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March 2019

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A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Live images of Astrobatrachus kurichiyana

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Researchers describe a new species, Astrobatrachus kurichiyana sp. nov. The discovery of this species adds to the list of deeply divergent and monotypic or depauperate lineages with narrow geographic ranges in the southern massifs of the Western Ghats

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March 27, 2019

Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America

Alton C. Dooley, Eric Scott, Jeremy Green, Kathleen B. Springer, Brett S. Dooley, Gregory James Smith

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6614 PubMed 30944777

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar, Robert Alexander Pyron, K. P. Dinesh, Varun R. Torsekar, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Priyanka Swamy, Edward L. Stanley, David C. Blackburn, Kartik Shanker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6457 PubMed 30881763

March 26, 2019

Loancorhynchus catrillancai gen. et sp. nov., a new swordfish (Xiphioidei, Blochiidae) from the Middle Eocene of central Chile

Rodrigo A. Otero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6671 PubMed 30941278

March 27, 2019

Associated bacteria of Botryococcus braunii (Chlorophyta)

Joao D. Gouveia, Jie Lian, Georg Steinert, Hauke Smidt, Detmer Sipkema, Rene H. Wijffels, Maria J. Barbosa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6610 PubMed 30944776

March 21, 2019

The chemical composition of a new “mica sandwich” foraminiferal species from the East Coast of Korea: Capsammina crassa sp. nov.

Somin Lee, Eric Armynot du Châtelet, Andrew J. Gooday, François Guillot, Philippe Recourt, Fabrizio Frontalini, Wonchoel Lee