A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from Morocco (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Lourenço, Wilson R.; Ythier, Eric; Leguin, Elise-Anne

doi:10.18590/euscorpius.2009.vol2009.iss89.1

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“…Regarding 16S sequences, one sample of S. p. pellegrini was removed after quality filtering. Moreover, another sample from S. p. chabanaudi whose diet was mainly constituted by Androctonus gonneti DNA was also removed owing to a strong suspicion that it was a laboratory contaminant, because this scorpion species is exclusive to desert areas from Africa (Lourenço & Qi, 2007) and the haplotype was identical to one amplified previously in the same laboratory. Sequence clustering resulted in a total of 84 identified OTUs, of which 18% belonged to host, protists and sequences considered unidentified.…”

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DNA metabarcoding to assess diet partitioning and feeding strategies in generalist vertebrate predators: a case study on three syntopic lacertid lizards from Morocco

Pereira

Xavier

Perera

et al. 2019

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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DNA metabarcoding is a fast and simple alternative to traditional microscopy methods, which have been the main tool for identification of prey in dietary studies of lizards. In this study, we applied a metabarcoding approach based on COI and 16S rRNA amplicons to assess diet partitioning and feeding strategies in three syntopic lizards from Taza, Morocco: Scelarcis perspicillata chabanaudi, Scelarcis perspicillata pellegrini and Podarcis vaucheri. In order to avoid competition, these lizards are expected to consume different prey species because they occupy distinct trophic niches, use different foraging strategies and express different dorsal pigmentation patterns. Given the spotted pattern of S. p. chabanaudi, we hypothesize a sit-and-wait foraging strategy with a less diverse diet and a higher consumption of mobile prey relative to the striped S. p. pellegrini and P. vaucheri which, as potential active foragers, are expected to have a higher diet diversity. Previous diet assessments using microscopy on faecal remains seem to contradict these expectations. Our results show that, as expected, the diet of S. p. chabanaudi is less diverse than the diet of S. p. pellegrini. Regarding P. vaucheri, our dietary data are consistent with the hypothesis that this species behaves as an active forager, owing to its high niche overlap with S. p. pellegrini. Advantages and limitations of molecular barcoding compared with the microscopy approach to the analysis of lizard diets are discussed.

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DNA metabarcoding to assess diet partitioning and feeding strategies in generalist vertebrate predators: a case study on three syntopic lacertid lizards from Morocco

Pereira

Xavier

Perera

et al. 2019

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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“…It was partially revised by Vachon (1952), but since then it has been catalogued first by Fet & Lowe (2000) and last by Turiel (2013). Between these two compilations, many species were described as new, resurrected from synonymy, or raised from subspecies to species level (Lourenço, 2005(Lourenço, , 2008Lourenço & Qi, 2006, 2007Lourenço et al, 2009Lourenço et al, , 2012Kovařík & Ahmed, 2013).…”

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A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from northwestern Egypt (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Teruel¹,

Kovařík²,

Turiel³

2013

Euscorpius

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Androctonus tenuissimus sp. n. from two coastal localities placed in northwestern Egypt is herein described, an addition that represents the fifth species of this genus confirmed to occur in this North African country. It is most closely related only to Androctonus bicolor Ehrenberg, 1828, which is widely distributed across northeast Africa and the Middle East and also occurs in Egypt. Both are the only species in the genus whose adults of both sexes show the following combination of three diagnostic characters: coloration uniformly blackish, pedipalp chelae conspicuously narrower than patella in adults, and pedipalp fingers with basal lobe/notch combination entirely absent. However, these two taxa can readily be distinguished by very marked differences in appendage attenuation, body sculpture and counts of principal rows of denticles on pedipalp fingers, among other characters.

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“…With the contribution by Lourenço [ 25 ], a few species have been synonymised, some subspecies raised to the rank of species and new species described. After the publication of this first clarification on the taxonomy of Androctonus , more new species have been added to the genus [ 27 – 33 ]. Presently, the genus Androctonus contains about 20 species, some of which require reinvestigation.…”

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Scorpion incidents, misidentification cases and possible implications for the final interpretation of results

Lourenço

2016

J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis

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The aim of this contribution is to bring general information on the classification and in particular on the specific identification of scorpion species dangerous to humans. Several generic groups are taken into consideration, but the Neotropical genus Tityus C. L. Koch, 1836 is used as a major example. The content of this paper is mostly addressed to non-specialists whose research embraces scorpions in several fields such as venom toxins and public health. Although efforts have been made in the last 20 years to create better links between ‘true scorpion experts’ and non-specialists who use scorpions in their research, such exchanges had never led to a consensus among those different branches of biological and medical research. Consequently, many cases of species misidentification and even more serious errors concerning scorpion classification/identification are often present in the specialized literature. In conclusion, it is suggested here that the frequent cases of misidentification observed in several reports may induce mistakes in the final interpretation of results, leading only to more inefficacity in the treatment of problems caused by infamous scorpion species.

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A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from Morocco (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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DNA metabarcoding to assess diet partitioning and feeding strategies in generalist vertebrate predators: a case study on three syntopic lacertid lizards from Morocco

DNA metabarcoding to assess diet partitioning and feeding strategies in generalist vertebrate predators: a case study on three syntopic lacertid lizards from Morocco

A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from northwestern Egypt (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Scorpion incidents, misidentification cases and possible implications for the final interpretation of results

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