Nematodes represent the most abundant benthic metazoan of all seas and oceans, their relative importance increases with increasing water depth. Understanding biodiversity patterns this dominant phylum could be a critical step towards our comprehension evolutionary across largest biome biosphere. For instance, it has been assumed for long time that nematodes are ubiquitous depths, latitudes biog...

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the causative agent of chytridiomycosis, was found in 24 of 109 (22%) frogs from Kibale National Park, western Uganda, in January and June 2006, representing the first account of the fungus in six species and in Uganda. The presence of B. dendrobatidis in an equatorial African montane forest raises conservation concerns, considering the high amphibian diversity a...

Pentaceratops sternbergii is an index fossil of the Kirtlandian LVA, and is known from the Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and from the Williams Fork Formation of Colorado. We remove Chasmosaurus mariscalensis (Aguja Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas) from Chasmosaurus and make it the type species of a new genus, Agujaceratops. Supposed chasmosaurine endemis...

The present paper provides a description of the male caste and re-description of the worker and queen castes of the poorly known ant species Lasiusalienoflavus Bingham, 1903. This species has hitherto been reported only from the Himalayas, and the present data are also based on specimens collected in the north-western part of the mountain range. Likewise other Himalayan ants, this species also ...

While knowledge of the fauna of California’s ephemeral wetlands has lagged behind that of the flora, recent work has revealed extraordinarily diverse and highly endemic communities. Two recent surveys of crustaceans have shown a number of important attributes of these systems. 1) Species richness and species composition differ among habitat types. 2) Not all pools in an area contain all the sam...

Oceanic archipelagos are the ideal setting for investigating processes that shape species assemblages. Focusing on keyhole limpets, genera Fissurella and Diodora from Cape Verde Islands, we used an integrative approach combining molecular phylogenetics with ocean transport simulations to infer species distribution patterns and analyse connectivity. Dispersal simulations, using pelagic larval du...