Newly discovered / described species 2015

Rediscovery in Singapore of Lepironia articulata (Retz.) Domin (Cyperaceae)

Abstract

Lepironia articulata (Retz.) Domin, a monotypic, semi-aquatic sedge, was presumed nationally extinct in Singapore. However, it was recently encountered and rediscovered in the Western Catchment, and assigned the national conservation status of Critically Endangered.

Source:

Ooi, Z. Y. and Ang, W. F. (2015). Rediscovery in Singapore of Lepironia articulata (Retz.) Domin (Cyperaceae). Nature in Singapore 8: 65-68.
 
Taxonomy, lectotypification and rediscovery of Gymnosporia bailadillana (Celastraceae), a little known, critically endangered taxa of Chhattisgarh state, India

Abstract

Gymnosporia bailadillana (Celastraceae) is lectotypified and its taxonomy and distribution is discussed. The species is rediscovered after 67 years from Koriya district, Chhattisgarh state, India. First photographs of the live plant and digital images of the selected lectotype, isolectotypes and paratypes are provided.

Source:

Singh, Rajeev Kumar, Garg, Arti and Singh, Paramjit. (2015). Taxonomy, lectotypification and rediscovery of Gymnosporia bailadillana (Celastraceae), a little known, critically endangered taxa of Chhattisgarh state, India. Phytotaxa 226(2): 101-118. [Abstract]
 
Rediscovery of the enigmatic Stenosternus costatus Karsch (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from São Tomé Island

Abstract

Stenosternus Karsch, 1881 is one of the least-known genera of the Orphninae scarab beetles. It was described from a single specimen of the odd-looking S. costatus Karsch, 1881, from the island of São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. Karsch (1881) originally placed Stenosternus in the “Copridae” but later moved it to the Orphninae (Karsch, 1887). Since then, no more findings of S. costatus have been reported. The genus was redescribed by Frolov (2013) from the holotype of S. costatus and provisionally placed in the tribe Aegidiini Paulian based on a number of putative synapomorphies (Frolov, 2012). However, the material limited to only one male specimen did not allow the author to clarify which of its unique characters might be malformations or be sex dependent.

Source:

Frolov, Andrey V. and Akhmetova, Lilia A. (2015). Rediscovery of the enigmatic Stenosternus costatus Karsch (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from São Tomé Island. Zootaxa 4007(3): 440-444. [Abstract]
 
New records of two species of the coral reef shrimp genus Thor Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thoridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Abstract

The caridean shrimp genus Thor Kingsley, 1878 (Thoridae) is currently represented by 14 species distributed in shallow tropical to subtropical waters in the Indo-Pacific, East Pacific and West Atlantic oceans. In this study, two species of the genus are reported on the basis of material from Okinawa and Kume islands in the Ryukyu Archipelago, southern Japan. Thor leptochelus (Xu & Li, 2015) n. comb., recently described from Xisha Islands, China and originally assigned to Thinora Bruce, 1997, is transferred to Thor. Relationship of the species to three congeneric species (T. cordelli Wicksten, 1996, T. spinipes Bruce, 1983 and T. spinosus Boone, 1935) is discussed. The second is T. marguitae Bruce, 1973, representing the rediscovery since the original description and new record for Japanese waters. The four specimens of T. leptochelus were all free-living, whereas the single specimen of T. marguitae was found to be associated with a solitary fungiid coral, as previously reported.

Source:

Komai, Tomoyuki, Okuno, Junji and Minemizu, Ryo. (2015). New records of two species of the coral reef shrimp genus Thor Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thoridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa 4013(3): 399-412. [Abstract]
 
Two new African frogs -
Cardioglossa annulata and C. conglia

Ref. Hirschfeld, M. et al., 2015. Two new species of long-fingered frogs of the genus Cardioglossa (Anura: Arthroleptidae) from Central African rainforests. African Journal of Herpetology 64: 81–102
 
Jelić, D. and Jelić, M. (2015). Telestes miloradi Bogutskaya, Zupancic, Bogut & Naseka, 2012 and Delminichthys ghetaldii (Steindachner, 1882) re-discovered in Croatia, requiring urgent protection. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. doi: 10.1111/jai.12879 [Abstract]
 
A new species of rodent from Chile

Mann's Soft-haired Mouse Abrothrix manni

Ref. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(4):839–853, 2015
'Description of a new soft-haired mouse, genus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae), from the temperate Valdivian rainforest.' Guillermo D’Elía et al.
 
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