A new species of Trichechus Linnaeus, 1758 (Sirenia, Trichechidae), from the upper Pleistocene of southwestern Amazonia, and the evolution of Amazonian manatees (project)

10.7934/p3935 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Perini ◽  
E Nascimento ◽  
M Cozzuol
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia ◽  
A New Species

scholarly journals The oldest platylepadid turtle barnacle (Cirripedia, Coronuloidea): a new species of Platylepas from the Lower Pleistocene of Italy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Collareta ◽  
Agatino Reitano ◽  
Antonietta Rosso ◽  
Rossana Sanfelippo ◽  
Mark Bosselaers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
History Of ◽  
A New Species

Coronuloid barnacles are epibionts of several marine vertebrates (including cetaceans and sea turtles) as well as invertebrates, and are assigned to two families of turtle barnacles (Chelonibiidae Pilsbry, 1916 and Platylepadidae Newman & Ross, 1976) and one family of whale barnacles (Coronulidae Leach, 1817). Chelonibiids and coronulids have a scanty, albeit significant fossil record extending back to the Eocene and Pliocene, respectively; in turn, the fossil record of platylepadids is limited to a single record from the Upper Pleistocene. Here we report on an isolated carinolateral compartment of Platylepas Gray, 1825, the type genus of the family, from Lower Pleistocene (Gelasian) epibathyal deposits exposed at Milazzo (Sicily, Italy). This specimen is here designated holotype of a new species, †Platylepas mediterranea sp. nov. We argue that, like most extant members of Platylepas, †P. mediterranea sp. nov. lived partially embedded in the skin of a sea turtle. This record of an extinct platylepadid – the first from the Mediterranean region and the second worldwide – pushes back the fossil record of Platylepadidae to the lowermost Quaternary, thus possibly supporting an even earlier (e.g., Neogene) timing for the origin of this family and adding a new chapter to the evolutionary history of one of the most diverse and successful lineages of epizoic crustaceans.

The " Tortoise's Caja"-A New Species of Spondias (Anacardiaceae) from Southwestern Amazonia

Brittonia ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 447 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Mitchell ◽  
Douglas C. Daly
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia ◽  
A New Species

Tachigali amarumayu (Leguminosae), a new species from terra firme forests of Southwestern Amazonia

Brittonia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco ◽  
Haroldo C. De Lima ◽  
Domingos B. O. S. Cardoso ◽  
Raúl Yuca-Rivas ◽  
José Antonio Ochoa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Terra Firme ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia ◽  
A New Species

Cercomacra manu, a New Species of Antbird from Southwestern Amazonia

The Auk ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Fitzpatrick ◽  
David E. Willard
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southwestern Amazonia ◽  
A New Species
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