One of the more intriguing problems in avian MATERIALS EXAMINED paleontology and zoogeography is the supposed occurrence of New World vultures (CaIn addition to those fossil specimens mentioned in the text, we examined skeletons of all recent cathartid thartidae) in the Tertiary of Europe. Despite species. We also made numerous examinations of the fact that paleontologists have generally acskel...

based on molecular and morphological characters. – Hydro-biologia 544: 89–141. (Crustacea, Mysida): history of continental invasions inferred from molecular and morphological data. – Cladistics 21: 575–596. IV Audzijonytė, A. & Väinölä, R. 2005: Phylogeographic analyses of a circum-arctic coastal and of a boreal lacustrine mysid crustacean, and evidence of fast post-glacial mtDNA rates. – (subm...

total of 35 species of leucosiid crabs have been recorded by several authors and the current survey from the persian gulf. here, zoogeography of these species and their zoogeographical affinities within indo-west pacific region are discussed. in addition, present taxonomic survey off the iranian coasts of the persian gulf resulted in finding 14 leucosiid crabs, of which arcania erinacea and par...

Zoogeographical effects on the basal metabolic rate (BMR) of 487 mammal species were analyzed using conventional and phylogenetically independent ANCOVA. Minimal BMR variance occurred at a "constrained body mass" of 358 g, whereas maximum variance occurred at the smallest and largest body masses. Significant differences in BMR were identified for similar-sized mammals from the six terrestrial z...

А new species and a new subspecies of Satyrium Scudder, 1876 (subfamily Theclinae, tribe Eumaeini) from the subgenera Superflua Strand, 1910 and Armenia Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1984 respectively are described from Bamyan Province, Central Afghanistan-S. (S.) skrylniki sp. n. and S. (A.) hyrcanica bamiana ssp. n. The new species of Superflua belongs to the Iranian complex of species. It inhabits ...

The Prussian naturalist Friedrich Sellow (1789-1831) traveled through Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina between 1814 and 1831 gathering numerous zoological and botanical specimens. Despite the effort spent in those countries, the ornithological collection assembled by Sellow did not receive adequate care after it had been deposited in the Zoologische Museum in Berlin, thus compromising its integrit...