We report new records of the Ocellated Poorwill, Nyctiphrynus ocellatus (Tschudi, 1844), from southeastern Ecuador. An individual of N. ocellatus was photographed in September 2025 at the Copalinga Reserve, Zamora Chinchipe Province. This observation, along with records from online databases, expands the species’ previously known distribution range toward southeastern Ecuador and confirms its presence in and affinity for humid montane forests of the Andean foothills.
Prostoma clepsinoides Dugès, 1828 is reported from Hachijo-jima Island, Tokyo, Japan, based on a mitochondrial COI barcode sequence from one freshwater specimen. The specimen was collected from a spring-fed stream and grouped with published sequences currently assigned to P. clepsinoides . To our knowledge, this is the first published record of Prostoma from Hachijo-jima Island. No morphological voucher specimen was retained because the entire specimen was used for DNA extraction.
We report the first confirmed records of Wermuth’s Toad-headed Turtle, Mesoclemmys wermuthi (Mertens, 1969) (Testudines, Chelidae), from Ecuador, extending its known distribution by ~420 km northwest within the Amazon Basin, and by ~770 km south from the nearest previous records. Additional records from Peru and Brazil include the first confirmed occurrences in Rondônia and Mato Grosso. Re-examination of museum specimens and photographs corrected previous misidentifications. With these data, M. wermuthi is now confirmed for five countries—Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil—substantially expanding knowledge of its Amazonian distribution.
We report the first records of Nyctinomops mbopicuare Barquez, Tomasco, Sánchez, Boero & Díaz, 2023 (Chiroptera, Molossidae) from Paraguay at two localities: a roost in the historic San Buenaventura Church (Yaguarón, Paraguarí Department) and an urban site in Asunción (Central Department). A colony of approximately 100 individuals was detected in the church roof; one adult was collected and deposited in the CZCEN. A second individual was recorded inside a private residence. These records extend the known distribution by 278 km to the northeast and increase the number of bat species recorded from Paraguay to 61.
We report Pagurus chevreuxi (Bouvier, 1896) for the first time from Spanish waters of the Gulf of Cádiz, filling a gap in this species’ documented distribution along the Iberian Atlantic margin. The specimen was collected at 418 m depth on Gazul mud volcano during the CIRCASUR2025 survey and identified using diagnostic morphological characters and mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequence data. This find represents the deepest confirmed record of the species, which was previously regarded as predominantly inhabiting shallow water. The new record also provides new evidence that the geographic and bathymetric distribution of P. chevreuxi may be broader and more continuous than currently documented across its known range.
