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| 12:02a | [Herpetology • 2025] Scutiger khumbu • Resolving Taxonomic Ambiguities in Extant Himalayan Lazy Toads: A New Species of the Genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from eastern Nepal
Abstract The biodiversity of the Himalaya remains significantly understudied and, at the same time, is increasingly threatened by habitat loss due to rising anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Lazy Toads of the genus Scutiger are endemic to the Himalaya-Tibet orogen and form a diverse and characteristic component of the Himalayan montane zone. In our study, we re-assess material of Scutiger sikimmensis s. lat. using both molecular and morphological data. Our findings support the description of a new species, Scutiger khumbu sp. nov., with the nominotypical subspecies distributed in the Nepalese Khumbu Himal, and the subspecies Scutiger khumbu makalu subsp. nov. from the adjacent Makalu range Keywords: Amphibia, Himalaya, molecular systematics, morphology, Scutiger, taxonomy
Sylvia Hofmann, Annemarie Ohler, Chitra B. Baniya, Alain Dubois, Morris Flecks, Daniel Jablonski, Joachim Schmidt and Christophe Dufresnes. 2025. Resolving Taxonomic Ambiguities in Extant Himalayan Lazy Toads: A New Species of the Genus Scutiger (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern Nepal. European Journal of Taxonomy. 989(1); 189–214. DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2893 | ||||
| 3:51a | [Botany • 2024] Thismia papillata (Thismiaceae) • A New Species from northern Vietnam
Abstract Thismia papillata, a new species of Thismiaceae, is described and illustrated. The species was discovered in 2023 in Thanh Hoa Province, northern Vietnam. The new species is readily distinguishable from most of its congeners by the presence of appendages of outer and inner tepals, inner tepals fused into a mitre, absence of a wing-like appendage of supraconnective and absence of interstaminal glands. Thismia papillata is similar to T. abei, T. taiwanensis and T. tuberculata, differing mainly in prominently papillate outer hypanthium surface, appendages of the outer tepals up to 15 mm long, appendages of the inner tepals up to 9 mm long, and column-like placentas. Gaps in understanding of interactions between the inner tepals in Thismia are highlighted that are related to the postgenital tepal fusion and tepal aestivation. Similar uncertainties in determination of fusion between the stamens are also uncovered. Eastern Indochina, Flora, mitre, mycoheterotrophy, plant diversity, plant taxonomy, stamen tube, Xuan Lien Nature Reserve, Fungi  Maxim S. NURALIEV, Sophia V. YUDINA, Le Xuan DAC, Andrey N. KUZNETSOV, Svetlana P. KUZNETSOVA and Irina I. SEMENYUK. 2024. Thismia papillata (Thismiaceae), A New Species from northern Vietnam. Phytotaxa. 655(3); 261-271. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.655.3.4 [2024-06-26]  |
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