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Elusive Partners
Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on Marine Species
Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 33
Deep-Sea Crustaceans from South-West Indian Ocean
Les îles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam (océan Indien sud)
Environnement marin et pêcheries
Annonaceae - Flora of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana
Dans les yeux du singe qu’on dissèque : Galien face à la souffrance animale
Anthropozoologica 58 (10)
Based on the examination of some passages of Galen’s Anatomicae administrationes preserved only in Arabic translation, this paper explores to what extent Galen could be concerned with animal suffering. It appears that the Greek physician and famous anatomist makes a clear distinction not only between dissection and vivisection, but also between the dissection of monkeys and that of other animals. This paper explores in particular how the use of the relatively rare adjective εἰδεχθές (obnoxious appearance) can shed new light on the ambivalent relationship between physicians and animals.
New records for the liverwort and hornwort flora of Vietnam 2. Bazzania Gray and some other collections of Pierre Tixier in the National Museum of Natural History, France
Cryptogamie, Bryologie 44 (9)
As a large part of the bryophyte collection of the late Pierre Tixier (1918-1997), deposited in the Cryptogamic Herbarium of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (PC), was unidentified, the Author has started to study the rich collection of Bazzania Gray species as well as some other taxa. They were not identified by Tixier, because during his lifetime the genus had not been revised yet. Long ago, the Author himself recorded nine species from northern Vietnam, and a couple of studies were published on Vietnam and neighbouring areas. Today, by identifying Tixier’s collection, the number of Bazzania species known in Vietnam has been increased to 28.
Introduction
Anthropozoologica 58 (9)
This thematic volume follows on from the international symposium Zoological observation, experience and experimentation on animals in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, organised by the Zoomathia research network and held in Nice on 21 and 22 October 2022. The aim of the colloquium was to study the links between rigorous and objective empirical knowledge of animals and practical, regulated and possibly instrumented investigative activities during the two periods concerned.
Nouvelles données géologiques et biostratigraphiques du gisement paléontologique à vertébrés de Mauvières, à Marcilly-sur-Maulne (Miocène inférieur et moyen ; Indre-et-Loire, France)
Geodiversitas 45 (16)
The paleontological locality of Mauvières (Indre-et-Loire, France) is located in the South-West part of the Paris Basin, 55 kilometers North-West of the city of Tours. This site is a quarry that is periodically exploited for Miocene sands and shelly sands. In 2000, L. Ginsburg and his collaborators identified a rich fauna of continental vertebrates from the early Orleanian (=early-middle Burdigalian, Orleanian European Land Mammal Age [ELMA] MN3 biozone). In this first study, the geological and taphonomic contexts were not precised. In 2020, following new excavation work in the quarry, a new study focusing on the missing contextual data started has been launched.
Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae)
Zoosystema 45 (16)
Here we describe the new species Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp., widespread in the Amazonian ferruginous landscape of the state of Pará, Brazil. The species differs from its only congener P. perplexa Golovatch, 1999 by the presence of 19 body rings in adults (vs 20 body rings), the position of the porosteles on the paraterga, and the morphology of the gonopods. Notes on its ecology and comments on the diversity of millipedes in the region of Serra dos Carajás, state of Pará, Brazil, are also provided.
New species of genus Oxneriaria S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (lichenized Ascomycota, Megasporaceae) from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Cryptogamie, Mycologie 44 (8)
Oxneriaria immersa H.S.Asghar, R.Zulfiqar & Khalid, sp. nov. and O. insignis R.Zulfiqar & Khalid, sp. nov. (Megasporaceae) are described here as new to science, both characterized by their elongating/spreading marginal areoles. The distinguishing features of O. immersa H.S.Asghar, R.Zulfiqar & Khalid, sp. nov. are poriform-aspicilioid apothecial discs, a smaller hymenium and hypothecium (90-100 and 50-70 µm, respectively) and larger ascospores (20-25 × 10-15 µm). The key characters of O. insignis R.Zulfiqar & Khalid, sp. nov. are distinctly lecanorine apothecial discs, a taller hymenium and hypothecium (190-230 and 100-160 µm, respectively) and smaller ascospores (15-21 × 9-13 µm).
Sorbus erythrosepala Kainul., Sjöman, Aldén, sp. nov. (Rosaceae), a new rowan from Yunnan, China
Adansonia 45 (21)
Sorbus erythrosepala sp. nov. from Napa Hai in north-western Yunnan is here described and illustrated. It belongs to the white to crimson fruited Sorbus subgenus Albocarmesinae and is superficially similar to the sympatric Sorbus filipes Hand.-Mazz., but it can be distinguished from that species by the stouter shoots, the larger leaves with pubescent, dull and more numerous leaflets, and in the coloration of the fruits.
Polydesmid millipedes in the MSS of the northern Iberian Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae)
Zoosystema 45 (15)
The Superficial Subterranean Environment, known as the MSS (Milieu Souterrain Superficiel), was sampled at 15 localities of three main mountain systems in the northern Iberian Peninsula, at different time intervals from 2012 to 2021. A total of 2673 polydesmid individuals (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) were captured, of which 1970 could be identified with certainty as belonging to six species. The new records of these six species provide important new information about their distribution. Polydesmus angustus Latzel, 1884 is confirmed to inhabit the Atlantic region of the Iberian Peninsula. Archipolydesmus osellai Ceuca, 1968 is found for the third time since its description, but in the Iberian System far from its type locality in the Pyrenees.
Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the fossil anamorphic fungus Mycoenterolobium eccentricum (R.K. Kar) G. Worobiec, n. comb.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 22 (28)
Microremains of fungi from Neogene deposits from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee, United States) and the Bełchatów Lignite Mine (Poland), similar to the enigmatic fossil-species Kutchiathyrites eccentricus R.K. Kar, 1979, were reconsidered as representatives of the modern mitosporic genus Mycoenterolobium Goos, 1970. A new combination, Mycoenterolobium eccentricum (R.K. Kar) G. Worobiec, n. comb., is proposed. The geographical and stratigraphical range and ecology of the fossil and modern Mycoenterolobium species are discussed. Investigated remains of Mycoenterolobium eccentricum (R.K. Kar) G. Worobiec, n.
New remains of Neotropical bunodont litopterns and the systematics of Megadolodinae (Mammalia: Litopterna)
Geodiversitas 45 (15)
Litopterna is one the most diverse and long–lived clades of South American native ungulates. Megadolodus and Neodolodus are bunodont litoptern genera recorded in the middle Miocene tropical faunistic assemblage of La Venta (Colombia). Both taxa were initially identified as didolodontid ‘condylarths’, but later reclassified into Proterotheriidae, within Litopterna. Previous studies proposed their inclusion within Proterotheriidae, but possible affinities with early litopterns and didolodontids have not been properly tested in phylogenetic analyses.
Thalassinoides horizontalis Myrow, 1995 from the Middle-Upper Ordovician shallow marine siliciclastics of Iran (Lashkerak Formation)
Comptes Rendus Palevol 22 (27)
Thalassinoides Ehrenberg, 1944 are relatively common bioturbational structures in carbonate shallow marine successions from the early Paleozoic. Much rarer is the reference to this ichnogenus in siliciclastic formations from the same age. In the Ordovician Lashkerak Formation cropping out at the Central Alborz mountains, Iran, Thalassinoides is a common trace fossil in wave-dominated shoreface complex and prodelta-mouth bar environments of a fluvial-dominated delta. We compare the Middle-to-Upper Ordovician branching networks of the Unit 2 of the Lashkerak Formation with the ichnospecies Thalassinoides horizontalis Myrow, 1995 emphasizing the almost entire bedding-parallel orientation, regular branching and lack of constrictions and swellings.
A taxonomic assessment of Pyropia hiemalis (Kylin) Varela-Álvarez, Guiry & Serrão, comb. nov. (Bangiaceae, Bangiophyceae)
Cryptogamie, Algologie 44 (5)
Until recently, all the bladed members of the Bangiaceae Duby were assigned to the genus Porphyra C.Agardh, nom. cons.; however, in the last twenty years, major molecular taxonomic revisions of this family have resulted in several new and reinstated genera. Porphyra linearis Greville is one of the species retained in Porphyra and its growth and reproduction is confined to the upper intertidal in the colder months of the year. Porphyra hiemalis Kylin was described for specimens collected from the south-west coast of Sweden but was later referred to the synonymy of P. linearis based upon its winter seasonality and linear form.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836)
fabrique d'une science botanique
L’art des ghostnets
approche anthropologique et esthétique des filets-fantômes
Atlas des oiseaux migrateurs de France
Museum manifesto.
On the Origins of Gender
Les palmes du savoir-faire
la vannerie dans les oasis du Sahara
Atlas des papillons de jour d'Aquitaine
Fossil Decapod Crustacea in the historical collections
Boraginales, Olacaceae and allies, Apiaceae
Flora of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands
