IF 0.8 4区生物学

Zootaxa Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.8

Peter Duelli, Bärbel Koch, Charles S Henry

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First record of the leafhopper genus Pedionis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae: Macropsini) from Malaysia with description of a new species. 马来西亚叶蝉属首次记录（半翅目：蝉科；大叶蝉科）及一新种描述。

IF 0.8 4区生物学

Zootaxa Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.5

Dongming Wang, Yalin Zhang

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Guidelines for species descriptions of free-living aquatic nematodes: characters, measurements and their presentation in taxonomic publications. 自由生活水生线虫的物种描述指南：特征、测量及其在分类学出版物中的介绍。

IF 0.8 4区生物学

Zootaxa Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.4

Vadim Mokievsky, Tania Nara Bezerra, Wilfrida Decraemer, Ursula Eisendle, Mike Hodda, Oleksandr Holovachov, Daniel Leduc, Dmitry Miljutin, Reyes Peña-Santiago, Jyotsna Sharma, Nic Smol, Alexei Tchesunov, Virág Venekey, Zengqi Zhao, José Andrés Pérez-García, Vladimír Půža, Aldo Zullini, Ann Vanreusel

{"title":"Guidelines for species descriptions of free-living aquatic nematodes: characters, measurements and their presentation in taxonomic publications.","authors":"Vadim Mokievsky, Tania Nara Bezerra, Wilfrida Decraemer, Ursula Eisendle, Mike Hodda, Oleksandr Holovachov, Daniel Leduc, Dmitry Miljutin, Reyes Peña-Santiago, Jyotsna Sharma, Nic Smol, Alexei Tchesunov, Virág Venekey, Zengqi Zhao, José Andrés Pérez-García, Vladimír Půža, Aldo Zullini, Ann Vanreusel","doi":"10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.4","DOIUrl":"10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Free-living aquatic nematodes are abundant, diverse and of general environmental importance. However, knowledge of species distributions of both marine and freshwater nematodes is sparse. Species distribution data are crucial for evaluating environmental impacts from human activities and to conduct integrated nematode community assessments. Basic knowledge on taxonomy and species descriptions is lacking for many regions due to decreasing taxonomic expertise, yet it is essential for biodiversity research and for building molecular sequence libraries for the application of methods such as environmental DNA. In order to encourage and facilitate taxonomic and descriptive work on this understudied group, we present here a framework for nematode species description. We begin by providing a brief overview of nematology history, then provide suggestions of microscopic methods that should be used and provide a list of characters essential for morphometric species descriptions. Finally, we briefly discuss common molecular sequencing approaches that are commonly used in nematode taxonomic literature.","PeriodicalId":24072,"journal":{"name":"Zootaxa","volume":"5543 2","pages":"225-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142796001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A snake genus new to the reptile list of Lebanon: Genetic affiliation and distribution of Letheobia simoni (Boettger, 1879). 黎巴嫩爬行动物名单上的一个新蛇属：Letheobia simoni的遗传关系和分布（Boettger, 1879）。

IF 0.8 4区生物学

Zootaxa Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.1.10

Daniel Jablonski, Rami Khashab, Hamza Rida, Riyad A Sadek

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A new species of the genus Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes: Anomalepididae) from the Caribbean coast of Honduras. 来自洪都拉斯加勒比海岸的 Liotyphlops Peters 属新物种（蛇类：Anomalepididae）。

IF 0.8 4区生物学

Zootaxa Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5543.1.5

Cristopher A Antúnez-Fonseca, Josue Ramos-Galdamez, José Mario Solís, Juan C Diaz-Ricaurte, Larry David Wilson

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Revisionary notes on the genera Symplanella Fennah, 1987 and Pseudosymplanella Che, Zhang et Webb, 2009 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Caliscelidae, Ommatidiotinae), with description of new subgenera and new species. 对Fennah Symplanella， 1987和Pseudosymplanella Che， Zhang et Webb， 2009的订正注释（半翅目：Fulgoromorpha: Caliscelidae， Ommatidiotinae），并描述了新亚属和新种。