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August 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

New dinosaur found in a South African museum!

Fig 1: Photographs of the skull of BP/1/4779

August 5, 2019

New dinosaur found in a South African museum!

Researchers have unearthed a new species of dinosaur from a 30 year old museum collection in South African. The new species has been named Ngwevu intloko.

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August 26, 2019

Effectiveness of small road tunnels and fences in reducing amphibian roadkill and barrier effects at retrofitted roads in Sweden

3 citations

676 downloads

3,120 views

Jan Olof Helldin, Silviu O. Petrovan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7518 PubMed 31523500

August 6, 2019

262 Voyages Beneath the Sea: a global assessment of macro- and megafaunal biodiversity and research effort at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

2 citations

511 downloads

3,136 views

Andrew D. Thaler, Diva Amon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7397 PubMed 31404427

August 19, 2019

Global distribution and diversity of Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae): integration of classical and novel strategies

2 citations

432 downloads

716 views

Daniele De Luca, Wiebe H.C.F. Kooistra, Diana Sarno, Chetan C. Gaonkar, Roberta Piredda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7410 PubMed 31489261

August 16, 2019

Towards a barnacle tree of life: integrating diverse phylogenetic efforts into a comprehensive hypothesis of thecostracan evolution

2 citations

246 downloads

1,187 views

Christine Ewers-Saucedo, Christopher L. Owen, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Jens T. Høeg, Henrik Glenner, Benny K.K. Chan, Keith A. Crandall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7387 PubMed 31440430

August 13, 2019

Dynamics of a methanol-fed marine denitrifying biofilm: 2—impact of environmental changes on the microbial community

2 citations

179 downloads

562 views

Richard Villemur, Geneviève Payette, Valérie Geoffroy, Florian Mauffrey, Christine Martineau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7467 PubMed 31423359

August 12, 2019

A new species of terrestrial frog of the genus Noblella Barbour, 1930 (Amphibia: Strabomantidae) from the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor, Tungurahua, Ecuador

1 citation

385 downloads

2,171 views

Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Santiago Ron, Jhael A. Ortega, Juan M. Guayasamin, Mindee Goodrum, Fausto Recalde, Jose J. Vieira, Claudia Koch, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7405 PubMed 31423356

August 5, 2019

Taxonomic reassessment of the genus Dichotomius (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) through integrative taxonomy

1 citation

365 downloads

1,083 views

Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Alejandro Lopera Toro, Sergio Andrés Peña Tovar, Rodrigo Sarmiento-Garcés, Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Camilo Salazar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7332 PubMed 31404430

August 19, 2019

Redescription of Hargeria rapax (Harger, 1879) and description of H. chetumalensis a new species from the Mexican Caribbean (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea, Leptocheliidae) based upon morphological and molecular evidence

1 citation

300 downloads

462 views

Jani Jarquín-González, Luis F. Carrera-Parra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7472 PubMed 31489263

August 8, 2019

A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW)

1 citation

248 downloads

1,176 views

Claudia Koch, Angele Martins, Silke Schweiger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7411 PubMed 31410308

August 13, 2019

The effect of mangrove restoration on avian assemblages of a coastal lagoon in southern Mexico

1 citation

247 downloads

795 views

Julio Cesar Canales-Delgadillo, Rosela Perez-Ceballos, Mario Arturo Zaldivar-Jimenez, Martin Merino-Ibarra, Gabriela Cardoza, Jose-Gilberto Cardoso-Mohedano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7493 PubMed 31423362

August 6, 2019

Molecular evidence that the Channel Islands populations of the orange-crowned warbler (Oreothlypis celata; Aves: Passeriformes: Parulidae) represent a distinct evolutionary lineage

1 citation

195 downloads

782 views

Zachary R. Hanna, Carla Cicero, Rauri C.K. Bowie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7388 PubMed 31404458

August 1, 2019

Taxonomic revision of black salamanders of the Aneides flavipunctatus complex (Caudata: Plethodontidae)

678 downloads

1,948 views