cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coccoglypta Pilsbry 1895
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
name: Lyu, Zhi-Tong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Bradybaenidae
Coccoglypta

description: Genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895
Eulota (Coccoglypta) Pilsbry, 1895: 211.
Coccoglypta – Yen 1939: 153. — Schileyko 2004: 1678-1679, fig. 2164.
TYPE SPECIES. — Helix pinchoniana Heude, 1886, by monotypy.
DIAGNOSIS. — Shell dextral, depressed-conical, with 5-6 slightly convex whorls; body whorl rounded or slightly keeled; colour yellowish to greenish and light brown; protoconch without notable sculpture, seemingly smooth, or slightly pitted or “hammered”; teleoconch with irregular, rough wrinkles and strong tubercles, occasionally with fine spiral grooves; sculpture on ventral surface sometimes weaker than on dorsal side; aperture rounded to suboval, strongly oblique to shell axis; peristome expanded but not reflected; parietal callus weak, only indicated by fine whitish calcareous layer; umbilicus open, moderately wide to rather narrow, shows all whorls. Penis cylindrical or flattened, moderately long, internally with fine longitudinal pilasters or reticulated sculpture; no epiphallus observed; vas deferens slender, retractor muscle attached on the junction of penis and vas deferens; vagina short, internally with widely-spaced, sometimes converging longitudinal folds; stylophore of moderate size, accessory sac of about same size and shape, each of two alveolar; mucus glands large, distinct or forming a single gland mass, entering accessory sac independently; spermathecal stalk extremely long, bursa oval, small.
REMARKS
Coccoglypta was erected as a section of Eulota W. Hartmann, 1841 for two species, namely “ Helix dimidiata Heude ” and “ Helix pinchoniana Heude ”. Pilsbry (1895) designated the former species as the type species. Heude, however, has never described a species with the name dimidiata (see Johnson 1973). Yen (1939) and Zilch (1959 -1960) corrected this mistake and clarified type species of Coccoglypta as Helix pinchoniana Heude, 1886.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 595-608 in Zoosystema 41 (29) on pages 597-598, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a29, http://zenodo.org/record/3726110
Sycophilodes Joseph
Creators: name: Pramanik, Achintya
name: Dey, Debjani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Agaonidae
Sycophilodes

description: Key to species of Sycophilodes Joseph
1 Female: Antennal formula 11173 (Figs 4, 24); wing pilosity short and sparse; penultimate gastral segments neither tubular nor exerted..............................................................................................2
- Male: Antennal formula 11163 (Figs 14, 34); wing pilosity short but dense; penultimate gastral segments tubular and exerted.....................................................................................................3
2 Postmarginal vein as long as stigmal vein (Fig. 10); scape 3× as long as pedicel; clava 2.5× longer than preceding funicular segment (Fig. 4); axilla with one long seta on upper part of its posterior half and two small setae at lower corner.............................................................................................. S. moniliformis Joseph
- Postmarginal vein half length of stigmal vein (Fig. 30); scape 2× as long as pedicel; clava 3× longer than preceding funicular segment (Fig. 24); axilla with one long seta on upper part of its posterior half and a row of 5 setae on lower half.............................................................................. S. uluberiaensis Pramanik & Dey sp. nov.
3 Basal stalk of stigmal vein long and slender, about 0.7× length of stigma (Fig. 20); torular-ocular distance 2.3× intertorular distance; interspiracular distance 4.3× distance between spiracle and posterior propodeal margin; fore femur 2× length of fore coxa............................................................................... S. moniliformis Joseph
- Basal stalk of stigmal vein short and relatively thick, about 0.6× length of stigma (Fig. 40); torular-ocular distance 3× intertorular distance; interspiracular distance 3× distance between spiracle and posterior propodeal margin; fore femur 1.6× length of fore coxa.......................................................... .. S. uluberiaensis Pramanik & Dey sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Pramanik, Achintya & Dey, Debjani, 2014, Redescription of the fig wasp genus Sycophilodes Joseph (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Epichrysomallinae) with description of a new species from India, pp. 310-322 in Zootaxa 3838 (3) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/251823
Mapping the Body, Mapping the Future: the Medicalized Body in Taiwanese and Hong Kong Fiction and Film
Creators: name: Robinson, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

This thesis analyses bodily and medical aesthetics and Taiwanese and Hong Kong literature and film form the 1990s and 2000s, with particular attention to the disruptions that the changing global economic order brought to bodily materiality within the territories. I engage with science fiction and horror, one genre closely associated with projected futures, and another associated with ghostly returns and commodified thrills, in order to track the connections between mapping the body and mapping the world. In my first chapter, I examine Membranes, a 1995 science fiction novella by queer Taiwanese writer and scholar Chi Ta-wei, alongside the post-martial law political and economic context in Taiwan and concerns about HIV/AIDS. Aspirational technologies that promise more, better life also map the geopolitically precarious Taiwan into a stable economic and political status, but suggest that this deferred thriving, both for queer people specifically and Taiwanese people more broadly, is a direct trade-off with projects that seek to imagine a radically different future. My second chapter analyzes two Hong Kong horror films, the Pang brothers’ The Eye (2002), and Fruit Chan’s Dumplings (2005). Chosen for their depiction of different forms of medical intervention, as well as for their association with the “Pan-Asian” Horror movement that hit its stride in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I argue that these films use medical treatments to restore the human body as a means of exploring different ways of cognitively and affectively mapping Hong Kong’s new position in the world system following the 1997 handover to mainland China. These two chapters together examine the political realities of global capitalism and the body as we materially experience it.
Isomeria tamsiana Dunker 1847, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Cuezzo, Maria Gabriela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Camaenidae
Isomeria
Isomeria tamsiana

description: Isomeria tamsiana (Dunker, 1847) comb. nov.
Labyrinthus tamsiana (Dunker, 1847), whose anatomy was described by Baker (1926) and Wurtz (1955), shows more anatomical similarities closer to Isomeria than to Labyrinthus. The presence of a vaginal swelling called ring of vaginal knobs, and the presence of a flagellar pilaster with a terminal papilla through which the vas deferens opens (Wurtz 1955), are characters known to occur in both I. awa (this study) and I. globosa (Solem 1966), the only species of the genus with described anatomies. Shells of L. tamsiana illustrated by Solem (1966) shows that the aperture has a typical subquadrate form with few teeth and lamella, characteristic also of the Isomeria species. For these reasons we reclassify L. tamsiana within the genus Isomeria.
description: Published as part of Cuezzo, Maria Gabriela, 2006, On a new species of Isomeria Beck and redescription of species of Labyrinthus Beck from South America (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Camaenidae), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 1221 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172563
Commodifying Return: The Political Economy of Tourism and Heritage Tours for Chinese Transnational Adoptees
Creators: name: Ku, Hannah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

The long-standing practice of U.S.-Chinese transnational adoption, especially during the late 20th century, cannot be disimbricated from critical discussions of the political economy, market logic, and the rhetorical decision to describe this process as benevolent. This project will investigate the commodification of U.S.-Chinese transnational adoption networks, the tourism industry surrounding return trips, and the exploitation of adoptees themselves. By analyzing shifting parental practices from U.S.-Korean transnational adoption to U.S.-Chinese adoption practices, it reveals how governments and other various organizations create more of an emotional investment into adoptees to engender a desire to return to China. Inflected by the works of scholars such as Kimberly McKee and Sara Dorow, I intend to engage in unconventional archival material (such as tour guide websites, adoptive parent forums) and documentaries in order to bring light to this specific interplay between the political economy, the transnational adoption industrial complex, and Chinese adoptees within the United States. This research will contribute to a dearth of knowledge regarding the commodification of return to China for adoptees and how these various organizations continue to invest in the market of transnational adoption.
Ethaliella Pilsbry 1905
Creators: name: Herbert, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Trochida
Trochidae
Ethaliella

description: Genus Ethaliella Pilsbry, 1905
Ethaliella Pilsbry, 1905: 115.
Type species
Ethalia floccata G.B. Sowerby III, 1903 (original designation), Recent, Japan.
Diagnosis
Shell small (diameter <10 mm), lenticular to trochoid-turbiniform, umbilicate; smooth or with fine, close-set spiral cords; axial sculpture weak; umbilical rim thickened, often radially plicate and sometimes with a tongue-like parietal callus lobe; umbilical funicle absent.
Operculum corneous, multispiral with outer whorls relatively broad; peripheral fringe narrow, radially striate; spiral microsculpture present.
Radula with base-plates of rachidian and lateral teeth thin, broadly expanded laterally and extensively overlapping, anterior edge with vestige of shaft; inner marginal tooth transitional, cusps of marginals 3–8 largest, somewhat palmate; central denticle rounded, not conspicuously larger than others; denticles on outer margin long and pointed.
Remarks
The observations in the above diagnosis concerning the operculum, radula and external anatomy relate to E. rhodomphala (Souverbie, 1875). That they also apply to the type species remains to be established.
description: Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2024, The Umboniinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) of New Caledonia, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species, plus an additional new species from the Bismarck Sea, pp. 1-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 973 on page 92, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.973.2765, http://zenodo.org/record/14440264
Coccoglypta arbusticola Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi & Chen & Lyu 2019, n. comb.
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
name: Lyu, Zhi-Tong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Bradybaenidae
Coccoglypta
Coccoglypta arbusticola

description: Coccoglypta arbusticola (Deshayes, 1870) n. comb.
(Fig. 6A-D)
Helix arbusticola Deshayes, 1870: 20.
non Bradybaena arbusticola arbusticola – Yen 1939: 135, pl. 14, fig. 2.
non Coccoglypta arbusticola – Chen & Zhang 2004: 155-156, fig. 123.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China. Moupin [Muping Zhen, Sichuan], l’Abbé David, 1869, syntype, MNHN-IM-2000-34192.
TYPE LOCALITY. — “Principauté de Moupin, Thibet oriental” (from title).
REMARKS
This species has previously been assigned to the genus Bradybaena, however it surely does not belong to that genus in its present concept. The type species of Bradybaena, B. similaris (Rang, 1831), has a small (c. 1 cm), fragile shell without any distinctive sculpture. However, C. arbusticola n. comb. is larger (shell diameter of syntype: 24.5 mm), and has a thick, finely mamillated shell, reminiscent of those of Coccoglypta.
We have examined the lectotype of Eulota arbusticola chrysomphala Möllendorff, 1899 (see Möllendorff, 1899: 70 and Yen, 1939: 135) in the Senckenberg Museum (China: W. Sy-tshuan, Fu-bien-ho, SMF 9159, figs 6E-H). It had a light brown, very finely wrinkled and extremely finely spirally grooved shell, without any signs of mamillae. The aperture is also comparatively much larger in chrysomphala than in arbusticola. Thus, “ Bradybaena ” chrysomphala and Coccoglypta arbusticola n. comb. cannot be subspecies of the same species and must be considered as two distinct species.
The single shell in the Senckenberg Museum identified as B. arbusticola and figured by Yen (1939) has a narrower umbilicus and more rapidly growing whorls than the type, and there are also no signs of a mamillated sculpture. Therefore, we here exclude it from the present species. Its true identity remains unknown. Furthermore, the shell figured in Chen & Zhang (2004) also belong to another species, because it has a narrower umbilicus, a dark spiral band, and a more strongly expanded peristome.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 595-608 in Zoosystema 41 (29) on pages 602-604, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a29, http://zenodo.org/record/3726110
Xestaspis loricata L. Koch 1873
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Xestaspis
Xestaspis loricata

description: Xestaspis loricata (L. Koch, 1873)
Material examined: 2 females (IZCAS AR 19398), Laos, Champasak Province, Tad Etu, Holiday Village, 15º11.527'N, 106º06.204'E, elevation 889 meters, November 18, 2012, leg. S. Li; 3 males, 2 females (IZCAS AR 19399), Laos, Champasak Province, Tad Etu, 15º11.527'N, 106º06.204'E, elevation 889 meters, November 17, 2012, leg. S. Li; 2 males, 1 female (IZCAS AR 19400), Laos, Champasak Province, Tad Etu, Holiday Village, 15º11.527'N, 106º06.204'E, elevation 889 meters, November 18, 2012, leg. S. Li; 1 male, 2 females (IZCAS AR 19410), Laos, Champasak Province, Tad Etu, Holiday Village, 15º11.527'N, 106º06.204'E, elevation 889 meters, November 17, 2012, leg. S. Li; 1 female (IZCAS AR 19409), Laos, Champasak Province, Tad Etu, 15º11.527'N, 106º06.204'E, elevation 889 meters, November 17, 2012, leg. S. Li.
Distribution: Australia, China, Laos, Micronesia.
description: Published as part of Tong, Yanfeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2013, Six new species of oonopid spiders from Champasak, Laos (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 71-88 in Zootaxa 3709 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/284639
Beyond Ridership: The Impact of Rural Demand-Response Transit on Quality-of-Life in Rural Communities-A Case Study from Great Barrington, MA
Creators: name: Coleman, Tate
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Traditional funding formulas used by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to fund operations of U.S. public transit programs rely heavily on quantitative metrics such as ridership per service hour and riders per revenue mile. However, these metrics often fail to capture the full impact of transit services, particularly in rural areas where transit serves as a critical lifeline for seniors, individuals with disabilities, and workforce riders. This study explores the impact of rural demand response transit on rider quality-of-life, focusing on a program evaluation case study with the TriTown Connector, a demand-response transit (DRT) program in Southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts.  The TriTown Connector, serving a population of approximately 17,000 across 250 square miles, offers a unique opportunity to evaluate alternative measures of transit program effectiveness. This study uses travel diaries in conjunction with traditional surveys to assess the service's quality-of-life impacts. By exploring how collecting qualitative and quantitative rider data can assist with evaluating rural DRT impact on rider quality-of-life, we aim to understand how the service affects riders’ mobility and well-being throughout their daily lives. This study concludes that incorporating quality-of-life data collection methods into rural transit performance evaluation can provide a more comprehensive assessment of rural transit services, better reflecting their true value to the communities they serve.
Enicospilus psammus Gauld & Mitchell 1978
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Soliman, Ahmed M.
name: Rousse, Pascal
name: Al Dhafer, Hathal M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus psammus

description: Enicospilus psammus Gauld & Mitchell, 1978
Fig. 34A
Enicospilus psammus Gauld & Mitchell, 1978: 147, 148.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
F 6.0−9.0; ML 0.1; OOL 0.04, POL 0.5; FI 0.5−0.55; Fl 1.8−2.0; Fl20 1.3−1.4; AI 0.5−0.6; ICI 0.3−0.4; CI 0.3−0.4; SDI 1.2−1.3.
Body generally reddish brown, in some cases with propodeum and metasoma infuscate, lower face, interocellar area and genae yellowish brown; mandible with upper tooth 2.0–3.0 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus convex in profile, with impressed margin, with ventral margin truncate; lower face subquadrate, 0.8−0.9 × as broad as long; antenna with 44−48 flagellomeres; mesopleuron with upper area puncto-striate, while lower area coarsely punctate; metapleuron puncto-striate; basal transverse carina of propodeum complete, anterior area of propodeum striate, posterior area irregularly wrinkled; fore wing with three sclerites, proximal sclerite dome- to triangular in shape, central sclerite transversely oval, while distal sclerite small, comma-shaped; hind wing with 5−6 hamuli on R1; fore tibia with scattered spines.
Material examined
None.
Previous records from Saudi Arabia
Abian, Al Lith, Asir, Qunfida (Gauld & Mitchell 1978), Bahara (Horstmann 1981).
Distribution
Saudi Arabia (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Horstmann 1981), Sudan (Gauld & Mitchell 1978).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Rousse, Pascal & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2017, The genus Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) in Saudi Arabia, with twelve new species records and the description of five new species, pp. 1-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 365 on page 39, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291
Xyphinus pakse Tong & Li, 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Xyphinus
Xyphinus pakse

description: Xyphinus pakse sp. nov.
Figures 11, 12
Type material: Holotype: Male (IZCAS AR 19394), Laos, Champasak Province, Pakse, Phou Salao, 15º05.284'N, 105º48.671'E, elevation 242 meters, November 15, 2012, leg. S. Li.
Etymology: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
Diagnosis: The new species is similar to X. abanghamidi Deeleman-Reinhold, 1987, but can be distinguished by the finely microsculpture on anterior surface of male palpal patella and tibia; the very strong, black setae at distal end of male cymbium and the complicated apophyses on palpal bulb.
Description: Male (holotype). Carapace yellow, dorsal scutum yellow-brown, chelicerae, sternum, legs and ventral scutum light yellow. Body length 1.72; carapace 0.79 length, 0.66 width; abdomen 0.92 length, 0.55 width. Habitus as in Figs 11 A, B. Carapace dorsally smooth, covered with rows of short hairs; sides finely reticulate; carapace margin with two rows of small denticles on either side and some larger denticles on the posterior slope (Figs 11 C, D). No fovea. Posterior pits lacking. Eyes six, ALE largest, PLE smallest; posterior eye row slightly recurved from above, procurved from front. Clypeus with sinuous anterior margin; clypeus height about 2.5 times the diameter of anterior eyes (Fig. 11 E). Chelicerae teethless, with finely microsculpture on the promargin (Fig. 11 G). Endites with apical rim (Fig. 11 I). Sternum smooth. Legs spineless. Shape of abdomen normal, not overlapping the carapace (Fig. 11 B). Dorsal scutum ovoid, smooth, covering nearly entirely abdominal length. Booklung covers ovoid, large. Pedicel tube ribbed, scuto-pedicel region and anterior part of dorsal scutum with many small denticles (Fig. 11 H). Sperm pore oval, medium sized, situated at level of anterior spiracles. Postepigastric scutum strongly sclerotized; spinneret scutum present, incomplete ring. Palp (Figs 11 J–L, 12A–C): femur inserted near the middle of patella; patella and tibia with finely microsculpture on anterior surface; cymbium strongly elongated prolaterally, with two short, black, very strong setae at distal end; bulb with complicated apophyses.
Female: Unknown.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Tong, Yanfeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2013, Six new species of oonopid spiders from Champasak, Laos (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 71-88 in Zootaxa 3709 (1) on pages 85-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/284639
Mapping Machaut's Mass and its Recording History: Ensemble Organum, Postmodernism, and Musical Multiplicity
Creators: name: Gentile, Dominic
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

"Since 1982, Ensemble Organum has disrupted the early music scene with performances that have challenged audiences to listen to medieval music in new contexts. Directed by Marcel Pérès, the Ensemble draws from living chant and polyphonic traditions as well as from period sources to reimagine the sonic landscape of medieval music. Their 1996 recording of Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Notre Dame caused such a stir that critic Xavier Lacavalerie called the controversy the “Machaut affair.” For example, musicologist Andrew Kirkman claimed that the recording “smack[ed] more of the bazaar than the rarefied sound-world which most listeners [would] have come to associate with the performance of 14th-century western polyphony.” Other critics have described Organum’s unconventional style—influenced by traditional Corsican singing—as eastern, Arabic, or exotic, emphasizing the “distant” sonic world evoked by the recording. Despite these strong reactions, few have attempted to analyze their performance beyond surface-level description. In Chapter 1, I fill this lacuna by transcribing passages of Organum’s recording that best represent their use of Corsican ornamentation and timbres. I consider what Kirsten Yri calls “distancing features”—musical qualities that alienate the listener from Organum’s performance—drawing comparisons to Corsican music. To do so, I borrow from the ethnomusicological work of Caroline Bithell, who has documented this tradition in detail. Lastly, I show how Organum has established a new performance tradition, comparing how newer ensembles have followed in their footsteps.

In Chapter 2, I place Organum’s recording within larger cultural trends, notably the globalist, postmodern aesthetics of the 1990s musical market—when medieval and world musics alike morphed from niche into mass phenomena. For example, plainchant albums like Chant and Vision became highly popular, topping the pop charts. Drawing on Johannes Fabian’s and Timothy Taylor’s work, I investigate how in the 1990s medieval and world music were often used to signify “the Other,” enabling listeners to rationalize their place in the world. By analyzing Organum’s performance practice and placing it in 1990s culture, I show how Organum’s rendition marked a milestone in the Mass’s recording history, still generating interest and controversy almost 30 years after its release."
Does Climate Change Initiate Migratory Tradeoffs that Influence Reproduction in a Long-distance Migratory Shorebird, the Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa Haemastica)?
Creators: name: Puleo, Lauren
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Climate change induced shifts in resource phenology threatens to negatively impact migratory species that are unable to alter their migratory and reproductive timing accordingly. Yet, many long-distance migrants are not advancing their reproductive timing at the same rates as their migratory timing. Some long-distance migrants may only be able to alter their migratory timing through costly en route decisions, presenting individuals with a tradeoff between early arrival and arrival body condition. For species that exhibit mate fidelity and rapid clutch initiation, arriving to the breeding grounds in poor condition may affect sexes differently, constraining advances in reproductive timing. Little is known, however, about the potential sex-specific effects of climate change on migrants and how they may influence reproduction. Thus, I utilized long-term tracking data in combination with isotope analyses to investigate whether there is a tradeoff between arrival timing and body condition that influences reproduction in a breeding population of Hudsonian Godwits (Limosa haemastica).
Geraridae Scudder 1885
Creators: name: Béthoux, Olivier
name: Nel, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Geraroptera
Geraridae

description: Family Geraridae Scudder, 1885
Composition. Genus Gerarus Scudder, 1885, Osnogerarus Kukalová­Peck & Brauckmann, 1992. The genera Omalia van Beneden & Coemans, 1867, Cantabrala Kukalová­Peck & Brauckmann, 1992, Genentomum Scudder, 1885, Nacekomia Richardson, 1956. Gerarulus Handlirsch, 1911 have uncertain relationships within Archaeorthoptera. Anepitedius Handlirsch, 1911, Axiologus Handlirsch, 1906, Platyphlebopteron Germer, 1971 and Progenentomum Handlirsch, 1906 are here considered as a ‘Protorthoptera’ incertae sedis.
Discussion. After the present phylogenetic analysis, Gerarus bruesi would fall into the Orthoptera. Nevertheless, the Geraridae are provisionally considered of uncertain position within the Panorthoptera.
description: Published as part of Béthoux, Olivier & Nel, André, 2002, Venation pattern and revision of Orthoptera sensu nov. and sister groups. Phylogeny of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Orthoptera sensu nov., pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 96 on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156112
Tree Protection for Street Corridor Development in Massachusetts
Creators: name: Mahoney, Delia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Massachusetts is home to millions of trees located not only in forests, but along streets and roadways across urban, suburban, and rural environments. The people living in these communities rely on street trees to provide necessary ecosystem services, such as shading and cooling, or stormwater mitigation. When street trees are damaged during construction projects or other infrastructure development work, communities lose out on these services. Street trees and urban forests are often an afterthought in the construction process and may be severely damaged during construction without proper protection and preservation measures. As Massachusetts develops comprehensive capital improvement projects as part of the Complete Streets initiative, the necessary redevelopment of pedestrian and cycling pathways state- wide will impact the existing urban forest ecosystem. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) oversees many of the projects involving roadways and transportation corridors in the Commonwealth. This organization strives to lead by example by evaluating and updating their existing guidelines to reflect current industry best practices. MassDOT is seeking a cohesive collection and assessment of industry approaches to ensure that urban forest health and preservation remain a priority in upcoming improvement projects. This report contains an assessment of current project development guidelines used by MassDOT and evaluates the existing standards in accordance with insight from contemporary sources. We assessed major themes including soil compaction and root zone preservation, awareness on the construction site, and methods for successful reforestation following construction. Our first task was to review the relevant literature to determine the current state of best practices. The literature review focused on street tree preservation techniques during construction and development, as well as design alternatives and remediation strategies. Content surveyed included peer-reviewed research publications, technical documentation, and reference guides from other jurisdictions. The next step was the creation and distribution of a survey for professionals nationwide to assess the current status  10 of street tree preservation practices. Finally, the information gathered from both the literature review and the survey was synthesized and the existing MassDOT guidelines were evaluated in accordance with the research findings. At the time of writing, the existing resource for tree preservation and landscape design for MassDOT projects was an online compendium known as the Project Development and Design Guide (PDDG). Recommendations were made to update and improve the existing MassDOT PDDG to reflect current practices and new insight.
Coccoglypta billiana Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi & Chen & Lyu 2019, n. comb.
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
name: Lyu, Zhi-Tong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Bradybaenidae
Coccoglypta
Coccoglypta billiana

description: Coccoglypta billiana (Heude, 1882) n. comb.
Helix billiana Heude, 1882: 25, pl. 14, fig. 3.
TYPE LOCALITY. — “In montosis Kiun-tcheou, ditionis fluvii Han” (= in the mountain regions of Kiun-tcheou, the area of the Han River).
REMARKS
As for the previous species, Johnson (1973) did not mention type specimens in American museums, and we could not examine the types probably deposited in Beijing. Since the sculpture is also mamillated, the species also potentially belongs to Coccoglypta.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 595-608 in Zoosystema 41 (29) on page 604, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a29, http://zenodo.org/record/3726110
Platycleis kraussi
Creators: name: Skejo, Josip
name: Rebrina, Fran
name: Tvrtković, Nikola
name: Gomboc, Stanislav
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Platycleis
Platycleis kraussi

description: Comparison between Platycleis kraussi and Bicolorana kuntzeni
Firstly, we made detailed comparison of some morphological features (tegmina and male cerci) of Platycleis kraussi and Bicolorana kuntzeni in order to test if there are differences strong enough to treat these two taxa as separate species. We performed both morphological and morphometrical analysis. We found that specimens with tegmina completely without black markings (Figure 4) occur more often in Ćičarija Mt. and Učka Mt. population (17 males and 13 females), while specimens with tegmina bearing black markings are rarer (5 males and 5 females). Animals with black markings on tegmina are more abundant in Velika Kapela Mt. (20 males and 9 females), while specimens with tegmina bearing no markings are rather rare in this population (2 males and 3 females). Males from Velika Kapela Mt. show variability of a smaller range in cerci coloration (almost all the cerci examined—20 males—have distal 1/3 of the cerci much darker that the basal 2/3, while in Učka Mt. and Ćićarija Mt. population there is no morphotype that can be said to be more common than others (Figure 3).
We concluded that these differences are not species specific, but represent the variability within the species. Both old descriptions (Padewieth 1900, Ramme 1931) were performed on small samples without possibility to analyse species variability, while detailed analyses of a larger sample indicate that B. kuntzeni and P. kraussi are indeed the same species. In the analysis of other morphological characters (body coloration, head morphology, veins morphology, males pars stridens morphology, fore and mid legs morphology, hind femora morphology, males X th tergite morphology, males titillators shape, subgenital plate morphology, females ovipositor morphology) no statistical differences between samples were found. In all following analyses we consider B. kuntzeni and P. kraussi as a single sample. For nomenclatural actions on this matter, consult Taxonomical and nomenclatural part.
description: Published as part of Skejo, Josip, Rebrina, Fran, Tvrtković, Nikola, Gomboc, Stanislav & Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, 2015, More than a century old ' Platycleis Kraussi case' finally resolved (Tettigoniidae: Platycleidini), pp. 497-524 in Zootaxa 3990 (4) on page 502, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/245110
Pimelodus absconditus Azpelicueta 1995
Creators: name: Girardi, Simone C.
name: Pavanelli, Carla S.
name: Margarido, Vladimir P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Pimelodidae
Pimelodus
Pimelodus absconditus

description: Pimelodus absconditus. We found a diploid number of 56 chromosomes (24 m + 18 sm + 8 st + 6 a) (Fig. 1a). The AgNORs were located in the terminal region of the long arm of a pair of subtelocentric chromosomes (24) (Fig. 1a, box). C-banding revealed the existence of pale heterochromatin in the most of the centromeres of chromosomes, with some pairs showing heterochromatin conspicuous in the telomeric region of the short arm (pars 17 and 18) and the long arm (pair 24), in both telomeres (pairs 8 and 20), in the pericentromeric region of the long arm of pair 18 and in subterminal region of the long arm of pair 17 (Fig. 2a). The 18S rDNA was located on the subtelocentric chromosome pair (24), which corresponds to the AgNORs, while the 5S rDNA was found in the pericentromeric region of the long arm of pair 18 (Fig. 3a) .
description: Published as part of Girardi, Simone C., Pavanelli, Carla S. & Margarido, Vladimir P., 2018, Contributions to the systematic of Pimelodidae (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes): basic and molecular cytogenetics on seven species of Pimelodus from three Brazilian hydrographic systems, pp. 1-16 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on page 6, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170148, http://zenodo.org/record/3709713
Gerarus Scudder 1885
Creators: name: Béthoux, Olivier
name: Nel, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Geraroptera
Geraridae
Gerarus

description: Genus Gerarus Scudder, 1885.
Type species. Gerarus vetus Scudder, 1885.
Composition. We restrict the genus to the species Gerarus vetus Scudder, 1885, Gerarus bruesi Meunier, 1909, Gerarus fisheri (Brongniart, 1885) Burnham, 1983, G erarus collaris Handlirsch, 1906, and Gerarus danielsi Handlirsch, 1906 (see above).
Diagnosis. Burnham (1983) compared Gerarus to Nacekomia, Progenentomum, Genentomum and Gerarulus. Kukalová­Peck & Brauckmann (1992) did not give a new diagnosis of the genus. Thus we propose a new diagnosis, based on forewings characters: ScP long, straight, anteriorly pectinate; branches of ScP simple or shortly ramified; RP with few distal branches; MA differentiated into MA1 and MA2; MA1 generally connected to RP by a short cross­vein or shortly fused; MP ramified very proximally; CuPa present, more or less weak; CuPb ramified with an anterior branch long or reduced, and either connected or not to CuPa.
Note. The very long, spiny pronotum of numerous Gerarus spp. is a strong synapomorphy (Burnham 1983; Kukalová­Peck & Brauckmann 1992) but is unknown in Gerarus bruesi, thus it is not possible to determine if it is at the family or genus level.
Discussion. Gerarus vetus as figured by Kukalová­Peck & Brauckmann (1992: figs. 4,10,13) has a simple MP, suggesting closer relationships with Orthoptera than with G. bruesi and G. danielsi, which have an MP which is clearly and very proximally ramified. In his composite reconstruction of the holotype of G. vetus, Burnham (1983: fig. 4) did not figure a simple but a forked MP vein. It is not certain if the holotype of G. vetus and the specimens studied by Kukalová­Peck & Brauckmann (1992) belong to the same species or even genus. Thus, the monophyly of this genus remains unclear.
description: Published as part of Béthoux, Olivier & Nel, André, 2002, Venation pattern and revision of Orthoptera sensu nov. and sister groups. Phylogeny of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Orthoptera sensu nov., pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 96 on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156112
Coccoglypta leprosula Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi & Chen & Lyu 2019, n. comb.
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
name: Lyu, Zhi-Tong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Bradybaenidae
Coccoglypta
Coccoglypta leprosula

description: Coccoglypta leprosula (Heude, 1885) n. comb.
(Fig. 6I-L)
Helix leprosa Heude, 1885a: 106, pl. 27, fig. 15.
Helix leprosula Heude, 1885b: 43.
Helix (Satsuma) leprosula – Tryon 1887: 220, pl. 51, figs 80-82.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China. Sichuan, Mianyang Shi, Jiangy- ou Shi, Wudu Zhen, Guanwushan Forest Farm; 31°56’38.8”N, 104°44’1.1”E; 1590 m; A. Hunyadi & M. Szekeres leg.; 21 -22. VI.2015; coll. HA; 1 adult + 2 juvenile shells (Coccoglypta cf. leprosula n. comb., Figures 6 I-L).
TYPE LOCALITY. — “Tchen K’eou” (Chengkou, Chongqing Province).
REMARKS
Johnson (1973) did not mention type specimens in American museums, and we could not contact the Beijing Natural History Museum, where some of Heude’s types are deposited. Therefore, we rely on the original description only. Accordingly, the shell is 26 mm wide, narrowly umbilicated, and the sculpture is finely tuberculated, as in Coccoglypta.
The specimen we examined matches the original description, but the identification is certainly doubtful. It was collected c. 370 km west from the type locality of “ Satsuma ” leprosula. However, it must be kept in mind that the type locality is just a rough estimate, Heude received specimens from other missionaries who collected shells during their travels across large geographic areas.
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 595-608 in Zoosystema 41 (29) on page 604, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a29, http://zenodo.org/record/3726110
Hemiplecta Albers 1850
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Hunyadi, András
name: Chen, Zhe-Yu
name: Lyu, Zhi-Tong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Ariophantidae
Hemiplecta

description: Genus Hemiplecta Albers, 1850
TYPE SPECIES. — Helix humphreysiana I. Lea, 1841, by subsequent designation (Martens in Albers 1860).
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 595-608 in Zoosystema 41 (29) on page 604, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a29, http://zenodo.org/record/3726110
Collagen Structures of Demineralized Bone Paper Direct Mineral Metabolism
Creators: name: Yoon, Hyejin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Bone is a dynamic mineralized tissue that undergoes continuous remodeling throughout life. While the general mechanism of bone mineral metabolism is documented, the role of collagen structures in regulating osteoblastic mineral deposition and osteoclastic mineral resorption remains an active research area due to the lack of biomaterial platforms to support the complex structure of the bone matrix. Recently introduced, an osteoid-inspired demineralized bone paper (DBP) prepared by 20 µm thin sectioning of demineralized bovine compact bone holds promise to address this challenge as it preserves the intrinsic bony collagen structure and retains semi-transparency. Leveraging these unique features of DBP, we investigated how collagen structures modulate osteoblast and osteoclast-driven bone mineral metabolism. DBP exhibits distinct collagen structures depending on the sectioning direction, with uniaxially aligned collagen in vertical DBP (vDBP) and a concentric ring structure in transverse DBP (tDBP). Translucent DBP reveals these collagen structures and facilitates longitudinal tracking of mineral deposition and resorption under brightfield microscopy for at least 3 weeks. Genetically labeled primary osteogenic cells allow fluorescent monitoring of these cellular processes. Osteoblasts adhere and proliferate following the underlying collagen structures of DBPs, resulting in significantly higher mineral deposition in vertical DBP compared to transversal DBP. Spatiotemporal analysis reveals notably more osteoblast adhesion and faster mineral deposition in vascular regions known to contain type IV collagen and laminin than in bone regions predominantly consisting of type I collagen. Subsequent osteoclastic resorption occurs following the mineralized collagen structures, directing distinct trench and pit-type resorption. In vertical DBP, trench-type resorption occurs at an 80% frequency, whereas in transversal DBP, trench- and pit-type resorption are observed at frequencies of 35 % and 65 %, respectively. Our studies substantiate the importance of collagen structures in regulating mineral metabolism by osteogenic cells. DBP is expected to serve as an enabling biomaterial platform for studying various aspects of cellular and extracellular dynamics of bone remodeling.
Enicospilus rundiensis Bischoff 1915
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Soliman, Ahmed M.
name: Rousse, Pascal
name: Al Dhafer, Hathal M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus rundiensis

description: Enicospilus rundiensis Bischoff, 1915
Figs 4H, 8D, 12D, 16D, 20D, 27A, 31D
Enicospilus (Dispilus) rundiensis Bischoff, 1915: 476, ♂.
Enicospilus ruandensis Roman, 1924: 8, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 18–21; F 12–16; ML 0.2; CT 1.4–1.8; OOL 0.1, POL 0.29; FI 0.55–0.6; Fl1–2 1.4–1.6; Fl20 1.8–2.0; AI 0.55–0.75; ICI 0.45–0.7; CI 0.45–0.65; SDI 1.3–1.4; NI 2.37.
Body reddish brown overall, orbits pale yellow, gena yellowish white, ventral side of T3–6 darker in colour, antennae and legs are brighter in colour, mandibular teeth black; mandible with upper tooth 1.5– 2.0 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus slightly convex in profile, ventral margin in-turned; face 1.25 × as high as wide; antenna with 57–61 flagellomeres; mesopleuron finely puncto-striate, metapleuron finely punctate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct, anterior area of propodeum finely superficially shagreened, posterior area coarsely closely rugose; proximal sclerite triangular, dark brown, central sclerite moderately to very long and curved toward base of wing; hind wing with 6–8 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely setose.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 27 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 30 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 6 ♀♀, 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 30 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 11 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 30 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA).
Description
Males of E. rundiensis resemble the female (see diagnosis).
BOLD Identification Number
ADB5118.
Distribution
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Yu et al. 2012), Namibia, Zimbabwe (Rousse & van Noort 2014); Saudi Arabia (new record).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Rousse, Pascal & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2017, The genus Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) in Saudi Arabia, with twelve new species records and the description of five new species, pp. 1-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 365 on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291
Degradaton of Kappa-Carrageenan by Human Microbiota and Implication in Potential Pro-inflammation
Creators: name: Gong, Zhijin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Carrageenan (CGN) is an undigested food additive extracted from red seaweed that has been used for hundreds of years. Whether this undigested marine-derived polysaccharide will be further utilized by human microbiota remains a mystery. Fermentation of dietary polysaccharides in the human lower gut plays a vital role in maintaining the functionality and completeness of the bacterial population and host cells (1). This study aims to investigate the degradation of kappa-carrageenan (k-CGN) by human gut microbiota and its potential pro-inflammatory effects. To understand whether k-CGN was broken down by human microbiota among different individuals, seven fecal samples were collected and made into fecal slurry for in vitro fermentation. Fermentation using k-CGN as the sole carbon source happened under anaerobic conditions for 48 hours, then at 0h, 24h, and 48h time points, pH value, and total carbohydrate content were measured. Fermented samples were then cultivated on a selective medium and purified into single-strain bacteria. To determine the pro-inflammatory effect of degraded kappa-carrageenan, a supernatant of fermented samples was used to treat RAW 264.7 cells, and the level of Nitric oxide (NO) production was measured to evaluate the inflammatory response triggered by degraded k-CGN in comparison to glucose. Results of the fermentation study revealed that kappa-carrageenan can be degraded by human microflora but has individual variability. In seven samples, 3 showed evidence of breaking down k-CGN by decreasing pH value and total carbohydrate content after fermentation. The reduction of pH was due to bacteria utilizing carrageenan and producing acids. However, degradation of k-CGN by isolated single strains of bacteria remained unclear as no significant reduction of pH and total sugar content could be observed after fermentation. Results of the cell study indicated after fermentation by fecal bacteria, degraded k-CGN has a pro-inflammatory effect shown by the significant increase in inflammatory markers (e.g., nitric oxide production) in cells treated with fermentation supernatant.