Pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) is an important crop in Mauritius that cultivated throughout the island. The annual production was 7,412 tonnes 2019 and pumpkin also exported to foreign countries (Food Agricultural Research Extension Institute, 2020). In November 2020, on a plantation super-humid zone Cluny, plants showing yellow lesions with pale pink fungal growth upper leaves were observed (Figur...

Minke whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Lacépède), have been considered a rare species in Hawaiian waters due to limited sightings during visual and aerial surveys. However, our research suggests that they are more common than previously considered. In spring 2005, a combined visual-acoustic survey of cetaceans in Hawaiian waters resulted in the sighting of a minke whale within 22 km of Kaua‘...

•Benhamipolynoe cairnsi, n. sp. from deep-water (398 m) off Queensland, Australia, was found in close symbiotic relationship with the unusual, unattached stylasterid coral Conopora adela Cairns. The coral grows around the polynoid, enclosing it in a coiled tube. The species is compared with the type species of the genus, B. antipathicola (Benham), from off New Zealand, found in latticed tunnels...

Examination of the pharyngeal apparatus of 22 species of catostomids reveals three types of bones and teeth associated with different dietary habits. The mollusk feeders Moxostoma hubbsi and M . carinatum have 21-42 large, molariform teeth on each of the heavy pharyngeal bones. The teeth occlude with a chewing pad borne by the basioccipital and are well-adapted for crushing shells. Most catosto...

-Calaxius carneyi, new species (Axiidae), is described from two male specimens collected by manned submersibles working near hydrocarbon seeps in deep waters (544 m) on the continental slope off Louisiana, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Both specimens were taken adjacent to communities of clams that comprise a major constituent of chemosynthetic assemblages at the collection site. The new spec...

Redescription of Culex (Melanoconion) oedipus Root and of Cx. (Mel.) plectoporpe Root, as well as the description of a new one, named Cx. (Mel.) rabelloi, are made. The material was collected in S.Paulo State, Southern Brazil. The descriptions include adults, pupal and larval stages, illustrating the morphological aspects and with pictures of breeding places. Some data about known distribution ...

Pleodendron costaricense, a very rare, lowland rainforest tree known from southern Pacific Costa Rica is described and illustrated. Its only congener, P. macranthum, grows about 2000 km to the northeast, in Puerto Rico. The only other member of the family Canellaceae known from Central America is the mostly West Indian, Canella winterana, which reaches the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. rEsumEn. ...

The nutria or coypu (Myocastor coypus) is a rodent native to South America that has been introduced almost worldwide since the early 1900’s, originally with the intent of fur farming in many cases. The nutria is a large (over 6 kg), semi-aquatic rodent with a voracious appetite and high reproductive potential. Nutria became established in the Louisiana wetlands in the 1930’s. The habitat proved...