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Announcements
New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
Two new species of eelpout genus Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 were described in a Zootaxa paper by Ralf Thiel et al. (2025) from specimens caught at a depth between 3517 and 3580 m at the western slope of the upper margin of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, relatively close to the Bussol Strait and Simushir Island in the center of the Kuril Islands chain. This discovery was featured in a story by Miami Herald.
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A review of the family Alycidae (Acari, Acariformes) from North America
Published : 2025-03-11 -
Revision of the Austro-Oriental shield-bug genus Axiagastus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), with the description of five new species, and taxonomic notes on related genera
Published : 2025-03-11 -
Bibionidae (Diptera) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber: the genera Protopenthetria Li et al., 2021 and Penthetria Meigen, 1803
Published : 2025-03-10 -
Osteology of the long-whiskered catfish Iheringichthys labrosus Lütken, 1874 (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae) from the upper Paraná River basin, southern Brazil
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Naucoridae Leach, 1815 (Insecta: Hemiptera: Nepomorpha) of Maranhão, Brazil
Published : 2025-03-10 -
Description and Phylogenetic Studies on the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Kingdonella qinghaiensis Zheng (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Published : 2025-03-10 -
A new soft coral species from the Gulf of Mexico (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Parasphaerascleridae)
Published : 2025-03-10 -
Larval morphology of Platambus Thomson, 1859: evidence of contrasting morphotypes and phylogenetic considerations (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae)
Published : 2025-03-10
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Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
Published : 2024-09-23 -
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)
Published : 2024-03-13 -
Genetic and morphological variation analyses of Dryophytes japonicus (Anura, Hylidae) with description of a new species from northeastern Japan
Published : 2025-02-20 -
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
Published : 2024-09-26 -
Lost for more than 85 years—rediscovery of Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845), the world’s most elusive snakehead species (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae)
Published : 2025-01-31 -
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
Published : 2024-08-30 -
A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
Published : 2024-11-18 -
The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)
Published : 2024-10-10
