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Taxonomic revision of the species of Stenothemus from Southwest China (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with the descriptions of five new species

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2021
The species of Stenothemus Bourgeois, 1907 from Southwest China are reviewed. Three species are transferred to this genus, S. davidi (Pic, 1926) comb. nov. (from Malthacus Kirby, 1837), S. minutissimus (Pic, 1933) comb. nov. (from Micropodabrus Pic, 1920)
Yuxia Yang, Shujuan Ge, Xingke Yang, Haoyu Liu   +3 more
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ASAP: assemble species by automatic partitioning

Molecular Ecology Resources, 2020
Here, we describe Assemble Species by Automatic Partitioning (ASAP), a new method to build species partitions from single locus sequence alignments (i.e., barcode data sets).
N. Puillandre, S. Brouillet, G. Achaz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Forty years later: distribution of the introduced Heath Snail, Xerolenta obvia, in Ontario, Canada (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hygromiidae) [PDF]

Check List, 2015
Xerolenta obvia is a Central European land snail that is introduced to Ontario, Canada, where it was first recorded in the literature in 1975 from a single population at Bethany (City of Kawartha Lakes).
Robert Forsyth, Michael Oldham, Eric Snyder, Frederick Schueler, Ross Layberry   +4 more
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New Light Species and the CMB

, 2013
We consider the effects of new light species on the Cosmic Microwave Background. In the massless limit, these effects can be parameterized in terms of a single number, the relativistic degrees of freedom.
Brust, Christopher, Kaplan, David E., Walters, Matthew T.   +2 more
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The Anthonomus juniperinus group, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) [PDF]

, 2010
The Anthonomus juniperinus (Sanborn) species group is defined and two new species, Anthonomus sanborni, new species, and A. rileyi new species, from the United States are described, keyed and illustrated.
Burke, Horace R., Clark, Wayne E.
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From terra incognita to hotspot: the largest South Pacific green turtle nesting population in the forgotten reefs of New Caledonia

Oryx, 2023
The green turtle Chelonia mydas is a large marine turtle present in tropical and subtropical seas of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is categorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List based on the trend of nesting populations at 32 sites, of ...
Jacques Fretey, Tyffen C. Read, Léa Carron, Christophe Fontfreyde, Aurélie Fourdrain, Julie-Anne Kerandel, Vincent Liardet, Marc Oremus, Morgane Reix-Tronquet, Marc Girondot   +9 more
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A New Genus, Six New Species, and Records of Protura from Michigan [PDF]

, 2017
A new genus, Proacerella (Acerentomidae), and six new species, Proacerella reducta, Eosentomon prutzi, E. sociale, E. pomari, E. brassicae, and Protentomon michiganense are described from various sites in Michigan. Records of previously described species
Bernard, Ernest C
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Genome size variation and polyploidy prevalence in the genus Eragrostis are associated with the global dispersal in arid area

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
BackgroundBiologists have long debated the drivers of the genome size evolution and variation ever since Darwin. Assumptions for the adaptive or maladaptive consequences of the associations between genome sizes and environmental factors have been ...
Ge-Ran Hutang, Ge-Ran Hutang, Yan Tong, Xun-Ge Zhu, Xun-Ge Zhu, Li-Zhi Gao, Li-Zhi Gao   +6 more
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A new species of mudfish, Neochanna (Teleostei: Galaxidae), from northern New Zealand [PDF]

, 2001
A new species of mudfish, Neochanna, is described from Northland. Neochanna heleios n.sp. is known from only three ephemeral wetland sites on the Kerikeri volcanic plateau and is abundant only at the type locality.
Eldon G A, Gunther A, McDowall R M, McDowall R M, Phillipps W. J., Stokell G.   +5 more
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Scientists' warning on invasive alien species

Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2020
Biological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien species that spread widely in areas where they are not native, affecting ...
P. Pyšek, P. Hulme, D. Simberloff, S. Bacher, T. Blackburn, J. Carlton, W. Dawson, F. Essl, L. Foxcroft, P. Genovesi, J. Jeschke, I. Kühn, Andrew M. Liebhold, N. Mandrak, L. Meyerson, Aníbal Pauchard, J. Pergl, H. Roy, H. Seebens, M. van Kleunen, M. Vilà, M. Wingfield, D. Richardson   +22 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source