TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sroka, Pavel
A1  - Godunko, Roman J.
A1  - Rutschmann, Sereina
A1  - Angeli, Kamila B.
A1  - Salles, Frederico F.
A1  - Gattolliat, Jean-Luc
T1  - A new species of Bungona in Turkey (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae)
BT  - an unexpected biogeographic pattern within a pantropical complex of mayflies
JF  - Zoosytematics and evolution
N2  - By using an integrative approach, we describe a new species of mayfly, Bungona (Chopralla) pontica sp. n., from Turkey. The discovery of a representative of the tropical mayfly genus Bungona in the Middle East is rather unexpected. The new species shows all the main morphological characters of the subgenus Chopralla, which has its closest related species occurring in southeastern Asia. Barcoding clearly indicated that the new species represents an independent lineage isolated for a very long time from other members of the complex. The claw is equipped with two rows of three or four flattened denticles. This condition is a unique feature of Bungona (Chopralla) pontica sp. n. among West Palaearctic mayfly species. Within the subgenus Chopralla, the species can be identified by the presence of a simple, not bifid right prostheca (also present only in Bungona (Chopralla) liebenauae (Soldan, Braasch & Muu, 1987)), the shape of the labial palp, and the absence of protuberances on pronotum.
KW  - Biogeography
KW  - Cloeodes complex
KW  - Chopralla
KW  - integrative taxonomy
KW  - Middle East
KW  - new species
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.95.29487
SN  - 1860-0743
VL  - 95
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Pensoft Publ.
CY  - Sofia
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Audisio, Paolo
A1  - Cline, Andrew R.
A1  - Solano, Emanuela
A1  - Mancini, Emiliano
A1  - Lamanna, Francesco
A1  - Antonini, Gloria
A1  - Trizzino, Marco
T1  - A peculiar new genus and species of pollen-beetle (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from eastern Africa, with a molecular phylogeny of related Meligethinae
JF  - Systematics and biodiversity
KW  - new species
KW  - new genus
KW  - molecular analysis
KW  - pollen-beetles
KW  - host-plants
KW  - Asteraceae
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Tarchonanthopria freidbergi
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2013.877539
SN  - 1477-2000
SN  - 1478-0933
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SP  - 77
EP  - 91
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bianco, Pier Giorgio
A1  - Ketmaier, Valerio
T1  - A revision of the Rutilus complex from Mediterranean Europe with description of a new genus, Sarmarutilus, and a new species, Rutilus stoumboudae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
JF  - Zootaxa : an international journal of zootaxonomy ; a rapid international journal for animal taxonomists
N2  - By combining morphology, ecology, biology, and biogeography with the available molecular (sequence variation of the entire mitochondrial cytochrome b gene; cyt-b) and karyology data, the taxonomy of several species of the Rutilus complex inhabiting southern Europe is revised. Rutilus stoumboudae, new species, is described from Lake Volvi, Greece. It differs from Rutilus rutilus in possessing more total GR and less branched rays in both dorsal and anal fins and in its placement in the cyt-b based phylogeny of the genus. The resurrected genus Leucos Heckel, 1843 (type species Leucos aula, Bonaparte, 1841), which according to molecular data diverged from Rutilus more than 5 million years ago, during the Messinian salinity crisis, includes five species of small size, without spinous tubercles on scales and head in reproductive males, pharyngeal teeth formula 5-5, and all show a preference for still waters. Leucos aula is the Italian species endemic in the Padany-Venetian district: L. basak is widespread in Croatia, Albania, Montenegro and former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM); L. albus, recently described from Lake Skadar, Montenegro, is also found in rivers Moraca and Zeta (Montenegro). L. albus differs from L. basak, its closest relative, in having more scales on the LL and less anal-fin rays; L. panosi is endemic to the western-Greece district, and L. ylikiensis is endemic to lakes Yliki and Paralimni in eastern Greece (introduced in Lake Volvi). Among the nominal species examined, Rutilus karamani, R. ohridanus, R. prespensis and R. prespensis vukovici are all junior synonyms of Leucos basak. Rutilus vegariticus is definitively regarded as junior synonym for R. rutilus. Sarmarutilus n.gen. is a monotypic genus, with Sarmarutilus rubilio as the type species. According to phylogenetic data, Sarmarutilus rubilio is basal to a cluster of species that includes Leucos basak, L. albus, L. aula, L. panosi and L. ylikiensis. Sarmarutilus possibly evolved in pre-Messinian time, in the Lago Mare, entered the Mediterranean area during the Messinian Lago Mare phase of the Mediterranean Sea and survived only in the Tuscany-Latium district. This genus differs from Leucos in having large pearl organs on the central part of head and body scales in mature males and for the habitat preference, being a riverine-adapted species. It differs from Rutilus in pharyngeal teeth formula (5-5 in Sarmarutilus and 6-5 in Rutilus), size (small in Sarmarutilus and large in Rutilus) and for the preferential habitat (riverine vs. still water). Finally, lectotypes for Leucos basak, Leucos aula, and Sarmarutilus rubilio are designated.
KW  - Freshwater fish
KW  - Mediterranean Europe
KW  - Cyprinidae
KW  - genera Rutilus
KW  - Leucos
KW  - Sarmarutilus new genus
KW  - new species
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 1175-5326
SN  - 1175-5334
VL  - 3841
IS  - 3
SP  - 379
EP  - 402
PB  - Magnolia Press
CY  - Auckland
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jersabek, Christian D.
A1  - Weithoff, Guntram
A1  - Weisse, Thomas
T1  - Cephalodella acidophila n. sp (Monogononta: Notommatidae), a new rotifer species from highly acidic mining lakes
JF  - Zootaxa : an international journal of zootaxonomy ; a rapid international journal for animal taxonomists
N2  - We describe a new species of Cephalodella, C. acidophila n. sp., from the plankton of two extremely acidic mining lakes (pH <3) in Austria and Germany. The species is morphologically closely related to Cephalodella delicata Wulfert. It shares with the latter an almost identical trophi morphology and anatomical organization, but differs clearly by form and length of its toes, larger body size, and ecology. Laboratory experiments revealed that the species is acidophilic, i.e. it thrives at low pH (<4) and does not survive at circumneutral conditions. The species occurs in man-made habitats at low to moderate abundance (usually 5-22 individuals l(-1)) and in stock cultures thrives on the green alga Chlamydomonas acidophila. The easily cultured species has previously been used in various experimental studies, but has only now been recognized as an undescribed species.
KW  - Rotifera
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - acidophily
KW  - new species
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 1175-5326
IS  - 2939
SP  - 50
EP  - 58
PB  - Magnolia Press
CY  - Auckland
ER  -