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In broadening the understanding of the diversity, distribution and seasonality of gelatinous zooplankton of Sri Lanka, a survey (‘Waya-jel-Survey’) was carried out in coastal waters of the country from 2016 to 2020, and the collected specimens of pelagic tunicates were taxonomically identified. Further, a comprehensive literature survey was conducted and the previous records on the occurrences of pelagic tunicates within the exclusive economic zone of Sri Lanka were cross-checked and listed in developing the first-ever annotated checklist. Among the samples collected in this study, Pyrostremma spinosum and Thalia sibogae were reported for the first time from Sri Lankan waters while two more thaliaceans, i.e., Doliolum denticulatum and Pegea confoederata, and six appendicularians, i.e., Fritillaria borealis sargassi, F. formica digitata, Oikopleura cophocerca, O. fusiformis, O. longicauda, and O. rufescens were re-recorded. In total, forty species (including two subspecies) in 19 genera, belonging to five families from four orders of the classes Appendicularia (n = 17 species) and Thaliacea (n = 23 species) were reported to be inhabited in Sri Lankan waters. Most of the records were from the Laccadive Sea region while the majority of the species have been reported during the northwest monsoon (December to February) period.

Mesoscale features within the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) are known to influence zooplankton dynamics. Here we describe the composition of the zooplankton assemblage off shelf during summer in relation to environmental conditions, with emphasis on hyperiid amphipods and salps. Zooplankton samples were collected in summer of 2015 and 2016 in the central and southern GOM and in the Yucatan Channel in 2015. Two anticyclonic gyres were present in the north and less intense coupled cyclonic-anticyclonic gyres in the south. Zooplankton abundances differed temporally and spatially. Copepods were the dominant group (>55% of total abundance), while several less abundant taxa contributed to inter-annual and spatial differences. Amphipods and salps comprised Lestrigonus bengalensis(summer 2015),Anchylomera blossevilleiandPrimnospp. juveniles (summer 2016). Dominant salp species wereIhlea punctata,Iasis cylindricaandThaliaspp. Lower salp and amphipod species richness and abundance were associated with anticyclonic structures. Spatial and temporal differences were partly associated with symbiotic relationships between the groups. This study supports previous evidence of high spatial and temporal variability in zooplankton abundance in off-shelf waters of the GOM.

Thalia sibogae Van Soest, 1973 Thalia sibogae Van Soest 1973: 204, 205, Fig. 8; 1998: 235, Table 14.1. Kim et al. 2011: 147, Fig. 5. Purushothaman et al. 2017. Ishak et al. 2018: 454, 459���465, Figs. 4a���e, 5. Material examined. One solitary zooid (MDAFWU 2018 /85), St.133, January 2018 (Fig. 2D���F). Description. Solitary zooid: Transparent body bulky rounded with a very thick, smooth test, with two long (about one third of body length), tapering processes on the posterior end (Fig. 2D���F); length without processes 7 mm. Atrial palps fairly small and bifurcate (Fig. 2F); lateral projections very small, simple and not bifurcated (Fig. 2D, F); medioventral projections are small and of unequal length, the anterior ones are the smallest (Fig. 2E). Six body muscles broad; M I narrowly interrupted dorsally, M II���IV converged mid-dorsally, M V and M VI near but do not touch dorsally; M II���V in complete rings, M VI interrupted ventrally (Fig. 2D). Totally (M I���VI) 60 muscle fibers. The nucleus (stomach + intestine) is close to the middle posterior projection (Fig. 2D���F). Aggregate zooid: Not collected. Global distribution. The Central Indo-Pacific (Van Soest 1973, 1998; van der Land 2008); Korean waters (Kim et al. 2011); the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia (Ishak et al. 2018). Type locality: Pulu Sanguisapio, Tawi-Tawi Island, Sulu archipelago (Siboga -Expedition St. 93, 05��N, 120��E). Remarks. Although Van Soest (1973) did not observe lateral projections on the type material of T. sibogae, tiny lateral projections may exist with solitary zooids of T. sibogae according to Kim et al. (2011) and Ishak et al. (2018). Therefore, the Sri Lankan specimen resembles the specimens of Kim et al. (2011) and Ishak et al. (2018). The total number of muscle fibres (M I���VI) in solitary zooids of Thalia democratica (Forsk��l, 1775) shows a clinal variation, decreasing from higher to lower latitudes (Van Soest 1975b); and there is a possibility to be such a variation in T. sibogae, but data is not enough in the literature for comparison. Local name: Indi Gaduwa (in Sinhalese) [note: usually fishers use this term for tiny salps, while the Pegea -like larger salps are called ��� Rata-indi Gadu ��� in Sinhalese and ��� Pereechcham Katti ��� in Tamil]. Local importance: None [but, Pegea -like larger salps regularly clog into fishing nets (authors��� observations)]., Published as part of Karunarathne, Krishan D. & Croos, M. D. S. T. De, 2021, Pelagic tunicates (Appendicularia and Thaliacea) of Sri Lanka: two first records with an annotated checklist, pp. 352-376 in Zootaxa 5067 (3) on pages 358-360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5681899, {"references":["Van Soest, R. W. M. (1973) The genus Thalia Blumenbach, 1798 (Tunicata, Thaliacea), with descriptions of two new species. Beaufortia, 20 (271), 193 - 212.","Kim, S., Won, J. H. & Kim, C. B. (2011) Taxonomic study of the genus Thalia (Thaliacea: Salpida: Salpidae) from Korea. Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 27 (2), 142 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.5635 / KJSZ. 2011.27.2.142","Purushothaman, J., Hansda, S., Dey, J., Mohan, S., Basi, A. & Venkataraman, K. (2017) An annotated checklist of Thaliaceans (Chordata: Tunicates). Marine Biodiversity, 2017, 1 - 28. [published online] https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 017 - 0698 - z","Ishak, N. H. B. A., Adam, N. A. B. & Kassim, Z. (2018) A taxonomic revision of the genus Thalia Blumenbach, 1798; Weelia Yount, 1954; Brooksia Metcalf, 1918 (Salpida: Salpidae) from East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 4422 (4), 451 - 477. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4422.4.1","Van Soest, R. W. M. (1998) The cladistic biogeography of salps and pyrosomas. In: Bone, Q. (Ed.), The Biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 231 - 249.","Van der Land, J. (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Available from: http: // www. marinespecies. org / urmo (accessed 28 October 2020)","Forskal, P. (1775) Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium: quae in itinere orientali observavit. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 224 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 2154","Van Soest, R. W. M. (1975 b) Zoogeography and speciation in the Salpidae (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia, 23 (307), 181 - 215."]}

Resumo: Este artigo trata das Musas, de comedia e de Aristofanes. A associacao desses tres temas, todavia, vai restringi-los a um so: a Musa da comedia a quem os gregos antigos chamavam Talia. A abordagem dessa divindade na analise sera como uma voz, ou melhor, como o som do riso deseducado e irreverente provocado atraves da alegria, da correcao e ate mesmo do desejo de vinganca. Palavras-chave: musa; comedia; som. Abstract: This article is about the Muses, Comedy and Aristophanes. The association of these three themes, however, will restrict them to one: the Muse of comedy whom the Ancient Greeks called Thalia. This divinity is approached here as a voice, or rather as the sound of the impolite and irreverent laughter brought about by joy, correction, and even by the desire for revenge. Keywords: muse; comedy; sound.

Queiroziella gen. nov., a new genus of Psylloidea (Psyllidae, Ciriacreminae), is erected for five new species developing on the multipurpose tree Mimosa scabrella (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade): viz. Queiroziella erato sp. nov., Q. euterpe sp. nov., Q. melpomone sp. nov., Q. terpsichore sp. nov. and Q. thalia sp. nov. Another species from Paraguay, associated with an unidentified Mimosa species, is transferred to the new genus as Queiroziella borealis (Burckhardt, 1987), comb. nov., from Zonopelma (Aphalaroidinae). The new taxa are diagnosed, described and illustrated, and keys are provided for the identification of adults and immatures. Morphologically, Queiroziella resembles Heteropsylla which is also associated with mimosoid legumes and with which it may be closely related. As their host, the new species are restricted to Southern Brazil. Queiroziella euterpe, Q. melpomone and Q. terpsichore are reported from the states of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo, Q. thalia from Paraná and São Paulo, and Q. erato from Paraná. No clear phenological patterns were found though it seems that high psyllid populations coincide with new flush of the host plants. Despite that the psyllids occur sometimes in very high numbers, no visible damage could be detected on host trees. On the other hand, the honeydew of the psyllids may provide a food source for honey-bees during non-flowering periods of Mimosa scabrella.

Within Augochlorini, Augochlora Smith is one of the most speciose genera, with 118 species, and widely distributed groups, occurring from Argentina to Canada. The genus has a remarkable range of social behaviors and nesting substrate preferences. There are two recognized extant subgenera: Augochlora s.s., whose species nest in decaying wood cavities and Oxystoglossella, whose species nest in soil. To date, a single species revision is available for Central Argentina and Uruguay. In the present study we provide a revision of Oxystoglossella species occurring in Northeastern Brazil including the description of three new species: Augochlora bipunctata sp. nov., Augochlora modica sp. nov. and Augochlora tenax sp. nov. Herein Halictus eucnemis Vachal is resurrected from synonymy with Augochlora thalia Smith, and the lectotype of Halictus hemitomes Vachal is presently designated. Augochlora aurinasis is cited for Brazil for the first time. A key to the six species of Oxystoglossella occurring at Northeastern region in Brazil is provided. The three new species are apparently restricted to this region, being one of them probably linked to the Caatinga biome.

This article brings up to date the ceremony of assuming the teacher’s oath, ceremony used to be done during the educational system along the middle of the 19th century, until the first half of the 20th century. We consider that it has been essential to transliterate two oaths (one of Mihai Eminescu, the other of Antonie Cirillo), each of them belonging to one of the two centuries, to demonstrate the perpetuation of this ceremony during almost seven decades, its coerciveness to fullfil being not only a simple solemn demonstration, but something that emerges from responsibility and consciousness of eternal values.

Eight zooplankton samples from several stations along a line from the inner to the outermost part of Ambon Bay were studied. In the samples from the Inner Bay, the salp Thalia sibogae SOEST outnumbers all other groups. The competition for food is responsible for relatively low numbers of these groups. At the Outer Bay stations the Copepoda is by far the most abundant group.TGraphs indicating the numbers of specimens per m3 of each of the seventeen groups are given for three groups of stations, of which the central one appeared to be the richest.The Chaetognatha, Pteropoda, and oblong fish eggs were identified. Oxygen and reactive phosphorus are presumed to be more connected with differences in planktonic life in Ambon Bay than temperature and salinity.Because of the importance of the live-bait fishery, and the threat of increasing pollution, a call in made for more extensive surveys.

In the De decretis Athanasius claims that Arius ‘copied’ and ‘learned’ from Asterius. This study explores how this could have happened by arguing that in the writing of his Thalia Arius was influenced by Asterius’ Syntagmation. Besides complicating the literary and theological relationship between Arius and Asterius, this reconstruction provides the clearest evidence for the new perspective on Arius which has emerged in recent revisionist scholarship, and which argues that he is best understood as embedded within a theological tradition and as a catalysing participant in its efforts to articulate a theological vision. By dating the Syntagmation to about 322 and the Thalia to about 323 this study also gives qualified support to Rowan Williams's dating of some pre-Nicene events and discredits a recent attempt to position Asterius as having had a formative influence on Arius.

Il contributo studia la glossa etimologica e la relativa rappresentazione visiva della musa Thalia in Marziano Capella (I 28) e la congruenza dell’immagine con la Psiche delle Metamorfosi (IV 25 - V 1) di Apuleio. This paper studies the etymological gloss and the figure of Thalia in Marziano Capella (I 28). The representation of the Muse is similar to the image of Psyche in the Metamorphosis (IV 25 - V 1) of Apuleius.

Author(s): Srivastava, Pratyaksh K; Vyas, Nina; Jones, Jesse; Wong, Thalia C; Holliman, Kerry; Small, Adam J; Rao, Rashmi R; Dowling, Erin P; Finn, J Paul; Duckwiler, Gary R; Reardon, Leigh C; Aboulhosn, Jamil A; Ascher, Simon B; Hogeling, Marcia; Lluri, Gentian; Yang, Eric H

Frontispiece and dedication poems of Gerlachs edition of Sibylla Schwarz poetry openly refer to the early modern sibylline iconography by characterizing her as the “German” or “Eleventh Sibyl”. In the poems themselves other references are foregrounded, most prominent those to the apollonian muses Clio and Thalia, constructing a mythopoetic authorship and emphasizing the poetic quality of poetry in contrast to the prophetic. By giving him/herself a mythopoetic identity, the “I” transforms its poems into poetic heterotopias. In “Fretow”, they are given a concrete heterotopic counterpart. The poetic “Fretow” notably uncovers the reciprocal dependency of mythopoetic authorship and poetic heterotopia which characterizes Sibylla Schwarz’ poetic works.

Se presenta un estudio, efectuado con microscopía de luz y electrónica de barrido, de la morfología del polen de representantes nativos, naturalizados y cultivados de Zingiberales, que crecen en humedales rioplatenses y selvas subtropicales del NE de la Argentina. Las especies analizadas son Canna glauca y C. índica (Cannaceae), Heliconia psittacorum, H. brasiliensis y H. rostrata (Heliconiaceae), Thalia geniculata y Maranta leuconeura (Marantaceae), Musa acuminata × balbisiana y M. × paradisiaca (Musaceae), Strelitzia nicolai y S. reginae (Strelitziaceae), Alpinia zerumbet, Hedychium coronarium y H. gardnerianum (Zingiberaceae). Se encontraron granos esferoidales, oblados, apolares y heteropolares, inaberturados, con exinas delgadas e intinas gruesas con dos capas. Los tipos de ornamentación hallados son: equinados, típicos o micro-equinados, de Cannaceae, Heliconiaceae y algunas Zingiberaceae, muriformes, típicos o micro-muriformes (rugados, rugulados, areolados) y lisos, presentes en Musaceae, Strelitziaceae y Zingiberaceae. El polen de Thalia geniculata, los granos rugados de Musaceae y los areolados de Strelitziaceae se describen por primera vez, y se analizan rasgos, como las hebras de elastina y el polenkit, que aportan caracteres actualizados para el conocimiento de los taxones seleccionados, poco difundidos desde el punto de vista palinológico., A study of the morphology of the pollen of native, naturalized, and cultivated representatives of Zingiberales growing in the Río de La Plata wetlands, and Northeastern subtropical rainforests of the Argentina, was performed with light and electron microscopy. The analyzed species were C. glauca and C. indica (Cannaceae), Heliconia psittacorum, H. brasiliensis and H. rostrata (Heliconiaceae), Thalia geniculata and Maranta leuconeura (Marantaceae), Musa acuminata × balbisiana y M. × paradisiaca (Musaceae), Strelitzia nicolai and S. reginae (Strelitziaceae), Alpinia zerumbet, Hedychium coronarium and H. gardnerianum (Zingiberaceae). Spheroid, oblate, apolar and heteropolar, inaperturate grains were found, with thin exines, and thicker, two-layered intines. The ornamentation types were echinate, typical and micro-echinate, found in Cannaceae, Heliconiaceae, and some Zingiberaceae, muriforme types (rugate, rugulate, and areolate), and smooth or psilate exine surface ornamentations, present in Musaceae, Strelitziaceae and Zingiberaceae. Thalia geniculata smooth grains, Musaceae rugate grains, and Strelitziaceae areolate grains are described here by the first time. Other traits were analyzed, such as the presence of elastine threads and pollenkitt. All these characters contribute to an update of the knowledge of these selected taxa, scarcely known from a palynological point of view., Laboratorio de Estudios de Anatomía Vegetal Evolutiva y Sistemática

Resupination, i.e., the turn by 180°, arranges zygomorphic flowers in a suitable position for pollination. It is well-known from orchids, but also occurs in further angiosperm families. Within the genus Thalia L. (Marantaceae), T. dealbata has erect and T. geniculata pendulous inflorescences. Nevertheless, in both species the zygomorphic flower-pairs show the right position for pollination. Thus, resupination is expected in Marantaceae. To reconstruct spatial arrangement, flower development was investigated from meristem formation to anthesis. Early morphogenetic stages were analysed under the scanning electron microscope, late stages were documented by time-lapse records. Gravity experiments were added to test for plastic or genetically fixed flower-pair position. Flowers in both Thalia species develop almost identically. They originate from a common primordium and show the unusual floral organ sequence already described for the family. In T. dealbata , the flower-pair gets its final position by bending 90° backwards, while in T. geniculata a lateral rotation of 90° takes place shortly before anthesis. In both species, position is genetically fixed. Results clearly indicate that the flower-pairs in Thalia do not show resupination according to the given definition. Instead of the expected 180° turn in one species, flower-pairs in both species each dislocate for 90°.

2. Thalia sibogae van Soest, 1973 Thalia democratica var. orientalis (Takioka 1967) Thalia sibogae van Soest, 1973: 204 ��� 205, 1998: 239 fig. 14.3, table 14.3; Kim 2011: 147 ��� 149; Purushothaman et al. 2017 Specimens examined. A1: 1 solitary zooid, 1 aggregate zooid, 5��38'53.08"N, 102��58'39.07"E, April 2016; A3: 8 aggregate zooids, 5��40'51.01"N, 103�� 1'51.06"E, April 2016; A4: 1 solitary zooid, 1 aggregate zooid, 5��38'6.00"N, 103�� 3'48.06"E, April 2016; A6: 2 aggregate zooids, 5��39'50.59"N, 103�� 9'36.64"E, April 2016; C1: 1 aggregate zooids, 5��20'47.59"N, 103�� 8'59.91"E, Jun 2016; C2: 9 solitary zooids, 45 aggregate zooids, 5��25'33.93"N, 103��17'32.72"E, Jun 2016; C3: 8 solitary zooids, 30 aggregate zooids, 5��28'54.80"N, 103��22'55.42"E, Jun 2016; D2: 1 solitary zooid, 5��14'5.20"N, 103��16'36.04"E, July 2016; D3; 1 solitary zooid, 10 aggregate zooids, 5��15'50.06"N, 103��17'44.13"E, July 2016. Malaysia: East Cost of Peninsular Malaysia. UMTTn 0 0 0 5. Description. Solitary (Fig. 4a���c, 4e): 4.8���8.8 mm long. Test firm, rounded, and smooth except for test projections and edge around the oral aperture. Atrial palps is fairly small and bifurcate. Posterior projections fairly short. Lateral projections very short. Medioventral projections are small and of uneven length, upper one shorter than lower one. Muscle bands broad, MII ���IV touch dorsally, MV��� MVI near but do not touch dorsally. Number of muscle fibres 56���84. Aggregate (Fig. 4c, 4e): 4.8 mm long. Body oval with test bulkily rounding anteriorly. Test smooth. Anterior part is somewhat rounded, with posterior pointed pentagonally. The attachment organs variable in number and never protruding beyond test wall left posterior. Body muscles MI��� MIII and MIV ���MV fused over a short section. Muscle bands are wide, number of muscle fibres is usually 16. Gut forming a compact nucleus. The endostyle is short, only nearing to the MII. Ovary and embryo is situated on MIV, close to the nucleus. The gill is slender. Remarks. Solitary and aggregate zooids of this species were collected during this study. For solitary zooid, van Soest describe of his specimen as having no lateral projection, while Kim et al. in 2011 reported that his specimen has a very short lateral projection. In this specimen, because of the presence of the short lateral projection, we would say that this specimen is resembling Kim���s specimen. Aggregate zooid closely resembles the description by van Soest in 1973. Distribution. T.sibogae occurrence is very scarce. There are very few literature that record the presence of this species in their specimen. Distribution from Pacific Ocean includes the record from East coast of middle Japan (Tokioka 1937), Bohol and Limosana Island of Philippine archipelago (Van Soest 1973), Central Indo-Pacific (van der Land 2008) and Korean waters (Kim et al. 2011). The compilation of previous literature and present data distribution of Thalia sibogae is shown in Figure 5., Published as part of Ishak, Nurul Huda Binti Ahmad, ' Aliah, Nur, Adam, Binti & Kassim, Zaleha, 2018, A taxonomic revision of the genus Thalia Blumenbach, 1798; Weelia Yount, 1954; Brooksia Metcalf, 1918 (Salpida: Salpidae) from East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, pp. 451-477 in Zootaxa 4422 (4) on pages 454-459, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1253181, {"references":["VAN SOEST, R. W. M. (1973 A) THE GENUS Thalia BlUmENbACH, 1798 (TUNICATA, THAlIACEA) WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. Beaufortia, 20 (271), 193 - 212.","KIm, S. W., WON, J. H. & KIm, C. B. (2011) TAXONOmIC STUDY OF THE GENUS THAlIA (THAlIACEA: SAlPIDA: SAlPIDAE) FROm KOREA. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, 27 (2), 142 - 150.","PURUSHOTHAmAN, J., HANSDA, S., DEY, J., MOHAN, S., BASI, A. & VENkATARAmAN, K. (2017) AN ANNOTATED CHECklIST OF THAlIACEANS (CHORDATA: TUNICATES). Marine Biodiversity, 2017, 1 - 28. [PUblISHED ONlINE]","TOkIOkA, T. (1937) NOTES ON SAlPAS AND DOlIOlUmS OCCURRING IN THE PACIFIC COAST OF MIDDlE JAPAN. The Zoological Society of Japan, 16 (3), 219 - 235.","VAN DER LAND, J. (2008) UNESCO-IOC REGISTER OF MARINE ORGANISmS (URMO). AvAIlAblE FROm: HTTP: // WWW. mARINESPECIES. ORG / URmO (ACCESSED 1 JANUARY 2018)"]}

1. Thalia rhomboides Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 Salpa rhomboides Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (cited from van Soest 1973; Kott 2005) Salpa pyramidalis sensu Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 (cited from van Soest 1973, Kott 2005) Salpa mucronata Apstein, 1906 (cited from Purushothaman 2017) Thalia democratica Sewell, 1926 Thalia democratica var. orientalis Tokioka, 1937 Thalia democratica var. orientalis f. echinata Tokioka, 1937 Thalia democratica echinate form Yount, 1954 Thalia democratica intermedia Borgelt, 1968 Thalia rhomboides van Soest, 1973: 199 ���200, 1998: 238 fig. 14.3, table 14.3; Godeaux, 1998: 288 fig. 17.17, 293 fig. 17.21; Chihara & Murano, 1997: 1384 -1385; Kim, 2011: 147 ���148 Specimens examined. A2: 1 aggregate zooid, 5��39'55.02"N, 103�� 0'6.03"E, April 2016; A3: 3 aggregate zooids, 5��40'51.01"N, 103�� 1'51.06"E, April 2016; A6: 1 aggregate zooids, 5��39'50.59"N, 103�� 9'36.64"E, April 2016; C1: 2 aggregate zooids, 5��20'47.59"N, 103�� 8'59.91"E, Jun 2016; C2: 5 solitary zooids, 12 aggregate zooids, 5��25'33.93"N, 103��17'32.72"E, Jun 2016; C3: 3 solitary zooids, 8 aggregate zooids, 5��28'54.80"N, 103��22'55.42"E, Jun 2016; D3; 3 solitary zooid, 3 aggregate zooids, 5��15'50.06"N, 103��17'44.13"E, July 2016. Malaysia: East Cost of Peninsular Malaysia. UMTTn 0 0 0 4. Description. Solitary (Fig. 2a���b, 2d): 3.6���8.4 mm long, excluding posterior projections. Body elongated cylindrical. All test echinate, especially projections, strongly papillated all over the test. Test cylindrical, thickened ventrally around nucleus, with two long posterior projections. Oral opening terminal, atrial opening postero-dorsal. Atrial palps bifurcate. Medioventral projections well developed and lower one longer than upper one. Lateral projections well developed, fairly long. Body muscles thick. Five body muscles, MI to MIV continuous dorsally and ventrally, MV interrupted ventrally. MI to MIII and MIV to MV contiguous or fused in mid-dorsal line. Intermediate muscle interrupted dorsally and converge to MI. the number of muscle fibres varies from 77���106. Dorsal tubercle simple and small, separated from ganglion with short distance. Branchial septum slender, extending from ganglion to gut. Endostyle thin, extending from behind oral to posterior ventrally. Gut forming a compact nucleus, stolon coiled around it. Aggregate (Fig. 2c, 2d): 0.8 mm long. Body pentagonally shaped anteriorly with relatively hard, sharp-edged test. Test echinated. Sharply pointed posterior. The attachment organs vary in number and never protruding beyond test wall left posterior. Body muscles MI��� MIII and MIV ���MV fused over a short section. Muscle bands are wide, number of muscle fibres is usually 16. Gut forming a compact oval nucleus. Nucleus projection absent. The endostyle is short, only nearing to the MII. Ovary and embryo are situated on MIV, close to the nucleus. The gill are slender. Remarks. Both solitary and aggregate zooids of this species were collected during this study. Both stages agrees with the description by Yount in 1954, van Soest in 1973 and Purushothaman et al. in 2017. Distributions. T.rhomboides seems to be restricted to the Indo-Pacific waters (van Soest 1973), and to date there is still no record of this species found to be present in the Atlantic. It was first found by Quoy & Gaimard (1834) and recorded as Salpa pyramidalis on Agulhas Bank in the southeast African waters of the Indian Ocean, as did Borgelt (1968). It has been found in the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez (Godeaux 1974), Gulf of Aden (Godeaux 1987). Yount (1954) has recorded the presence of this species in the Central Pacific Ocean while Takioka (1960) found it in the South Pacific Ocean. Distribution from the North Pacific Ocean includes the records from the East coast of middle Japan (Tokioka 1937), Kaoping Trench of southwestern waters of Taiwan (Tew & Lo 2005), Eastern Tropical Pacific off Mexico (Hereu et al. 2010), Korean waters (Kim et al. 2011), the Kuroshio Extension and the Oyashio���Kuroshio mixed Water Region (Takahashi et al. 2013) and Taiwan waters (Liao et al. 2013 & Franco et al. 2017). The compilation of previous literature and present data distribution of Thalia rhomboides is shown in Figure 3., Published as part of Ishak, Nurul Huda Binti Ahmad, ' Aliah, Nur, Adam, Binti & Kassim, Zaleha, 2018, A taxonomic revision of the genus Thalia Blumenbach, 1798; Weelia Yount, 1954; Brooksia Metcalf, 1918 (Salpida: Salpidae) from East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, pp. 451-477 in Zootaxa 4422 (4) on pages 453-454, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1253181, {"references":["VAN SOEST, R. W. M. (1973 A) THE GENUS Thalia BlUmENbACH, 1798 (TUNICATA, THAlIACEA) WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. Beaufortia, 20 (271), 193 - 212.","KOTT, P. (2005) Catalogue of Tunicata in Australian waters. AUSTRAlIAN BIOlOGICAl RESOURCES STUDY, DEPARTmENT OF THE ENvIRONmENT AND HERITAGE, CANbERRA, 301 PP.","QUOY, J. R. C. & GAImARD, J. P. (1834) Voyage de la cnrvette l'Astrolabe pendant les annees 1826 - 1829. Zoologie III. Mollusques. TASTU, PARIS, 954 PP.","PURUSHOTHAmAN, J., HANSDA, S., DEY, J., MOHAN, S., BASI, A. & VENkATARAmAN, K. (2017) AN ANNOTATED CHECklIST OF THAlIACEANS (CHORDATA: TUNICATES). Marine Biodiversity, 2017, 1 - 28. [PUblISHED ONlINE]","SEWEll, R. B. S. (1926) THE SAlPS OF THE INDIAN SEAS. Records of the Indian Museum, 28 (2), 65 - 126.","TOkIOkA, T. (1937) NOTES ON SAlPAS AND DOlIOlUmS OCCURRING IN THE PACIFIC COAST OF MIDDlE JAPAN. The Zoological Society of Japan, 16 (3), 219 - 235.","CHIHARA, M. & MURANO, M. (1997) An illustrated guide to marine plankton in Japan. TOkAI UNIvERSITY PRESS, TOkYO, 1574 PP.","KIm, S. W., WON, J. H. & KIm, C. B. (2011) TAXONOmIC STUDY OF THE GENUS THAlIA (THAlIACEA: SAlPIDA: SAlPIDAE) FROm KOREA. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, 27 (2), 142 - 150.","GODEAUX, J. (1974) THAlIACeS ReCOlTeS AU lARGE DES CoTES eGYPTIENNES DE lA MeDITERRANeE ET DE lA mER ROUGE (TUNICATA, THAlIACEA). Beaufortia, 22 (291), 83 - 103.","GODEAUX, J. (1987) DISTRIbUTION OF THAlIACEA ON TRANSECT FROm THE GUlF OF ADEN DURING THE WINTER mONSOON (MARCH 1979). Oceanologica Acta, 10 (2), 197 - 204.","TEW, K. S. & LO, W. T. (2005) DISTRIbUTION OF THAlIACEA IN SW TAIWAN COASTAl WATER IN 1997, WITH SPECIAl REFERENCE TO Doliolum denticulatum, Thalia democratica AND T. orientalis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 292, 181 - 193.","HEREU, C. M., LAvANIEGOS, B. E. & GOERICkE, R. (2010) GRAzING ImPACT OF SAlP (TUNICATA, THAlIACEA) ASSEmblAGES IN THE EASTERN TROPICAl NORTH PACIFIC. Journal of Plankton Research, 32, 785 - 804.","LIAO, Z. H., HSIEH, H. Y. & LO, W. T. (2013) INFlUENCE OF mONSOON-DRIvEN HYDROGRAPHIC FEATURES ON THAlIACEAN DISTRIbUTION IN WATERS AROUND TAIWAN, WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. Zoological Studies, 52 (49), 1 - 14."]}

Pakistani species of the leafhopper subfamily Cicadellinae are reviewed. One new species, Atkinsoniella fistular sp. nov., is described and illustrated, and three species are newly recorded from Pakistan and illustrated: Atkinsoniella opponens Walker, 1851 n. rec., Atkinsoniella thalia Distant, 1918 n. rec. and Kolla insignis Distant, 1908 n. rec.. A key is given to distinguish all the genera (males) in this subfamily from Pakistan.

Article about the discovery of an old photo picturing Abraham Tuschinski's first cinema: Thalia.

The marine pelagic tunicates of Family Salpidae Lahille, 1888 presence in the coastal waters of Terengganu was studied for the first time. Samples were collected from April to July 2016 using 200µm Bongo net; hauled vertically from a stationary vessel; and preserved in 5% buffered formaldehyde. A total of 4 species under this family were found, observed and identified: Thalia rhomboides (Quoy and Gaimard 1824); Thalia sibogae (van Soest 1973); Weelia cylindrica (Cuvier 1804) and Brooksia rostrata (Traustedt 1893). All species were identified as new records in Malaysian waters. The description on morphological characteristics and a key to the solitary and aggregate of the recorded species is added. The distribution was analyzed from the 18 sampling stations in theTerengganu waters including Pulau Bidong, Pulau Yu and Pulau Kapas. The collected data was then compiled with previous available global literature on the distribution and occurrence of these four species, consequently updating the biodiversity of Malaysian fauna and its worldwide biogeography distribution.

Thalia Field’s writing draws its power and inventiveness from the conversation it conducts between biology and storytelling. On the one hand, Field draws from biology or geology to invent non-human points of views or timescales and thus rethink the units of narrative (character, plot, action). On the other hand, she taps the critical learning garnered by poetry and poetics to point out the failings of science when it misuses its authority and turns a blind eye to its motives. On closer examination, “realist” fiction and scientific method share certain characteristics: omniscient point of view, separation between subject and object, linear causality. To these they owe their great cognitive faculties but also some tragic lapses. Experimental Animals, a polyphonic historical novel depicting the birth of Claude Bernard’s experimental medicine and of the anti-vivisection movement, shows the tragic flaw of physiology to be the denial of experience in the name of experiment and the lack of empathy for objectified animals. Turning to ethology, the science of animal behavior, Bird Lovers, Backyard exposes Konrad Lorenz’s tragic flaw to be a compromised use of storytelling and the projection of human psychology onto animals. Bearing these flaws in mind, Field seeks to write from the right distance, a requirement which accounts for the experimental forms her stories take, an experimentalism that owes more to John Cage than to Bernard or Zola. L’œuvre de Thalia Field tire sa force et son originalité de la conversation qu’elle y conduit entre la biologie et la narration. D’une part, elle se sert de la géologie ou de la biologie pour inventer des échelles et des points de vue non-humains et ainsi repenser les unités de la narration (récit, personnage, action). D’autre part, elle se sert du savoir critique de la poésie et de la poétique pour pointer l’aveuglement de la science quand elle abuse de son pouvoir et s’illusionne sur ses motifs et ses méthodes. A y regarder de près, récit « réaliste » et méthode scientifique partagent des caractéristiques — point de vue omniscient, séparation du sujet et de l’objet, causalité linéaire – qui ont fait leur puissance cognitive mais ont parfois aussi causé leurs dérives et leurs méfaits. Roman historique polyphonique consacré à la naissance de la médecine expérimentale et des sociétés de lutte contre la vivisection, Experimental Animals montre que la faille de la physiologie de Claude Bernard réside dans le déni de l’expérience au nom de l’expérimentation et dans le manque d’empathie pour les animaux réifiés. Consacré à l’éthologie, la science du comportement animal, Bird Lovers, Backyard montre que la faille de Konrad Lorenz réside dans un usage compromis du récit et la projection de la psychologie humaine sur les animaux. Avec l’enseignement de ces deux failles en tête, Field cherche à écrire à la bonne distance, une exigence qui explique la forme expérimentale que prennent ses histoires et qui doit plus à John Cage qu’à Bernard ou Zola.

In the form of a poem, Thalia Gonzalez Kane explores how nationality plays a part in our identities and how that affects us, looking at who we choose to be and how we choose to identify. The focus of this poem is the journey of a dual-citizen of Canada and Ecuador who has lived in a variety of places and finds difficulty in answering the not-so-simple question, “Where are you from?” It identifies the benefits of travel, the importance of sharing what one learns, and figuring out what makes a place “home”. The differences between “growing up” and “growing” are also identified and pursued, seeking out how these manifest in our identity to ourselves, and those around us.

La dieta y preferencia alimentaria de Caprodón longimanus fue estudiada a partir de 55 especímenes capturados en la Isla Alejando Selkirk, Chile entre Noviembre y Diciembre de 1996. Los ejemplares fueron capturados utilizando línea de profundidad. El intervalo de tallas fue 176-286 mm LE. Este serránido es un depredador pelágico zooplactófago oportunista. El componente alimentario más abundante y frecuente fue Thalia sp. (Tunicata:Salpida), con un total de 1655 individuos y 93.3% de frecuencia de ocurrencia. Se identificaron crustáceos (17 géneros), pterópodos, quetognatos y poliquetos. El 14.3% de los estómagos estaba vacío.

While publication rate of the biomedical literature has been growing steadily during the last decades, the accessibility of pertinent research publications for biologist and medical practitioners remains a challenge. This paper describes Thalia, which is a semantic search engine that can recognize eight different types of concepts occurring in biomedical abstracts. Thalia is available via a web-based interface or a RESTful API. A key aspect of our search engine is that it is updated from PubMed on a daily basis. We describe here the main building blocks of our tool as well as an evaluation of the retrieval capabilities of Thalia in the context of a precision medicine dataset. Fil: Soto, Axel Juan. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca; Argentina. University of Manchester; Reino Unido Fil: Przybyla, Piotr. University of Manchester; Reino Unido Fil: Ananiadou, Sophia. University of Manchester; Reino Unido

Thalia democratica Morphology Length of the aggregated zooids of this salp is 1.8–18.2 mm. Lengths of solitary zooids are 2.3–11.7 mm. Aggregate form is characterised by an anterior end of the body which is rounded and by a posterior end which is somewhat fusiform. Testis is never echinate, and is pentagonal. Nucleus with a posterior projection. Testis pentagonal posteriorly. Number of muscle fibres in MI–MV is15–17. Atrial opening not central, with a posterior lateral protuberance on one side only. Solitary forms with a smooth test and simple atrial palps. Lateral projections are small, medio-ventral ones are small and of unequal length and anterior projections are smallest. All test projections are echinate. MI to MIV are continuous dorsally and ventrally; MV is interrupted ventrally. MII –MIV and MV–MVI converge mid-dorsally over a short distance. Stomach extends partly into the middle posterior projection (authors’ personal observations; (Marine Species Identification Portal 2017); Godeaux et al. 1998). Biogeography Cosmopolitan, eurythermic species from warmer waters; roughly occurring between ca. 60°N and 40°S. Also present in the Mediterranean Sea. Epipelagic, living in the upper 100 m; does not perform diurnal vertical migration (WoRMS Editorial Board 2017)., Published as part of Franco, P., Dahms, H. - U., Lo, W. - T. & Hwang, J. - S., 2017, Pelagic tunicates in the China Seas, pp. 917-936 in Journal of Natural History 51 (15 - 16) on page 930, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1293180, http://zenodo.org/record/5180954, {"references":["Marine Species Identification Portal. 2017. ETI BioInformatics in the KeyToNature programme [Internet]. Available from: http: // species-identification. org /","Godeaux J, Bone Q, Braconnot JC. 1998. Anatomy of Thaliacea. In: Bone Q, editor. The biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford: Oxford University Press; p. 2 - 24.","WoRMS Editorial Board. 2017. World Register of Marine Species [Internet]. Available from: http: // www. marinespecies. org at VLIZ. doi: 10.14284 / 170"]}

Thalia orientalis Morphology Solitary zooids are up to 7 mm long, excluding posterior projections. Tests often with eight longitudinal rows of echinae on the surface. Long posterior projections, but lateral ones are absent and mid-ventral ones are strongly developed. Atrial palps are bifurcate. MI to MII are not contiguous, MII to MIII and MIV to MV are strongly fused dorsally. Total number of muscular fibres is 30–36, including the intermediate muscle (authors’ personal observations; Marine Species Identification Portal 2017). Biogeography The species is found in the Mediterranean Sea and China Seas (WoRMS Editorial Board 2017)., Published as part of Franco, P., Dahms, H. - U., Lo, W. - T. & Hwang, J. - S., 2017, Pelagic tunicates in the China Seas, pp. 917-936 in Journal of Natural History 51 (15 - 16) on page 930, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1293180, http://zenodo.org/record/5180954, {"references":["Marine Species Identification Portal. 2017. ETI BioInformatics in the KeyToNature programme [Internet]. Available from: http: // species-identification. org /","WoRMS Editorial Board. 2017. World Register of Marine Species [Internet]. Available from: http: // www. marinespecies. org at VLIZ. doi: 10.14284 / 170"]}

The identification of salp species by morphological features alone can be challenging. This study combined morphological and molecular approaches to characterize different salp reproductive forms (oozooids and blastozooids) collected from the remote Tristan da Cunha archipelago. Novel cox1 barcoding primers developed in this study proved successful for the identification of Thalia salp species and generated much needed barcoding data for this taxonomic group.

Thalia Field’s Bird Lovers, Backyard takes at its starting point the awareness that any attempt to represent the nonhuman has to account for the ways in which the existing forms of mediation determine the nature and scope of stories about animals. This awareness introduces a supplementary layer in storytelling, which transforms the narrative. Instead of telling stories about animals, a metanarrative such as Bird Lovers, Backyard is a montage and reworking of a wide range of existing forms of narrative as well as a critical engagement with the works and authors that exemplify them.

The genus Schumannianthus Gagnep. (Marantaceae) is typified by S. dichotomus Gagnep. This is a new genus and species for the material of Phrynium dichotomum auct. non Roxb. Phrynium dichotomum Roxb. and derivatives are superfluous names for Donax canniformis (G. Forst.) K. Schum. The correct name for S. dichotomus is Schumannianthus benthamianus (Kuntze) Veldkamp & I. M. Turner comb. nov. Lectotypes are designated for Arundastrum benthamianum Kuntze and Schumannianthus dichotomus Gagnep., and a second-step lectotypification is proposed for Thalia canniformis G. Forst.

Resumo Cipura paludosa está inserida na família Iridaceae a qual se destaca pela grande diversidade de sistemas de polinização, ofertando recursos como néctar, pólen e óleo. Esse estudo foi conduzido em um fragmento de Mata Atlântica em área urbana, em Recife, Pernambuco. O trabalho teve como objetivo investigar a biologia floral e reprodutiva da herbácea C. paludosa. Foi avaliado o período de abertura floral, receptividade estigmática, deiscência das anteras, número de grãos de pólen e óvulos por flor, morfometria floral, experimentos de autopolinização espontânea e de polinização natural, além da observação de visitantes florais. Cipura paludosa é melitófila, autocompatível, oferece pólen e óleo (produzido em elaióforos tricomados) como recursos e recebe visitas de Plebeia sp. e Augochlora thalia. Por formar poucos frutos espontaneamente, C. paludosa se beneficia dos serviços de polinização para o seu sucesso reprodutivo. A ocorrência de abelhas não especialistas na coleta de óleo pode levar a má qualidade nos serviços de polinização, reduzindo a aptidão da espécie. Abstract Cipura paludosa is taxonomically placed in the Iridaceae family which is notable for the diversity of pollination systems, offering resources such as nectar, pollen and oil. The study was conducted within a fragment of Atlantic Forest in Recife, Pernambuco, to investigate the floral and reproductive biology of C. paludosa. The floral opening period, stigmatic receptivity, anther dehiscense, number of pollen grains, ovules per flower and floral morphology were evaluated; experiments regarding to the reproductive system and flower visitor observations were performed. Cipura paludosa is a herbaceous plant with melittophilous and self-compatible flowers, visited by Plebeia sp. and Augochlora thalia. The flower resources produced by C. paludosa were pollen and oil (produced in trichomal elaiophores). To ensure reproductive success Cipura paludosa benefits from pollination services since it produces only a few fruits spontaneously. The presence of bees not specialized in oil collecting may result in poor quality pollination services consequently reducing the species reproductive output.