ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-12-08DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a30
V. Blagoderov, M. Pollet
{"title":"Diversity of Lygistorrhina (Probolaeus) Williston, 1896 (Diptera: Keroplatidae, Lygistorrhininae) of Mitaraka (French Guiana), with descriptions of three new species","authors":"V. Blagoderov, M. Pollet","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a30","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Three new species of Lygistorrhina (Probolaeus) Williston, 1896 are described, Lygistorrhina maculipennis n. sp., Lygistorrhina conica n. sp. and Lygistorrhina mitarakensis n. sp. The material was collected mainly by Malaise and SLAM traps in Mitaraka, southwestern French Guiana, during the “Our Planet Revisited” expedition in 2015. Lygistorrhina cerqueirai Lane, 1958 and Lygistorrhina urichi Edwards, 1912 are illustrated and their descriptions emended. A key to all known species of the subgenus Lygistorrhina (Probolaeus) is provided.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"593 - 606"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47770579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-11-24DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a29
J. Mederos, Yinan Wang, Susana Duque-Valero, M. Campeny
{"title":"A new fossil species of Trentepohlia (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the Dominican Miocene","authors":"J. Mederos, Yinan Wang, Susana Duque-Valero, M. Campeny","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a29","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We present the description of a new species of Limoniidae Rondani, 1856. Trentepohlia (Paramongoma) miocenica Mederos & Wang n. sp. is described from resinites (little or poorly polymerized amber) of Yanigua Formation, in the Eastern District of Dominican Republic, well differentiated from the other species from the fossil record of Hispaniola to date, Trentepohlia (Paramongoma) agri Podenas & Poinar, 1999. A key to the five fossil species of the subgenus Paramongoma Brunetti, 1911 described to date is also offered. Since the biology of the immature stages of Paramongoma are associated with aquatic microhabitats (such as phytotelmata and small mountain streams), the occurrence of such microhabitats can therefore be hypothesized in the area then occupied by the Hispaniolan paleo-island. The records of extant species of the subgenus Paramongoma from several islands of the Lesser and Greater Antilles, as well as presence of the suitable ecological conditions, offers the possibility of finding living species of Trentepohlia Bigot, 1854 at Hispaniola, which is currently the only large island in the Caribbean without records of the genus.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"583 - 592"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48729530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-11-05DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a28
Halamoussa Joëlle Ayoro, G. Segniagbeto, E. Hema, Johannes Penner, A. Ouéda, A. Dubois, Mark‐Oliver Rödel, G. Kabré, A. Ohler
{"title":"List of amphibian species (Vertebrata, Tetrapoda) of Burkina Faso","authors":"Halamoussa Joëlle Ayoro, G. Segniagbeto, E. Hema, Johannes Penner, A. Ouéda, A. Dubois, Mark‐Oliver Rödel, G. Kabré, A. Ohler","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a28","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We related the first commented list of the amphibian species of Burkina Faso. To obtain contemporary data, we investigated six sites from July 2017 to September 2018. The survey is unique for West Africa in combining a variety of different habitat types, e.g. Sahelian areas, grassland and woodland savannahs, floodplains, gallery forests and agricultural sites. Animals were found at varying spatial scales by opportunistic visual encounter surveys after sunset supplemented with acoustic searching. Further data were based on museum vouchers collected between the years 1959 and 2011 and deposited in European and American museums, and the literature review focusing on the country species. We listed 36 anuran species from 11 families. Surprisingly seven taxa, namely Arthroleptis poecilonotus Peters, 1863, Afrixalus vittiger (Peters, 1876), Afrixalus weidholzi (Mertens, 1938), Kassina cassinoides (Boulenger, 1903), Ptychadena schillukorum (Werner, 1908), Hyperolius lamottei Laurent, 1958 and Amnirana albolabris (west) (Jongsma et al. 2018), were new country records. A few rare, hard to record or little known species, including Arthroleptis poecilonotus, Hyperolius lamottei, Xenopus tropicalis (Gray, 1864) and Amnirana albolabris (west) can be confirmed. The origin of a specimen of Sclerophrys mauritanica (Schlegel, 1841) mentioned as coming from Burkina Faso deposited in the collections of MNHN must be considered as an error. We briefly discussed the taxonomy and indicated the habitats of all species mentioned in this country so far. The discovery of several new country records highlights that the amphibian fauna of Burkina Faso is still incompletely known and that many poorly explored sites may still harbour a high diversity.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"547 - 582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44256455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a27
J. Harmelin
{"title":"The Mediterranean species of Hornera Lamouroux, 1821 (Bryozoa, Cyclostomata): reassessment of H. frondiculata (Lamarck, 1816) and description of H. mediterranea n. sp.","authors":"J. Harmelin","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a27","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Hornera Lamouroux, 1821, a genus which includes large, rigidly erect, ramified and highly calcified cancellate cyclostome species, is represented in the Mediterranean Sea by two species, H. frondiculata (Lamarck, 1816), the type species of the genus, and a species previously left unnamed or wrongly attributed to the northern H. lichenoides (Linnæus, 1758), and classified under this name as threatened in the Mediterranean (Barcelona Convention, Annex II). On the basis of abundant material including large, well-preserved colonies collected by diving, the distinctive morphological and ecological features of these two species are detailed, leading to the description of a new species, H. mediterranea n. sp., and to a better characterization of H. frondiculata. The current state of knowledge of the range of the two Hornera species suggests that they are endemic to the Mediterranean. Their depth and habitat distributions span from 30 to 100 m on both dimly lit rocky walls and flat bottoms with coarse elements for H. frondiculata, and from 55 to 200 m only on flat sandy bottoms for H. mediterranea n. sp., but both species can coexist in the same microhabitat. The distribution of H. frondiculata in two separate habitats is reflected in a remarkable plasticity of colony shape and branching design which optimizes food particle capture according to local flow conditions.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"525 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48631764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a25
E. Vlachos
{"title":"A response to Dubois (2020; Zoosystema 42 (23): 475-482)","authors":"E. Vlachos","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a25","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this response to Dubois (2020) I clarify some allegations directed personally to me therein and I present my opinion and recommendations on the availability of names created in papers that are later retracted.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":" ","pages":"475 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48288438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a26
A. Dubois
{"title":"‘Retraction' of taxonomic papers: the meaning of the word ‘issued’ and related ones in zoological nomenclature","authors":"A. Dubois","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a26","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A basic reason for the diverging interpretations regarding the nomenclatural status of ‘retracted' publications lies in different understandings of some ‘simple’ terms like ‘issued’, used in Article 8 of the Code but not defined in this text. After a discussion of the questions at stake, formal definitions of some of these terms are provided.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"519 - 523"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44852111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-09-24DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24
Aaron Manga Mongombe, E. B. Bakwo Fils, J. Tamesse
{"title":"Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon","authors":"Aaron Manga Mongombe, E. B. Bakwo Fils, J. Tamesse","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mount Cameroon is a priority area for global biodiversity conservation, considering its high species richness and endemism across many taxa. As of yet, its Chiroptera fauna is still poorly known. Thus this paper aims to provide an updated checklist of the Chiroptera fauna of Mount Cameroon based on our own field data, previously published data and data from museum collections. Details on published references and conservation statuses are also provided for each species. During our field surveys (2016-2018), 613 individuals and 21 species were recorded. Among them three species are new to the area: Mops (Xiphonycteris) nanulus J. A. Allen, 1917, Mops (Xiphonycteris) thersites (Thomas, 1903) and Glauconycteris egeria Thomas, 1913. These new records bring the number of known bat species in the Mount Cameroon area to 38, belonging to seven families. This includes Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 (eleven species), Hipposideridae Gray, 1821 (six species), Rhinolophidae Gray, 1825 (three species), Miniopteridae Dobson, 1875 (three species), Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821 (seven species), Nycteridae Van der Hoeven, 1855 (five species) and Molossidae Gervais, 1856 (three species). We also observe that 23.7% of bats in the area are frugivorous (nine species), 71.1% are insectivorous (27 species) and 5.3% are nectarivorous (two species). Moreover, because of the increasing rate of deforestation in the area caused by slash-and-burn shifting cultivation and expansion of agro-industrial plantations, knowledge of the regional chiropteran fauna is imperative, especially as this information can provide a base for the development of future management and conservation strategies.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"483 - 514"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43263263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-08-21DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a23
A. Dubois
{"title":"Nomenclatural consequences of the Oculudentavis khaungraae case, with comments on the practice of ‘retraction’ of scientific publications","authors":"A. Dubois","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a23","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The recent publication in the journal Nature of a paper describing a new fossil as a ‘hummingbird-sized dinosaur', followed immediately by a rebuttal stating that it was in fact a lizard, and then by the ‘retraction' of the original paper, raised concerns about the nomenclatural availability of the new binomen Oculudentavis khaungraae that it introduced. It is shown here that so-called ‘retraction’, by authors, editors or publishers, of a controversial paper, has no bearing under the Rules of the Code on the nomenclatural availability of the paper and of the new nomina or nomenclatural acts it may contain, which can be withdrawn only by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature acting under its Plenary Power. It is furthermore argued that the principle of ‘retraction’ of scientific publications itself is anti-scientific, harmful to the history of science, and belongs in the domain of ‘denialism': it should be fully abandoned by serious scientific journals.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"475 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42553804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-08-05DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a21
R. Roy
{"title":"Révision du genre Danuriella Westwood, 1889 (Mantodea)","authors":"R. Roy","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a21","url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉ Le genre Danuriella Westwood, 1889, endémique de la région malgache, est complètement révisé sur la base de l'étude d'environ 160 spécimens conservés dans sept institutions scientifiques et quelques collections privées. Une nouvelle diagnose du genre est donnée après l'historique de sa connaissance et confirmation de sa synonymie avec Micropopa Beier, 1929. Des clés sont présentées en français et en anglais pour distinguer les espèces d'après leur morphologie et leurs genitalia mâles. Treize espèces sont distinguées: les quatre décrites antérieurement dont D. altera (Beier, 1929) n. comb. réhabilitée comme espèce valide, et neuf décrites comme nouvelles, D. viettei n. sp., D. andriai n. sp., D. griveaudi n. sp., D. mayottensis n. sp., D. anjouanensis n. sp., D. sogai n. sp., D. merigueti n. sp., D. andapensis n. sp. et D. tigrina n. sp.","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"399 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42781607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ZoosystemaPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a22
R. Giannuzzi-Savelli, F. Pusateri, J. Prkić, S. Bartolini, V. Russini, Giulia Fassio, M. Oliverio
{"title":"Revision of Mediterranean and NE Atlantic Raphitomidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) 8: The genus Leufroyia Monterosato, 1884","authors":"R. Giannuzzi-Savelli, F. Pusateri, J. Prkić, S. Bartolini, V. Russini, Giulia Fassio, M. Oliverio","doi":"10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a22","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The four recent species of the genus Leufroyia Monterosato, 1884 are revised based on an integrative taxonomy approach: L. leufroyi (Michaud, 1828), L. concinna (Scacchi, 1836), L. erronea Monterosato, 1884 and L. villaria (Pusateri & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 2008).","PeriodicalId":51223,"journal":{"name":"Zoosystema","volume":"42 1","pages":"433 - 473"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48911679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}