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Six populations of  Gymnocalycium paraguayense and G. fleischerianum , endemics of Paraguay and until present considered ad two different species,were studies using macromorphology, micromorphology and molecular data ba...

Species of Pleurobranchus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Nudipleura: Pleurobranchidae) are commonly found worldwide, but there is a substantial amount of confusion regarding the ranges and identification of indiv...

The fossils of the India Muerta Formation (Neogene, Tucumán Province, Northwestern Argentina) include several vertebrate groups, mainly metatherian, xenarthran, and notoungulate mammals. Nevertheless, these remains have...

Trilobites were recovered from four cores of the middle Cambrian Earlie Formation in southwestern Saskatchewan. Fossils occur in silty mudstone with interbedded siltstone and limestone, deposited in the inner detrital be...

The Proterochampsidae includes several taxa of basal archosauriform reptiles recorded exclusively from the Middle and Upper Triassic of Argentina (Chañares and Ischigualasto Formations, Bermejo Basin) and the Middle and...

Paedotherium was the last representative of the pachyrukhines (Notoungulata, Hegetotheriidae), a small rabbit- or caviomorph rodent-like clade, with hypsodont and simplified dentition. In contrast to the Pliocene Paedoth...

The record of the genus Tapirus in South America is associated with the faunistic events of the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). The taxon is considered an immigrant of Holarctic origin. Although remains are sca...

Abstract The systematics of blind mole rats (Spalacinae), a group of highly specialized subterranean rodents, remain a subject of debate. Within the genus Spalax, the greater blind mole rat (Spalax microphthalmus...

The primary goal of the workshop “Meet the Chibanians” held at Novi Sad in 2023—and of the resulting papers—is to establish a broad consensus among the researchers on exactly how to describe the place of hominin ...

Tayassuidae is a family of pig-like Artiodactyla restricted to the New World. Despite its rich fossil history, they have received less attention from a taxonomic and phylogenetic perspective when compared to the Old Worl...

Abstract While different biosynthetic groups of secondary metabolites (micromolecules) rarely accumulate in the same plant species, one such group may replace another in morphologically related taxa. The use of micromole...

The subterranean rodent Ctenomys is the most polytypic South American mammal genus and one of the most speciose and rapidly diversifying mammal genera in the world. Its systematics is unstable due to the underlying accel...

Cystoliths are phytoliths of silica and calcium carbonate and are produced in a few groups of dicotyledonous angiosperms. Anatomical and, more recently, phytolith studies have recorded them in different families. In the ...

As the twentieth century neared its midpoint, paleoanthropology was in dire need of revitalization and some coherent concept of evolution.  Sadly, as introduced to paleoanthropology by Ernst Mayr in 1950, the Modern Evo...

This paper serves as a reply to the Commentary by Brown and Gibbons (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(9/10), Art. #12590) on our recently published paper on systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Lawley et al. PeerJ 2021;...

Scorpion genus Phoniocercus Pocock, 1893 (Bothriuridae) is endemic to the cold humid forests of the southwestern part of South America. Up to now the known distribution of the genus was restricted to the Valdivian forest...

A comprehensive study of the structural, cohesive and electronic properties of several stable, metastable and non-stable intermetallic phases (IPs) of the Ni–In and Ni–Sn systems have been performed by ab initio dens...

Dr. Carla Riva-Rossi has over 25 years’ experience studying the evolutionary ecology of anadromous fishes. She received an MS in biological sciences from the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de la P...

The Sumatran Elephant Elephas maximus sumatranus is an endemic species of Indonesia, currently classified as ‘Critically Endangered’. To ensure its continued existence, conservation efforts are crucial. One of the he...

Sideroxylon obtusifolium (Humb. ex Roem. & Schult.) T.D. Penn. is a tree species belonging to the Sapotaceae family, whose black berries can be consumed fresh or as jam. It is widely distributed in Mexico, Belize, Costa ...

Shape and age variation in dentition of Paleogene extinct native South American ungulates (Notoungulata) has been traditionally described using qualitative and quantitative approaches, and has played a controversial role...

A partir de la conmemoración del 50 aniversario de la Revista Folia Histórica del Nordeste, nos proponemos hacer un balance y reflxionar sobre su relación con la comunicación y discusión de los avances arqueológico...

The complete mitochondrial genome of Acheilognathus imberbis Günther, 1868, a small freshwater fish inhabiting tributaries of the Yangtze and Yellow River systems, was sequenced and characterized. The circular mitogenom...