scholarly journals First record of Hemidiaptomus (Gigantodiaptomus) superbus (Schmeil, 1895) in Italy, with notes on distribution and conservation status (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae)

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico MARRONE ◽  
Giuseppe ALFONSO ◽  
Danio MISEROCCHI ◽  
Sabrina LO BRUTTO
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record

scholarly journals New record of Allamanda blanchetti Kunth (Apocynaceae) for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Diego Santos ◽  
Swami Leitão Costa ◽  
Francisco Carlos Pinheiro Costa
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
New Record ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Upland Forest ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
New Information ◽  
Status Assessment

This study report the first record of Allamanda blanchetii Kunth in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. This species was collected from an upland forest in Semi-deciduous Seasonal Forest. This occurrence adds new information about the distribution of this species and expands its range to Brazil, which is important for its conservation. We provide taxonomic information, distribution maps, conservation status assessment, photograps, and an identification key for the Allamanda L. species in the Atlantic Forest.

scholarly journals First record of Plantago commersoniana (Plantaginaceae), a rare and threatened species, in the Central-West region of Brazil

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2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Hassemer ◽  
Osmar Dos Santos Ribas ◽  
Nina Rønsted
Keyword(s):  
Threatened Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Disjunct Distribution ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
West Region ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul ◽  
Iucn Criteria

Plantago commersoniana is a rare and threatened species, with a highly disjunct distribution, mainly in southern Brazil. This study expands its distribution to Mato Grosso do Sul state, in the Central-West region of Brazil, due to the discovery of a collection of this species from rocky grasslands in Ponta Porã. This new record is ca. 285 km distant from the nearest known population, in Yhú, Caaguazú department, eastern Paraguay. This is also the first record of a native Plantago species in Mato Grosso do Sul. Its conservation status according to the IUCN criteria is Endangered (EN).

scholarly journals Delphinium fissum subsp. sordidum (Ranunculaceae) in Portugal: distribution and conservation status

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Ramírez-Rodríguez ◽  
Leopoldo Medina ◽  
Miguel Menezes de Sequeira ◽  
Carlos Aguiar ◽  
Francisco Amich
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Iucn Categories

Delphinium fissum subsp. sordidum has been found in calcareous and schistaceous slopes on the Mines of Santo Adrião, Trás-os-Montes region —close to Bragança, northeastern Portugal—. It is the first record of this taxon in Portugal and the westernmost locality of its general distribution area. Its conservation status, according to the most recent IUCN categories and criteria, should be “Critically Endangered” in Portugal.

scholarly journals First record of Selaginella conduplicata Spring (Selaginellaceae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Northeastern Brazil

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2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1283-1287
Author(s):  
Luiz Armando de Araújo Góes-Neto ◽  
Alexandre Salino
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Brazilian Northeast ◽  
Present Description

This is the first voucher-based record of Selaginella conduplicata Spring in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and the Brazilian Northeast. This species was considered restricted to the Amazon Basin, and here we report its occurrence beyond the Amazonian limits, expanding its distribution. Illustrations of the diagnostic characters of the species, information of geographic distribution and conservation status are presented. Besides, we present description as well as taxonomic and nomenclatural comments.

scholarly journals Neotropical felid specimens at the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi: species, distribution, and morphometric data

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. e20185833
Author(s):  
Alexandra Maria Ramos Bezerra ◽  
Samanta Uchôa Bordallo
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
First Record ◽  
South American ◽  
Morphometric Data ◽  
The Third ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
Source Of Information

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG), situated at Brazilian state of Pará, houses the third largest South-American mammal scientific collection, being a primary source of information for the study of Amazonian and Neotropical mammalians. The collection holds 245 felid specimens, comprising 210 skulls, 53 skins, 10 skeletons, and two anatomical pieces, representing 90% of wild Brazilian cat species, mainly from localities of Northern Brazil. We presented a list of this material, indexed by the genera and species. We also provided craniodental measurements of all the specimens with skull, and comment on the conservation status of the species and other remarkable data, including the first record of Leopardus tigrinus in the Brazilian state of Rondônia.

A Northward Spread In The Breeding Distribution Of The New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocartos Hooeri)

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
SD Mcconkey ◽  
H Mcconnell ◽  
C Lalas ◽  
S Heinrich ◽  
A Ludmerer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Current Conservation ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Sea Lions ◽  
Campbell Island

The primary objective of the population management plan for New Zealand sea lions, Phocarctos hookeri, is to move the species from its current conservation status of ‘Threatened’ to ‘Non-threatened’. The mechanism by which this will occur is through the establishment of new breeding colonies away from the only existing colonies at Auckland Islands and Campbell Island. Otago, on the southeast coast of the South Island of New Zealand, is one of only three locations where breeding has been recorded away from these islands in modern times. We found only one female at the initiation of our surveys here in 1991, an individual that had been tagged as a pup at Auckland Islands. This female has remained resident at Otago and is now breeding. Her first live birth, in the 1993/94 breeding season, represented the first record of a P. hookeri pup on the New Zealand mainland since the elimination of the species here by humans c. 150 years ago. Up to and including the 2000/01 breeding season she had produced six pups. Her surviving pups have remained at Otago and her eldest two daughters have started breeding, producing a further three pups. From this total of nine live births, two pups have died. Although 6 - 8 other migrant females have been recorded, to our knowledge none have bred at Otago. We conclude that the initiation of breeding by P. hookeri at Otago has been a serendipitous event attributable to atypical behaviour by a single female.

Austrolebias ephemerus (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), a new annual fish from the upper Rio Paraguai basin, Brazilian Chaco

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4560 (3) ◽  
pp. 541 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATHEUS VIEIRA VOLCAN ◽  
FRANCISCO SEVERO-NETO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Branchial Arch ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Head Width ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Annual Fish ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul

A new species of Austrolebias belonging to the A. bellottii species group is herein described from the Brazilian Chaco, Mato Grosso do Sul state, constituting the northernmost record of the genus in Brazil, as well as the first record of this genus on the left bank of the Rio Paraguai. The new species is distinguished from all other species of the A. bellottii group by the following combination of characters: pectoral fin posterior margin reaching vertical between base of 4th and 7th anal fin rays in females, a high number of gill rakers in the first branchial arch, a lower head width in both sexes, and a small number of neuromasts in the preopercular series. Additionally, we provide information on ecology and the conservation status of the new species. 

scholarly journals Unravelling the Extent of Diversity within the Iberian Medicinal Leeches (Hirudinea: Hirudo) Using Molecules and Morphology

Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Andrés Arias ◽  
Victor Surugiu ◽  
Rafael Carballeira ◽  
Oana Paula Popa ◽  
Luis Ovidiu Popa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Hirudo Medicinalis ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Glacial Refugium ◽  
12S Rrna ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
Medicinal Leeches

Until the beginning of the 21st century, the famous medicinal leech was thought to be represented by only one species, Hirudo medicinalis. However, recent publications have demonstrated that under that name, at least five different species of medicinal leeches were hidden. During the last decade, the biogeography of Western-Palaearctic leeches has begun to unravel, untangling their diversity in practically all of Europe, except for its westernmost peninsula, Iberia. Hirudo medicinalis has been repeatedly reported from Iberia, but those records were considered questionable. We discovered H. verbana in northern Spain, constituting its first record in Iberia. Using an integrative approach (combining morpho-anatomical data and molecular analyses using three genes, COI,12S rRNA, and ITS2), two endemic and geographically separated Iberian lineages have been found. One of them is easily distinguished by its distinctive colour-pattern and is described as H. verbana bilineata ssp. nov. We characterized the new subspecies morphologically, ecologically, and genetically. We also established its phylogenetic relationships with other European Hirudo spp. and confirm the presence of H. troctina in Iberia, occurring as far as 43° lat. N. Iberian H. verbana records constitute its westernmost known distribution to date. The provided distribution pattern of H. verbana contributes to a better understanding of the complexity of Iberia as a glacial refugium/cradle for endemisms, harbouring populations with a high degree of genetic structure that began to settle throughout the Pleistocene. Iberian Hirudo populations are declining in recent decades and there is an urgent need to assess their conservation status and to initiate conservation measures to reverse their decline.

scholarly journals Record of the non-indigenous species Sternaspis aff. nana Zhadan, Tzetlin & Salazar-Vallejo, 2017 (Annelida: Sternaspidae) in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. e20216111
Author(s):  
Nykon Craveiro ◽  
José Souto Rosa Filho
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Indigenous Species ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Southwest Atlantic ◽  
Ship Hulls ◽  
Non Indigenous Species ◽  
New Habitats

The introduction of non-indigenous marine species in new habitats is generally associated with ships arriving at ports, driven by species transported in ballast water and sediment and biofouling communities on ship hulls, drifting object and underwater surfaces in dock areas. The present paper reports the record of the specie Sternaspis aff. nana in the Atlantic Ocean, discussing its possible conservation status and method of arrival to Brazil. Sediments samples were collected in the external area (11 m depth) of the Suape Harbor (Brazil) in February 2018. Two individuals of Sternaspis aff. nana were recorded, representing the first record of this species in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean. The way S. aff. nana arrived in Brazilian waters cannot be easily determined, the short-lived lecithotrophic larvae of sternaspids suggest that the specimens found in Suape have arrived in ballast sediment. An increase in trade between Brazil and Asian countries since the 2000s has led to that more ships coming from China having arrived in Brazilian harbors. The arrival of S. aff. nana, originally described in the South China Sea, in the Suape harbor area may have resulted from this intense movement of ships between China and Brazil.

scholarly journals First record of the land gastropod genus Otesiopsis from South Korea (Helicarionoidea Bourguignat, 1877)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuki Kimura ◽  
Satoshi Chiba ◽  
Jae-Hong Pak
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
First Record ◽  
Land Snail ◽  
A New Species

Otesiopsis Habe, 1946 is a land snail genus, which is known so far from Japan and Taiwan. Individuals of this genus were collected from Gageodo Island, South Korea. This is the first record of the genus Otesiopsis from this country. The individuals from Gageodo Island appear to be a new species because of their unique shell morphologies, while the details of their anatomy are still lacking. Further studies are encouraged to investigate the taxonomic and conservation status of the genus Otesiopsis in South Korea.

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