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17 Feb 2012
A new, beautifully colored lizard discovered in the Peruvian Andes
Named 'mountain dweller', it is the highest-altitude living member of its genus
Germán Chávez and Diego Vásquez from the Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) in Peru have discovered a... |
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15 Feb 2012
New miniature grasshopper-like insect is first member of its family from Belize
Scientists at the University of Illinois, USA have discovered a new species of tiny, grasshopper-like insect in the tropical rainforests of the Toledo District in southern Belize. Dr Sam Heads and Dr Steve Taylor co-authored ... |
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14 Feb 2012
Chromosome analyses of prickly pear cacti reveal southern glacial refugia
Analysis of chromosome number variation among species of a North American group of prickly pear cacti (nopales) showed that the most widespread species encountered are of hybrid origin. Those widespread species likely origina... |
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10 Feb 2012
Encyclopedia of Life Announces Open Access Support Project with Pensoft Publishers
Collaboration will increase flow of new species descriptions from scientists in developing countries, promote open access publishing
Washington, D.C. – February 10, 2012 – The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and Pen... |
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06 Feb 2012
A new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice found in Costa Rica
Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica’s high-altitude region “Cerro de la Muerte”. The discovery was made thanks to m... |
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02 Feb 2012
A checklist of 4,100 vascular plants converted into Darwin Core Archive format
A conventionally written (MS Word) Checklist of vascular plants of the Departmentof Ñeembucú, Paraguay (De Egea et al. 2012), consisting of more than 4,100 taxon names, was converted from text into Darwin ... |
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13 Jan 2012
Taxonomic keys from ZooKeys, PhytoKeys and MycoKeys now indexed in KeyCentral
All identification keys, published in ZooKeys (since issue 50), PhytoKeys, and MycoKeys are now automatically indexed in KeyCentral, a platform of IdentifyLife - a collaborative partnership of the Atlas of Living Austlalia, E... |
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10 Jan 2012
New EOL Species Collections by Pensoft
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and our journals have launched a Fabulous New Species collections on EOL. Please see the following blog post on the EOL News webpage, or read the text below:
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06 Jan 2012
A new wild ginger discovered from the evergreen forest of Western Ghats of South India
Intensive botanical explorations for taxonomic studies on the members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) in India by V.P. Thomas and M. Sabu of the University of Calicut, have resulted in the discovery of an interesting spe... |
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03 Jan 2012
Jeanne Baret, botanist and first female circumnavigator, finally commemorated in name of new species
In 1766, Frenchwoman Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man to work as assistant to renowned botanist Philibert Commerson on the first French circumnavigation of the globe. The expedition consisted of two ships under the com... |
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