[Botany • 2015] Paraboea chumphonensis, P. puglisiae & P. romklaoensis • Three New Species of Paraboea (Gesneriaceae) from Thailand

ABSTRACT

Three new species of Paraboea, P. chumphonensis Triboun, P. puglisiae Triboun & D.J.Middleton, P. romklaoensis D.J.Middleton & Triboun, are described. Conservation assessments are proposed for each species.

KEYWORDS: Paraboea; Chumphon; conservation; Kanchanaburi; limestone; Phitsanulok; taxonomy

Pramote Triboun and David J. Middleton. 2015. Three New Species of Paraboea (Gesneriaceae) from Thailand. THAI FOR. BULL. (BOT.) 43: 18–23.

https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ThaiForestBulletin/article/view/44201

[Botany • 2015] Paraboea maculata • A New Species of Paraboea (Gesneriaceae) from Thailand

Fig. 1. Paraboea maculata C.Puglisi.
A. Inflorescence. C. Corolla, front view. D. Corolla and calyx, side view.

(Photos: A, C, D: Lynsey Wilson)

ABSTRACT

A new species, Paraboea maculata C.Puglisi, is described. It is compared to similar species and the habitat on granite rocks, unusual for the genus, is highlighted.

Keywords. Gesneriaceae, Paraboea, Thailand

Paraboea maculata C.Puglisi, sp. nov. Differs from other Paraboea species in the Paraboea martinii group, i.e. those with opposite leaves, campanulate corolla, twisted fruit and a terminal inflorescence, by the combination of a predominantly white and laterally compressed corolla, the purple spots at the base of the tube, the sticky glandular secretion on the bracts and calyx, and the winged petioles.
– TYPE: Thailand, Chanthaburi, Khao Khitchakut, Khao Khitchakut National Park, Khao Phra Bhat, 12°50′14″N 102°10′3″E, 900 m, 27 August 2012, fr., Middleton, D.J., Karaket, P., Suddee, S. & Triboun, P. 5675 (holotype E; isotypes BK, BKF). (Fig. 1)

C. Puglisi, S. Suddee, P. Triboun and D.J. Middleton. 2015. A New Species of Paraboea (Gesneriaceae) from Thailand. Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore. 67(1): 101–106. DOI: 10.3850/S2382581215000113

https://www.sbg.org.sg/images/4_4_Research_Gardens_Bulletin/4_4_67_1_pdf_Vol_67_Part_1_2015/4_4_67_1_101_y2015_V67P1_GBS_pg101.pdf

ResearchGate.net/publication/280131091_A_new_species_of_Paraboea_(Gesneriaceae)_from_Thailand

[Herpetology • 2016] Tytthoscincus batupanggah & T. leproauricularis • Two New Species of Diminutive Leaf-Litter Skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Tytthoscincus) from Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Malaysia (northern Borneo)

Tytthoscincus batupanggah 

Karin, Das & Bauer, 2016 

Abstract

We describe two new species of skinks from Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Malaysia, in northern Borneo, Tytthoscincus batupanggah sp. nov. and T. leproauricularis sp. nov. Morphological and molecular analyses both corroborate the two new species as unique compared to all other Tytthoscincus and additional Sphenomorphus that are candidates for taxonomic placement in the genus Tytthoscincus. Despite their phenotypic similarity and sympatric distribution, a molecular analysis shows that the new species are not sister taxa and exhibit a deep genetic divergence between each of their respective sister taxa. We discuss how historical climatic and geographic processes may have led to the co-distribution of two relatively distantly related phenotypically similar species. In light of these discoveries, we also emphasize the importance of conserving primary montane tropical rainforest for maintaining species diversity.

Keywords: Reptilia, Endemism, co-distribution, Sphenomorphus, Sundaland, Sunda Shelf, sympatric

Benjamin R. Karin, Indraneil Das and Aaron M. Bauer. 2016. Two New Species of Diminutive Leaf-Litter Skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Tytthoscincus) from Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Malaysia (northern Borneo). Zootaxa. 4093(3) 

http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4093.3.7

http://theherpetofaunalbiologygroup.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/5/14155652/463-_karin_et_al.__tytthoscincus_.pdf

[Herpetology • 2016] Diplodactylus ameyi • A New Species of Gecko (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae) from Arid Inland Regions of eastern Australia

Diplodactylus ameyi

Oliver & Couper, 2016

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.4 

Abstract

We describe a new species of small terrestrial gecko in the genus Diplodactylus from inland regions of western Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Diplodactylus ameyi sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners in the Diplodactylus conspicillatus species-group by its relatively large size, bulbous tail which lacks an acute attenuated extension at tip, small first labial scale and comparatively robust head morphology (which includes a broadly rounded snout and no well-defined canthus rostralis). Related populations from eastern and central Queensland currently referred to D. platyurus include further deeply divergent lineages but additional material is required to resolve systematic boundaries in this region.

Keywords: Reptilia, Diplodactylus ameyi sp. nov., Eromanga Basin, New South Wales, Queensland

Paul M. Oliver and Patrick J. Couper. 2016. A New Species of Gecko from Arid Inland Regions of eastern Australia (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae). 
Zootaxa. 4093(4) DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.4 

[Herpetology • 2014] Independent Transitions between Monsoonal and Arid Biomes Revealed by Systematic Revision of A Complex of Australian Geckos (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae)

Fig 7. Species of the Diplodactylus conspicillatus complex in life.
(A) Diplodactylus conspicillatus from 10km north of Barkley Hwy on Ranken to Alexander Station Road, north-eastern Northern Territory (Image: Ross Sadlier); (B) Diplodactylus conspicillatus Alice Springs, Northern Territory (Image: Eric Vanderduys);
(C) D. hillii, Dorat Road, Northern Territory (Image: Paul Horner); (D) Diplodactylus laevis in life from Morgan Range, Western Australia (Image: Mark Hutchinson);
 (E) Diplodactylus platyurus, Brooklyn Station, north Queensland (Image: Eric Vanderduys); (F) Diplodactylus platyurus Myendetta Stn, Charleville, Queensland (Image: Steve Wilson);
(G) Diplodactylus bilybara sp. nov. Onslow, Western Australia (Image: Ryan Ellis); (H) Diplodactylus custos sp. nov. Gibb River Road turnoff via Wyndham, Western Australia (Image: Steve Wilson). There are currently no images available of D. barraganae sp. nov. in life.

DOI:  10.1371/journal.pone.0111895

Abstract

How the widespread expansion and intensification of aridity through the Neogene has shaped the Austral biota is a major question in Antipodean biogeography. Lineages distributed across wide aridity gradients provide opportunities to examine the timing, frequency, and direction of transitions between arid and mesic regions. Here, we use molecular genetics and morphological data to investigate the systematics and biogeography of a nominal Australian gecko species (Diplodactylus conspicillatus sensu lato) with a wide distribution spanning most of the Australian Arid Zone (AAZ) and Monsoonal Tropics (AMT). Our data support a minimum of seven genetically distinct and morphologically diagnosable taxa; we thus redefine the type species, ressurrect three names from synonymy, and describe three new species. Our inferred phylogeny suggests the history and diversification of lineages in the AAZ and AMT are intimately linked, with evidence of multiple independent interchanges since the late Miocene. However, despite this shared history, related lineages in these two regions also show evidence of broadly contrasting intra-regional responses to aridification; vicarance and speciation in older and increasingly attenuated mesic regions, versus a more dynamic history including independent colonisations and recent range expansions in the younger AAZ.

Diplodactylus barraganae  Couper, P. Oliver & Pepper, 2014

Diplodactylus bilybara  Couper, P. Oliver & Pepper, 2014

Diplodactylus custos  Couper, P. Oliver & Pepper, 2014

Fig 7. Species of the D. conspicillatus complex in life. (A) Diplodactylus conspicillatus from 10km north of Barkley Hwy on Ranken to Alexander Station Road, north-eastern Northern Territory (Image: Ross Sadlier); (B) Diplodactylus conspicillatus Alice Springs, Northern Territory (Image: Eric Vanderduys); (C) D. hillii, Dorat Road, Northern Territory (Image: Paul Horner); (D) Diplodactylus laevis in life from Morgan Range, Western Australia (Image: Mark Hutchinson); (E) Diplodactylus platyurus, Brooklyn Station, north Queensland (Image: Eric Vanderduys); (F) Diplodactylus platyurus Myendetta Stn, Charleville, Queensland (Image: Steve Wilson); (G) Diplodactylus bilybara sp. nov. Onslow, Western Australia (Image: Ryan Ellis); (H) Diplodactylus custos sp. nov. Gibb River Road turnoff via Wyndham, Western Australia (Image: Steve Wilson). There are currently no images available of D. barraganae sp. nov. in life.

Paul M. Oliver, Patrick J. Couper and Mitzy Pepper. 2014. Independent Transitions between Monsoonal and Arid Biomes Revealed by Systematic Revision of A Complex of Australian Geckos (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae). PLoS ONE. 10(4): e0126682. DOI:  10.1371/journal.pone.0111895

https://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pone-9-12-Oliver.pdf

[Botany • 2015] Bulbophyllum huangshanense sp. nov. (Orchidaceae) from Anhui, China

Bulbophyllum huangshanense Y.M.Hu & X.H.Jin

 DOI: 10.1111/njb.00680

Bulbophyllum huangshanense, a new species of orchid from Anhui, China, is described and illustrated. This new species is close to B. taeniophyllum with pseudo-bulbs closely spaced along the rhizome, leathery leaf, entire dorsal sepal, toothed petals, the lateral edges of lateral sepals connate and fleshy lip, but differs from the latter in having roots arising from the node with the pseudo-bulb, inflorescence much shorter than leaf, flowers pure yellow, lip mobile, and stelidia broadly triangular.

Yimin Hu, Jianji Zhang and Xiaohua Jin. 2015. Bulbophyllum huangshanense sp. nov. (Orchidaceae) from Anhui, China. Nordic Journal of Botany. 33(4); 443–445. DOI: 10.1111/njb.00680

 researchgate.net/publication/272890745_Bulbophyllum_huangshanense_sp_nov_Orchidaceae_from_Anhui_China

twitter.com/NordicJBotany/status/572416938275700736

[Botany • 2016] Magnolia rzedowskiana • A New Species of Section Macrophylla (Magnoliaceae) from the Central Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico

Magnolia rzedowskiana 

A. Vázquez, R. Domínguez & R. Pedraza 

ABSTRACT

Magnolia rzedowskiana A. Vázquez, R. Domínguez & R. Pedraza is described as a new species of the sect. Macrophylla. It is found in Sierra Gorda, Querétaro, Sierra de Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, and vicinity of Chapulhuacán, Hidalgo, México, in cloud forests. It shares with other members of sect. Macrophylla its deciduous and abaxially glaucous leaves. It is similar to Magnolia dealbata in having similar size of trees and leaves, but differs from the latter in having narrower petals, less numerous stamens, styles flattened, acute at the apex and white yellowish to dark maroon (vs. cylindrical and truncate to rounded at the apex and creamy white), smaller fruits, less numerous carpels, and carpels with shorter beak.

Key words: Huasteca region, Magnolia dealbata, Magnolia nuevoleonensis, Magnolia section Macrophylla, Magnolia vovidesii, Mexico, Sierra Madre Oriental.

 José Antonio Vázquez-García, Reyna Domínguez-Yescas, Roberto PedrazaRuiz , Arturo Sánchez-González and Miguel Ángel Muñiz-Castro. 2015. Magnolia rzedowskiana (Magnoliaceae), una especie nueva de la sección Macrophylla de la parte central de la sierra Madre Oriental, México. [Magnolia rzedowskiana (Magnoliaceae), A New Species of Section Macrophylla from the Central Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico]. Acta Botanica Mexicana. 112: 19-36.

http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0187-71512015000300003

RESUMEN: 

Se describe Magnolia rzedowskiana A. Vázquez, R. Domínguez & R. Pedraza, un taxon nuevo perteneciente a la sección Macrophylla. Se distribuye en la Sierra Gorda, Querétaro, Sierra de Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, y los alrededores de Chapulhuacán, Hidalgo, México, en bosque mesófilo de montaña. Se asemeja a otras especies de la sección Macrophylla en sus hojas deciduas con envés glauco; comparte con Magnolia dealbata el tamaño de árbol y de hojas, pero difiere de esta última por sus pétalos mucho más angostos, menor número de estambres, estilos aplanados, de ápice agudo y color blanco-amarillento a marrón oscuro (vs. cilíndricos, de ápice truncado-redondeado y color blanco crema), menor tamaño de frutos, menor número de carpelos y éstos con el pico más corto.

Palabras clave: Magnolia dealbata, Magnolia nuevoleonensis, Magnolia sección Macrophylla, Magnolia vovidesii, México, región Huasteca, Sierra Madre Oriental.

Two new flower species were discovered online http://po.st/hdD4wM via @SmithsonianMag

BBC News - Endangered magnolia species identified http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-35855625

[Herpetology • 2016] Bitis harenna • A New Large Species of Bitis Gray, 1842 (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

Bitis harenna  

Gower, Wade, Spawls, Böhme, Buechley, Sykes & Colston, 2016

 nhm.ac.uk  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.3

Abstract

A new species of viperine viperid snake is described, Bitis harenna sp. nov. The new species is a member of the subgenus Macrocerastes based on it having three scales separating the nasal and rostral shields, and on the combination of ‘divisions’ of dorsal scale rows on the upper flanks and ‘fusions’ of rows on the lower flanks. Bitis harenna sp. nov. is distinguished from other members of the subgenus by its unique colour pattern, posterior parietal flange on the lateral wall of the braincase, and possibly by differences in scalation and head proportions. Only a single museum specimen is known, a female collected from ‘Dodola’ in Ethiopia probably in the late 1960s and previously identified as a possibly unusually coloured and patterned B. parviocula. A live, presumably male, specimen very closely resembling the holotype of Bitis harenna sp. nov. was photographed on the Harenna escarpment of the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia in 2013, providing secure occurrence data and evidence that the holotype is not a uniquely aberrant specimen. A revised key to the species of Bitis in Ethiopia is presented. Aspects of body scalation are compared among species of the subgenus Macrocerastes and between species of Macrocerastes and Bitis, and several systematic characters are highlighted and clarified.

Keywords: Reptilia, Africa, Bitis parviocula, Harenna, Macrocerastes, snake, taxonomy, viper

Uncollected specimen of Bitis harenna sp. nov. photographed in the Harenna Forest of the Bale Mountains National Park in October 2013. The snake was approximately 1 m in total length.

photo: Evan Buechley

Gower, David J., Edward Wade, Stephen Spawls, Wolfgang Böhme, Evan R. Buechley, Daniel Sykes & Timothy J. Colston. 2016. A New Large Species of Bitis Gray, 1842 (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia. Zootaxa. 4093(1): 41–63. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.3

A team of scientists led by Museum researchers have identified and named a new species of viper, Bitis harenna, that lives in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains National Park.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/science-news/2016/march/snake-from-ethiopia-identified-as-new-viper-species.html

[Ichthyology • 2016] Cylindrophis subocularis • An Inconspicuous, Conspicuous New Species of Asian Pipesnake, Genus Cylindrophis (Squamata: Cylindrophiidae), from the South coast of Jawa Tengah, Java, Indonesia, and An Overview of the Tangled Taxonomic History of C. ruffus (Laurenti, 1768)

Cylindrophis subocularis

Kieckbusch, Mecke, Hartmann, Ehrmantraut, O'Shea & Kaiser, 2016

Holotype of Cylindrophis subocularis sp. nov. (RMNH.RENA 8785)

Abstract

We describe a new species of Cylindrophis currently known only from Grabag, Purworejo Regency, Jawa Tengah Province (Central Java), Java, Indonesia. Cylindrophis subocularis sp. nov. can be distinguished from all congeners by the presence of a single, eponymous subocular scale between the 3rd and 4th or 4th and 5th supralabial, preventing contact between the 4th or 5th supralabial and the orbit, and by having the prefrontal in narrow contact with or separated from the orbit. We preface our description with a detailed account of the tangled taxonomic history of the similar and putatively wide-ranging species C. ruffus, which leads us to (1) remove the name Scytale scheuchzeri from the synonymy of C. ruffus, (2) list the taxon C. rufa var. javanica as species inquirenda, and (3) synonymize C. mirzae with C. ruffus. We provide additional evidence to confirm that the type locality of C. ruffus is Java. Cylindrophis subocularis sp. nov. is the second species of Asian pipesnake from Java.

Keywords: Reptilia, Cylindrophis subocularis sp. nov., C. ruffus, Serpentes, Cylindrophiidae, Asian pipesnakes, species complex, morphology, Central Java, Indonesia, Greater Sunda Islands

Max Kieckbusch, Sven Mecke, Lukas Hartmann, Lisa Ehrmantraut, Mark O'Shea and Hinrich Kaiser. 2016. An Inconspicuous, Conspicuous New Species of Asian Pipesnake, Genus Cylindrophis (Reptilia: Squamata: Cylindrophiidae), from the South coast of Jawa Tengah, Java, Indonesia, and An Overview of the Tangled Taxonomic History of C. ruffus (Laurenti, 1768). Zootaxa. 4093(1) 

http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4093.1

ResearchGate.net/publication/299204673_An_inconspicuous_conspicuous_new_species_of_Asian_pipesnake_genus_Cylindrophis_Reptilia_Squamata_Cylindrophiidae_from_the_south_coast_of_Jawa_Tengah_Java_Indonesia_and_an_overview_of_the_tangled_taxon 

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[Herpetology • 2016] The Transfer of Two Clades of Malaysian Sphenomorphus Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) into the Genus Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown and The Description of A New Malaysian Swamp-dwelling Species; Tytthoscincus panchorensis

Bukit Panchor Forest Skink |  Tytthoscincus panchorensis 

 Grismer, Muin, Wood, Anuar & Linkem, 2016

Holotype of Tytthoscincus panchorensis sp. nov. (LSUHC 12511) from the Bukit Panchor State Park, Pulau Pinang, Peninsular Malaysia.

Photo by M.A. Muin  DOI:  10.11646/zootaxa.4092.2.6 

Abstract

Phylogenetic analyses based on the mitochondrial gene ND2 and its flanking tRNAs indicate the diminutive upland and insular species Sphenomorphus bukitensis, S. butleri, S. langkawiensis, S. perhentianensis, and S. temengorensis form a monophyletic group that is phylogenetically embedded within the Southeast Asian genus Tytthoscincus. The analyses also indicate that a new swamp-dwelling skink from the Bukit Panchor State Park, Pulau Pinang, Peninsular Malaysia is the sister species to the swamp-dwelling species S. sibuensis from Pulau Sibu, Johor and Singapore and that these two are also embedded in the genus Tytthoscincus. By transferring the two Peninsular Malaysian clades of Sphenomorphus into the genus Tytthoscincus, the monophyly of the latter is maintained. The new species Tytthoscincus panchorensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other species of Tytthoscincus by having a unique combination of morphological and color pattern characteristics.

Keywords: Reptilia, new species, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, Tytthoscincus, Sphenomorphus

Tytthoscincus panchorensis sp. nov.

Bukit Panchor Forest Skink

Distribution. Tytthoscincus panchorensis sp. nov. is known only from the type locality at the Bukit Panchor State Park, Pulau Pinang, Peninsular Malaysia. 

Natural history. Tytthoscincus panchorensis sp. nov. is a forest floor species inhabiting the swampy area and adjacent hillsides of the Bukit Panchor State Park.

Etymology. The specific epithet panchorensis is in reference to the type locality of the Bukit Panchor State Park, Pulau Pinang, Peninsular Malaysia. The suffix -ensis is from the Latin word for “from, of” or “from a place” and renders the specific epithet an adjective.

L. Lee Grismer, Mohd Abdul Muin, Perry L. Wood, Shahrul Anuar and Charles W. Linkem. 2016. The Transfer of Two Clades of Malaysian Sphenomorphus Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) into the Genus Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown and The Description of A New Malaysian Swamp-dwelling Species. Zootaxa. 4092(2): 231–242. DOI:  10.11646/zootaxa.4092.2.6 

[Paleontology • 2016] Boreonykus certekorum • A High-latitude Dromaeosaurid (Theropoda), from the upper Campanian Wapiti Formation, west-central Alberta

Boreonykus certekorum 

Bell & Currie, 2016DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1034359  

ABSTRACT

Dromaeosaurids were rare components of most Late Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems and are poorly known from high palaeolatitudes. New dromaeosaurid material, including a frontal and associated postcranial elements, is described from a dense monodominant ceratopsid bonebed on Pipestone Creek, near the city of Grande Prairie (Unit 3, Wapiti Formation, upper Campanian), central-western Alberta, Canada. This stratigraphic interval is significant because it records a period of terrestrial deposition at a time when much of the western interior of Canada and the United States was inundated by the Bearpaw Sea. A phylogenetic analysis recovers Boreonykus certekorum, gen. et sp. nov., as a derived eudromaeosaur, possibly within Velociraptorinae. The identification of a new dromaeosaurid from the Wapiti Formation simultaneously helps fill an important gap in the record of late Campanian dromaeosaurids, bolsters support for a partly endemic fauna within the Wapiti Formation, and potentially adds to the North American record of a predominantly Asian Velociraptorinae.

SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY

 DINOSAURIA 

SAURISCHIA Seeley, 1888 

THEROPODA Marsh, 1881

DROMAEOSAURIDAE Matthew and Brown, 1922

BOREONYKUS CERTEKORUM, gen. et sp. nov.

Etymology — Genus name references the modern day boreal forest where the type specimen was found and ‘onychos,’ meaning claw (Greek). Species name pays tribute to Certek Heating Solutions and the Barendregt family (Wembley, Alberta) for their continued support of paleontology in the Peace Region.

Horizon and Locality — The holotype and referred material come from the Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai bonebed at Pipestone Creek, 19 km southwest of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. A volcanic ash layer approximately 1 m above the bonebed host unit revealed an age of 73.27 § 0.25 million years (D. A. Eberth in Currie et al., 2008), placing it within uppermost part of Unit 3 of the Wapiti Formation (Fanti and Catuneanu, 2009, 2010).

Phil R. Bell and Philip J. Currie. 2016. A High-latitude Dromaeosaurid, Boreonykus certekorum, gen. et sp. nov. (Theropoda), from the upper Campanian Wapiti Formation, west-central Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.   36(1); DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1034359 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02724634.2015.1034359

Dinosaur described as 'savage predator' uncovered in northwestern Alberta http://www.news1130.com/2016/03/16/dinosaur-described-as-savage-predator-uncovered-in-northwestern-alberta/ via @NEWS1130

[Paleontology • 2015] On the Upper Jurassic Ichthyosaur remains from the Russian North

Arthropterygius sp. 

Reconstruction: AA Atuchin.  olorotitan.deviantart.com

ABSTRACT 

An ichthyosaurian skeletal remains assigned to the genera Arthropterygius and Ophthalmosaurus are described from the Volgian deposits of the Komi Republic and Nenets Autonomous Region (Okrug) (Russia). These specimens along with findings from Svalbard provide an opportunity to draw some preliminary conclusions on the distribution of ichthyosaurs during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous epoch.

 Key words: Arthropterygius, ichthyosaurs, Ophthalmosaurus, Russia, Upper Jurassic

N.G. Zverkov, M.S. Arkhangelsky, J.M. Pardo Pérez and P.A. Beznosov. 2015. On the Upper Jurassic Ichthyosaur remains from the Russian North. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 319(1): 81–97

http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_319_1/TZ_319_1_Zverkov.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/11793260/On_the_Upper_Jurassic_Ichthyosaur_remains_from_the_Russian_North

Ancient marine reptiles inhabited the icy waters of the north

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/ancient-marine-reptiles-inhabited-the-icy-waters-of-the-north/

http://andrey-atuchin.blogspot.com/2015/04/arthropterygius.html

Российские ученые нашли северного ихтиозавра

http://www.paleonews.ru/index.php/new/531-ichtyo

 http://olorotitan.deviantart.com/art/Arthropterygius-525122187

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