https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/35667 2026-04-14T15:26:16Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14362 Title: Additions to the Maltese flora Authors: Lanfranco, Edwin Abstract: Ipomoea cainca (L.) Sweet; Conyza floribunda Kunth and Secale cereale L. are recorded as new to the Maltese flora. The first definite record of Potamogeton pectinatus L. is also given here, previous records being ascribed to errors in identification. 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14359 Title: The Indo-Pacific affinities of some Maltese tertiary fossils Authors: Zammit-Maempel, George Abstract: A review of the Maltese fossil record reveals an unsuspected marked IndoPacific affinity, suggesting a biostratigraphic link between the central Mediterranean and the Indo-Pacific in mid-Tertiary times. The family and sometimes even the genus of some Maltese Oligo-Miocene fossils still survive in the Indo-Pacific province after having become completely extinct from the Mediterranean region. The fossils reviewed in this paper are the Cidaridae (which are also revised to reveal the presence of Prionocidaris and Phyllacanthus) , Coelopleurus, Echinoneus, Laganum, Apatopygus, Clypeaster, Tomistoma, Trionyx, Trilasmis, J{ uphus, and Nautilus - all of which have an Indo-Pacific affinity. The survival of such a fauna in the Indo-Pacific region is attributed to two main factors: the former connection of Tethys to the Indo-Pacific, thereby allowing eastward migration of the central Mediterranean fauna into this Ocean, and climatic and other ecological conditions prevailing in the central Mediterranean region during mid-Tertiary times having been analogous to those now prevailing in the Indo-Pacific. 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14358 Title: On the occurrence of Crocidura Suaveolens Pallas (Mammalia, Insectivra) in the Maltese Islands with notes on other Maltese shrews Authors: Schembri, Patrick J.; Schembri, Stephen P. Abstract: Crocidura suaveolens Pallas, 1811 is recorded definitely for the first time from the Maltese Islands. Previous records of this species are reviewed and are shown to refer to other species or else to be unconfirmed. Besides C. suaveolens, two other shrews inhabit the Maltese Islands. Sunclts e"ruscus (Savi) is distributed in both Malta and Gozo while both C. suaveolens Pallas and C. russula (Hermann) appear to be restricted to the island of Gozo. The latter species has not, however, been recorded in this study. 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14339 Title: The Central Mediterranean naturalist Abstract: CONTENTS ZAMMIT-MAEMPEL, G. - The Indo-:-Pacific Affinities of some Maltese Tertiary Fossils LAN FRANCO, E. - Additions to the Maltese Flora SCHEMBRI, P.]. and SCHElYIBRI, S.P. - On the Occurrence of Crocidura suaveolens Pallas (Mammalia, Insectivora) :in the Maltese Islands with notes on other Maltese Shrews SHORT NOTES: ZAMMIT-MAEMPEL, G. - Additional notes on the holotype Coelopleurus melitensis Zammit-Maempel 1969 VALLETT A, A. - Insect Pollinators on Cynara cardunculus L. CASSAR, L.F. - Occurrence of Bracthytripes megacephaIus Lefevre In the Maltese Islands LAN FRANCO, G. Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Macri) (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) in large numbers LANFRANCO, G. - Apis mellifica Linn. trapped In flowers of Acanthus mol1is Linn LAN FRANCO, G. - Stomatolepas elegans Costa (Crustacea, Cirripedia) on Dermochelys conacea Linn., taken in Maltese Waters LANFRANCO, G. - Amara eu.rynota Panz. (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in large numbers BOOK REVIEWS NEWS AND VIEWS 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z