Redescription of Pylocheles ( Bathycheles

Phylogenetic relationships within the Pylochelidae (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea): A cladistic analysis based on morphological characters

Phylogenetic relationships within the “symmetrical” hermit crab family Pylochelidae were analyzed for 41 of the 45 species and subspecies currently considered valid. In the analyses, 78 morphological characters comprised the data matrix and the outgroup consisted of Thalassina anomala, a member of the Thalassinidae, and Munida quadrispina, a member of the Galatheidae. A poorly resolved strict c...

Larvae of two species of Trizocheles (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Pylochelidae: Trizochelinae), description of the adult of one, and preliminary implications of development on pylochelid phylogeny

The larvae of two species of the pylochelid genus Trizocheles are described from prematurely hatched specimens and compared with earlier described larvae of Pylocheles (Pylocheles) and Pomatocheles. Although all are lecithotrophic and exhibit marked advanced development, differences in the larval morphology among the three genera are profound. Consideration is given to these differences as they...

Redescription and geographical variation of Monopeltis guentheri Boulenger (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia)

A framework for redescription set construction

Redescription mining is a field of knowledge discovery that aims at finding different descriptions of similar subsets of instances in the data. These instances are characterized with descriptive attributes from one or more disjoint sets of attributes called views. By exploring different characterizations it is possible to find non trivial and interesting connections between different subsets of...

A Case of Visual and Interactive Data Analysis: Geospatial Redescription Mining

We present a method for visual and interactive geospatial redescription mining. The goal of geospatial redescription mining is to characterize geospatial areas using two different descriptions, such as their bioclimatic features and fauna. Indeed, one application of geospatial redescription mining is finding bioclimatic niches, i.e. explaining the distribution of species using their bioclimatic...