leo melanochaita is elucidated with some measurements taken from the skeleton and the study of fur colours and manes’ development on an oil painting of the same animal in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Both the animal and the painting once belonged to King Louis Napoléon Bonaparte of Holland.

Michael Tweedie, Woutera van Benthem Jutting and the Mollusca of Malaya's limestone hills

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Luyt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Zoological Museum ◽  
Scientific Networks ◽  
The University

Links forged over the years between Singapore and the Netherlands by two naturalists, Michael Tweedie of the Raffles Museum and Woutera van Benthem Jutting of the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, are illustrative of mid-twentieth-century collaboration. For a project instituted on the periphery of contemporary international scientific networks, Tweedie was able to enrol van Benthem Jutting through his skilful use of specimens and editorial resources.

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