Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.15560/20.4.889
Cristian J. Castillo-Peñarredonda, Oscar Sierra-Serrano, José Tovar-Márquez, Juan E. Carvajal‑Cogollo
{"title":"First record of Scaphiodontophis annulatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) (Squamata, Sibynophiidae) from Serranía Montes de María, department of Sucre, Colombia","authors":"Cristian J. Castillo-Peñarredonda, Oscar Sierra-Serrano, José Tovar-Márquez, Juan E. Carvajal‑Cogollo","doi":"10.15560/20.4.889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.889","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new record of Scaphiodontophis annulatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) from Serranía Montes de María, department of Sucre, Colombia. This represents the second record of this species from the Colombian Caribbean region and the first from a tropical dry forest habitat. We discuss color variation across this species range, as the taxonomy of this species remains unresolved. ","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141808387","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.15560/20.4.880
Thays G. L. Oliveira, Rejane M. F. Silva, A. R. Machado, O. Magalhães, A. F. Costa, C. M. Souza-Motta, G. A. Silva
{"title":"Allophoma brasiliensis J.L.V.R. Carvalho, J.D.P. Bezerra & Souza-Motta (Didymellaceae, Pleosporales): first occurrence in an agricultural site from Brazilian Atlantic Forest","authors":"Thays G. L. Oliveira, Rejane M. F. Silva, A. R. Machado, O. Magalhães, A. F. Costa, C. M. Souza-Motta, G. A. Silva","doi":"10.15560/20.4.880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.880","url":null,"abstract":"Allophoma brasiliensis J.L.V.R. Carvalho, J.D.P. Bezerra & Souza-Motta is reported for the first time as endophyte from leaves of Capsicum annuum L. (Solanaceae) isolated in an agricultural site from Brazilian Atlantic Forest. For species determination, morphological characters were analysed along with a multigene analysis performed using the ITS region of the rDNA, the partial large subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA gene (LSU rRNA), the partial second largest subunit of the RNA polymerase II gene subunit (rpb2), and the partial β–tubulin gene (tub2). A key to Allophoma Qian Chen & L. Cai species is provided. This new record contributes to the global fungal diversity, indicating a new geographical distribution, and a new lifestyle.","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141810944","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.15560/20.4.874
J. F. Carrión, María S. de Stapf, Maryolis Lino
{"title":"First record of Pleradenophora Esser (Euphorbiaceae) for the flora of Panama","authors":"J. F. Carrión, María S. de Stapf, Maryolis Lino","doi":"10.15560/20.4.874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.874","url":null,"abstract":"Pleradenophora membranifolia (Müll. Arg.) Esser & A.L. Melo (Euphorbiaceae) was previously only known from central South America (Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru). Our new botanical collections from the seasonal dry forests in Garachiné, Darién Province, Panama increase the distribution of this species to Central America and include the first record of this genus for the country. We also provide photographs of field and herbarium specimens, an occurrence map, a description, and comments on the morphology and taxonomy of P. membranifolia.","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141815767","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-17DOI: 10.15560/20.4.868
L. F. Del Moral-Flores, Oscar Méndez, Ana Valeria Callejas-Arrioja, Andy Alexander LARA-ALCANTARA
{"title":"First record of Blackfin Goosefish, Lophius gastrophysus Miranda Ribeiro, 1915 (Lophiiformes, Lophiidae), from the south-western Gulf of Mexico","authors":"L. F. Del Moral-Flores, Oscar Méndez, Ana Valeria Callejas-Arrioja, Andy Alexander LARA-ALCANTARA","doi":"10.15560/20.4.868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.868","url":null,"abstract":"We report the presence of Blackfin Goosefish, Lophius gastrophysus Miranda Ribeiro, 1915, in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico, expanding its known distribution to the south of the Gulf by approximately 400 km. This report is based in one specimen (712 mm total length, 593 mm standard length, and 7,500 g in weight) captured off the coast of Veracruz. We present the morphometric and meristic data of the specimen and compare it with those previously published.","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141829801","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-16DOI: 10.15560/20.4.859
Mayara Carneiro Beltrão, Natalia Joana Rebello da Cunha, Yan de Oliveira Laaf, Fernando Luiz Diehl, Tayse Demetro dos Santos
{"title":"Molecular methods confirm the first report of the non-indigenous Perna viridis Linnaeus, 1758 (Mytilida, Mytilidae) in southern Brazil","authors":"Mayara Carneiro Beltrão, Natalia Joana Rebello da Cunha, Yan de Oliveira Laaf, Fernando Luiz Diehl, Tayse Demetro dos Santos","doi":"10.15560/20.4.859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.859","url":null,"abstract":"The mussel Perna viridis, commonly known as Green Mussel, is native from the Indo-Pacific region and has been introduced in various countries around the globe. In Brazil, the species has already been recorded in Rio de Janeiro and Ceará states. With the aim of assessing the presence of mussels in the southern region of the country, 14 individuals were collected in the Paranaguá Estuarine Complex, Paraná. The mussels were found attached at a depth of 2 m on the artificial structure of Ponta do Poço Marina. The DNA was extracted using a commercial kit, the COI gene was amplified through PCR using the primers dgL-CO-1490 and dgHCO-2198, sequenced by the Sanger method, and the species was identified through the BOLD Systems. The phylogenetic tree was built on the software MEGA 11 using 28 sequences from three Perna species. Therefore, the present study confirms the occurrence of P. viridis in Brazil through molecular identification for the first time and adds a second Brazilian state where it has been recorded. The Brazilian coastline provides optimal environmental conditions for the establishment and development of P. viridis. ","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141642854","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.15560/20.4.853
Luisa Diele-Viegas, S. Holden Jones, Daniela Franco-Mena, Darwin Zambrano Cantos, Julio César Loor Vélez, Carlos Aulestia, R. Zahawi, Juan M. Guayasamin
{"title":"Range expansion for the Critically Endangered poison-dart frog Leucostethus bilsa Vigle et al., 2020 (Amphibia, Dendrobatidae), demonstrating the importance of small forest reserves in the Ecuadorian Chocó","authors":"Luisa Diele-Viegas, S. Holden Jones, Daniela Franco-Mena, Darwin Zambrano Cantos, Julio César Loor Vélez, Carlos Aulestia, R. Zahawi, Juan M. Guayasamin","doi":"10.15560/20.4.853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.853","url":null,"abstract":"The Ecuadorian Chocó is a global conservation hotspot with high levels of biodiversity and endemism but is threatened by extensive deforestation. Here, we report the discovery of an additional locality for the Critically Endangered poison-dart frog Leucostethus bilsa (Amphibia, Dendrobatidae) in a privately protected forest reserve in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. This may represent a distinct IUCN location for the species, thereby downgrading its IUCN threat level to Endangered. This finding increases the extent of occurrence for L. bilsa from 0.9 to 4.78 km2, and the area of occupancy from 8.0 to 16.0 km2, demonstrating the importance of small forest reserves for the conservation of forest-dependent amphibians. Further surveys are warranted to determine whether the species is present in additional forest fragments in the region, the degree of connectivity, if any, between individuals inhabiting different fragments, and whether the species’ population is increasing, stable, or in decline.","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141656418","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.15560/20.4.847
Jorge L. Llorente-Vega, Carlos A. Nisperuza-Pérez, C. Cedeño-Posso, Jorge A. Quirós-Rodríguez
{"title":"First report of Carybdea xaymacana Conant, 1897 (Cnidaria, Cubozoa, Carybdeida) in Colombia","authors":"Jorge L. Llorente-Vega, Carlos A. Nisperuza-Pérez, C. Cedeño-Posso, Jorge A. Quirós-Rodríguez","doi":"10.15560/20.4.847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.847","url":null,"abstract":"Carybdea xaymacana Conant, 1897 is a box jellyfish belonging to the family Carybdeidae and is currently recorded from the Mexican Caribbean (State of Quintana Roo), Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Panama, and Venezuela. Here, we report for the first time the presence of this species in Colombia, based on collections made in three departments of the Colombian Caribbean. Documenting the extension in the distribution range of this species is of great importance due to its ecological role in regional ecosys-tems.","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141665490","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.15560/20.4.842
J. Kodada, Katarína Goffová, Dávid Selnekovič
{"title":"First record of the diving beetle Ilybius pseudoneglectus (Franciscolo, 1972) in Slovakia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)","authors":"J. Kodada, Katarína Goffová, Dávid Selnekovič","doi":"10.15560/20.4.842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.842","url":null,"abstract":"We present the first records of the diving beetle Ilybius pseudoneglectus (Franciscolo, 1972) from Slovakia. This species is described from Italy and Croatia and is distributed mainly along the Adriatic coast south through Montenegro to Greece. The Slovak specimens come from a flooded inland salt marsh and salt meadow biotope in a lowland near the village of Tvrdošovce (southwestern Slovakia). Laccornis kocae Ganglbauer, 1904, Helophorus micans Faldermann, 1835, and Helochares lividus (Forster, 1771) shared the same microhabitat and are other rare beetles of lowland wetlands. ","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141667851","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.15560/20.4.833
Rizal Ananda Sugianto, D. Iskandar, T. S. Syamsudin
{"title":"New records of Cryptoblepharus cursor Barbour, 1911 (Squamata, Scincidae, Eugongylinae) from Java, Indonesia","authors":"Rizal Ananda Sugianto, D. Iskandar, T. S. Syamsudin","doi":"10.15560/20.4.833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.833","url":null,"abstract":"he Lombok Snake-eyed Skink, Cryptoblepharus cursor Barbour, 1911 has been recorded in South Java prior to 1940. However, information on its population on the island are scarce. This study presents new records of C. cursor from Java. Visual Encounter Survey were conducted to observe habitat selections and collect skinks as voucher specimens. South Javan C. cursor are restricted to sandy littoral zones with Ipomoea pescaprae (L.) R.Br. – Spinifex littoreus (Burm.f.) Merr. whereas Lombok C. cursor are saxicolous, preferring rocky coasts. They also differ from the scansorial C. balinensis Barbour, 1911, a sympatric congener from Java.","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141693831","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}
Check ListPub Date : 2024-05-22DOI: 10.15560/20.3.636
G. H. Dassou, A. Adomou, Chabi Ghyslain Kpétikou, Peter Neuenschwander
{"title":"Diospyros barteri Hiern (Ebenaceae): new records for the vascular flora of Benin","authors":"G. H. Dassou, A. Adomou, Chabi Ghyslain Kpétikou, Peter Neuenschwander","doi":"10.15560/20.3.636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15560/20.3.636","url":null,"abstract":"Diospyros barteri was recorded for the first time from Dodja, a sacred forest in the Commune of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. We provide a detailed description, illustration, habitat, ecology, flowering period, and population size of this species. These occurrences fill a gap in the distribution of the species in the Dahomey-Gap territory. Our new records show the importance of botanical surveys in sacred forests which are hotspots of biodiversity in the country. However, sacred forests are unfortunately poorly maintained and managed and are difficult to access because they serve as central sites for ceremonies of local divinities in vodun celebrations.","PeriodicalId":502581,"journal":{"name":"Check List","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141111972","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}