scholarly journals First record of American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica for Mauritania, and its status in western Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-161
Author(s):  
Heiko Schmaljohann ◽  
Marco Thoma
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Western Africa ◽  
Golden Plover

scholarly journals Range extension and first confirmed record of the Flightless Anomalure Zenkerella insignis (Matschie, 1898) (Mammalia: Rodentia: Anomaluridae) in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 16900-16903
Author(s):  
Dolapo Oluwafemi Adejumo ◽  
Temidaya Adeniyi Adeyanju ◽  
Taiye Esther Adeyanju
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
Core Zone ◽  
The Core ◽  
Western Africa ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Live Specimen

The Cameroon Scaly-tail Zenkerella insignis is the only known extant species in the family Zenkerellidae.  It is a rare mammal endemic to the thick rainforests of central and western Africa.  This species is so rarely encountered that the first picture of a live specimen was taken in 2015.  We encountered and photographed the elusive scaly-tail in the core zone of Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria in May 2019.  Its behaviour was also observed.  This sighting is the first record of the Cameroon Scaly-tail in Nigeria and a significant westward range extension.   

scholarly journals First record of Pacific Golden Plover for Angola

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-224
Author(s):  
Michael S L Mills
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Golden Plover

scholarly journals A new genus of the tribe Rhinocartini (Coleoptera, Rhynchitidae) from the Solomon Islands

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Legalov
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
First Record ◽  
The South ◽  
Western Africa ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
A New Species

A new genus, Solomonocartus Legalov, gen. nov., with a new species Solomonocartus bukejsi Legalov, sp. nov. belongs to the tribe Rhinocartini from Guadalcanal Island (Solomon Islands) is described and illustrated. This new genus differs from the genus Rhinocartus Voss, 1922 from Western Africa in the long antennae inserted in the basal third of the rostrum and almost reaching the middle of the elytra, almost straight sides of the pronotum, long ventrite 2, and larger body sizes. It is the first record of the tribe Rhinocartini from the South Pacific and the second find of Rhynchitidae from the Solomon Islands.

Do not forget Africa – revision of fungarium collections at Kew revealed a new species of Hermatomyces (Hermatomycetaceae, Pleosporales)

Nova Hedwigia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
Ondřej Koukol ◽  
Gregorio Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
First Record ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Western Africa ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Anamorphic Ascomycetes ◽  
Additional Collection ◽  
A New Species

Species of the genus Hermatomyces (Hermatomycetaceae, Pleosporales) are saprotrophic anamorphic ascomycetes that have been intensively studied mostly in South-East Asia and Panama. Species concepts were recently revised based on specimens from these regions using both phenotypic and molecular data. However, other tropical areas have been mostly overlooked, e.g. Africa, although members of the genus were collected from this continent in the past. Therefore, specimens available at the fungarium of Kew were studied. Most of them originated from western Africa, specifically Ghana and Sierra Leone, but collections from Ethiopia, India, and Malaysia were also revised. Among them, a new species was found and is described and illustrated herein as H. truncatus. The fungus colonized dead branches of Averrhoa carambola in Ghana and is characterized by two types of conidia; the cylindrical ones are 2-, rarely 3-celled, with a central or eccentric septum and the upper cells rounded but slightly flattened at the apex, often distinctly widening and dark brown or black in color. An additional collection of this fungus from Panama was also studied. Recently collected specimens from Puerto Rico and Australia are included and the known distribution of the following species is updated with new regions: H. indicus (first record from Sierra Leone), H. megasporus (Ethiopia), H. reticulatus (Ethiopia) and H. sphaericus (Puerto Rico and Australia).

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