INJ Volume 33 Part 2

The Irish Naturalists’ Journal Volume 33, Part 2 (published 16 June 2014)

  • Evidence of environmental change since the earliest medieval period from the inter-tidal zone of Galway Bay.
  • The Clouded Yellow butterfly (Colias croceus Fourcroy) overwintering at the Raven, Co. Wexford.
  • Jane Stephens (1879-1959): zoologist and leading authority on sponges.
  • First record of a cetacean (Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis) within the marine nature reserve at Lough Hyne, Co. Cork.
  • Land-based observations of ocean megafauna off Cape Clear Island (South-West Ireland) in the summer of 2008.
  • Some marine invertebrate-associated copepods new to Ireland.
  • Rough pomfret Taractes asper Lowe (Pisces: Bramidae) in Irish and Northern European waters.
  • Where and when badger (Meles meles) road casualties occurred in the Four Area Study.
  • The Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier) in Irish waters.
  • The occurrence of Dactylorhiza purpurella (T. Stephenson and T.A. Stephenson) Soó var. majaliformis (E. Nelson) Kreutz, in Co. Donegal.
  • Bangia atropurpurea (Maertens ex Roth) C. Agardh (Rhodophyta) in the Grand Canal, Ireland.
  • An exceptionally large ‘Seaball’ discovered on Inch Strand, Co. Kerry.
  • New vice-county record for Marsh Saxifrage (Saxifraga hirculus) in Sligo (H28).
  • Cochlodina laminata (Montagu) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) found at Loughgall, Co. Armagh.
  • Exceptionally large European Flat Oysters (Ostrea edulis L.) from Irish and UK waters.
  • Viviparus viviparus (L.) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Lough Neagh.
  • Zygoribatula connexa Berlese, 1904 (Acari, Oribatida): a new Irish record with comments on its biology and the genus status in Ireland.
  • Fecundity estimates in female sub-imagos of Ephemera danica Műller (Ephemeroptera) in Lower Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh.
  • Trimorus varicornis (Walker, 1836) (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Teleasinae), new to Clare Island, Co. Mayo.
  • A first Irish record of Meconema meridionale (Costa) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae).
  • Largest European Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.) recorded in Irish or British waters, from Baltray, Co. Louth.
  • Tope Galeorhinus galeus (L.) with abnormal truncated snout.
  • A 1960s sample of bats in University College Cork’s Zoology Museum.
  • Records of badgers (Meles meles) in the Comeragh Mountains, Co. Waterford.
  • Common Dolphins in the River Lee at Cork City.
  • Records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for 2011.
  • Records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for 2012.
  • Hooded Seals (Cystophora cristata (Erxleben)) in Ireland and notes on their rehabilitation.
  • Stranded Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena (Grey)) with throat obstructed by a scad (Trachurus trachurus (L.)).
  • Stone, water and ice: Geo-education schools resources and books for the Burren.
  • Review of: ‘Guide to British freshwater macroinvertebrates for biotic assessment’.
  • Review of: ‘John Ray’s Cambridge Catalogue (1660)’ .
  • Review of: ‘Abbeyfeale Park: A nature guide’.
  • Review of: ‘Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates’.
  • Review of: ‘Islands, Coast and Quarries: the geological heritage of Fingal’.