[Ichthyology • 2016] Urogymnus acanthobothrium • A New Euryhaline Whipray...
Urogymnus acanthobothrium Last, White, Kyne, 2016 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.2.4 AbstractThe Mumburarr Whipray, Urogymnus acanthobothrium sp. nov. is described from a single specimen taken from the...
View Article[Ichthyology • 2016] Micromyzon orinoco • A New Species of the Blind and...
Fig. 2. Micromyzon orinoco, paratype, ANSP 198335, 14.8. mm SL,Río Orinoco, north-side of Isla Fajardo, opposite Palua, 182 nautical miles from sea bouy, Anzoátegui, Venezuela. Dorsal and ventral...
View Article[Ichthyology • 2016] Melanorivulus polychromus • A New Species of Killifish...
Melanorivulus polychromusNielsen, Neves, Ywamoto & de Aguiar Passos, 2016AbstractA new species of Melanorivulus is described from the middle rio Paraná basin, São Paulo state, Brazil....
View Article[Botany • 2015] Lysimachia huangsangensis • A New Species (Primulaceae) from...
Lysimachia huangsangensis J.J. Zhou, X.L. Yu & Y.F. Deng DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132713 AbstractA new species, Lysimachia huangsangensis (Primulaceae), from Hunan, China is described and...
View Article[Botany • 2012] The Enigmatic Ginger Alpinia melichroa Rediscovered in...
Alpinia melichroa (K. Schum.) K. Schum. Alpinia sect. Botryamomum (K. Schum.) K. Schum. DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2011.01122.x ABSTRACTRecent collections from Sulawesi allow an investigation of Amomum...
View Article[Mammalogy • 2016] Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) in the Czech Republic: the...
Figure 2. Photographs of a golden jackal (Canis aureus) individual in the summer (A) and winter (B).DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.641.10946 AbstractA golden jackal (Canis aureus) individual was recorded ~40 km...
View Article[Entomology • 2016] Selection for Predation, not Female Fecundity, Explains...
Figure 1: Floral and disruptive camouflage in nymphal and adult Hymenopodini with varying sexual size dimorphism (SSD) of males and females.Hymenopus (a) female nymph with monochromatic colouration...
View Article[Herpetology • 2016] Diet and Body Condition of Cave-dwelling Dwarf...
Figure 4. Side by side photo of two adult male Osteolaemus tetraspis. The left individual was captured in the Abanda caves and displays the bizarre orange skin colour. We do not yet fully understand...
View Article[Herpetology • 2011] Callulina meteora • A Remarkable New Species of...
Callulina meteora Menegon, Gower & Loader, 2011 AbstractA large new species of Callulina is described from a series of 22 specimens from the montane and upper montane forest of the Nguru...
View Article[Herpetology • 2016] How Draco Lizards Fly: A Novel Type of Wing in Animals
formation of the composite wing during the initial phases of the gliding flight of Draco dussumieriseen from the front (left) and from below (right; corresponding photos of the same phases). The...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 1927-2016 |...
Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thai: ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช; pronounced [pʰuːmípʰon ʔàdunjádèːt], 5 December 1927 – 13 October 2016), conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great in 1987, was the ninth monarch of...
View Article[Ichthyology • 2016] Rasbora ataenia • A New Freshwater Fish from Kerala, India
Rasbora ataenia Plamoottil, 2016 Abstract Taxonomic analysis of five specimens of a cyprinid fish collected from Alappuzha, Kerala, India revealed that they present several taxonomic differences from...
View Article[Ornithology • 2017] Improved Sampling at the Subspecies Level Solves A...
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.014 Highlights• Increased density of subspecific taxon sampling and complementary biometric analysis clarifies sister species relationships in tits.• Our genetic...
View Article[Entomology • 2016] Eulophophyllum lobulatum & E. kirki • The Pink Katydids...
Eulophophyllum kirki Ingrisch & Riede, 2016 Eulophophyllum kirki in habitat from Danum: male (A) and female sitting on red leaves (B, F); [(B) apical view of hind legs and ovipositor]in...
View Article[Entomology • 2016] Onryza pesudomaga • A New Species of Onryza Watson, 1893...
Onryza pesudomagaZhu, Mao & Chen, 2016 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.1.7 AbstractA new species, Onryza pesudomaga is described from Zhejiang Province, S. China. The new taxon resembles O. maga which...
View Article[Herpetology • 2017] Aplastodiscus lutzorum • The First Species of...
Aplastodiscus lutzorum Berneck, Giaretta, Brandão, Cruz & Haddad, 2017DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.642.10401 AbstractThe genus Aplastodiscus includes 14 nominal species in four monophyletic groups...
View Article[Botany • 2017] Taxonomic Revision of the Opuntia humifusa complex...
flower of Opuntia macrorhiza s.s.photo: L.C. Majure DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.290.1.1AbstractThe Humifusa clade represents a recent radiation that originated in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene...
View Article[Ichthyology • 2016] Redescriptions of Two Closely related East Asian...
(A–C) Pleuronichthys lighti Wu, 1929(F–H) Pleuronichthys cornutus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.1.1 AbstractBecause of the taxonomic confusion, including misapplication of...
View Article[Ichthyology • 2016] Schistura kampucheensis • A New Species of Loach...
Schistura kampucheensis Bohlen, Petrtýl, Chaloupková & Borin, 2016 AbstractSchistura kampucheensis, new species, is described from several localities in Cambodia. It is distinguished from all...
View Article[PaleoIchthyology • 2017] Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni • A Symmoriiform...
Reconstruction of Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni, a type of symmoriid shark now known to be an early chimaera.Illustration: Kristen Tietjen DOI: 10.1038/nature20806Chimaeroid fishes (Holocephali) are one...
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