The trilobiteProtostygina and the composition of the Styginidae, with two new genera

The Styginidae is regarded as an exclusively Ordovician family of trilobites, separate from the Scutelluidae. The hitherto poorly known genusProtostygina Prantl &P?ibyl, 1949 is revised. It is recorded with certainty only from the Llanvirn of the Czech Republic, and the type species is a senior synonym of“Raymondaspis” rubensi rubensi P?ibyl &VANěK, 1968 and“R.” rubensi lybar ?najdr, 1976. Two new styginid genera are proposed:Cyrtocybe, with type species“Raymondaspis” turgida Whittington, 1965, is known from the upper Arenig and lower Llanvirn of Newfoundland, Maine and Norway; andPromargo, with type speciesP.forteyi n. sp., occurs in the Arenig of Newfoundland and Spitsbergen.Turgicephalus Fortey, 1980 is regarded as a junior synonym ofRaymondaspis P?ibyl inPrantl &P?ibyl, 1949. Three genera are excluded from the Styginidae:Kirkdomina Tripp, 1962,Pseudostygina Zhou inZhou et al., 1982 andStyginella P?ibyl &Vaněk, 1971.     

Taxonomic status of the belemnite genusBelemnopsis Bayle 1878

The Tethyan genus “Belemnopsis” of authors, notBayle 1878, includes 110–120 Bajocian to Hauterivian belemnite species and subspecies from Europe and the southern hemisphere. Its type species,Belemnites sulcatus Miller 1826 from the Callovian to Oxfordian of England, belongs to the Boreal belemnite genusLagonibelus Gustomesov 1956, since Phillips selected a lectotype for it in 1870. But the subsequent designation of the type species byDouvillé in 1879 is invalid according to Art. 67 (h) ICZN, and consequentlyBelemnopsis Bayle gets a nomen dubium. It is also a homonym ofBelemnopsis Edwards inGray 1849, and has, therefore, to be replaced byPachybelemnopsis Riegraf 1980, a junior subjective synonym, the family Belemnopseidae Naef 1922 by MesohibolitidaeNerodenko 1983, and the suborder BelemnopseinaJeletzky 1965 by PachybelemnopseinaRiegraf inRiegraf et al. 1998.     

Lichenes novi quorum isotypi in fasciculo sexagesimo septimo collectionis “Lichenes selecti exsiccati” distribuentur

Diagnoses of the following 6 new lichen species are presented:Bacidia colchica Vězda sp. n.Buellia multispora Kalb etVězda sp.n.,Huilia circumnigrata Vězda sp.n.,Pyrenopsis sojakii Vězda sp.n.,Ramalina euxini Vězda sp.n. andStrangospora senecionis Lambinon etVězda sp.n. The isotypes will be distributed in fasc. 67 of the “Lichenes selecti exsiccati” (issued by the Botanical Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Pr?honice near Praha).     

LignicolousHyphomycetes from Czechoslovakia 5.Septonema,Hormiactella andLylea

Three genera of lignicolousHyphomycetes Septonema Corda,Hormiactella Saac. andLylea Morgan-Jones are discussed. Illustrations and determination keys are provided. Five species ofSeptonema—S. fasciculare (Corda) Hughes,S. leptaleum (Ellis & Harkn.) Hughes,S. pinicola Hol.-Jech.,S. secedens Corda andS. laricium Hol.-Jech.—and two species ofHormiactella—H. fusca (Preuss) Sacc. andH. asetosa Hol.-Jech.—have been found in Czechoslovakia. A new speciesS. pseudobinum Hol.-Jech. is described from Romania.Septonema tetracoilum (Corda Hughes is accommodated in the genusLylea Morgan-Jones.     

Principal component analysis of the relationship between the d-amino acid concentrations and the taste of the sake

We performed sensory evaluations on 141 bottles of sake and analyzed the relationship between the d-amino acid concentrations, and the taste of the sake using principal component analysis, which yielded seven principal components (PC1–7) that explained 100 % of the total variance in the data. PC1, which explains 33.6 % of the total variance, correlates most positively with strong taste and most negatively with balanced tastes. PC2, which explains 54.4 % of the total variance, correlates most positively with a sweet taste and most negatively with bitter and sour tastes. Sakes brewed with “Kimoto yeast starter” and “Yamahaimoto” had high scores for PC1 and PC2, and had strong taste in comparison with sakes brewed with “Sokujo-moto”. When present at concentrations below 50 μM, d-Ala did not affect the PC1 score, but all the sakes showed a high PC1 score, when the d-Ala was above 100 μM. Similar observations were found for the d-Asp and d-Glu concentrations with regard to PC1, and the threshold concentrations of d-Asp and d-Glu that affected the taste were 33.8 and 33.3 μM, respectively. Certain bacteria present in sake, especially lactic acid bacteria, produce d-Ala, d-Asp and d-Glu during storage, and these d-amino acids increased the PC1 score and produced a strong taste (Nojun). When d- and l-Ala were added to the sakes, the value for the umami taste in the sensory evaluation increased, with the effect of d-Ala being much stronger than that of l-Ala. The addition of 50–5,000 μM dl-Ala did not effect on the aroma of the sakes at all.     

LignicolousHyphomycetes from Czechoslovakia 6.Spadicoides andDiplococcium

Seventeen species belonging toSpadicoides Hughes andDiplococcium Grove collected in Central Europe mostly in Czechoslovakia are described and illustrated. Two new species are described inSpadicoides—S. carpatica Hol.-Jech.,S. penatium Hol.-Jech. and three new species inDiplococcium—D. bicolor Hol.-Jech.,D. insolitum Hol.-Jech. andD. parcum,Hol.-Jech.     

Taxonomische Revision der GattungThelopsis Nyl. (Lichenisierte Fungi)

Die vorliegende Studie enthält Ergebnisse einer taxonomischen Revision der lichenisierten Fungi (Flechten) der GattungThelopsis Nyl. Die Gattung umfasst 6 Arten:Th. flaveola Arnold,Th. isiaca Stiz.,Th. lojkana (Poetsch exArnold)Nyl.,Th. inordinata Nyl.,Th. melathelia Nyl. undTh. rubella Nyl. Bei der Revision waren weder nomenklatorische Änderungen noch Beschreibungen neuer Taxa nötig. Näher wird die systematische Stellung vonThelopsis diskutiert. Im Vergleich mit den Hauptgruppen der lichenisiertenPyrenocarpi nimmtThelopsis, zusammen mit den taxonomisch noch nicht richtig eingereihten Arten“Clathroporina” heterospora Zahlbr. und“Microglaena” rosea Serv., eine systematisch bedeutend isolierte Stellung ein. Demgegenüber existieren reale phylogenetische Beziehungen vonThelopsis zur discocarpen GattungRamonia Stiz. (FamilicThelotremataceae s. ampl.) Es wird vorgeschlagen, die GattungThelopsis in die FamilieThelotremataceae einzugliedern.     

Lichenes novi quorum isotypi in fasciculo quinquagesimo tertio collectionis “Lichenes selecti exsiccati” distribuentur

Diagnoses of the following 5 new lichen species are presented:Lecanora casimceana Vězda sp. n.,Lecanora prominens Asta, Clauzade etRoux sp. n.,Ramalina pontica Vězda sp. n.,Usnea pseudoceratina Motyka sp. n. andUsnea tanzanica Motyka sp. n. The isotypes will be distributed in fasc. No. 53 of the “Lichenes selecti exsiccati” (issued by the Botanical Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Průhonice near Praha).     

Etagement des algues et des invertébrés sessiles dans l'Archipel de Glénan

The Glénan Archipelago was investigated, from the surface to a depth of 60 m, byScuba diving. Four distinct communities (“peuplements”) have been determined that fit into the system of zonation defined by the Genoa Symposium (1957). The results are compared with observations made in the English Channel (Cabioch 1968) and in the Atlantic Ocean (Glemarec 1971). Since illumination depends upon the angle of the rocky face, photophilic species exhibit a maximum range when the rock surfaces are horizontal. The sublittoral zone is dominated by laminarians. They form two distinct communities with the animal and vegetal species they overshadow. The upper community is characterized byLaminaria digitata (Linné)Lamouroux (horizontal rocky face from 0 to 6 m; vertical rocky face from +0.5 to ?3 m). The lower cummunity, characterized byL. hyperborea (Gunner)Foslie has a greater vertical extension (horizontal: ?6 m to ?26 m; vertical: ?3 to ?30 m). The circalittoral zone is colonized by several animal species growing in a ramified manner: the upper community is characterized by Axinellidae (?30 m), the lower byDendrophyllia cornigera (Lamarck) (?55 to ?60 m). Upright algae disappear somewhere between ?40 and ?47 m.     

Mathematische Auswertung von Daten für das Wachstum von Heringen der Nordsee

The parameters of the reciprocal function (“Reziprokfunktion”) for the growth of herrings(Clupea harengus) are calculated from older and more recent measurements. The logarithmic expression of the proposed reciprocal function is as follows: \(\log y_x = \log y_{max} - \frac{1}{{\chi + \xi }}\log N\) . Values less than 1 are found for the additive age (ξ). In further calculations 0.4 is used as the estimated mean value. Measurements made before the second world war yield ca. 30 cm for the maximum value (L_max). After this period the maximum values increase to ca. 34 cm. The Scandinavian and Atlantic herrings differ from North Sea herrings by higher maximum values. The values for the constant of velocity (log N) may be different for identical ξ and Y_max values. The velocity constant determines the position of the inflection point of the growth curve. The dimension, which is only dependent on the maximum value, is at the inflection point: \(\frac{{Y_{max} }}{{7,389}}\) . From the results ofSchumacher (1967) on the growth of 3 herring populations from the North Sea it was calculated that the values for the constant of velocity rise from northern to southern areas. A low value for the constant of velocity marks an early inflection point and a high velocity of growth before this point and vice versa. The growth of the 3 populations tends to almost the same maximum value; consequently, a high velocity before the inflection point is compensated by a lower velocity after this point and vice versa. The maximum velocity of linear growth at the point of inflection is given by the expression \(\frac{{Y_{max} }}{{4,25 \cdot \log N}}\) . This expression may possibly be a useful device for quantitative comparisons of growth processes.     

Tres Lichenes novi Hawaiienses

Diagnoses of three corticolous species of Discolichenes from Hawaii are presented:Bacidia violascens K. Kalb etVězda sp. n.,Dimerella degeneri K. Kalb etVězda sp. n. andD. frederici K. Kalb sp. n. The isotypes will be distributed in fasc. No. 70 of the “Lichenes selecti exsiccati” (issued by the Botanical Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Pr?honice near Praha).     

Chromosome numbers in selectedHieracium species in the Krkonoše Mts. (the West Sudeten)

Chromosome numbers are given of 15 species of the genusHieracium L. s. str., representing seven species groups (in the sense of Flora Europaea, roughly corresponding to Zahn's “species principales”) from the Krkono?e Mts., N. Bohemia and SW Poland. For the first time chromosome numbers are reported forH. melanocephalum Tausch (2n=27),H. tubulosum Tausch (2n=36),H. schustleri Zlatník (2n=36),H. fritzei F. Schultz (2n=27),H. rohlenae Zlatník (2n=27),H. nigrescens Willd. (2n=36),H. decipiens Tausch (2n=36),H. atrellum Juxip inSchischkin etBobrov (2n=27),H. subnigrescens (Fries exNorrlin)Dahlst. (2n=36),H. sudeticum Sternberg (2n=36),H. pedunculare Tausch (2n=36),H. glandulosodentatum Uechtr. (2n=36),H. wimmeri Uechtr. (2n=27). InHieracium alpinum L. s. str. the number 2n=27 has been confirmed. The results show a high proportion of tetraploid taxa; no diploids have been found.     

Zur Syntaxonomie der natürlichen nitrophilen Saumgesellschaften in der Tschechoslowakei und zur Gliederung der KlasseGalio-Urticetea

In der vorgelegten Arbeit wird die syntaxonomische Problematik der natürlichen und naturnahen nitrophilen Saumgesellschaften der VerbändeConvolvulion sepium Tx. exOberd. 49 undPetasition officinalis Sillinger 33 em.Kopecký hoc loco gelöst. Die zönologische Charakteristik beider Verbände erforderte bestimmte Änderungen in der Abgrenzung der übergeordneten Vegetationseinheiten: Die Aufteilung der ursprünglichen KlasseArtemisietea vulgaris Lohm., Prsg. etTx. 50 ist unvermeidlich. Die nitrophilen Gesellschaften auf feuchten bis frischen Böden, die früher zusammen mit den ökologisch und zönologisch sehr abweichenden Ruderalgesellschaften der OrdnungOnopordetalia Br.-Bl. etTx. 43 em.Görs 66 in die KlasseArtemisietea vulgaris eingereiht wurden, sind neu in die genügend abgegrenzte KlasseGalio-Urticetea Passarge 67 em.Kopecký hoc loco eingegliedert. Nach der vorgeschlagenen Gliederung umfasst diese Klasse vier Ordnungen: 1.Convolvuletalia sepium Tx. 50 mit dem VerbandConvolvulion sepium Tx. exOberd. 49,—2.(?)Circaeo-Stachyetalia Passarge 67]—3.Petasito-Chaerophylletalia Morariu 67 mit dem VerbandPetasition officinalis Sillinger 33 em.Kopecký hoc loco,—4.Lamio (albi)—Chenopodietalia (boni-henrici) ordo nova, die mehrere Einheitengruppen anthropisch bedingter nitrophiler Ersatzgesellschaften enthält. In Böhmen, Mähren und der Westslowakei gehört zu demConvolvulion sepium-Verband nur eine einzige Gebietsassoziation, u. zw. dasCuscuto-Convolvuletum sepium Tx. 47 em.Kopecký hoc loco mit zwei Subassoziationen:Cuscuto-Convolvuletum sepium typicum subass. nova undCuscuto-Convolvuletum sepium aristolochietosum subass. nova.—Der VerbandPetasition officinalis Sillinger 33 em.Kopecký umfasst folgende vikarisierende Assoziationen: das westmitteleuropäischePetasitetum hybridi Oberd. 49 em.Kopecký hoc loco, das karpatischePetasitetum officinalis-glabrati Sillinger 33 und dasPetasito-Telekietum speciosae Morariu 67, das ausschliesslich in den ostslowakischen, ostpolnischen, sowjetischen und rumänischen Karpaten verbeeitet ist.     

Draba skrivanekii,eine interessante Art aus Montenegro (Jugoslawien)

In den Herbarien der botanischen Abteilung des Nationalmuseums in Pr?honice (PR) werden zwei Belege aufbewahrt, die vonRohlena alsDraba athoa Boiss. bezeichnet sind. Später ordneteRohlena selbst diese Pflanzen der ArtD. elongata Host mit Bezeichnung var.skrivanekii Rohl. zu. Durch eine Analyse des Herbarmaterials hat sich erwiesen, dass es sich um eine selbständige Art—Draba skrivanekii (Rohl.)Chrtek—handelt, die in den Gebirgslagen Montenegros (Kom Vasojevi?ki) wahrscheinlich endemisch ist. Die nächstverwandte Art istDraba athoa (Griseb.)Boiss.     

Foraminifera from the Silberberg Formation («Lower Oligocene») at Silberberg,near Helmstedt (Germany)

From the Silberberg Quarry, type locality of the Silberberg Formation (Martini &Ritzkowski 1968), some planktonic foraminifera are described:Globigerina officinalis Subbotina, Globigerina ouachitaensisHowe &Wallace,G. praebulloides leroyi Blow &Banner, G.praebulloides occlusa Blow &Banner which taxa are here suggested to form intergrading morphotypes within the range of variation of a population dominated byG. officinalis. In addition,G. cf.danvillensis Howe &Wallace is found. The planktonic fauna, together with some elements in the benthonic fauna, suggests a possible correlation with the Danville Landing Member of the Jackson Formation, Louisiana, traditionally ascribed to the Upper Eocene. There is some similarity with European Uppermost Eocene — Lower Oligocene faunas described by various authors. The Silberberg Formation was suggested to be a Neostratotype for the Latdorfian Stage of the Lower Oligocene byMartini &Ritzkowski (1968). It is suggested that the Silberberg Formation may well be coeval with the Upper Priabonian as proposed byCita 1969.     

Index of names of syntaxa typified in 1990

Following the “Index of new names” (Theurillat andMoravec 1993), the present work collects the names of syntaxa (in the sense of the Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature, BARKMAN et al. 1986) above subassociation rank typified in 1990. The list comprises 36 names of syntaxa; 2 names are given in addition to the “Index 1987” (Theurillat andMoravec 1990).