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The reduviid genus Sinea presently is represented in America north of Mexico by 10 species, one of which is Sinea complexa Caudell. This species has been listed from California east to Missouri and Illinois. In fact, it does not occur in Missouri and Illinois but is limited primarily to the West and Southwest. A new species, Sinea incognita McPherson, described herein, occurs from Maryland south to Georgia and west to Kansas and Texas. It closely resembles S. complexa, for which we provide distinguishing characters; J.E.M. designates a male lectotype and female paralectotype for Caudell's syntypes. A third species, Sinea integra Stål, currently known only from Mexico, shares with S. incognita and S. complexa the presence of spines and tubercles on both lobes of the pronotum rather than just on the anterior lobe as is typical of other Sinea spp. Because we discuss the three species in this article, and Stål did not designate a holotype for either of his two syntypes of S. integra (a male and female) deposited in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, J.E.M. also designates a male lectotype and female paralectotype for this species.

The Paleocene flora from Seymour Island, Antarctica, first collected by Nordenskjöld on the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903), was described by Dusén (1908) as having 87 leaf taxa making it one of the most diverse floras of this age in the Southern Hemisphere. The original descriptions of these leaf impressions included 37 pteridophytes and one conifer. Many species identified by Dusén were based on single fragmentary specimens. Major new collections housed at the British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, UK), together with the original collections held at The Swedish Museum of Natural History, form the basis for a taxonomic revision of the flora. This paper concentrates on the pteridophytes and conifers. The diversity is considerably reduced from Dusén's estimates with just three ferns (Cladophlebis aemulans, Cladophlebis seymourensis, Sphenopteris angustiloba) and two conifers (Araucaria imponens, Elatocladus seymourensis) recognized.

A complete account of nomina and type specimens of the viperid taxa described by the German herpetologist Theodor Reuss is provided. A list of new genera and subgenera created by Reuss is given. Nomina used in present Viperidae systematics are also mentioned and commented. Synonyms and chresonyms have been found in five genera: Bitis Gray, 1842; Crotalus Linnaeus, 1758; Macrovipera Reuss, 1927; Montatheris Broadley, 1996; Proatheris Broadley, 1996 and Vipera Laurenti, 1768. Forty-four taxa described by Reuss were found, and type(s) have been identified for 21 taxa. I propose the designation of lectotypes for Vipera coronis nigroides Reuss, 1925, Vipera (Pelias) coronis zamenoides Reuss, 1925, Vipera (Mesocoronis) coronis beroides Reuss 1927, Macrovipera lebetina cypriensis Reuss, 1933 and a paralectotype for Vipera coronis nigroides Reuss, 1925. Type material was identified in the Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt (SMF), Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino (MZUT), Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB), Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm (NRM), Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Collection Lorenz Müller, München (ZSM (SLM)) and in the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZMB), where the main part of the Reuss material has been deposited. Remarks on the usage of Reuss’s names for nomenclatural purposes are made.

As part of an investigation into the status of the near threatened Gotland grass snake, Natrix natrix gotlandica Nilson Andrén, 1981, endemic to the island of Gotland, we discovered that Linnaeus' type series of the common grass snake, Natrix natrix (Linnaeus, 1758), is comprised of specimens from three different currently recognized species. To stabilize the usage of the name Coluber natrix, we investigate Linnaeus' type series, and a specimen which Linnaeus in 1741 examined west of the Swedish city of Nyköping is designated lectotype. The lectotype has since been lost, and a newly collected specimen from the same locality is designated neotype for Coluber natrix. The neotype is deposited in the herpetology collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden, catalog number NRM 8260.

Ehrenberg established the genus Eunotia from Degerna Diatomite in 1837 and described eight species: E. arcus, E.faba, E. diodon, E. triodon, E. diadema and E. serra. In 1854 he added two more, E. bactriana and E. hexaglyphis. We have examined classical material labelled “Degernas” housed in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, which contains 37 taxa, including 10 Eunotia species. The species we observed are extremely similar to those reported by Ehrenberg.

SUMMARY‘Ana‐aosa’, one of the most common marine green algae in Japan, was described as Ulva pertusa Kjellman in 1897 from Hakodate in northern Japan. Ulva pertusa was considered to be a temperate species, with its native distributional range restricted to northeastern Asia. Although this species has been reported from various regions outside northeastern Asia, these records have been explained as non‐indigenous populations. Recently, on the basis of genetic data and nomenclatural priority, U. pertusa was synonymized with U. australis Areschoug, a species described in 1851 from specimens collected in South Australia. Based on genetic studies, Australian populations identified as U. pertusa had been considered to have originated from Japan. However, the published genetic data on U. australis in Australia have been based only on recent collections and no historical specimens have been examined. We tested the hypothesis that native (true) U. australis is an independent species of very similar morphology to U. pertusa, but that its natural domination of shoreline habitats has been suppressed by introduced populations of U. pertusa from Asia. In the present study, we extracted DNA from the type specimen of U. australis housed in the Swedish Museum of Natural History (S) and obtained DNA sequences of the chloroplast rbcL gene and the nuclear rDNA ITS2 region. Our results show that U. australis and U. pertusa are genetically virtually identical, confirming that U. pertusa is a synonym of U. australis. This suggests that the introduction of U. australis to Australia occurred by the middle of the 19th century, when the type was collected and before there was a direct shipping route between Japan and Australia. We speculate that the introduction of U. australis to Australia occurred as a secondary introduction from non‐indigenous populations in northeastern Asia, but not directly from Japan.

Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö ( née Andersson, 1891–1984), the famed Swedish palaeontologist, scientist supremo, variously dominated vertebrate palaeontology in the twentieth century. He revolutionized his subject by carrying out pioneering fossil-collecting expeditions to the Arctic, inventing new ways of preparing, describing, analysing and illustrating fossil agnathans and fishes, notably Devonian placoderms and Triassic bony fishes, and promoting tetrapod studies. Stensiö, with his student Tor Ørvig, presented the innovative Lepidomorial Theory. As head of the Department of Paleozoology (now Department of Paleobiology) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, he created the so-called Stockholm School with students and foreign researchers who took the ‘message’ back to their home countries. He was a pioneer explorer during the early 20th century, sometimes with his leading students, Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh, Erik Jarvik and Eigil Nielsen, collecting fossils in Spitsbergen, Greenland, Miguasha (Canada) and Podolia, building important collections and international connections. His legacy to science, and exploration are assessed.

Långbanshyttanite, a new low-temperature arsenate mineral with a novel structure from Långban, Sweden

Two catalogues on the Tertiary flora of Spitsbergen published by the Swedish Museum of Natural History

AbstractØrvig, T. (Section of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, S‐104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.) Palaeohistological notes. 4. The interpretation of osteodentine, with remarks on the dentition in the Devonian dipnoan Griphognathus. Zool. Scr. 5 (2): 79–96, 1976.—A renewed discussion of the ontogeny and structure of osteodentine (“trabecular dentine”) reaffirms the writer's earlier conclusions that this hard tissue forms initially as a system of bony trabeculae and achieves its final character of dentine by the development of denteons (instead of, as in bone tissue, osteons) on the margins of these trabeculae. In this connection remarks are given on the hard tissue surrounding the tritural columns of the tooth plates in various fossil and recent holocephalans. Osteodentine differs in conditions of mineralization, fibrous texture and growth from the vascular pleromin (pleromic hard tissue) of many dipnoan tooth plates with which it has on occasion been confused. In the Devonian dipnoan Griphognathus, the dentition is in certain respects suggestive of that in some elasmobranchs. — In connection with this paper, methods of investigating fossil hard tissue by the SEM are discussed.

Specimens of 12 species of birds from New Zealand and the Society Islands collected during Cook’s second voyage round the world (1772-1775) were described and illustrated by Anders Sparrman in Museum Carlsonianum (1786-1789). The Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm holds six specimens considered to be type specimens of some of those species. However, documentation discussed here indicates only three, spotted shag (Stictocarbo punctatus) and red-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae novaezelandiae) from New Zealand, and Tahiti lorikeet (Vini peruviana) from the Society Islands, are type specimens.

The HHUMTL22 cruise onboard R/V Helmer Hanssen was an initiative by The Arctic University Museum of Norway (UMAK) aimed at sampling marine fauna for the museum collections and various research projects undertaken at the museum. Researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Vienna also participated in the cruise. Cruise leader was Andreas Altenburger (UMAK).

The typification of the Linnaean name Buchnera asiatica is discussed. The name is lectotypified using a specimen from the Linnaean Herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm (S-LINN).

WITHDRAWN: Richard A. Reyment (1926–2016) – Ammonitologist sensu latissimo and founder of Cretaceous Research