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Announcements
Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 14 new species) 2025-12-30
In today's special issue of Zootaxa, a collection of 23 open-access papers on tropical fish biodiversity was published. This book includes some of the papers from the International Symposium of Tropical Fish Biodiversity and Conservation held at the National Taiwan Ocean University in Keelung, Taiwan (16–17 May 2025). The book includes one new genus and 14 new species. It was edited by Drs CHIH-WEI CHANG, I-SHIUNG CHEN, MING-FON YEH, KANG-NING SHEN and SHEN-CHIH WANG.
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New wishbone spider species described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-10-06
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862-page monograph revised Australian Thynnidae and Tiphiida with 18 new genera and 116 new species 2025-08-19
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New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
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Prosciara Frey (Diptera, Sciaridae) revisited: Remarks on classification and description of nineteen new Indomalayan species
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The species of the genus Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Panama
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Othniocryptus Sharp, 1900 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Xenoscelinae): description of two new species from Brazil and lectotype designation for O. variegatus Sharp
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Morphological assessment of the Common Barn Owl Tyto alba (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) supports three species
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Genus Oncopsis Burmeister (Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) new to Korea with description of a new species
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New leafminers on Senegalia mellifera (formerly Acacia mellifera, Fabaceae) in Kenya (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae & Cemiostomidae) are some of Africa’s smallest moths
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A new dark-winged fungus gnat genus, Linana Shah & Huang gen. nov. (Diptera: Sciaridae), from China, with descriptions of two new species
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Three new species of genus Drabescus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini) from Malaysia
Published : 2026-01-28
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Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems*
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A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World
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A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification
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Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
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New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
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Family-group names of Recent fishes
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Uncovering what lies within: The first scientific account of cave-dwelling ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Philippines with the description of a new genus, new subgenus, and four new species from Mindanao
Published : 2024-03-25 -
World Catalogue of the family Lonchaeidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, Acalyptratae)
Published : 2023-06-26