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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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Pwaxumak keysersozei, a new genus and species of Oedicerotidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from New Caledonia
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A distinctive new species of spongicolid shrimp assigned to the genus Spongicola De Haan, 1844 (Decapoda: Stenopodidea) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
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Lost in the Amazon: Rediscovery of the Rio Santa Rosa Mushroomtongue Salamander (Caudata: Plethondontidae) from Ayacucho, Peru
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Review of Indialis Peters & Edmunds 1970 (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae)
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Taxonomic revision of the genus Jekelius López-Colón, 1989 (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) in the Levant region
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A review of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of Nepal with descriptions of three new species
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A new species of Amolops monticola group (Amphibia: Ranidae) from Hoang Lien Range, northwest Vietnam
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Erratum: AMIT SAYYED, RAHUL KHOT & JAYADITYA PURKAYASTHA (2025) A new tuberculate house gecko species (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus) from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa, 5583 (2): 293–308.
Published : 2025-03-03
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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
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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
