Friday, May 22, 2015

[Entomology • 2015] Deuteragenia ossarium | Bone-house Wasp • A Unique Nest-Protection Strategy in a New Species of Spider Wasp

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Figure 2. Nest protection in Deuteragenia ossarium . ( A ) Overview of a nest. Individual brood cells are separated by thin walls of soi...

[Herpetology • 2015] Turtles and Tortoises of the World during the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians

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Figure 14. Two species of extinct giant tortoises, Cylindraspis vosmaeri (larger, saddlebacked) and C. peltastes (smaller, domed) in thei...

[Mollusca • 2014] Additions to the Genus Phyllodesmium; Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum & P. undulatum, with A Phylogenetic Analysis and its implications to the Evolution of Symbiosis

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Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum  Abstract The facelinid genus Phyllodesmium (Ehrenberg, 1831) consists of approximately 24 describe...

[Botany • 2014] Tillandsia religiosa • A New Species (Bromeliaceae) from the state of Morelos, México

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Tillandsia religiosa   Hern.-Cárdenas, González-Rocha, Espejo, López-Ferr., Cerros & Ehlers DOI:  10.11646/phytotaxa.184.1.7 ...

[Invertebrate • 2014] Dendrogramma, New Genus, with Two New Non-Bilaterian Species from the Marine Bathyal of Southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis) – with Similarities to Some Medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara

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Figure 1.  Dendrogramma  gen. nov. , paratypes of  D. enigmatica  and (with *)  D. discoides . Figure 3. Dendrogramma enigmatica sp...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

[Paleontology • 2015] The Origin of Snakes: revealing the Ecology, Behavior, and Evolutionary History of Early Snakes using Genomics, Phenomics, and the Fossil Record

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Reconstruction of the ancestral crown-group snake, based on the new study. Artwork by Julius Csotonyi. Abstract Background The ...

[Fungi • 2015] Auricularia thailandica • A widely distributed Species (Auriculariaceae, Auriculariales) from Southeastern Asia

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เห็ดหูหนู  |    Auricularia thailandica Bandara & K.D. Hyde Figure 2. Auricularia thailandica (MFLU 130410, holotype). a. Basidioc...

[Herpetology • 2015] Chalarodon steinkampi • A likely microendemic New Species of Terrestrial Iguana, genus Chalarodon, from Madagascar

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Chalarodon steinkampi Miralles , Glaw, Ratsoavina & Vences, 2015 Abstract A new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Ch...
Monday, May 18, 2015

[Herpetology • 2015] The Gerrhonotine Genus Coloptychon (Sauria: Anguidae)

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An adult male Isthmian Alligator Lizard, Coloptychon rhombifer , from Cerro San Juan de Rincón, Cantón de Osa, Provincia de Puntarenas, ...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

[PaleoIchthyology • 2015] A Specimen of Paralycoptera Chang & Chou 1977 (Teleostei: Osteoglossoidei) from Hong Kong (China) with a potential Late Jurassic age that extends the Temporal and Geographical Range of the Genus

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Paralycoptera  sp. ||  Hong Kong’s first dinosaur-era fish - a specimen of the Chinese osteoglossoid osteoglossomorph fish   Ab...
Friday, May 15, 2015

[PaleoMammalogy • 2015] Middle Miocene Bovidae from Mae Moh Basin, Northern Thailand: the First Record of the Genus Eotragus from Southeast Asia; Eotragus lampangensis

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Eotragus lampangensis Kantapon, Chaimanee, Chavasseau & Jaeger, 2015 Illustration: T. Krutchuen [ 1 ] We describe the fir...

[Ichthyology • 2015] Whole-Body Endothermy in A Mesopelagic Fish, the Opah, Lampris guttatus

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An opah  Lampris guttatus   photographed near San Clemente Island off the southern California coast. photograph: Ralph Pace |  natgeo.c...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2015] Thylacinus yorkellus • Thylacinus (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from the Mio-Pliocene Boundary and the Diversity of Late Neogene Thylacinids in Australia

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Figure 1: Thylacinus yorkellus , holotype SAM P29807, incomplete left dentary. Photographs of the specimen. (A) Lateral view (B) medial...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

[PaleoAnthropology • 2015] Perupithecus ucayalensis • Eocene Primates of South America and the African Origins of New World Monkeys

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The platyrrhine primates, or New World monkeys, are immigrant mammals whose fossil record comes from Tertiary and Quaternary sediment...

[Botany • 2014] Taxonomic Status, Phylogenetic Affinities and Genetic Diversity of A presumed Extinct Genus, Paraisometrum W.T. Wang (Gesneriaceae) from the Karst Regions of Southwest China

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Abstract Background The karst regions in South China have an abundance of endemic plants that face high extinction risks. The ...