scholarly journals Habitat Partitioning and Overlap by Large Lacertid Lizards in Southern Europe

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Daniel Escoriza ◽  
Félix Amat
Keyword(s):  
Related Species ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Probabilistic Methods ◽  
Climate Niche ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Occupancy Patterns ◽  
Lacertid Lizards

South-western Europe has a rich diversity of lacertid lizards. In this study, we evaluated the occupancy patterns and niche segregation of five species of lacertids, focusing on large-bodied species (i.e., adults having >75 mm snout-vent length) that occur in south-western Europe (Italian to the Iberian Peninsula). We characterized the niches occupied by these species based on climate and vegetation cover properties. We expected some commonality among phylogenetically related species, but also patterns of habitat segregation mitigating competition between ecologically equivalent species. We used multivariate ordination and probabilistic methods to describe the occupancy patterns and evaluated niche evolution through phylogenetic analyses. Our results showed climate niche partitioning, but with a wide overlap in transitional zones, where segregation is maintained by species-specific responses to the vegetation cover. The analyses also showed that phylogenetically related species tend to share large parts of their habitat niches. The occurrence of independent evolutionary lineages contributed to the regional species richness favored by a long history of niche divergence.

Strobilomyces rubrobrunneus (Boletaceae), a new species with reddish brown scales from eastern China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (4) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
LI-HONG HAN ◽  
YAN-JIA HAO ◽  
CHAO LIU ◽  
DONG-QIN DAI ◽  
KUAN ZHAO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Gene Markers ◽  
Black Discoloration ◽  
A New Species

A new species, Strobilomyces rubrobrunneus, is described from eastern China based on morphological and molecular evidence. Morphologically, this species is characterized by its tiny to small basidiomes, reddish-brown and more or less erect pyramidal scales, grayish black discoloration of the pileal context when bruised, reticulate spores and a subtropical distribution in a mixed forest of Fagaceae and Pinaceae. Our phylogenetic analyses based on four gene markers (rpb1, rpb2, tef1 and cox3) support its placement in Strobilomyces and its separation from other related species of this genus. Morphological illustrations and description are provided.

A new species of Tubaria (Tubariaceae, Agaricales) from northeast China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 409 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
HUI ZENG ◽  
LIANGLIANG QI ◽  
YUPENG GE ◽  
YU LI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bayesian Inference ◽  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Taxonomic Description ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequences ◽  
A New Species

Tubaria squamata is described as new from Jiaohe county, Jilin province, China. This species is distinctive morphologically because of the small (slightly) hairy or scaly pileus, subelliptic to elliptic non-amyloid basidiospores, subclavate to cylindrical or lageniform cheilocystidia, and a pileipellis as a cutis. Phylogenetic analyses based on internal transcribed spacer sequences with Bayesian Inference analysis (BA) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) showed that T. squamata is different from related species. Illustrations and a complete taxonomic description are also provided, as well as a key to the Tubaria species known from China.

scholarly journals Phallus haitangensis, a new species of stinkhorn from Yunnan Province, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 280 (2) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUILI LI ◽  
XUELAN MA ◽  
PETER E. MORTIMER ◽  
SAMANTHA C. KARUNARATHNA ◽  
JIANCHU XU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Its Sequence ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
A New Species

Four specimens of Phallus were collected during surveys in a Pinus armandii forest in Baoshan, Yunnan Province, China. Macro- and micro-characteristics, together with Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequence data, showed that the four specimens belong to a new species, here named Phallus haitangensis. The ITS phylogenetic analyses, morphological descriptions, color photographs, and line drawings are provided, and compared with closely related species in the genus.

Muyocopronales, ord. nov., (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) and a reappraisal of Muyocopron species from northern Thailand

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 265 (3) ◽  
pp. 225 ◽  
Author(s):  
AUSANA MAPOOK ◽  
KEVIN D. HYDE ◽  
DONG-QIN DAI ◽  
JUNFU LI ◽  
E. B. GARETH JONES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Related Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
New Order ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
Distinct Lineage ◽  
Future Work

Muyocopron species are associated with a wide variety of plant substrates worldwide and presently 57 species epithets are listed in Index Fungorum. Species in this genus form distinctive black, dull, rounded regions on the surface of plants and the genus is probably polyphyletic. The present study clarifies the phylogenetic placement of Muyocopron and related species, using fresh tropical collections from northern Thailand. Three Muyocopron species are characterized based on analyses of combined LSU and SSU sequence datasets. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that Muyocopron species form a distinct lineage with the Dyfrolomycetales and Acrospermales lineages. The new order Muyocopronales with three new Muyocopron species is introduced based on its distinct phylogeny and unique morphological characteristics. The taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of tropical Muyocopron species are reappraised with suggestions for future work.

Gerhardtia sinensis (Agaricales, Lyophyllaceae), a new species and a newly recorded genus for China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 332 (2) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
TING LI ◽  
TAIHUI LI ◽  
CHAOQUN WANG ◽  
WANGQIU DENG ◽  
BIN SONG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species

Gerhardtia sinensis, as a new species discovered from southern China, is described, illustrated and compared with morphologically similar and phylogenetically related species. Morphologically, it is characterized by its white to yellowish or partially pale yellow pileus with faint striae, subdistant to fairly distant lamellae with intervenose veins, and slightly verruculose basidiospores (4.7–)5.2–6.2(–6.6) × (2.5–)3.0–3.4(–3.8) μm in size. Molecular phylogenetic analyses of the new species and related taxa are performed based on the sequences of nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nrLSU) and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS).

scholarly journals Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data

Palaeontology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. O'Reilly ◽  
Mark N. Puttick ◽  
Davide Pisani ◽  
Philip C. J. Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Probabilistic Methods ◽  
Morphological Data

scholarly journals A turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of the United Kingdom

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e6348
Author(s):  
Philip D. Mannion
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Neural Spine ◽  
Faunal Turnover ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

The Jurassic/Cretaceous (J/K) boundary, 145 million years ago, has long been recognised as an extinction event or faunal turnover for sauropod dinosaurs, with many ‘basal’ lineages disappearing. However, recently, a number of ‘extinct’ groups have been recognised in the Early Cretaceous, including diplodocids in Gondwana, and non-titanosauriform macronarians in Laurasia. Turiasauria, a clade of non-neosauropod eusauropods, was originally thought to have been restricted to the Late Jurassic of western Europe. However, its distribution has recently been extended to the Late Jurassic of Tanzania (Tendaguria tanzaniensis), as well as to the Early Cretaceous of the USA (Mierasaurus bobyoungi and Moabosaurus utahensis), demonstrating the survival of another ‘basal’ clade across the J/K boundary. Teeth from the Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of western Europe and North Africa have also tentatively been attributed to turiasaurs, whilst recent phylogenetic analyses recovered Late Jurassic taxa from Argentina and China as further members of Turiasauria. Here, an anterior dorsal centrum and neural arch (both NHMUK 1871) from the Early Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of the UK are described for the first time. NHMUK 1871 shares several synapomorphies with Turiasauria, especially the turiasaurs Moabosaurus and Tendaguria, including: (1) a strongly dorsoventrally compressed centrum; (2) the retention of prominent epipophyses; and (3) an extremely low, non-bifid neural spine. NHMUK 1871 therefore represents the first postcranial evidence for Turiasauria from European deposits of Early Cretaceous age. Although turiasaurs show clear heterodont dentition, only broad, characteristically ‘heart’-shaped teeth can currently be attributed to Turiasauria with confidence. As such, several putative turiasaur occurrences based on isolated teeth from Europe, as well as the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Africa, cannot be confidently referred to Turiasauria. Unequivocal evidence for turiasaurs is therefore restricted to the late Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of western Europe, the Late Jurassic of Tanzania, and the late Early Cretaceous of the USA, although remains from elsewhere might ultimately demonstrate that the group had a near-global distribution.

scholarly journals European common frog (Rana temporaria) recolonised Switzerland from multiple glacial refugia in northern Italy via trans- and circum-Alpine routes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Jansen van Rensburg ◽  
M Robin ◽  
B C Phillips ◽  
J Van Buskirk
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Rana Temporaria ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Glacial Refugia ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Frog Rana Temporaria ◽  
History Of

AbstractThe high mountain ranges of western Europe have had a profound effect on the recolonisation of Europe from glacial refugia. The Alps present a particularly interesting case, because they present an absolute barrier to dispersal to most lineages, obstructing recolonisation from multiple refugia in the Italian Alps. Here we investigate the effect of the European Alps on the the phylogeographic history of Rana temporaria across its range in Switzerland. Based on partial cytochrome b and COX1 sequences we find two mitochondrial lineages that occur roughly north and south of the alpine ridge bisecting Switzerland, with contact zones between them in the east and west. The northern haplogroup falls within the previously identified common western European haplogroup, while the southern haplogroup is unique to Switzerland. We find that the lineages diverged ~110 kya, approximately the onset of the last glacial maximum, indicative of origins in separate refugia. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the lineages originate from two refugia in northern Italy, and colonised Switzerland via trans- and curcum-alpine routes. Our results show that the European Alps is a semi-permeable barrier to dispersal for R. temporaria, and have contributed to the complex recolonisation history of Switzerland.

scholarly journals Morphology of the suspensorial, jaw, and opercle musculature of Beloniformes and related species (Teleostei: Acanthopterygii), with a special reference to the m. adductor mandibulae complex

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingmar Werneburg
Keyword(s):  
Related Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Jaw Bones ◽  
Morphological Findings ◽  
Lower Jaw ◽  
Flying Fishes ◽  
Reduced Mobility ◽  
Jaw Musculature

The taxon Beloniformes represents a heterogeneous group of teleost fishes that show an extraordinary diversity of jaw morphology. I present new anatomical descriptions of the jaw musculature in six selected beloniforms and four closely related species. A reduction of the external jaw adductor (A1) and a changed morphology of the intramandibular musculature were found in many Beloniformes. This might be correlated with the progressively reduced mobility of the upper and lower jaw bones. The needlefishes and sauries, which are characterised by extremely elongated and stiffened jaws, show several derived characters, which in combination enable the capture of fish at high velocity. The ricefishes are characterised by several derived and many plesiomorphic characters that make broad scale comparisons difficult. Soft tissue characters are highly diverse among hemiramphids and flying fishes reflecting the uncertainty about their phylogenetic position and interrelationship. The morphological findings presented herein may help to interpret future phylogenetic analyses using cranial musculature in Beloniformes.

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