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Announcements
Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 14 new species) 2025-12-30
In today's special issue of Zootaxa, a collection of 23 open-access papers on tropical fish biodiversity was published. This book includes some of the papers from the International Symposium of Tropical Fish Biodiversity and Conservation held at the National Taiwan Ocean University in Keelung, Taiwan (16–17 May 2025). The book includes one new genus and 14 new species. It was edited by Drs CHIH-WEI CHANG, I-SHIUNG CHEN, MING-FON YEH, KANG-NING SHEN and SHEN-CHIH WANG.
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New wishbone spider species described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-10-06
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862-page monograph revised Australian Thynnidae and Tiphiida with 18 new genera and 116 new species 2025-08-19
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New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
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Rediscovery of Micropterix aureofasciella Heath, 1986 (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae) in Algeria after 116 years, with an update on its distribution and morphological notes
Published : 2026-03-05 -
A remarkable moss-mimicking new species of genus Pericentrus (Phasmatodea: Lonchodidae: Lonchodini) from Xizang, China, with significantly reduced antennal length
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Checklist of Yunnan Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) with nomenclature and distributional notes
Published : 2026-03-05 -
Carolina Redhorse—a new species of Moxostoma (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) from North Carolina and South Carolina, USA
Published : 2026-03-05 -
Vermiophis luqianlei sp. nov., a new species of wormlion fly (Diptera: Vermileonidae) from Guizhou, China, with notes on its immature stages and biology
Published : 2026-03-05 -
Taxonomic mystery solved: the identity of Melolontha pexa Zubkov, 1833 and the genus Adoretops Kraatz, 1883 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
Published : 2026-03-05 -
Two new species of the genus Heterothera Inoue, 1943 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Xizang, China
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The phylogenetic status of Dipsadoboa flavida (Serpentes: Colubridae)
Published : 2026-03-05
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Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems*
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A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World
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A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification
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Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Published : 2004-10-12 -
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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Family-group names of Recent fishes
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Uncovering what lies within: The first scientific account of cave-dwelling ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Philippines with the description of a new genus, new subgenus, and four new species from Mindanao
Published : 2024-03-25 -
World Catalogue of the family Lonchaeidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, Acalyptratae)
Published : 2023-06-26