A new species of turritelline gastropod from a turritelline-dominated limestone in the Paleocene of North Carolina

2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren D. Allmon ◽  
W. Burleigh Harris

Turritelline Gastropods (family Turritellidae, subfamily Turritellinae; sensu Marwick, 1957) are common components of many Cretaceous to Recent benthic marine assemblages worldwide. They are frequently the dominant or even the sole macrofossil in such assemblages (Allmon, 1988), termed “turritelline- dominated assemblages” (TDAs; Allmon and Knight, 1993). They are defined as macrofaunal assemblages in which turritelline gastropods: 1) comprise either at least 20% of the total actual or estimated biomass or at least 20% of the macroscopic individuals in the assemblage, and 2) are at least twice as abundant as any other macroscopic species in the assemblage (Allmon, 2007). TDAs have been widely reported from siliciclastic and carbonate sediments of the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, but turritelline-dominated limestones (sometimes referred to as “turritella limestone” or “turritella rock”) appear to be limited to the Cretaceous and Paleogene (Allmon and Knight, 1993; Allmon, 2007; Allmon and Cohen, 2007).

1973 ◽  
Vol 105 (11) ◽  
pp. 1407-1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Gordh ◽  
R. Akinyele Coker

AbstractTelenomus reynoldsi n. sp. (Scelionidae: Telenominae) is described as an egg parasite of Geocoris punctipes Say and G. pallens Stål in California. The parasite has been recovered from cotton fields at Thermal and Indio, and from strawberry fields at El Toro, California. Additional material deposited in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History has been recovered from Geocoris collected at Buttonwillow and Weed, California.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4658 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-250
Author(s):  
SCOTT A. GRUBBS ◽  
RICHARD W. BAUMANN

The eastern Nearctic species of the genus Soyedina Ricker, 1952 (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) are reviewed. Two morphology-based species groups are proposed based on epiproct characteristics. Soyedina sheldoni sp. nov. is described from the southern Appalachian Highland region of western North Carolina. A distribution map and a dichotomous key to all nine Nearctic species are provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2311 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. ATKINSON

During the course of an extensive survey of Coleoptera from tropical southern Florida, a specimen of the exclusively Neotropical genus Dryocoetoides was found in flight intercept traps (Atkinson and Peck, 1994; Peck, 1989).  Over the intervening years I have had the opportunity to compare the specimen with material in the U.S. National Museum  and in the S. L. Wood collection (recently transferred to the USNM).   Wood's ( 2007) recent monograph of the South American species of Scolytinae included a key to all the known species of the genus, not only those known from South America.  Based on that key and included descriptions I was able narrow down the possibilities and to borrow selected Schedl types from the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.  As a result, I have reached the conclusion that this specimen represents an undescribed species.  It is described here to make the name available for a regional monograph of the bark and ambrosia beetles of the southeastern U.S. (Atkinson, in prep.).


1974 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Fennah

AbstractA new species of Tropiduchidae, Biruga chariclo, is described from adults and nymphs intercepted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on palm fronds imported from Mexico, and the genus is redefined.


Botany ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Siver ◽  
Paul B. Hamilton ◽  
Jeffery Pelczar

During our investigations of freshwater sites along the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America we had the opportunity to critically study five interesting diatoms with light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), each of which is described here as a new species. Two of the organisms are in the genus Eunotia , Eunotia lewisii Siver & Hamilton sp. nov. and Eunotia quadra Siver & Hamilton sp. nov.; two in Frustulia , Frustulia crispula Siver, Pelczar, & Hamilton sp. nov. and Frustulia inculta Siver, Pelczar, & Hamilton sp. nov.; and the last is Neidium trainori Siver & Hamilton sp. nov. All five species are reported from acidic, poorly buffered, dilute waterbodies high in dissolved humic substances. Two of the taxa are found in suites of waterbodies in close geographic proximity, two in somewhat disjunct regions, and the fifth is only known from the type locality. The relationships of each taxon to similar species are discussed.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 435 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-300
Author(s):  
LUCIANO PAGANUCCI DE QUEIROZ ◽  
FILIPE GOMES OLIVEIRA ◽  
BRENA CEDRAZ ◽  
R. BRIGGITTHE MELCHOR-CASTRO ◽  
MOABE FERREIRA FERNANDES

Bauhinia includes about 150 species distributed across the tropics. Most Neotropical species belong to Bauhinia ser. Cansenia that includes unarmed trees and shrubs, mostly from areas under seasonally dry climate. A new species of this series is described here from the northeastern Brazilian states of Bahia and Sergipe. Bauhinia corifolia occurs in open vegetation on sandy soils of Restinga vegetation at the Atlantic coastal forests. It is morphologically similar to B. acuruana by sharing the entire and ovate leaflet with a retuse to emarginate apex and a cordate base, but differing by its tall shrub to treelet habit, larger leaves with a glabrous and glossy upper surface, shorter bracts, and longer flowers. We provide description, illustration and distribution map for the new species.


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