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Editor, Dr M.R. de Carvalho (mrcarvalho@ib.usp.br) Chondrichthyes; South American freshwater
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, no. 101, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brasil  
Editor, Matthew T. Craig (matthew.craig@upr.edu) Marine and estuarine fishes
Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes Department of Marine Sciences University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez P.O. Box 9000 Mayaguez, PR 00681
Editor, Dr J. Friel (jpf19@cornell.edu) African freshwater fishes
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Editor, Dr Rohan Pethiyagoda (rohanpet@gmail.com) Asian Freshwater Fishes
Ichthyology Section, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Editor, Dr Richard Mayden (cypriniformes@gmail.com) Cypriniformes; North American freshwater fishes
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 63103-2010, USA
Editor, Dr Larry M. Page (lpage1@ufl.eduCypriniformes; North American freshwater fishes
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

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2010

Article
Zootaxa 2600: 1–52 (1 Sep. 2010) 15 plates; 62 references                                 Accepted: 9 Jul. 2010
African weakly electric fishes of the genus Petrocephalus (Osteoglossomorpha:
Mormyridae) of Odzala National Park, Republic of the Congo (Lékoli River, Congo River basin) with description of five new species
SÉBASTIEN LAVOUÉ (UK), JOHN P. SULLIVAN (USA) & MATTHEW E. ARNEGARD (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2589: 1–92 (31 Aug. 2010) 0 plates; 460 references                          Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
Checklist of the Adriatic Sea Fishes

LOVRENC LIPEJ (Slovenia) & JAKOV DUL
ČIĆ (Croatia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2579: 59–68 (30 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Morphology of the Gas Bladder in Sea Catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae)

ALEXANDRE P. MARCENIUK & JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2577: 57–68 (26 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
A new species of Moenkhausia from the rio Amazonas and rio Orinoco basins (Characiformes: Characidae)
MANOELA M. F. MARINHO & FRANCISCO LANGEANI (Brazil)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2576: 56–58 (25 Aug. 2010) 0 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Kali colubrina Melo, 2008: a senior synonym of Kali caribbaea Prokofiev, 2008 (Acanthomorphata: Chiasmodontidae)
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2571: 62–68 (19 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 23 Jul. 2010
A new earthworm eel of the genus Chaudhuria from the Ayeyarwaddy River Drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Chaudhuriidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2567: 50–56 (16 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
Malacoctenus brunoi sp. n. (Blennioidei: Labrisomidae), a new scaled-blenny from Trindade Island, off Brazil
RICARDO Z. P. GUIMARÃES, GUSTAVO W. NUNAN & JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2561: 59–68 (9 Aug. 2010) 9 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Jul. 2010
Revision of the bathyal fish genus Benthocometes (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) with a new species from off NW Australia
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark)

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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 61–68 (4 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 19 Jul. 2010
Pseudolaguvia spicula, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Bangladesh and northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LALRAMLIANA (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 1–16 (4 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 49 references                               Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
A systematic review of the genus Chasmodes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Blenniidae)
ROBERT JAVONILLO & ANTONY S. HAROLD (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 39–48 (3 Aug. 2010) 10 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
Nemacheilus marang, a new loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Sangkulirang karst, eastern Borneo
RENNY KURNIA HADIATY (Indonesia) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 19–28 (3 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 23 Jun. 2010
Status and phylogeny of Milyeringidae (Teleostei: Gobiiformes), with the description of a new blind cave-fish from Australia, Milyeringa brooksi, n. sp.
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 1–18 (3 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
A new species of Lepidocephalichthys (Teleostei: Cobitidae) with distinctive sexual dimorphism and comments on relationships in southern lineages of Cobitidae
JUSTIN C. HAVIRD (USA), LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA), WEERAPONGSE TANGJITJAROEN
(Thailand), CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON (Thailand), CHAIWUT GRUDPAN (Thailand) & SURIYA UDDUANG (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2548: 1–21 (26 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
Description of a new species of Tilapia Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Ghana
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Gremany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2537 33–46 (15 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
Crenicichla hu, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the
Paraná basin in Misiones, Argentina 
LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK (Czech Republic), OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN (Czech Republic), JORGE CASCIOTTA (Argentina) & ADRIANA ALMIRÓN (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2536 53–68 (14 Jul. 2010) 9 plates; 46 references                             Accepted: 21 Jun. 2010
Squalius janae, a new species of fish from the Adriatic Sea basin in Slovenia
(Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)
NINA G. BOGUTSKAYA (Russia) & PRIMOŽ ZUPAN
ČIČ (Slovenia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2534 48–56 (13 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 6 Jun. 2010
Peckoltia compta, a new species of catfish from the Brazilian Amazon, rio Tapajós basin (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
RENILDO RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA, JANSEN ZUANON, LUCIA RAPP PY-DANIEL
& MARCELO SALLES ROCHA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2534 37–47 (13 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
Petroleuciscus esfahani, a new species of fish from central Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)
BRIAN W. COAD (Canada) & NINA G. BOGUTSKAYA (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2532 55–63 (12 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 21 Jun. 2010
Chimaera notafricana sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaera from southern Africa JENNY M. KEMPER (USA), DAVID A. EBERT (South Africa), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & DOMINIQUE A. DIDIER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2528 53–60 (6 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 19 references                               Accepted: 31 May 2010
Glyptothorax malabarensis, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India
K. C. GOPI (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2525 51–62 (2 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 33 references                                 Accepted: 3 Jun. 2010
Molecular analysis of Acanthemblemaria macrospilus (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae)
with description of a new species from the Gulf of California, Mexico
HSIU-CHIN LIN & GRANTLY R. GALLAND (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2525: 19–50 (2 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 86 references                              Accepted: 12 Jun. 2010
Marine fish diversity: history of knowledge and discovery (Pisces) 
WILLIAM N. ESCHMEYER (USA), RONALD FRICKE (Germany), JON D. FONG (USA) & DENNIS A. POLACK (South Africa)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2519 59–68 (28 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
An old taxonomic dilemma: the identity of the western south Atlantic lebranche mullet (Teleostei: Perciformes: Mugilidae)
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil) , CLÁUDIO DE OLIVEIRA (Brazil) & MAURO NIRCHIO (Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2519: 48–58 (28 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 40 references                           Accepted: 22 May 2010
Macrodon atricauda (Günther, 1880) (Perciformes: Sciaenidae), a valid species from the southwestern Atlantic, with comments on its conservation
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, SIMONI SANTOS & IRACILDA SAMPAIO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2519: 31–47 (28 Jun. 2010) 8 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 5 Jun. 2010
Betadevario ramachandrani, a new danionine genus and species from the Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Danioninae) 
P. K. PRAMOD (India), FANG FANG (Sweden), K. REMA DEVI (India), TE-YU LIAO (Sweden), T.J. INDRA (India), K.S. JAMEELA BEEVI (India) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2518 60–68 (25 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 28 May 2010
Pseudolaguvia virgulata, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Mizoram, northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LALRAMLIANA (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2514 55–60 (22 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2010
Macrognathus aureus, a new spiny eel of the M. aculeatus species group from the Upper Ayeyarwaddy River Drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2509: 62–66 (17 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 4 May 2010
Records of regalecid fishes in Argentine waters
ANA E. RUIZ & ATILA E. GOSZTONYI (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2505: 1–39 (14 Jun. 2010) 35 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 8 May 2010
Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species
JOHN E. McCOSKER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2493: 59–65 (3 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2010
Sparisoma rocha, a new species of parrotfish (Actinopterygii: Labridae) from Trindade Island, South-western Atlantic
HUDSON TERCIO PINHEIRO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & IVAN SAZIMA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2478: 1–40 (20 May 2010) 22 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 8 Apr. 2010
The copepod genus Hatschekia Poche, 1902 (Siphonostomatoida: Hatschekiidae) from triggerfishes (Pisces: Tetraodontiformes: Balistidae) from off the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with descriptions of eleven new species
DAISUKE UYENO & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2477: 37–48 (19 May 2010) 5 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 1 Apr. 2010
Eudontomyzon graecus, a new nonparasitic lamprey species from Greece (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae)
CLAUDE B. RENAUD (Canada) & PANOS S. ECONOMIDIS (Greece)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2475: 64–68 (17 May 2010) 2 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
Entomacrodus solus, a new species of blenny (Perciformes, Blenniidae) from the Red Sea
JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS (USA) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2475: 48–54 (17 May 2010) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 11 Apr. 2010
Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae)
A. DARSHAN, N. ANGANTHOIBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2463: 1–135 (14 May 2010) 0 plates; 388 references                         Accepted: 12 Apr. 2010
The Fishes of the Red Sea—Reappraisal and Updated Checklist 
DANIEL GOLANI (Israel) &
SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2452: 51–58 (12 May 2010) 4 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 7 Apr. 2010
A new species of Simpsonichthys (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio São Francisco basin, northeastern Brazil
DALTON TAVARES BRESSANE NIELSEN, OSCAR AKIO SHIBATTA, ROGÉRIO DOS REIS
SUZART & AMER FAOUR MARTÍN (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2450: 26–40 (10 May 2010) 2 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
Phylogenies without Synapomorphies—A Crisis in Fish Systematics:
Time to Show Some Character
RANDALL D. MOOI (Canada) & ANTHONY C. GILL (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2445: 53–61 (5 May 2010) 13 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 22 Mar. 2010
A new species of Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the western South Pacific, with comment on C. latipunctatus
HSUAN-CHING HO & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2442: 51–59 (3 May 2010) 2 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 20 Mar. 2010
Character evidence for the monophyly of the Microdesminae, with comments on relationships to Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Gobiidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (USA) & RANDALL D. MOOI (Canada)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2440: 1–17 (29 Apr. 2010) 10 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Morphological and systematic reassessment of †Knightia brasiliensis Woodward, 1939 (Teleostei: Clupeiformes) from the Pliocene of Parnaíba Basin,
northeastern Brazil
FRANCISCO J. DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2434: 60–68 (23 Apr. 2010) 7 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Redescription of Astyanax stenohalinus Messner, 1962 (Characiformes: Characidae), a poorly known species from Argentina and Uruguay
ADRIANA E. ALMIRÓN (Argentina), JORGE R. CASCIOTTA (Argentina), MARÍA DE LAS M.
AZPELICUETA (Argentina) & MARCELO LOUREIRO (Uruguay)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2433: 25–46 (22 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 57 references                            Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
On new collections of deep-sea Gadiformes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the
Brazilian continental slope, between 11° and 23° S
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA), ADRIANA C. BRAGA (Brazil), GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN (Brazil) &
PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2429: 29–42 (19 Apr. 2010) 8 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Two new species of cichlid fish genus Geophagus Heckel from the Rio Tocantins drainage (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
PAULO H. F. LUCINDA, CARLOS A. S. LUCENA & NEWTON C. ASSIS (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 15–24 (15 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Geometric morphometrics uncovers a new species of ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Equulites), with comments on the taxonomic status of Equula berbis Valenciennes
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY, JEANETTE CHU, LUTHFUN NAHAR & JOHN S. SPARKS (USA)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2426: 68–68 (14 Apr. 2010)  
Erratum: A new species of scaly
blenny of the genus Labrisomus (Actinopterygii: Labrisomidae) from the tropical West Atlantic. Zootaxa, 2015, 62–68.
SAZIMA, I., CARVALHO-FILHO, A., GASPARINI, J.L. & SAZIMA, C. 

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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 63–68 (9 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 25 Feb. 2010
New records of marine fishes illustrate the biogeographic importance of
Christmas Island, Indian Ocean
JEAN-PAUL A. HOBBS, ANTHONY M. AYLING, J. HOWARD CHOAT, JUSTIN J. GILLIGAN,
CHRISTIAN A. MCDONALD, JOSEPH NEILSON & STEPHEN J. NEWMAN (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 53–62 (9 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 33 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Reef fishes of the Mazunte-Bahías de Huatulco reef track, Oaxaca, Mexican
Pacific
RAMÓN ANDRÉS LÓPEZ PÉREZ, IMELDA LÓPEZ PÉREZ-MALDONADO, ARIADNA
MONTSERRAT LÓPEZ ORTIZ, LINDA MARGARITA BARRANCO SERVIN, JAVIER BARRIENTOS VILLALOBOS & GERADO ESTEBAN LEYTE MORALES (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 22–30 (9 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Description of Halichoeres rubrovirens, a new species of wrasse (Labridae: Perciformes) from the Trindade and Martin Vaz Island group, southeastern Brazil, with a preliminary mtDNA molecular phylogeny of New World Halichoeres
LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA), HUDSON T. PINHEIRO (Brazil) & JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2419: 63–68 (6 Apr. 2010) 2 plates; 2 references                        Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Synodus cresseyi Prokofiev, 2008, an unnecessary replacement for S. macrocephalus Cressey, 1981, and a description of a new species from the Western Indian Ocean (Teleostei: Synodontidae)

HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China), ARTÉM M. PROKOFIEV (Russia) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 63–68 (22 Mar. 2010) 1 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Polydactylus luparensis, a new species of threadfin (Perciformes: Polynemidae) from the Batang Lupar River, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
PEK KHIOK ANNIE LIM (Malaysia), HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan) & ALBERT CHUAN
GAMBANG (Malaysia)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2378: 1–84 (26 Feb. 2010) 16 plates; 394 references                        Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
A checklist of the fish fauna of Greenland waters

PETER R. MØLLER (Denmark), JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), STEEN W. KNUDSEN (Denmark),
JAN Y. POULSEN (Denmark), KAJ SÜNKSEN (Greenland) & OLE A. JØRGENSEN (Denmark)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2370: 36–52 (25 Feb. 2010) 9 plates; 48 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Fishes as living tracers of connectivity in the tropical western North Atlantic: I. Distribution of the neon gobies, genus Elacatinus (Pisces: Gobiidae)

PATRICK L. COLIN (Palau)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2352: 59–68 (5 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
Taxonomic Review of the perciform fish genus Acanthistius from the east coast of southern Africa, with description of a new species and designation of a neotype for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861
PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA (South Africa)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2349: 55–64 (2 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) from
the San Juan River drainage, Pacific versant of Colombia
CARLOS A. GARCÍA–ALZATE (Colombia), CÉSAR ROMÁN–VALENCIA (Colombia) & DONALD
C. TAPHORN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2348: 40–56 (1 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 57 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2009
Cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides Smith, 1949 (Apogonidae) with a description of a new species from the West-Pacific region
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2346: 53–61 (28 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
The larval, juvenile, and adult stages of the Caribbean goby, Coryphopterus kuna (Teleostei: Gobiidae): a reef fish with a pelagic larval duration longer than the post-settlement lifespan
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA), LOURDES VASQUEZ-YEOMANS (Mexico), MARTHA VALDEZMORENO
(Mexico), LESLIE WILK (Canada), DAVID L. JONES (USA), MONICA R. LARA (USA), CHRIS CALDOW (USA) & MAHMOOD SHIVJI (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2346: 29–41 (28 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new species of ladyfish, of the genus Elops (Elopiformes: Elopidae), from the western Atlantic Ocean
RICHARD S. MCBRIDE, CLAUDIA R. ROCHA, RAMON RUIZ-CARUS & BRIAN W. BOWEN (USA)

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Zootaxa 2345: 19–32 (27 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
Ancistrus falconensis n. sp. and A. gymnorhynchus Kner (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from central Venezuelan Caribbean coastal streams
DONALD C. TAPHORN (USA), JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA) & DOUGLAS RODRÍGUEZOLARTE
(Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 2343: 57–65 (25 Jan. 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 3 Dec. 2009
A new species of Pimelodus LaCépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from
rio Itacaiunas, rio Tocantins basin, Brazil
MARCELO SALLES ROCHA & FRANK RAYNNER V. RIBEIRO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2341: 33–51 (22 Jan. 2010) 8 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 1 Dec. 2009
A new species of Ptychochromis from northeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with an updated phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the genus
JOHN S. SPARKS & MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2340: 50–64 (21 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
Cottus immaculatus, a new species of sculpin (Cottidae) from the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri, USA
ANDREW P. KINZIGER & ROBERT M. WOOD (USA)

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Zootaxa 2332: 49–60 (11 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 3 Nov. 2009
Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique
MARTIN REICHARD (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2332: 40–48 (11 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
A new species of suckermouth armored catfish, Pseudancistrus kwinti (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Coppename River drainage, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname
PHILIP W. WILLINK (USA), JAN H. MOL (Suriname) & BARRY CHERNOFF (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 62-68 (24 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2009
Redescription of Lophiodes infrabrunneus Smith and Radcliffe, 1912, a senior
synonym of L. abdituspinus Ni, Wu and Li, 1990 (Lophiiformes: Lophiidae)
HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China), BERNARD SÉRET (France) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 39-50 (24 Dec. 2009) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 17 Oct. 2009
Description of a new Coelorinchus (Macrouridae, Gadiformes, Teleostei) from
Taiwan, with notable new records of grenadiers from the South China Sea
TOMIO IWAMOTO (USA), HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2312: 49-59 (16 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 5 Nov. 2009
Descriptions of two new genera and species of ptereleotrine fishes from Australia and Japan (Teleostei: Gobioidei) with discussion of possible
relationships
DOUGLASS F. HOESE (Australia) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2307: 1-38 (9 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 76 references                          Accepted: 9 Nov. 2009
Annotated checklist of the freshwater fishes of continental and insular
Honduras
WILFREDO A. MATAMOROS, JACOB F. SCHAEFER & BRIAN R. KREISER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2301: 1-28 (1 Dec. 2009) 16 plates; 48 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Redescription of the genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft,
1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae)
ANDREA D. MARSHALL (Australia), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & MICHAEL B.
BENNETT (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 64-68 (26 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Occurrence of the Mardi Gras wrasse, Halichoeres burekae (Teleostei:
Labridae) in the Alacranes Reef, off northern Yucatan Peninsula
ALFONSO AGUILAR-PERERA & ARMIN TUZ-SULUB (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 45-54 (26 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
New records of fishes for Trindade-Martin Vaz oceanic insular complex, Brazil

HUDSON T. PINHEIRO, VICTOR CAMILATO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI &
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOYEUX (Brazil)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2296: 68 (24 Nov. 2009
Erratum—SCHORIES, S., MEYER, M.K. & SCHARTL, M. (2009) Description of Poecilia
(Acanthophacelus) obscura n. sp., (Teleostei: Poeciliidae), a new guppy species from western Trinidad, with remarks on P. wingei and the status of the “Endler’s guppy”. Zootaxa, 2266, 35–50.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2294: 1-22 (20 Nov. 2009) 10 plates; 63 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Description of a new genus and two new species of killifish
(Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from West Africa, with a discussion of the taxonomic status of Aphyosemion maeseni Poll, 1941
RAINER SONNENBERG & ECKHARD BUSCH (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2290: 27-35 (16 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Phenacoscorpius longirostris, a new species of deep water scorpionfish
(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the northern Tasman Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2290: 1-26 (16 Nov. 2009) 22 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 19 Sep. 2009
First report of rare pomfrets (Teleostei: Bramidae) from Brazilian waters,
with a key to Western Atlantic species
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, GUY MARCOVALDI, CLÁUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO, M. ISABEL G.
PAIVA & LUIZ A. G. DUARTE (Brazil)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2289: 68 (13 Nov. 2009
Erratum—Ng, H. H. & Hadiaty, R. K. (2009) Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra. Zootaxa, 2232, 50–60.

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 61-67 (13 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Comments on the snake-eel genus Xyrias (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with
the description of a new species
JOHN E. McCOSKER (USA), WEI-LI CHEN (Taiwan) & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2283: 16-28 (6 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 7 Oct. 2009
Tachysurus spilotus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2277: 61-68 (30 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Description of a new scorpionfish (Scorpaenoidei, Sebastolobinae) from the
tropical eastern Pacific
PHILIPPE BÉAREZ (France) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2277: 53-60 (30 Oct. 2009) 5 plates; 4 references                          Accepted: 8 Oct. 2009
Danionella priapus, a new species of miniature cyprinid fish from West Bengal,
India (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2275: 41-59 (29 Oct. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 25 Sep. 2009
Three new species of Ancistrus Kner, 1854 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the
Rio Iguaçu basin, Paraná State, Brazil
ALESSANDRO GASPARETTO BIFI, CARLA SIMONE PAVANELLI & CLÁUDIO HENRIQUE
ZAWADZKI (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 64-68 (22 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 30 Sep. 2009
Briggsia hastingsi, a new genus and species of clingfish from Oman
MATTHEW T. CRAIG & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 57-63 (22 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
Platycephalus orbitalis, a new species of flathead (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)
collected from western Australia
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan) & LESLIE W. KNAPP (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2270: 63-68 (22 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
First record of the fish genus Symphysanodon (Teleostei: Perciformes:
Symphysanodontidae) from the western South Atlantic Ocean
PAULA N. CAMPOS (Brazil) ANA CRISTINA T. BONECKER (Brazil), MÁRCIA S. DE CASTRO
(Brazil) & WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR. (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2270: 53-62 (22 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 29 Sep. 2009
Squalius kottelati, a new cyprinid species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Orontes
River, Turkey
DAVUT TURAN, B. TOGAY YILMAZ & CÜNEYT KAYA (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2267: 43-54 (19 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 4 Sep. 2009
Acanthopagrus randalli (Perciformes: Sparidae), a new black seabream from
the Persian Gulf
YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan) & KENT E. CARPENTER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2266: 35-50 (16 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 3 Sep. 2009
Description of Poecilia (Acanthophacelus) obscura n. sp., (Teleostei: Poeciliidae),
a new guppy species from western Trinidad, with remarks on P. wingei and the status of the “Endler’s guppy”
SUSANNE SCHORIES, MANFRED K. MEYER & MANFRED SCHARTL (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2262: 53-68 (12 Oct. 2009) 7 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2009
Two new species of Jupiaba (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio Tapajós and rio Madeira drainages, Brazil, with an identification key to species of the
genus
ANDRÉ L. NETTO-FERREIRA, ANGELA M. ZANATA, JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI
& LEANDRO M. SOUSA (Brazil)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2252: 1-77 (8 Oct. 2009) 27 plates; 55 references                         Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
A revision of the Australian handfishes
(Lophiiformes: Brachionichthyidae), with descriptions of three new genera and nine new species
PETER R. LAST & DANIEL C. GLEDHILL (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2234: 1-20 (17 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
The deep-sea Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes
(Teleostei: Elopomorpha) collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11o and 23o S
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA), GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN (Brazil), ADRIANA C. BRAGA (Brazil) &
PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2232: 50-60 (15 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2009
Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra
 
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & RENNY K. HADIATY (Indonesia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 57-68 (11 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
Ocellus-bearing Neobythites species (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) from the West
Atlantic with description of a new species
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), FRANZ UIBLEIN (Norway) & MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 29-42 (11 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 18 Aug. 2009
A shallow water population of Pronotogrammus martinicensis (Guichenot, 1868)
(Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from South-western Atlantic, Brazil 
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO (Brazil), CARLOS E. L.FERREIRA (Brazil) & MATTHEW CRAIG (Puerto Rico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 1-28 (11 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 7 Aug. 2009
A Taxonomic Review of the Australian Butterfly Ray Gymnura australis
(Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886) and Other Members of the family Gymnuridae (Order Rajiformes) from the Indo-West Pacific
IAN P. JACOBSEN & MIKE B. BENNETT (Australia)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2220: 68 (4 Sep. 2009
Erratum—Aguilera, G., Mirande, J.M. & Azpelicueta, M.M. (2009) A new species of Cnesterodon
(Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina. Zootaxa, 2195, 34–42.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2218: 59-68 (2 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 11 Aug. 2009
A new species of chimaera, Hydrolagus melanophasma sp. nov.
(Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), from the eastern North Pacific
KELSEY C. JAMES, DAVID A. EBERT, DOUGLAS J. LONG & DOMINIQUE A. DIDIER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2215: 24-36 (31 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 4 Aug. 2009
Identification of the larval and juvenile stages of the Cubera Snapper, Lutjanus
cyanopterus, using DNA barcoding
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA), ROBERT HANNER (Canada), MAHMOOD SHIVJI (USA), JOHN
HYDE (USA) & CHRIS CALDOW (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2203: 49-58 (19 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 1 Aug. 2009
A new species of tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae)
from Taiwanese waters
MAO-YING LEE (Taiwan) , THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA) & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2198: 16-26 (14 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 1 Jul. 2009
Lethenteron ninae, a new nonparasitic lamprey species from the north-eastern
Black Sea basin (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae)
ALEXANDER M. NASEKA (Russia), SAKO B. TUNIYEV (Russia) & CLAUDE B. RENAUD (Canada)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2196: 65-68 (13 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
First records of the rare eelpout Lycenchelys xanthoptera Anderson, 1991
(Teleostei, Zoarcidae) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
CARL D. STRUTHERS (New Zealand) & PETER R. MØLLER (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2195: 34-42 (12 Aug. 2009) 4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
A new species of Cnesterodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small
tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina
GASTÓN AGUILERA, JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA
(Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2191: 41-57 (7 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
Morphological comparisons of the Indo-West Pacific scorpionfish,
Parascorpaena aurita, with a closely related species, P. picta, with first records of P. aurita from East Asia (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan), YOU SAKURAI (Japan), HIROSHI SENOU (Japan) & HSUANCHING
HO (R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2173: 41-48 (31 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
A new dwarf cichlid genus and species (Teleostei, Cichlidae)
from Guinea, West Africa
ANTON LAMBOJ (Austria)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2173: 31-40 (31 Jul. 2009) 9 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
Elacatinus lobeli, a new cleaning goby from Belize and Honduras
JOHN E. RANDALL (USA) & PATRICK L. COLIN (Palau)

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Zootaxa 2173: 1-18 (31 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
Chlamydoselachus africana, a new species of frilled shark from southern Africa
(Chondrichthyes, Hexanchiformes, Chlamydoselachidae)
DAVID A. EBERT (USA) & LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2171: 48-64 (30 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 30 Jun. 2009
A new species of hill stream loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Central
Kalimantan, with redescriptions of Homaloptera tateregani Popta and Homaloptera stephensoni Hora
TAN HEOK HUI (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2171: 65-68 (30 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
Pangio lidi, a new species of loach from eastern Borneo, Indonesia
(Teleostei: Cobitidae)
RENNY KURNIA HADIATY (Indonesia) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2167: 47-58 (24 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 2 Jul. 2009
A new genus and species of inseminating characid fish from the rio Xingu basin
(Characiformes: Characidae)
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES, KATIANE M. FERREIRA & ANDRÉ LUIZ NETTO-FERREIRA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2165: 59-68 (22 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
Redescription of Betta anabatoides Bleeker, and a new species of Betta from
West Kalimantan, Borneo (Teleostei: Osphronemidae)
HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 21-32 (21 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 47 references                            Accepted: 16 Jun. 2009
A new marine clupeoid fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Sergipe-Alagoas
Basin, northeastern Brazil
FRANCISCO J. DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 33-40 (21 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Devario xyrops, a new species of danionine fish from south-western Myanmar
(Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
FANG FANG & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 41-48 (21 Jul. 2009) 4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Danio aesculapii, a new species of danio from south-western Myanmar
(Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
SVEN O. KULLANDER & FANG FANG (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2153: 24-34 (9 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2009
Notoraja sapphira sp. nov. (Rajoidei: Arhynchobatidae), a new deepwater skate from the slopes of the Norfolk Ridge (South-West Pacific)
BERNARD SÉRET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2143: 59-67 (29 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 27 May 2009
Redescription of Parotocinclus bahiensis (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1918) (Pisces, Ostariophysi, Loricariidae)
HERALDO A. BRITSKI & JULIO CESAR GARAVELLO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2136: 49-58 (19 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
Devario anomalus, a new species of freshwater fish from Bangladesh (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae)
KEVIN W. CONWAY, RICHARD L. MAYDEN & KEVIN L. TANG (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2133: 1-19 (16 Jun. 2009) 16 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
A literature review of the sponge-dwelling gobiid fishes of the genus Elacatinus from the western Atlantic, with description of two new Caribbean species
JOHN E. RANDALL & PHIILLIP S. LOBEL (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2120: 3-14 (28 May 2009) 0 plates; 57 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Recognizing diversity in blennioid fish nomenclature (Teleostei: Blennioidei)
PHILIP A. HASTINGS & VICTOR G. SPRINGER (USA)

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Zootaxa 2113: 55-62 (20 May 2009) 3 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
New species of Achirus (Pleuronectiformes: Achiridae) from Northeastern
Brazil
ROBSON T. C. RAMOS, TELTON P. A. RAMOS, & PAULO R. D. LOPES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2113: 1-40 (20 May 2009) 21 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
Four new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio
Uruguay, southeastern South America, with a review of the genus in the rio Uruguay basin 
TIAGO P. CARVALHO (USA) & ROBERTO E. REIS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2110: 41-57 (18 May 2009) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Hemitriakis indroyonoi sp. nov., a new species of houndshark from Indonesia
(Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae)
WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & DHARMADI
(Indonesia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2095: 1-7 (8 May 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
Etheostoma erythrozonum, a new species of darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the
Meramec River drainage, Missouri
JOHN F. SWITZER & ROBERT M. WOOD (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2093: 60-68 (6 May 2009) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 10 Apr. 2009
Brachyhypopomus gauderio, new species, a new example of underestimated
species diversity of electric fishes in the southern South America (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae)
JULIA GIORA & LUIZ R. MALABARBA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2092: 37-46 (6 May 2009) 6 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 2 Apr. 2009
Halichoeres sazimai, a new species of wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae)
from the Western South Atlantic
OSMAR J. LUIZ JR (Btazil), CARLOS E. L. FERREIRA (Brazil) & LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA)

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Zootaxa 2085: 61-68 (29 Apr. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 30 Mar. 2009
Glyptothorax ketambe, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
from northern Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & RENNY K. HADIATY (Indonesia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2081: 67-68 (24 Apr. 2009) 2 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 3 Mar. 2009
Unusual coloration pattern in juveniles of Stegastes fuscus
(Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae)
MARIA ELISABETH DE ARAÚJO, HENRIQUE A. MARANHÃO, DRÁUSIO P. VÉRAS &
FÁBIO HAZIN (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2076: 37-59 (17 Apr. 2009) 7 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 24 Mar. 2009
Descriptions of three new species of Melanochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
and a redescription of M. vermivorus
GERTRUD KONINGS-DUDIN, ADRIANUS F. KONINGS & JAY R. STAUFFER, JR (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2072: 56-68 (14 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2009
Pseudobagrus fui Miao, a valid bagrid species from the Yangtze River drainage,
South China (Teleostei: Bagridae)
JIAN-LI CHENG (China) , J. ANDRÉS LÓPEZ (USA) & E ZHANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2045: 43-59 (18 Mar. 2009) 13 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
Genetic characterization of the Aphyosemion calliurum species group and
description of a new species from this assemblage: A. campomaanense (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Nothobranchiidae) from Southern Cameroon
JEAN-FRANÇOIS AGNÈSE (France), RANDALL BRUMMETT (Cameroon), PIERRE CAMINADE
(France), JOSETTE CATALAN (France) & ETIENNE KORNOBIS (France)
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Zootaxa 2028: 1-19 (6 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 22 Feb. 2009
Description of two new species of Nannocharax Günther, 1867 (Teleostei:
Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Cross River, Cameroon
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2028: 51-58 (6 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 22 Jan. 2009
On two Jenynsia taxa (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from Argentina,
originally placed in the poeciliid genus Xiphophorus
STEFAN KOERBER (Germany) & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2028: 1-19 (6 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 22 Feb. 2009
Description of two new species of Nannocharax Günther, 1867 (Teleostei:
Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Cross River, Cameroon
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2027: 55-62 (4 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 23 Jan. 2009
Description of Ophthalmolycus andersoni sp. nov. (Pisces, Zoarcidae)
from the Antarctic Ocean
JESÚS MATALLANAS (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2022: 58-68 (27 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Barbulifer enigmaticus, a new seven-spined goby (Pisces: Teleostei: Gobiidae)
from the southwestern Atlantic
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOYEUX (Brasil), JAMES L. VAN TASSELL (USA) & RAPHAEL MARIANO
MACIEIRA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2018: 45-57 (23 Feb. 2009) 10 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Atlantic occurrence of the genus Bellottia (Teleostei, Bythitidae)
with two new species from the Western North Atlantic
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), STEVE W. ROSS (USA) & DANIEL M. COHEN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2015: 62-68 (18 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 19 Jan. 2009
A new species of scaly blenny of the genus Labrisomus (Actinopterygii:
Labrisomidae) from the tropical West Atlantic
IVAN SAZIMA, ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & CRISTINA SAZIMA
(Brazil) 
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2008: 1-22 (11 Feb. 2009) 9 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Genetic identification and color descriptions of early life-history stages of
Belizean Phaeoptyx and Astrapogon (Teleostei: Apogonidae) with Comments on identification of adult Phaeoptyx
CAROLE C. BALDWIN, JULIE H. MOUNTS, DAVID G. SMITH & LEE A. WEIGT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2008: 23-28 (11 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 23 Dec. 2008
A new species of the flathead genus Onigocia (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)
collected from the Coral and Tasman Seas
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan) & LESLIE W. KNAPP (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2006: 23-40 (9 Feb. 2009) 11 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 25 Nov. 2008
The identity of Schizothorax griseus Pellegrin, 1931, with descriptions of three
new species of schizothoracine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from China
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 2006: 41-50 (9 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 6 Jan. 2009
Crenicichla mandelburgeri, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
from the Paraná river drainage in Paraguay
SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2006: 51-61 (9 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
Review of blenniid fishes from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil, with
description of a new species of Scartella (Teleostei: Blenniidae)
CARLOS A. RANGEL & LIANA F. MENDES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1981: 1-14 (16 Jan. 2009) 10 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 19 Nov. 2008
Description of three new species of Glossogobius from Australia and New Guinea
DOUGLASS F. HOESE & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1981: 15-28 (16 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 19 Nov. 2008
Barbus niluferensis, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Nilüfer River, Turkey, with re-description of B. oligolepis
DAVUT TURAN (Switzerland), MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore) & F. GÜLER EKMEKÇİ (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1980: 61-68 (16 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 27 Nov. 2008
Bangana brevirostris, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Lancang-Jiang (Upper Mekong River) drainage in Yunnan,
Southwest China
KAI LIU & WEI ZHOU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1977: 39-48 (14 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 10 Nov. 2008
Parakysis hystriculus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae)
from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1973: 41-50 (9 Jan. 2009) 8 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Akysis fontaneus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae)
from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1967: 63-72 (19 Dec. 2008) 5 plates; 39 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos, a new species of loach from southern Borneo
(Teleostei: Cobitidae)
MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland) & HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1963: 1-24 (15 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 3 Nov. 2008
Three new darter species of the Etheostoma percnurum species complex
(Percidae, subgenus Catonotus) from the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages
REBECCA E. BLANTON & ROBERT E. JENKINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1963: 25-42 (15 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
A new species of Percina (Perciformes: Percidae) from the Apalachicola River drainage, southeastern United States
MARY C. FREEMAN, BYRON J. FREEMAN, NOEL M. BURKHEAD & CARRIE A. STRAIGHT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1963: 43-53 (15 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Nandus mercatus (Teleostei: Perciformes: Nandidae),
a new leaf fish from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1963: 54-68 (15 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
Three new pygmy seahorse species from Indonesia
(Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus)
SARA A. LOURIE (Canada) & RUDIE H. KUITER (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1948: 36-56 (3 Dec. 2008) 17 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
Phylogenetic assessment of ultrastructural and histological characters of teeth in the Anostomoidea, Hemiodontidae and Parodontidae
(Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes)
ALEXANDRE SCHARCANSKY (Israel) & CARLOS ALBERTO S. LUCENA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1943: 26-36 (26 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
Bathycongrus trimaculatus, a new congrid eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) from the southwestern Pacific, with a redescription of Bathycongrus bleekeri Fowler
EMMA S. KARMOVSKAYA (Russia) & DAVID G. SMITH (USA)

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Zootaxa 1940: 1-15 (24 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 40 references                        Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Austrolebias reicherti Loureiro & García, a valid species of annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from Uruguay

MARCELO LOUREIRO & GRACIELA GARCÍA (Uruguay)
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Zootaxa 1932: 27-32 (14 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
A new cleaner species of Elacatinus (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic
IVAN SAZIMA, ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO & CRISTINA SAZIMA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1932: 33-46 (14 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Triplophysa waisihani, a new species of nemacheiline loach from Northwest China (Pisces: Balitoridae)
LIANG CAO & E ZHANG (China)

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Zootaxa 1931: 37-48 (12 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 53 references                           Accepted: 10 Oct. 2008
The Sri Lankan spiny eel, Macrognathus pentophthalmos (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae), and its enigmatic decline
ROHAN PETHIYAGODA, ANJANA SILVA, KALANA MADUWAGE & LALITH KARIYAWASAM (Sri Lanka)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1925: 31-38 (10 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Apareiodon agmatos, a new species from the upper Mazaruni river, Guyana (Teleostei: Characiformes: Parodontidae)
DONALD C. TAPHORN B.(Venezuela), HERNÁN LÓPEZ-FERNÁNDEZ (Canada) & CALVIN R. BERNARD (Guyana)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1921: 35-46 (3 Nov. 2008) 3 plates; 45 references                           Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of longnose skate (Rajiformes: Rajidae: Dipturus) from Argentinean waters based on DNA barcoding
JUAN MARTIN DÍAZ DE ASTARLOA (Argentina), EZEQUIEL MABRAGAÑA (Argentina), ROBERT HANNER (Canada) & DANIEL E. FIGUEROA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1918: 45-58 (29 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Pseudancistrus corantijniensis, a new species from the Guyana Shield (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with a molecular and morphological description of the Pseudancistrus barbatus group
Sophie de Chambrier & Juan I. Montoya-Burgos (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa 1918: 59-68 (29 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
A new Pamphorichthys (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliini) from central Brazil
CARLOS AUGUSTO FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1911: 1-30 (22 Oct 2008) 17 plates; 81 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Description of early ontogeny and osteological development of streaked mojarra Eugerres lineatus (Teleostei: Percoidei: Gerreidae)
JOSé LUIS ORTíz-GALINDO, JOSé LUIS CASTRO-AGUIRRE, EDUARDO F. BALART & NICOLás áVAREZ-PLIEGO (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1908: 1-27 (17 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 38 references                                 Accepted: 9 Sept. 2008
Morphological re-examination and taxonomy of the genus Macropodus (Perciformes, Osphronemidae)
TOM WINSTANLEY & KENDALL D. CLEMENTS (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1908: 28-40 (17 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
Two new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from upper rio Paraguaçu and rio Itapicuru basins, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
ANGELA M. ZANATA & PRISCILA CAMELIER (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1897: 67-68 (10 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Clarification of the nomenclatural status of Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae)
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (China)
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Zootaxa 1877: 59-68 (10 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Ompok supernus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1873: 11-25 (10 Sept. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Two new species of Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from central Vietnam
HEOK HEE NG (USA) & JÖRG FREYHOF (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1872: 1-28 (8 Sept. 2008) 16 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
A revision of the western North Pacific swellsharks, genus Cephaloscyllium Gill 1862 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae),
including descriptions of two new species
JAYNA A. SCHAAF-DA SILVA & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1872: 59-68 (8 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
A re-description of the eastern Pacific swellshark, Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Garman 1880) (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), with comments on the status of C. uter (Jordan & Gilbert 1896)
JAYNA A. SCHAAF-DA SILVA & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1861: 57-67 (1 Sep. 2008) 2 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
The Alabama Bass, Micropterus henshalli (Teleostei: Centrarchidae),
from the Mobile River basin
WINSTON H. BAKER, CAROL E. JOHNSTON & GEORGE W. FOLKERTS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1857: 21-32 (27 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2008
Geographic variation in Neolamprologus niger (Poll, 1956)
(Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika (Africa)
SARAH RISCH & JOS SNOEKS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1856: 33-40 (25 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
A new species of Crenicichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the Ventuari River, Upper Orinoco River Basin, Amazonas State, Venezuela

CARMEN G. MONTANA (USA), HERNAN LOPEZ-FERNANDEZ (CANADA) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (VENEZUELA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1852: 65-68 (18 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
A new genus and species of eelpout (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from Brazil
MICHAEL MAIA MINCARONE (Brazil) & M. ERIC ANDERSON (South Africa)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1850: 65-68 (15 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
The goldrim surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans; Acanthuridae) from Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago: first record for the central Indian Ocean
MATTHEW T. CRAIG (USA)

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Zootaxa 1839: 43-59 (1 Aug. 2008) 1 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
A new Western Pacific Tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae): The first Pleuronectiform discovered at active Hydrothermal Vents
THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA) & JUN HASHIMOTO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1839: 60-68 (1 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
Glyptothorax coracinus, a new species of hillstream catfish from Cambodia (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & WALTER J. RAINBOTH (USA)

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Zootaxa 1824: 35-44 (16 Jul. 2008) 6 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Luciobarbus kottelati, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Buyuk Menderes River, Turkey, with rediagnose of L. lydianus

DAVUT TURAN, F. GULER EKMEKCI, ALI ILHAN & SEMIH ENGIN (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1824: 45-54 (16 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
A new livebearing fish, Heterandria tuxtlaensis, from Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)
JOHN D. MCEACHRAN & THOMAS J. DEWITT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1824: 55-64 (16 Jul. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Puntius kamalika, a new species of barb from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Anjana Silva, Kalana Maduwage & Rohan Pethiyagoda (Sri Lanka)

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Zootaxa 1822: 1-76 (14 Jul. 2008) 27 plates; 38 references                              Accepted: 4 Jun. 2008
The genus Peckoltia with the description of two new species and a reanalysis of the phylogeny of the genera of the Hypostominae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1820: 27-40 (9 Jul. 2008) 5 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 9 Jun. 2008
Review of the waspfish genus Liocranium (Scorpaeniformes: Tetrarogidae), with restoration of L. pleurostigma (Weber)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan), PETER R. LAST (Australia) & JEFFREY W. JOHNSON (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1815: 35-42 (4 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2008
Leporinus amazonicus, a new anostomid species from the Amazon lowlands, Brazil (Osteichthyes: Characiformes)
GERALDO MENDES DOS SANTOS & JANSEN ZUANON (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 42-50 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2008
Hyphessobrycon oritoensis (Characiformes: Characidae), a new species from the Putumayo River drainage, Colombian Amazon
CARLOS A. GARCIA-ALZATE (Colombia), CESAR ROMAN-VALENCIA (Colombia) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 51-59 (30 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2008
On the status of the species of Acanthistius (Gill, 1862) (Percoidei) in the South-West Atlantic Ocean
ALEJO J. IRIGOYEN (Argentina), LEOPOLDO CAVALERI GERHARDINGER (Brazil) & ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 19-28 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Galeus priapus sp. nov., a new species of sawtail catsharks (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from New Caledonia
BERNARD SERET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1812: 1-45 (30 Jun. 2008) 23 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 21 Mar. 2008
A review of the Australian skate genus Pavoraja Whitley (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae)
PETER R. LAST, STEPHEN MALLICK AND GORDON K.YEARSLEY (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1810: 51-59 (25 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 14 May 2008
Range, sexual dimorphism and bilateral asymmetry of rostral tooth counts in the smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata Latham (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae) of the southeastern United States
TONYA R. WILEY, COLIN A. SIMPFENDORFER, VICENTE V. FARIA & MATTHEW T. MCDAVITT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1809: 36-48 (25 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 12 May 2008
Revision of the Labeonine Genus Sinocrossocheilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China
LE-YANG YUAN, E ZHANG & YAN-FEI HUANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1807: 1-25 (23 Jun. 2008) 10 plates; 57 references                           Accepted: 24 Apr. 2008
The reef fish assemblage of the Laje de Santos Marine State Park, Southwestern Atlantic: annotated checklist with comments on abundance, distribution, trophic structure, symbiotic associations, and conservation
OSMAR J. LUIZ JR., ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, CARLOS E. L. FERREIRA, SERGIO R. FLOETER, JOAO LUIZ GASPARINI & IVAN SAZIMA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1780: 1-54 (30 May 2008) 27 plates; 77 references                           Accepted: 11 Apr. 2008
Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of a new catfish species from northeastern Argentina with comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the genus Rhamdella Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1888 (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae)
FLAVIO A. BOCKMANN (Brazil) & AMALIA M. MIQUELARENA (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1770: 41-64 (16 May 2008) 3 plates; 66 references                           Accepted: 15 Apr. 2008
Deep-sea ophidiiform fishes collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11o and 23o S
MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil), JORGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark) & PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1760: 37-49 (30 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 20 Mar. 2008
Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Lutjaninae (Pisces): the Indo-Pacific genus Pinjalo
JEFFREY M LEIS (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1757: 31-48 (28 Apr. 2008) 7 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 19 Mar. 2008
Neoplecostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio Parana basin, Brazil, with description of three new species
CLAUDIO HENRIQUE ZAWADZKI, CARLA SIMONE PAVANELLI & FRANCISCO LANGEANI (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1747: 1-33 (11 Apr. 2008) 11 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 21 Feb. 2008
The genus Kali Lloyd (Chiasmodontidae: Teleostei) with description of new two species, and the revalidation of K. kerberti Weber
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1747: 61-68 (11 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 19 Mar. 2008
A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from rio Portuguesa, rio Orinoco basin, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE & GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1743: 62-68 (7 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 22 Feb. 2008
Garra findolabium, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Red River drainage in Yunnan, China
FENG-LIAN LI, WEI ZHOU & QIANG FU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1739: 41-52 (2 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 29 references                              Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
Triplophysa lixianensis, a new nemacheiline loach species (Pisces: Balitoridae) from the upper Yangtze River drainage in Sichuan Province, South China
CHUNLIN HE, ZHAOBIN SONG & E ZHANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1734: 1-26 (28 Mar. 2008) 10 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
Three new angel sharks (Chondrichthyes: Squatinidae) from the Indo-Australian region
PETER R. LAST & WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1734: 27-42 (28 Mar. 2008) 7 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Description of a new annual rivulid killifish genus from Venezuela
TOMAS HRBEK (Puerto Rico) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1734: 65-68 (28 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
New record of the smalleye stingray, Dasyatis microps (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae), from the western Indian Ocean
SIMON J. PIERCE (Mozambique), WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia) & ANDREA D. MARSHALL (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1731: 24-32 (25 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 5 Feb. 2008
A new species of leaf fish, Nandus andrewi (Teleostei: Perciformes: Nandidae) from northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG & ZEEHAN JAAFAR (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1731: 33-41 (25 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 19 Feb. 2008
A new species of Pseudancistrus from the Rio Caroni Venezuela
(Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1729: 23-36 (20 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2008
A review of the Nemacheilinae genus Oreonectes Gunther with descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Balitoridae)
LI-NA DU, XIAO-YONG CHEN & JUN-XING YANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1726: 33-48 (12 Mar. 2008) 6 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
Biogeography of Glandulocaudinae (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) revisited: phylogenetic patterns, historical geology and genetic connectivity
NAERCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil), ALEXANDRE C. RIBEIRO (Brazil), STANLEY WEITZMAN (USA) & RODRIGO A. TORRES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1724: 1-51 (10 Mar. 2008) 24 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2008
The Australoheros (Teleostei: Cichlidae) species of the Uruguay and Parana River drainages
OLDRICH RICAN
(Czech Republic) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1724: 52-60 (10 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
A new Hemigrammus Gill from upper rio Parana system, Southeastern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
Manoela M. F. Marinho, Fernando R. Carvalho, Francisco Langeani & Flavio L. Tatsumi (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1717: 24-30 (3 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
Morphological measurements of manta rays (Manta birostris) with a description of a foetus from the east coast of Southern Africa
ANDREA D. MARSHALL, SIMON J. PIERCE & MICHAEL B. BENNETT (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1715: 43-56 (29 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
A new species of Stiphodon from southern Sumatra (Pisces: Gobioidei: Sicydiinae)
RONALD E. WATSON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1715: 1-26 (29 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 75 references                              Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
The coastal fishes of Madeira Island-new records and an annotated check-list
PETER WIRTZ (Portugal), RONALD FRICKE (Germany) & MANUEL JOSE BISCOITO (Portugal)

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Zootaxa 1707: 37-48 (20 Feb. 2008) 6 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Morphological development of Hypophthalmus fimbriatus and H. marginatus post-yolk-sac larvae (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)

EDINBERGH CALDAS DE OLIVEIRA, ANDREA BIALETZKI & LUCIANA FUGIMOTO ASSAKAWA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1691: 1-52 (29 Jan. 2008) 18 plates; 54 references                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Cardinalfishes of the genus Nectamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from the Indo-Pacific region with descriptions of four new species
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1687: 67-68 (23 Jan. 2008) 0 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 20 Dec. 2007
On the validity of Fenerbahce Ozdikmen et al., 2006 as replacement for Adamas Huber, 1979 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae)
RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany) & JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 1-28 (21 Jan. 2008) 12 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 28 Nov. 2007
The “Celestial Pearl danio” is a miniature Danio (s.s) (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae):
evidence from morphology and molecules
KEVIN W. CONWAY, WEI-JEN CHEN & RICHARD L. MAYDEN
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 29-36 (21 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
A new species of Gorogobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Sao Tomé Islands
MARCELO KOVACIC (Croatia) & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 37-47 (21 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Pseudomystus heokhuii, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sumatra (Teleostei: Bagridae)
KELVIN K. P. LIM & HEOK HEE NG 
(Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1685: 47-54 (21 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Fishes of La Venta River in Chiapas, Mexico
ALFONSO ;NGEL GONZ;LEZ-DQAZ  (Mexico), REBECCA MARQA QUIYONES  (USA), JOSI VEL;ZQUEZ-MARTQNEZ  (Mexico) & ROCQO RODILES-HERN;NDEZ (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1682: 33-44 (16 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
Description of a new genus and two new species of labeonine fishes
from South China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
E ZHANG, XIN QIANG & JIA-HU LAN (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1680: 62-68 (14 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 6 Dec. 2007
Crystallaria cincotta, a new species of darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the Elk
River of the Ohio River drainage, West Virginia
STUART A. WELSH & ROBERT M. WOOD
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1678: 63-68 (11 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
Gymnothorax baranesi, a new moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from the Red Sea

DAVID G. SMITH  (USA), ERAN BROKOVICH  (Israel) & SHAI EINBINDER (Israel)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1674: 39-49 (7 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 37 references                              Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
Hyphessobrycon rutiliflavidus n. sp., a new characid fish from the upper rio Paraguai, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
FERNANDO ROGIRIO CARVALHO, FRANCISCO LANGEANI, CARLOS SUETOSHI MIYAZAWA & WALDO PINHEIRO TROY (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1673: 49-67 (4 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 30 Oct. 2007
Two new wobbegong sharks, Orectolobus floridus sp. nov. and O. parvimaculatus sp. nov. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae), from southwestern Australia
PETER R. LAST & JUSTIN A. CHIDLOW (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1671: 3-31 (1 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                               Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
Five new species of the damselfish genus Chromis (Perciformes: Labroidei: Pomacentridae) from deep coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific
RICHARD L. PYLE, JOHN L. EARLE & BRIAN D. GREENE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1671: 33-58 (1 Jan. 2008) 13 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 24 Oct. 2007
Three new legskates of the genus Sinobatis (Rajoidei: Anacanthobatidae) from the Indo–West Pacific
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & BERNARD SéRET (France)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1669: 1-134 (21 Dec. 2007)  81 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
Taxonomic revision of the seasonal South American killifish genus Simpsonichthys (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae)
WILSON J. E. M. COSTA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1666: 53-68 (19 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 9 Nov. 2007
A new handfish, Brachionichthys australis sp. nov. (Lophiiformes: Brachionichthyidae), with a redescription of the critically endangered spotted handfish, B. hirsutus (Lacepede)
PETER R. LAST, DANIEL C. GLEDHILL & BRONWYN H. HOLMES (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1663: 47-57 (17 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
A new species of Psilorhynchus (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Ataran River Basin, Myanmar, with comments on the generic name Psilorhynchoides
KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1657: 68 (7 Dec. 2007)  
Erratum ( Verburg, P. & Bills, R. (2007) Two new cichild species Neolamprologus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanga-nyika, East Africa. Zootaxa, 1612, 25-54.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1657: 23-39 (7 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2007
Four new species of deep-water catsharks of the genus Parmaturus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from New Caledonia, Indonesia and Australia
BERNARD SERET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1646: 31-39 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
A new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from the endorheic RRo SalR basin, Tucuman, northwestern Argentina
JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE, GAST[N AGUILERA & MARQA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1639: 1-21 (16 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Halaelurus maculosus n. sp. and H. sellus n. sp., two new species of catshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1638: 39-49 (14 Nov. 2007)  9 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
The first case of aggressive mimicry among lamprologines in a new species of Lepidiolamprologus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
ROBERT SCHELLY (USA), TETSUMI TAKAHASHI (Japan), ROGER BILLS (South Africa) & MICHIO HORI (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1635: 55-61 (12 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 4 references                                Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cynopotamus Valenciennes, 1849 (Characiformes, Characidae) with a key to the species of the genus
NAERCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1628: 59-68 (2 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
Scarus maculipinna, a new species of parrotfish (Perciformes, Scaridae) from the eastern Indian Ocean
MARK W. WESTNEAT (USA), UKKRIT SATAPOOMIN (Thailand) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1626: 51-58 (31 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new phreatic catfish of the genus Phreatobius Goeldi 1905 from groundwaters of the Itenez River, Bolivia (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae)
LUIS FERNANDEZ (USA), LISANDRO J. SAUCEDO (Bolivia), FERNANDO M. CARVAJAL-VALLEJOS (Bolivia) & SCOTT A. SCHAEFER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1618: 1-50 (19 Oct. 2007)  26 plates; 71 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
Phylogeny of species formerly assigned to the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
JUAN J. SCHMITTER-SOTO (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1618: 51-60 (19 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Taxonomic status of the Guadalupe Darter, Percina apristis (Teleostei: Percidae)
ROBERT H. ROBINS & LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1616: 23-35 (17 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new species of Chondrostoma Agassiz, 1832 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) with sexual dimorphism from the lower Rio Tejo Basin, Portugal
HUGO F. GANTE (Portugal), CARLOS D. SANTOS (USA) & MARIA JUDITE ALVES (Portugal)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1614: 17-29 (15 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 24 Aug. 2007
Micralestes (Characiformes, Alestidae) of the lower Congo River, with a description of a new species endemic to the lower Congo River rapids in the Democratic Republic of Congo
MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA) & VICTOR MAMONEKENE (Republic of Congo)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1614: 53-60 (15 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new species of Jupiaba Zanata, 1997 (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Characidae) from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil
THIAGO N. A. PEREIRA & PAULO H. F. LUCINDA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1612: 25-44 (10 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Two new cichild species Neolamprologus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
PIET VERBURG (USA) & ROGER BILLS (South Africa)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1612: 55-62 (10 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 22 Aug. 2007
Description of a new cyprinid species, Labeo meroensis n. sp. (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the River Nile
TIMO MORITZ (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1610: 53-59 (8 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
A new species of Hemigrammus Gill, 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae) from Rio Caura, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE & GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1608: 11-19 (5 Oct. 2007)  1 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 6 Sep. 2007
Fishes (Elasmobranchii and Actinopterygii) of Picaozinho reef, Northeastern Brazil, with notes on their conservation status
ALLAN T. DE SOUZA, MARTINA DI IULIO ILARRI, PAULO ROBERTO DE MEDEIROS, RENATO GROTTA GREMPEL , RICARDO S. ROSA & CLAUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1608: 41-49 (5 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Botia udomritthiruji, a new species of botiid loach from southern Myanmar (Teleostei: Botiidae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1608: 51-58 (5 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 6 references                                  Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
Akysis pulvinatus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from southern Thailand
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1605: 33-46 (1 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Two new species of Pseudoscopelus (Teleostei: Chiasmodontidae), with a new diagnosis for the genus
MARCELO R. S. MELO, H. J. WALKER, JR & CYNTHIA KLEPADLO (USA)

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Zootaxa 1605: 47-58 (1 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 38 references                               Accepted: 3 Aug. 2007
A brief review of Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) species from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, with description of a new species
JINLU LI, NAIFA LIU & JUNXING YANG (P.R. China)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1603: 1-78 (28 Sep. 2007)  30 plates; 83 references                           Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with the description of two new genera and six new species
JUAN J. SCHMITTER-SOTO
(Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1591: 1-38 (21 Sep. 2007)  32 plates; 98 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Description of three new species of the genus Chromaphyosemion Radda, 1971 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal plains of Cameroon with a preliminary review of the Chromaphyosemion splendopleure complex
RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1591: 67-68 (21 Sep. 2007)  1 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 25 Aug. 2007
The Persian/Arabian Gulf's sole great white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) record from Kuwait: misidentification of a sandtiger shark Carcharias taurus (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae)
ALEC B. M. MOORE (UK), LEONARD J. V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & IAN K. FERGUSSON (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1587: 43-52 (17 Sep. 2007)  7 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
A new species of the freshwater fish genus Astyanax (Ostariophysi: Characidae) from the rio Iguacu basin, southeastern Brazil
VINICIUS ABILHOA & LUIZ FERNANDO DUBOC (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1587: 61-68 (17 Sep. 2007)  6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 15 Aug. 2007
A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal area of northeastern Mozambique
STEFANO VALDESALICI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1580: 63-68 (10 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 22 Aug. 2007
A new species of Cottunculus (Teleostei: Psychrolutidae) from the Mid Atlantic Ridge
INGVAR BYRKJEDAL (Norway) & ALEXEI M. ORLOV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1579: 1-39 (10 Sep. 2007)  0 plates; 170 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
Checklist of Copepoda associated with fishes from Brazil
JOSE L. LUQUE & LUIZ E. R. TAVARES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1578: 41-68 (7 Sep. 2007) 12 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
New species of the amphiliid catfish genera Amphilius, Doumea and Phractura and the taxonomy of Paramphilius from West Central Africa (Siluriformes, Amphiliidae)
PAUL H. SKELTON (S. Africa)

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Zootaxa 1560: 43-53 (27 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Oligosarcus perdido (Characiformes, Characidae), a new species of freshwater fish from Serra da Bodoquena, upper Rio Paraguai basin, Brazil
ALEXANDRE C. RIBEIRO, MARCEL R. CAVALLARO & OTAVIO FROEHLICH (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1560: 19-30 (27 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
Cirrhigaleus australis n. sp., a new Mandarin dogfish (Squaliformes: Squalidae) from the south-west Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1557: 59-66 (22 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                                Accepted: 2 Jul. 2007
Caenotropus schizodon, a new chilodontid fish from the Rio Tapajos drainage, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Chilodontidae)
ALEXANDRE SCHARCANSKY & CARLOS ALBERTO SANTOS DE LUCENA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1553: 59-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Hypostomus rhantos (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species from southern Venezuela
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER, LEIGH A. TANSEY & NATHAN K. LUJAN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1551: 31-47 (15 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 2 May 2007
A review of the systematics of western North Pacific angel sharks, genus Squatina, with redescriptions of Squatina formosa, S. japonica, and S. nebulosa (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes, Squatinidae)
JONATHAN H. WALSH & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1549: 1-28 (15 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 52 references                            Accepted: 25 May 2007
Three new percid fishes (Percidae: Percina) from the Mobile Basin drainage of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee
James D. Williams, David A. Neely, Stephen J. Walsh & Noel M. Burkhead (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1545: 1-16 (9 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 43 references                               Accepted: 18 May 2007
Morphological variation and sexual dimorphism in the California skate, Raja inornata Jordan and Gilbert, 1881 from the Gulf of California, Mexico
JOSE LEONARDO CASTILLO GENIZ, OSCAR SOSA NISHIZAKI & JUAN CARLOS PEREZ JIMENEZ (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1545: 49-57 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Andean Cordillera of Peru with comments on relationships within the genus
LUIS FERNANDEZ (USA) & ROBERTO QUISPE CHUQUIHUAMANI (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1541: 49-55 (2 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 17 references                                Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Trichomycterus santanderensis: A new species of troglomorphic catfish (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from Colombia
CESAR A. CASTELLANOS-MORALES (Puerto Rico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1532: 41-49 (26 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
Fundulopanchax kamdemi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) a new species from Korup National Park, western Cameroon
CHRISTIAN AKUM (Cameroon), RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany), JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium) & RUDOLF H. WILDEKAMP (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1531: 39-48 (23 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 37 references                            Accepted: 13 Jun. 2007
Metazoan parasites of fishes from Coyuca Lagoon, Guerrero, Mexico
JUAN VIOLANTE-GONZALEZ & M. LEOPOLDINA AGUIRRE-MACEDO (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1529: 33-48 (19 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2007
Description of Cathorops manglarensis, a new species from the Colombian Pacific, with redescription of Cathorops multiradiatus (Siluriformes; Ariidae)
ALEXANDRE P. MARCENIUK (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1526: 51-61 (12 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 13 Jun. 2007
Coryphopterus kuna, a new goby (Perciformes: Gobiidae: Gobiinae) from the western Caribbean, with the identification of the late larval stage and an estimate of the pelagic larval duration
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1526: 63-68 (12 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 19 references                               Accepted: 4 Jun. 2007
A new species of Metahomaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from China
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1525: 61-68 (12 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2007
On a new species of the genus Moenkhausia Eigenmann (Ostariophysi: Characidae)
PAULO H. F. LUCINDA, LUIZ R. MALABARBA & RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1523: 1-48 (9 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 71 references                            Accepted: 13 Apr. 2007
Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean)-an update
PETER WIRTZ (Portugal), CARLOS EDUARDO L. FERREIRA (Brazil), SERGIO R. FLOETER (Brazil), RONALD FRICKE (Germany), JOAO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil), TOMIO IWAMOTO (USA), LUIZ ROCHA (USA), CLAUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO (Brazil) & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1523: 59-64 (9 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                                 Accepted: 2 May 2007
Relationships of the New World cichlid genus Hypsophrys Agassiz 1859 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with diagnoses for the genus and its species
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY & JOHN S. SPARKS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1520: 1-18 (5 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 16 references                                   Accepted: 6 Apr. 2007
A new species of Bedotia (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae) from the Rianila drainage of Eastern Madagascar, with redescriptions of Bedotia madagascariensis and Bedotia geayi
PAUL V. LOISELLE & DAMARIS RODRIGUEZ (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1520: 19-36 (5 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 2 May 2007
Description of a new species of catshark, Atelomycterus marnkalha n. sp. (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from north-east Australia
IAN P. JACOBSEN & MIKE B. BENNETT (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1512: 1-38 (21 Jun. 2007) 28 plates; 46 references                            Accepted: 23 Mar. 2007
Taxonomy of the catfish genus Pseudoplatystoma Bleeker (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) with recognition of eight species
URIEL ANGEL BUITRAGO-SUAREZ and BROOKS M. BURR (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1509: 68 (18 Jun. 2007) 0 plates; 7 references                                  Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
Synbranchus doeringii Weyenbergh, 1877, a justified emendation of S. doringii (Pisces: Synbranchidae)
STEFAN KOERBER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1494: 45-65 (31 May 2007) 14 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
The Maugean Skate, Zearaja maugeana sp. nov. (Rajiformes: Rajidae) - a micro-endemic, Gondwanan relict from Tasmanian estuaries
PETER R. LAST & DANIEL C. GLEDHILL (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1484: 1-38 (28 May 2007) 15 plates; 92 references                            Accepted: 31 Mar. 2007
Molecular systematics of Serrasalmidae: Deciphering the identities of piranha species and unraveling their evolutionary histories
BARBIE FREEMAN, LEO G. NICO, MATTHEW OSENTOSKI, HOWARD L. JELKS & TIMOTHY M. COLLINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1472: 29-54 (14 May 2007) 1 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
A catalogue of the fishes held in the Istanbul University, Science Faculty, Hydrobiology Museum
NURETTIN MERIC, LUTFIYE ERYILMAZ & MUFIT OZULUG (Turkey)

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Zootaxa 1471: 27-41 (10 May 2007) 9 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2006
Freshwater Sawfish Pristis microdon Latham, 1794 (Chondrichthyes : Pristidae) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
DEAN C. THORBURN, DAVID L. MORGAN, ANDREW J. ROWLAND & HOWARD S. GILL (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1471: 53-59 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 31 Dec. 2006
Ituglanis paraguassuensis sp. n. (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae): a new catfish from the rio Paraguacu, northeastern Brazil
Rafael M. Campos-Paiva & Wilson J. E. M. Costa (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1466: 19-34 (7 May 2007) 3 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
Two new species of the scorpionfish genus Trachyscorpia (Sebastidae: Sebastolobinae) from the southern Indo-west Pacific, with comments on the distribution of T. eschmeyeri
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan), PETER R. LAST (Australia) & GORDON K. YEARSLEY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1463: 13-20 (30 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
Balantiocheilos ambusticauda, a new and possibly extinct species of cyprinid fish from Indochina (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
HEOK HEE NG (USA) & MAURICE KOTTELAT
(Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1462: 1-40 (30 Apr. 2007) 16 plates; 76 references                          Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
The genera of the Neotropical armored catfish subfamily Loricariinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): a practical key and synopsis
RAPHAEL COVAIN & SONIA FISCH-MULLER (Switzerland)

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Zootaxa 1451: 1-40 (19 Apr. 2007) 20 plates; 78 references                             Accepted: 1 Feb. 2007
A taxonomic revision of the catshark genus Haploblepharus Garman 1913 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae)
BRETT A. HUMAN (South Africa)

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Zo
otaxa
1450: 45-56 (19 Apr. 2007) 6 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
Two new fish species of the genus Puntius Hamilton (Cyprinidae) from Manipur, India, with notes on P. ticto (Hamilton) and P. stoliczkanus (Day)
I. LINTHOINGAMBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)

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Zootaxa 1446: 31-42 (12 Apr. 2007) 6 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 23 Feb. 2007
Merodoras nheco, new genus and species from Rio Paraguay basin, Brazil(Siluriformes, Doradidae), and nomination of the new subfamily Astrodoradinae
HORáCIO HIGUCHI, JOSé L. O. BIRINDELLI, LEANDRO M. SOUSA & HERALDO A. BRITSKI
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1440: 1-19 (5 Apr. 2007) 8 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
A review of the genus Pareuchiloglanis (Sisoridae) from the Lancangjiang (upper Mekong River) with descriptions of two new species from Yunnan, China
XU LI, WEI ZHOU  (P.R. China), ALFRED W. THOMSON (USA), QING ZHANG  (P.R. China) & YING YANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1434: 1-26 (29 Mar. 2007) 11 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 23 Jan. 2007
Intraspecific variation of the caudal fin skeleton in Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
Cuvier 1829 (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha: Osteoglossidae)
M.E.C. LEAL & P.M. BRITO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1425: 45-51 (15 Mar. 2007) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Two new species of Elacatinus (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Mexican coast of
the Gulf of Mexico
MICHAEL S. TAYLOR & LAD AKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1422: 1-29 (8 Mar. 2007) 14 plates; 42 references                             Accepted: 15 Nov. 2006
Systematic review of the neotropical shovelnose catfish genus Sorubim Cuvier
(Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)
MICHAEL W. LITTMANN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1422: 31-43 (8 Mar. 2007) 3 plates; 81 references                             Accepted: 21 Nov. 2006
A new species of snapper (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Brazil, with comments
on the distribution of Lutjanus griseus and L. apodus
RODRIGO L. MOURA (Brazil) & KENYON C. LINDEMAN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1418: 1-628 (8 Mar. 2007) 2723 references                                           Accepted: 4 Oct. 2006
Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil
(Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types
CARL J. FERRARIS, JR. (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1416: 1-126 (8 Mar. 2007) 91 plates; 130 references                          Accepted: 8 Nov. 2006
Systematics of the family Ariidae (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes),
with a redefinition of the genera
A.P. MARCENIUK & N.A. MENEZES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1410: 43-53 (22 Feb. 2007)    1 plate; 23 references                            Accepted: 7 Dec. 2006
Diversity and conservation status of the Ichthyofauna of the Rio Lacantun basin in the Biosphere Reserve Montes Azules, Chiapas, Mexico
M. L LOZANO-VILANO, M.E GARCIA-RAMIREZ, S. CONTRERAS-BALDERAS & Y C. RAMIREZ-MARTINEZ (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1410: 1-41 (22 Feb. 2007)    29 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
Taxonomy of the plesiolebiasine killifish genera Pituna, Plesiolebias and Maratecoara (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), with descriptions of nine new species
W.J.E.M. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1406: 25-32 (12 Feb. 2007)  3 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 31 Dec. 2006
Pseudecheneis maurus, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Central Vietnam
H.H. NG (USA) & H.H. TAN (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1401: 63-68 (1 Feb. 2007)  1 plate; 15 references                            Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Larvae of the sand stargazer Sindoscopus australis and notes on the development of Dactyloscopidae (Perciformes: Blennioidei)
G.A. HERRERA (USA), A. LLANOS-RIVERA (Chile) & M.F. LANDAETA (Chile)
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Zootaxa 1397: 55-62 (25 Jan. 2007)  3 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 13 Dec. 2006
Differences in karyotype between two sympatric species of Gymnotus (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) from the eastern amazon of Brazil
S.S.R. MILHOMEM; J.C. PIECZARKA; W.G.R. CRAMPTON; A.C. P. DE SOUZA; J.R. CARVALHO JR; C.Y. NAGAMACHI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1393: 35-44 (18 Jan. 2007)  4 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 1 Dec. 2006
Schistura papulifera, a new species of cave loach from Meghalaya, India (Teleostei: Balitoridae)
M. KOTTELAT (Singapore), D.R. HARRIES (UK), & G.S. PROUDLOVE (UK)

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Zootaxa 1393: 1-18 (18 Jan. 2007)  13 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 1 Nov. 2006
Descriptions of skate egg cases (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes: Rajoidei) from the eastern North Pacific
D.A. EBERT & C.D. DAVIS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1386: 59-68 (4 Jan. 2006) 5 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 17 Nov. 2006
Corumbataia britskii (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) a new species from the upper Rio Parana basin, Mato Grosso do Sul, Central Brazil
K.M. FERREIRA & A.C. RIBEIRO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1377: 33-45 (11 Dec. 2006) 3 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 1 Nov. 2006
A new species of chimaeroid, Hydrolagus alphus sp. nov. (Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae) from the Galapagos Islands
K.L. QUARANTA, D.A. DIDIER, D.J. LONG & D.A. EBERT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1376: 53-67 (11 Dec. 2006) 4 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 31 Oct. 2006
Two new species of eelpouts (Teleostei, Zoarcidae) of the genus Seleniolycus from the Ross Dependency, Antarctica
P.R. MØLLER (Denmark) & A.L. STEWART (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1374: 55-59 (7 Dec. 2006) 12 references                                              Accepted: 25 Oct. 2006
Typhlichthys eigenmanni Charlton, 1933, an available name for a blind cavefish (Teleostei: Amblyopsidae), differentiated on the basis of characters of the central nervous system
L.R. PARENTI (USA)

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Zootaxa 1373: 53-64 (7 Dec. 2006) 5 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
Etmopterus burgessi sp. nov., a new species of lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Taiwan
J.A.S.-D. SILVA & D.A. EBERT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1372: 53-68 (4 Dec. 2006) 5 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 30 Oct. 2006
Two new species of Isbrueckerichthys Derijst, 1996 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Paranapanema basin, Brazil
F.C. JEREP, O.A. SHIBATTA, E.H.L. PEREIRA & O.T. OYAKAWA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1368: 49-56 (30 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
Rivulus kayapo n. sp. (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): a new killifish from the serra dos Caiapos, upper rio Araguaia basin, Brazil

W.J.E.M. COSTA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1366: 1-44 (27 Nov. 2006) 21 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 11 Sept. 2006
A review of the Malagasy Pachypanchax (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheilidae), with descriptions of four new species
P.V. LOISELLE (USA)

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Zootaxa 1361: 1-20 (20 Nov. 2006) 7 plates; 53 references                              Accepted: 2 Oct. 2006
Description of a new Episemion species (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from northern Gabon and southeastern Equatorial Guinea
R. SONNENBERG, T. BLUM & B.Y. MISOF (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1350: 21-31 (2 Nov. 2006)  5 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
Cnesterodon holopteros (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae), a new species from the Republic of Uruguay
P.H.F. LUCINDA (Brazil), T. LITZ (Germany) & R. RECUERO (Uruguay)

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Zootaxa 1345: 1-96 (30 Oct. 2006)  26 plates; 123 references                       Accepted: 21 Aug. 2006
Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae(Teleostei: Siluriformes)
A.W. THOMSON & L.M. PAGE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1343: 55-68 (26 Oct. 2006)  6 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 18 Sept. 2006
A revision of the gobiid fish genus Trypauchen (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae)
E.O. MURDY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1331: 55-68 (9 Oct. 2006)  7 plates; 6 references                            Accepted:  18 Sept. 2006
Two new species of the gobiid fish Trimma from the coral reefs of THE western Pacific Ocean (Pisces; Perciformes; Gobioidei)
R. WINTERBOTTOM (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1328: 51-61 (5 Oct. 2006)  5 plates; 10 references                             Accepted:  5 Sept. 2006
Nandus prolixus, a new species of leaf fish from northeastern Borneo (Teleostei: Perciformes: Nandidae)

P. CHAKRABARTY, R.G. OLDFIELD & H.H. NG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1328: 27-38 (5 Oct. 2006)  4 plates; 30 references                           Accepted:  29 Aug. 2006
Hydrolagus mccoskeri sp. nov., a new species of chimaeroid fish from the Galápagos Islands (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae)

L.A.K. BARNETT, D.A. DIDIER, D.J. LONG & D.A. EBERT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1320: 43-48 (25 Sept. 2006) 2 plates; 7  references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2006
Lubbockichthys myersi, a new species of dottyback fish from Guam (Pseudochromidae: Pseudoplesiopinae)

A.C. GILL (USA) & A.J. EDWARDS (UK)

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Zootaxa 1320: 1-14 (25 Sept. 2006) 4 plates; 21  references                          Accepted:  28 Aug. 2006
Torpedo formosa sp. nov., a new species of electric ray (Chondrichthyes: Torpediniformes: Torpedinidae) from Taiwan

D.L. HAAS & D.A. EBERT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1318: 41-58 (21 Sept. 2006) 7 plates; 18  references                       Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
Description of Haploblepharus kistnasamyi, a new catshark (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) from South Africa
B.A. HUMAN (Australia) & L.J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 1315: 1-56 (18 Sept. 2006) 17 plates; 37  references                        Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
A taxonomic revision of the catshark genus Holohalaelurus Fowler 1934 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), with descriptions of two new species
B.A. HUMAN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1306: 25-39 (31 Aug. 2006)  8 plates; 8  references                         Accepted:  21 Aug. 2006
Three new species of seasonal killifishes of the Simpsonichthys antenori species group (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio São Francisco basin, Brazil
W.J.E.M. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1302: 31-42 (24 Aug. 2006)  3 plates; 13  references                         Accepted:  15 Jun. 2006
A new species of Microglanis Eigenmann, 1912 (Siluriformes, Pseudopimelodidae) from rio São Francisco basin, Brazil
H. MORI & O.A. SHIBATTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1297: 1-16 (17 Aug. 2006) 8 plates; 17 references                             Accepted:  24 Jul. 2006
A new species of Astyanax (Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae),
with breeding tubercles, from the Paraná and Uruguay river basins
L.C. PROTOGINO, A.M. MIQUELARENA & H.L. LÓPEZ (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1286: 57-68 (11 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 15 references                             Accepted:  5 Jul. 2006
Astyanax endy (Characiformes: Characidae), a new fish species from the upper Río Bermejo basin, northwestern Argentina
J.M. MIRANDE, G. AGUILERA & M.D.L.M. AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1284: 29-51 (11 Aug. 2006) 9 plates; 24 references                            Accepted:  6 Jun. 2006
Redescription of two species of wobbegongs (Chondrichthyes: Orectolobidae) with elevation of Orectolobus halei Whitley 1940 to species level
C. HUVENEERS (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1282: 59-68 (7 Aug. 2006) 5 plates; 4 references                                Accepted: 11 Jul. 2006
A new species of Farlowella Eigenmann and Eigenmann (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a stickcatfish from Bolivia
M.E. RETZER (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1281: 41-54 (7 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 36 references                               Accepted:  3 Jul. 2006
Revised diagnosis of the genus Bangana Hamilton, 1822 (Pisces: Cyprinidae), with taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the Chinese species
E ZHANG & Y.-Y. CHEN (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1177: 21-26 (21 Apr. 2006) 2 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 28 Feb. 2006
Studies on the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) of the southern hemisphere. IX. A new species of Pachycara from the southwestern Atlantic
M.E. ANDERSON  (South Africa) & M.M. MINCARONE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1275: 21-29 (31 Jul. 2006) 3 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2006
Rivulus sape, a new species of killifish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the Paragua River system, Caroní River drainage, Guyana Shield, Venezuela
O.M. LASSO-ALCALÁ, D.C. TAPHORN B., C.A. LASSO & O. LEÓN-MATA (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 1273: 55-64 (27 Jul. 2006) 4 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 30 Jun. 2006
Status of the genus Macroramphosus (Syngnathiformes: Centriscidae) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
M. BILECENOGLU (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1269: 43-49 (24 Jul. 2006) 1 plate; 10 references                              Accepted: 20 Jun. 2006
Trichomycterus pauciradiatus, a new catfish species from the upper rio Paraná basin, southeastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
A.R. ALENCAR & W.J.E.M. COSTA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1267: 59-68 (20 Jul. 2006) 4 plates; 8 references                                Accepted: 7 Jun. 2006
Pseudecheneis suppaetula, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from India
H.H. NG (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1254: 45-68 (6 Jul. 2006)  10 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2006
The identity of Pseudecheneis sulcata (M’Clelland, 1842), with descriptions of two new species of rheophilic catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Nepal and China
H.H. NG (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1249: 47-59 (3 Jul. 2006) 5 plates; 12 references                                 Accepted: 7 Jun. 2006
A new species of Notarius (Siluriformes: Ariidae) from the Colombian Pacific
R. BETANCUR-R. (USA) & A. ACERO P. (Colombia) 
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Zootaxa 1247: 1-12 (29 Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 16 May 2006
Characidium longum (Characiformes: Crenuchidae), a new fish from Venezuela
D.C. TAPHORN B. (Venezuela), C.G. MONTAÑA (Venezuela) & P. BUCKUP (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1247: 13-24 (29 Jun. 2006) 8 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 24 May 2006
Ventichthys biospeedoi n. gen. et sp. (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) from a hydrothermal vent in the South East Pacific
J.G. NIELSEN (Denmark), P.R. MØLLER (Denmark) & M. SEGONZAC (France) 
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Zootaxa 1246: 1-13 (29 Jun. 2006) 6 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 10 May 2006
Rivulus mahdiaensis, a new killifish from central Guyana (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)
W. H. SUIJKER (The Netherlands) & G. E. COLLIER (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1244: 41-55 (26 Jun. 2006) 8 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 30 May 2006
Three new species of the seasonal killifish genus Simpsonichthys, subgenus Hypsolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio Paracatu drainage, rio São Francisco basin, Brazil
W.J.E.M. COSTA & G.C. BRASIL  (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1239: 19-34 (21 Jun. 2006) 7 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2006
Himantura hortlei n. sp., a new species of whipray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from Irian Jaya, Indonesia
P.R. LAST (Australia), M. MANJAJI-MATSUMOTO (Malaysia) & P.J. KAILOLA (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1239: 35-48 (21 Jun. 2006) 7 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2006
A new wobbegong shark, Orectolobus hutchinsi n. sp. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from southwestern Australia
P.R. LAST (Australia), J.A. CHIDLOW (Australia) & L.J.V. COMPAGNO (S. Africa) 
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Zootaxa 1239: 49-68 (21 Jun. 2006) 8 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 15 May 2006
Quantitative analysis of interspecific and ontogenetic variation in Osteoglossum species (Teleostei: Osteoglossiformes: Osteoglossidae)
M.E.C. LEAL & V.B. DE SANT-ANNA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1236: 23-36 (19 Jun. 2006) 11 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 6 Apr. 2006
Distribution of larval Stomiidae of the Brazilian central coast, southwest Atlantic Ocean (12°S–22°S)
M.S. DE CASTRO & A.C.T. BONECKER (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1233: 53-68 (15 Jun. 2006) 7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 4 Apr. 2006
New records of the River Shark Glyphis (Carcharhinidae) reported from Cape York Peninsula, northern Australia
S.C. PEVERELL, G.R. MCPHERSON, R.N. GARRETT & N.A. GRIBBLE (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1231: 53-68 (12 Jun. 2006) 10 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 4 Apr. 2006
Descriptions of rajid egg cases from southeastern Australian waters
M.A. TRELOAR, L.J.B. LAURENSON & J.D STEVENS (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1229: 1-32 (12 Jun. 2006) 8 plates; 55 references                                Accepted: 4 Apr. 2006
A taxonomic revision of the catshark genus Poroderma Smith, 1837 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae)
B.A. HUMAN (S. Africa) 
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Zootaxa 1229: 59-68 (12 Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 15 May 2006
Pseudolaguvia ferula, a new species of sisoroid catfish (Teleostei: Erethistidae) from India
H.H. NG (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1227: 31-55 (9 Jun. 2006) 10 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 8 May 2006
Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships among species of the seasonal, internally inseminating, South American killifish genus Campellolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), with the description of a new species
W.J.E.M. COSTA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1227: 63-68 (9 Jun. 2006) 5 plates;  4 references                               Accepted: 10 May 2006
Neobythitoides serratus, a new bathyal genus and species from the East China Sea (Teleostei, Ophidiidae)
J.G. NIELSEN (Denmark) & Y. MACHIDA (Japan) 
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Zootaxa 1225: 21-30 (5 Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 10 Apr. 2006
Akrokolioplax, a new genus of Southeast Asian labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
E. ZHANG (P.R. China) & M. KOTTELAT (Singapore) 
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Zootaxa 1224: 33-44 (5 Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 4 references                                Accepted: 26 Apr. 2006
Description of a new species of Labeo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the lower Congo River
S.M. TSHIBWABWA (Canada), M.L.J. STIASSNY (USA) & R.C. SCHELLY (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1223: 23-46 (5 Jun. 2006) 10 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 20 Mar. 2006
Revision of the Bahamian cave-fishes of the genus Lucifuga (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae), with description of a new species from islands on the Little Bahama Bank
P.R. MØLLER (Denmark), W. SCHWARZHANS (Germany), T.M. ILIFFE (USA) & J.G. NIELSEN (Denmark) 
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Zootaxa 1213: 1-162 (26 May 2006) 54 plates;  73 references                      Accepted: 17 Mar. 2006
The South American annual killifish genus Austrolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): phylogenetic relationships, descriptive morphology and taxonomic revision
W.J.E.M. COSTA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1202: 1-19 (15 May 2006)  5 plates; 50 references                              Accepted: 5 Apr. 2006
Acanthopagrus taiwanensis, a new sparid fish (Perciformes), with comparisons to Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål, 1775) and other nominal species of Acanthopagrus
Y. IWATSUKI (Japan) & K.E. CARPENTER (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1177: 21-26 (21 Apr. 2006) 2 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 28 Feb. 2006
Studies on the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) of the southern hemisphere. IX. A new species of Pachycara from the southwestern Atlantic
M.E. ANDERSON  (South Africa) & M.M. MINCARONE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1176: 41-52 (21 Apr. 2006) 5 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 23 Feb. 2006
Urolophus kapalensis sp. nov., a new stingaree (Myliobatiformes: Urolophidae) off eastern Australia
G.K. YEARSLEY & P.R. LAST (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1173: 1-37 (13 Apr. 2006) 13 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 21 Feb. 2006
Revision of the snailfish genus Allocareproctus Pitruk & Fedorov (Teleostei: Liparidae), with descriptions of four new species from the Aleutian Islands
J.W. ORR & M.S. BUSBY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1169: 33-46 (10 Apr. 2006) 4 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 20 Feb. 2006
A new species of Nanochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Mai Ndombe, central Congo Basin, Democratic Republic of Congo
U.K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany) & M.L.J. STIASSNY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1168: 59-68 (6 Apr. 2006) 4 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 23 Feb. 2006
Anostomoides passionis, a new fish species from rio Xingu, Brasil (Characiformes: Anostomidae)
G.M.D. SANTOS & J. ZUANON (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1166: 57-68 (3 Apr. 2006) 2 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 26 Jan. 2006
Sternarchorhynchus curumim (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), a new species of tube-snouted ghost electric knifefish from the lowland Amazon basin, Brazil
C.D. DE SANTANA & W.G.R. CRAMPTON  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1158: 39-53 (23 Mar. 2006) 8 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 22 Jan. 2006
A new species of the genus Aphanius (Nardo, 1832) (Actinopterygii, Cyprinodontidae) from Algeria
J.L. BLANCO (Spain), T. HRBEK (Puerto Rico) & I. DOADRIO (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1150: 19-30 (14 Mar. 2006) 8 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 25 Jan. 2006
Akysis longifilis, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Akysidae) from Myanmar
H.H. NG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1142: 43-50 (8 Mar. 2006) 5 plates; 12 references                               Accepted: 4 Feb. 2006
A new glanapterygine catfish of the genus Listrura (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the southeastern Brazilian coastal plains
L. VILLA-VERDE & W.J.E.M. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1131: 1-32 (20 Feb. 2006) 11 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 19 Dec. 2005
Osteology and phylogeny of Parioglossus (Teleostei, Gobioidei), with a revised key to the species
R. WANG & R. WINTERBOTTOM  (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1129: 23-36 (16 Feb. 2006) 5 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 5 Dec. 2005
Polypterus mokelembembe, a new species of bichir from the central Congo River basin (Actinopterygii: Cladistia: Polypteridae)
U.K. SCHLIEWEN & F. SCHAFER (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1126: 1-19 (10 Feb. 2006) 8 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 23 Nov. 2005
Three new species of Gastromyzon (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from southern Sarawak
H.H. TAN (Singapore) & C.U.M. LEH (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa 1126: 21-33 (10 Feb. 2006) 4 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2005
Morphological development of Pellona flavipinnis post-yolk-sac larvae and juveniles (Clupeiformes: Pristigasteridae)
W. SEVERI & N.F. VERANI  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1125: 45-56 (10 Feb. 2006) 4 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 6 Dec. 2005
Synodontis acanthoperca, a new species from the Ogooue River system, Gabon with comments on spiny ornamentation and sexual dimorphism in mochokid catfishes (Siluriformes: Mochokidae)
J.P. FRIEL & T.R. VIGLIOTTA (USA)
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Zootaxa 1120: 57-68 (2 Feb. 2006) 3 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 2 Dec. 2005
Moenkhausia pankilopteryx, new species from rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes, Characidae)
V.A. BERTACO & P.H.F. LUCINDA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1119: 29-58 (30 Jan. 2006) 14 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 2 Nov. 2005
Anatomical investigation of the slender catshark Schroederichthys tenuis Springer, 1966, with notes on intrageneric relationships (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae)
U.L. GOMES, G.O. PETERS, M.R. DE CARVALHO &
O.B.F. GADIG (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1117: 1-19 (30 Jan. 2006) 8 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 23 Nov. 2005
Three new species of Gastromyzon (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the Temburong River basin, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo
H. H. TAN (Singapore) & Z. H. SULAIMAN (Borneo)
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Zootaxa 1116: 29-41 (27 Jan. 2006) 3 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 18 Nov. 2005
Cordylancistrus nephelion (Siluriformes, Loricariidae), a new and endangered species of suckermouth armored catfish from the Tuy River, north-central Venezuela
F. PROVENZANO & N. MILANI (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 1113: 1-20 (24 Jan. 2006) 7 plates; 38 references                               Accepted: 7 Oct. 2005
Hybridization in Umbridae in the Hudson River, New York, with Designation of Neotypes for Umbra limi and Umbra pygmaea
R.E. SCHMIDT & R.A. DANIELS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1110: 1-15  (17 Jan. 2006) 1 plate; 30 references                             Accepted: 19 Nov. 2005
Studies on the Zoarcidae of the southern hemisphere. X. New records from western Antarctica
M. E. ANDERSON (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1109: 57-68 (17 Jan. 2006) 5 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 6 Dec. 2005
New Philippine record of south american sailfin catfishes (Pisces: Loricariidae)
J. M. CHAVEZ, R.M. DE LA PAZ, S. K. MANOHAR, R.C. PAGULAYAN  & J.R.C. VI (Philippines)
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2005

Zootaxa 1096: 1-16 (16 Dec. 2005) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2005
Description of two new species of Hetereleotris (Gobiidae) from the south Pacific, with a revised key to species and synonymization of the genus Pascua with Hetereleotris
D. F. HOESE & H. K. LARSON (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1096: 29-39 (16 Dec. 2005) 5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2005
A new species of Jenynsia (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from northwestern Argentina and its phylogenetic relationships
G. AGUILERA  & J. M. MIRANDE  (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1094: 53-64 (13 Dec. 2005) 4 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 9 Nov. 2005
Bothrocara nyx: a new species of eelpout (Perciformes: Zoarcidae) from the Bering Sea
DUANE E. STEVENSON (USA)& M. ERIC ANDERSON (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1094: 1-23 (13 Dec. 2005) 9 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 14 Oct. 2005
Bryconops magoi and Bryconops collettei (Characiformes: Characidae), two new freshwater fish species from Venezuela, with comments on B. caudomaculatus (Gunther)
B. CHERNOFF (USA) & A. MACHADO-ALLISON (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 1093: 1-24 (8 Dec. 2005) 8 plates; 90 references                              Accepted: 13 Nov. 2005
The identity of catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar
P. CHAKRABARTY & H. H. NG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1092: 21-30 (8 Dec. 2005) 3 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 30 Sept. 2005
Description of a new Batrochoglanis species (Siluriformes, Pseudopimelodidae) from the rio Paraguai basin, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil
O.A. SHIBATTA  & C.S. PAVANELLI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1080: 39-64 (15 Nov. 2005) 9 plates;  36 references                        Accepted: 30 Sept. 2005
Revision of the South American freshwater genus Plagioscion (Teleostei, Perciformes, Sciaenidae)
L. CASATTI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1077: 37-49 (7 Nov. 2005) 2 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 23 Sept. 2005
Description of a new species of weasel shark, Hemigaleus australiensis n. sp. (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae) from Australian waters
W. T. WHITE (Australia), P. R. LAST (Australia)  & L.J.V. COMPAGNO (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1072: 27-33 (28 Oct. 2005) 3 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 31 Aug. 2005
Additions to the ichthyofauna of the Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean
M. E. ANDERSON (South Africa), D. L. STEIN (USA) & H. W. DETRICH (USA)
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Zootaxa 1072: 43-60 (28 Oct. 2005) 1 plate; 55 references                            Accepted: 17 Aug. 2005
A checklist of the freshwater ichthyofauna from El Petén and Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, with notes for its conservation and management
M. E. VALDEZ-MORENO, J. POOL-CANUL & S. CONTRERAS-BALDERAS (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1067: 1-36 (21 Oct. 2005) 11 plates; 45 references                           Accepted: 16 Sept. 2005
The Neotropical annual killifish genus Pterolebias Garman (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): phylogenetic relationships, descriptive morphology, and taxonomic revision 
W. J. E. M. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1067: 49-57 (21 Oct. 2005) 4 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 2 Sept. 2005
A new species of Pseudobagrus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Bagridae) from southern China
J. LI, X.L. CHEN & B.P.L. CHAN  (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1060: 51-64 (7 Oct. 2005) 4 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 21 Sept. 2005
Revalidation and redescription of Pterocryptis anomala (Herre, 1933), a catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern China
H. H. NG (USA) & B. P.-L. CHAN (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1052: 41-48 (20 Sept. 2005) 2 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 9 Sept. 2005
Austrolebias univentripinnis sp. nov. (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): a new annual killifish from the Mirim Lagoon basin, southern Brazil
W. J. E. M. COSTA & M. M. CHEFFE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1051: 39-54 (20 Sept. 2005) 5 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 18 Aug. 2005
A new rainbowfish (Teleostei: Melanotaenioidei: Bedotiidae) from the southeastern highlands of Madagascar, with comments on the biogeography of Bedotia
J. S. SPARKS  & L. M. R. RUSH (USA)
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Zootaxa 1047: 1-19 (8 Sept. 2005) 9 plates; 26 references                                Accepted: 5 Aug. 2005
Two new species of Pseudecheneis, rheophilic catfishes (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Nepal
H. H. NG  & D. R. EDDS  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1046: 29-36 (8 Sept. 2005) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 17 Aug. 2005
Petroscirtes pylei, a new saber-toothed blenny from the Fiji Islands (Teleostei: Blenniidae)
W. F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA)
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Zootaxa 1045: 45-60 (5 Sept. 2005) 3 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 7 Aug. 2005
Description of Cathorops mapale, a new species of sea catfish (Siluriformes: Ariidae) from the Colombian Caribbean, based on morphological and mitochondrial evidence
RICARDO BETANCUR-R. (USA) & ARTURO ACERO P. (Colombia)
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Zootaxa 1044: 35-47 (2 Sept. 2005) 3 plates; 7 references                                 Accepted: 6 Aug. 2005
Two new species of Pseudolaguvia (Teleostei: Erethistidae) from Bangladesh
H. H. NG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1043: 17-32 (30 Aug. 2005) 5 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 2 Jul. 2005
Scorpaena bulacephala, a new species of scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the northern Tasman Sea
H. MOTOMURA, P.R. LAST & G.K. YEARSLEY (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1040: 1-16 (23 Aug. 2005) 7 plates; 1 8 references                              Accepted: 21 Jul. 2005
Pastinachus solocirostris sp. nov., a new species of Stingray (Elasmobranchii: Myliobatiformes) from the Indo-Malay Archipelago
PETER R. LAST (Australia), B. M. MANJAJI (Malaysia) & G. K. YEARSLEY (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1040: 49-64 (23 Aug. 2005) 4 plates; 30 references                           Accepted:10 Aug. 2005
A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from south Brazil and redescription of T. iheringi (Eigenmann)
W. B. WOSIACKI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1039: 57-64 (23 Aug. 2005) 6 plates; 10 references                               Accepted: 5 Jul. 2005
Simpsonichthys nielseni sp. n. (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): a new annual killifish from the São Francisco River basin, Brazil
WILSON J. E. M. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1038: 11-22 (19 Aug. 2005) 2 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 21 Jul. 2005
Lioscorpius trifasciatus, a new scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Setarchidae) from the South-West Pacific Ocean 
P.R. LAST, G.K. YEARSLEY & H. MOTOMURA (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1021: 1-12 (22 Jul. 2005) 7 plates, 3 references                               Accepted: 17 Jun. 2005
Erethistoides sicula, a new catfish (Teleostei: Erethistidae) from India
H.H. NG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1019: 1-25 (19 Jul. 2005) 6 plates, 53 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2005
Descriptions of four new species, redescription of Paraliparis membranaceus, and additional data on species of the fish family Liparidae (Pisces, Scorpaeniformes) from the west coast of South America and the Indian Ocean
D.L. STEIN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1016: 1-14 (8 Jul. 2005) 3 plates; 21 references                                  Accepted: 2 Jun. 2005
Larval development of Symphurus atramentatus (Cynoglossidae: Pleuronectiformes) from the Gulf of California
R.J. SALDIERNA-MARTINEZ, E.A. GONZALEZ-NAVARRO & G. ACEVES-MEDINA (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1009: 37-49 (17 Jun. 2005) 4 plates, 20 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2005
Myoglanis aspredinoides
(Siluriformes: Heptapteridae), a new catfish from the Río Ventuari, Venezuela
C. DONASCIMIENTO (Venzuela) & J.G. LUNDBERG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1008: 57-64 (14 Jun. 2005) 1 plate; 15 references                               Accepted: 7 Jun. 2005
A larva of the eteline lutjanid, Randallichthys filamentosus (Pisces: Perciformes), with comments on phylogenetic implications of larval morphology of basal lutjanids
J. M. LEIS (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1006: 33-42 (10 Jun. 2005) 3 plates, 7 references                             Accepted: 11 May 2005
Three new species of Microbrotula (Teleostei: Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
M.E. ANDERSON (South Africa)
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Zootaxa 1000: 1-24 (27 May 2005) 7 plates; 62 references                             Accepted: 1 Mar. 2005
Lacantunia enigmatica (Teleostei: Siluriformes) a new and phylogenetically puzzling freshwater fish from Mesoamerica
R. RODILES-HERNÁNDEZ (Mexico), D.A. HENDRICKSON (USA), J.G. LUNDBERG  (USA) & J.M. HUMPHRIES  (USA
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Zootaxa 996: 1-44 (25 May 2005) 17 plates; 67 references                              Accepted: 4 Mar. 2005
Review of the perciform fish genus Symphysanodon Bleeker (Symphysanodontidae), with descriptions of three new species, S. mona, S. parini, and S. rhax
W.D. ANDERSON, JR.& V.G. SPRINGER (USA
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Zootaxa 987: 1-6 (23 May 2005) 2 plates; 8 references                                    Accepted: 5 May 2005
Cottus kanawhae, a new cottid fish from the New River System of Virginia and West Virginia
C.R. ROBINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 972: 1-6 (6 May 2005) 3 plates; 3 references                                     Accepted: 30 Apr. 2005
Description of a new species of Acestridium (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Colombia
M.E. RETZER (USA
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Zootaxa 947: 1-90 (20 Apr. 2005) 1 plate; 287 references                               Accepted: 23 Dec. 2004
Checklist of the Mediterranean Fishes of Israel
D. GOLANI (Israel)
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Zootaxa 945: 1-15 (18 Apr. 2005) 5 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 25 Mar. 2005
A new species of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraná and Uruguay River basins, Misiones, Argentina
M.S. RODRÍGUEZ  & A.M. MIQUELARENA (Argentina
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Zootaxa 935: 1-28 (8 Apr. 2005) 37 plates; 39 references                                Accepted: 11 Feb. 2005
Leptocephali collected off the eastern coast of Brazil (12°–23°S)
M. S. DE CASTRO & A.C.T. BONECKER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 933: 1-14 (8 Apr. 2005) 4 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 24 Mar. 2005
A new Gymnotus (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) from the Pantanal Matogrossense of Brazil and adjacent drainages: continued documentation of a cryptic fauna
F.M.C. FERNANDES (Brazil), J.S. ALBERT (USA), M.D.F.Z. DANIEL-SILVA (Brazil), C.E. LOPES (Brazil), W.G.R. CRAMPTON (USA)  & L.F. ALMEIDA-TOLEDO   (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 930: 1-19 (5 Apr. 2005) 10 plates; 16 refe