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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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Validation of Sharifiella Santos Dias, 1958 (Acari: Ixodidae) as a genus of hard ticks containing S. theilerae (Hoogstraal, 1953), a parasite of tail-less tenrec, Tenrec ecaudatus (Schreber) (Afrosoricida: Tenrecidae) on Madagascar
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Phalangipus somnathensis Sureandiran, Karuppasamy & Suyani, 2024—a junior synonym of Encephaloides armstrongi Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Inachidae)
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Brasileirinho sergipanus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Calabozoidea), new cave-restricted species from the karst of Sergipe State, Brazil
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A revision of the genus Poloma Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera, Eupterotidae) with the description of a new genus
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Species delimitation recovers undescribed Erpobdellidae (Annelida: Hirudinea) from USA and Türkiye
Published : 2025-04-29 -
Four new species of Mycale (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from the Southwest Atlantic
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An annotated list of the type specimens of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in the collection of Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2. Types of species described by N. N. Filipjev
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A new species of Anotia Westwood from Bonaire and Curaçao (Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae: Otiocerini)
Published : 2025-04-29
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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 -
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 -
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
Published : 2024-09-26 -
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
