This article is a redescription of Pimelodella longipinnis, an enigmatic catfish previously known only from its holotype and with uncertain type locality. The species redescribed based on recently collected materials streams the Mata Atlântica bioregion, in Santos municipality, São Paulo State, Brazil. longipinnis assigned to putatively monophyletic group, leptosoma-group, diagnosed by presence...

In this study, we aimed to determine the nematode diversity in soils from olive orchards İzmir, Manisa, Çanakkale, and Balıkesir provinces. For purpose, a survey was carried out 2021-2022; each orchard, soil samples were collected 0-60 cm depth, nematodes extracted by modified Baermann Funnel method. Thirty-seven genera of (Achromodora, Acrobeles, Acrobeloides, Alaimus, Aphelenchus, Aphelenchoi...

Deladenus cocophilus n. sp. was isolated from infested coconut fruits in Winder, Balochistan, Pakistan. Descriptions are given of the entomophagous (insect-parasitic females) and mycetophagous (fungus-feeding) free-living females, males, and juveniles. The new species D. cocophilus resembles those species in which the excretory pore is situated anterior to the hemizonid, namely, D. apopkaetusCh...

Conservation places much value on biological monitoring data, i.e. data collected using standardized protocols over time or space the abundance, biomass rates of use taxa resources. Biological are building blocks myriad assessment methods and establishment reference points (Margules & Pressey, 2000). Although it is acknowledged that a lack should not deter conservation action (Robinson, 2006), ...