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August 19, 2020

Six complete mitochondrial genomes of mayflies from three genera of Ephemerellidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) with inversion and translocation of trnI rearrangement and their phylogenetic relationships

Xiao-Dong Xu, Yi-Yang Jia, Si-Si Cao, Zi-Yi Zhang, Kenneth B. Storey, Dan-Na Yu, Jia-Yong Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9740 PubMed 32879803

August 24, 2020

Epibiont hydroids on beachcast Sargassum in the Mexican Caribbean

María A. Mendoza-Becerril, Elisa Serviere-Zaragoza, Alejandra Mazariegos-Villarreal, Crisalejandra Rivera-Perez, Dale R. Calder, Erika F. Vázquez-Delfín, Yolanda Freile-Pelegrín, José Agüero, Daniel Robledo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9795 PubMed 32903993

August 12, 2020

A new balaenopterid species from the Southern North Sea Basin informs about phylogeny and taxonomy of Burtinopsis and Protororqualus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae)

Michelangelo Bisconti, Mark E.J. Bosselaers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9570

August 18, 2020

New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa

Steven Heritage, Houssein Rayaleh, Djama G. Awaleh, Galen B. Rathbun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9652 PubMed 32879790

August 14, 2020

Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages

Elizabeth L. Jockusch, Robert W. Hansen, Robert N. Fisher, David B. Wake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9599 PubMed 32864205

August 12, 2020

Taxonomic identification and biological traits of Platystethynium triclavatum (Donev & Huber, 2002), comb. n. (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae), a newly recorded egg parasitoid of the Italian endemic pest Barbitistes vicetinus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)

Giacomo Ortis, Serguei V. Triapitsyn, Giacomo Cavaletto, Isabel Martinez-Sañudo, Luca Mazzon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9667

August 18, 2020

Fan worms (Annelida: Sabellidae) from Indonesia collected by the Snellius II Expedition (1984) with descriptions of three new species and tube microstructure

María Ana Tovar-Hernández, Harry A. ten Hove, Olev Vinn, Michał Zatoń, Jesús Angel de León-González, María Elena García-Garza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9692 PubMed 32879795

August 27, 2020

A new genus Vittaliana belonging to the tribe Opsiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from India and its molecular phylogeny

Sunil, Naresh M. Meshram, Tahseen Raza Hashmi, Pathour R. Shashank

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9515 PubMed 32913670

August 3, 2020

Taxonomic recognition of some species-level lineages circumscribed in nominal Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans s. lat. (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota)

Katarzyna Szczepańska, Jacek Urbaniak, Lucyna Śliwa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9555 PubMed 32832264

August 24, 2020

Valanginian occurrence of Pelomedusoides turtles in northern South America: revision of this hypothesis based on a new fossil remain

Edwin-Alberto Cadena

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9810 PubMed 32904119

August 31, 2020

Description of a new species of cryptic snubnose darter (Percidae: Etheostomatinae) endemic to north-central Mississippi

Ken A. Sterling, Jr., Melvin L. Warren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9807 PubMed 32944422

August 24, 2020

A new ophiacanthid brittle star (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from sublittoral crinoid and seagrass communities of late Maastrichtian age in the southeast Netherlands

Ben Thuy, Lea Numberger-Thuy, John W.M. Jagt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9671 PubMed 32904070

August 27, 2020

The oldest record of the Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber, 1776) from the early Pleistocene of the North Pacific

Nahoko Tsuzuku, Naoki Kohno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9709 PubMed 32913674

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