bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Impairment of Bitter Taste Sensor Transient Receptor Potential Channel M5-Mediated Aversion Aggravates High-Salt Intake and Hypertension
Authors: Cui Yuanting , Wu Hao , Li Qiang , Liao Jianwen , Gao Peng , Sun Fang , Zhang Hexuan , Lu Zongshi , Wei Xiao , He Chengkang , Ma Tianyi , Wei Xing , Chen Xiaowei , Zheng Hongting , Yang Gangyi , Liu Daoyan , Zhu Zhiming
Published: August 2019

Excessive salt consumption leads to cardiovascular diseases. Despite various measures designed to reduce salt intake, daily salt intake remains at a high level. Appropriate salt intake is balanced by salt taste preference triggered by epithelium sodium channel and salt taste aversion evoked by bitter taste sensor, transient receptor potential channel M5 (TRPM5). However, the behavioral mechanism of excessive salt intake remains largely elusive. In this study, wild type and TRPM5
−/−
mice were applied to study the influence of high-salt administration on epithelium sodium channel/TRPM5 and the associated behavior to salt consumption. We found that long-term high-salt intake impaired the aversive behavior to high-salt stimulation but did not alter the preference to low salt in mice. The mechanistic evidence demonstrated that high-salt intake blunted the TRPM5-mediated aversive behavior to noxious salt stimulation through inhibiting PKC (protein kinase C) activity and PKC-dependent threonine phosphorylation in the tongue epithelium but did not affect the epithelium sodium channel–dependent salt taste preference. Inhibition of TRPM5 also resulted in an impaired aversive response to high salt, with reduced taste perception in bitter cortical field of mice. TRPM5
−/−
mice showed a lowered aversion to high-salt diet and developed salt-induced hypertension. The impaired perception to bitter taste evoked by high-salt intake also existed in hypertensive patients with high-salt consumption. We demonstrate that long-term high-salt consumption impairs aversive response to concentrated salt by downregulating bitter taste sensor TRPM5. It suggests that enhancing TRPM5 function might antagonize excessive salt intake and high salt–induced hypertension.
Transformative Water Relations: Indigenous Interventions in Global Political Economies
Authors: Neville Kate J. , Coulthard Glen
Published: August 2019

This Special Issue of Global Environmental Politics, on water governance, focuses on the disruptive and transformative potential of Indigenous politics for revealing the multiplicity of political economies and enhancing the theory and practice of global environmental politics. In this issue, we unsettle the assumptions of dominant colonial systems of production and exchange (often the starting point for global environmental politics scholars), using water to bring to light the conflicting approaches of settler colonial and Indigenous political economies. With a focus on the settler colonial states of the Global North—specifically, Canada and the United States—the contributing authors interrogate the ways in which different forms of water relations are positioned at the center of conflicting understandings of land, law, and development trajectories. Through analyses of varying forms of water infrastructure, water law, and waterways, and with careful attention to spatial and temporal distances in production and trade systems, the articles curated here examine conflicting legal forms and traditions, upstream and downstream relations, and opportunities for and limits to resistance by affected communities. In a dominant global political economy with increasing distance between sites of extraction, production, consumption, and discard—and even further removed from the financing that underpins these commodity chains—our Special Issue suggests that the acknowledgment and visibility of multiple forms of water relations contribute to reshaping both economies and environmental outcomes.
Engaging Colonial Entanglements: “Treatment as a State” Policy for Indigenous Water Co-Governance
Authors: Diver Sibyl , Ahrens Daniel , Arbit Talia , Bakker Karen
Published: August 2019

In the United States, treatment as a state (TAS) provisions enable eligible Native American tribes to assume the same responsibilities as state governments in setting and implementing water quality standards (WQSs). Following the introduction of TAS through 1987 amendments to the US Clean Water Act (CWA), forty-four US tribes have enacted TAS tribal standards, which may be more stringent than those of neighboring states; can incorporate cultural and/or ceremonial uses; and can be used to influence pollution levels coming from upstream, off-reservation users. To evaluate TAS as a model for Indigenous water co-governance, we examine how Native American tribes are advancing tribal sovereignty and environmental sustainability through TAS, and we engage with conflicting views on whether and how Indigenous self-determination can be advanced through existing bureaucratic and colonial governance systems. We specifically analyze environmental pollutant listings in tribal water quality standards for the forty-four TAS tribes. Findings suggest that TAS tribes are creating more culturally relevant WQSs, which are typically as comprehensive as, and often more stringent than, analogous state regulations. Tribal standards are diverse, and TAS tribes can set standards independently from neighboring states and one another. Further analysis reveals the complexities of TAS policy, whereby colonial entanglements both enable and constrain enhanced Indigenous self-determination.
Including Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Environmental Assessments: Restructuring the Process
Authors: Arsenault Rachel , Bourassa Carrie , Diver Sibyl , McGregor Deborah , Witham Aaron
Published: August 2019

Indigenous peoples around the world are concerned about the long-term impacts of industrial activities and natural resource extraction projects on their traditional territories. Environmental impact studies, environmental risk assessments (EAs), and risk management protocols are offered as tools that can address some of these concerns. However, these tools are not universally required in jurisdictions, and this Forum intervention considers whether these technical tools might be reshaped to integrate Indigenous communities’ interests, with specific attention to traditional knowledge. Challenges include unrealistic timelines to evaluate proposed projects, community capacity, inadequate understanding of Indigenous communities, and ineffective communicatio, all of which contribute to pervasive distrust in EAs by many Indigenous communities. Despite efforts to address these problems, substantive inequities persist in the way that EAs are conducted as infringement continues on constitutionally protected Indigenous rights. This article highlights challenges within the EA process and presents pathways for improving collaboration and outcomes with Indigenous communities.
Cultural Variations in the Curse of Knowledge: the Curse of Knowledge Bias in Children from a Nomadic Pastoralist Culture in Kenya
Authors: Ghrear Siba , Chudek Maciej , Fung Klint , Mathew Sarah , Birch Susan A. J.
Published: August 2019

We examined the universality of the curse of knowledge (i.e., the tendency to be biased by one’s knowledge when inferring other perspectives) by investigating it in a unique cross-cultural sample; a nomadic Nilo-Saharan pastoralist society in East Africa, the Turkana. Forty Turkana children were asked eight factual questions and asked to predict how widely-known those facts were among their peers. To test the effect of their knowledge, we taught children the answers to half of the questions, while the other half were unknown. Based on findings suggesting the bias’s universality, we predicted that children would estimate that more of their peers would know the answers to the questions that were taught versus the unknown questions. We also predicted that with age children would become less biased by their knowledge. In contrast, we found that only Turkana males were biased by their knowledge when inferring their peers’ perspectives, and the bias did not change with age. We discuss the implications of these findings.
Dendrobium annulatum (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae), a new species of Dendrobium section Grastidium from Indonesian New Guinea

Authors: JUSWARA LINA S. , SCHUITEMAN ANDRÉ , CHAMPION JEFFREY
Published: August 2019

The second largest genus of Orchidaceae, Dendrobium Swartz (1799: 82), has close to 1600 accepted species names (Govaerts et al. 2019). Indonesia is particularly rich in species of Dendrobium, with, for example, 114 and 53 species recorded from Sumatra and Java, respectively (Comber 1990, 2003). However, this pales in comparison to New Guinea, where 612 species of Dendrobium are known to occur, 86% of which are endemic. About 299 Dendrobium species are known from Indonesian New Guinea as opposed to 439 from Papua New Guinea, perhaps reflecting the lower collecting density in Indonesian New Guinea rather than actual lower species diversity (Schuiteman, unpublished).
Remarks on the Chinese species of the genus Anelytra Redtenbacher, 1891 (Orthoptera, Conocephalinae)
Authors: SHI FU-MING , QIU MING
Published: August 2019

A key to the Chinese species of the genus Anelytra Redtenbacher is presented. Four new species are described: A. multicurvata sp. nov., A. compressa sp. nov., A. spinia sp. nov. and A. jinghonga sp. nov.. The type specimens are kept in the Museum of Hebei University.
Curt Schrottky (18741937): South American entomology at the beginning of the 20th century (Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera)
Authors: RASMUSSEN CLAUS , GARCETE-BARRETT BOLÍVAR RAFAEL , GONÇALVES RODRIGO B.
Published: August 2019

Curt Schrottky was one the early European entomologists to reside in South America. Caught in the midst of personal and political conflicts, he still amazed to propose 593 new names in Hymenoptera (from sawflies to bees), Diptera (black flies, Simuliidae) and Lepidoptera (tiger moths, Arctiidae) between 1901 and 1922. Many of his primary types (syntypes and holotypes) were originally in his private collection, which were partially destroyed, and the remaining part scattered among multiple institutions. Other type specimens were exchanged before the destruction of his main collection to institutions in South America, USA, and Europe. The present catalog provides a complete list of the taxa proposed by Schrottky, including a bibliography of his 86 entomological publications. The catalog also lists all valid names proposed by Schrottky with details on the nomenclature, sex, type locality, and type repository for 126 known surviving types, representing 23% of all species-group taxa proposed by Schrottky. The remaining types (77%) are most likely lost. A brief biography is followed by a discussion of where to locate and how to treat original types and neotypes of Schrottky.
Ten new species of Wakarumbia Bocak, 1999 from Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Lycidae), with a key to males of the genus
Authors: DVORAK M. , BOCAK L.
Published: August 2019

The recently collected material of the genus Wakarumbia Bocak, 1999 from Sulawesi revealed a high number of endemic species. Ten new species are recognized: W. aurea sp. nov., W. decepta sp. nov., W. hanae sp. nov., W. hirsuta sp. nov., W. kundratai sp. nov., W. linearis sp. nov., W. obscura sp. nov., W. obstinata sp. nov., W. pendolensis sp. nov. and W. pseudofasciata sp. nov. Their descriptions are provided and male genitalia are figured. The key to males of all 31 species of Wakarumbia is given.
Tachysurus spilotus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae)
Authors: NG HEOK HEE
Published: August 2019

Tachysurus spilotus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam, is described. It can be distinguished from congeners except T. argentivittatus, T. longispinalis, and T. virgatus in having a color pattern consisting of black longitudinal stripes on a pale body (vs. with a uniform-colored body with pale patches or transverse bands on a dark body, or with dark rectangular patches on a pale body). It differs from both T. argentivittatus and T. virgatus in snout shape and having gently convex (vs. straight) posterior edges of the caudal-fin lobes; and from T. longispinalis in having a shorter dorsalfin spine (ca. 27% SL vs. 15.1–19.0) and maxillary barbels (shorter, vs. longer than head). Tachysurus mica is shown here to be conspecific with—and a junior synonym of—T. argentivittatus.
Rediscovery of Pristepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), a new synonym of Acrepyris Kieffer
Authors: AZEVEDO CELSO O. , ALENCAR ISABEL D. C. C.
Published: August 2019

The Epyrinae genus Pristepyris Kieffer is revised. The genus has four species. Pristepyris rugicollis Kieffer from Malaysia and P. levicollis Kieffer from Madagascar are rediscovered. Their adult male holotypes are redescribed and illustrated. Specimens of Pristepyris agraensis Kurian and P. flavicornis Kieffer were unavailable and reassigned based on their original descriptions. All species are considered to be Pristocerinae, because they have the metanotum well developed medially. Pristepyris rugicollis is transferred to Acrepyris Westwood because it has the aedeagus divided in three valvae, P. agraensis is transferred to Acrepyris, because it has an undivided hypopygium; and P. levicollis and P. flavicornis are transferred to Pristocera Klug, because they have a hypopygium that is deeply divided into two lobes. Pristepyris is considered junior synonym of Acrepyris, because Pristepyris rugicollis is its type-species.
Parallidiostoma tricornum Ocampo and Colby, a new genus and species of Allidiostomatinae from Peru (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Authors: OCAMPO FEDERICO C. , COLBY JULIA
Published: August 2019

Parallidiostoma tricornum Ocampo and Colby, new genus and new species, are described and illustrated. The new genus is placed in the New World scarab subfamily Allidiostomatinae. The known distribution and natural history of the new species are discussed.
The epigean Australasian species of Neobidessodes gen.n. diving beetlesa revision integrating morphology, cybertaxonomy, DNA taxonomy and phylogeny (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini)
Authors: HENDRICH LARS , HAWLITSCHEK OLIVER , BALKE MICHAEL
Published: August 2019

We use mitochondrial DNA sequence data and morphology to the reassess taxonomy and phylogeny of Australasian diving beetles previously assigned to Bidessodes Régimbart, 1900 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Bidessodes was described for a South American species. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of a set of the morphologically rather homoplastic Bidessini shows that Australasian Bidessodes form a clade distant from the Neotropical species and are thus assigned the new generic name Neobidessodes Hendrich & Balke gen.n. The seven Australian Bidessodes species known to date are transferred: Neobidessodes bilita (Watts, 1978), comb.n.; N. denticulatus (Sharp, 1882), comb.n.; N. flavosignatus (Zimmermann, 1922), comb.n.; N. grossus (Zimmermann, 1922), comb.n.; N. gutteridgei (Watts & Humphreys, 2003) (stygobitic species), comb.n.; N. limestonensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2003) (stygobitic species) comb.n. and N. mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922), comb.n. The epigean species are re-described. Lectotypes for Bidessus flavosignatus Zimmermann, 1922; Bidessus grossus Zimmermann, 1922 and Bidessus mjobergi Zimmermann, 1922 are designated, and two new species, Neobidessodes samkrisi Hendrich & Balke sp.n. from southern New Guinea (Merauke, West Papua) as well as Neobidessodes thoracicus Hendrich & Balke sp.n. from the Kimberley region, the Northern Territory and northern Queensland, are described. We delineate the species using traditionally employed morphological structures such as male genital structure and beetle size, shape and colour pattern. Illustrations based on digital images are provided here and as online resources. Cox1 data for 42 individuals were used too as characters for DNA taxonomy (or barcoding). The signal is mixed. Of the nine species, all retrieved as monophyletic groups or clusters. N. samkrisi sp.n. and N. flavosignatus are morphologically strongly divergent, yet cox1 distance only amounts to 0.85– 1.14%, while intraspecific distances for N. denticulatus are 0.0–1.28%. The epigean species of the genus are distributed from southern New Guinea, tropical and subtropical north of Australia, and along the east coast south to Victoria. All species occur in small streams, creeks, and pools of intermittent rivers or billabongs with sandy or gravelly bottom. The morphologically highly derived, blind and wingless stygobitic species are endemic to the Three Rivers calcrete in the Yilgarn, Western Australia. Important species characters (median lobes, parameres (in part) and colour patterns) are illustrated. A key to all seven epigean species is provided. The known distribution and habitat preferences of each species are outlined briefly.
Carmenta chromolaenae Eichlin, a new species (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) for the biological control of Chromolaena odorata (L.) King & Robinson (Asteraceae)
Authors: EICHLIN THOMAS D. , DELGADO OONA S. , STRATHIE LORRAINE W. , ZACHARIADES COSTAS , CLAVIJO JOSE
Published: August 2019

A new species of Sesiidae, Carmenta chromolaenae Eichlin, is described to make the name available to researchers evaluating the moth's potential for biological control of its host plant, Chromolaena odorata, in South Africa and other parts of the plant's invasive range. This clearwing moth species was reared from the host plant in Venezuela. The adult moth, including the male and female genitalia, larva, and pupa are described and illustrated. Its biology and possible use as a control agent are discussed.
A taxonomic study of the genus Svistella Gorochov (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Trigonidiinae)
Authors: HE ZHUQING , LI KAI , LIU XIANWEI
Published: August 2019

A taxonomic study of the genus Svistella Gorochov, 1987 is presented. Six species are described, including three new species and a new combination. A key to species of the genus is given.
Botryllid species (Tunicata, Ascidiacea) from the Mediterranean coast of Israel, with some considerations on the systematics of Botryllinae
Authors: BRUNETTI RICCARDO
Published: August 2019

Several botryllid colonies of the genus Botrylloides from the Mediterranean coast of Israel are analysed. Three species are described: B. leachii, which differs because of its smaller size, from specimens collected from other European seas and is considered a case of dwarfism due to the particular hydrological conditions of the study area; B. anceps, a species originally described from the Indo-Pacific region, which probably migrated from the Red Sea; and Botrylloides israeliense, a new species. The distinction between the genera Botryllus and Botrylloides is discussed, and the original Milne-Edwards diagnosis based on differences in the structure of the system is recognised as still valid. Lastly, the diagnostic features usually employed in specific taxonomic determinations of Botryllinae are analysed.
Aphanodactylidae, a new family of thoracotreme crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) symbiotic with polychaete worms
Authors: AHYONG SHANE T. , NG PETER K. L.
Published: August 2019

The pea crabs of the family Pinnotheridae De Haan, 1833, have traditionally been recognised on the basis of their simplified external morphology, modified third maxillipeds, and general habit of living in association with invertebrate hosts, usually bivalve molluscs. Recent morphological and molecular studies of Pinnotheridae show that it is not a natural group as traditionally conceived. The subfamily Asthenognathinae Stimpson, 1858, actually belongs in the Varunidae H. Milne Edwards, 1853, and the subfamily Tritodynamiinae Števčić, 2005, is part of the Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851. However, several ‘pinnotherid’ genera that are superficially similar to asthenognathines and allied to Aphanodactylus Tesch, 1918, appear to form a discrete group, but lack the chief synapomorphy of Pinnotheridae, namely, the highly modified maxilliped 3. Moreover, Aphanodactylus and allies do not share synapomorphies with of any presently recognised thoracotreme family. A new family, Aphanodactylidae, is therefore established for Aphanodactylus, Gandoa Kammerer, 2006, Uruma Naruse, Fujita & Ng, 2009, and a new genus and species described herein, Gustavus mecognathus. Aphanodactylids (where known) are symbiotic with terebellid polychaete worms and share short, stout, ambulatory legs with one or more spines lining the flexor margins of the ischiomeri of at least some of the ambulatory legs; a row of distal flexor spines on the ambulatory propodi opposing a claw-like dactylus; very short ambulatory dactyli that are less than half the respective propodus length; and marked sexual dimorphism in which the female is distinctly wider than the male. The phylogenetic position of Aphanodactylidae remains to be determined but the morphology of the third maxillipeds and the position of the male gonopore suggests that it may belong in the Pinnotheroidea, to which it is tentatively assigned. Each genus of the Aphanodactylidae is diagnosed and illustrated, and a key to the genera provided.
Erratum: NG, H. H. & HADIATY, R. K. (2009) Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra. Zootaxa, 2232, 50–60.
Authors: NG H. H. , HADIATY R. K.
Published: August 2019

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First report of rare pomfrets (Teleostei: Bramidae) from Brazilian waters, with a key to Western Atlantic species
Authors: CARVALHO-FILHO ALFREDO , MARCOVALDI GUY , SAMPAIO CLÁUDIO L. S. , PAIVA M. ISABEL G. , DUARTE LUIZ A. G.
Published: August 2019

This is the first in a series of reports describing new records caught with circle hooks, a method only now being employed in exploratory fishing in Brazilian deep waters. Several new records of deep-water fishes were obtained with this equipment. In this paper we record for the first time the occurrence of two genera and species of Bramidae in Brazilian waters: the tropical pomfret Eumegistus brevorti and the keeltail pomfret Taractes rubescens. We also report on previously unnoticed collection records from preserved specimens of Pterycombus brama in museum collections, and the first capture of an adult bigscale pomfret Taractichthys longipinnis in Brazil. These new records increase the number of bramid species known from Brazilian waters to ten. The addition of P. brama to the Brazilian Bramidae makes the Southwestern Atlantic the only known area of the world where two species of Pterycombus are found together. Meristic, biometric, and new biological data are presented for Eumegistus brevorti. Some species of bramids are rather rare and even if well described in the literature there are morphological characters and behavioral aspects yet to be added. Herein we present detailed descriptions of some bramid species to add to their published descriptions. A key to the Western Atlantic Bramidae is provided.
A synopsis of Actenosigynes Moure, Graf & Urban, 1999 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)new species, possible oligolecty and biogeographic comments
Authors: SILVEIRA FERNANDO A.
Published: August 2019

A second species of Actenosigynes from the Mantiqueira mountain range, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, is described. This new taxon can be readily distinguished from the type species of the genus, A. fulvoniger (Michener, 1989), by its entirely black-pubescent mesosoma and by the light-yellow pilosity on its terga, among other characters. Females of the two known species are illustrated for the first time and a key is presented for their identification. Analysis of the pollen extracted from the scopa of the holotype of the new species and field observations of A. fulvoniger indicate that both species of Actenosigynes are oligolectic on flowers of Loasaceae as pollen sources. This presumed couple of sister species is the first example of a speciation event related to the isolation of populations of temperate and subtropical bee species on the top of southeastern-Brazilian mountains. It suggests that complexes of sibling species may exist among the other bee species with similar disjunct distribution.
Unduloribates from North America (Acari, Oribatida, Unduloribatidae)
Authors: BEHAN-PELLETIER VALERIE M. , WALTER DAVID E.
Published: August 2019

We propose a new species of oribatid mite, Unduloribates dianae sp. nov., based on material collected from a variety of boreal habitats in the Canadian Provinces Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Québec, Alberta and British Columbia, and in New York State in the USA. This is the first species in this genus from the Nearctic. Description is based on adults and all immature stages. We present an expanded generic diagnosis and a key to world species of Unduloribates, and argue for the retention of Unduloribatidae as a monogeneric family in Phenopelopoidea.
A new species of Psammisotoma Greenslade and Deharveng (Collembola: Isotomidae) from Brazil
Authors: ABRANTES EDUARDO ASSIS , DE MENDONÇA MARIA CLEIDE
Published: August 2019

A new species Psammisotoma restingae, from Maricá city, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to P. kingae Greenslade and Deharveng, 1996, but differs in the outer labial process, tergal sensillary pattern and claw.
Checklist of the helminths of the kelp gull, Larus dominicanus (Aves: Laridae), with new records from Chile
Authors: CERDA FABIOLA , LÓPEZ JUANA , ORTEGA RENÉ , MATHIEU CHRISTIAN , KINSELLA MIKE
Published: August 2019

Kelp gulls (Larus dominicanus) have a circumpolar distribution in the southern hemisphere. Their range extends as far north as Ecuador and they occur along the southern coast of South America and Africa as well as Australia, New Zealand and sub-Antarctic Islands. This study presents a checklist that summarizes sites of infections, localities, life cycles and their intermediate hosts (if known), and the pertinent references to demonstrate the wide diversity of kelp gull parasitic helminths. Our review of the existing literature (59 publications) on kelp gull parasites provided information on a total of 21 families and 49 genera, including 62 described species, of which 36 were described in Argentina, 21 in Chile, 12 in Antarctica, 11 in New Zealand, 7 in Brazil and 3 in South Africa. In addition, 11 parasites are recorded from Talcahuano, Chile, 10 of them are new records for Chile and 4 represented new host records, Aporchis sp., Maritrema eroliae, Microphallus nicolli and Tetrameres skrjabini.
Three new pimoid spiders from Sichuan Province, China (Araneae: Pimoidae)
Authors: XU XIANG , LI SHUQIANG
Published: August 2019

Three new species of pimoid spiders from Sichuan, China are described and illustrated: Pimoa lata sp. nov., Weintrauboa plana sp. nov. and W. pollex sp. nov. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of all three new species are given.
Erratum: Mews, C. M., Mól, A. P. & Sperber C. F. (2009) Crickets with phallic glands: two new genera and one new species of Brazilian Luzarinae (Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae). Zootaxa, 2292, 34–48.
Authors: MEWS C. M. , MÓL A. P. , SPERBER C. F.
Published: August 2019

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Redescription of the genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae)
Authors: MARSHALL ANDREA D. , COMPAGNO LEONARD J. V. , BENNETT MICHAEL B.
Published: August 2019

The taxonomic history of the genus Manta has been questionable and convoluted, with Manta having one of the most extensive generic and species synonymies of any living genus of cartilaginous fish. Having previously been considered a monotypic genus with a single recognized species, Manta birostris (Walbaum 1792), new evidence, in the form of morphological and meristic data, confirm that two visually distinct species occur, both with wide ranging distributions through many of the world’s oceans. Manta birostris stands as the most widely distributed member of the genus, while Manta alfredi (Krefft 1868), resurrected herein, represents a smaller, more tropical species. Separation of the two species is based on morphometric measurements and external characters including colouration, dentition, denticle and spine morphology, as well as size at maturity and maximum disc width. The two species of Manta are sympatric in some locations and allopatric in other regions. A visual key was constructed which highlights the conspicuous, diagnostic features of the two species using data collected throughout their respective geographical ranges. A third, putative species, referred to here as Manta sp. cf. birostris, in the Atlantic may be distinct from M. birostris, but further examination of specimens is necessary to clarify the taxonomic status of this variant manta ray. The results of this study will aid in the differentiation of members of this genus both in the field and in preserved specimens. The splitting of this long-standing monospecific genus will help to highlight the specific threats facing the different species of Manta (e.g. targeted fishing, bycatch fisheries, boat strikes and habitat degradation) and will ultimately assist in the correct assessment of their respective worldwide conservation status.
Re-evaluation of species allied to Mithrax hispidus (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea: Mithracidae) based on three mitochondrial genes
Authors: WINDSOR AMANDA M. , FELDER DARRYL L.
Published: August 2019

Mithrax hispidus, M. caribbaeus, M. pleuracanthus, and M. tortugae are closely related shallow-water crabs that are difficult to distinguish by morphology alone. This led to recent synonymy of the four species under M. hispidus (Herbst, 1790). The use of three mitochondrial genes (12s, 16s, and COI) nevertheless provides evidence for three distinct species (M. hispidus, M. pleuracanthus, and M. tortugae) and the synonymy of M. caribbaeus with M. hispidus. Morphological features of the merus and carpus of the chelipeds serve as characters to separate the three species.
First record of Ambrosiodmus (Hopkins, 1915) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) in Europe
Authors: FACCOLI MASSIMO , FRIGIMELICA GABRIELLA , MORI NICOLA , TOFFOLO EDOARDO PETRUCCO , VETTORAZZO MARCO , SIMONATO MAURO
Published: August 2019

In early April 2009, many specimens of Ambrosiodmus (Hopkins, 1915) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), a genus new to Europe, were found overwintering in a living horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) in the botanic garden of Padova (NE Italy) (45°23’ N, 11° 52’ E). In October 2009, about 80 peach trees growing in an orchard close to Verona (Alpo di Villafranca, NE Italy) (45°22’ N, 10° 55’ E) were found infested by the same insect. In both cases, the insects were infesting the tree sapwood infected by honey fungus (Armillaria mellea (Vahl) Kummer). Moreover, in the first week of October one specimen was collected also in a pheromone trap baited with ipsdienol and ipsenol and set up in the international harbour of Venice (Marghera, 45°27’ N, 12° 15’ E). Subsequent morphological analyses ascribed the collected specimens to the species A. rubricollis (Eichhoff, 1875), an ambrosia beetle of Asian origin. The infested trees were submitted to sanitation felling and burnt. Some infested log was placed in a transparent and ventilated plastic cage, kept under laboratory conditions (21±1 °C, 70% r.h., and L16:D8 photoperiod) waiting for insect emergence. Emerging adults were removed daily, identified and sexed by morphological features. The rearing gave several thousands of adults, with a female:male ratio of about 40:1.
A new family and genus of calanoid copepods (Crustacea) from the abyss of the Atlantic Ocean
Authors: MARKHASEVA ELENA L. , SCHULZ KNUD
Published: August 2019

Kyphocalanus gen. nov. is described from female specimens collected at abyssal depths above the sea bed in the Atlantic Ocean. Although the new genus shares the presence of sensory setae on maxilla and maxilliped with other Bradfordian families of the superfamily Clausocalanoidea, it does not fit the diagnosis of any of these families. The family Kyphocalanidae fam. nov. is established for the genus and 4 species are identified, although we only had enough suitable material to name one of them: Kyphocalanus atlanticus sp. nov. Kyphocalanidae is defined by the following apomorphies: maxillule supplied with 3 setae on praecoxal arthrite; maxilla endopod has 8 thick worm-like sensory setae distinctly longer than sclerotized setae of maxilla endites, and the maxilliped shows a 1, 2, 0 setal armament with only worm-like sensory elements of the three praecoxal endites respectively. Segmentation and setation of the swimming legs of the new genus are typical of Clausocalanoidea.
Fossil Eucharitidae and Perilampidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Baltic Amber
Authors: HERATY JOHN M. , DARLING D. CHRISTOPHER
Published: August 2019

Palaeocharis rex n. gen. and sp. (Eucharitidae: Eucharitinae) and Perilampus pisticus n. sp. (Perilampidae: Perilampinae) are described from Baltic amber. Perilampus renzii (Peñalver & Engel) is transferred to Torymidae: Palaeotorymus renzii n. comb. Palaeocharis is related to Psilocharis Heraty based on presence of one anellus, linear mandibular depression, dorsal axillular groove, free prepectus and a transverse row of hairs on the hypopygium. This fossil is unique in comparison with extant Chalcidoidea because there are two foretibial spurs instead of a single welldeveloped calcar. Perilampus pisticus is placed into the extant Perilampus micans group because the frenum and marginal rim of the scutellum are visible in dorsal view and the prepectus forms a large equilateral triangle. The phylogenetic placement of both genera is discussed based on an analysis of both a combined morphological and molecular (28S and 18S) and morphology-only matrix. Morphological characters were used from an earlier study of Eucharitidae (Heraty 2002), with some characters revised to reflect variation in Perilampinae. Baltic amber is of Eocene age, which puts the age of divergence of these families at more than 40 mya.
A revision of Paratelius Kazantsev, 1992 (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
Authors: MALOHLAVA VLADIMÍR , BOCAK LADISLAV
Published: August 2019

The neotenic net-winged beetle Paratelius Kazantsev, 1992 is revised. Five species are placed in Paratelius, three of which are described as new: P. emasensis n. sp., P. snizeki n. sp., and P. nigricornis n. sp. All known species are treated with diagnoses, redescriptions, and data on variability and distribution. A key to the males of Paratelius species and the genera of Ateliini is provided.
Description of Metarhabditis giennensis sp. n. (Nematoda, Rhabditida, Rhabditidae) from decaying wood of a riverbank forest in the southern Iberian Peninsula
Authors: ABOLAFIA JOAQUÍN , PEÑA-SANTIAGO REYES
Published: August 2019

A new species of the genus Metarhabditis, M. giennensis sp. n., collected from a riverbank poplar forest in the southern Iberian Peninsula, is described and illustrated, including SEM observations. The new species is characterized by its 1.01–1.16 mm long body in females and 0.77–0.98 in males, cuticle with very fine transverse striation, lip region 9–14 µm broad and consisting of six swollen rounded lips fused in pairs, stoma 14–25 µm long with tubular gymno-promesostegostom, pharynx with slightly swollen metacorpus and slender isthmus, nerve ring, excretory pore and deirids located at isthmus level, female reproductive system didelphic-amphidelphic, vulva equatorial (V = 49–50), female rectum length 1.2–1.7 times the anal body width, female tail conical-elongate with acute tip (123–199 µm, c = 5.8–8.2, c’ = 8.2–11.1), male tail conical (34–56 µm, c = 15.5–25.7, c’ = 2.4–3.5), bursa leptoderan, 32–41 µm long spicules with rounded and ventrally bent manubrium, and 17–20 µm long gubernaculum. An updated list of species of the genus and a key for their identification are also provided. [Zoobank URL: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7EBAC9DB-A148-4A1A-97E5-3B796D0839BF]
A new species of Gomphidia Selys, 1854 (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphidae) from the Western Ghats of India
Authors: BABU R. , SUBRAMANIAN K.A.
Published: August 2019

A new species of Gomphidia Selys, 1854 is described from southern Western Ghats, India based on a male specimen. The new species is very distinct from all the known species of Gomphidia from Indian subcontinent. Revised keys to the males and known females of Gomphidia of India and Sri Lanka are provided.
Fungus-feeding thrips in Iran with a new species of Stictothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae)
Authors: HAKIMARA MAHSA , MINAEI KAMBIZ , SADEGHI SABER , MOUND LAURENCE
Published: August 2019

An illustrated key is provided to distinguish 13 genera of fungus-feeding thrips recorded from Iran in both subfamilies of Phlaeothripidae (Idolothripinae, Phlaeothripinae). Information is provided concerning 16 species recorded from this country. A curious new species of Stictothrips is described from both sexes collected from dead leaves in Fars province, southern Iran.
Worm-riding clam: description of Montacutona sigalionidcola sp. nov. (Bivalvia: Heterodonta: Galeommatidae) from Japan and its phylogenetic position
Authors: GOTO RYUTARO , TANAKA MAKOTO
Published: August 2019

A new galeommatid bivalve, Montacutona sigalionidcola sp. nov., is described from an intertidal flat in the southern end of the Kii Peninsula, Honshu Island, Japan. Unlike other members of the genus, this species is a commensal with the burrowing scale worm Pelogenia zeylanica (Willey) (Annelida: Sigalionidae) that lives in fine sand sediments. Specimens were always found attached to the dorsal surface of the anterior end of the host body. This species has a ligament lithodesma between diverging hinge teeth, which is characteristic of Montacutona Yamamoto & Habe. However, it is morphologically distinguished from the other members of this genus in having elongate-oval shells with small gape at the posteroventral margin and lacking an outer demibranch. Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on the four-gene combined dataset (18S + 28S + H3 + COI) indicated that this species is monophyletic with Montacutona, Nipponomontacuta Yamamoto & Habe and Koreamya Lützen, Hong & Yamashita, which are commensals with sea anemones or Lingula brachiopods. This result suggests that host shifting across different phyla occurred at least twice in this clade.
Garra simbalbaraensis, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India
Authors: RATH SHIBANANDA , SHANGNINGAM BUNGDON , KOSYGIN LAISHRAM
Published: August 2019

Garra simbalbaraensis, new species, is described from the Simbalbara River, Himachal Pradesh, India. The new species is distinguished from its congeners in having a combination of following characters: a prominent short, thick, unilobed and rounded proboscis, distinctly projecting downwards above the transverse groove; a black spot at the upper angle of the gill opening, 32−33 lateral line scales and 32 total vertebrae.
A new species of suckermouth catfish (Mochokidae: Chiloglanis) from the Rio Mongo in Equatorial Guinea
Authors: SCHMIDT RAY C. , BARRIENTOS CHRISTIAN
Published: August 2019

A recent expedition surveyed freshwater fishes throughout the continental portion of Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni). This portion of the Lower Guinean ichthyoprovince is relatively unknown with very few collections occurring since the 1960s. Sampling in the Rio Mongo, a tributary to the Rio Wele, yielded two Chiloglanis species; one putatively ascribed to the widespread species C. cameronensis, and the other species having similarities with C. harbinger described from the Lokoundje River in Cameroon. Morphometric analyses between the specimens from Rio Mongo and paratypes of C. harbinger confirm that they are distinct species and should be described as such. Here we describe Chiloglanis mongoensis sp. nov., a narrow endemic species only known from one locality in the Rio Mongo. We provide measurements from paratypes of C. harbinger and emphasize the need for further expeditions in the area.
Tropical sand-bubblers heading north? First discovery of Scopimera curtelsona Shen, 1936 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dotillidae) populations in Hong Kong: possible range expansion from Hainan, China
Authors: HUI T. Y. , WONG KINGSLEY J. H.
Published: August 2019

A sand-bubbler crab, Scopimera curtelsona Shen, 1936, previously known only from Hainan, China, is reported from Hong Kong. By searching past taxonomic records and examining local material, an increasing trend of S. curtelsona abundance was observed in comparison with another common sympatric dotillid, S. intermedia Balss, 1934, in Hong Kong since the early 2000s. This scenario is hypothesized to represent a northward range expansion of this tropical species from Hainan, China, by 500 km, coinciding with an increase in sea surface temperatures in Hong Kong, which are now at comparable levels with previous type locality temperatures. At a smaller scale, S. curtelsona was sympatric with two other dotillids: S. intermedia and Dotilla wichmanni De Man, 1892, on local sandflats, where the three species occupied different zones along the tidal gradient possibly due to the interaction between the variation in sediment characteristics and the crabs’ maxillipedal setation.
A new species of cyprinoid fish from the Tana River, Kenya (Actinopterygii: Danionidae)
Authors: BART HENRY L. JR. , SCHMIDT RAY C. , NYINGI WANJA DOROTHY , GATHUA JOSEPH
Published: August 2019

Sampling of streams in the middle reaches of the Tana River Basin in Meru National Park, Kenya, from 2010 to 2012 for an NSF-funded International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) project, resulted in the capture of a number of specimens of what were first thought to be Neobola fluviatilis.  On closer examination the specimens were determined to represent a distinct species, endemic to the Tana River basin, which is herein formally described. The new species is readily diagnosed from N. fluviatilis by higher counts of lateral line, pre-dorsal, and caudal peduncle circumferential scales, higher numbers of pectoral rays, lower numbers of anal fin rays, and a shorter anal-fin base length.
Leafhopper tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) of the Indian subcontinent
Authors: VIRAKTAMATH C. A. , MESHRAM NARESH M.
Published: August 2019

Genera and species of the tribe Coelidiini from the Indian subcontinent are reviewed. Glaberana Nielson, Webbolidia Nielson and Zhangolidia Nielson are recorded from India for the first time. Twenty-three new species are described and illustrated as follows: Calodia deergha sp. nov. (India: Tamil Nadu), C. keralica sp. nov. (India: Kerala), C. kumari sp. nov. (India: Karnataka), C. neofusca sp. nov. (India: Karnataka, Kerala), C. periyari sp. nov. (India: Kerala), C. tridenta sp. nov. (India: Kerala), Glaberana acuta sp. nov. (India: Meghalaya), G. purva sp. nov. (India: Manipur), Olidiana lanceolata sp. nov. (India: Sikkim), O. flectheri sp. nov. (India: Meghalaya), O. umroensis sp. nov. (India: Meghalaya), O. unidenta sp. nov. (India: Assam, West Bengal), Singillatus parapectitus sp. nov. (India: Arunachal Pradesh), S. serratispatulatus sp. nov. (India: Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram), Trinoridia dialata sp. nov. (India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra), T. ochrocephala sp. nov. (India: Kerala), T. piperica sp. nov. (India: Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), T. ramamurthyi sp. nov. (India:Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra), T. saraikela sp. nov. (India: Jarkhand), T. timlivana sp. nov. (India: Uttarakhand), W. andamana sp. nov. (India: Andaman & Nicobar), W. burmanica sp. nov. (Myanmar: Lashio) and Zhangolidia weicongi sp. nov. (India: Manipur). Olidiana brevis (Walker), O. perculta (Distant) and Trinoridia tripectinata (Nielson) are recorded for the first time from India and also Glaberana khasiensis (Rao) comb. nov. is proposed. Keys to genera and species with a check-list, distribution and host records are included.
Deep SOLO: A Full-Depth Profiling Float for the Argo Program
Authors: Roemmich Dean , Sherman Jeffrey T. , Davis Russ E. , Grindley Kyle , McClune Michael , Parker Charles J. , Black David N. , Zilberman Nathalie , Purkey Sarah G. , Sutton Philip J. H. , Gilson John
Published: August 2019

Deployment of Deep Argo regional pilot arrays is underway as a step toward a global array of 1250 surface-to-bottom profiling floats embedded in the upper-ocean (2000 m) Argo Program. Of the 80 active Deep Argo floats as of July 2019, 55 are Deep Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer (SOLO) 6000-m instruments, and the rest are composed of three additional models profiling to either 4000 or 6000 m. Early success of the Deep SOLO is owed partly to its evolution from the Core Argo SOLO-II. Here, Deep SOLO design choices are described, including the spherical glass pressure housing, the hydraulics system, and the passive bottom detection system. Operation of Deep SOLO is flexible, with the mission parameters being adjustable from shore via Iridium communications. Long lifetime is a key element in sustaining a global array, and Deep SOLO combines a long battery life of over 200 cycles to 6000 m with robust operation and a low failure rate. The scientific value of Deep SOLO is illustrated, including examples of its ability (i) to observe large-scale spatial and temporal variability in deep ocean temperature and salinity, (ii) to sample newly formed water masses year-round and within a few meters of the sea floor, and (iii) to explore the poorly known abyssal velocity field and deep circulation of the World Ocean. Deep SOLO’s full-depth range and its potential for global coverage are critical attributes for complementing the Core Argo Program and achieving these objectives.
A Method to Control the Environmental Wind Profile in Idealized Simulations of Deep Convection with Surface Friction
Authors: Dawson II Daniel T. , Roberts Brett , Xue Ming
Published: August 2019

In idealized, horizontally homogeneous, cloud model simulations of convective storms, the action of surface friction can substantially modify the near-ground environmental wind profile over time owing to the lack of a large-scale pressure gradient force to balance the frictional force together with the Coriolis force. This situation is undesirable for many applications where the impact of an unchanging environmental low-level wind shear on the simulated storm behavior is the focus of investigation, as it introduces additional variability in the experiment and accordingly complicates interpretation of the results. Partly for this reason, many researchers have opted to perform simulations with free-slip lower boundary conditions, which with appropriate boundary conditions allows for more precise control of the large-scale environmental wind profile. Yet, some recent studies have advocated important roles of surface friction in storm dynamics. Here, a simple method is introduced to effectively maintain any chosen environmental wind profile in idealized storm simulations in the presence of surface friction and both resolved and subgrid-scale turbulent mixing. The method is demonstrated through comparisons of simulations of a tornadic supercell with and without surface friction and with or without invoking the new method. The method is compared with similar techniques in the literature and potential extensions and other applications are discussed.