Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.513.532
Franck Boyer
{"title":"About some marginelliform gastropods (Marginellidae Cystiscidae and Granulinidae) from French Guyana","authors":"Franck Boyer","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.513.532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.513.532","url":null,"abstract":"The study of a small collection of millimetric marginelliform gastropods sampled off French Guyana allows to recognize the occurrence of three species previously described, namely Er-atoidea margarita (Kiener, 1834), E. sulcata (d’Orbigny, 1842), and E. acutulla McCleery, 2011, and of 13 new species described as Hyalina oblongata n. sp., Volvarina similis n. sp., V. vitrea n. sp., V. cornea n. sp., Prunum guyanensis n. sp., Eratoidea mccleeryi n. sp., E. strangulata n. sp., E. inflata n. sp., E. angulosa n. sp., E. serratula n. sp., E. flavida n. sp., Gibberrula contracta n. sp. and Granulina ampla n. sp. The phenotypic variability and the geographic distribution are documented mainly with the help of data obtained from the O.C.P.S. collection (Leiden Museum), and more incidentally with the help of the 2011 Mc-Cleery’s revision of the Caribbean fauna of the genus Eratoidea Weinkauff, 1879.","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136306381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.4.537.546
Ulrich Kutschera
{"title":"The taxonomic status of the San Francisco Bay area Leech Helobdella triserialis (SF) (Annelida Hirudinida Glossiphoniidae) with notes on its ecology","authors":"Ulrich Kutschera","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.4.537.546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.4.537.546","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decades, freshwater leeches of the genus Helobdella Blanchard, 1896 (Annel-ida: Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae) have been used as model organisms for developmental studies. Notably, the species ” Helobdella triserialis US”, discovered during the 1970s in ponds in San Francisco (California , USA) was kept in lab-populations and served as representative of the genus, as documented in numerous publications. Here, I show that this enigmatic “San Francisco Bay area leech” has been misclassified and confused with the South American species H. triserialis (E. Blanchard, 1849), and later with H. papillata (Moore, 1952). Using specimens collected in Matadero Creek, Palo Alto (California , USA), novel morphological, anatomical, behavioral and molecular data (novel mitochondrial 618 bp-COI gene sequence) were generated. Based on these results, it is shown that this taxon represents a new North American species, described here as Helobdella farmeri n. sp. In addition, the occurrence of extant and extinct populations of Helobdella sp. in natural habitats of Northern California is documented over the past three decades.","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136307753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rare and endangered species of Shahdag National Park (Azerbaijan) with special status","authors":"Sayyara Jamsid Ibadullayeva, Elman Farhad Yusifov, Arzu Bahadur Mustafayev","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.449.458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.449.458","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents information about the geographical ranges of the vegetation of the Shahdag National Park (NP) belonging to the Greater Caucasus (within the borders of Azerbaijan) range, the current status of endemic, relict and rare species. The geographic-areological analysis of the region shows that the flora of the Shahdag area is formed by the predominance of Boreal and Xerophile types. From the studies, it was found that the spread of endemic taxa in NP to neighboring areas reduced them to the subendemic level. In total, 7 species of Azer-baijan endemic and 88 subendemic species are distributed in the territory of Shahdag NP, of which 69 are described only from the Caucasus and are considered endemic to the Caucasus, while others are distributed as far as the borders of Dagestan, Turkey and Iran. In terms of determining the development history of the local flora, 24 relict species have been determined. In general, 14 species were evaluated as vulnerable (VU), 10 species as Near Threatened (NT), and 5 species as endangered (EN) in the Shahdag area.","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136306397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biodiversity of pearl millet Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. Br. (Poales Poaceae) in southern Algeria (Tidikelt region)","authors":"Mohamed Lemgharbi, Badredune Belhadi, Rachid Souilah, Djaafar Djabali, Boubakeur Nadjemi","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.491.504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.491.504","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to identify the Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. Br. (Poales Poaceae) phenotypes cultivated in Tidikelt region. We conducted field visits during the plant maturity stage, to evaluate these patterns, based on the descriptive study of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. The results showed significant differences between plant height, the number of nodes and leaves, seed color, and main stem length. Whereas, we recorded only slight differences for the dimensions of the third upper leaf and panicle. It was also found that the best groups of locally cultivated millet were pearly and yellow millet, due to the morphological characteristics of their panicles, unlike wild millet (MLT.VN, MLT.VNP) and domesticated (MDT.Sepl, MDT.Sepc, and MDT.Smix) which are used as feed. On this basis, this type of cereal culture could play a leading role in promoting the cultivation of local millet groups in this region.","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136306405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.505.512
Danilo Scuderi, Alberto Villari, Agatino Reitano
{"title":"Another new eulimid (Gastropoda Eulimidae) from the Mediterranean Sea: Vitreolina micalii n. sp.","authors":"Danilo Scuderi, Alberto Villari, Agatino Reitano","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.505.512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.505.512","url":null,"abstract":"Vitreolina micalii n. sp. (Gastropoda Eulimidae) is here described on materials found in shallow waters along the Northern coast of Catania (Eastern Sicily, Ionian Sea). Findings include both live-taken and empty specimens, whose shell and soft parts have been observed and documented. Further specimens have been found in few other localities of Sicily and Corsica. The new species is morphologically distinguishable by a spiny, smooth shell, similar to some other congeners except for some details, and a sculptured protoconch. The different external chromatism of the soft parts is similar only to V. perminima , but it is different in some aspect hereafter discussed. Differences from similar species from Eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific are useful to discard the alien origin of this species in the Mediterranean Sea.","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136307764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.367.372
Nora Sakhraoui, F. Essl, A. Chefrour
{"title":"Floral morphology of Oxalis debilis Kunth, 1822 (Oxalidaceae) naturalized in Algeria","authors":"Nora Sakhraoui, F. Essl, A. Chefrour","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.367.372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.367.372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69697344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.437.439
Mauro M. Brunetti
{"title":"On Archimediella dicosmema (Fontannes, 1881) (Gastropoda Turritellidae) from the Lower Pliocene of Catalonia (Spain)","authors":"Mauro M. Brunetti","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.437.439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.3.437.439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69697791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.373.383
Rabah Larba, A. Zeraib, N. Soltani
{"title":"Assessment of soil metallic contamination in several sites from Northeast Algeria by use of terrestrial gastropod: Cornu aspersum (O.F. Müller, 1774) (Helicidae)","authors":"Rabah Larba, A. Zeraib, N. Soltani","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.373.383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.373.383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69696938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.275.291
P. S. Mbenoun Massé
{"title":"An annotated checklist of the Millipedes (Myriapoda Diplopoda) of Cameroon, with several new species and distribution records","authors":"P. S. Mbenoun Massé","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.275.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.275.291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69696887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biodiversity JournalPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.303.314
Cesare Brizio
{"title":"Hidden, Relevant High-Frequency Bioacoustic Features Revealed by Extreme Amplification of Digital 16-bit PCM High-Resolution Field Recordings","authors":"Cesare Brizio","doi":"10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.303.314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2023.14.2.303.314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30276,"journal":{"name":"Biodiversity Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69696996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}