REDESCRIPTION OF LIPAROCEPHALUS LITORALIS, AND KEY TO THE SPECIES OF LIPAROCEPHALUS (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE: ALEOCHARINAE)

2000 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munestoshi Maruyama ◽  
Kee-Jeong Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Kuril Islands ◽  
The Other

AbstractLiparocephalus litoralis Kirschenblatt is redescribed from specimens recently collected and illustrated. Additional data on its geographical distribution (Kuril Islands, Russia, and Hokkaido, Japan) are added. A modified key is provided to differentiate L. litoralis from the other recognized species of the genus Liparocephalus Mäklin.

Problems of species and the features of geographical distribution in colonial volvocine algae (Chlorophyta)

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-311
Author(s):  
A. G. Desnitskiy
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Species Problem ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Volvocine Algae ◽  
Cryptic Taxa

More than ten new species of colonial volvocine algae were described in world literature during recent years. In present review, the published data on taxonomy, geographical distribution and the species problem in this group of algae, mainly from the genera Gonium, Pandorina, Eudorina, and Volvox, are critically discussed. There are both cosmopolitan volvocalean species and species with local or disjunct distribution. On the other hand, the description of new cryptic taxa in some genera of the colonial family Volvocaceae, such as Pandorina and Volvox, complicates the preparation of a comprehensive review on their geography.

Pimpinella ibradiensis (Apiaceae), an unusual new species from Turkey

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 217 (2) ◽  
pp. 164 ◽  
Author(s):  
İlker Çinbilgel ◽  
özkan Eren ◽  
Hayri Duman ◽  
Mustafa Gökceoğlu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
The Other ◽  
Site Conditions ◽  
Closely Related Species

Pimpinella ibradiensis, an unusual new species found in the Toka Yayla (İbradı, Antalya) in southern Anatolia, is described and illustrated. Site conditions, synecology and conservation status of P. ibradiensis are considered. In light of the comparison with the other closely related four species, namely P. nephrophylla, P. flabellifolia, P. sintenisii and P. paucidentata, its similarity within the genus are discussed. P. ibradiensis is easly distinguished from its relatives by its white petals, presence of bracts and bracteoles, larger fruits (4–5.5 × 1–2 mm), and having serrulate basal leaves with 60–95 strongly cartilaginous teeth along margins. The geographical distribution of P. ibradiensis and closely related species are mapped and the identification key of those species is updated.

Population ecology of the Intertidal Anemone Actinia tenebrosa II Geographical distribution, synonymy, reproductive cycle and fecundity

1979 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 273 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Reproductive Cycle ◽  
Population Ecology ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Gonad Development ◽  
Reproductive Mode ◽  
The Other

Synonymy and geographical distribution of A. tenebrosa are discussed. Reproductive cycle and fecundity were examined between 1972 and 1975 inclusive at Kaikoura, New Zealand. At any one time, up to 77% of the adult population developed gonads and 20-94% of adults were brooding young. The main periods of gonad development, November-April inclusive, coincided with the warmest annual sea temperatures. Over 99.4% of brooded embryos dissected from 1851 adults were tentaculate young; the rest were planulae. It is suggested that the normal reproductive mode of the observed population is cross-fertilizing labile gonochorism, in which adults change from one sex to the other within each breeding season. Brooding adults would therefore be the maternal parents of their brooded embryos, even though subsequently the brooders would appear to be asexual or could become functional males.

A Multi-Dimensional Exploration of Future Aspect Marker "Dai" in Chinese Dialect from the Perspective of Typology — Take Gansu Tianzhu Dialect as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 5440-5452
Author(s):  
Song Shan ◽  
Min Chunfang
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Regional Characteristics ◽  
Future Aspect ◽  
The Future ◽  
Aspect Marker ◽  
Chinese Dialect

Objectives: In Tianzhu dialect, the use of the future aspect marker "Dai[tɛi44]" is frequent. The grammatical meaning of the future aspect marker, "verb phrase (VP) +'Dai[tɛi44]+[lio21]'", in Tianzhu dialect can be divided into two categories according to the differences of VP: one indicates that the end of the action is about to be reached, that is, "VP +'Dai1[tɛi44]+[lio21]'"; the other indicates that the action is about to begin, that is, "VP +‘Dai2[tɛi44]+[lio21]’ ". This article takes the Tianzhu dialect aspect marker "Dai[tɛi44]" as the main research object, and focuses on the grammatical functions and semantic features of "Dai1[tɛi44]" and "Dai2[tɛi44]" by studying the actionality types of verbs in Tianzhu dialect, and compares the future aspect marker "Dai[tɛi44]" in Tianzhu dialect with the future aspect markers of other Chinese dialect in Northwest China, and generalizes the geographical distribution and regional characteristics of the future aspect marker "Dai[tɛi44]".

Jewish and Roman Law: A Study in Interaction

2020 ◽  
pp. 379-393
Author(s):  
Haym Soloveitchik
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Information ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter discusses the laws regulating usury (ribbit). In the course of studying ribbit, more specifically, the problem of personal surety in usury contracts, certain peculiar developments in Provençal halakhic thought came to the author's attention which were not explainable by indigenous forces. The geographical distribution of the discussion seemed oddly disproportionate, the fictions too blatant, the types of problem that were raised seemed inappropriate for the period, and the terminology was occasionally alien. The author was compelled to look outside Jewish law for possible stimuli. Placing the Jewish developments within the context of twelfth-century Provençal law shed light on a number of seemingly inexplicable points. The Jewish literature, on the other hand, provided new information about the Gentile law of the time and yielded fresh corroboration for theories of the penetration of Roman law in Provence. However, at the same time this material seemed to point to an earlier date for certain legal developments than is generally accepted. It is these findings that the author wishes to bring to the attention of the scholars of Provençal law.

Two new Gammarus species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Zagros Mountains, Iran

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2894 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARYAM HEKMATARA ◽  
ALIREZA SARI ◽  
MOHAMMAD-HADI HEIDARY BALADEHI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Gammarus Pulex ◽  
The Other ◽  
Zagros Mountains ◽  
Remarkable Feature ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Morphological Differences

The present study tries to focus on describing two new species belonging to genus Gammarus from western Iran along the Zagros Mountains range. The most remarkable feature of Gammarus hegmatanensis sp. n. is the shape of epimeral plate 3, which is sharply pointed posteriorly with a distinct lobate anterior margin. This species has some similarities with and differences from some other species of Gammarus pulex–group such as G. parthicus and G. syriacus. The other species, G. sirvannus sp. n. with elongated eyes is similar to G. duebeni, G. lobifer, G. balutchi and G. loeffleri, but it shows prominent morphological differences and a distinct geographical distribution from these species. These new findings shed more light on the information available on amphipod fauna of Iran.

Insanity is Decreasing: a Statistical Item Suggesting that

1896 ◽  
Vol 42 (176) ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
T. A. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Annual Production ◽  
Acute Mania ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Definite Form ◽  
Degenerative Disorders ◽  
Urban Character ◽  
The One

It has always appeared to me that the various figures that are supposed to indicate an increase of insanity are not only inconclusive, but do not really show anything of the sort, and that there are even some vague and indefinite indications that there is really a decrease in the annual production of insanity. Some years ago I tried to find some figures amongst the various statistics we possess that would throw some light on this point, but practically without success. It seemed that such increase in the annual admissions to asylums as was beyond that due to increase of population was more than accounted for by slighter (i.e., less demonstrative) cases of acute insanity and various forms of chronic, senile, and degenerative disorders being yearly sent to asylums more freely, but I could get no figures proving this. A somewhat suggestive fact in this direction is the often-made remark that acute mania is less abundant, melancholia more so than formerly; acute mania of an active (i.e., demonstrative) type was always sent to asylums pretty well up to its actual amount. Melancholia used to be very largely left at home or treated in workhouses. But where shall we find such facts embodied in figures. Acute mania of our statistics includes the milder as well as the more demonstrative cases, and so shows an increase just as the total figures do. There are, then, so far as I know, no figures showing the real annual occurrence of insanity that are comparable year by year. There are, indeed, no figures that give the actual annual production of insanity apart from chronic and recurrent cases. There are no figures of any definite form and intensity of acute insanity. True the Commissioners' Reports give us statistics of general paralysis, but this is precisely the one form of acute insanity that is not an insanity; that is, it belongs to a different natural order of diseases from the other diseases we mean by insanity. I have elsewhere stated that this always appears clearly on a comparison of the statistics of general paralysis with those of insanity proper, and the same opinion has been expressed by authorities who have approached the matter from a pathological and therapeutical standpoint. Its remarkable geographical distribution and its specially urban character equally show it to be different from the other insanities, which have no similar features. That this disease is increasing owing to the more and more urban character of our population affords no ground for assuming a similar progress in the true insanities. The annual recoveries must, however, be largely dependent on, and proportional to, the annually occurring cases, but will, of course, so regarded, be vitiated by the increase of population and by the increased admissions of milder forms of insanity and by the recoveries of recurrent cases.

The Presidential Address on the Relation between the Geographical Distribution of Insanity and that of Certain Social and other Conditions in Ireland, delivered at the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held in Dublin, on July 13th and 14th, 1911

1911 ◽  
Vol 57 (239) ◽  
pp. 571-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Blue Ribbon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Great Body ◽  
Great Association

Gentlemen,—My first duty, which is also a pleasure, is that of thanking you, as I do most warmly, for the honour you have conferred upon me in electing me to preside for a season over this great Association, a position which may well be called the blue ribbon of our department of medicine, rendered illustrious as it is by the names of great men who have held the office in the past. My only regret has been that in accepting it I replace one whom we should all gladly have seen in this chair, one whose enforced retirement cannot be alluded to without a feeling of loss, though we rejoice that his health is so far restored as to enable him to be amongst us to-day. For the rest, I am happy to echo the sentiment expressed by Dr. Macpherson a year ago, and to welcome my election as a token that the interests, aims and aspirations of the departments which preside over the lunacy administration of these countries are recognised as identical with those of all the other members of this Association—that, in fact, we all form one great body, united by devotion to as lofty an object as can animate the members of any merely human society.

Nematode parasitism in amphibians and reptiles

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 747-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Host Range ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Nematode Parasitism ◽  
Early Cenozoic

Nematodes of amphibians and reptiles comprise five main groups: Enoplida, Oxyurida, Strongylida, Ascaridida, and Spirurida. Systematics, geographical distribution, and host range point to parasitic relationships that extend well back into tetrapod history. Some parasite groups such as the Enoplida were acquired from other vertebrate groups by host transfer, a common theme in the evolution of new nematode taxa. Most nematodes of amphibians and reptiles, however, evolved primarily in these hosts. Oxyurida in reptiles and amphibians are more primitive than forms they gave rise to in mammals. They closely resemble the Oxyurida of invertebrates. Strongylida possibly evolved in Mesozoic archosaurian reptiles such as dinosaurs and early birds. They are now mainly parasitic in mammals, although distinct groups of strongyloids, trichostrongyloids, and diaphanocephaloids evolved in amphibians and reptiles, probably in the early Cenozoic. Ascaridida evolved in mid-Mesozoic or earlier amphibians and reptiles, and the most primitive representatives (Cosmocercoidea) are common today in anurans, saurians, and chelonians. From these the other superfamilies evolved. Survivors of the early radiations include primitive Heterakoidea in anurans and saurians, primitive Ascaridoidea in crocodiles, and Seuratoidea in a wide variety of all vertebrate subclasses. Most superfamilies of Spirurida evolved in mammals, birds or extinct groups. Forms in amphibians and reptiles, however, are at least Mesozoic in age.

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