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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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New synonymies between Afrotropical Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini)
Published : 2025-06-12 -
A new species of sea cucumber, Holothuria (Vaneyothuria) serishae sp. nov., from southern Mozambique and two new southern African records (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Holothuriida: Holothuriidae)
Published : 2025-06-12 -
Resurrection of the dead: on the validity of the micro-endemic lizard Mediodactylus dehakroensis (Masroor, 2009) from Pakistan
Published : 2025-06-12 -
Three new species of Philippine forest mice (Apomys, Muridae, Mammalia), members of a clade endemic to Mindoro Island
Published : 2025-06-12 -
Taxonomic revision of the rare Afrotropical genus Chortastus Schaufuss (Coleoptera: Scolytinae)
Published : 2025-06-12 -
A new species of hermit crab provisionally assigned to the genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
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Systematics of Ecuadorian anoles: Anolis bitectus Cope, 1864 and A. lemniscatus Boulenger, 1898, two junior synonyms of A. binotatus Peters, 1863 (Reptilia: Squamata: Anolidae)
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A taxonomic revision of the freshwater monostiliferous hoplonemertean genus Prostoma Dugès, 1828 (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera): a radical solution or an over-lumping?
Published : 2025-06-11
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A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification
Published : 2018-05-28 -
Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems*
Published : 2007-12-21 -
A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World
Published : 2015-02-12 -
Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Published : 2004-10-12 -
Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
Published : 2024-09-23 -
New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
Published : 2024-03-13 -
Genetic and morphological variation analyses of Dryophytes japonicus (Anura, Hylidae) with description of a new species from northeastern Japan
Published : 2025-02-20 -
Lost for more than 85 years—rediscovery of Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845), the world’s most elusive snakehead species (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae)
Published : 2025-01-31