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July 2007 (72 papers)

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 Zootaxa 1539, 84 pp (30 Jul. 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1539: 1-84 (30 Jul. 2007) 38 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
A revision of the Solomonius-group of the stinkbug tribe Halyini (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae)
MICHAEL A. WALL 
(USA)
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 Zootaxa 1538, 84 pp (30 Jul. 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1538: 1-84 (30 Jul. 2007) 38 plates; 102 references                            Accepted: 9 May 2007
Phylogeny of the boulengeri group (Iguania: Liolaemidae, Liolaemus) based on morphological and molecular characters
CRISTIAN SIMON ABDALA 
(Argentina)
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 Zootaxa 1537, 88 pp (30 Jul. 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                      

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1537: 1-88 (30 Jul. 2007) 20 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
The Hemerodromiinae (Diptera: Empididae) of New Zealand II. Chelipoda Macquart
ADRIAN R. PLANT 
(UK)
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 Zootaxa 1536, 296 pp (30 Jul. 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                    

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1536: 1-296 (30 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 835 references                            Accepted: 3 Mar. 2007
Annotated checklist of weevils from the Papuan region (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea)
GREGORY P. SETLIFF 
(USA)
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 Zootaxa 1535, 92 pp (30 Jul. 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                     

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1535: 1-92 (30 Jul. 2007) 45 plates; 73 references                            Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
Phylogeny of the Mycetophiliformia, with proposal of the subfamilies Heterotrichinae, Ohakuneinae, and Chiletrichinae for the Rangomaramidae (Diptera, Bibionomorpha)
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil) & EIRIK RINDAL 
(Norway)
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 Zootaxa 1534, 247 pp (30 Jul. 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                   

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1534: 1-247 (30 Jul. 2007) 27 plates; 859 references                          Accepted: 24 Dec. 2006
Trematode parasites (Platyhelminthes) of wildlife vertebrates in Mexico
GERARDO PEREZ-PONCE DE LEON, LUIS GARCIA-PRIETO & BERENIT MENDOZA-GARFIAS
(Mexico)
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 Zootaxa 1533, 68 pp (26 Jul. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                              

 Article 
Zootaxa 1533: 1-40 (26 Jul. 2007) 24 plates; 51 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2007
New and little-known stoneflies (Plecoptera) from Albania and the neighbouring countries
DAVID MURANYI (Hungary)

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Zootaxa 1533: 41-52 (26 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
Four new symmachiine taxa from the eastern Andes of Peru and Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)
JASON P. W. HALL (USA) & GERARDO LAMAS (Peru)

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Zootaxa 1533: 53-61 (26 Jul. 2007) 18 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
A new species of the genus Diaphanes Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Gaoligong Mountains of Yunnan, Southwest China
XUEYAN LI & XINGCAI LIANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1533: 63-68 (26 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 1 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
Mythenteles andalusica sp.n. (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae) from Southern Spain and the first description of the male of M. infrequens Evenhuis & Blasco-Zumeta, 2003
DAVID GIBBS (UK)
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 Zootaxa 1532, 68 pp (26 Jul. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                              

 Article 
Zootaxa 1532: 1-21 (26 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 227 references                            Accepted: 25 Jun. 2007
Checklist of the mites (Arachnida: Acari) of Turkey. Second supplement
ORHAN ERMAN, MUHLIS OZKAN, NUSRET AYYILDIZ & SALIH DOGAN (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1532: 23-39 (26 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Revalidation of the milliped genus Amplaria Chamberlin 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae), and description of two new species from caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California
WILLIAM A. SHEAR & JEAN K. KREJCA (USA)

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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 1532: 51-68 (26 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 65 references                            Accepted: 20 Jun. 2007
Get an eyeful of this: a new species of giant spitting cobra from eastern and north-eastern Africa (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja)
WOLFGANG WUSTER (UK) & DONALD G. BROADLEY (Zimbabwe)

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 Zootaxa 1531, 68 pp (23 Jul. 2007)  6 papers                                                                                              

 Article 
Zootaxa 1531: 1-24 (23 Jul. 2007) 13 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
Benthic Ostracoda (Myodocopina, Philomedidae) of the East Sea (Sea of Japan), with description of a new species from the Korean Peninsula
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR (Russia), EUGENY I. SHORNIKOV (Russia), EUI-HYEONG LEE (Korea) & MIN HUH (Korea)

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Zootaxa 1531: 25-37 (23 Jul. 2007) 6 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
The tadpole of Hypsiboas latistriatus (Caramaschi & Cruz, 2004), a species of the Hypsiboas polytaenius (Cope, 1870) clade (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae)
VICTOR GOYANNES DILL ORRICO, MARCELLE MANTOANELLI MONGIN & ANA MARIA PAULINO TELLES DE CARVALHO-E-SLIVA (Brazil)

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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 1531: 49-55 (23 Jul. 2007) 1 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
Paraphyly of Chinese Amolops (Anura, Ranidae) and phylogenetic position of the rare Chinese frog, Amolops tormotus
HONG-XIA CAI, JING CHE, JUN-FENG PANG, ER-MI ZHAO& YA-PING ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1531: 57-61 (23 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2007
A new species of Queubus Barnard, 1946 (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from Namibia
ROGER N. BAMBER (UK) & C. NINA STEFFANI (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 1531: 63-68 (23 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
A new species of Trombidium (Acari: Trombidiidae) from East Azarbaijan province, Iran
ALIREZA SABOORI & KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD (Iran)

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 Zootaxa 1530, 68 pp (23 Jul. 2007)  4 papers      3correspondence                                                         

 Article 
Zootaxa 1530: 1-18 (23 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2007
A revision of the tribe Gonocerini from Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Coreinae)
HARRY BRAILOVSKY (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1530: 19-26 (23 Jul. 2007) 1 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 19 Jun. 2007
Phylogeny of Philornis Meinert species (Diptera: Muscidae)
MARCIA SOUTO COURI, CLAUDIO JOSE BARROS DE CARVALHO & PETER LOWENBERG-NETO (Brasil)

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Zootaxa 1530: 27-32 (23 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2007
Notes on the extinct family Protapioceridae, with description of a new species from China (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea)
KUIYAN ZHANG, DING YANG & DONG REN (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1530: 33-36 (23 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2007
First record of the genus Dinophasma Uvarov from the Philippines (Phasmatodea: Aschiphasmatidae)
MARCO GOTTARDO (Italy)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1530: 37-40 (23 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2007
A new species of Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from Central Amazonia, Brazil
RENATO JOSE PIRES MACHADO & JOSE ALBERTINO RAFAEL (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1530: 41-67 (23 Jul. 2007) 8 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 22 May 2007
A revision of the new world stiletto fly genus Ataenogera Krober (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae) with the description of two new species
MARTIN HAUSER & DONALD W. WEBB (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1530: 68 (23 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 2 references                            Accepted: 12 Jul. 2007
Kiskeyana new replacement name for the assassin bug Kiskeya (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae)
CHRISTIANE WEIRAUCH & DIMITRI FORERO (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1529, 68 pp (19 Jul. 2007)  5 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1529: 1-15 (19 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2007
Taxonomic status of the genus Spermophilus (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Turkey and Iran with description of a new species
SAKIR ONDER OZKURT (Turkey)
, MUSTAFA SOZEN (Turkey), NURI YIGIT (Turkey), IRFAN KANDEMIR (Turkey), REYHAN COLAK (Turkey), MOHAMMED MORADI GHARKHELOO (Iran) & ERCUMENT COLAK (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1529: 17-31 (19 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
New species of the genus Parotoplana Meixner, 1938 (Proseriata, Otoplanidae) from southern Apulia (Italy)
VALENTINA DELOGU & MARCO CURINI-GALLETTI (Italy)

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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 1529: 49-60 (19 Jul. 2007) 5 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2007
New Linyphiidae spiders associated with playas in the Southern High Plains (Llano Estacado) of Texas (Arachnida: Araneae)
JAMES C. COKENDOLPHER (USA), SHANNON M. TORRENCE (USA), LOREN M. SMITH (USA) & NADINE DUPERRE(Canada)

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Zootaxa 1529: 61-68 (19 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
Description of the tadpole of Leptodactylus vastus (Anura: Leptodactylidae)
WASHINGTON LUIZ DA SILVA VIEIRA, GINDOMAR GOMES SANTANA & KLEBER DA SILVA VIEIRA (Brasil)

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 Zootaxa 1528, 68 pp (19 Jul. 2007)  2 papers   2 Correspondence                                                           

 Article 
Zootaxa 1528: 1-40 (19 Jul. 2007) 24 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2007
The Conopidae of Costa Rica (Diptera) (Part 1: Conopinae - Conopini &Tropidomyiini)
Jens-HermANN STUKE (Germany) & JEFFREY H. SKEVINGTON (CANADA)
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Zootaxa 1528: 41-60 (19 Jul. 2007) 10 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2007
The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Thailand, with the description of seven new species
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & LASZLO PAPP (Hungary)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1528: 61-64 (19 Jul. 2007) 1 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
A taxonomic study of the genus Uzeldikra (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)
YALIN ZHANG & JUXIA KANG (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1528: 65-68 (19 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2007
A new species of Anomaloptera Amyot & Serville from Patagonia (Hemiptera: Lygaeoidea: Oxycarenidae)
PABLO MATIAS DELLAPE & GERMAN HORACIO CHELI (Argentina)
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 Zootaxa 1527, 68 pp (16 Jul. 2007)  7 papers   1 Correspondence    1 Erratum                                    

 Article 
Zootaxa 1527: 1-15 (16 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 16 Jun. 2007
Kloosia Kruseman, Chernovskiia Saeher, Robackia Saeher, and Saetheria Jackson (Chironomidae: Chironominae) in Japan
TADASHI KOBAYASHI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1527: 17-29 (16 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
A revision of the Australian intertidal water beetle genus Hughleechia Perkins (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
PHILIP D. PERKINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1527: 31-38 (16 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
A new genus and species of the aleocharine tribe Thamiaraeini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from South Africa
GRZEGORZ PASNIK (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1527: 39-44 (16 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
Description of the first Chlamydopsinae (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from the Philippines
ALEXEY K. TISHECHKIN & MICHAEL S. CATERINO (USA)

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Zootaxa 1527: 45-52 (16 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 24 May 2007
Mansonia (Mansonia) iguassuensis sp. nov. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Brasil
ANDREIA APARECIDA BARBOSA, MARIO ANTONIO NAVARRO DA SILVA & MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1527: 53-58 (16 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2007
Redescription of Tipula octomaculata Savchenko, with notes on related Holarctic species (Diptera, Tipulidae)
JUKKA SALMELA & OLLI AUTIO (Finland)

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Zootaxa 1527: 59-65 (16 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
A new species of Folsomia (Collembola: Isotomidae) from China
MING JI , YUFENG DING & JIAN-XIU CHEN (P.R. China)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1527: 66 (16 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 3 references                            Accepted: 11 Jul. 2007
Anodontophorus n. nov., a new name for Anodontophora Pomorski, 2007, not Anodontophora Cossmann, 1897
ROMUALD J. POMORSKI (Poland)

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1527: 67-68 (16 Jul. 2007)

Erratum ( Correia, L.C.D.S. & Trivinho-strixino, S. (2007) New species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 1504, 53–68)
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 Zootaxa 1526, 68 pp (12 Jul. 2007)  4 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1526: 1-36 (12 Jul. 2007) 20 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2007
The non-Amazonian species of the Brazilian wandering spiders of the genus Phoneutria Perty, 1833 (Araneae: Ctenidae), with the description of a new species
ROSANA MARTINS and ROGERIO BERTANI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1526: 37-49 (12 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2007
Two new species of Adontorhina Berry, 1947 (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) from the Porcupine Bank, off the west coast of Ireland
PETER J. BARRY & GRACE P. MCCORMACK (Ireland)

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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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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, 68 pp (12 Jul. 2007)  6 papers                                                                                               

 Article 
Zootaxa 1525: 1-17 (12 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2007
Convolutriloba macropyga sp. nov., an uncommonly fecund acoel (Acoelomorpha) discovered in tropical aquaria
THOMAS SHANNON III & JOHANNES G. ACHATZ (USA)

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Zootaxa 1525: 19-30 (12 Jul. 2007) 5 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Five new species of the genus Tegolophus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae: Anthocoptini) from China
XIAO-FENG XUE, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1525: 31-40 (12 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 7 May 2007
Phylogenetic relationships of Mesoamerican species of the genus Sciurus (Rodentia: Sciuridae)
FEDERICO VILLALOBOS (Costa Rica), & FERNANDO CERVANTES-REZA (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1525: 41-49 (12 Jul. 2007) 1 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
Homalometron moraveci n. sp. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) in the yellowfin goatfish, Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes, 1831) (Perciformes: Mullidae), from New Caledonia and the Great Barrier Reef, with a checklist of digeneans of Mulloidichthys species
RODNEY A. BRAY (UK), JEAN-LOU JUSTINE (New Caledonia) & THOMAS H. CRIBB (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1525: 51-59 (12 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
A new species of 'spike-nosed' frog from northern New Guinea (Anura: Hylidae: Litoria)
STEPHEN J. RICHARDS (Australia)
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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 1524, 68 pp (9 Jul. 2007)  5 papers       1 Correspondence                                                         

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Zootaxa 1524: 1-22 (9 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 22 May 2007
New crabs from hydrothermal vents of the Kermadec Ridge submarine volcanoes, New Zealand: Gandalfus gen. nov. (Bythograeidae) and Xenograpsus (Varunidae) (Decapoda: Brachyura)
COLIN MCLAY (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1524: 23-34 (9 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
Additions to the milliped family Caseyidae. I. Caseya richarti, n. sp., and new records of previously described species in the genus Caseya Cook and Collins 1895 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Caseyidae)
WILLIAM A. SHEAR & WILLIAM P. LEONARD (USA)

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Zootaxa 1524: 35-45 (9 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
Establishment of a new peritrich ciliate genus, Pseudepistylis n. gen. (Ciliophora: Peritrichia: Epistylididae), with a description of a new freshwater species, Pseudepistylis songi n. sp. from Wenzhou, China
XIAOHUI PENG (P.R. China), XINLU SHI (P.R. China) & ALAN WARREN (UK)

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Zootaxa 1524: 47-55 (9 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 9 May 2007
A new species of Phymaturus from rocky outcrops in the central steppe of Rio Negro province, Patagonia Argentina (Reptilia: Iguania: Liolaemidae)
JOSE ALEJANDRO SCOLARO & NORA RUTH IBARGUENGOYTIA (Argentina)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1524: 57-59 (9 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
"Page priority" does not exist in the Code: Neomegalotomus parvus (Westwood, 1842) has precedence over Neomegalotomus simplex (Westwood, 1842) (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Alydidae)
ANDRE NEMESIO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1524: 61-68 (9 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 10 May 2007
Hydrothelphusa vencesi, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from southeastern Madagascar
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA), SASKIA A. E. MARIJNISSEN (Netherlands), & JONELLE THOMPSON (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1523, 68 pp (9 Jul. 2007)  3 papers       1 Correspondence                                                         

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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: 49-58 (9 Jul. 2007) 6 plates; 37 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
Description of the tadpole of Leptodactylus pustulatus Peters, 1870 (Anura: Leptodactylidae) RAFAEL O. DE SA (USA), REUBER BRANDAO (Brasil) & LORENA DALL'ARA GUIMARAES (Brasil)
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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 1523: 65-68 (9 Jul. 2007) 1 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
Anomaloppia mazandaranica (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae) n. sp. from Iran
MOHAMMAD ALI AKRAMI (Iran) & LUIS S. SUBIAS (Spain)

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 Zootaxa 1522, 68 pp (9 Jul. 2007)  1 Monograph                                                                                        

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Zootaxa 1522: 1-68 (9 Jul. 2007) 21 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
Revision and phylogeny of the subaptera-group of Phyllodromica (Blattoptera: Blattellidae: Ectobiinae), including a parthenogenetic species and the evaluation of COI sequences for species identification (DNA barcoding)
THOMAS KNEBELSBERGER & MICHAEL A. MILLER (Germany)
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 Zootaxa 1521, 68 pp (5 Jul. 2007)  5 papers       2 Correspondence                                                         

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Zootaxa 1521: 1-8 (5 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 12 May 2007
The oldest known record of Taeniopterygidae in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China (Insecta: Plecoptera)
YUSHUANG LIU (P.R. China), DONG REN (P.R. China), NINA D. SINITSHENKOVA (Russia) & CHUNG KUN SHIH (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1521: 9-18 (5 Jul. 2007) 6 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2007
A review of Afrotropical Perasis Hermann, 1905 (Diptera: Asilidae: Laphriinae)
JASON G. H. LONDT (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 1521: 19-29 (5 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
A review of the genus Chaeridiona Baly, 1869 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
C. L. STAINES (USA)

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Zootaxa 1521: 31-41 (5 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
A new species of Myiopharus Brauer and Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae) parasitic on adults of the sunflower beetle, Zygogramma exclamationis (Fabricius)
JAMES E. O'HARA (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1521: 43-58 (5 Jul. 2007) 8 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
Robber flies of South Korea IV. Species of the subfamily Stichopogoninae Hardy, 1930 (Diptera: Asilidae)
CHARLES L. YOUNG (South Korea)

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Zootaxa 1521: 59-62 (5 Jul. 2007) 8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 5 Jun. 2007
A new species of Hydrocyphon Redtenbacher, 1858 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) from Kopet Dagh Mountains
RAFAL RUTA (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1521: 63-66 (5 Jul. 2007) 13 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 11 Jun. 2007
Anodontophora tuvensis gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Collembola: Onychiuridae: Tetrodontophorinae)
ROMUALD J. POMORSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1521: 67-68 (5 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 13 May 2007
Niethammerella Eichler, a senior synonym of Kaysius Price & Clayton (Phthiraptera: Amblycera: Menoponidae)
RICARDO L. PALMA (New Zealand), ROBERT C. DALGLEISH (USA) & ROGER D. PRICE (USA)

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 Zootaxa 1520, 68 pp (5 Jul. 2007)  5 papers                                                                                                

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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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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 1520: 37-49 (5 Jul. 2007) 10 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 16 May 2007
Colurostylis castlepointensis, a new shallow-water diastylid (Crustacea: Cumacea) from New Zealand
SARAH GERKEN (USA) & ANNE-NINA LORZ (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1520: 51-56 (5 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
First record of the genus Goreopagurus McLaughlin, 1988 (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea) from Brazil, with description of a new species
PAULO R. NUCCI & GUSTAVO A.S. DE MELO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1520: 57-68 (5 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
Four new species and a new name in the genus Rhyncaphytoptus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Diptilomiopidae) from China
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)

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 Zootaxa 1519, 68 pp (2 Jul. 2007)  3 papers                                                                                                 

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Zootaxa 1519: 1-16 (2 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 93 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2007
An updated checklist of decapod crustaceans (infraorders Astacidea, Thalassinidea, Polychelida, Palinura, and Anomura) from the northern and northeastern Brazilian coast
PETRONIO ALVES COELHO, ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA DE ALMEIDA, LUIS ERNESTO ARRUDA BEZERRA & JESSER FIDELIS DE SOUZA-FILHO (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1519: 17-26 (2 Jul. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
A new large green species of Litoria (Anura: Hylidae) from western New Guinea
PAUL OLIVER (Australia), STEPHEN J. RICHARDS (Australia), BURHAN TJATURADI (Indonesia) & DJOKO ISKANDAR (Indonesia)

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Zootaxa 1519: 27-68 (2 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 133 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
Phylogeny, taxonomy and nomenclature: the problem of taxonomic categories and of nomenclatural ranks
ALAIN DUBOIS (France)
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 Zootaxa 1518, 68 pp (2 Jul. 2007)  2 papers                                                                                                 

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Zootaxa 1518: 1-29 (2 Jul. 2007) 22 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2007
A new Argyrodiaptomus (Copepoda: Calanoida: Diaptomidae) from the southwestern Brazilian Amazon
DANIEL PREVIATTELLI & EDINALDO NELSON DOS SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1518: 31-68 (2 Jul. 2007) 17 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 16 May 2007
On some species of Chone Kroyer, 1856 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from world-wide localities
MARIA ANA TOVAR-HERNANDEZ (Mexico)
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