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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
A new species of Aspidura Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Sri Pada sanctuary (Peak Wilderness), Sri Lanka
No full textMendis Wickramasinghe, L. J., Vidanapathirana, Dulan Ranga, Dushantha Kandambi, H. K., Pyron, R. Alexander, Wickramasinghe, Nethu (2017): A new species of Aspidura Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Sri Pada sanctuary (Peak Wilderness), Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4347 (2): 275-292, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.
FIGURE 5 in A new species of Aspidura Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Sri Pada sanctuary (Peak Wilderness), Sri Lanka
No full textFIGURE 5. (A) Coarsely keeled ischiadic region of male paratype (DWC 2017.05.02) of Aspidura ravanai sp. nov., (B) Ischiadic region of female paratype (DWC 2017.05.01) of Aspidura ravanai sp. nov., showing week keeling.Published as part of Mendis Wickramasinghe, L. J., Vidanapathirana, Dulan Ranga, Dushantha Kandambi, H. K., Pyron, R. Alexander & Wickramasinghe, Nethu, 2017, A new species of Aspidura Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Sri Pada sanctuary (Peak Wilderness), Sri Lanka, pp. 275-292 in Zootaxa 4347 (2) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/104576
Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka
No full textDe Zoysa, H. K. S., Nguyen, Anh D., Wickramasinghe, S. (2016): Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4061 (5): 451-482, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.
Anthropological gleanings of the work of Martin Wickramasinghe
No full textMartin Wickramasinghe is a prominent figure who contributed to various academic spheres in Sri Lanka. Many who define MartinWickramasinghe only as a creative writer disregards the fact that he was an expert who contributed to a Sri Lankan approach inanthropology. This qualitative research paper analyzes the role of Wickramasinghe in emphasizing the anthropological paradigmsin Sri Lankan society during his period. The main objective of this analysis is to provide a comprehensive insight about the impactand contribution of Martin Wickramasinghe’s work to develop anthropology as an academic discipline in Sri Lanka. For thisresearch, we utilized his publications related to anthropology and culture and analyzed the content which underlined importantanthropological characteristics. His ‘Sathwa Santhathiya’, ‘Sakaskada’, ‘Mānawa Vidyāwa Ha Sinhala Sanskruthiya’, ‘Buddhism and Culture’ are some renowned works that were applied for this study. Wickramasinghe read widely the works of Darwin, Spencer, Huxley as well as the ethnographies of scholars like Malinowski, Ruth Benedict. One of his major views was that Sri Lankan culture was undermined by the conflict with Western culture, and that Buddhism is one of the institutions that protected it from collapse and disappearance. He comparatively expressed his ideas about diffusionism, one of the significant ideas in culturalanthropology, as an ordinary process which takes place in every society. Wickramasinghe related the ideals of democracy,humanism, socialism, religion, and culture to the context of Sri Lanka. This research concludes that Wickramasinghe's interest inanthropology came at a time when anthropology was not popular in Sri Lanka. He has used his knowledge and ideology from records on anthropology to express critical views on the socio-cultural divisions of Sri Lanka, although he cannot be defined as ananthropologist.
DOI : http://doi.org/10.31357/fhss/vjhss.v06i02.0
Using S’ANT for Facilitating Superior Understanding of Key Factors in the Design of a Chronic Disease Self-Management Model
No full textThe S’ANT approach (Wickramasinghe and Bali, 2009) - namely the incorporation of Actor-network Theory and Social Network Analysis as proposed by Wickramasinghe and Bali 2009 in order to support a network centric healthcare solutions is proffered in the following as an appropriately rich lens of analysis in the context of the development of a chronic disease self-management model
Cryptocephalopus jonesii Verhoeff 1937
No full textCryptocephalopus jonesii Verhoeff, 1937 Cryptocephalopus jonesii Verhoeff, 1937: 314, (OD). Records from Sri Lanka. Colombo (Verhoeff, 1937). Distribution. Only known from Sri Lanka.Published as part of De Zoysa, H. K. S., Nguyen, Anh D. & Wickramasinghe, S., 2016, Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 4061 (5) on page 477, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27040
Trachyiulus willeyi subsp. montanus Mauries 1981
No full textTrachyiulus willeyi montanus Mauriès, 1981 Trachyiulus willeyi montanus Mauriès, 1981: 53, figs 72–74, (OD). Trachyjulus willeyi montanus— Jeekel, 2004: 49, (R). Records from Sri Lanka. Sabaragamuwa; Karagal-Oya (Belihul-Oya) (Mauriès, 1981). Distribution. Only known from Sri Lanka.Published as part of De Zoysa, H. K. S., Nguyen, Anh D. & Wickramasinghe, S., 2016, Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 4061 (5) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27040
Lankascincus sripadensis Wickramasinghe, Rodrigo & Dayawansa, 2007, sp. nov.
No full textLankascincus sripadensis sp. nov. (Fig. 8–12). Holotype: Adult male 58.27 mm SVL NMSL 200705001. Sripada Sanctuary (Adam’s peak), Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province. (N 0 6 48 24.63, E 0 80 30 41.21) Alt. 1825 m. Coll. R. K. Rodirigo, D. Jayantha, and L. J. M. Wickramasinghe. 0 7. 11. 2006. Paratypes: Adult male 56.62 mm SVL NMSL 200705002, Adult female 54.85 mm SVL NMSL 200705003. Sripada Sanctuary (Adam’s peak), Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province. (N 0 6 48 24.63, E 0 80 30 41.21) Alt. 1825 m. Coll. R. K. Rodirigo, D. Jayantha, and L. J. M. Wickramasinghe. 0 7. 11. 2006. Diagnosis: Lankascincus sripadensis sp. nov. is distinguished from known congeners by possessing the following combination of characters: A large sized Lankascincus 56–58 mm SVL; Prefrontals are fused or narrowly in contact; three loreal scales, the anterior loreal is touching the prefrontal, frantonasal, nasal, 1 st and 2 nd supralabial scales; the posterior loreals are larger than the anterior loreal in longitudinal axis, the upper anterior loreal is touching the prefrontal and upper anterior preocular; the lower posterior loreal is touching 2 nd, 3 rd supralabials and 1 st subocular scale; the nasal is not fused; 7 supralabials, the last supralabial scale is single, 5 th at the mid orbit point; 26 smooth scale rows at mid body; 56 to 58 paravertebral scales; 56 – 57 scales between mental and vent; median preanals are enlarged, outer preanals overlap with inner; lamellae under the fourth finger 12–13, and fourth toe 17–19, the lamellae formulae including fingers and toes are 4> 3> 5> 2> 1 and 4> 3> 5> 2> 1. Description of Holotype: Adult male (Fig. 8). Snout to vent length (SVL) 58.27 mm. body moderately elongate and robust. Head depressed and narrow (HD / HW ratio 0.66 and HD / HL ratio 0.41); elongated and large (HD / NE ratio 0.54 and HL / SVL ratio 0.24); distinct from the neck; snout long (SE / HW ratio 0.54); longer than the eye width (EW / SE ratio 0.64); eye relatively lager than the ear (EW / EL ratio 2.11 and EW / EaW ratio 2.93); ear opening small (EL / HL ratio 0.10); snout to eye distance greater than the width of eye (SE / EW ratio 1.56). Tail longer than the body length (SVL / TL ratio 0.65), and round in cross section (TD / TW ratio 0.98). Rostral convex (Fig. 9), posterior margin of mid point slightly curved towards the frontonasal; no supranasal and postnasal; frontonasal larger than the prefrontals, lateral border touching anterior loreal; prefrontals in contact, touching anterior loreal and upper posterior loreal from the lower border, slightly in contact with first supraocular from the posterior border; frontal longer than its distance to tip of snout, and approximately equal or longer than frontoparietals and interparietal combined; no supraciliaris; five supraoculars, first one being the longest in the longitudinal axis, second one widest in the transverse axis, first two in contact with frontals, third in contact with frontoparietal, fourth in contact with frontoparietal and parietal, fourth touched by upper postocular scale and upper pretemporal scale; frontoparietals distinct, larger than interparietal; parietals touching each other behind interparietal, parietal touching pretemporal scales laterally, three or four small scales touching parietal post laterally; non fused nasal; three loreal scales, anterior loreal touching prefrontal, frontonasal, nasal, 1 st and 2 nd supralabials scales, anterior loreal widest in the transverse axis; posterior loreals longer than the anterior loreal in the longitudinal axis, upper posterior loreal touching prefrontal and upper anterior preocular; lower posterior loreal touching 2 nd, 3 rd supralabials and 1 st subocular scale; six preocular scales, anterior ones lager than the others; seven supralabials, the last supralabial single, 5 th at the mid orbit point; eight subocular scales, smaller than the supralabial scales; the subocular row touching 3 rd to the 6 th supralabial scales and anterior temporal scale, the first subocular scale touching the lower posterior loreal scale, the last subocular scale touching the lower posterior postocular and lower primary temporal scale; four anterior and four posterior postocular scales, anterior postoculars smaller than posterior postocular scales; two pretemporal scales, the upper smaller than the lower and very small than the primary temporal scale; single primary temporal, the primary temporal touching 6 th and 7 th supralabial scales; single secondary temporal scale, the secondary temporal larger than the primary temporal scale; six infralabials, the fourth infralabial smaller than the first, and the rest smaller than the fourth; mentals wider than postmental in transverse axis but shorter in longitudinal axis, touching first infralabial only; two pairs of chinshields behind postmental, the first pair meeting in midline, the first chinshield in contact with first and second infralabial scales, the second pair in contact with second and third infralabials, the third pair of chinshields separated from infralabial row; body scales smooth, 26 rows around mid body; 58 paravertebral scales; 56 scales between the mental and vent; the median preanals enlarged, outer preanals overlap with inner; the fourth finger and fourth toe longer than others; the fourth finger having 13 smooth lamellae; the fourth toe having 18 smooth lamellae; the lamellae formulae for both fingers and toes 4> 3> 5> 2> 1 and 4> 3> 5> 2> 1 (Fig. 10). Digits having single row of scales dorsolaterally; scales of palm and sole elevated; palatal rami of pterygoids slightly expanded posterior medially. Colour in life: (Fig. 11 and 12) Dorsal head, olive brown. Lateral and ventral head light brown, with very few white spots randomly oriented. Dorsal body is olive brown, with a longitudinally oriented mid-dorsal dark brown line starting from the neck and diminishes beyond the base of tail. A dorso-lateral dark brown line is present. It starts from the back of the eye and diminishing towards the mid tail. Both lateral and temporal regions of the body are light brown in colour. The ventral body is light brown. Dorsal and lateral tail, olive brown, and ventral tail light brown. The limbs are dorsally dark brown with intermittent white dots, and ventrally light brown. Colour in alcohol: The colour pattern is preserved with a little fading. Etymology: The species epithet sripadensis is derived from the latin for “Sripada range” (Fig. 13) referring to the forest where the species nov. was found. Sripakandu duburu hekanala, Sivanolipathmalai arene and Sripada forest skink are the vernacular names given in native languages Sinhala, Tamil and English respectively. Comparisons. The following combination of characters clearly distinguishes the new species from all sympatric members of genera Lankascincus and Sphenomorphus in Sri Lanka: a large SVL, three loreal scales, two posterior loreals larger than the anterior loreal in longitudinal axis, the prefrontal and upper anterior preocular touching the upper border of posterior loreal and the 2 nd and 3 rd supralabials and the 1 st subocular scale touching the lower posterior loreal. The new species is morphologically similar to Lankascincus deignani (Taylor 1950) by possessing the following combination of characters: frontoparietals distinct; anterior loreal touching 1 st and 2 nd supralabial scales, prefrontal, frontonasal and nasal; single primary and secondary temporal (Table 2); seven supralabials, with the fifth in subocular position; and a single last supralabial; The new species can be distinguished from the aforementioned species by the following characters: having three loreal scales, posterior loreals larger than the anterior in longitudinal axis, prefrontal and upper anterior preocular touching upper posterior loreal, 2 nd, 3 rd supralabials and 1 st subocular scale touching lower posterior loreal; 2 pretemporals; 12 or 13 subdigital lamellae on fourth finger, and 17 or 19 on fourth toe. males with pale brown throat on the ventral head; a dark brown stripe in a light brown background on the dorsal body; divided nasal; and large SVL length (58 mm). (vs two loreals of nearly equal size and height; of which posterior loreal touching prefrontal and upper anterior preocular, lower border touching 2 nd supralabial scale; 3 pretemporal; 9 or 10 subdigital lamellae on fourth finger, and 14 or 15 on fourth toe; males with black ventral head; dark brown dorsal body; single nasal; medium sized, 40.00 mm) Counts L. sripadensis L. deignani Holotype Paratype Paratype Voucher specimen NMSL 20070501 20070502 20070503 20072301 20072302 20072303 The following combination of characters clearly differentiates the new species from Lankascincus deraniyagalae Greer 1991: single primary temporal, large SVL length (vs primary temporal double and small SVL length), the new species is differentiated from L. fallax (Peters, 1860) by the distinct frontoparietals, the larger SVL and the throat pale brown in colour (vs frontoparietals fused, small SVL and red ventral head); from L. gansi Greer 1991 by having single last supralabial, single primary temporal, 56 to 58 paravertebral scales, fourth toe with 17 or 19 smooth subdigital lamellae, larger body size (SVL 58 mm), and having pale brown throat in colour, (vs the split last supralabial, two primary temporal, 42 to 50 paravertebral scales, fourth toe with 16 smooth subdigital lamellae, small body size (SVL 40 mm) and having dark red or black colour throat). L. sripadensis differs from L. taprobanensis (Kelaart, 1854) by following combination of characters: seven supralabials, 5 at the mid orbit point; prefrontals in contact; fourth toe with 17 or 19 smooth subdigital lamellae; larger SVL length, (vs six supralabials, 4 at the mid orbit point; prefrontals widely separated; fourth toe with 13 or 15 smooth subdigital lamellae; small SVL length). L. taylori Greer 1991, is distinguished from the new species by small size (maximum SVL, 43 mm), fourth toe with 12–18 subdigital lamellae; 24– 26 mid body scale rows and male with black throat, (vs large size 58 mm maximum SVL, fourth toe with 17 or 19 subdigital lamellae; mid body scale rows 26 and male with pale brown colour throat). The comparison of Lankascincus sripadensis sp nov. with all sympatric members of the genus Sphenomorphus in Sri Lanka is as follows. Sphinomorpus dorsicatenatus Deraniyagala, 1953, differs from the new species by the following combination of characters: preanal scales not enlarged, small size 46.5 mm maximum SVL, an irregular dark line in light brown background on dorsal body (vs median preanals enlarged, large size 58 mm maximum SVL); from S. dussumieri (Dumeril and Bibron, 1839) by having a postonasal, prefrontals separated by frontal, 38–40 scales around midbody, (vs postonasal absent, prefrontals in contact, 26 scales around midbody); from S. megalops (Annandale, 1906) by having an undivided nasal, interparietal completely separating parietals, ventrals feebly keeled, (vs nasal divided, parietal meeting behind interparietal, ventrals smooth).Published as part of Wickramasinghe, Mendis, Rodrigo, Roshan & Dayawansa, Nihal, 2007, Two new species of Lankascincus (Squamata: Scincidae) from Sripada Sanctuary (Peak Wilderness), in Sri Lanka, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 1612 on pages 11-18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17897
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