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First finding of the genus Microcyclus Meek et Worthen (Rugosa) in the Devonian of the Trans-Caucasus.

First finding of the genus Nunana McKenzie, Reyment & Reyment, 1993 (Paracytheridae: Ostracoda) from the Middle Miocene of central Paratethys

First finding of the thorny-headed worm Centrorhynchus itatsinis Fukui, 1929 in the jackal in Azerbaidjan.

First finding of trace fossils in the highly carbonaceous black shales of the Bazhenovka Formation in West Siberia

First findings of Early Cretaceous brachiopods in Primorye.

First findings of Pseudomeriones abbreviatus (Rodentia, Gerbilidae ) and problematic Pseudobellatona relicta (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae) in the Upper Meotian and Pontian in the northern part of east Paratetida

First findings of eurypterids from the Plyavinsk horizon.

First findings of insects (Diptera, Hymenoptera) in amber from the Belarussian Polesye region.

First findings of large Foraminifera from the Maastrichtian of south west Darvaz

First findings of members of the genera Cyathophylloides(?) and Patridophyllum in the Lower Devonian of the western slopes of the Southern Urals.

First findings of ostracods in the Moscovian stratum of Moscow suburbs region.

First findings of representatives of Punctatrypinae (Brachiopoda) in the Emsian layer of Zakavkaze.

First findings of slug Deroceras caucasicum (Simroth, 1901) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Russian Far East

First findings of the foraminiferal genus Shanita (family Hemigordiopsidae) in the USSR

First finds of Bryozoa in Middle Devonian deposits from Russkaya Gaban. (northern island of Novaya Zemlya).

First finds of Late Triassic hydroids in the mountains of Crimea.

First finds of Machairodus giganteus Wagner in the Upper Meotian around the village Hadji Dimovo, Gotze Delchev District (southwest Bulgaria)

First finds of Ordovician graptolites from the Gornaya Shoriya

First finds of Ordovician inarticulate brachiopods in Tajmyr.

First finds of Permian ammonoids in the Kotelnyi Island

First finds of Pleistocene fauna in the Pamirs and their paleogeographical significance

First finds of Upper Titonian ammonites in north east Caucasus.

First finds of arenaceous Foraminifera in the Kazan deposits of the Russian Platform.

First finds of crinoids from the Carboniferous of Uda River Basin (Far East).

First finds of lacertae that are parasites of the USSR fauna gekkoes

First finds of microphytofossils in the marbles of the Dobrostan Formation, northern and southern Pirin

First finds of radiolarians in Triassic sediments of the north of Siberia

First finds of the circum-tropical lancelet Epigonichthys lucayanus (Andrews) from Chichijima Island, Ogasawara Islands, Japan (Cephalochordata)

First finds of the harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) in Saaremaa and Vilsandi islands

First fish eggs of 1983

First fish record in the Lago Belgrano of Argentina and the origin of fish populations in Patagonian lakes

First flight activities and immigration of cereal aphids in spring 1994-1996 at Gottingen (northern Germany)

First foods for fry

First for 70 years

First for Britain and Ireland: a historical account of birds new to Britain & Ireland 1600-1999, with reference to the Isle of Man and Channel Islands

First for Britain?

First for Canada, saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow in Nova Scotia

First foray: Great Dismal Swamp, VA. How many great purple hairstreaks can dance on the head of a Hercules club?

First fossil 'true Macromischa' in amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

First fossil Dolichopeza Curtis, 1825 (Diptera: Tipulidae), from Baltic amber (Eocene)

First fossil Eloeophila Rondani, 1856 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene)

First fossil Tropiduchidae with a description of a new tribe Jantaritambiini from Eocene Baltic amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)

First fossil bandicoot from the Pliocene Chinchilla local fauna

First fossil batoids (Elasmobranchii) from the Calvert Bluff Formation (Eocene), Bastrop, Texas.

First fossil chewing louse from the Lower Cretaceous of Baissa, Transbaikalia (Insecta, Pediculida = Phthiriaptera, Saurodectidae fam. n.)

First fossil chimpanzee

First fossil finds of some Australian Bryozoa (Cheilostomata)

First fossil flying lemur: a dermopteran from the Late Eocene of Thailand

First fossil hagfish (Myxinoidea): a record from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois

First fossil marsupial from South Asia

First fossil mesothele spider, from the Carboniferous of France

First fossil mouse (Mus, Rodentia) from Indian Siwaliks, Tatrot Formation (Saketi, H.P.): implications for evolutionary history

First fossil occurrence of the austral bryozoan family Urceoliporidae

First fossil record for Myonera (Bivalvia: Cuspidariidae)

First fossil record of Amorphochilus schnablii (Chiroptera: Furipteridae), from the late Quaternary of Peru

First fossil record of Euderma maculatum (Chiroptera: Verpertilionidae), Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona

First fossil record of azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyanus in Europe

First fossil record of stalked spermatophores with sperm (Collembola: Hexapoda)

First fossil record of the family Phormosomatidae (Echinothurioida: Echinoidea) from the Early Miocene Morozaki Group, central Japan

First fossil record of the great skua

First fossil record of the hylid frog Litoria raniformis (Keferstein)

First fossil record of the snowy owl Nyctea scandiaca (Linnaeus, 1758) (Aves: Strigidae) from Bulgaria

First fossil records of the ant genus Discothyrea in Dominican and Mexican amber (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

First fossil species of the chemosynthetic-community gastropod Provanna: localized cold-seep limestones in Upper Eocene and Oligocene rocks, Washington

First fossils of the decapod crustacean Lyreidus found in South America

First foundings of elasmobranchian fish remnants in shell middens on coast of Peter the Great Bay (southern Primorye)

First freshwater animal reported for Isla de Guadalupe represents a southern range extension for Branchinecta lindahli (Crustacea: Anostraca)

First freshwater record of Pacific lamprey, Lampetra tridentata, from Baja California, Mexico

First fully documented nesting of eastern screech-owl in Saskatchewan

First gall-inducing thrips on Elaphoglossum ferns: A new genus and species of thrips, Jersonithrips galligenus from Costa Rica (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae)

First gastropod fauna from the Klimontiovian stage (Lower Cambrian) of the south-eastern Poland

First generation cephalosporin susceptibility testing of Escherichia coli by BD automated phoenix system: Questionable utility of cephalothin as a predictor of cephalexin susceptibility

First glimpse at hidden life of seals

First glimpse of the crystal structure of YaeT's POTRA domains

First gorilla birth!

First gorilla born using artificial insemination

First graphical representation (display-action-pattern graph) of a male headbobbing display in a lacertid (Gallotia galloti eisentrauti)

First gray partridge in Kansas

First great egret recorded in the Northwest Territories

First great egrets in Cook County

First green sandpipers, Tringa ochropus, for North America

First gull record for Samoa

First gyrfalcon banded in New Jersey

First gyrfalcon report for North Carolina

First hand-rearing of Kakapo Strigops habroptilus at the Auckland Zoological Park

First haramiyid (Mammalia, Allotheria) from the Mesozoic of Gondwana

First helminthological data on Algyroides marchi Valverde, 1958 (Sauria: Lacertidae)

First herring gull nest on the Virginia western shore

First hexactinellid sponge reported from the upper triassic nayband formation of Central Iran

First highly stratified prehistoric vertebrate sequence from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino Formation, Kenya)

First hooded warbler in Fillmore County

First hook-billed kite specimen from Nuevo Leon, Mexico

First host plant records for Chelysomidea guttata (Herrich-Schaeffer) (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae), with notes on the biology and distribution

First host record for Paroxyna dupla (Cresson) (Diptera: Tephritidae)

First host record for the genus Hyboteles van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

First host record of Collyriclum faba for the barn swallow

First host records of Eurytoma ranjithi Narendran, 1994

First house finch nest in Tennessee

First house finch nests for Cleveland County, Oklahoma

First house finch nests for northeastern Oklahoma

First house finch nests for southwestern Oklahoma

First house finch record in Duluth

First human evidence of d-amphetamine induced displacement of a D-2/3 agonist radioligand: A -(+)-PHNO positron emission tomography study

First human evidence of d-amphetamine induced displacement of a D-2/3 agonist radioligand: A C-11-(+)-PHNO positron emission tomography study

First human experience with the integration of electroanatomical mapping and intracardiac echocardiography in guiding ablation

First human experiments: Aggressive statin therapy reduced key inflammatory factors including c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and dendritic cell and matrix metalloproteinase expression in human abdominal aortic aneurysmal wall

First human robotic bilateral vasoepididymostomy (RAVE) and robotic vasovasostomy procedures

First hunters of the forest

First hybrid butterflyfish from the western Atlantic

First hydrothermal vent communities from the Indian Ocean discovered

First icterine warblers in Oxfordshire, 1975

First identification of Beet western yellows virus on sugarbeet and lettuce in China

First identification of house finches in Weyburn

First identifications of some species of avian mycoplasma in Yugoslavia

First illustration of the Hong Kong rock lobster, Panulirus stimpsoni (Decapoda, Palinuridae)

First impressions of the Scotch argus

First in Netherlands?

First in the field

First in the frame

First in vivo experiences with living, autologous tissue-engineered heart valves implanted by minimally invasive replacement procedures - 8 week follow-up in a large animal model

First in-human pediatric experience with a Bioabsorbable septal implant for Fontan fenestration closure

First in-situ observation of a frill shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, and an additional record for the western North Atlantic

First incidences of adenoviral haemorrhagic enteritis in turkeys in Poland

First incident of mass seabird deaths from presumed paralytic shellfish poisoning in Finland

First independent feeding of harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) and hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) pups in the Greenland Sea

First indications of parental care in the Chinese salamander, Pachytriton brevipes (Amphibia, Salamandridae)

First infestation by Incisitermes minor of a Canadian building (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae)

First information on sea worms, sipunculoids and echiuroids of the Somali littoral waters

First information on the reproductive biology of the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the eastern Mediterranean

First information on the systematic composition of Miocene Bryozoa - northern Caucasus and the Crimea

First ingolfiellids from the southwest Pacific (Crustacea: Amphipoda) with a discussion of their systematics

First inland nestings of black-crowned night-herons in the Carolinas

First inland record for pomarine jaeger from the Carolinas: a correction

First inland record of pomarine jaeger from the Carolinas

First inland record of the Hudsonian godwit in northwestern Florida

First insect inclusions from the amber of Jordan (Mid Cretaceous)

First insight into Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity in Paraguay

First insights into specificity of belowground tritrophic interactions

First insights into the biodiversity and biogeography of the Southern Ocean deep sea

First instance of a sooty tern's hatching on the Atlantic coast of North America

First instar larvae of hover-flies of the subfamily Syrphinae (Diptera, Syrphidae)

First instar larvae of mantispids, Mantispa japonica MacLachlan and Eumantispa harmandi (Navas) (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), associating with spiders (Araneae)

First instar larvae of tachinids of the genus Trichoparia B.B. (Diptera, Tachinidae)

First instar larvae of tachinids of two species of the genus Dinera Rob.-Desv. (Diptera, Tachinidae)

First instar larvae of the uniforma group of the genus Epicauta (Coleoptera, Meloidae)

First interior Florida record of the common eider

First international conference on graptolites

First international conference: Nitric oxide and cancer - Paris, France, November 26-28, 2007 - Abstracts

First international congress on envenomations and their treatments. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 7-9 June 1995

First international gull symposium (December 1979). Report on 'First international report on the Laridae'.

First international recovery of a blue throated bee eater Meropis viridis

First international symposium. The ecology of large rivers

First introduction of Xyleborus affinis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), a pest of Dracaena fragrans 'Massangeana', to Hungary

First investigation of tick borne Lyme disease in Jinhua, Zhejiang province

First investigation on the geographic distribution of Thaumetopoeidae in the northwestern Peloponnese

First investigation results for Vrelska cave fauna, Bela Palanka, Serbia

First investigations into the effects of Bt corn crop on nematofauna

First investigations on the mesostigmatic mites in the Calimani Mountains

First isolated extramedullary relapse in children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Results of the coprall-97 study.

First isolation and characterization of linezolid resistant Enterococcus faecium in Japan

First isolation and identification of Rickettsia conorii from ticks collected in the region of Fokida in central Greece

First isolation of Borreia , pathogenic for human from Ixodes pavlovskyi Pom. ticks

First isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Morocco

First isolation of Edwardsiella tarda from fish in South Africa

First isolation of Isfahan virus from the Culicidae

First isolation of Japanese encephalitis virus from the mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles, 1901 (Diptera: Culicidae) in Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh

First isolation of Piscirickettsia salmonis from coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch (Waulbaum), and rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), during the freshwater stage of their life cycle

First isolation of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi from Leptotrombidium deliensis in Xiamen City with scanning electron microscopic observation

First isolation of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi from Leptotrombidium palpalis

First isolation of Russian spring-summer encephalitis viruses from rodents and Insectivora

First isolation of Streptococcus sp. from hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus x O. aureus) in Saudi Arabia

First isolation of Vibrio damsela from seabream (Sparus aurata)

First isolation of Yersinia ruckeri from sturgeon, Acipenser baeri Brandt, in south west of France

First isolation of a calicivirus from the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus)

First isolation of a yucaipa-like virus in Africa

First isolation of calcivirus from reptiles and amphibians

First isolation of microorganisms from the gut diverticulum of Aedes aegypti (Diptera : Culicidae): new perspectives for an insect-bacteria association

First isolation of sleeping disease virus from rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), in the United Kingdom

First isolation of soldado virus in southern France

First isolation of the anamorphic basidiomycetous yeast Trichosporon faecale in Germany, from the skin of a patient with tinea pedis

First isolations of Borrelia burgdorferi from rodents collected in northern Europe

First isotopic and multidisciplinary evidence for nonmarine coelacanths and pycnodontiform fishes: palaeoenvironmental implications

First karyotypical description of two American ciconiiform birds, Mycteria americana (Ciconiidae) and Platalea ajaja (Threskiornithidae) and its significance for the chromosome evolutionary and biological conservation approaches

First known Brazilian species of the genera Scutops and Neoscutops (Diptera: Periscelididae), with comments on the relationships among the species in each genus

First known tibia of an early Javanese hominid

First lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia

First lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from Europe: palaeobiogeographical implications

First larvae of Lebbeus comanthi and Thor amboinensis (Decapoda: Hippolytidae) hatched in the laboratory

First larval description for Symbiotes glbberosus (Lucas) (Coleoptera : Endomychidae)

First larval descriptions of two species of Paraleptophlebia (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae)

First larval descriptions, new species, and evaluation of the southeast Asian genus Atopopus (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae)

First leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) stranding for Suffolk

First light

First light charmers

First line chemotherapy with planned sequential administration of gemcitabine followed by docetaxel in elderly advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients: a multicenter phase II study

First line treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia with arsenic trioxide without ATRA and chemotherapy

First lion and cheetah cubs in more than 100 years

First list of record size Morum

First listing of wild stocks of the medaka Oryzias latipes currently kept by the Zoological Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo

First live birth of an unaffected child in the UK following PGD for Type 2 Gaucher Disease

First live record of an Adelie penguin in New Zealand

First living Alexandrium minutum resting cysts in western Baltic

First living Nautilus off Japan

First long-eared owl nest in northeastern Oklahoma

First look at herring distributions with a bottom referencing underwater towed instrumentation vehicle (BRUTIV)

First look into the genome sequence of 'Candidatus Phytoplasma mali' in comparison to 'Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris' strains OY-M and AY-MB

First love on a seabird island: breeding records for Adele Island, WA

First love: the firemouth

First mainland record of the red-breasted nuthatch from Baja California, Mexico

First mainland record of worm-eating warbler Helmitheros vermivorus for Colombia

First male apocrine genital carcinoma mimicking a penile cancer

First mandible and lower dentition of Pristinailurus bristoli with comments on life history and phylogeny

First marbled murrelet record for Alberta

First massecuite pan-boiling and centrifuging mass streams determination with the use of artificial neural networks

First maturity and initial growth of some common species of barnacles in Japan

First maturity, seasonal variations of gonadosomatic index, spawning time and annual migrations of grey mullets Liza (Liza) ramada Risso, 1826 and Chelon labrosus Risso, 1826 from the eastern Adriatic

First meeting of Advisory Body to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Success in Paris

First meeting of county bird recorders

First meeting of the Ad Hoc GFCM/ICCAT working group on stocks of large pelagic fishes in the Mediterranean Sea. (Fuengirola, Malaga, Spain, September 19-24, 1994)

First meeting of the international workshop on majid crabs (Paris, 10-12 November, 1993)

First meiotic chromosomes of male Nephotettix malayanus

First mention of some secondary sexual features in two Romanian dipterans - Dolichopus nubilis Meigen and Hilara intermedia Fallen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Empididae)

First messengers, second messengers, and protein phosphorylation in CNS

First metamorphosis

First metatarsophalangeal joint aspiration using a 29-gauge needle

First metrical data on the length of the prophasic chromosomes of diploid and tetraploid parthenogenetic Artemia

First micromammals (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) from the Vallesian (Miocene) of Eppelsheim, Rheinhessen (Germany)

First millennium butterflies?

First mockingbird nesting record for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

First molecular evidence that inositol trisphosphate signaling contributes to infarct size reduction with postconditioning

First moravamminids from the Himalaya

First multicenter evaluation of the efficacy of tenofovir in nucleos(T)ide analog experienced patients with HBV monoinfection

First multivariate analysis data from ResiNet a German nationwide sentinel study on Helicobacter pylori resistance

First nearctic records of Tempisquitoneura (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Arizona, USA

First neogene record of an articulated polyplacophoran

First neotropic cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus (Aves: Phalacrocoracidae), breeding record for Arkansas

First neotropical record of Idiolispa with description of a new species from Honduras (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

First neotropical species of Neoarisemus Botosaneanu & Vaillant, 1970 (Diptera: Psychodidae)

First nest description for the genus Micrastur (forest falcons)

First nest description, breeding behaviour and distribution of the Madagascar serpent-eagle Eutriorchis astur

First nest description, breeding behaviour, and diet of the Madagascar serpent eagle Eutriorchis astur

First nest description, breeding, ranging and foraging behaviour of the short-legged ground-roller Brachypteracias leptosomus in Madagascar

First nest descriptions, nesting biology and food habits for Bernier's vanga, Oriolia bernieri, in Madagascar

First nest discovered for Alaska subspecies of marbled godwit

First nest of white-eyed vireo in Wisconsin

First nest record and nesting behaviour of the Madagascar red owl Tyto soumagnei

First nest record for Brewer's blackbirds in Clay County

First nest record for Petit's cuckoo shrike Campephaga petiti

First nest record for bronze-winged courser Cursorius chalcopterus in Senegambia

First nest record for the Seychelles (bare-legged) scops owl Otus insularis

First nest record for the barn owl in Montana

First nest record for the equatorial akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis

First nest record of collared swift in the Greater Antilles

First nest record of northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula, in Nova Scotia

First nest record of scarlet-shouldered parrotlet Touit huetii

First nest record of the bare-shanked screech-owl (Otus clarkii)

First nest record of the black-throated green warbler in Kentucky

First nest record of the least bittern in Wyoming

First nest record of the red-shouldered hawk in Becker County

First nest record of white-eyed vireo in Ontario

First nest record, and other notes, for the scaly-breasted Illadopsis Trichastoma albipectus

First nest records for South Dakota for eastern meadowlark and Cassin's kingbird

First nest records for red breasted nuthatch in North Dakota

First nest records of the Great Black-backed Gull on Lake Erie

First nest records of the white-throated hawk (Buteo albigula) in Argentina

First nesting activity of the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, in the Spanish Mediterranean coast

First nesting attempt of the Inca dove for Oklahoma

First nesting attempts by reintroduced sea eagles

First nesting by blue-crowned parakeet in Britain

First nesting of a New World woodpecker in Tamarisk (Tamarix chinensis)

First nesting of a black-necked stilt in Pennsylvania

First nesting of bank swallow in Shelby County, Tennessee

First nesting of black skimmers on San Francisco Bay

First nesting of sooty tern in South Carolina

First nesting of sparrowhawks in Israel

First nesting of the Caspian tern in the Florida Panhandle

First nesting of the double-crested cormorant at Oneida Lake, New York

First nesting of the glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus, in Canada

First nesting of the little gull in Manitoba

First nesting of the razorbill, Alca torda, in the Wolves Archipelago, New Brunswick

First nesting of the scissor-tailed flycatcher in South Carolina

First nesting population of Hypocolius ampelinus in USSR.

First nesting record and status of the Clark's grebe in Canada

First nesting record for Williamson's sapsucker (Sphyrapicus thyroideus) in Baja California, Mexico, and comments on the biogeography of the fauna of the Sierra San Pedro Martir

First nesting record for boreal owl in Idaho

First nesting record for hooded merganser in southeast Pennsylvania

First nesting record for the Bewick's wren in Finney County, Kansas

First nesting record for the Namaqua dove (Oena capensis) in Israel

First nesting record for the bald eagle on the Savannah River Plant

First nesting record for the cedar waxwing in eastern Oklahoma

First nesting record for the common moorhen in McCurtain County, Oklahoma

First nesting record for the piping plover in Oklahoma

First nesting record of a Louisiana heron in North Dakota

First nesting record of black-bellied whistling-duck in central Florida

First nesting record of black-necked stilts for Oklahoma

First nesting record of cattle egret and little blue heron in North Dakota

First nesting record of gray-hooded gull from Ecuador

First nesting record of lanceolated monklet Micromonacha lanceolata and notes on its conservation status

First nesting record of red-tailed hawk in Ramsey County

First nesting record of ringed turtle-dove in South Carolina

First nesting record of ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) in Berks County, Pennsylvania

First nesting record of the Caspian tern in North Dakota

First nesting record of the bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) in Ukrainian Carpathians

First nesting record of the brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) in Litva (Lithuania)

First nesting record of the cattle egret in Oregon

First nesting record of the great-tailed grackle in Oregon

First nesting record of the laughing gull for the west coast of Baja California, Mexico

First nesting record of the nest of a slaty-backed forest-falcon (Micrastur mirandollei) in Yasuni National Park, Ecuadorian Amazon

First nesting record of the peregrine falcon in Ecuador

First nesting record of the redhead (Aythya americana) for southeastern New Mexico

First nesting record of the tamarugo conebill (Conirostrum tamarugense)

First nesting record of the tree swallow for Choctaw County, Oklahoma

First nesting record of the tricolored heron for Oklahoma

First nesting records and current status of the black-shouldered kite in Arizona

First nesting records for Mississippi kite in Nebraska

First nesting records for the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea in northern New South Wales Australia, and field management of nest sites

First nesting records of Wilson's phalarope in Arizona

First nesting records of piping plover in South Carolina

First nesting records of the black phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) in southernmost Texas

First nesting records of the black-bellied whistling-duck in southeastern Oklahoma

First nesting records of the cattle egret in Idaho

First nesting records of the house finch in Manitoba

First nests of Caspian terns (Sterna caspia) for Alaska and the Bering Sea

First nests of Heermann's gull in the United States

First nests of grey-bellied comet Taphrolesbia griseiventris

First nests of the common black-headed gull in North America

First neurophysiological approach to the retino-tectal projections in Discoglossus pictus

First northern Minnesota record of Mississippi kite

First northern harrier nest in southwestern Oklahoma

First note of dietary habits of American mink Mustela vison in Italy

First notice of the family Coleiidae Van Straelen (Crustacea: Decapoda: Eryonoidea) from the Upper Triassic of Japan

First notification in Italy of cardiopulmonary filariosis (heartworm disease) in a wolf (Canis lupus)

First observation of Chapman rearrangement of a pseudosaccharyl ether in the solid state: the thermal isomerization of 3-(methoxy)1,2-benzisothiazole 1,1-dioxide revisited

First observation of a beaver Castor fiber in Belgium since 1848

First observation of a muscle spindle in fish

First observation of bipedal locomotion in a gecko, Homopholis (Blaesodactylus) sakalava (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae)

First observation of egg sac predation of the mantisfly, Mantispa interrupta (Neuroptera, Mantispidae) upon the wolf spider, Gladicosa gulosa (Araneae, Lycosidae)

First observation of great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius in Slovenia

First observation of the European starling in Hawaii

First observation of the Gambian mongoose, Mungos gambianus in Guinea (Conakry)

First observation of the bicolor serotine, vespertilio murinus (Linnaeus, 1758), in the Brussels region

First observation of the desert wheatear Oenanthe deserti in Bulgaria

First observation of the great black-headed gull (Larus ichthyaeetus) in western regions of the Ukrainian SSR

First observation of the greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii ) in Hungary

First observation of the rose-coloured starling in Kirovograd Region

First observations and new distributional data for birds in Paraguay

First observations at the artificial reef submerged on the sandbank off Santa Croce (Trieste, Italy)

First observations in the wild of the blue-throated macaw in Bolivia

First observations of Crossarchus platycephalus (Goldman, 1984) in the Zaire/Congo system (Dja River, southeastern Cameroon)

First observations of a possible Basra reed warbler in Turkey

First observations of an Eastern Screech-Owl, Megascops asio, population in an apple-producing region of southern Quebec

First observations of chick carrying behavior by the buff-crested bustard

First observations of copulatory behaviour of white-fronted and bean geese during migration in Japan

First observations of courtship behavior in rockfish, genus Sebastes

First observations of midgut and ventral nerve syndrome (GNS) from Penaeus japonicus Bate, cultured in southwest of Spain

First observations of podding behavior for the Pacific lyre crab Hyas lyratus (Decapoda: Majidae)

First observations of the behaviour in captivity of two troglobitic species from Monti Lessini, Verona: Italaphaenops dimaioi Ghidini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) and Serradium hirsutipes Verhoeff (large form; Strasser, 1981) (Diplopoda, Polydesmidae)

First observations of the blue-throated macaw in Bolivia

First observations of the endemic subspecies of black-fronted white-eye on Sangihe, north Sulawesi

First observations of the mountain pygmy-possum Burramys parvus nesting in the wild

First observations of vermilion rockfish courtship are from a harvest refuge

First observations of young-of-year Gulf of Mexico sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus de sotoi ) in the Suwanee River, Florida

First observations on cave swallow in Oklahoma

First observations on colony structure, behavior, and vocal repertoire of the South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis Zimmermann, 1783) in Peru

First observations on longitudinal succession of zooplankton in the main course of the Parana River between Santa Fe and Buenos Aires harbour

First observations on physiological and behavioural response of Mytilus galloprovincialis to PCB Arochlor 1254 pollution

First observations on reproductive biology of billfishes (Tetrapturus albidus, Istiophorus albicans and Tetrapturus pfluegeri) in southwestern equatorial Atlantic (Brazil)

First observations on spawning behavior in the giant sea bass

First observations on stomachs contents of the blue shark, Prionace glauca, from southwestern equatorial Atlantic

First observations on the biology of Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda, Calanoida)

First observations on the biology of Scaeva mecogramma (Bigot, 1860) (Diptera, Syrphidae) and notes on some other syrphids preying on psyllids (Hemiptera, Aphalaridae and Triozidae)

First observations on the composition and occurrence of Peracarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) in the Beagle Channel

First observations on the digestive enzymes of some Italian earthworms (Lumbricidae, Oligochaeta)

First observations on the effect of a complete, exceptional overturn of Lake Maggiore on plankton and primary productivity

First observations on the electrophoretic variability of Alcyonium digitatum Linnaeus, 1758 (Cnidaria, Octocorallia)

First observations on the fish communities of fringing reefs in the region of Maumere (Flores - Indonesia)

First observations on the immunological materno-foetal relationships in Typhlonectes compressicaudus, a viviparous gymnophionan Amphibia

First observations on the nest of purple-headed starling Lamprotornis purpureiceps

First observations on the parasitoids associated with lepidopterous pests of cotton in Burkina Faso

First observations on the survival strategies of terricolous arthropods in the northern Pantanal wetland of Brazil

First observations on the territorial song and display of the Kupe bush shrike Malaconotus kupeensis

First observations on the ultrastructural changes induced in Euglena gracilis by tetraine

First occurence in Europe of Myocricetodontinae (Rodentia, Gerbillidae) during the lower middle Miocene in the Karstic Locality of Blanquatere 1 (southern France): Implications

First occurence of Anguillocola crassus in Hungray

First occurence of Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) in Hungary

First occurence of melanism in the cichiz rockfish Sebastolobus macrochir (Scorpaenidae)

First occurence of rufous skylark (Calandrella rufescens Vieill. 1820) in the Carpatian Basin

First occurence of the desert wheatear (Oenanthe deserti) in Hungary

First occurences of Eupholidoptera smyrnensis and Oecanthus pellucens for Evvia (Greece) (July 1992) and of Tetrix ceperoi, Xya pfaendleri and Pteronemobius heydenii for Rhodos (Greece) (April 1996)

First occurences of the Early Triassic foraminifers in Spitsbergen

First occurrence age of Fortipecten takahashii (Yokoyama) (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from the lower part of the Upper Miocene Horokaoshirarika Formation in Numata-cho, central Hokkaido

First occurrence and behaviour of Oxyphysis oxytoxoides Kofoid in the Albufeira Lagoon (Portugal)

First occurrence and breeding of Sprague's pipit, Anthus spragueii, for British Columbia

First occurrence and new length record for the bigeye thresher shark in the north-east Atlantic

First occurrence of Aetosaurus (Reptilia: Archosauria) in the Upper Triassic Chinle Group (USA) and its biochronological significance

First occurrence of Alexandrium catenella in Funka Bay, Hokkaido, along with its unique toxin composition

First occurrence of Brachiosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Oklahoma

First occurrence of Buller's albatross in the Atlantic Ocean

First occurrence of Cochlodinium blooms in Sabah, Malaysia

First occurrence of Deinonychus antirrhopus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Antlers Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Aptian-Albian) of Oklahoma

First occurrence of Halicardia (Bivalvia: Verticordiidae) from the Lower Pliocene Kawabaru Formation of the Miyazaki Group, Pacific side of central Kyushu, Japan

First occurrence of Helicotoma Salter (Gastropoda) from the Ordovician of Alaska

First occurrence of Homogalax (Mammalia; Perissodactyla; Tapiroidea) in the Regina Member of the San Juan Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

First occurrence of Lepidotes (Actinopterygii: Semionotiformes: Semionotidae) in the Coqueiro Seco Formation, early Aptian of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, northeastern Brazil

First occurrence of Nummulites in Danian sediments of Crimea

First occurrence of Pythium sp. and Rhizoctonia sp causing root-rot in erva-mate plantation in Rio Grande do Sul FT Primeira ocorrencia de Pythium sp. E Rhizoctonia sp. causando podridao-de-raizes em ervais no Rio Grande do Sul

First occurrence of Rharbichthys (Teleostei: Enchodontidae) in the Upper Cretaceous of Pelotas Basin (Atlantida Formation), Southern Brazil

First occurrence of Rhomboidella prideauxi (Leach, 1815) (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in the eastern Adriatic Sea

First occurrence of Sabine's gull on Lake Winnibigoshish

First occurrence of Saurornitholestes (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Mexico

First occurrence of Scaphiocoelia (Brachiopoda: Terebratulida) in the Early Devonian of the Parana Basin, Brazil

First occurrence of Technitella Norman 1878 (Foraminiferida: Astrorhizidae) from the Early Pleistocene, Santa Barbara Formation, California

First occurrence of Tipula (Tipula) oleracea Linnaeus (Diptera: Tipulidae) in the New World, with biological notes

First occurrence of Xerus cf. inauris (Rodentia, Sciruridae ) at Olduvai Bed 1 (Lower Pleistocene, Tanzania)

First occurrence of a subfossil stomatopod crustacean from Australia

First occurrence of aburahaya, Phoxinus lagowski f. steindachneri in Hokkaido

First occurrence of an IMP metallo-beta-lactamase in Aeromonas caviae: IMP-19 in an isolate from France

First occurrence of bar-tailed godwit in South America and status of the marbled godwit in northeastern Venezuela

First occurrence of black-chinned hummingbird in Alabama. With notes on identification

First occurrence of blackspot wrasse, Decodon melasma Gomon 1974 (Pisces: Labridae) in California

First occurrence of blue-throated hummingbird (Lampornis clemenciae) in South Carolina

First occurrence of citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola Pallas, 1776) in Hungary

First occurrence of deep-water bivalve Halicardia (Verticordiidae) from the Miocene of Gunma, central Japan with a discussion on its life orientation

First occurrence of echinocaridid phyllocarids (Crustacea) in the Famennian of Iran

First occurrence of greater shearwater in Ontario

First occurrence of hermaphrodite pike, Esox lucius L., in the Esla Basin (Spain)

First occurrence of lupin pest outside North America

First occurrence of pasteurellosis in Portugal affecting cultured gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

First occurrence of ringed-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) in Hungary

First occurrence of speckletail flounder, Engyophrys sanctilaurentii Jordan & Bollman 1890 (Pisces: Bothidae), in California

First occurrence of streptococcosis affecting farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Turkey

First occurrence of the Asian Clam Corbicula fluminae (Bivalvia : Corbiculidae) in the Paranoa Lake, Brasilia, Brazil

First occurrence of the Ediacaran fossil Charnia from the southern hemisphere

First occurrence of the Tethyan bivalve Nayadina (Exputens) in Mexico, and a review of all species of this North American subgenus

First occurrence of the fork-tailed flycatcher at Lake Titicaca, Peru

First occurrence of the gastropod genus Conus from the Miocene Yabutsuka Formation, Gunma Prefecture, Central Japan, with systematic catalogue of the Miocene Conidae in Japan

First occurrence of the genus Talpa (Mammalia, Insectivora) in Maremma (southern Tuscany, central Italy)

First occurrence of the late paleozoic amphibian Zatrachys serratus (temnospondyll zatrachydidae) in the eastern United States

First occurrence of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, in Florida

First occurrence of the masked shrike Lanius nubicus in the Maltese Islands

First occurrence of the paddyfield warbler Acrocephalus agricola in the Maltese Islands

First occurrence of the reptile mite, Ophionyssus natricis (Acari: Dermanyssidae) in New Zealand

First occurrence of the tilapia Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Lesina lagoon (eastern Italian coast)

First occurrence of the yellow bullhead, Ameiurus natalis, in the lower Colorado River, Baja California, Mexico

First occurrence record of Micronycteris homezi in Brazil

First occurrences in Britain of two plant bugs (Hem.-Het.)

First occurrences of Bewick's swan (Cygnus bewickii) in Hungary

First occurrences of Late Paleozoic radiolarians in the Eastern Yakutiya

First of microfossils from the unfossiliferous Upper Ariyalur sandy-clays (Upper Cretaceous) Tiruchirapalli area, South India

First order connections of the visual sector of the thalamic reticular nucleus in marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus)

First osteological collection of marine mammals for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

First osteological record of the dwarf sperm whale in Colombia, with notes on the zoogeography of Kogia in South America

First outbreak of Cochlodinium polykrikoides in the Gulf of California

First outbreak of bacterial black rot on cabbage, broccoli, and brussels sprouts caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey

First outbreak of enteric redmouth in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Walbaum) cultured in Venezuela

First outbreak of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae producing both SHV-12-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamase and DRA-1-type AmpC beta-lactamase at a Korean hospital

First outline of the braconid fauna of Southern Transdanubia, Hungary (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), 3. Helconinae, Homolobinae, Macrocentrinae, Blacinae, Doryctinae and Rogadinae

First outline of the braconid fauna of Southern Transdanubia, Hungary (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), 4. Braconinae and Exothecinae

First outline of the braconid fauna of Southern Transdanubia, Hungary (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), 5. Heliconinae 2., Calyptinae, Meteorinae and Microgastrinae 2

First passage flows in ecological networks: measurement by input-output flow analysis

First passage time analysis on climate indices

First peninsular sighting of Vireo flavoviridis in Florida

First phase I clinical trial of an HIV-1 subtype D gp140 envelope protein vaccine: immune activity induced in all study participants

First phase release coefficient of insulin in subjects with normal glucose tolerance on glucose infusion analyzed by computer simulation

First phase report of the Trebon otter project. Scientific background and recommendations for conservation and management planning

First phenotypic description of Fasciola hepatica Fasciola gigantica intermediate forms from the human endemic area of the Nile Delta, Egypt

First photographic documentation of a live white-collared swift (Streptoprocne zonaris) from the United States

First photographic record of greater flamingo in Texas

First photographic record of spawning red-tailed black sharks

First photographs of Mount Kupe bush-shrike Telophorus kupeensis in the wild

First photographs of the Zanzibar servaline genet Genetta servalina archeri and other endemic subspecies on the island of Unguja, Tanzania

First photography of a hybrid African x green-breasted pitta Pitta angolensis ssp. x P. (angolensis) reichenowi

First photos of 'Dorothy'

First photos of the yeti: an encounter in north India

First planktonic foraminifera from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of the Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia

First pleurodiscid snail in Australia

First policy then science: why a management unit based solely on genetic criteria cannot work

First possible host record for the braconid wasp genus Diamblomera Enderlein (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

First post-Triassic labyrinthodont amphibian in South East Asia: a temnospondyl intercentrum from the Jurassic of Thailand

First post-Triassic temnospondyl amphibians from the Shan-Thai block: intercentra from the Jurassic of peninsular Thailand

First postwar specimens of butterflies sent from the USSR

First prebasic molt in herring, Thayer's, and glaucous-winged gulls

First preclinical study of a new F-18 labeled PET tracer for myocardial perfusion imaging

First pregnancy after double PGD analysis on couples carriers of a genetic disease and an aneuploidy risk

First prenatal case of a de novo deletion del(4)(q31.3) defined by array-CGH - proposal of a phenotype-karyotype correlation

First presence of Nursallia gatturosum (Arambourg, 1954) in the Cenomanian bad of Passo del Furlo (Pesaro, Italy)

First prize: 2006 endourological society essay competition - Direct real-time temperature monitoring for Laparoscopic and CT-Guided Radiofrequency ablation of renal tumors between 3 and 5 cm

First proof of Borrelia burgdorferi on vertical transmission in Apodemus agrarius

First proof of successful breeding by the lesser emperor Anax parthenope (Selys) in Britain

First proofs of the existence of the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix (L.)) (Aves, Tetraonidae) in Bulgaria

First prosecution for badger digging under new law

First pterosaur records from Georgia: open marine facies, Eutaw Formation (Santonian)

First quantitative data on Red Sea deep benthos

First quantitative data on the diet of the Mountain Caracara (Phalcoboenus megalopterus)

First radiation hybrid map of the river buffalo X chromosome (BBUX)

First radiation hybrid map of the river buffalo X chromosome (BBUX) and comparison with BTAX

First raising of Pseudohormius turkmenus Tobias et Alexeev (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Bucculatrix crataegi (Lepidoptera, Bucculatricidae) in orchards of the south Turkmenistan

First rearing attempts of pollack, Pollachius pollachius

First rearing of Octopus joubini Robson, 1929 on mysidacean and caridean shrimps

First rebbachisaurid dinosaur (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the early Cretaceous of Spain: palaeobiogeographical implications

First recent record of the small-toothed palm civet Arctogalidia trivirgata from Vietnam

First recognition and stratigraphic significance of the Early Late Mississippian trilobite Carbonocoryphe (Aprathia) in North America

First recognized occurrence of the genus Plesiocleidochasma in the Mediterranean region (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) with Plesiocleidochasma mediterraneum, new species

First recombinant antigen-based ELISA and line assay for serodiagnosis of Campylobacter jejuni/coli infections

First record and establishment of shiny cowbird in Curacao

First record and extension of the known distribution of the inland prawn, Macrobrachium aracamuni Rodriguez, 1982 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) in Brazil

First record and four new species of Adelarthra Cameron 1920 from Australia, and a related new genus and species Notiomerinx zealandica, from New Zealand (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

First record and habitat notes for the genus Lightiella (Crustacea, Cephalocarida, Hutchinsoniellidae) from the British Virgin Islands

First record and nesting of white-crested tiger-heron Tigriornis leucolophus in The Gambia

First record and redefinition of the qingdao population of marine ciliate Cardiostomatella vermiformis (Kahl, 1928) Corliss, 1960 (Protozoa, Ciliophora)

First record and status of the redlip shiner, Notropis chiliticus (Cope), from South Carolina

First record for Anodonta suborbiculata Say (Unionidae: Anodontinae) in Oklahoma

First record for Argentina for a bat in the genus Micronycteris

First record for Canada of the rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, and notes on the introduced round goby, Neogobius melanostomus

First record for Iberia - paddyfield warbler Acrocephalus agricola on Quinta da Rocha

First record for Portugal - eider Somateria mollissima on the Alvor estuary

First record for Triassic dinosaur footprints from the lower sandstone unit of Kersa area, eastern Ethiopia

First record for Trypoxylon mexicanum from Hispaniola, Great Antilles (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae)

First record for Wales - a drake redhead Aythya americana at Kenfig Pool on 7th November 2001

First record for the European ichthyofauna of Dentex (Cheimerius) canariensis Steindachner, 1881

First record for the Maltese Islands of the dark morph marsh harrier Circus aeruginosus

First record for the biological control agent Rhinocyllus conicus (Coleoptera : Curculionidae) in a threatened native thistle, Cirsium hillii (Asteraceae), in Wisconsin, USA

First record for the bladder cicada Cystosoma saundersii (Westwood) from Lord Howe Island (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)

First record for the grey hairstreak (Strymon melinus) in N. Ontario

First record for the kinkajou, Potos flavus (Carnivora: Procyonidae) in Tamaulipas, Mexico

First record for the least killifish, Heterandria formosa (Pisces: Poeciliidae), in Texas

First record for the long-tailed jaeger in eastern Oregon

First record for the striped color morph of Plethodon cinereus from a Lake Erie island

First record from Nebraska of the clam shrimp Eulimnadia diversa (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Conchostraca)

First record from the family Oxynaspididae (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from southwestern Atlantic

First record in Africa of actinosporean stages, the causative agents for myxosporean (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) infections of fishes

First record in Belgium of a living specimen of Brunnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia)

First record in Iraq of Camallanides (Nematoda: Camallanidae) from the snake Natrix tesselatus

First record in Iraq of Crepidobothrium (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from the snake Coluber ravergieri

First record in Iraq of Kalicephalus (Nematoda: Diaphanocephalidae) from the snake Coluber ventrimaculatus

First record in Iraq of Vampirolepis pipistrelli and Pseudophysaloptera sp. from the bat Pipistrellus kuhli

First record in Iraq of two nematode species from Trionyx euphraticus

First record in Puerto Rico of Spinitectus agonostomi (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) from the mountain mullet (Agonostomus monticola)

First record in Victoria of the scorpaenid fish Maxillicosta scabriceps Whitley 1935

First record in Yugoslavia of some species of Physalopteridae Leiper, 1908 (Nematoda), from falconide birds and the hedgehog

First record in Yugoslavia of some species of Physalopteridae Leiper, 1980 (Nematoda), from falconide birds and the hedgehog

First record in the Galapagos Islands of grey-headed gull Larus cirrocephalus

First record in the Mediterranean (north Aegean Sea, Greece) of the Pacific mullet Mugil soiuy Basilewsky, 1855 (Mugilidae)

First record in the Seychelles of northern pintail Anas acuta acuta

First record in the Walloon region of a Scandinavian Gull (Larus fuscus fuscus) at the dams of the Eau d'Heure. Status and help in identification FT Premiere mention wallonne du Goeland de la Baltique (Larus fuscus fuscus) aux Barrages de l'Eau d'Heure.* Statut et aide a l'identification

First record of 'Balearic shearwater' for the Southern Hemisphere

First record of 'Candidatus phytoplasma trifolii'-related strain associated with safflower phyllody disease in Iran

First record of 'Cithna' naticiformis Jeffreys, 1883 in the Mediterranean: ecological and systematic notes

First record of 'Isospora hominis' in Czechoslovakia

First record of 13 species of Tenthredo Linn. (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from India

First record of Abax carinatus in Flanders and notes on an inventory of ground beetles in the forest reserve Jagersborg (Maaseik)

First record of Abbottina rivularis (Cyprinidae: Gobioninae) from the Mekong Basin

First record of Acalles barbarus (Lucas) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Greece. A serious pest of caper in the island of los

First record of Acanthodactylus opheodurus Arnold, 1980, and Coluber ventromaculatus Gray, 1834 (Squamata: Lacertidae, Colubridae) from the United Arab Emirates

First record of Acanthosphex leurynnis (Jordan & Seale, 1906), a rare velvetfish (Scorpaeniformes: Aploactinidae) in the Gulf of Thailand

First record of Acesta (Bivalvia: Limidae) from the Cretaceous of Australia

First record of Achaearanea brookesiana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 (Araneae : Theridiidae) from mainland India

First record of Adeuomphalus ammoniformis Seguenza, 1876, in the Meditteranean

First record of Aedes Japonicus Japonicus in illinois: Defining its spatial distribution and associated mosquito species

First record of Aedes albopictus in Gabon

First record of Aedes albopictus in Mayotte Island, Comoros Archipelago

First record of Aethes fennicana (M. Hering, 1924) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae, Cochylini) in Romania

First record of African hobby in Malawi

First record of African whitebacked vultures nesting on man-made structures

First record of Aglaophamus neotenus (Polychaeta: Nephtyidae) for Quebec and Arctic regions

First record of Agramma ruficorne (Germ.) from Belarus with notes on erroneous records of some lacebugs from Belarus and Baltia (Heteroptera: Tingidae)

First record of Aleiodes depanochora (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Brazil

First record of Alicia mirabilis (Anthozoa : Actiniaria) from the Aegean Sea and density assessment with distance sampling in a site of high abundance

First record of Allen's hummingbird east of Louisiana

First record of Alona setigera Brehm (Cladocera, Chydoridae) in the Neotropical region

First record of Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1840) in the Mediterranean, with notes on some fossil species of the genus Alopias (Pisces, Selachii, Alopiidae)

First record of Alphitophagus bifasciatus (Say) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Greece; its occurrence in cereal product stores

First record of Ambassis interrupta Bleeker (Pisces; Chandidae) from seas of India

First record of Ambassis productus from endorheic Lake Sibaya

First record of Amblycirrhitus bimacula (Cirrhitidae) from Japan, and reidentification of a hawkfish reported as Cirrhitichthys serratus

First record of Amblyjoppa proteus (Christ) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in Ireland

First record of American avocet from the Republic of Panama

First record of American coot Fulica americana in the Galapagos Islands

First record of American robin, Turdus migratorius, in Sweden

First record of Amphidromus from Australia, with anatomical notes on several species (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae)

First record of Amphisauropus and Varanopus in the Lower Permian Abo Formation, central New Mexico

First record of Amphisbaena dubia Muller (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia) in Argentina

First record of Anachis raysutana Smythe, 1985 (Gastropoda: Columbellidae) from Somalia

First record of Anapleus wewalkai Olexa, 1982 for Cyprus (Insecta, Coleoptera, Histeridae)

First record of Andrena chrysopus Perez in Slovenia (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

First record of Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen, 1935) (Nematoda: Metastrongylidae) in the Dominican Republic

First record of Anguilla japonica glass eel collected in the Kuroshio Current

First record of Anoplothyrea (Diptera: Asilidae) from India with description of a new species

First record of Apanteles obliquae Wilkinson (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on Tros aristolochiae (Farbicius ) (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)

First record of Aphis helianthemi Ferrari, 1872 from Byelorussia (Homoptera: Aphididae)

First record of Apion hookeri Kirby (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in North America

First record of Aplysia cervina (Dall & Simpson) (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) from the Texas coast

First record of Apogon planifrons Longley et Hildebrand (Teleostei: Apogonidae) from southeastern Brazil

First record of Appias nephele Hewitson (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) for Borneo

First record of Apterichtus anguiformis (Anguilliformes, Ophichthidae) in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea

First record of Aridelus rufotestaceus Tobias (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) parasitizing Nezara viridula nymphs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with observations on its immature stages and development

First record of Arnoux's beaked whale (Berardius arnuxii) and southern right-whale dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii) from Brazil

First record of Arocatus melanocephalus (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) from Slovakia

First record of Artibeus jamaicensis Leach (1821) from the United States

First record of Asellia patrizii de Beaux, 1931 (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) in Saudi Arabia

First record of Aspiculuris tetraptera (Nitzsch, 1821) (Nematoda: Oxyuroidea) and Dollfusentis chandleri (Golvan 1969) (Acanthocephala: Illiosentidae) in Haemulon sciurus (Shaw 1803) (Pisces: Pomadasyidae)

First record of Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis G. Cuvier, 1829 (Cetacea: Delphinidae) from the Archipelago of Madeira

First record of Atoposauridae (Crocodylia: Metamesosuchia) in the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of northwest Germany

First record of Audubon's shearwater and black-capped petrel from Jamaica

First record of Aulacocephalus temmincki Bleeker, 1857 from the Red Sea and four rare species from Aqaba, Jordan

First record of Aulodrilus pigueti (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) from the river Morava in Slovakia

First record of Aulonia kratochvili (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Europe

First record of Australapatemon burti and Paramonostomum pseudalveatum (Digenea) from Anas georgica (Aves, Anseriformes) in Chile

First record of Australian bonito, Sarda australis, from New Zealand

First record of Avioserpens larvae (Nematoda) from the naturally infected intermediate host

First record of Baikal teal in Svalbard

First record of Baiomys taylori north of the Red River

First record of Baird's sandpiper Calidris bairdii, in Sweden

First record of Baird's sandpiper in South Australia

First record of Balanophyllia ponderosa from the Sea of Japan

First record of Barbonymus schwanenfeldii (Bleeker) in the Iberian Peninsula

First record of Basiceros conjugans (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini) in Brazil

First record of Basra reed warbler Acrocephalus griseldis in Botswana

First record of Bathymaster signatus (Perciformes: Bathymasteridae) from Japan

First record of Bauerus dubiaquercus (Vespertilionidae) in Oaxaca, Mexico

First record of Bell's vireo for South Carolina

First record of Benthomisophria palliata Sars, 1909 (Copepoda, Misophriidae) from the Indian Ocean

First record of Beryx splendens (Osteichthyes, Berycidae) in the Mediterranean

First record of Biomphalaria orbignyi in Cuba

First record of Bittacus hageni (Insecta: Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from Slovakia

First record of Boa constrictor (Serpentes, Boidae) in the quaternary of South America

First record of Boccardiella ligerica (Ferronniere) (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the east coast of North America

First record of Bogidiellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the Pacific: Bogidiella (Xystriogidiella n. subgen.) capricornea new species from the Great Barrier Reef

First record of Bolitoglossa mulleri (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from Mexico

First record of Bolivinita quadrilatera (Schwager) in the Italian Pliocene (southern Tuscany)

First record of Bombylidae fronm Santa Barbara Island, California (Diptera)

First record of Borelis melo and Dendritina sp. in the Messinian of SE Spain (Cabo de Gata, province Almeria)

First record of Bos namadicus from Middle-Late Pleistocene deposits of Lower Godavari, near Servaipet in Karimnagar Distr., Andhra Pradesh

First record of Bosmina tripurae Korinek et al., 1999 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Bosminidae) from Assam

First record of Boulenger's tree frog Chirixalus vittatus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Mizoram, northeast India

First record of Brachystomia lorellae (Micali, 1987) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Pyramidellidae) for the eastern Mediterranean Sea, with remarks on its probable parasitism on Crepidula unguiformis Lamarck, 1822 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Calyptraeidae)

First record of Branchinecta campestris (Anostraca) from California and casual observations of males of Artemia clasping females of Branchinecta

First record of Branchinecta packardi Pearse (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Mexico

First record of Branchinella spinosa (Milne-Edwards) (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Greece

First record of Branchiostoma belcheri (Gray) from the Japan Sea coast of Kyoto Prefecture, middle Japan

First record of Branchipus intermedius Orghidan, 1947 (Branchiopoda) in the Eastern Balkans

First record of Brephulopsis cylindrica (Menke) (Gastropoda, Buliminidae) in Lviv

First record of Brintesia circe (Fabricius, 1775) in Belgie (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

First record of Brosmophyciops pautzkei (Bythitidae, Ophidiiformes) from Japan

First record of Brotula barbata (Bloch, 1801) (Actinopterygii, Ophidiidae) at coast of Bahia State, Brazil (western Atlantic Ocean)

First record of Brundiniella (Insecta: Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Palaearctic Region, with the description of a new species

First record of Bryozoa from Late Miocene limestone of Baratang Island, Andaman, India

First record of Bryozoichthys lysimus from Japan and second record of B. majorius from Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska

First record of Buller's albatross in Queensland

First record of Calamopleurus (Actinopterygii: Halecomorphi: Amiidae) from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of north-east Brazil

First record of Calappoidea, Portunoidea and Dromioidea in the Upper Cretaceous (Upper Maastrichtian) of NW Madagascar

First record of California gull Larus californicus from the east coast of Mexico

First record of Calliope hummingbird in New Jersey

First record of Callosobruchus phaseoli (Gyllenhal) ( Bruchidae: Coleoptera) in Israel

First record of Callovian ammonites from West Kalimantan (Middle Jurassic, Kalimantan Barat, Borneo, Indonesia)

First record of Caluromysiops from Colombia

First record of Caluromysiops irrupta Sanborn, 1951 (Didelphidae) from Brasil

First record of Camallanus mastacembeli (Sahay and Sinha, 1966) Agrawal, 1967 (Nematoda: Camallanidae) from Pakistan

First record of Cantherines macrocerus (Pisces: Monocanthidae) from Cape Verde Archipelago, west Africa

First record of Cape gannet Sula capensis for Argentina

First record of Carapus bermudensis (Jones, 1874) (Actinopterygii: Ophidiiformes: Carapidae) in the coast of Bahia State, northeastern Brazil (western Atlantic Ocean)

First record of Carybdea marsupialis (L., 1758) (Cnidaria, Cubozoa) from the Adriatic Sea

First record of Carybdea marsupialis (L., 1758) (Cnidaria, Cubozoa) in the Gulf of Trieste

First record of Cassida flavoguttata Spaeth (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from Satara District, Maharashtra

First record of Cassin's hawk-eagle Spizaetus africanus for Kenya

First record of Catenaria auxiliaris in Illinois

First record of Central Stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum) in the tidal Hudson River

First record of Centropages typicus Kroyer (Copepoda: Centropagidae) in the Gulf of Mexico

First record of Ceracia sp. (Tachinidae - Diptera) flies in India

First record of Cerataspis monstrosa, a larval oceanic penaeoid crustacean, from the Gulf of Mexico

First record of Cercospora acalyphae as the etiological agent of Acalypha wilkesiana leaf-spot in Brazil FT Primeiro relato de Cercospora acalyphae como agente etiologico de mancha foliar em Acalypha wilkesiana no Brasil

First record of Ceriagrion tenellum in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (Odonata : Coenagrionidae) FT Erstnachweis von Ceriagrion tenellum in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

First record of Cetti's warbler Cettia cetti in Sweden

First record of Chaetonotus heideri (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotidae) in North America

First record of Chalcolestes parvidens (Artob.) in Croatia (Zygoptera: Lestidae)

First record of Channa bhimachari (class - Osteichthyes) from the hominoid bearing sediments (Miocene) of Rammagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

First record of Chinese great grey shrike in Aomori prefecture, northern Japan

First record of Chondrostoma polylepis Steindachner, 1865 (Ostariophysi, Cyprinidae) in the basin of the River Segura, S.E. of Spain

First record of Chonopeltis inermis Thiele, 1900 (Crustacea: Branchiura) in the Limpopo River System with notes on its morphology

First record of Chrionema chlorotaenia (Perciformes, Percophidae) from the Southeastern Atlantic

First record of Christmas Island frigatebird Fregata andrewsi for Timor-Leste (East Timor)

First record of Chromis xanthochira (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) from Japan

First record of Chromodoris purpurea from the coast of Israel (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia)

First record of Chrysosporium europae, Ch. fluviale and Ch. minutisporosum in Slovakia

First record of Cicadatra persica Kirkaldy, 1909 from Macedonia, with description of its song

First record of Cinara curvipes (Patch) (Homoptera, Aphidina, Lachnidae) on Abies concolor in Switzerland

First record of Cinara curvipes (Patch) (Homoptera, Aphidina, Lachnidae) on Abies concolor