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Announcements
New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
Two new species of eelpout genus Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 were described in a Zootaxa paper by Ralf Thiel et al. (2025) from specimens caught at a depth between 3517 and 3580 m at the western slope of the upper margin of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, relatively close to the Bussol Strait and Simushir Island in the center of the Kuril Islands chain. This discovery was featured in a story by Miami Herald.
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Erratum: ARTEM Y. SINEV, IVAN A. DADYKIN, WAHIDAH A.D. UMI & FATIMAH M. YUSOFF (2025) New data on Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 5604 (3): 255–284.
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Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 3. Formicinae
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Four new species of Aenetus Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from eastern Indonesia, with comment on distributional correlation with Gondwana tectonics
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External morphology of the larva and polytene chromosomes of Thalassomya paraskevae Makarchenko, Semenchenko, Palatov & Lisanovskaya, 2024 (Diptera, Chironomidae: Telmatogetoninae) from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
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New Species of Biting Midges in the Dasyhelea atlantis-bermudae Complex (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
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An annotated checklist of the main representatives of meiobenthos from inland water bodies of Central and Southern Vietnam. III. Water fleas (Cladocera)
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Gangetic Glyptothorax (Siluriformes: Sisoridae): Two new species and revalidation of Glyptothorax dakpathari Tilak & Husain 1976
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A new species of planthopper in the genus Bothriocera (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cixiidae) from Osa peninsula, Costa Rica on palms (Arecaceae)
Published : 2025-03-28
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Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
Published : 2024-09-23 -
New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
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Genetic and morphological variation analyses of Dryophytes japonicus (Anura, Hylidae) with description of a new species from northeastern Japan
Published : 2025-02-20 -
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
Published : 2024-09-26 -
Lost for more than 85 years—rediscovery of Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845), the world’s most elusive snakehead species (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae)
Published : 2025-01-31 -
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
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A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
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The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)
Published : 2024-10-10
