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Ordinal regression refers to classifying object instances into ordinal categories. Ordinal regression is crucial for applications in various areas like facial age estimation, image aesthetics assessment, and even cancer staging, due to its capability to utilize ordered information effectively. More importantly, it also enhances model interpretation...

With the escalating biodiversity crisis, systematic taxonomy is essential to the protection of endangered species, as it supports accurate species iden�tification, guides conservation priorities, and informs recovery strategies. This paper highlights the critical role of taxonomy in endangered species conservation and addresses challenges such a...

Person re-identification via 3D skeletons is an important emerging research area that attracts increasing attention within the pattern recognition community. With distinctive advantages across various application scenarios, numerous 3D skeleton based person re-identification (SRID) methods with diverse skeleton modeling and learning paradigms have...

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy, but its decentralized nature exposes it to client-side data poisoning attacks (DPAs) and model poisoning attacks (MPAs) that degrade global model performance. While numerous proposed defenses claim substantial effectiveness, their evaluation is typically don...

The rapid adoption of deep learning in sensitive domains has brought tremendous benefits. However, this widespread adoption has also given rise to serious vulnerabilities, particularly model inversion (MI) attacks, posing a significant threat to the privacy and integrity of personal data. The increasing prevalence of these attacks in applications s...

We present the first fossil evidence of pediculochelid mites, describing two new species: Paralycus ekaterinae sp. nov. (Eocene amber) and P. primus sp. nov. (Cretaceous amber). The exceptional preservation of the fossils, coupled with our newly developed methodological approach for examining minute arthropods in amber, has facilitated a detailed c...

Increasing numbers of emerging contaminants (ECs) detected in water environments require a detailed understanding of these chemicals’ fate, distribution, transport, and risk in aquatic ecosystems. Modeling is a useful approach for determining ECs’ characteristics and their behaviors in aquatic environments. This article proposes a systematic taxono...

Résumé. Le développement et la diffusion des concepts et normes relatifs à la biodiversité sont essentiels pour créer et consolider un langage commun permettant de générer, partager et réutiliser des informations entre acteurs : scientifiques, naturalistes, gestionnaires, juristes, etc. Depuis la standardisation de la nomenclature binominale, la pr...

A new species of pseudoscorpion, Afrogarypus foordisp. nov. (Pseudoscorpiones, Geogarypidae), is described in honour of South African arachnologist Stefan Hendrik Foord. The species is described from both sexes and known from near Fauresmith, Free State, South Africa. It is amongst the smallest species of Afrogarypus (chela length ca. 0.6–0.8 mm) a...

In this survey, we introduce Meta-Black-Box-Optimization (MetaBBO) as an emerging avenue within the Evolutionary Computation (EC) community, which incorporates Meta-learning approaches to assist automated algorithm design. Despite the success of MetaBBO, the current literature provides insufficient summaries of its key aspects and lacks practical g...

Personalization of Large Language Models (LLMs) has recently become increasingly important with a wide range of applications. Despite the importance and recent progress, most existing works on personalized LLMs have focused either entirely on (a) personalized text generation or (b) leveraging LLMs for personalization-related downstream applications...

Taxonomies are controlled vocabularies and multidimensional frameworks for organizing and classifying content. This study is the first to examine the meanings chief knowledge officers (CKOs) ascribe to corporate taxonomy mapping for enabling sustainable performance-driven knowledge management (KM). Utilizing a qualitative methodology, the research...

The Brazilian species of Euphoria Burmeister are revised. We describe E. euridesi sp. nov., a new species from the Cerrado biome of Brazil, and redescribe E. lurida (Fabricius 1775). Both species are illustrated and diagnostic characters that distinguish them are presented. A key to the seven South american species of Euphoria and observations on t...

Phenotypic, especially morphological, data are highly useful in systematics, taxonomy, and phylogenetics. Despite the increased use of genetic information, phenotypic data are necessary when researching the fossil record and remain useful for living taxa by providing independent evidence for testing molecular clades. MorphoBank is a FAIR (Findable,...

Vascular plants are crucial to global biodiversity, so their systematic taxonomy, origin and evolution are important topics. With the rapid development of sequencing technology, numerous vascular plant plastomes have been sequenced and published, offering significant insights into these issues. This study aims to present the basic characteristics a...

Current research on RAGs is distributed across various disciplines, and since the technology is evolving very quickly, its unit of analysis is mostly on technological innovations, rather than applications in business contexts. Thus, in this research, we aim to create a taxonomy to conceptualize a comprehensive overview of the constituting character...

In this study, a systematic taxonomic analysis was carried out on the lichen genus Peltula, collected from Helan Mountain in China; three new species (Peltula helanense, P. overlappine, and P. reticulata) and a new record (P. crispatula (Nyl.) Egea) for China were identified. Four species were identified by morph-anatomical, chemical, and phylogene...

With the rapid advance of computer graphics and artificial intelligence technologies, the ways we interact with the world have undergone a transformative shift. Virtual Reality (VR) technology, aided by artificial intelligence (AI), has emerged as a dominant interaction media in multiple application areas, thanks to its advantage of providing users...

The recent wave of foundation models has witnessed tremendous success in computer vision (CV) and beyond, with the segment anything model (SAM) having sparked a passion for exploring task-agnostic visual foundation models. Empowered by its remarkable zero-shot generalization, SAM is currently challenging numerous traditional paradigms in CV, delive...

The Botanic Garden and Museum of the University of Pisa was established in 1543 by Luca Ghini with the primary aim of conducting academic teaching and research on plants with medicinal properties. Since then, a plethora of Praefecti developed several lines of research, until the current days in which scientific research plays a central role in the...

Systematics and taxonomy of the gelechioid subfamily Coelopoetinae are reviewed. Following the current classification, this group is considered to form its own monotypic subfamily in Pterolonchidae with one recognized genus, Coelopoeta, after a convoluted and, in part, arguably conjectural, historical systematic treatment. On morphological basis...

In the architecture of deep learning models, inspired by biological neurons, activation functions (AFs) play a pivotal role. They significantly influence the performance of artificial neural networks. By modulating the non-linear properties essential for learning complex patterns, AFs are fundamental in both classification and regression tasks. Thi...

The book is a monograph about leeches with the following main topics: Systematics & Taxonomy; Fossils, Evolution & Phylogeny; Distribution; Morphology; Physiology; Reproduction & Development; Nutrition; Ökology; Harm & Benefit; Identification Key of German Freshwater Leeches. (in German)

A base para uma coleção nacional de insetos e ácaros nos Estados Unidos da América (EUA) foi estabelecida com a nomeação do primeiro entomologista federal, Townend Glover, em 1854, para o Escritório de Patentes dos EUA. Os interesses de Glover em estabelecer coleções foram importantes na criação do Museu Agrícola no recém-criado Departamento de Agr...

The eight species of Bondarius Rosado-Neto, 2006 are distributed in South, Central and North America, and the Caribbean: B. tuberculatus (Boheman, 1836), B. subrufus (Fiedler, 1936), B. breyeri (Brèthes, 1910), B. fuscoaeneus (Boheman, 1843), B. sublaevicollis (Hustache, 1939), B. nitidus (Champion, 1902), B. spinipes (Champion, 1902) and B. pector...

Jailbreak attacks aim to induce Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate harmful responses for forbidden instructions, presenting severe misuse threats to LLMs. Up to now, research into jailbreak attacks and defenses is emerging, however, there is (surprisingly) no consensus on how to evaluate whether a jailbreak attempt is successful. In other wor...

Recently, foundation language models (LMs) have marked significant achievements in the domains of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). Unlike traditional neural network models, foundation LMs obtain a great ability for transfer learning by acquiring rich commonsense knowledge through pre-training on extensive unsupervised dat...

Recent years have witnessed an increasing global population affected by neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), which traditionally require extensive healthcare resources and human effort for medical diagnosis and monitoring. As a crucial disease-related motor symptom, human gait can be exploited to characterize different NDs. The current advances in art...

Tables are everywhere, from scientific journals, papers, websites, and newspapers all the way to items we buy at the supermarket. Detecting them is thus of utmost importance to automatically understanding the content of a document. The performance of table detection has substantially increased thanks to the rapid development of deep learning networ...

Background Geographic isolation caused by high-altitude valleys promotes the formation of geographic segregation of species, leading to species differentiation. The subgenus Oreosaura contains viviparous species from the Tibetan Plateau and the vicinity of the Tarim Basin, which can be divided into three species complexes according to their geograp...

Stigeoclonium is a genus of green algae that is widely distributed in freshwater habitats around the world. The genus comprises species with variously developed prostrates and erect systems of uniseriate branched filaments and grows attached to a wide range of different surfaces. It holds significant promise for applications in water quality indica...

Technological innovations have become part of everyday life, making it impossible to manage collections without considering its benefits. This research article discusses the implementation of Tainacan, a computerised museum documentation system in the Natural Heritage Collection of the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA, Universidade Federal do Par...

Las innovaciones tecnológicas han venido a formar parte de nuestra vida cotidiana, haciendo imposible la gestión de colecciones sin considerar sus beneficios. El presente ARTÍCULO DE INVESTIGACIÓN analiza la implementación de Tainacan, un sistema computarizado de documentación de museos que se utilizó en la Colección de Patrimonio Natural de la Uni...

Systematics encompasses two more narrowly defined but highly interdependent fields. The first is taxonomy and the second field is phylogenetics. In modern systematics, taxonomy aims to reflect evolutionary history. The morphological traits of immature stages remain largely unresolved for a vast majority of the lepidopteran species worldwide, althou...

In this study, we conducted a survey of researchers studying flies in Brazil, with the aim of acquiring up-to-date information about them, across multiple aspects, i.e., demographics, opinions, needs, and the main challenges they face. We developed an online questionnaire and collected the responses between September and November 2019; 126 response...

Archaeocyaths are a group of extinct filter feeders that flourished in the early Cambrian period and occupied an important position in the evolution of basal fauna and the early marine ecosystem. However, the detailed morphological and anatomical information of this group are still unclear due to insufficient fossil material and limited experimenta...

A new species of Gripopteryginae stonefly, Tupiperla claudius sp. nov. (holotype male deposited in DZUP: Brazil, Paraná State, Piraquara municipality, Pico do Marumbi State Park), is described and diagnosed based on seven adult males. The new species differs from its congeners by the long T10 extension, dorsally with straight lateral margins and ti...

The chapter provides an in-depth overview of systematics, taxonomy, nomenclature, and insect identification methods. It traces the historical evolution of classification from ancient philosophies to Linnaeus's influential contributions and the modern International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The significance and objectives of taxonomy are eluc...

The management of data related to prototypes created during new product development is seen as a beneficial yet challenging activity. While attempts have been made to understand prototypes and their context in a range of use-cases, there is a gap in the understanding of the data that captures a prototype's context and physical form. This paper high...

Anatolia has functioned as a gateway for mostly Eurasian and African faunas during most of its paleogeographic history. The faunas are known to have exchanged throughout successive migration events during the Late Miocene and are particularly worth studying. Ungulates, mainly Equids, were dominant groups at different stages of Late Miocene fauna de...

The discovery and utilization of natural products derived from endophytic microorganisms have garnered significant attention in pharmaceutical research. While remarkable progress has been made in this field each year, the absence of dedicated open-access databases for endophytic microorganism natural products research is evident. To address the inc...

The balancing of mechanisms consists in distributing their moving masses, inertias, and elastic components in order to achieve key mechanical properties, such as the elimination of the shaking forces and moments exported onto their supporting structure or the insensitivity of the mechanism to gravity and to the motions of its chassis. This article...

Efficient management is crucial for preserving heritage in museum collections, regardless of their type. Technological innovations have become a part of everyone's daily lives and it is impossible to manage museum spaces without considering the implementation of informational benefits. This study discusses the implementation of Tainacan, a computer...

Book consists of different objective type questions like multiple choice on the various topics like systematics, Taxonomy Morphology, Embryology, Physiology, Ecology, Biological control, Toxicology. Host plant resistance, Innovative approaches in pest control, Integrated pest management, pesticides application equipments, pests of various crops and...

Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that can generate stories automatically. In recent years, powered by deep learning and massive data resources, automatic story generation has shown significant advances. Howe...

In recent years, blockchain technology has introduced decentralized finance (DeFi) as an alternative to traditional financial systems. DeFi aims to create a transparent and efficient financial ecosystem using smart contracts and emerging decentralized applications. However, the growing popularity of DeFi has made it a target for fraudulent activiti...

The last revision of Coreopsis was by Sherff in 1936 who recognized 114 species within 11 sections. Since then, there have been additions to the list of species, redisposition of taxa, re–definition of sections, new chromosome counts, inclusion of details on microcharacters of the capitulum and its parts, and establishment of phylogenetic hypothese...

Eptesicus Rafinesque, 1820 is widely distributed in the Old and New World (26 species), and Histiotus Gervais, 1856 is a South American endemic (11 species). Molecular phylogenies have recovered Eptesicus (sensu lato) as polyphyletic, with New World Eptesicus and the sister genus Histiotus in a paraphyletic American clade sister to Old World Eptesi...

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP), providing a highly useful, task-agnostic foundation for a wide range of applications. However, directly applying LLMs to solve sophisticated problems in specific domains meets many hurdles, caused by the heterogeneity of domain data, the sophist...

Spermacoceae sensu lato is a tribe of the subfamily Rubioideae (Rubiaceae) that is referred in the literature with problems of generic delimitations. Recent investigations on the systematics, taxonomy and floristics of Brazilian species of Rubiaceae confirm this trend in the tribe, and suggest new phylogenetic and multidisciplinary studies on the g...

Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non-marine arthropod. Topics considered for publication include systematics, taxonomy, nomenclature, checklists, faunal works, and natural history. Insecta Mundi will not consider works in the applied sciences (i.e. medical entomology, pest cont...

The last decade has seen many attempts to generalise the definition of modes, or MAP estimators, of a probability distribution $\mu$ on a space $X$ to the case that $\mu$ has no continuous Lebesgue density, and in particular to infinite-dimensional Banach and Hilbert spaces $X$. This paper examines the properties of and connections among these defi...

The suborder Phacopina, characterized by schizochroal eyes, is among the most common groups of trilobites in Devonian strata. The marine sediments of the Famennian in western Junggar, Xinjiang, contain abundant low-disparity phacopids, which have previously been designated to Omegops accipitrinus mobilis , Phacops circumspectans tuberculosus , and...

The year 2023 marks the centenary of the publication of the Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology was created to establish clear criteria for the classification of prokaryotic microorganisms and to initiate a mission to explore the taxonomy of prokaryotic microorganisms. With the innovation and...

Lampriform fishes (Lampriformes), which primarily inhabit deep-sea environments, are large marine fishes varying from the whole-body endothermic opah to the world’s longest bony fish-giant oarfish, with species morphologies varying from long and thin to deep and compressed, making them an ideal model for studying the adaptive radiation of teleost f...

2022 and 2023 mark the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Society of Microbiology and Acta Microbiaogica Sinica, respectively. China’s prokaryotic microbial taxonomy research has gone through 70 years from starting from scratch, tracking and imitating to gradually entering the international stage, from following and running to being in the internation...

The purpose of this research is to identify the areas of interest, research topics, and application areas that reflect the research nature of digital transformation (DT), as well as the strategies, practices, and trends of DT. To accomplish this, the Latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm, a probabilistic topic modeling technique, was applied to 535...

Introduction In response to the need for automated classification in global marine biological studies, deep learning is applied to image-based classification of marine echinoderms. Methods Images of marine echinoderms are collected and classified according to their systematic taxonomy. The images belong to 5 classes, 38 orders, 145 families, 459 g...

The ongoing debate on global climate change has polarized societies since ever. The attitude of an individual towards its anthropogenic nature as well as the need and extent to which human beings should mitigate climate warming can result from a number of factors. Also, since the consequences of such alteration in global climate have no borders and...

In recent years, one of the most popular techniques in the computer vision community has been the deep learning technique. As a data-driven technique, deep model requires enormous amounts of accurately labelled training data, which is often inaccessible in many real-world applications. A data-space solution is Data Augmentation (DA), that can artif...

Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) are software systems that identify opportunities for automating manufacturing operations by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services connected to machines. An active challenge of SMS is to satisfy the ever-changing conditions of industries, supply networks, and customer needs. To operate effectively, SMS...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success in making accurate predictions for computer vision, natural language processing, as well as science and engineering domains. However, it is also well-recognized that DNNs sometimes make unexpected, incorrect, but overconfident predictions. This can cause serious consequences in high-stake...

User Behavior Modeling (UBM) plays a critical role in user interest learning, which has been extensively used in recommender systems. Crucial interactive patterns between users and items have been exploited, which brings compelling improvements in many recommendation tasks. In this paper, we attempt to provide a thorough survey of this research top...

Desmids associated with Sphagnum L. from terrestrial and aquatic habitats were investigated in the New England Tableland Bioregion. Descriptions and figures for 80 taxa are presented herein, nine of which are newly recorded for Australia, and a further seven are newly recorded for New South Wales. Two novel species of desmid, Micrasterias bicoronat...

Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that can generate stories automatically. In recent years, powered by deep learning and massive data resources, automatic story generation has shown significant advances. Howe...

The genus Teucrium is one of the most species-rich and widespread genera of the Lamiaceae family. Species of this genus are mostly perennial, rarely annual, shrubby, sub-shrubby, or herbaceous plants distributed in various habitats, mostly thermophilic or temperate, in the Mediterranean and surrounding areas. Teucrium species are an interesting obj...

Tables are everywhere, from scientific journals, papers, websites, and newspapers all the way to items we buy at the supermarket. Detecting them is thus of utmost importance to automatically understanding the content of a document. The performance of table detection has substantially increased thanks to the rapid development of deep learning networ...

Denoising diffusion models, a class of generative models, have garnered immense interest lately in various deep-learning problems. A diffusion probabilistic model defines a forward diffusion stage where the input data is gradually perturbed over several steps by adding Gaussian noise and then learns to reverse the diffusion process to retrieve the...

The small mayfly genus UlmeritusTraver, 1956Traver, J. R., 1956. A new genus of Neotropical mayflies (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 58, 1-13. currently includes three species of Neotropical Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera) distributed in southern South America in the Pampean and Atlantic Forest dominions: U. carbonelli (...

Strategic Decision-Making is always challenging because it is inherently uncertain, ambiguous, risky, and complex. It is the art of possibility. We develop a systematic taxonomy of decision-making frames that consists of 6 bases, 18 categorical, and 54 frames. We aim to lay out the computational foundation that is possible to capture a comprehensiv...

Functional data clustering is to identify heterogeneous morphological patterns in the continuous functions underlying the discrete measurements/observations. Application of functional data clustering has appeared in many publications across various fields of sciences, including but not limited to biology, (bio)chemistry, engineering, environmental...

The XIV International Symposium of Neuropterology (ISN) was held online, between May 23rd and 27th of 2022, with the Universidade Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil as responsible for the event. This event was carried out for and by researchers with interest in any aspects of biology, systematics, taxonomy, natural history, evolution, and appl...

This pilot study is the first attempt to describe the bioaerosol composition found in Athens' urban air by DNA barcoding. There are currently limitations in establishing a direct link between fungal exposure and health effects due to shortcomings of existing sampling and analysis methods, among other reasons. New sampling technologies and molecular...

Charles Valentine Riley (1843-1895) is an icon of American entomology. His contributions to insect ecology, economic entomology, and insect systematics/ taxonomy are a sampling of an impactful career that still resonates today. His insect collection, at the time, was one of the largest general collections in North America and served as the basis fo...

Resumo A utilização de fotos e descrições de otólitos de peixes é uma ferramenta útil para estudos que incluem: sistemática, taxonomia, identificação de peixes em conteúdo estomacal e classificação da cadeia trófica. Neste estudo, caracterizamos a morfologia dos otólitos em nove espécies de peixes, distribuídas em cinco famílias e duas ordens proce...

The (IoT) paradigm’s fundamental goal is to massively connect the “smart things” through standardized interfaces, providing a variety of smart services. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) include both physical and cyber components and can apply to various application domains (smart grid, smart transportation, smart manufacturing, etc.). The Digital Twin...

We describe four new nodulose-spored species of Inocybe from tropical regions of Africa: I. beninensis, I. flavipes, I. fuscobrunnea and I. pallidiangulata. The new species are recognised based on morphological data and phylogenetic analyses of ITS, 28S and RPB2 sequences. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that I. flavipes and I. beninensis are part...

The rapid and accurate taxonomic identification of fossils is of great significance in paleontology, biostratigraphy, and other fields. However, taxonomic identification is often labor-intensive and tedious, and the requisition of extensive prior knowledge about a taxonomic group also requires long-term training. Moreover, identification results ar...

In recent years, one of the most popular techniques in the computer vision community has been the deep learning technique. As a data-driven technique, deep model requires enormous amounts of accurately labelled training data, which is often inaccessible in many real-world applications. A data-space solution is Data Augmentation (DA), that can artif...

This paper presents the results of a pilot interview study investigating the leisure reading habits of 20 practising AI researchers based in the United Kingdom. The interview analysis yields six areas in which literature plays a role in the field of AI: research focus, career choice, community formation, science communication, ethical thinking, and...

Chromosomes as Sources of Taxonomic Information for Plant Systematics and Evolution Abdelfattah Badr1* and Hanaa H. El-Shazly2 1Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Ain Helwan, 11790 Cairo, Egypt 2Department of Biological Sciences and Geology, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Roxy, 11341 Cairo, Egy...

Estuaries are nutrient-rich environments with a gradient of fresh to salt water. They support high primary productivity and an abundance of zooplankton. Estuaries are used by many fish as nursery grounds because their environmental conditions provide abundant food for larval and adult fish. Ichthyoplankton, which comprise fish eggs and larvae, are...

International trade and globalization have led to the continual accidental introduction of organisms beyond their natural range of distribution. At the same time, the increasing needs for food coverage on a global scale demand the intentional introduction of organisms in order to optimize food production. These often include several species of para...

Anthidiini comprise a large, diversified, and widely distributed tribe of megachiline bees. Recently, morphological and molecular analyses recovered five major monophyletic groups within the tribe. For this reason, we review the current classification of the tribe, giving status of subtribe to these lineages. A new subtribe, Epanthidiina (type genu...

A journal of world insect systematics Mondaca J, Beéche M. 2022. A new genus for Stromatium chilensis Cerda, 1968 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Hesperophanini) from Chile. Insecta Mundi 0930: 1-7. Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non-marine arthropod. Topics consider...

Clustering and closure coefficients are among the most widely applied indicators in the description of the topological structure of a network. Many distinct definitions have been proposed over time, particularly in the case of weighted networks, where the choice of the weight attributed to the triangles is a crucial aspect. In the present work, in...

Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.) complex has two or more sympatric forms in many lakes representing a subject for discussions on the mechanisms of their origin and taxonomic status. To determine the number of sympatric forms in three large lakes of the Norilo-Pyasinskaya water system (Taimyr) and their reproductive and phylogenetic relationship...

The Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) is an emerging mobility technology that may hold a paradigm-changing potential for the future of transport policy and planning. Despite a wealth of likely benefits that have made their eventual launch inescapable, CAVs may also be a source of unprecedented disruption for tomorrow's travel eco-systems becau...

Due to the advantages of economics, safety, and efficiency, vision-based analysis techniques have recently gained conspicuous advancements, enabling them to be extensively applied for autonomous constructions. Although numerous studies regarding the defect inspection and condition assessment in underground sewer pipelines have presently emerged, we...

Rafael Araujo comenzó a trabajar en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales allá por el año 1985. Entró, como muchos de nosotros, a través de aquellos contratos que se realizaban mediante un convenio entre el INEM y el CSIC. Y trabajó en la colección de Invertebrados. En aquellos años, esta colección estaba prácticamente sin recuperar. Necesitaba un lavado...

Dinomyidae is a family of rodents including one extant species, Dinomys branickii, but with a high past diversity. Gyriabrus is a large dinomyid with euhypsodont cheek teeth and an occlusal pattern that changes throughout the ontogeny of the animal. Eight species of Gyriabrus have been described in the late Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina, Uruguay...

A journal of world insect systematics Szadziewski R, Grogan WL Jr., Sontag E, Bojarski B. 2022. A new genus of predatory midge in the Monohelea complex from Eocene Baltic amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi 0919: 1-9. Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non-marine arth...

Species identification for spawning corals relies heavily on morphology. Recent molecular phylogenetic approaches have demonstrated the limits of traditional coral taxonomy based solely on skeletal morphology. Merulinidae is considered a complex taxonomic group, containing 24 genera and 149 species. This family is one of the most taxonomically chal...