Freshwater Radiolaria—On some Freshwater Rhizopoda, new or little known

some freshwater snails from northern iran

there are many freshwater snails involved in the life cycle of parasitic flukes. some of these animals, such as bulinus spp and lymnaea spp are very important in public health and veterinary medicine. for example, bulinus trucatus and lymnaeid snails transmit human bilharziosis and zoonotic fascioliosis, respectively. for this reason most freshwater bodies of northern iran, were searched for po...

Freshwater crabs from eastern Panamá: a new species of Potamocarcinus H. Milne Edwards, 1853, and new records of two little-known species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae, Trichodactylidae).

A small collection of freshwater crabs from eastern Panamá revealed a new species of pseudothelphusid crab, Potamocarcinus darienensis n. sp., which is described and illustrated. The new species is characterized by an unusual arrangement of distal processes in the male first gonopod, in which the mesial lobe is folded in a latero-cephalic direction over the apex and the apex is broadened by a r...

Two new freshwater eutardigrade species from Sicily.

Two new species of freshwater Eutardigrada are described from Sicily: Isohypsibius rusticus sp. nov. and Isohypsibius zappalai sp. nov. The former species has eye spots, ornamented body surface with many, variously sized tubercles; bucco-pharyngeal apparatus of the Isohypsibius type; pharyngeal bulb with apophyses and two rod-shaped macroplacoids; microplacoid absent; claws, of the Isohypsibius...

Iberian distribution of some little known bat species

Resume. — La repartition de neuf especes de chauves-souris dans la Peninsule Iberique est revisee et completee. Jusqu'ä present, cette repartition etait presque inconnue en raison de leu r reelle rarete ou de absence de prospections. II s'agit de: Myotis bechsteini, M. emarginatus, M. mystacinus, Nyctalus lasiopterus, N. leisleri, N. noctula, Pipistrellus nathusii, P. (Hypsugo) savii et Barbast...

Challenges for freshwater biodiversity research DIVERSITAS Freshwater Biodiversity