murotoensis, KMNH-IvR-500827 G B. okinawaensis, KMNH-IvR-500833 H B. shibatai, KMNH-IvR-500836 I B. tanabensis, KMNH-IvR-500841 J B. watanabei, KMNH-IvR-500843. All specimens male.Figure 17. The b/c co-ordinate values with the noduli laterales. A specimens collected from Chichijima Island (which includes form localities of Burmoniscus aokii and B. boninensis), KMNH-IvR-500809 B B. daitoensis, KMNH-IvR-500813 C B. hachijoensis, KMNH-IvR-500816 D B. japonicus, KMNH-IvR-500820 E B. kagoshimaensis, KMNH-IvR-500823 F B. murotoensis, KMNH-IvR-500827 G B. okinawaensis, KMNH-IvR-500833 H B. shibatai, KMNH-IvR-500836 I B. tanabensis, KMNH-IvR-500841 J B. watanabei, KMNH-IvR-500843. All specimens male.Shigenori Karasawa / ZooKeys 607: 1?4 (2016)Figure 18. ML phylogenetic tree based on combined COI, 12S rRNA, and 16S rRNA sequence information. A specimen collected from a web site on Chichijima Island was applied within this analysis in lieu of specimens collected in the form localities of Burmoniscus aokii and B. boninensis. Bootstrap values exceeding 90 are shown at every relevant node.Japan. The other haplotype was located in species distributed in eastern Japan. It might be interesting to investigate the history of gene flow and migration of these species, but clarifying this topic would require additional evaluation beyond the objectives of the present study.Conclusions Based mainly on examination of type journal.pone.0054688 specimens and topotypic (or near-topotypic) material, I have re-described the morphological features and re-calculated zookeys.482.8453 a variety of indices that have been originally made use of for diagnosing and differentiating the eleven Japanese nominal species of Burmoniscus. They all exhibited little variation amongst species, and errors in a few of the original description may very well be demonstrated. MedChemExpress Necrostatin-1 According to these findings, it can be concluded that the species-level classification of Japanese Burmoniscus by Nunomura (1986, 2003a,b, 2007) is unsatisfactory, and rather it really is proposed that there is a single species of Burmoniscus in Japan, as very first proposed by Taiti and FerraraEleven nominal species of Burmoniscus are junior synonyms of B. kathmandius…(1991) and Kwon and Jeon (1993). Additionally, its morphological attributes are consistent with those of B. kathmandius, so these eleven nominal species in Japan must be treated as junior synonyms of B. kathmandius. The present study has largely settled the taxonomic problems regarding Brumoniscus species in Japan, but 1 dilemma still remains unsolved. Nunomura (1986) compared some morphological characteristics of B. japaonicus to these of S. truncata, however the taxonomic status of this latter species continues to be doubtful. It was described by Dollfus (1898) on specimens from Indonesia (Celebes and Flores), but his ajim.22419 description neglected some of the potentially diagnostic characteristics. Arcangeli (1927) recorded this species from Kyoto but it is not clear if these specimens are certainly conspecific with these from Indonesia. Clarifying the taxonomic status of S. truncata and the relationship with B. kathmandius demands observation of your holotype of your former, which I have not yet managed to locate. In the present stage of information, it may be proper to treat S. truncata and B. kathmandius as diverse species. Nevertheless, it is actually achievable that the specimens of S.