Copeia back issues from August 2005:
Two New Species of Pseudoeurycea (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from the Mountains of Northern Oaxaca, Mexico
Aug 02, 2005; ... We describe two new species of salamanders of the genus Pseudoeurycea from mountains in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Pseudoeurycea papenfussi, a large, muscular member of the P. gadovii group, occurs near the peaks (just below 3000 m) of the highest mountains of the Sierra ...
Three New Species of Phrynopus from Central Peru (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae)
Aug 02, 2005; ... Three new species of Phrynopus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) are described from cloud forest and puna habitats in central Peruvian Departamento de Pasco between 3600 and 4390 m elevation, the latter is the highest known elevation of the genus. The new species have first finger shorter than second, ...
Comparative Food Habits and Body Size of Five Populations of Elaphe quatuorlineata: the Effects of Habitat Variation, and the Consequences of Intersexual Body Size Dimorphism on Diet Divergence
Aug 02, 2005; ... The comparative diet and body size of the Four-Lined Snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata), one of the largest and more vulnerable species of snakes in Mediterranean central Italy, were studied in five different habitats. Data given here collated both literature and original data. Overall, females were ...
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Fish Assemblage Structure in a River Impounded by Low-Head Dams
Aug 02, 2005; ... We studied spatiotemporal patterns of fish assemblage structure in the Neosho River, Kansas, a system impounded by low-head dams. Spatial variation in the fish assemblage was related to the location of dams that created alternating lotie and lentic stream reaches with differing fish assemblages ....
Sturisoma kneri, New Species, a Name for an Old Yet Poorly-Known Catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
Aug 02, 2005; ... Sturisoma kneri is a mailed catfish, endemic to the Lago Maracaibo drainage of northern South America. It was originally listed as Loricaria kneri and briefly diagnosed, cited as an unnamed species of Sturisoma in a type catalog of the Museo di Torino, Italy. In this work, the validity and ...
Testosterone Regulates Sexually Dimorphic Coloration in the Eastern Fence Lizard, Sceloporus undulatus
Aug 02, 2005; ... Adult male Eastern Fence Lizards (Sceloporus undulatus) possess blue and black ventral patches that function in sex recognition and intrasexual social signaling, but this ventral coloration is absent or greatly reduced in females and juvenile males. Adult males also exhibit a relatively uniform, ...
Osteology of the Quillfish, Ptilichthys goodei (Perciformes: Zoarcoidei: Ptilichthyidae)
Aug 02, 2005; ... The Quillfish, Ptilichthys goodei, is a slender, elongate fish distributed along the coastline of the North Pacific from Oregon to the Sea of Japan. It is the sole member of the monotypic family Ptilichthyidae, which is classified among the Zoarcoidei (eelpouts and their allies). Little is known ...
Reproduction of an Introduced Population of Eleutherodactylus johnstonei at Bucaramanga, Colombia
Aug 02, 2005; ... Comparative ecological data on introduced populations can contribute to understanding why Eleutherodactylus johnstonei is a good invader. We studied the reproductive features of an introduced population of this species and compared them with similar data on other introduced and native ...
Matrotrophic Transfer of Fluorescent Microspheres in Poeciliid Fishes
Aug 02, 2005; ... Fluorescent microspheres and confocal microscopy were used to assess matrotrophic transfer in livebearing poeciliid fishes. High levels of transfer occurred in an obligate matrotroph, Heterandria formosa, whereas low levels occurred in a proposed lecithotroph, Poecilia reticulata. Gambusia ...
Experimental Evidence of Female Choice in Lake Malawi Cichlids
Aug 02, 2005; ... To date, most research on sexual selection has focused on the discrimination between attributes of individuals of the opposite sex. We have demonstrated female discrimination of a male behavioral character, bower size, by experimentally manipulating bower height in a lek of cichlid fishes from ...
Grouped Tooth Replacement in the Oral Jaws of the Tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis (Perciformes: Lobotidae), with a Discussion of Its Proposed Relationship to Datnioides
Aug 02, 2005; ... Lobotes surinamensis is a widely distributed marine perciform and is the sole member of the family Lobotidae, which has unclear phylogenetic affinities. In this paper we describe and illustrate a mode of tooth replacement in Lobotes that we name "grouped" tooth replacement. Lateral oral teeth ...
New Arrangement in the Synonymy of Megalechis Reis, 1997 (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae)
Aug 02, 2005; ... The recent examination of the holotypes of Callichthys tharacatus and Callichthys longifilis led to important modifications in the nomenclature of the two species of Megalechis. Inspection of these holotypes demonstrated that they represent the species that has commonly been referred to in ...
A New Intergeneric Hybrid Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae) from Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters
Aug 02, 2005; ... A new hybrid flatfish (Isopsetta isolepis X Parophrys vetulus) is described from two specimens collected in the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound, Washington. Four putative parental species were selected based on morphological similarities to the hybrid. Principal component analysis was ...
MARGARET McBRIDE STEWART
Aug 02, 2005; ... MARGARET M. ("MEG") STEWART, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita at the State University of New York at Albany (University at Albany, SUNY), as noted in the UAlbany Magazine, is known fondly on campus as "the frog professor." Meg has had a distinguished career as an educator, researcher, ...
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS
Aug 02, 2005; ... GIBBS AWARD NOMINATIONS are solicited for the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH). The pri/,e is awarded for "an outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology" to ...
Etropus ciadi, a New Endemic Flatfish from the Gulf of California, Mexico (Pleuronectiformes: Paralichthyidae)
Aug 02, 2005; ... A new species of Etropus, E. ciadi, is described, and it is characterized by the following combination of characters: small size (maximum 92.7 mm SL); body depth generally more than 50% SL (47.1-60.6%, only 1.6% of 243 specimens less than 50%); head relatively small (22.1-26.6% SL); deciduous ...
Revision of the Genus Asterorhombus (Pleuronectiformes: Bothidae)
Aug 02, 2005; ... A recent definition of Asterorhombus is composed of only two characters: lack of sexual dimorphism; deep clefts in caudal bones (parhypural, hypurals, epurals). The genus currently contains seven nominal species: A. annulatus, A. bleekeri, A. osculus, A. cocosensis, A. fijiensis, A. intermedius, ...
Eleutherodactyline Frogs (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the Cordillera Yanachaga in Central Peru
Aug 02, 2005; ... A small collection of anurans from the Cordillera Yanachaga in central Peru revealed the presence of 10 species of Eleutherodactylus. Four of these species are unknown elsewhere and are described herein. Three of the new species are members of the immense Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, ...
Brachyplatystoma capapretum: a New Species of Goliath Catfish from the Amazon Basin, with a Reclassification of Allied Catfishes (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)
Aug 02, 2005; ... Brachyplatystoma capapretum n. sp., a pimelodid catfish from the Amazon River, is described and diagnosed by its fine, densely spaced outer jaw teeth and relatively few rows of straight, depressible inner teeth; juveniles with large dark blotches on and above lateral line; adults with ...
Pareiorhina brachyrhyncha (Loricariidae: Siluriformes): a New Species of Fish from the Paraíba do Sul Slope of Serra da Mantiqueira, Southeastern Brazil
Aug 02, 2005; ... A new species of Pareiorhina is described from the Ribeirão Grande and adjacent drainages, in the left bank of the Rio Paraíba do Sul basin, in São Paulo State, southeastern Brazil. Pareiorhina brachyrhyncha is uniquely diagnosed among its congeners by the reduction or absence of azygous plates ...
A New Species of Catfish of the Genus Clupisoma (Siluriformes: Schilbidae) from the Salween River, Yunnan, China
Aug 02, 2005; ... A new species of the schilbid catfish genus Clupisoma Swainson, 1838, was discovered in the Salween River [= Nujiang] of western Yunnan Province, China. There are no previous records of schilbid catfish from the middle reaches of the Salween River before this discovery. Clupisoina nujiangeiise, ...
The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in Color Variation of Tularosa Basin Lizards
Aug 02, 2005; ... An experimental approach was taken to evaluate the role of phenotypic plasticity in reptile coloration for three lizard species which exhibit dramatic variation in dorsal body darkness associated with different substrate environments. In southern New Mexico, blanched color morphs of Aspidoscelis ...
Systematics and Biogeography of the Genus Phallotorynus Henn, 1916 (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae), with Description of Three New Species
Aug 02, 2005; ... The genus Phallotorynus is revised and six species are recognized: P. fasciolatus, P. jucundus, P. victoriae, and three new species from the Paraná-Paraguay drainage, whose descriptions are provided. Phallotorynus dispilos, new species, can be distinguished from its congeners by its color ...
Trophic Ecology of Lapemis curtus (Hydrophiinae) along the Western Coast of India
Aug 02, 2005; ... Stomach contents were obtained from 165 individuals of Lapemis curtus. Food was present in 90% of the stomachs, but only on 59 occasions prey could be identified to family level. Five fish families constituted the diet of L. curtus of which, Clupeidae and Cynoglossidae dominate. There was no ...
Population Differences in Pre- and Post-fertilization Offspring Provisioning in the Least Killifish, Heterandria formosa
Aug 02, 2005; ... We used data from a long-term field study of two populations of the Least Killifish, Heterandria formosa, to examine whether genetically based population differences in offspring size at birth are mainly due to differences in pre-fertilization offspring provisioning (i.e., differences in egg ...
Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) of Idaho and Alaskan Origin (2n = 58) Share a Chromosome Fusion Relative to Trout of California Origin (2n = 60)
Aug 02, 2005; ... Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to identify which chromosome pairs are involved in the difference in karyotypes of three clonal lines of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): OSU with 2n = 60, Clearwater with 2n = 58, and Swanson with 2n = 58. These lines appear to have ...
Chemical Composition and Structure of the Eggshell of Three Oviparous Lizards
Aug 02, 2005; ... We investigated the structure of the eggshells of the oviparous scincid lizards, Lampropholis guichenoti and L. delicata, and the agamid Physignathus lesueiirii. The eggshells of all three species consisted of an outer calcareous layer, a fibrous shell membrane, and an inner boundary layer. The ...
DANIEL MORRIS COHEN
Aug 02, 2005; ... DANIEL MORRIS COHEN, best known to ichthyologists for his taxonomic studies of deep-sea salmoniform, gadiform, and ophidiiform fishes over the past 45 years, was born on 6JuIy 1930 in Chicago, Illinois (Anon., 2003a). Dan's father, Leonard U. Cohen, graduated from the University of Illinois. He ...
OBITUARIES: WILLIAM RALPH TAYLOR 1919-2004
Aug 02, 2005; ... WLLIAM Ralph Taylor, former curator of fishes at the National Museum of Natural History, died 7 November 2004 in Huntingtown, Maryland of renal failure and pneumonia. Ralph, as he was universally known, was born in 1919 in Spring Hill, Kansas, a small town near the eastern border of the state, ...