Resolution Requirements for Automated Single Specimen

Author(s):  
CA Hautamaki
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Niall Whalen ◽  
Paul Selden

Abstract A new fossil ricinuleid, Curculioides bohemondi n. sp., from the Pennsylvanian Energy Shale of Illinois is described from a single specimen. It is the largest ricinuleid species yet described, living or extinct. The Energy Shale represents a new geographic locale for fossil ricinuleids, a sparsely distributed group. The species is distinguished from other members within the genus by the possession of very large (0.09 mm) carapace tubercles at a very low (30 mm-2) density. Statistical analyses are performed on extant and fossil ricinuleids to determine how their tubercles change throughout ontogeny, culminating in the recovery of a new ontogenetically stable diagnostic character: the tubercle coefficient (a measure of the size of the tubercles relative to body size). UUID: http://zoobank.org/aa9f2de5-c49d-4f70-bba5-db12fdee406f.


PalZ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon T. Haug ◽  
Carolin Haug ◽  
Serita van der Wal ◽  
Patrick Müller ◽  
Joachim T. Haug

AbstractNymphidae, the group of split-footed lacewings, is a rather species-poor group. Split-footed lacewings nowadays are restricted to Australasia, while fossil forms are also known from other areas of the world, indicating that the group was more species-rich and therefore likely diverse in the past. Split-footed lacewings have rather distinct larvae, roughly resembling antlion larvae, but differing from the latter especially with regard to the mandibles. Antlion larvae usually have three prominent teeth on each mandible, while at least extant larvae of split-footed lacewings only have a single prominent tooth per mandible. Fossils interpreted as larvae of split-footed lacewings are well known from amber from Myanmar (ca. 100 myr; Burmese amber) and by a single specimen from Baltic amber (about 40 myr). We here report additional fossil specimens from Myanmar amber, expanding the known record of fossil forms from six depicted specimens to 15. For the extant fauna, we could compile 25 larvae. We compare the diversity of shape of extant and fossil larvae through time using an outline analysis (based on elliptic Fourier transformation) of the head. The results of this analysis indicate that the morphological diversity, or disparity, of split-footed lacewing larvae was higher in the past than it is today. With this type of analysis, we can show a loss of diversity over time, without the necessity to identify the fossil larvae down to a narrow taxonomical range. A similar pattern has already been recognised in silky lacewings, Psychopsidae. This might indicate a general loss of diversity of lacewing larvae.


Radiology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 174 (3) ◽  
pp. 865-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
M D Murphey ◽  
J M Bramble ◽  
L T Cook ◽  
N L Martin ◽  
S J Dwyer

1967 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Cohen

Summary The histology of the oral mucosa of Macaca irus was studied in nineteen monkeys. It was found that the oral mucosa of this monkey is identical with that of man. No single specimen of M. irus had orthokeratinization of the gingivae in all regions. In addition, those sections of gingiva which exhibited orthokeratosis had a poorly developed granular layer. Thus it seems unlikely that keratohyalin granules contribute towards keratinization; they probably represent cytoplasmic debris.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 277 (3) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
ISAU HUAMANTUPA CHUQUIMACO

The name Vochysia moskovitsiana Huamantupa (2012: 142) was not validly published due to errors in the citation of the holotype. In the type paragraph following the name citation, a single gathering but more than one specimen, E. Gudiño 1190 (QCNE, MO) was cited as the type. This is a defective citation according to the International Code for Nomenclature (ICN) Article 40.7 (McNeill et al. 2012) because a single specimen is not indicated as the holotype. Although a separate collection, Gudiño & Gualinga 1622 (MO), is cited in the caption to Figure 2 as the holotype, the same specimen also appears in the list of paratypes on page 147. Thus the citation of type is entirely ambiguous, and this work does not constitute valid publication.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4418 (3) ◽  
pp. 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEITA KOEDA ◽  
TAKUMA FUJII ◽  
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA

Heteroconger fugax sp. nov. (Congridae: Heterocongrinae) is described from a single specimen collected from Amami-oshima island, Japan. The new species is most similar to Heteroconger tomberua Castle & Randall 1999, known from Fiji and New Caledonia, in having a remarkably slender body with numerous small spots and a vertebral count close to 200. However, it can be distinguished from H. tomberua by the presence of a large distinct white blotch on the opercle; more numerous, dense spots over the entire head, including lips; ground color of body uniformly cream, without microscopic melanophores; numerous small conical cirri on the chin; and dorsal-fin origin located more posteriorly to appressed pectoral-fin tip. A survey of underwater photographs of Heteroconger on photographic database revealed H. fugax to be widely distributed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, from the Ryukyu Archipelago to Borneo.


1882 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 228-228
Author(s):  
H. H. Lyman

Last June I was in Boston, from the 14th to the 30th, and during this time Alypia octomaculata was in season and very abundant. Had I chosen to carry a net in the public gardens and uptown streets, I suppose I could have taken a couple of hundred specimens, always provided that I wasn't “run in” as a lunatic. As it was, I contented myself with carrying a supply of pill boxes, and succeeded in taking about thirty-five specimens. During two days I was visiting a friend about seven miles from the city, but did not see a single specimen of this species; but in those streets in which there were small plots of grass in front of the houses, they were very common. The spot where I took the most of those I captured was a plot of grass about ten feet by seven, in which there was a Syringa between two Deutzias, both species of shrubs being in blossom.


Parasitology ◽  
1928 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Harold Leigh-Sharpe

This species has received so few notices from collectors of parasitic Copepoda that it might be judged uncommon. Thus Krøyer (1837), originally placed it in the genus Lernaeopoda having but a single specimen at his disposal the host of which he had forgotten; subsequently it has been recorded by Olsson (1869), who was the first to place it correctly in the genus Brachiella. This species has also been recorded by P. J. van Beneden (1870), by T. Scott (1901), by A. Scott (1904), and collected by L. Harrison Matthews, as mentioned by me (1926), at Plymouth.


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