VOL. 53
 
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The auditory roles of the gas bladder and suprabranchial chamber in walking catfish (Clarias batrachus)
Yi Ta Shao1,2, I-Shiung Chen2 and Hong Young Yan1,3*
2
Survey of the genus Stegana Meigen (Diptera, Drosophilidae) from Taiwan, with DNA barcodes and descriptions of three new species
Yuan Zhang1, Shun-Chern Tsaur2 and Hong-Wei Chen1*
3
Development of the sea urchins Temnopleurus toreumaticus Leske, 1778 and Temnopleurus reevesii Gray, 1855 (Camarodonta: Temnopleuridae)
Chisato Kitazawa1*, Chikara Sakaguchi1, Hajime Nishimura1, Chiaki Kobayashi1, Tomomi Baba1 and Akira Yamanaka2
4
Morphological and genetic evaluation of the hydrocoral Millepora species complex in the Caribbean
Dannise V Ruiz-Ramos1,2, Ernesto Weil1 and Nikolaos V Schizas1*
5
Coral recruitment of a subtropical coral community at Yenliao Bay, northern Taiwan
Ming-Jay Ho and Chang-Feng Dai*
6
Purification and characterization of a specific late-larval esterase from two species of the Drosophila repleta group: contributions to understand its evolution
Vanessa F Lopes1, Hamilton Cabral2, Luciana PB Machado1 and Rogério P Mateus1*
7
The morphology, arrangement, and ultrastructure of a new type of microtrich sensilla in marine isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda)
Valiallah Khalaji-Pirbalouty
8
Model of potential distribution of Platymeris rhadamanthus Gerstaecker, 1873 with redescription of species
Dominik Chłond* and Agnieszka Bugaj-Nawrocka
9
Thermoregulation in captive broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris)
Luís AB Bassetti1*, Thiago S Marques1, Adriana Malvásio2, Carlos I Piña3 and Luciano M Verdade1
10
Concentrations of osmotically related constituents in plasma and urine of finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis): implications for osmoregulatory strategies for marine mammals living in freshwater
Aihuan Guo1,2, Yujiang Hao1*, Jingzhen Wang1,2, Qingzhong Zhao1 and Ding Wang1*
11
Does building activity influence web construction and web characteristics in the orb-web spider Zygiella x-notata (Araneae, Araneidae)?
Alain Pasquet1*, Julia Marchal2, Mylène Anotaux1 and Raymond Leborgne1
12
Long-term population trends reveal increasing importance of a Mediterranean wetland complex (Messolonghi lagoons, Greece) for wintering waterbirds
Vasilios Liordos1*, Fotis Pergantis2, Iris Perganti2 and Yannis Roussopoulos3
13
Occurrence and biological characteristics of glass eels of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica at the Cagayan River of Luzon Island, Philippines in 2009
Tatsuki Yoshinaga1*, Jun Aoyama2, Akira Shinoda3, Shun Watanabe2,5, Rhodora V Azanza4 and Katsumi Tsukamoto2,5
14
Genetic, morphological, and life history traits variation in freshwater snails from extremely high environments of the Andean Altiplano
Gonzalo A Collado1*, Hugo F Salinas2 and Marco A Méndez2
15
Distribution patterns of riodinid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) from southern Brazil
Ricardo R Siewert1*, Cristiano A Iserhard2, Helena P Romanowski1, Curtis J Callaghan3 and Alfred Moser4
16
Subsidies for a poorly known endemic semiarid biome of Brazil: non-volant mammals of an eastern region of Caatinga
Alexandra M R Bezerra1,2*, Ana Lazar2, Cibele R Bonvicino2,3 and Adriano S Cunha4
17
Temporal structure of the peritrich ciliate assemblage in a large Neotropical lake
Lúcia SL Safi, Nelson F Fontoura, Henrique J Severo and Laura RP Utz*
18
A new comparative study of zooplankton from oceanic, shelf and harbour waters, south-east coast, Jamaica
Kristoffer A Lue and Mona K Webber*
19
Effects of pine invasion on land planarian communities in an area covered by Araucaria moist forest
Simone Machado de Oliveira1, Piter Kehoma Boll1, Vanessa dos Anjos Baptista1,2 and Ana Maria Leal-Zanchet1*
20
Short-term effects of thermal stress on the responses of branchial protein quality control and osmoregulation in a reef-associated fish, Chromis viridis
Cheng-Hao Tang1,2*, Ming-Yih Leu2,3, Katrina Shao4, Lie-Yueh Hwang5 and Wen-Been Chang2,3
21
Genetic variability and divergence of Neutrodiaptomus tumidus Kiefer 1937 (Copepoda: Calonida) among 10 subpopulations in the high mountain range of Taiwan and their phylogeographical relationships indicated by mtDNA COI gene
Shuh-Sen Young1*, Yan-Ying Lee1 and Min-Yun Liu2
22
Geographic variation of the large-eared field mouse (Apodemus latronum Thomas, 1911) (Rodentia: Muridae) with one new subspecies description verified via cranial morphometric variables and pelage characteristics
Song Li1,2* and Shao-Ying Liu3
23
A new genus and eight new species of Amazonian cosmetines (Opiliones, Laniatores, Cosmetidae)
Adriano B Kury* and Carla ML Barros
24
Organization and evolution of a novel cervid satellite DNA with yeast CDEI-like repeats
Lei-Jiau Hsieh1†, Ya-Ming Cheng2†, Yi-Chun Wang3,4, Chyi-Chyang Lin5,6 and Yueh-Chun Li1,3,4*
25
Diet of the sea anemone Anthopleura nigrescens: composition and variation between daytime and nighttime high tides
Andrés J Quesada1*, Fabián H Acuña2 and Jorge Cortés1
26
Resource partitioning between incubating and chick-rearing brown boobies and red-tailed tropicbirds on Christmas Island
Joan Navarro1*, Rocio Moreno2,3, Lena Braun4, Carola Sanpera3 and Janos C Hennicke4,5
27
Revision of the spider genera Ariston O. P.-Cambridge, 1896 and Siratoba Opell, 1979 (Arachnida: Araneae: Uloboridae) with description of two new species
Lidianne Salvatierra1,2*, Ana Lúcia Tourinho1,3 and Antonio D Brescovit4
28
Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from marine environments in Taiwan
Li-Chun Tseng1†, Cheng-Han Wu1, Wen-Hung Twan2, Zhi-Can Tang3† and Jiang-Shiou Hwang1*
29
Distinct difference of littoral rotifer community structure in two mangrove wetlands of Qi'ao Island, Pearl River estuary, China
Nan Wei1 and Run-Lin Xu2*
30
Cryptic phenotypic plasticity in populations of the North American freshwater gastropod, Pleurocera semicarinata
Robert T Dillon Jr
31
Rainfall influence on species composition of the ciliate community inhabiting bromeliad phytotelmata
Paulo Roberto Bressan Buosi1*, Laura Roberta Pinto Utz2, Bianca Ramos de Meira1, Bianca Trevizan Segóvia da Silva1, Fernando Miranda Lansac-Tôha1, Fabio Amodeo Lansac-Tôha1 and Luiz Felipe Machado Velho1
32
A widespread problem: cryptic diversity in the Libyan jird
Timothy C Bray1,2*, Abdulaziz N Alagaili1,3 and Nigel C Bennett1,2
33
An enigmatic pygmy dormouse: molecular and morphological evidence for the species taxonomic status of Typhlomys chapensis (Rodentia: Platacanthomyidae)
Alexei V Abramov1,3*, Alexander E Balakirev2,3 and Viatcheslav V Rozhnov2,3
34
Genetic analysis of parthenogenetic capability and fecundity in Drosophila albomicans
Chia-chen Chang1 and Hwei-yu Chang1,2*
35
Life history traits of the Chinese minnow Rhynchocypris oxycephalus in the upper branch of Yangtze River, China
Yangyang Liang1,2, Xiaoyun Sui1,3*, Yifeng Chen1, Yintao Jia1 and Dekui He1
36
Diversity decrease of ant (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) after a forest disturbance: different responses among functional guilds
Tae-Sung Kwon1, Cheol Min Lee2* and Joo Han Sung2
37
The effect of increase in the temperature on the foraging of Acromyrmex lobicornis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Rodrigo Tizón1*, Juan Pedro Wulff2 and Daniel Valerio Peláez3
38
Resting metabolic rate and energetics of reproduction in lactating Eothenomys miletus from Hengduan mountain region
Wan-long Zhu* and Zheng-kun Wang
39
A global overview on the diet of the dice snake (Natrix tessellata) from a geographical perspective: foraging in atypical habitats and feeding spectrum widening helps colonisation and survival under suboptimal conditions for a piscivorous snake
András Weiperth1, Tibor Gaebele2, Imre Potyó1 and Miklós Puky1*
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Taxonomic review of the Sphecapatodes ornata group (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae), with description of one new species
Ming Zhang1†, Wen-Wen Chu2†, Thomas Pape3 and Dong Zhang1*
42
Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913, a new invasive copepod in Lake Faro (Sicily): observations on the swimming behaviour and the sex-dependent responses to food
Luciana Sabia1,2,4*, Marco Uttieri2, François G Schmitt3, Giacomo Zagami1, Enrico Zambianchi2 and Sami Souissi3
43
A predictive modeling approach to test distributional uniformity of Uruguayan harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones)
Miguel Simó1,2,3*†, José Carlos Guerrero3,4, Leandro Giuliani1, Ismael Castellano1 and Luis E Acosta5,6†
44
DNA barcoding of Palaearctic Ulidiidae (Diptera: Tephritoidea): morphology, DNA evolution, and Markov codon models
Tatiana V Galinskaya1*†, Anton Suvorov2*†, Mikhail V Okun3 and Anatole I Shatalkin4
45
Invasive lumbricid earthworms of Kamchatka (Oligochaeta)
Sergei V Shekhovtsov1*, Elena V Golovanova2 and Sergei E Peltek1
46
Male-male mounting and the unreliability of body size as a character for mate choice in male Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica Newman)
Paul V Switzer1*, Patrick S Forsythe2 and Kipp C Kruse1
47
Dietary variation and food selection by mayfly grazers in a subtropical mountain stream
Yi-Li Chuang1, Shu-Fen Yu1,2 and Hsing-Juh Lin1*
48
Application of insect songs in monitoring population density level of Locusta migratoria migratoria (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Yinliang Wang1, Qiuchen Huang2, Xue Zhang1 and Bingzhong Ren1*
49
Tidal variation in fish assemblages and trophic structures in tropical Indo-Pacific seagrass beds
Chen-Lu Lee1, Yen-Hsun Huang1, Chia-Yun Chung1 and Hsing-Juh Lin1,2*
50
Genetic identification method for two subspecies of the Indonesian short-finned eel, Anguilla bicolor, using an allelic discrimination technique
Chikaya Tanaka1, Fumiaki Shirotori1, Masaki Sato1, Mina Ishikawa1, Akira Shinoda2, Jun Aoyama3 and Tatsuki Yoshinaga1*
51
A new genus and species of the family Microdispidae (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with Oryctes nasicornis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and redescription of the monotypic genus Vietodispus Mahunka, 1975
Hamidreza Hajiqanbar* and Farahnaz Hosseininaveh
52
Spatiotemporal variations of zooplankton community in a shallow tropical brackish lagoon (Sontecomapan, Veracruz, Mexico)
Marcela I Benítez-Díaz Mirón1*, María E Castellanos-Páez2, Gabriela Garza-Mouriño2, María J Ferrara-Guerrero3 and Marc Pagano4
53
Seasonally flooded stepping stones: emerging diversity of small mammal assemblage in the Amazonia-Cerrado ecotone, central Brazil
Rita Gomes Rocha1,2,3*, Eduardo Ferreira1, Iracy Coelho Menezes Martins3, Leonora Pires Costa2 and Carlos Fonseca1
54
Food habit of the endangered yellow-spotted newt Neurergus microspilotus (Caudata, Salamandridae) in Kavat Stream, western Iran
Hossein Farasat and Mozafar Sharifi*
55
Altitudinal variation in body size and age structure of the Sauter’s frog Rana sauteri in Taiwan
Fu-Hsiung Hsu1*, Yi-Shan Hsieh1, Sheng-Hai Wu2 and Yeong-Choy Kam3
56
Genetic variation of the striped hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) and the impact of population density and environmental factors
Hui-liang Xue, Jin-hui Xu, Lei Chen and Lai-xiang Xu*
57
Morphological and molecular differentiation of genus Corbicula suggests that two species are sympatrically distributed in Datong Lake in the Central Yangtze River Basin
Gui-Ping Wang1, Ting Zhang2, Jian Zhang1, De-Liang Li1* and Tiao-Yi Xiao1
58
Secretory activity of mandibular organ fluctuates in response to reproductive season of the field crab Paratelphusa sp. (Brachyura; Decapoda): an ultrastructural study
SN Sarika1, N Gayathri2 and Anilkumar Gopinathan1*
59
Water mass transport through the northern Bashi Channel in the northeastern South China Sea affects copepod assemblages of the Luzon Strait
Wen-Tseng Lo1, Hans-Uwe Dahms1,2 and Jiang-Shiou Hwang3*
60
Influence of habitat heterogeneity on the assemblages and shell use of hermit crabs (Anomura: Diogenidae)
Hong Wooi Teoh1,2*, Muhammad Ali Syed Hussein1 and Ving Ching Chong2,3
61
Rice fields as facilitators of freshwater invasions in protected wetlands: the case of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in the Albufera Natural Park (E Spain)
Luis Valls*, Juan Rueda and Francesc Mesquita-Joanes
62
A comparative study of shell variation in two morphotypes of Lymnaea stagnalis (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)
Maxim V Vinarski
63
Out of New Zealand: molecular identification of the highly invasive freshwater mollusk Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) in South America
Gonzalo A Collado1,2
64
Feeding spectra and activity of the freshwater crab Trichodactylus kensleyi (Decapoda: Brachyura: Trichodactylidae) at La Plata basin
Verónica Williner1,2*, Debora Azevedo Carvalho1 and Pablo A Collins1,3
65
Biological traits and community patterns of Trichoptera at two Patagonian headwater streams affected by volcanic ash deposition
Cecilia Brand* and María Laura Miserendino
66
Influence of microclimate on the activity of Royle's pika in the western Himalaya, India
Sabuj Bhattacharyya1,2*, Bhupendra Singh Adhikari1 and Gopal Singh Rawat1
67
The diaptomid fauna of Israel (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae), with notes on the systematics of Arctodiaptomus similis (Baird, 1859) and Arctodiaptomus irregularis Dimentman & Por, 1985 stat. rev
Federico Marrone1*, Adam Petrusek2, Giuseppe Alfonso3 and Marco Arculeo1
68
Late Pleistocene fossils and the future distribution of Rana temporaria (Amphibia, Anura) along the Apennine Peninsula (Italy)
Saverio Bartolini1, Elisabetta Cioppi2, Lorenzo Rook1 and Massimo Delfino3,4*
69
Genetic structure of the Asian Grass Frog, Fejevarya limnocharis (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) of Peninsular Malaysia: a preliminary report
Amirah Hurzaid1*, Ibrahim Jaafar1, Zalina Awang1 and Siti Azizah Mohd Nor2,3
70
The effects of mite parasitism on the reproduction and survival of the Taiwan field mice (Apodemus semotus)
Jhan-Wei Lin1, Hsuan-Yi Lo1, Hsi-Chieh Wang2 and Pei-Jen Lee Shaner1*
71
Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of three rhombosoleid fishes and comparative analyses with other flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes)
Shu-Ying Wang, Wei Shi, Xian-Guang Miao and Xiao-Yu Kong*