The diplogasterid genus Mononchoides Rahm, 1928 (syn: Eudiplogaster Paramonov, 1952) is reviewed. Examination of the descriptions of nominal species and synonyms indicates that generic characters are stave-like anterior stomal rhabdions, a claw-like dorsal tooth and subventral pyramidal tooth, and a cylindrical or prismatic telostom which is somewhat smaller in diameter than the protostom regio...

Clinostomidae are digeneans characterized by a complex taxonomic history, continuously under revision based on both morphological and molecular analysis. Among the 14 species considered valid so far Clinostomum phalacrocoracis has been well described only at the adult stage, whereas the morphology of the metacercarial stage has been reported only once. During a parasitological survey carried ou...

The Australian fauna of Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae) is revised. Two genera are present, both shared with Asia, with a total of seven species, all localized in eastern Queensland and all except one, endemic to Australia. Cyphopisthes is comprised of three species, two of them new (Cyphopisthes yorkensis sp. n. and Cyphopisthes monteithi sp. n., the latter, together w...

Neoniphonpencei, n. sp., is described from thirteen specimens, 132-197 mm standard length (SL) collected from mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) at Rarotonga, Cook Islands by divers using mixed-gas closed-circuit rebreathers. It differs from all other species of the genus in number of lateral line scales, scales above and below lateral line, elements of life color, and in COI and cytochrome b D...

Abstract This article is an empirical attempt to explore the relationship between sanctions (financial and non-financial), oil price shocks and Iran-Russian bilateral trade flows over the period 1991–2014. In contrast to earlier studies in which a gravity model has been estimated through a panel data approach, in this paper the authors apply a gravity model for only two countries and do the es...

Received January 28, 2014, Accepted for publication March 3, 2014 Corresponding author: Byung Cheol Park, Department of Dermatology, Dankook University Hospital, 201 Manghyang-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan 330-715, Korea. Tel: 82-41-550-3926, Fax: 82-41-552-7541, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ...