Flores, Carlos A. Arreortúa, Medardo González-Bernal, Edna
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Although amphibian consumption by humans has been reported globally, this practice is not well studied despite its direct implications to the decline of amphibian populations. The International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) recognizes the need to document the use and trade of species to be considered in assessing their extinction risk. ...
Smith, Geoffrey R. Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.
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Mexico is a megadiverse country with high endemicity in its herpetofauna. We examine how species richness, proportion of state and country endemic species, and proportion of species in a category of conservation concern using listings in the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) Red List and the Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Rec...
Hou, Yanmeng Gao, Zhizhong Zhang, Feng
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Two new cave-adapted pseudoscorpion species belonging to the family Chthoniidae are described: Tyrannochthonius pandus sp. nov. from Biyu Cave (Yunnan: Luxi) and Lagynochthonius laoxueyanensis sp. nov. from Laoxueyan Cave (Yunnan: Yanshan). Both of them, collected from the dark zone of caves, are highly troglomorphic species.
Xie, Lin-Zhe Li, Kun-Yuan Chen, Liu-Sheng Wang, Hou-Shuai
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Ivela yini sp. nov. , is described from Guangdong, China based on morphological characters and molecular data. Adults, including genitalia and wing venation, and pupa are illustrated and compared to those of similar species. A key to Chinese Ivela species is provided. Assignment of the new species to Ivela Swinhoe is based primarily on a molecular ...
Antić, Dragan Vagalinski, Boyan Stoev, Pavel Akkari, Nesrine
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All cavernicolous species of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and the Rhodope Mountains have been reviewed. At present the family has been shown to comprise five or six genera with eight or nine species. Two new genera have been described, viz., Balkanodesminus gen. nov. , with two new species: B. dentatoides ...
Evsyukov, Aleksandr P. Vagalinski, Boyan Zabiyaka, Igor Y. Sadyrin, Evgeniy V.
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A new genus and species of the millipede tribe Pachyiulini , Bellatoiulus golovatchi gen. et sp. nov. , is described from the Lesser Caucasus, Azerbaijan. Cybertypes of the new species are created from the physical holotype male and from a paratype female. The distribution and ecological features of the new species, and the position of the new genu...
Wu, Qiong Xing, BingPeng Lin, Mao Chen, GuangCheng Wang, ChunGuang
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The Ovulidae ( Gastropoda , Cypraeoidea ) is a family of small to medium Mollusca in the order Littorinimorpha , and Sandalia is a very small genus containing only three extant species. In the present study, 132 specimens of Ovulidae were collected, belonging to seven genera and nine species, including 54 Sandalia bridgesi and three Sandalia tritic...
Wahlberg, Emma Gertsson, Carl-Axel
The Swedish fauna of thrips (Thysanoptera) in the family Phlaeothripidae consists of 49 species. A key to the species of Phlaeothripidae found in Sweden is provided. One species is recorded as new for the country, and 10 new regional records are presented. A checklist of all Swedish tubuliferan species with regional distributions is also given. / T...
Tzeng, You-Wei Ma, Lin Li, Xinzheng
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Three new species of the crustacean order Tanaidacea are described from the coasts of China. Apseudes spinidigitus sp. nov. (family Apseudidae ), from the South China Sea, can be distinguished from the most similar species, A. nhatrangensis , by the features of the maxilliped endite, cheliped dactylus, pereopod 1 carpus and propodus, and pleopods b...
Hennen, Derek A. Means, Jackson C. Marek, Paul E.
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Although many new species of the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 have been known from museum collections for over half a century, a systematic revision has not been undertaken until recently. There are two species groups in the genus: the minor species group and the wilsoni species group. In this study, the wilsoni species group was inves...
