What's in a taxon?

What's in a frog stomach? Solving a 150-year-old mystery (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

The nominal taxon Acanthosoma chrysalis Mayer, 1844 is revised, and a lectotype is designated. The species, which was described from Germany from a number of alleged parasites encysted in the peritoneal wall of the stomach of edible frogs, is shown to be based on first instar larvae of blow flies (Calliphoridae). Argued from the shape and configuration of mouthhooks and abdominal cuticular spin...

Penicillium albocoremium, a new taxon from tulip bulbs in Iran

In recent years, tulip flowers have been grown extensively in parks and green spaces of Urmia city (NW Iran). During the surveys in a period from 2014–16, characteristic symptoms of the blue mold rot were observed on both planted and stored tulip bulbs, as the bulbs were covered with a white to bluish-green mycelia and spores. In order to determine the fungi associated with tulip bulbs (Tulipa ...

Biostratigraphic Correlation of Elikah Formation in Zal Section (Northwestern Iran) with Ruteh and Type Sections in Alborz Mountains Based on Conodonts

Conodonts are the most important fossil remains from the largest Phanerozoic extinction as well as the mass extinction of the late Paleozoic and could be used for exact dating during this period. Triassic deposits located in the Elikah Formation contain exposures in most of the Alborz sections as well as the Zal section in northwestern Iran. In this study, the Elikah Formation was investigated ...

Reply to Bortolus: what's in a name?

r guides for authors should implement more stringen requirements for citing taxonomic materials or processe used to arrive at species names for publication in ecologica journals [1]. Although we agree with the general sentimen that greater diligence is necessary when attributing spe cies names to taxonomic units, the suggestions he has pu forward are unrealistic, and could diminish, rather than...

Syndrome X: what's old, what's new, what's etiologic?