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2015

Article
Zootaxa 4059 (2): 277–318 (22 Dec. 2015)
New and poorly known species of Bairdoppilata and Paranesidea (Bairdiidae, Ostracoda) from French Frigate Shoals and O’ahu, the Hawaiian Islands
ROSALIE F. MADDOCKS
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Article
Zootaxa 4059 (2): 201–256 (22 Dec. 2015)
Maeridae from the Indo-Pacific: Elasmopus, Leeuwinella gen. nov., Maeropsis, Pseudelasmopus and Quadrimaera (Amphipoda: Crustacea)
LAUREN E. HUGHES
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (4): 451–470 (18 Dec. 2015)
A new species of Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1823 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) from Taiwan, with notes on four new records
SHAO-JYUN TENG & HSI-TE SHIH
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (2): 151–174 (16 Dec. 2015)
Two new crayfishes of the genus Cambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from Northern Alabama and South Central Tennessee, U.S.A.
DANNY R. JONES & ARNOLD G. EVERSOLE
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (1): 101–111 (15 Dec. 2015)
A new species of the snapping shrimp genus Alpheus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) from Japan, associated with the innkeeper worm Ikedosoma elegans (Annelida: Echiura: Echiuridae)
TOMOYUKI KOMAI
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Article
Zootaxa 4058 (1): 001–040 (15 Dec. 2015)
A review of the world Cyphocarididae with description of three new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea)
LAUREN E. HUGHES & JAMES K. LOWRY
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4057 (4): 590–594 (14 Dec. 2015)
Takereana, a new genus of Idoteidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera) from New Zealand GARY C.
B. POORE & DESMOND E. HURLEY
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (2): 265–272 (10 Dec. 2015)
Comments on two questionably new axiidean taxa from the Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda)
DARRYL L. FELDER & PETER C. DWORSCHAK
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (2): 257–264 (10 Dec. 2015)
A new deep-water species of Myopiarolis Bruce, 2009 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Serolidae) from New Zealand waters
KEREN SPONG & NIEL L. BRUCE
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (1): 091–105 (9 Dec. 2015)
Galatheid and chirostylid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from a cold seep environment in the northeastern South China Sea
DONG DONG & XINZHENG LI
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (4): 478–478 (4 Dec. 2015)
Rukavisсhnikovia, a new replacement name for preoccupied Iliella Rukavishnikova, 1980 (Brachiopoda) non Tschernyshev, 1940 (Crustacea)
ALEXANDER B. DOWELD
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (3): 394–400 (3 Dec. 2015)
A checklist of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Lithuania
IVAN HADRIÁN TUF, POVILAS IVINSKIS & JOLANTA RIMŠAITĖ
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (3): 383–393 (3 Dec. 2015)
A new species of Sunipea Griffin & Tranter, 1986 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Inachidae) and a redescription of Sunipea indicus (Alcock, 1895)
WILLIAM SANTANA
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (1): 127–134 (1 Dec. 2015)
Leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan, with three new records
YI-JIA SHIH1, PING-HO HO & TIN-YAM CHAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (1): 117–126 (1 Dec. 2015)
Binhthuanomon vinhtan, a new genus and new species of semi-terrestrial freshwater crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from south central Vietnam
VAN TU DO, VAN THO LE & DOAN DANG PHAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (4): 508–522 (27 Nov. 2015)
Benthic Ostracods of Skogsbergiella (Myodocopina: Cylindroleberididae) from the Southern Ocean
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR & DIETMAR KEYSER
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (1): 037–056 (24 Nov. 2015)
Semiterrestrial crabs of the genus Geosesarma De Man, 1892 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Sesarmidae) from western Borneo, Indonesia, with descriptions of three new species
PETER K. L. NG
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Erratum
Zootaxa 4044 (4): 599–600 (20 Nov. 2015)
Erratum: PATRICIO DE LOS RIOS ESCALANTE & ALEXEY A. KOTOV (2015) A checklist of Branchiopoda (Anostraca and Cladocera) of Chilean continental waters. Zootaxa, 4027 (3): 366–388.
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (4): 493–510 (20 Nov. 2015)
An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Colombia
ALEXEY A. KOTOV & JUAN M. FUENTES-REINÉS
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (4): 451–492 (20 Nov. 2015)
Revision of the pulchella-group of Alona s. lato leads to its translocation to Ovalona Van Damme et Dumont, 2008 (Branchiopoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (3): 391–410 (19 Nov. 2015)
Sierra Nevada (Granada, Spain): a high-altitude biogeographical crossroads for millipedes (Diplopoda), with first data on its MSS fauna and description of a new species of the genus Ceratosphys Ribaut, 1920 (Chordeumatida: Opisthocheiridae)
JOSÉ D. GILGADO, HENRIK ENGHOFF, ALBERTO TINAUT, JEAN-PAUL MAURIČS
& VICENTE M. ORTUŃO
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (3): 301–344 (19 Nov. 2015)
Stenopodidean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from New Caledonian waters
JOSEPH W. GOY
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (2): 241–269 (18 Nov. 2015)
Annotated Checklist of Chinese Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Part II. Order Anomopoda (families Macrotrichidae, Eurycercidae and Chydoridae)
GAO-HUA JI, XIAN-FEN XIANG, SHOU-ZHONG CHEN, GONG-LIANG YU, ALEXEY A. KOTOV & HENRI J. DUMONT
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (2): 224–240 (18 Nov. 2015)
New records of Anthalona acuta Van Damme, Sinev & Dumont 2011 and Anthalona brandorffi (Sinev & Hollwedel, 2002) in Brazil, with description of a new species of the simplex-branch (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae)
FRANCISCO DIOGO R. SOUSA, LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO, JOSÉ ROBERTO DEBASTIANI-JÚNIOR, RICCARDO MUGNAI & ANDRÉ SENNA
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (4): 445–457 (12 Nov. 2015)
Description of a new species of the costata-group (Cladocera, Chydoridae, Aloninae) from Brazil
FRANCISCO DIOGO R. SOUSA, SANDRO SANTOS, ADRIANA MARIA GÜNTZEL,
LEIDIANE PEREIRA DINIZ, MAURO DE MELO JÚNIOR & LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (2): 215–224 (10 Nov. 2015)
Cheramus iranicus, a new species of ghost shrimp (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from the Persian Gulf, Iran
VAHID SEPAHVAND, FARZANEH MOMTAZI & CHRISTOPHER TUDGE
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (2): 204–214 (10 Nov. 2015)
The occurrence of Pandalopsis spinosior Hanamura, Kohno & Sakaji, 2000 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Pandalidae) in Hokkaido, northern Japan, and reassessment of its diagnostic characters
MAI HIBINO, KOJI MATSUZAKI & TOMOYUKI KOMAI
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (2): 169–186 (10 Nov. 2015)
Morphology and phylogenetic position of three species of genus Camptocercus Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (1): 001–016 (9 Nov. 2015)
A new genus of Trachelipodidae Strouhal, 1953 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the eastern Mediterranean
GIOVANNA MONTICELLI CARDOSO, STEFANO TAITI2 & SPYROS SFENTHOURAKIS
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (4): 591–598 (6 Nov. 2015)
A new strikingly-colored species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
MASAYUKI OSAWA
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (4): 516–528 (6 Nov. 2015)
A new species of Acroperus Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Chydoridae) from Africa
ANNA N. NERETINA & ALEXEY A. KOTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (2): 391–400 (4 Nov. 2015)
Integrative redescription of a forgotten Italian pill millipede endemic to the Apuan Alps—Glomeris apuana Verhoeff, 1911 (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae)
THOMAS WESENER
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (2): 276–288 (4 Nov. 2015)
A new species of Dolicholana Bruce, 1986 (Isopoda, Cymothoidea, Cirolanidae), the first record of the genus from the Atlantic Ocean
RICARDO J. C. PAIVA & JESSER F. SOUZA-FILHO
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (2): 225–248 (4 Nov. 2015)
On Verhoeff’s Otostigmus subgenus Malaccopleurus, the nudus group of Otostigmus subgenus Otostigmus Porat, 1876, and Digitipes Attems, 1930, with a description of the foetus stadium larva in O. sulcipes Verhoeff, 1937, (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)
JOHN G. E. LEWIS
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (2): 201–224 (4 Nov. 2015)
Description of two ubiquitous species of Desmosomatidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the Northwest Pacific Basin east of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
OLGA A. GOLOVAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (1): 118–128 (3 Nov. 2015)
Aletheiana tenella, a new genus and new species of freshwater hymenosomatid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
PETER K. L. NG & CHRISTIAN LUKHAUP
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (3): 471–494 (30 Oct. 2015)
Uca (Petruca), a new subgenus for the rock fiddler crab Uca panamensis (Stimpson, 1859) from Central America, with comments on some species of the American broad-fronted subgenera
HSI-TE SHIH, PETER K. L. NG & JOHN H. CHRISTY
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4033 (2): 280–286 (22 Oct. 2015)
A new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Uruguay
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS & HELEN RACZ LORENZ
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Article
Zootaxa 4033 (1): 144–150 (21 Oct. 2015)
Probathylepadidae, a new family of Scalpelliformes (Thoracica: Cirripedia: Crustacea), for Probathylepas faxian gen. nov., sp. nov., from a hydrothermal vent in the Okinawa Trough
XIAN-QIU REN & ZHONG-LI SHA
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (5): 595–599 (20 Oct. 2015)
First record of the Nephropid genus Acanthacaris Bate, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae) from Taiwan
SU-CHING CHANG, TENG-WEI WANG & TIN-YAM CHAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (4): 444–450 (19 Oct. 2015)
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Kingsleya Ortmann, 1897 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from Amazonia, Brazil
MANUEL PEDRAZA & MARCOS TAVARES
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (3): 309–318 (16 Oct. 2015)
A new species of the caridean shrimp genus Lebbeus White, 1847 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thoridae) from the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk, Hokkaido, Japan
KOJI MATSUZAKI, MAI HIBINO & TOMOYUKI KOMAI
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4031 (1): 001–077 (13 Oct. 2015)
New Zealand Diastylidae and Gynodiastylidae (Crustacea: Cumacea)
SARAH GERKEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (3): 413–420 (9 Oct. 2015)
A new cave-dwelling species of the alpheid shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, YUSUKE YAMADA & KYO YUNOKAWA
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (2): 215–226 (8 Oct. 2015)
Zoeal stages of Labidochirus anomalus (Balss, 1913) (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) obtained under laboratory conditions
ELENA S. KORNIENKO & OLGA M. KORN
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4028 (1): 143–147 (7 Oct. 2015)
Fennerosquilla heptacantha (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae) in South Atlantic Ocean
DÉBORA LUCATELLI
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (4): 451–486 (6 Oct. 2015)
Leucosiid crabs from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
BELLA S. GALIL & PETER K. L. NG
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (3): 408–424 (5 Oct. 2015)
A new Glossocephalus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Oxycephalidae) from deep-water in the Monterey Bay region, California, USA, with an overview of the genus
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER & WILLIAM E. BROWNE
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (3): 366–388 (5 Oct. 2015)
A checklist of Branchiopoda (Anostraca and Cladocera) of Chilean continental waters
PATRICIO DE LOS RIOS ESCALANTE & ALEXEY A. KOTOV
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4027 (1): 135–139 (1 Oct. 2015)
First record of Albunea occulta (Boyko) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Albuneidae) from the Andaman Islands, India
P. MARIMUTHU, S. KUMARALINGAM, K.A. JAYARAJ, JAWED EQUBAL & T. GANESH
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (1): 117–129 (1 Oct. 2015)
Description of a new species of Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae): the first record of a lake ecomorph in the Carpathian Mountains
MATIJA PETKOVIĆ, TEO DELIĆ, LUKA LUČIĆ & CENE FIŠER
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4022 (1): 001–073 (30 Sept. 2015)
Taxonomic revision of the genus Benthana Budde-Lund, 1908 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae)
IVANKLIN SOARES CAMPOS-FILHO, STEFANO TAITI & PAULA BEATRIZ ARAUJO
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (3): 418–432 (28 Sept. 2015)
A new species of Spelaeogammarus (Amphipoda: Bogidielloidea: Artesiidae) with an identification key for the genus
RAFAELA BASTOS-PEREIRA & RODRIGO L. FERREIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (2): 351–367 (25 Sept. 2015)
Revision of the cirolanid isopod genus Odysseylana Malyutina, 1995 (Crustacea) with description of two new species from Singapore
CONNI M. SIDABALOK & NIEL L. BRUCE
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (2): 282–306 (25 Sept. 2015)
A review of the Munidopsidae Ortmann, 1898 (Decapoda, Galatheoidea) in Chilean waters, including new records for the Southeastern Pacific
GUILLERMO L. GUZMAN & JAVIER SELLANES
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Article
Zootaxa 4020 (3): 571–587 (23 Sept. 2015)
Additions to thalassinidean fauna (Crustacea: Decapoda) off Mauritania (NW Africa) with the description of a new genus and a new species
SUSANA S. DE MATOS-PITA & FRAN RAMIL
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Article
Zootaxa 4020 (3): 453–472 (23 Sept. 2015)
Molecular phylogeny of the genus Lepidophthalmus (Decapoda, Callianassidae), with re-examination of its species composition
RAFAEL ROBLES & DARRYL L. FELDER
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Article
Zootaxa 4020 (3): 431–452 (23 Sept. 2015)
Two new species of the genus Lepidophthalmus (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianassidae) from coastal Pacific waters of Central America
DARRYL L. FELDER & RAFAEL ROBLES
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Article
Zootaxa 4020 (3): 401–430 (23 Sept. 2015)
Making future taxonomy of Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae) in the Middle East easier: DELTA database of Middle East species with description of four new species from Iran
SOMAYEH ESMAEILI-RINEH, ALIREZA SARI & CENE FIŠER
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Article
Zootaxa 4018 (4): 535–552 (17 Sept. 2015)
Two new species of family Neotanaidae (Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from the Antarctic and Mid-Pacific Oceans
CATARINA L. ARAÚJO-SILVA, ELSA FROUFE & KIM LARSEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4018 (3): 426–436 (16 Sept. 2015)
A new genus and family of copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) parasitic on polychaetes of the genus Jasmineira Langerhans, 1880 (family Sabellidae) in the northeastern Atlantic
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL, MYLES O’REILLY, ANDREY SIKORSKI & REBECCA SUMMERFIELD
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Article
Zootaxa 4018 (1): 080–096 (14 Sept. 2015)
New genus and new species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from the mesophotic coral ecosystems of Puerto Rico and St. Croix, Caribbean Sea
JOSÉ M. GUERRA-GARCÍA, TAPAS CHATTERJEE & NIKOLAOS V. SCHIZAS
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Article
Zootaxa 4018 (1): 001–034 (14 Sept. 2015)
Endevouridae, a review with description of four new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea)
JAMES K. LOWRY & LAUREN E. HUGHES
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4014 (1): 001–068 (11 Sept. 2015)
The tryphosine genus Cheirimedon in Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassidae, Tryphosinae)
N.M. KILGALLEN & J.K. LOWRY
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (4): 531–540 (10 Sept. 2015)
Litarcturus kexueiae sp. nov., a new deep-sea isopod from the Okinawa Trough (Crustacea, Isopoda, Valvifera, Antarcturidae)
WENLIANG LIU & ZHONGLI SHA
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (3): 399–412 (9 Sept. 2015)
New records of two species of the coral reef shrimp genus Thor Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thoridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, JUNJI OKUNO & RYO MINEMIZU
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (2): 151–194 (8 Sept. 2015)
Morphology and distribution of pelagic ostracods of the genus Boroecia (Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) in the Central Arctic
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR, DIETMAR A. KEYSER, ALEXANDER G. BASHMANOV
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4013 (1): 139–142 (7 Sept. 2015)
Nomenclatural changes in two families of asellote isopods (Acanthaspidiidae and Ischnomesidae)
KELLY L. MERRIN & GARY C. B. POORE
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (1): 100–110 (7 Sept. 2015)
Redescription of the early larval stages of the pandalid shrimp Chlorotocus crassicornis (Decapoda: Caridea: Pandalidae)
JOSE M. LANDEIRA, GUO-CHEN JIANG, TIN-YAM CHAN, TUNG-WEI SHIH & J. IGNACIO GOZÁLEZ-GORDILLO
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (1): 027–050 (7 Sept. 2015)
Additions of new species and records to the Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) of Taiwan
YOU-WEI TZENG & PAN-WEN HSUEH
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Article
Zootaxa 4012 (1): 191–197 (2 Sept. 2015)
A new deep-sea species of the genus Urocaridella (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidea) from Yap Seamount in the Western Pacific
YAN-RONG WANG, TIN-YAM CHAN & ZHONG-LI SHA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4007 (3): 445–449 (28 Aug. 2015)
Terrathelphusa secula, a new species of semiterrestrial freshwater crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Sabah, East Malaysia, Borneo
PETER K. L. NG & LEO W. H. TAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (3): 409–418 (28 Aug. 2015)
Thermoarcturidae, a new crustacean family of three genera (Isopoda: Valvifera)
GARY C. B. POORE
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (3): 370–388 (28 Aug. 2015)
Insights on the biology and ecology of the deep-water shrimp Parapontophilus occidentalis (Faxon, 1893) (Crustacea: Caridea: Crangonidae) in the eastern Pacific with notes on its morphology
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX & VANESA PAPIOL
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Article
Zootaxa 4006 (3): 569–585 (25 Aug. 2015)
Cladocera of Hainan Island, China
ARTEM Y. SINEV, YANGLIANG GU & BO-PING HAN
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Zootaxa 4006 (2): 383–391 (24 Aug. 2015)
An enigmatic Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand
ANNE-NINA LÖRZ
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Article
Zootaxa 4006 (1): 103–127 (21 Aug. 2015)
The family Caprellidae (Amphipoda: Caprelloidea: Caprellidae) from Campos Basin, Southwestern Atlantic, with a key of species occurring in Brazil
FÁBIO DA MOTTA MAURO & CRISTIANA SILVEIRA SEREJO
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Article
Zootaxa 4006 (1): 083–102 (21 Aug. 2015)
First records of interstitial leptocytherids (Crustacea, Ostracoda): two new species and a redescription of Callistocythere ventricostata Ruan & Hao, 1988 collected from the Okinawa Islands, southern Japan
TRAN MANH HA & AKIRA TSUKAGOSHI
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Article
Zootaxa 4000 (5): 581–591 (19 Aug. 2015)
Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Sabah state in Borneo Island, Malaysia
ARTEM Y. SINEV, FATIMAH M. YUSOFF
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Article
Zootaxa 4000 (5): 547–558 (19 Aug. 2015)
A new Chthamalus (Crustacea: Cirripedia) from the challengeri subgroup on Taiwan rocky intertidal shores
BENNY K.K. CHAN & CHI CHIU CHEANG
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Article
Zootaxa 4000 (4): 492–496 (18 Aug. 2015)
The rare mantis shrimp Areosquilla indica (Hansen, 1976) (Crustacea, Stomatopoda) from the Great Barrier Reef: first Australian records of the genus and species
SHANE T. AHYONG & THEODORE J. WASSENBERG
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Article
Zootaxa 4000 (4): 428–444 (18 Aug. 2015)
A new species of Anoplodactylus (Pycnogonida: Phoxichilidiidae) from Brazil, with a case of gynandromorphism in Anoplodactylus eroticus Stock, 1968
RUDÁ AMORIM LUCENA, JOAFRÂNCIO PEREIRA DE ARAÚJO & MARTIN LINDSEY CHRISTOFFERSEN
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Zootaxa 3995 (1): 241–251 (5 Aug. 2015)
Two new species of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Anomura: Munidopsidae) from the Kermadec and Louisville ridge systems off New Zealand
KAREEN E. SCHNABEL & SHANE T. AHYONG
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Article 
Zootaxa 3995 (1): 229–240 (5 Aug. 2015)
Rediagnosis of Callianideidae and its genera (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea), and description of a new species of Heardaxius Sakai, 2011
GARY C. B. POORE
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Article 
Zootaxa 3995 (1): 203–228 (5 Aug. 2015)
First record of Tanaidacea (Crustacea) from a deep-sea coral reef in the Gulf of Guinea
ALEKSANDRA JAKIEL, ANNA STĘPIEŃ, PIOTR JÓŹWIAK, BJŘRN SERIGSTAD & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ
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Zootaxa 3995 (1): 189–202 (5 Aug. 2015)
A new species of heterochelous tanaidacean Tanaissus (Paratanaoidea: Tanaissuidae) from the north-west Iberian Peninsula
PATRICIA ESQUETE, MARCOS RUBAL, PURI VEIGA & JESUS TRONCOSO
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Article 
Zootaxa 3995 (1): 169–188 (5 Aug. 2015)
Cacoheterotanais rogerbamberi, a new genus and species of leptocheliid Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from shelf-waters of the Gulf of Mexico
ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ & RICHARD W. HEARD
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Zootaxa 3995 (1): 149–168 (5 Aug. 2015)
The first pagurapseudid species (Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from New Zealand with remarks on paguridean (Decapoda: Paguridea) and pagurapseudid convergence and competition
GRAHAM J. BIRD & W. RICHARD WEBBER
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Zootaxa 3995 (1): 138–148 (5 Aug. 2015)
Indoapseudes bamberi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Pagurapseudidae: Hodometricinae) from Iriomote Island, Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
KEIICHI KAKUI & TOHRU NARUSE
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Zootaxa 3995 (1): 133–137 (5 Aug. 2015)
Platycuma bamberconfabulor sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cumacea: Nannastacidae) from Antarctica, with a note on the gut of Platycuma
SARAH GERKEN & LES WATLING
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Article 
Zootaxa 3995 (1): 091–132 (5 Aug. 2015)
A revision of the genus Paracallisoma Chevreux, 1903 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Scopelocheiridae: Paracallisominae) with a redescription of the type species of the genus Paracallisoma and the description of two new genera and two new species from the Atlantic Ocean
TAMMY HORTON & MICHAEL H. THURSTON
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Zootaxa 3995 (1): 084–090 (5 Aug. 2015)
A new amphipod Nicippe rogeri sp. nov. (Crustacea, Pardaliscidae) from New Zealand’s deep sea
ANNE-NINA LÖRZ & KAREEN SCHNABEL
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Article 
Zootaxa 3995 (1): 078–083 (5 Aug. 2015)
A new species of Waldeckia from the Austral Isles, Society Islands (Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea, Lysianassidae, Waldeckiinae)
J.K. LOWRY & N.M. KILGALLEN
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Zootaxa 3995 (1): 066–077 (5 Aug. 2015)
A re-description of Discoconchoecia elegans (Sars, 1865) (Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) from high latitudes in the North Atlantic
ANNA STĘPIEŃ, KATARZYNA BŁACHOWIAK-SAMOŁYK & MARTIN V. ANGEL
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (4): 531–555 (4 Aug. 2015)
Two new stygobiotic copepod species from the Tibesti area (Northern Chad) and a re-description of Pilocamptus schroederi (van Douwe, 1915)
ANTON BRANCELJ
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (4): 451–506 (4 Aug. 2015)
New taxonomic and distributional information on hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea) from the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Atlantic coast of South America
RAFAEL LEMAITRE & MARCOS TAVARES
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (3): 377–395 (3 Aug. 2015)
Periclimenes macrorhynchia sp. nov., a new hydrozoan-associated pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from North East Kalimantan, Indonesia
JONI EILBRACHT & CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (3): 354–376 (3 Aug. 2015)
Molecular phylogeny of Niphargus boskovici (Crustacea: Amphipoda) reveals a new species from epikarst
VID ŠVARA, TEO DELIĆ, TONĆI RAĐA & CENE FIŠER
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (2): 265–274 (31 Jul. 2015)
Two new species of Palapedia Ng, 1993 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae) from the Persian Gulf
REZA NADERLOO
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Article
Zootaxa 3990 (4): 451–496 (28 Jul. 2015)
Concordance between molecular and morphology-based phylogenies of Korean Enhydrosoma (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Cletodidae) highlights important synapomorphies and homoplasies in this genus globally
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC, KICHOON KIM & WONCHOEL LEE
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (4): 523–540 (14 Jul. 2015)
Two new species of the millipede family Blaniulidae (Diplopoda, Julida) from caves in central and southeastern Europe
DRAGAN Ž. ANTIĆ, ANDREJ MOCK & HENRIK ENGHOFF
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (3): 432–439 (13 Jul. 2015)
Talorchestia qeshm sp. nov., a new talitrid amphipod from the Persian Gulf (Amphipoda, Talitridae)
JIM LOWRY & FARZANEH MOMTAZI
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (3): 409–420 (13 Jul. 2015)
A new species of the ghost shrimp genus Lepidophthalmus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from the southwestern Gulf of Mexico
DARRYL L. FELDER
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (2): 151–202 (10 Jul. 2015)
Coastal Talitridae (Amphipoda: Talitroidea) from north-western Australia to Darwin with a revision of the genus Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010
J.K. LOWRY & R.T. SPRINGTHORPE
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Article
Zootaxa 3981 (3): 405–412 (6 Jul. 2015)
Monomia calla, a new species of swimming crab (Decapoda, Portunidae) from Madagascar and the Philippines
MILAN KOCH, THANH SON NGUYEN & ZDENĚK ĎURIŠ
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3981 (2): 291–295 (3 Jul. 2015)
Uca cryptica Naderloo, Türkay & Chen, 2010 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) is no longer cryptic
LAURA A. MICHIE, SIMON M. CRAGG, R. S. K. BARNES & WAYNE A. BENNETT
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Zootaxa 3981 (1): 125–137 (2 Jul. 2015)
Notes on Hexapodidae (Crustacea, Brachyura) from Indonesia and Malaysia, with description of a new species of Mariaplax Rahayu & Ng, 2014, from Lombok, Indonesia
PETER K. L. NG & DWI LISTYO RAHAYU
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Article
Zootaxa 3980 (4): 526–546 (1 Jul. 2015)
Cambarus (Jugicambarus) pauleyi, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) endemic to southcentral West Virginia, USA, with a re-description of Cambarus (J.) dubius
ZACHARY J. LOUGHMAN, ROGER F. THOMA, JAMES W. FETZNER JR. & G. WHITNEY STOCKER
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Article
Zootaxa 3980 (3): 417–426 (30 Jun. 2015)
Further records of species of Gennadas (Crustacea, Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Benthesicymidae) in the Mexican Pacific
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
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Article
Zootaxa 3980 (3): 379–405 (30 Jun. 2015)
The land crabs of the Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 species group, with description of a new species from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)
PETER K. L. NG & HSI-TE SHIH
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Zootaxa 3980 (2): 293–297 (29 Jun. 2015)
Note on Kurzia (Kurzia) latissima (Kurz, 1875) (Branchiopoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from India
SAMEER M. PADHYE & KAY VAN DAMME
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Article
Zootaxa 3974 (3): 361–376 (23 Jun. 2015)
Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) species in Hungary: literature review, current taxonomy and the updated distribution of valid taxa
GERGELY BALÁZS, DOROTTYA ANGYAL & ELŐD KONDOROSY
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Article
Zootaxa 3974 (3): 341–360 (23 Jun. 2015)
Additional records of the laomediid mud-shrimp genus Naushonia Kingsley, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gebiidea), with a revised identification key
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & ARTHUR ANKER
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Article
Zootaxa 3974 (1): 257–266 (22 Jun. 2015)
A range extension of a deep-sea barnacle of the genus Aurivillialepas (Cirripedia, Scalpellomorpha), a Macaronesian and amphitropical refugial genus having Mesozoic affinities
GIANNA INNOCENTI, RAFFAELLA DI GERONIMO & WILLIAM A. NEWMAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3974 (1): 177–195 (22 Jun. 2015)
The genus Xestoleberis (Ostracoda: Xestoleberididae) in the Northern, Northeastern and Eastern regions of the Brazilian continental shelf
NATHÁLIA CARVALHO DA LUZ & JOĂO CARLOS COIMBRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3974 (1): 151–169 (22 Jun. 2015)
Uca (Xeruca), a new subgenus for the Taiwanese fiddler crab Uca formosensis Rathbun, 1921 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae), based on morphological and molecular evidence
HSI-TE SHIH
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Article
Zootaxa 3973 (3): 491–510 (18 Jun. 2015)
Description of the newly-hatched juvenile of Aegla perobae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Aeglidae)
JULIANA CRISTINA BERTACINI MORAES & SÉRGIO LUIZ DE SIQUEIRA BUENO
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Article
Zootaxa 3973 (2): 337–350 (17 Jun. 2015)
Review of the buccal-attaching fish parasite genus Glossobius Schioedte & Meinert, 1883 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae)
MELISSA B. MARTIN, NIEL L. BRUCE & BARBARA F. NOWAK
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Article
Zootaxa 3973 (1): 185–194 (16 Jun. 2015)
Elasmopus alkhiranensis sp. nov., a new species of amphipod (Senticaudata, Maeridae) from the Persian Gulf
ALAN MYERS & FARZANEH MOMTAZI
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Zootaxa 3973 (1): 119–138 (16 Jun. 2015)
Redescriptions of three species of freshwater crabs from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae)
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3972 (3): 450–450 (12 Jun. 2015)
NAOYA OHTSUCHI, TOMOHIKO KAWAMURA & MASATSUNE TAKEDA (2014) Redescription of a poorly known epialtid crab Pugettia pellucens Rathbun, 1932 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea) and description of a new species from Sagami Bay, Japan. Zootaxa, 3765(6), 557–570.

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Article
Zootaxa 3972 (3): 419–431 (12 Jun. 2015)
Extending the southern range of four shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidae, Hippolytidae and Alpheidae) in southwestern Atlantic (27o S) and confirming the presence of Mediterranean Stenopus spinosus Risso, 1827 in Brazil
BRUNO WELTER GIRALDES & ANDREA SANTAROSA FREIRE
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Article
Zootaxa 3972 (3): 328–342 (12 Jun. 2015)
Gorgonolaureus bicornutus sp. nov (Crustacea: Thecostraca: Ascothoracida) from off South-East Taiwan with notes on morphology and distribution
GREGORY A. KOLBASOV, BENNY K.K. CHAN & ALEXANDRA S. PETRUNINA
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Article
Zootaxa 3972 (1): 085–092 (10 Jun. 2015)
Alpheopsis balaeniceps sp. nov., an unusual alpheid shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea) from French Polynesia
ARTHUR ANKER
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Zootaxa 3964 (5): 526–536 (5 Jun. 2015)
Cherax (Astaconephrops) gherardii, a new crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from West Papua, Indonesia
JIŘÍ PATOKA, MARTIN BLÁHA & ANTONÍN KOUBA
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Article
Zootaxa 3964 (4): 460–474 (4 Jun. 2015)
Description of a new species of Penicillate Millipede from the genus Monographis (Diplopoda: Polyxenidae) found in Vietnam
CUONG HUYNH & ANNEKE A.VEENSTRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3964 (3): 363–370 (3 Jun. 2015)
Review of the millipede genus Yasudatyla Shear & Tsurusaki, 1995 new to the fauna of Russia, with description of new species from the Kurile Islands (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae)
ELENA V. MIKHALJOVA
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Zootaxa 3964 (3): 352–362 (3 Jun. 2015)
A new species of the palaemonid shrimp genus Palaemonella Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & YUSUKE YAMADA
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Zootaxa 3964 (3): 301–320 (3 Jun. 2015)
The Giant Pill-Millipedes of Nepal (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae)
THOMAS WESENER
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Article
Zootaxa 3963 (4): 583–594 (28 May 2015)
A new species of dwarf crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from central México, as supported by morphological and genetic evidence
CARLOS PEDRAZA-LARA & IGNACIO DOADRIO
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3963 (3): 450–450 (27 May 2015)
VENKATESWARA RAO TOTAKURA & YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (2015) Groundwater
cyclopoid copepods of peninsular India, with description of eight new species. Zootaxa,
3945(1): 1–93.

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Article
Zootaxa 3963 (3): 416–424 (27 May 2015)
Spiralothelphusa gibberosa, a new freshwater crab (Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae)
from Thrissur district, Kerala, India
S.K. PATI & A.R. SUDHA DEVI
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Article
Zootaxa 3963 (3): 251–294 (27 May 2015)
Review of the fish-parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Australia, with description of two new species
MELISSA B. MARTIN, NIEL L. BRUCE & BARBARA F. NOWAK
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3957 (5): 596–599 (19 May 2015)
Preliminary diagnoses of three new species of Tasmanian mountain shrimps, Anaspides Thomson, 1894 (Syncarida, Anaspidacea, Anaspididae)
SHANE T. AHYONG
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Zootaxa 3957 (5): 585–595 (19 May 2015)
Description of a new distinctive species of Parabetaeus Coutičre, 1897 (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
ARTHUR ANKER
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (5): 553–566 (19 May 2015)
A new species of Leberis Smirnov, 1989 (Cladocera: Chydoridae) from Colombia
ALEXEY A. KOTOV & JUAN M. FUENTES-REINÉS
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (5): 520–534 (19 May 2015)
On two new species of the shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (Decapoda, Caridea, Alpheidae) from the tropical eastern Pacific
ARTHUR ANKER & JUAN FELIPE LAZARUS
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (5): 501–519 (19 May 2015)
The atyid shrimps from Lake Lindu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia with description of two new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
ANNAWATY & DAISY WOWOR
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3957 (2): 239–242 (14 May 2015)
New record of Paralomis spinosissima Birstein & Vinogradov (Decapoda: Anomura: Lithodidae) from Mar del Plata, Argentina
NICOLE OLGUÍN, EMILIANO H. OCAMPO & NAHUEL FARIAS
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (2): 215–225 (14 May 2015)
Uroptychus minutus Benedict, 1902 and a closely related new species (Crustacea: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from the western Atlantic Ocean
KEIJI BABA & MARY WICKSTEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (1): 059–068 (13 May 2015)
First description of the soft part anatomy of Ilyocypris ramirezi Cusminsky & Whatley (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Argentina, South America
D. SABINA D´AMBROSIO, ANALÍA R. DÍAZ, ADRIANA GARCÍA & MARÍA CRISTINA CLAPS
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (4): 569–578 (12 May 2015)
Caprella suprapiscis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico
CRISTIAN M. GALVÁN-VILLA & MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (3): 345–373 (11 May 2015)
Selected species of the family Diastylidae (Cumacea, Peracarida, Crustacea) from the deep-sea of the NW Pacific
UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL & ANNA V. LAVRENTEVA
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Article
Zootaxa 3955 (4): 588–594 (6 May 2015)
A new hermit crab (Anomura, Paguroidea) from the upper Albian (Cretaceous) of Annopol, Poland
RENÉ H. B. FRAAIJE, BARRY W. M. VAN BAKEL, JOHN W. M. JAGT & MARCIN MACHALSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3955 (2): 211–244 (4 May 2015)
Redescription of Coronatella poppei (Richard, 1897) (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Chydoridae) and a revision of the genus in Brazil, with descriptions of new taxa
FRANCISCO DIOGO ROCHA SOUSA, LOURDES MARIA ABDU ELMOOR-LOUREIRO & SANDRO SANTOS
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Zootaxa 3955 (1): 142–146 (1 May 2015)
Ctenocheloides boucheti n. sp., a new ghost shrimp from Papua New Guinea (Decapoda, Axiidea, Ctenochelidae)
GARY C. B. POORE
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Article
Zootaxa 3955 (1): 001–044 (1 May 2015)
Redescription of Bythotrephes longimanus Leydig, 1860 and B. cederströmii Schödler, 1877 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Onychopoda), with notes on the morphology and systematics of the genus Bythotrephes Leydig, 1860
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY
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Article
Zootaxa 3949 (2): 217–228 (24 Apr. 2015)
Morphological and morphometric comparison of the first zoeal stage of the mangrove crabs of the genus Aratus H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Decapoda: Sesarmidae)
ADRIANA P. REBOLLEDO, INGO S. WEHRTMANN & JOSE A. CUESTA
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Zootaxa 3949 (1): 091–110 (23 Apr. 2015)
Three new species of the Eriopisa group (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eriopisidae) from Japan, with the description of a new genus
HIROYUKI ARIYAMA
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Zootaxa 3948 (3): 342–360 (22 Apr. 2015)
Tanaidaceans from Brunei, V. The Leptocheliidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea), with four new species
ROGER N. BAMBER & DAVID J. MARSHALL
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Zootaxa 3948 (2): 248–262 (21 Apr. 2015)
Melita mirzajanii n. sp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae), a puzzling new member of the Caspian fauna
TRAUDL KRAPP-SCHICKEL & BORIS SKET
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Zootaxa 3947 (4): 451–488 (17 Apr. 2015)
Five Sarsiellidae ostracods (Crustacea: Myodocopida) from the South Coast of Korea (East China Sea)
IVANA KARANOVIC & HO-YOUNG SOH
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Zootaxa 3947 (3): 327–346 (16 Apr. 2015)
Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Diogenidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Paguristes
PAULO RICARDO NUCCI & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO
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Zootaxa 3947 (3): 301–326 (16 Apr. 2015)
The complete larval development of Pagurus maculosus Komai & Imafuku, 1996 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) reared in the laboratory, and a comparison with sympatric species
ZAKEA SULTANA & AKIRA ASAKURA
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Zootaxa 3947 (2): 264–274 (15 Apr. 2015)
A new species of Afropinnotheres Manning, 1993 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) from southwestern India, the first record of the genus from the Indian Ocean, with a review of the Pinnotheridae of India and adjacent seas
PETER K. L. NG & APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR
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Zootaxa 3946 (3): 301–346 (10 Apr. 2015)
The identity of the semiterrestrial crab Terrathelphusa kuchingensis (Nobili, 1901) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), with descriptions of four new species from southwestern Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
JONGKAR GRINANG & PETER K. L. NG
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3945 (1): 001–093 (7 Apr. 2015)
Groundwater cyclopoid copepods of peninsular India, with description of eight new species
VENKATESWARA RAO TOTAKURA & YENUMULA RANGA REDDY
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Zootaxa 3941 (4): 485–508 (2 Apr. 2015)
A new genus of Stenetriidae Hansen, 1905 (Asellota: Isopoda: Crustacea) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia and the southwestern Pacific
NIEL L. BRUCE & R. L. CUMMING
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Zootaxa 3941 (2): 221–238 (31 Mar. 2015)
Description of Pseudingolfiella possessionis n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from sub-Antarctic Île de La Possession, Crozet archipelago: the second freshwater amphipod known from the Antarctic biome, a human introduction of Gondwanan ancestry?
WILLEM H. DE SMET
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Zootaxa 3937 (3): 549–563 (26 Mar. 2015)
Complete morphological re-description of mud-dwelling axiid Leonardsaxius amurensis (Kobjakova, 1937) with remarks on Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from the Russian coast of the Sea of Japan
IVAN MARIN
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Zootaxa 3937 (3): 517–532 (26 Mar. 2015)
A new species of the hermit crab genus Paguristes Dana, 1851 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southwestern India
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, REMA RESHMI & APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR
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Zootaxa 3937 (3): 456–470 (26 Mar. 2015)
Gomphocythere besni n. sp. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from a man-made pool (Adıyaman, Turkey)
OKAN KÜLKÖYLÜOĞLU, MEHMET YAVUZATMACA, MARIA CRISTINA CABRAL & JEAN-PAUL COLIN
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Zootaxa 3937 (2): 362–376 (25 Mar. 2015)
Two new species, Caenanthura koreana sp. nov. and Apanthura koreaensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Anthuridae) from South Korea
JI-HUN SONG & GI-SIK MIN
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Zootaxa 3936 (4): 559–566 (23 Mar. 2015)
Macrobrachium indianum (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), a new species of hill stream prawn from Pambar River, Kerala, India
P. M. PILLAI, V. UNNIKRISHNAN & K. PRASANNAN
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Zootaxa 3936 (1): 082–092 (18 Mar. 2015)
Two new species of Lysianassidae Dana, 1849 from Australia: Riwo zeidleri and Socarnella delectabilis (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda)
L.E. HUGHES & J.K. LOWRY
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3935 (1): 001–068 (17 Mar. 2015)
The tropical talitrid genus Floresorchestia (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae)
J.K. LOWRY & R.T. SPRINGTHORPE
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Zootaxa 3931 (4): 585–595 (16 Mar. 2015)
A new species of Fizesereneia Takeda & Tamura, 1980 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Cryptochiridae) from the Red Sea and Oman
SANCIA E.T. VAN DER MEIJ, MICHAEL L. BERUMEN & GUSTAV PAULAY
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3925 (4): 600 (9 Mar. 2015)
Erratum: GRAHAM J. EDGAR (2012) New Leptocheliidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha) from Australian seagrass and macro-algal habitats, and a redescription of the poorly-known Leptochelia ignota from Sydney Harbour. Zootaxa, 3276: 1–37.
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (3): 430–438 (6 Mar. 2015)
A new species of the genus Typton Costa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) from the eastern tropical Pacific
MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE, MICHEL E. HENDRICKX & CRISTIAN MOISES GALVAN-VILLA
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Zootaxa 3926 (3): 377–395 (6 Mar. 2015)
The genus Hippomedon in Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassidae, Tryphosinae)
N.M. KILGALLEN & J.K. LOWRY
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Zootaxa 3926 (2): 244–256 (5 Mar. 2015)
Description of two new species of Neotanais Beddard, 1886 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from KODOS area
JIN HEE WI, HAE LIP SUH & OK HWAN YU
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Zootaxa 3926 (2): 151–190 (5 Mar. 2015)
Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Crustacea) from deep Mauritanian waters (NW Africa) with the description of a new species
SUSANA S. DE MATOS-PITA & FRAN RAMIL
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Article
Zootaxa 3925 (3): 438–444 (2 Mar. 2015)
A new species of philichthyid copepod (Crustacea: Cyclopoida) parasitic on Stellifer spp. (Perciformes: Sciaenidae) from southeastern Brazil
MAÍRA POMBO, ALEXANDER TURRA, FABIANO PASCHOAL & JOSÉ LUIS LUQUE
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Zootaxa 3925 (3): 431–437 (2 Mar. 2015)
A new species of decorator crabs, genus Menaethiops Alcock, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea: Epialthidae), from Abu-Musa Island, Persian Gulf, Iran
REZA NADERLOO
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Zootaxa 3925 (2): 241–256 (27 Feb. 2015)
A new bathyal mysid of the family Petalophthalmidae (Crustacea: Mysida) from the Bismarck Sea (Western Tropical Pacific Ocean)
CARLOS SAN VICENTE & LAURE CORBARI
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Zootaxa 3925 (2): 211–228 (27 Feb. 2015)
Description of a new genus and a new species of gaeticine crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, and a review of Acmaeopleura Stimpson, 1858, and Sestrostoma Davie & N.K. Ng, 2007
TOHRU NARUSE
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Article
Zootaxa 3920 (4): 579–585 (24 Feb. 2015)
A new species of Solitariopagurus from the Red Sea with notes on S. profundus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae)
MICHAEL TÜRKAY
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Zootaxa 3920 (4): 501–533 (24 Feb. 2015)
First species of Leptochelia Dana, 1849 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Eastern Pacific, with an annotated checklist and identification keys for the genus
JANI JARQUÍN-GONZÁLEZ, MARÍA DEL SOCORRO GARCÍA-MADRIGAL & LUIS FERNANDO CARRERA-PARRA
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Zootaxa 3920 (2): 366–380 (20 Feb. 2015)
New records of sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) from marine fishes in Jaramijó, an area with potential for sea-cage aquaculture in Ecuador
FRANCISCO NEPTALI MORALES-SERNA, VÍCTOR CAŃA-BOZADA, GEORMERY MERA-LOOR, PEGGY LOOR-ANDRADE, EMMA J. FAJER-ÁVILA & JU-SHEY HO
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Zootaxa 3920 (1): 153–162 (19 Feb. 2015)
Debroyerella gen. nov. and Ulladulla gen. nov., two new lysianassoid genera (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea)
J.K. LOWRY & N.M. KILGALLEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3919 (2): 343–361 (17 Feb. 2015)
The number of zoeal stages in larval development of Nihonotrypaea petalura (Stimpson, 1860) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from Russian waters of the Sea of Japan
ELENA S. KORNIENKO, OLGA M. KORN & DARYA D. GOLUBINSKAYA
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Zootaxa 3919 (2): 306–326 (17 Feb. 2015)
A new late Eocene Bicornucythere species (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from Myanmar, and its significance for the evolutionary history of the genus
TATSUHIKO YAMAGUCHI, HISASHI SUZUKI, AUNG-NAING SOE, THAUNG HTIKE,
RITSUO NOMURA & MASANARU TAKAI
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Zootaxa 3919 (2): 271–305 (17 Feb. 2015)
An annotated checklist of the Recent non-marine ostracods (Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Italy
VALENTINA PIERI, KOEN MARTENS, CLAUDE MEISCH & GIAMPAOLO ROSSETTI
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Zootaxa 3919 (1): 081–099 (16 Feb. 2015)
Two new stygobiotic species of Elaphoidella (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with comments on geographical distribution and ecology of harpacticoids from caves in Thailand
SANTI WATIROYRAM, ANTON BRANCELJ & LA-ORSRI SANOAMUANG
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Zootaxa 3918 (4): 559–570 (13 Feb. 2015)
Three new species of Exampithoe from Australia and New Zealand (Ampithoidae: Amphipoda: Crustacea)
LAUREN E. HUGHES & RACHAEL A. PEART
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Zootaxa 3918 (2): 250–260 (11 Feb. 2015)
A new genus and new species of Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from shallow subtidal waters in Okinawa Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI
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Zootaxa 3918 (2): 224–238 (11 Feb. 2015)
A new species of the hermit crab genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from shallow coastal waters in Japan, with a checklist of the East Asian species of the genus
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, YUMA SAITO & EIJI MYORIN
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Zootaxa 3918 (1): 141–150 (10 Feb. 2015)
Crabs of the families Palicidae and Crossotonotidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Palicoidea) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species
MASATSUNE TAKEDA & HIROYUKI TACHIKAWA
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (4): 569–580 (5 Feb. 2015)
Morphological variation in males of Dendrocephalus orientalis (Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae): Implications for species identification
GUSTAVO LUIS HIROSE, SAMARA DE PAIVA BARROS-ALVES, DOUGLAS FERNANDES RODRIGUES ALVES, IZABEL REGINA SOARES DA SILVA & MARIA ANGÉLICA DE OLIVEIRA BEZERRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (4): 491–509 (5 Feb. 2015)
Redescription and taxonomic status of Paguristes praedator Glassell, 1937 and P. oxyophthalmus Holthuis, 1959 (Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae), with an emendation to the diagnosis of the genus Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2010
MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE, MICHEL E. HENDRICKX & RAFAEL LEMAITRE
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (4): 451–490 (5 Feb. 2015)
Taxonomic revision of the genus Mayazomus Reddell & Cokendolpher, 1995 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae), with description of five new species from Chiapas, Mexico
RODRIGO MONJARAZ-RUEDAS & OSCAR F. FRANCKE
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (3): 423–432 (4 Feb. 2015)
Cyathura odaliscae, a new species of anthurid isopod (Crustacea: Peracarida) from a brackish habitat on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica
RICHARD W. HEARD & RITA VARGAS
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (3): 356–374 (4 Feb. 2015)
A new species and new record of the Kamakidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Korea
TAE WON JUNG & SEONG MYEONG YOON
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (2): 263–271 (3 Feb. 2015)
Zehntneriana serrata n. sp., a new species of pilumnid crab from southern Taiwan (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG & CHIA-WEI LIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (2): 233–249 (3 Feb. 2015)
Larval development of the land hermit crab Coenobita violascens Heller, 1862 (Decapoda, Anomura, Coenobitidae) described from laboratory-reared material
SAORI KATO, KATSUYUKI HAMASAKI, SHIGEKI DAN & SHUICHI KITADA
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Zootaxa 3915 (2): 206–232 (3 Feb. 2015)
The complete larval development of Pagurus lanuginosus De Haan, 1849 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) reared in the laboratory, with emphasis on the post-larval stage
ZAKEA SULTANA & AKIRA ASAKURA
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Article
Zootaxa 3914 (4): 456–466 (29 Jan. 2015)
Notes on some Indo-Pacific Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae and Gnathophyllidae) particularly from India
SANJEEVI PRAKASH, THIPRAMALAI THANGAPPAN AJITH KUMAR & THANUMALAYA SUBRAMONIAM
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Zootaxa 3914 (4): 441–455 (29 Jan. 2015)
A new echiuran-associated snapping shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
ARTHUR ANKER, TOMOYUKI KOMAI & IVAN N. MARIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3914 (4): 406–420 (29 Jan. 2015)
Papuadocus blodiwai gen. nov., sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae), a new bathyal species associated with sunken wood in the Bismarck Sea (Papua New Guinea)
LAURE CORBARI & JEAN CLAUDE SORBE
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Zootaxa 3914 (3): 275–300 (28 Jan. 2015)
On three new species of non-marine ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Northeast Thailand
SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3913 (1): 001–335 (22 Jan. 2015)
Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON & AYMEE ROBAINAS-BARCIA
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (3): 447–450 (20 Jan. 2015)
Morphological characterization of Streptocephalus sirindhornae (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from South East Asia: First record of the Streptocephalidae from China
SHUSEN SHU, ALEJANDRO M. MAEDA-MARTINEZ, D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS, JUNXING YANG & XIAOYONG CHEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (3): 396–410 (20 Jan. 2015)
A new species of Centropages (Copepoda: Calanoida: Centropagidae) from the central Red Sea based on morphological and molecular evidence
MOHSEN M. EL-SHERBINY & ALI M. AL-AIDAROOS
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (3): 301–342 (20 Jan. 2015)
On some interesting marine decapod crustaceans (Alpheidae, Laomediidae, Strahlaxiidae) from Lombok, Indonesia
ARTHUR ANKER, IDHAM SUMARTO PRATAMA, MUHAMMAD FIRDAUS & DWI LISTYO RAHAYU
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (2): 201–217 (19 Jan. 2015)
Ischnomesus harrietae sp. nov., a new benthic asellote (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ischnomesidae) from bathyal bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay
FIONA A. KAVANAGH, INMACULADA FRUTOS & JEAN CLAUDE SORBE
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (2): 184–200 (19 Jan. 2015)
A critical review of the current taxonomy of the genus Daphnia O. F. Müller, 1785 (Anomopoda, Cladocera)
ALEXEY A. KOTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (1): 130–138 (16 Jan. 2015)
Report on two deep-water caridean shrimp species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae, Acanthephyridae) from the northeastern South China Sea
XINZHENG LI
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (3): 451–473 (14 Jan. 2015)
Reinstatement and redescription of Lebbeus armatus (Owen, 1839), long synonymized with L. groenlandicus (Fabricius, 1775), and description of one new species from the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk, Hokkaido, Japan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Thoridae)
TOMOYUKI KOMAI
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (3): 301–344 (13 Jan. 2015)
Taxonomy of the freshwater crabs of Costa Rica, with a revision of the genus Ptychophallus Smalley, 1964 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae)
CÉLIO MAGALHĂES, INGO S. WEHRTMANN, LUIS RÓLIER LARA & FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (2): 151–192 (12 Jan. 2015)
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod genus Hyperoche Bovallius, 1887 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Hyperiidae), with the description of a new genus to accommodate H. shihi Gasca, 2005
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (1): 107–118 (9 Jan. 2015)
Elasmopus thalyae sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae), a new benthic species from soft and hard bottoms of Arcachon Bay (SE Bay of Biscay)
BENOIT GOUILLIEUX & JEAN CLAUDE SORBE
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (1): 091–106 (9 Jan. 2015)
A new genus and two new species of hymenosomatid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from the southwestern Atlantic and eastern Australia
MARCOS TAVARES & WILLIAM SANTANA
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (1): 052–068 (9 Jan. 2015)
Shallow-water stenopodidean and caridean shrimps from Abrolhos Archipelago, Brazil: new records and updated checklist
GUIDOMAR O. SOLEDADE, MYTALLE S. FONSECA & ALEXANDRE O. ALMEIDA
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (1): 027–051 (9 Jan. 2015)
Redescription of Palaemon antennarius H. Milne Edwards, 1837 and Palaemon migratorius (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) and description of two new species of the genus from the circum-Mediterranean area
THEODOROS TZOMOS & ATHANASIOS KOUKOURAS
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (2): 208–222 (6 Jan. 2015)
First faunal inventory of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Western Maharashtra, India with taxonomical and distributional comments
SAMEER PADHYE, NICOLAS RABET & HEMANT GHATE
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (1): 001–027 (5 Jan. 2015)
Annotated Checklist of Chinese Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Part I. Haplopoda, Ctenopoda, Onychopoda and Anomopoda (families Daphniidae, Moinidae, Bosminidae, Ilyocryptidae)
XIAN-FEN XIANG, GAO-HUA JI, SHOU-ZHONG CHEN, GONG-LIANG YU, LEI XU,
BO-PING HAN, ALEXEY A. KOTOV & HENRI J. DUMONT
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Article
Zootaxa 3900 (4): 541–554 (24 Dec. 2014)
Cambarus (Puncticambarus) callainus, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Big Sandy River basin in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia, USA
ROGER F. THOMA, ZACHARY J. LOUGHMAN & JAMES W. FETZNER JR.
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3900 (3): 450 (23 Dec. 2014)
Erratum: MARTIN GROSS, MARIA INES F. RAMOS & WERNER E. PILLER (2014) On the Miocene Cyprideis species flock (Ostracoda; Crustacea) of Western Amazonia (Solimőes Formation): Refining taxonomy on species level. Zootaxa, 3899 (1), 001–069.
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Article
Zootaxa 3900 (3): 437–445 (23 Dec. 2014)
A new species of Paracaprella Mayer, 1890 (Amphipoda: Caprellida: Caprellidae) from southern Brazil
MARIANA B. LACERDA & SETUKO MASUNARI
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3899 (1): 001–069 (18 Dec. 2014)
On the Miocene Cyprideis species flock (Ostracoda; Crustacea) of Western Amazonia (Solimőes Formation): Refining taxonomy on species level
MARTIN GROSS, MARIA INES F. RAMOS & WERNER E. PILLER
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (4): 503–524 (17 Dec. 2014)
Two new species of ghost shrimp assigned to the genus Cheramus Spence Bate, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, TADAFUMI MAENOSONO & YOSHIHISA FUJITA
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (4): 492–502 (17 Dec. 2014)
Molecular phylogenetics of American snapping shrimps allied to Alpheus floridanus Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
HEATHER D. BRACKEN-GRISSOM, RAFAEL ROBLES & DARRYL L. FELDER
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (4): 451–491 (17 Dec. 2014)
Provisional revision of American snapping shrimp allied to Alpheus floridanus Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) with notes on A. floridanus africanus
HEATHER D. BRACKEN-GRISSOM & DARRYL L. FELDER
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (3): 346–366 (16 Dec. 2014)
Two new species of the genus Wellsopsyllus (Copepoda; Harpacticoida; Paramesochridae) from the Yellow Sea
JINWOOK BACK & WONCHOEL LEE
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3895 (2): 297–300 (15 Dec. 2014)
New findings of Eurycercus Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Anomopoda) in the Eastern Palaearctic
EUGENIYA I. BEKKER, ANNA A. NOVICHKOVA & ALEXEY A. KOTOV
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Zootaxa 3895 (2): 183–207 (15 Dec. 2014)
A comparative morphological analyses of four species of Camptocercus Baird,1843 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (2): 243–260 (8 Dec. 2014)
Zoogeography of epigean freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) in Romania: fragmented distributions and wide altitudinal variability
DENIS COPILAȘ-CIOCIANU, MICHAŁ GRABOWSKI, LUCIAN PÂRVULESCU & ADAM PETRUSEK
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (1): 101–113 (5 Dec. 2014)
First record and a new species of Alvinocaris Williams & Chace, 1982 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from the Indian Ocean
TAKUYA YAHAGI, HIROMI WATANABE, SHIGEAKI KOJIMA, GIRISH BEEDESSEE
& TOMOYUKI KOMAI
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (2): 289–300 (1 Dec. 2014)
A new species of the genus Dulichiella Stout, 1912 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Pecém Harbor, Ceará state, Brazil
JESSIKA ALVES, RODRIGO JOHNSSON & ANDRÉ R. SENNA
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (2): 151–184 (1 Dec. 2014)
To “bee” or not to be—on some ornamental shrimp from Guangdong Province, Southern China and Hong Kong SAR, with descriptions of three new species
WERNER KLOTZ & THOMAS VON RINTELEN
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3887 (5): 600 (27 Nov. 2014)
Erratum: MATÚŠ HYŽNÝ & ROK GAŠPARIČ (2014) Ghost shrimp Calliax de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the fossil record: systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography. Zootaxa, 3821 (1): 37–57.
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (4): 494–500 (26 Nov. 2014)
A review of the genus Heterodina Kensley & Schotte, 2005 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) with description of a new species from Iran
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & NIEL L. BRUCE
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Zootaxa 3887 (4): 437–458 (26 Nov. 2014)
Nematocarcinus Milne Edwards, 1881 (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Southwestern Atlantic, including the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge area
IRENE A. CARDOSO & RUDOLF N. BURUKOVSKY
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (1): 095–100 (21 Nov. 2014)
A new species of Sinocorophium from the Yangtze estuary (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophiidae: Corophiinae: Corophiini), China
XIANQIU REN & WENLIANG LIU
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Zootaxa 3887 (1): 055–067 (21 Nov. 2014)
Spelaeogammarus titan, a new troglobitic amphipod from Brazil (Amphipoda: Bogidielloidea: Artesiidae)
ANDRÉ R. SENNA, LUIZ F. ANDRADE, LUCAS P. CASTELO-BRANCO & RODRIGO L. FERREIRA
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3884 (6): 600 (19 Nov. 2014)
Erratum: CELIA K. C. CHURCHILL, EMILY A. ELLIS, ALANNAH E. PIQUE & TODD H. OAKLEY (2014) Two new sympatric species of Eusarsiella (Ostracoda: Myodocopida: Sarsiellidae) from the Florida Keys with a morphological phylogeny of Sarsiellinae. Zootaxa, 3802 (4): 444–458.
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (5): 429–436 (18 Nov. 2014)
A new species of Boca Lowry & Stoddart, 1997 (Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Aristiidae) from a mesophotic coral ecosystem off Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea
ANDRÉ R. SENNA, RAYANE SORRENTINO, TAPAS CHATTERJEE & NIKOLAOS V. SCHIZAS
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Zootaxa 3884 (1): 065–072 (12 Nov. 2014)
A new genus and species of freshwater crab from Madagascar (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamoidea, Potamonautidae)
KIRSTIN S. MEYER, NEIL CUMBERLIDGE & JENNIFER C. KOPPIN
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Zootaxa 3881 (6): 591–596 (10 Nov. 2014)
A second discovery of Diapontonia maranulus Bruce, 1986 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in the Caribbean
CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (5): 453–487 (7 Nov. 2014)
Anostracan (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) zoogeography III. Australian bioregions
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS & BRIAN V. TIMMS
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (5): 440–452 (7 Nov. 2014)
New species and new record of hadzioids (Amphipoda: Senticaudata, Hadzioidea) from the Persian Gulf, Iran
FARZANEH MOMTAZI, ALIREZA SARI & ABDOLVAHAB MAGHSOUDLOU
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Zootaxa 3881 (2): 190–194 (4 Nov. 2014)
A new species of porcelain crab, Petrolisthes tuerkayi n. sp. (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae), from the Persian Gulf
REZA NADERLOO & MICHAEL APEL
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Article
Zootaxa 3878 (5): 485–490 (29 Oct. 2014)
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Sodhiana Yeo & Ng, 2012 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from southern Iran
SANA SHARIFIAN, EHSAN KAMRANI & SALIM SHARIFIAN
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Zootaxa 3878 (2): 185–195 (23 Oct. 2014)
First record of the caridean shrimp genus Bresilia Calman, 1896 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from the East Pacific and description of a new species
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
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Article
Zootaxa 3878 (2): 101–145 (23 Oct. 2014)
Redescriptions of six species of Ilyodromus Sars, 1894 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cyprididae) from New Zealand and Eastern Australia
RYLAN SHEARN, STUART HALSE, ANNETTE KOENDERS, ISA SCHÖN & KOEN MARTENS
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (4): 526–540 (20 Oct. 2014)
New records of Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from Puerto Rico with descriptions of three new species
IORGU PETRESCU, TAPAS CHATTERJEE & NIKOLAOS V. SCHIZAS
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Zootaxa 3873 (4): 451–476 (20 Oct. 2014)
Taxonomic relationship between two Gammarus species, G. nipponensis and G. sobaegensis (Amphipoda: Gammaridae), with description of a new species
KO TOMIKAWA, HO YOUNG SOH, NORIO KOBAYASHI & AIKA YAMAGUCHI
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (3): 218–232 (16 Oct. 2014)
Epimeria rafaeli sp. nov. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Epimeriidae) from Western Australia
CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN & JAMES K. LOWRY
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (2): 145–154 (15 Oct. 2014)
Cheirimedon foscae sp. nov. (Amphipoda: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae) from the deep sea Campos Basin, Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
SILVANA GOMES L. SIQUEIRA & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO
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Article
Zootaxa 3872 (1): 089–094 (7 Oct. 2014)
Calyptraeotheres sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pinnotheridae), symbiont of the slipper shell Crepidula striolata Menke, 1851 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico
MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (5): 565–572 (3 Oct. 2014)
Description of a new montane freshwater crab (Crustacea: Potamidae: Geothelphusa) from northern Taiwan
JHY-YUN SHY, HSI-TE SHIH & JEAN-JAY MAO
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (3): 313–337 (1 Oct. 2014)
New species and records of Apseudomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from Taiwan
YOU-WEI TZENG & PAN-WEN HSUEH
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (3): 237–280 (1 Oct. 2014)
Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the coastal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). II. Genera Quasimelita Jarrett & Bousfield, 1996 and Melitoides Gurjanova, 1934
VJACHESLAV S. LABAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (2): 153–158 (30 Sept. 2014)
Redescription of Iberoiulus cavernicola Ceuca, 1967, and the relationships of the genus Iberoiulus Mauričs, 1985 (Diplopoda, Julida, Blaniulidae)
HENRIK ENGHOFF & ANA SOFIA P. S. REBOLEIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (1): 044–052 (29 Sept. 2014)
A new species of Opecarcinus Kropp & Manning, 1987 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Cryptochiridae) associated with the stony corals Pavona clavus (Dana, 1846) and P. bipartita Nemenzo, 1980 (Scleractinia: Agariciidae)
SANCIA E.T. VAN DER MEIJ
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3867 (1): 001–092 (26 Sept. 2014)
A generic review of the lysianassoid family Uristidae and descriptions of new taxa from Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae)
J.K. LOWRY & N.M. KILGALLEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3866 (4): 479–498 (25 Sept. 2014)
New olenelloid trilobites from the Northwest Territories, Canada
I. WESLEY GAPP & BRUCE S. LIEBERMAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3866 (2): 261–276 (23 Sept. 2014)
Two new deep-sea stalked barnacles, Arcoscalpellum epeeum sp. nov. and Gymnoscalpellum indopacificum sp. nov., from the Coral Sea, with descriptions of the penis in Gymnoscalpellum dwarf males
BENNY K.K. CHAN, LAURE CORBARI, PAULA A. RODRIGUEZ MORENO & DIANA S. JONES
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Zootaxa 3861 (4): 363–368 (16 Sept. 2014)
The identity of Australia's northern-most giant pill-millipedes (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida)
THOMAS WESENER
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (4): 345–354 (16 Sept. 2014)
Acutihumerus patagoniensis (Sieg, 1986) (Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae): supplementary description and remarks on its taxonomic status
CLARA BELEN GIACHETTI & DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (3): 265–274 (15 Sept. 2014)
Two squat lobster species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Persian Gulf, with description of a new species of Raymunida Macpherson & Machordom, 2000
MASAYUKI OSAWA & MOHSEN SAFAIE
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (2): 127–144 (12 Sept. 2014)
A new and a rare species of Chydorus Leach, 1816 (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda) from Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam
ARTEM Y. SINEV
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (1): 086–090 (11 Sept. 2014)
A new species of Naxia Latreille, 1825 (Brachyura: Majidae) from deep water off Brazil
MARCOS TAVARES & GARY C. B. POORE
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3860 (6): 596–599 (10 Sept. 2014)
The type of the land crab Cardisoma hirtipes Dana, 1851 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)
PETER K. L. NG & PAUL F. CLARK
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (6): 580–588 (10 Sept. 2014)
First record of the hermit crab genus Cestopagurus Bouvier, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the South Pacific Ocean and description of a new species
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, SHINJI TSUCHIDA & MALCOLM R. CLARK
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (6): 571–579 (10 Sept. 2014)
Colombiathelphusa, a new genus of freshwater crab from Colombia, and the first location record of Eidocamptophallus chacei (Pretzmann, 1967) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae)
MARTHA R. CAMPOS & CÉLIO MAGALHĂES
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (6): 561–570 (10 Sept. 2014)
Moina hemanti sp. nov., a new species of the genus Moina s.l. (Branchiopoda: Anomopoda) from Pune, India
SAMEER M PADHYE & HENRI J DUMONT
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (5): 419–434 (9 Sept. 2014)
Revision of Lissoporcellana streptochiroides (Johnson, 1970) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae), with description of a new species of Lissoporcellana Haig, 1978 from Beibu Bay, South China Sea
DONG DONG & XINZHENG LI
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (3): 201–225 (5 Sept. 2014)
More species of the Agononida incerta complex revealed by molecules and morphology (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Munididae)
GARY C. B. POORE & NIKOS ANDREAKIS
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (4): 478–500 (1 Sept. 2014)
Three new gnathiid species with larvae ectoparasitic on coastal sharks from southwestern Japan (Crustacea: Isopoda)
YUZO OTA
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (2): 183–206 (28 Aug. 2014)
Two new species and new records of Microprosthema Stimpson, 1860 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
TOMOMI SAITO & ARTHUR ANKER
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Article
Zootaxa 3856 (3): 578–584 (26 Aug. 2014)
Paramoguai kavieng, a new genus and species of camptandriid crab from Papua New Guinea (Crustacea: Brachyura)
SHANE T. AHYONG
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Article
Zootaxa 3856 (3): 555–577 (26 Aug. 2014)
Mexorchestia: a new genus of talitrid amphipod (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, with the description of a new species and two new subspecies
DAVID J. WILDISH & SARA E. LECROY
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Article
Zootaxa 3856 (1): 135–142 (21 Aug. 2014)
Relict populations of Diaphanosoma (Cladocera: Ctenopoda) in the Chadian Sahara, with the description of a new species
FEI-FEI GUO & HENRI J. DUMONT
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Article
Zootaxa 3856 (1): 001–049 (21 Aug. 2014)
Anostracan (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) zoogeography II. Relating distribution to geochemical substrate properties in the USA
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (4):489–495 (18 Aug. 2014)
Salmoneus yoyo nov. sp., a peculiar new infaunal shrimp from Lombok, Indonesia (Decapoda, Caridea, Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER, MUHAMMAD FIRDAUS & IDHAM SUMARTO PRATAMA
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (4):438–444 (18 Aug. 2014)
Two new species of Glyphocrangon (Decapoda: Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae) from the East China Sea and the Philippines
QINGXI HAN & XINZHENG LI
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (3):336–346 (15 Aug. 2014)
Additional slipper lobsters of the subfamily Scyllarinae Latreille, 1825 (Crustacea, Achelata, Scyllaridae) from Taiwan
CHIEN-HUI YANG, CHIA-WEI LIN & TIN-YAM CHAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (3):321–335 (15 Aug. 2014)
Morphological differentiation of seven species of the genus Heterocypris Claus, 1892 (Ostracoda, Crustacea) based on the upper lip
TAMARA KARAN-ŽNIDARŠIČ & BRIGITA PETROV
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (1): 133–140 (13 Aug. 2014)
A new species of Stilipedidae (Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from the South Mid-Atlantic Ridge
C.S. SEREJO
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (1): 118–132 (13 Aug. 2014)
Morphological and molecular data support the distinctiveness of Pachycheles laevidactylus Ortmann, 1892 and Pachycheles chubutensis Boschi, 1963 (Anomura, Porcellanidae)
IVANA MIRANDA, CHRISTOPH D. SCHUBART & FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (4): 557–566 (11 Aug. 2014)
The first record of an association between a pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) and a thalassematid spoon worm (Echiura: Thalassematidae), with the description of a new shrimp species
IVAN MARIN
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3847 (3): 301–450 (8 Aug. 2014)
Galkinius nom.nov., replacement name for Galkinia Ross & Newman, 1995
RAY T. PERREAULT
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (3): 437–445 (8 Aug. 2014)
Nippontonia ashmoreiensis sp. nov., (Crustacea: Decapoda; Pontoniinae) from Ashmore Reef, Western Australia
A. J. BRUCE
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (2): 267–274 (7 Aug. 2014)
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Microthelphusa Pretzmann, 1968 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from the Amazon region of Guyana
MANUEL PEDRAZA & MARCOS TAVARES
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (3): 439–446 (4 Aug. 2014)
Laomenes albonigrus sp. nov., (Crustacea: Decapoda; Pontoniinae) from Ashmore Reef, Western Australia
A. J. BRUCE
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (3): 398–410 (4 Aug. 2014)
A re-description of rare alpheid shrimp Amphibetaeus jousseaumei (Coutičre, 1896) and description of a new species of the genus Athanopsis Coutičre, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf
IVAN MARIN, RAHELEH SHEIBANI & ALIREZA SARI
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3844 (1): 001–064 (30 Jul. 2014)
New tryphosine amphipods from Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassoidea, Lysianassidae, Tryphosinae)
J.K. LOWRY & N.M. KILGALLEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (3): 301–338 (28 Jul. 2014)
Caridina simoni Bouvier, 1904 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyoidea: Atyidae) and the synonymy by Johnson, 1963
JASMINE RICHARD & PAUL F. CLARK
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (2): 239–256 (25 Jul. 2014)
The freshwater ostracod (Crustacea) genus Notodromas Lilljeborg, 1853 (Notodromadidae)
from Japan; taxonomy, ecology and lifestyle
ROBIN J. SMITH & TAKAHIRO KAMIYA
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (2): 188–210 (25 Jul. 2014)
Revision of the Holarctic genus Rhynchotalona Norman, 1903 (Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV & ALEXEY A. KOTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3838 (5): 518–544 (22 Jul. 2014)
On Eulimnogammarus messerschmidtii, sp. n. (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from Lake Baikal, Siberia, with redescription of E. cyanoides (Sowinsky) and remarks on taxonomy of the genus Eulimnogammarus
DARIA S. BEDULINA, VADIM V. TAKHTEEV, SVYATOSLAV G. POGREBNYAK,
EKATERINA B. GOVORUKHINA, EKATERINA V. MADYAROVA, YULIA A. LUBYAGA,
KSENIYA P. VERESHCHAGINA, MAXIM A. TIMOFEYEV & TILL LUCKENBACH
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Article
Zootaxa 3838 (4): 423–434 (21 Jul. 2014)
Amazing new Amphipoda (Crustacea, Epimeriidae) from New Zealand’s deep-sea
ANNE-NINA LÖRZ & CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN
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Zootaxa 3838 (3): 251–275 (18 Jul. 2014)
Anostracan (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) zoogeography I. North American bioregions
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS
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Zootaxa 3838 (2): 195–206 (17 Jul. 2014)
Ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from the floodplain of the Chi River, Mahasarakham Province, Northeast Thailand, with the first record of male Tanycypris siamensis Savatenalinton & Martens, 2009
SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (4): 573–582 (14 Jul. 2014)
A new species of Leptalpheus Williams, 1965 and new records of L. mexicanus Ríos & Carvacho, 1983 and L. hendrickxi Anker, 2011 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico
JOSÉ SALGADO-BARRAGÁN, MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (4): 549–563 (14 Jul. 2014)
Additional record of Rayllianassa amboinensis (de Man, 1888) from Japan, and description of a new species from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae)
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, YOSHIHISA FUJITA & TADAFUMI MAENOSONO
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (3): 338–348 (11 Jul. 2014)
A new deep-water species of Odontozona (Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Stenopodidae) from the East Pacific, and new record of O. foresti Hendrickx, 2002
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX & MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (3): 301–324 (11 Jul. 2014)
Deep water echinoid-associated pontoniine shrimp “Periclimenes hertwigi Balss, 1913” species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae): species review, description of a new genus and species from Philippines
IVAN MARIN & TIN-YAM CHAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (1): 110–120 (9 Jul. 2014)
A new snapping species of the shrimp genus Typton Costa, 1844 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the coast of Săo Paulo, southeastern Brazil
ALEXANDRE O. ALMEIDA, ARTHUR ANKER & FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO
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Article
Zootaxa 3827 (4): 559–575 (7 Jul. 2014)
Systematic position of Neocrangon communis (Decapoda, Crangonidae) based on the features of larval morphology
NINA SEDOVA & SERGEY GRIGORIEV
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Zootaxa 3827 (4): 542–558 (7 Jul. 2014)
A new species of Asterocheres (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) with a redescription of A. complexus Stock, 1960 and A. sarsi Bandera & Conradi, 2009
EUGENIA BANDERA & MERCEDES CONRADI
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Article
Zootaxa 3826 (3): 579–590 (1 Jul. 2014)
A new species of Neoliomera Odhner, 1925, from the western Pacific, and the first record of N. demani Forest & Guinot, 1961, from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae)
P.-H. HO & PETER K. L. NG
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Article
Zootaxa 3826 (3): 563–578 (1 Jul. 2014)
Two new species of Kudinopasternakia Guţu, 1980 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Sphyrapodidae) with remarks on setology nomenclature
KÁTIA CHRISTOL DOS SANTOS
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Zootaxa 3826 (2): 369–376 (30 Jun. 2014)
Tritodynamia serratipes sp. nov., a new marine crab from Singapore (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae)
ARTHUR ANKER & PETER K. L. NG
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Zootaxa 3826 (1): 230–254 (27 Jun. 2014)
A new species of Cymodoce Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) based on morphological and molecular data, with a key to the Northern Indian Ocean species
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & MICHAEL J. RAUPACH
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Zootaxa 3826 (1): 139–168 (27 Jun. 2014)
Three new species of the genus Habrobathynella Schminke, 1973 (Syncarida, Parabathynellidae) from the peninsular India
VENKATESWARA RAO TOTAKURA & YENUMULA RANGA REDDY
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Article
Zootaxa 3821 (5): 567–574 (25 Jun. 2014)
Acantholachesilla gen. n. (Psocodea:’Psocoptera’: Lachesillidae: Eolachesillinae: Graphocaeciliini) from Valle del Cauca, Colombia
ALFONSO N. GARCÍA ALDRETE, OSCAR FERNANDO SAENZ MANCHOLA
& RANULFO GONZÁLEZ OBANDO
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Zootaxa 3821 (5): 551–566 (25 Jun. 2014)
New Lysianassoid Amphipods from the North Eastern Atlantic Ocean
R.A. KAIM-MALKA
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Zootaxa 3821 (5): 501–537 (25 Jun. 2014)
Three new species of Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from India
VENKATESWARA RAO TOTAKURA, YENUMULA RANGA REDDY & SHABUDDIN SHAIK
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Zootaxa 3821 (4): 476–484 (24 Jun. 2014)
Correct date and authorship of taxa of Middle American freshwater crabs described by Rodríguez & Smalley (1972) (not 1969) and included in Smalley (1970) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae)
DANIČLE GUINOT & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
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Zootaxa 3821 (4): 401–424 (24 Jun. 2014)
Revision of the genus Tanycypris (Ostracoda, Cypricercinae) with the description of Tanycypris alfonsi n. sp., and an identification key to the genus
CHRISTINA NAGLER, JUERGEN GEIST & RENATE MATZKE-KARASZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3821 (3): 384–390 (23 Jun. 2014)
Cymonomid crabs of the MAINBAZA Expedition (Decapoda: Brachyura)
SHANE T. AHYONG
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Zootaxa 3821 (3): 354–362 (23 Jun. 2014)
A new species of Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
ANA ROSA VÁZQUEZ-BADER, ADOLFO GRACIA & RAFAEL LEMAITRE
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Article
Zootaxa 3821 (3): 321–336 (23 Jun. 2014)
A new genus of speleophriid copepod (Copepoda: Misophrioida) from a cenote in the Yucatan, Mexico with a phylogenetic analysis at the species level
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL, SARAH ZYLINSKI, DAMIŔ JAUME, THOMAS M. ILIFFE & EDUARDO SUÁREZ-MORALES
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Zootaxa 3821 (1): 088–100 (19 Jun. 2014)
Ephemeroporus quasimodo sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae), a new species from the Brazilian Cerrado
LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO
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Zootaxa 3821 (1): 037–057 (19 Jun. 2014)
Ghost shrimp Calliax de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the fossil record: systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography
MATÚŠ HYŽNÝ & ROK GAŠPARIČ
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Zootaxa 3821 (1): 026–036 (19 Jun. 2014)
A review of the genus Limnocythere (Podocopida: Limnocytheridae) in the Pampean region (Argentina), with the description of a new species, Limnocythere cusminskyae sp. nov.
JOSEFINA RAMÓN-MERCAU, MARÍA SOFÍA PLASTANI & CECILIA LAPRIDA
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Zootaxa 3815 (4): 565–574 (17 Jun. 2014)
Two new species of freshwater crabs of the genus Sundathelphusa Bott, 1969 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from caves in Luzon, Philippines
Daniel Edison M. Husana, Masumi Yamamuro & Peter K. L. Ng
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Zootaxa 3815 (3): 441–446 (16 Jun. 2014)
A new Munidopsis species (Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic
IRENE A. CARDOSO, CRISTIANA S. SEREJO & CELSO RODRIGUES
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Zootaxa 3815 (3): 301–341 (16 Jun. 2014)
Deep-sea Bodotriidae, Diastylidae and Pseudocumatidae (Cumacea, Crustacea) from the southeastern Atlantic
UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL
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Zootaxa 3815 (2): 263–278 (13 Jun. 2014)
Two new species and two new records of deep-water caridean shrimps from Brazil (Decapoda: Pandalidae, Palaemonidae, Crangonidae)
ARTHUR ANKER, PAULO P.G. PACHELLE & MARCOS TAVARES
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Zootaxa 3815 (2): 215–232 (13 Jun. 2014)
Taxonomic notes on some Brazilian species of Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888, with new records and description of a new species (Decapoda, Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER & PAULO P.G. PACHELLE
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Article
Zootaxa 3815 (2): 200–214 (13 Jun. 2014)
A new troglobiotic species of Hyalella (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Hyalellidae) with a taxonomic key for the Brazilian species
STELLA GOMES RODRIGUES, ALESSANDRA ANGÉLICA DE PÁDUA BUENO & RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
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Zootaxa 3815 (1): 131–140 (12 Jun. 2014)
A new species of the pontoniine shrimp genus Hamopontonia Bruce, 1970 associated with caryophyllid coral Euphyllia glabrescens (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) in Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam
IVAN MARIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3815 (1): 094–102 (12 Jun. 2014)
Cebudonus poppeorum, a new genus and new species of eumedonine crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae) from the Philippines
PETER K. L. NG
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Article
Zootaxa 3815 (1): 029–050 (12 Jun. 2014)
Complete larval development of the Brachyuran crab (Epixanthus Frontalis H. Milne Edwards, 1834) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Eriphioidea, Oziidae) under laboratory conditions
ALI M. AL-AIDAROOS, AHMED E. AL-HAJ & A.A.J. KUMAR
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Zootaxa 3814 (3): 399–408 (10 Jun. 2014)
A new species of Leydigia Kurz, 1875 (Cladocera: Chydoridae) from Colombia
ALEXEY A. KOTOV & JUAN MANUEL FUENTES-REINÉS
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Zootaxa 3814 (3): 353–368 (10 Jun. 2014)
Two new subterranean species of Hyalella Smith, 1874 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyalellidae) from Brazil
GIOVANNA MONTICELLI CARDOSO, PAULA BEATRIZ ARAUJO, ALESSANDRA ANGÉLICA DE PÁDUA BUENO & RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
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Zootaxa 3814 (3): 301–332 (10 Jun. 2014)
Description of two new species of Arcania Leach, 1817, from the western Pacific Ocean and redescriptions of A. undecimspinosa De Haan, 1841, and A. elongata Yokoya, 1933 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Leucosiidae)
TOHRU NARUSE
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Zootaxa 3811 (4): 585–598 (5 Jun. 2014)
New member of the family Niphargidae from Croatia, Niphargus radzai, sp. n. (Contribution to the Knowledge of the Amphipoda 273)
GORDAN S. KARAMAN
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Zootaxa 3811 (4): 535–552 (5 Jun. 2014)
Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Palau, Micronesia: Families Melphidippidae, Oedicerotidae, Photidae, Pleustidae, Podoceridae, Stenothoidae, Synopiidae and Talitridae
A.A. MYERS
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3811 (3): 393–397 (4 Jun. 2014)
Pagurus asper H. Milne Edwards, 1848, a subjective synonym of Clibanarius longitarsus (De Haan, 1849) and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW & DWI LISTYO RAHAYU
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Zootaxa 3811 (2): 262–270 (3 Jun. 2014)
Hyalella cenotensis, a new species of Hyalellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
AURORA MARRÓN-BECERRA, MARGARITA HERMOSO-SALAZAR & VIVIANNE SOLÍS-WEISS
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Zootaxa 3811 (1): 034–052 (30 May 2014)
A new genus and species of Platyischnopidae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Argentine Sea, South-West Atlantic Ocean
IGNACIO L. CHIESA & GLORIA M. ALONSO
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3804 (1): 001–063 (29 May 2014)
An illustrated catalogue of the scalpellid barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) collected during the HMS “Challenger” expedition and deposited in the Natural History Museum, London
KATE SHALAEVA & GEOFF BOXSHALL
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Article
Zootaxa 3802 (4): 583–595 (28 May 2014)
The family Hyalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitroidea) from Korean waters. 1. Genus Ptilohyale Bousfield & Hendrycks, 2002
YE EUN, YOUNG-HYO KIM, ED A. HENDRYCKS & KYUNG-SOOK LEE
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Zootaxa 3802 (4): 444–458 (28 May 2014)
Two new sympatric species of Eusarsiella (Ostracoda: Myodocopida: Sarsiellidae) from the Florida Keys with a morphological phylogeny of Sarsiellinae
CELIA K. C. CHURCHILL, EMILY A. ELLIS, ALANNAH E. PIQUE & TODD H. OAKLEY
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Zootaxa 3802 (2): 217–239 (26 May 2014)
New Sensiava species (Copepoda: Calanoida: Diaixidae) from the deep South Atlantic and first description of the female
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA
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Zootaxa 3802 (1): 075–084 (23 May 2014)
A new species of Streptocephalus (Crustacea: Anostraca: Streptocephalidae) from the Western Ghats, India, with a key to the Asian species
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS & SAMEER PADHYE
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Zootaxa 3802 (1): 051–064 (23 May 2014)
Two new species of Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) from Taiwan
YOU-WEI TZENG & PAN-WEN HSUEH
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Zootaxa 3796 (3): 507–527 (20 May 2014)
A revision of the bathyal and abyssal necrophage genus Cyclocaris Stebbing, 1888 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Cyclocaridae) with the addition of two new species from the Atlantic Ocean
TAMMY HORTON & MICHAEL H. THURSTON
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Zootaxa 3796 (2): 237–264 (19 May 2014)
The ANDEEP Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) revisited III: the family Akanthophoreidae
KIM LARSEN & CATARINA L. ARAÚJO-SILVA
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Zootaxa 3796 (1): 147–165 (16 May 2014)
Three new species of the genus Loxoconcha (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Podocopida) from the Okinawa Islands, southern Japan
LE DOAN DUNG & AKIRA TSUKAGOSHI
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Article
Zootaxa 3795 (3): 394–400 (13 May 2014)
A new species of the hippolytid shrimp genus Thor Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Hainan Island, China
PENG XU & XINZHENG LI
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Article
Zootaxa 3795 (1): 016–024 (9 May 2014)
A new genus and species of Cyproideidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from a tropical coral reef, SE Gulf of Mexico
M. ORTIZ & I. WINFIELD
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Article
Zootaxa 3794 (2): 263–278 (6 May 2014)
New records of the caridean shrimp genus Processa Leach, 1815 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Processidae) from Japan, with descriptions of two new species
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & YOSHIHISA FUJITA
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Zootaxa 3793 (5): 587–594 (2 May 2014)
A new species of crinoid-associated Periclimenes from Honduras (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
SAMMY DE GRAVE
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (5): 545–560 (2 May 2014)
Transisthmian differentiation in the tree-climbing mangrove crab Aratus H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Sesarmidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific
N. THIERCELIN & C.D. SCHUBART
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (1): 119–132 (28 Apr. 2014)
A new species of Pinnixa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) associated with a tube worm, Chaetopterus cautus (Annelida: Polychaeta), from Tokyo Bay, Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, EIJIROH NISHI & MASANORI TARU
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Article
Zootaxa 3790 (3): 401–424 (22 Apr. 2014)
Cryptic speciation of Greek populations of the freshwater shrimp genus Atyaephyra de Brito Capello, 1867 (Crustacea, Decapoda), evidence from mitochondrial DNA
J. ENRIQUE GARCÍA MUŃOZ, J. ENRIQUE GARCÍA RASO, ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ & JOSÉ A. CUESTA
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (2): 135–140 (9 Apr. 2014)
A new species of Coleusia Galil, 2006 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from southern Asia
RUEANGRIT PROMDAM, JARUWAT NABHITABHATA & BELLA S. GALIL

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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (1): 001–043 (8 Apr. 2014)
New species of the deep-sea munnopsid genus Tytthocope (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean
MARINA V. MALYUTINA & ANGELIKA BRANDT

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3785 (4): 600 (7 Apr. 2014)
Erratum: A.J. BRUCE (2014) Periclimenaeus colemani sp. nov. (Crustacea; Palaemonidae; Pontoniinae) from Heron island, Queensland. Zootaxa, 3774(3): 258–264.
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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (5): 575–584 (1 Apr. 2014)
A new species of Microprosthema Stimpson, 1860 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae) from the South China Sea
QIWU JIANG & XINZHENG LI

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (5): 550–558 (1 Apr. 2014)
Athanas manticolus sp. nov., a new stomatopod-associated alpheid shrimp from Vietnam (Crustacea, Decapoda)
ZDENEK ĎURIŠ & ARTHUR ANKER

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (5): 539–549 (1 Apr. 2014)
The ancient Balkan lakes harbor a new endemic species of Diaphanosoma Fischer, 1850 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera)
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY & TRAJAN K. PETKOVSKI

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (4): 484–492 (31 Mar. 2014)
A new species and first record of the genus Shoemakerella Pirlot, 1936 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassidae) from Brazil
RAYANE SORRENTINO, ANDRÉ R. SENNA & JAMES K. LOWRY

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (4): 301–345 (31 Mar. 2014)
A revision of the lysianassid genus Waldeckia with the description of four new species (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassidae, Waldeckiinae subfam. nov.
J.K. LOWRY & N.M. KILGALLEN

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (3): 251–258 (28 Mar. 2014)
A new species of Tongorchestia from Bora Bora in the leeward Society Islands (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae)
J.K. LOWRY & ARUNDATHI BOPIAH

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (3): 201–223 (28 Mar. 2014)
A checklist of the barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman with nine new records
ADNAN SHAHDADI, ALIREZA SARI & REZA NADERLOO

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (2): 171–178 (27 Mar. 2014)
A new species of the pontoniine shrimp genus Eupontonia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & RYO MINEMIZU

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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (2): 101–119 (27 Mar. 2014)
New species of Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler 1977 (Isopoda, Asellota, Nannoniscidae) from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (equatorial NE Pacific)
STEFANIE KAISER

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3783 (1): 001–096 (25 Mar. 2014)
New insights into polyphyly of the harpacticoid genus Delavalia (Crustacea, Copepoda) through morphological and molecular study of an unprecedented diversity of sympatric species in a small South Korean bay
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC & KICHOON KIM

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (3): 503–533 (24 Mar. 2014)
Systematics of the genus Heterolaophonte (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida), with redescription of H. uncinata and H. curvata
NEHIR (BOZKURT) KAYMAK & SÜPHAN KARAYTUĞ

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (2): 323–346 (21 Mar. 2014)
The ascidian-associated mysid Corellamysis eltanina gen.nov., sp.nov. (Mysida, Mysidae, Heteromysinae): a new symbiotic relationship from the Southern Ocean
CARLOS SAN VICENTE & FRANÇOISE MONNIOT

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Article
Zootaxa 3779 (3): 301–340 (17 Mar. 2014)
The Australian Monstrilloida (Crustacea: Copepoda) I. Monstrillopsis Sars, Maemonstrilla Grygier & Ohtsuka, and Australomonstrillopsis gen. nov.
EDUARDO SUÁREZ-MORALES & A. DAVID MCKINNON

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Article
Zootaxa 3779 (2): 195–214 (14 Mar. 2014)
The Red Sea species of Cymo de Haan, 1833 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae), associates of scleractinian corals
ANDREAS
BRÖSING, ALI M. AL-AIDAROOS & MICHAEL TÜRKAY

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Zootaxa 3774 (6): 552–566 (11 Mar. 2014)
Redescription of Odontozona edwardsi (Bouvier, 1908) (Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Stenopodidae) and description of a new species of Odontozona commensal on the deep-water coral, Lophelia pertusa (Linneaus, 1758)
JOSEPH W. GOY & IRENE A. CARDOSO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (5): 430–440 (10 Mar. 2014)
Dulichiella celestun, a new species of amphipod (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the Gulf of Mexico, with a key and zoogeographic remarks for the genus in the western Atlantic
CARLOS E. PAZ-RÍOS & PEDRO-LUIS ARDISSON

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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (2): 258–264 (6 Mar. 2014)
Periclimenaeus colemani sp. nov. (Crustacea; Palaemonidae; Pontoniinae) from Heron island, Queensland
A.J. BRUCE

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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (1): 090–096 (4 Mar. 2014)
A new species of troglobitic crab of the genus Stygothelphusa Ng, 1989, from Sarawak, Malaysia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae)
PETER K. L. NG & JONGKAR GRINANG

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Zootaxa 3774 (1): 031–044 (4 Mar. 2014)
The identity of the Sarawak freshwater crab Parathelphusa oxygona Nobili, 1901, with description of a new species, Parathelphusa nobilii, from Western Kalimantan, Indonesia, Borneo (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae)
PETER K. L. NG

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3773 (1): 001–063 (3 Mar. 2014)
Revision of the family Acidopsidae Števčić, 2005, and the systematic position of Typhlocarcinodes Alcock, 1900, Caecopilumnus Borradaile, 1902, and Raoulia Ng, 1987, with descriptions of two new genera and five new species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea)
PETER K. L. NG & DWI LISTYO RAHAYU

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Zootaxa 3768 (5): 576–582 (28 Feb. 2014)
A new species of Malayopotamon Bott, 1968 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae), a freshwater crab from northern Sumatra, Indonesia
PETER K. L. NG

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Zootaxa 3768 (5): 546–556 (28 Feb. 2014)
Description, DNA barcode and phylogeny of a new species, Macrobrachium abrahami (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Kerala, India
P.M. PILLAI, V. UNNIKRISHNAN & U. SURESH KUMAR

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Zootaxa 3768 (5): 501–545 (28 Feb. 2014)
The Tryphosa group (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae)
N.M. KILGALLEN & J.K. LOWRY

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Zootaxa 3768 (4): 428–436 (27 Feb. 2014)
Morphology of the first zoeal stage of three deep-water pandalid shrimps, Heterocarpus abulbus Yang, Chan & Chu, 2010, H. hayashii Crosnier, 1988 and H. sibogae De Man, 1917 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
GUO-CHEN JIANG, TIN-YAM CHAN & TUNG-WEI SHIH

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Zootaxa 3768 (3): 386–394 (26 Feb. 2014)
A new species of the subterranean amphipod genus Stygobromus (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from two caves and a spring in western Maryland, USA with additional records of undescribed species from groundwater habitats in central Maryland
JOHN R. HOLSINGER & LYNNETTE ANSELL

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Zootaxa 3768 (1): 088–094 (24 Feb. 2014)
A new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Triacanthoneus Anker, 2010 (Crustacea: Alpheidae) from Belize
FERNANDO ALVAREZ, THOMAS M. ILIFFE & JOSÉ LUIS VILLALOBOS

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Zootaxa 3765 (6): 593–599 (21 Feb. 2014)
Distribution of Acanthephyra brevicarinata Hanamura, 1984 and A. brevirostris Smith, 1885 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Acanthephyridae), in Pacific Mexico
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX & DANIELA RÍOS-ELÓSEGUI

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Zootaxa 3765 (6): 557–570 (21 Feb. 2014)
Redescription of a poorly known epialtid crab Pugettia pellucens Rathbun, 1932 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea) and description of a new species from Sagami Bay, Japan
NAOYA OHTSUCHI, TOMOHIKO KAWAMURA & MASATSUNE TAKEDA

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Zootaxa 3765 (5): 418–434 (20 Feb. 2014)
Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Anomura) from Mauritanian waters (West Africa), with the description of a new species of Munidopsis
SUSANA S. DE MATOS-PITA & FRAN RAMIL
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Zootaxa 3765 (5): 401–417 (20 Feb. 2014)
Further records of Amphipoda from Baltic Eocene amber with first evidence of prae-copulatory behaviour in a fossil amphipod and remarks on the taxonomic position of Palaeogammarus Zaddach, 1864
KRZYSZTOF JAŻDŻEWSKI, MICHAŁ GRABOWSKI & JANUSZ KUPRYJANOWICZ
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Zootaxa 3765 (4): 360–370 (19 Feb. 2014)
Three new Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) species from a Caribbean mesophotic ecosystem
IORGU PETRESCU, TAPAS CHATTERJEE & NIKOLAOS V. SCHIZAS

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Zootaxa 3765 (1): 077–091 (14 Feb. 2014)
Petalophthalmus papilloculatus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Mysida: Petalophthalmidae), a new bathyal suprabenthic mysid from the Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean)
CARLOS SAN VICENTE, INMACULADA FRUTOS & JOAN E. CARTES

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (1): 069–076 (14 Feb. 2014)
A new species of Siphonoecetes Krřyer, 1845 Siphonoecetes (Centraloecetes) bulborostrum sp. nov. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Ischyroceridae) from the western Mediterranean, coast of Iberian Peninsula
Jose Antonio de-la-Ossa-Carretero & Amparo Martí

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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (4): 455–466 (12 Feb. 2014)
Two new potamid crabs, Yuexipotamon arcophallus new genus, 
new species
and Minutomon shanweiense new genus, new species, 
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from southern China
CHAO HUANG, SI YING MAO & JIAN RONG HUANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (3): 279–316 (11 Feb. 2014)
Deep-Sea decapod crustaceans (Caridea, Polychelida, Anomura 
and Brachyura) collected from the Nikko Seamounts, Mariana Arc, 
using a remotely operated
vehicle "Hyper-Dolphin"
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & SHINJI TSUCHIDA

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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (2): 181–191 (10 Feb. 2014)
Morphological and genetic differentiation of heteromorphy 
in Labidocera rotunda (Copepoda, Calanoida, Pontellidae)
HYEON GYEONG JEONG, HO YOUNG SOH & HAE-LIP SUH
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Article 
Zootaxa 3764 (2): 169–180 (10 Feb. 2014)
New species of Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Brachyura: Homolidae) 
and
Neopalicus Moosa & Serčne, 1981 (Brachyura: Palicidae) 
from the Hawaiian Islands
PETER CASTRO & TOHRU NARUSE
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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (1): 061–080 (07 Feb. 2014)
Redescription of Limnosida frontosa Sars, 1862 
(Crustacea: Cladocera: Sididae), with evidence 
of possible incipient species differentiation
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY
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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (1): 026–038 (07 Feb. 2014)
A new species of Tiwaripotamon Bott, 1970, from northern 
Vietnam, with notes on T. vietnamicum (Dang & Ho, 2002) 
and T. edostilus Ng & Yeo, 2001
(Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae)
HSI-TE SHIH & VAN TU DO

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Article
Zootaxa 3760 (4): 579–586 (04 Feb. 2014)
Potamalpheops tyrymembe sp. n.: the first southwestern 
Atlantic species of the shrimp genus Potamalpheops 
Powell, 1979 (Caridea: Alpheidae)
GUIDOMAR O. SOLEDADE, PATRICIA S. SANTOS 
& ALEXANDRE O. ALMEIDA

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3760 (3): 494–496 (03 Feb. 2014)
Taxonomic note: the fossil clawed lobster, Metanephrops 
elongatus
Hu & Tao, 2000 (Nephropidae), is a nomen dubium 
but definitely not a
Metanephrops
DALE TSHUDY & TIN-YAM CHAN
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Zootaxa 3760 (3): 471–478 (03 Feb. 2014)
Description of Conchyliurus dispar n. sp. (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, 
Clausidiidae) associated with the bivalve Barnea manilensis 
(Philippi) from the Yellow Sea with a discussion 
of the male morphotypes in the genus
SEONG YONG MOON & IL-HOI KIM

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Article
Zootaxa 3760 (3): 396–408 (03 Feb. 2014)
A new stygobitic species of Stygocarididae (Crustacea: 
Anaspidacea)
from South America
MARCELA PERALTA

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Article
Zootaxa 3760 (3): 369–382 (03 Feb. 2014)
First stage zoeal morphology of four ghost crabs Ocypode 
ceratophthalmus
(Pallas, 1772), O. cordimanus Latreille, 1818, 
O. sinensis
Dai, Song & Yang, 1985 and O. stimpsoni O
rtmann, 
1897
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae)
GUO-CHEN JIANG, HONG-CHANG LIU, TIN-YAM CHAN 
& BENNY K.K. CHAN

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3757 (1): 001–078 (29 Jan. 2014)
On two reports associated with James Wood-Mason and Alfred William 
Alcock published by the Indian Museum and the Indian Marine Survey 
between 1890 and 1891: implications
for malacostracan nomenclature
RONY HUYS, MARTYN E. Y. LOW, SAMMY DE GRAVE, PETER K. L. NG 
& PAUL F. CLARK

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Article 
Zootaxa 3755 (2): 165–178 (21 Jan. 2014)
A revision of the genus Protarchanara Beck, 1999 with description of 
a new genus and three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xyleninae)
ANTON V. VOLYNKIN, ALEXEJ YU. MATOV, PÉTER GYULAI 
& GOTTFRIED BEHOUNEK

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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (4): 461–472 (16 Jan. 2014)
Periclimenaeus species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Hawaii
A. J. BRUCE

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Zootaxa 3754 (4): 381–419 (16 Jan. 2014)
Reproductive biology of galatheoid and chirostyloid (Crustacea: Decapoda) squat lobsters from the Gulf of Mexico
Morgan J. Kilgour & Thomas C. Shirley
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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (3): 276–298 (15 Jan. 2014)
Redescription of the stygobitic shrimp Troglocaris (Xiphocaridinella)  
jusbaschjani
Birštein, 1948 (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) from Agura River, 
Sochi, Russia, with remarks on other representatives of the genus from Caucasus
IVAN MARIN & AGNIYA SOKOLOVA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (1): 001031 (13 Jan. 2014)
Amphipoda (Crustacea) from the Chagos Archipelago
A. A. MYERS

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Zootaxa 3753 (4): 398–400 (08 Jan. 2014)
The status of the Australian genus Caridinides Calman, 1926 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) with reference to recent phylogenetic studies

SAMMY DE GRAVE & TIMOTHY J. PAGE

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Zootaxa 3753 (4): 323–334 (08 Jan. 2014)
Remarks on the deep-sea genus Chalarostylis (Cumacea: Lampropidae)

NATALIA A. ALBERICO, DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA & UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL

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Zootaxa 3753 (3): 291–296 (07 Jan. 2014)
A new species of Munidopsis from a seamount of the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge (Decapoda: Munidopsidae)

ENRIQUE MACPHERSON, DIVA AMON & PAUL F. CLARK

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3753 (1): 096–100 (03 Jan. 2014)
The Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic species of Spinolambrus Tan & Ng, 2007: S. macrochelos (Herbst, 1790), S. notialis (Manning & Holthuis, 1981), and S. verrucosus (Studer, 1883), with a note on the identity of Lambrus spinosissimus Osório, 1923 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Parthenopidae)
S. H. TAN & MARTYN E. Y. LOW

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Zootaxa 3753 (1): 071–078 (03 Jan. 2014)
Periclimenaeus denticulodigitus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae), from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia
A.J. BRUCE

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Zootaxa 3753 (1): 025–046 (03 Jan. 2014)
Taxonomic study of the Pagurus forbesii "complex" (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae). Description of Pagurus pseudosculptimanus sp. nov. from Alborán Sea (Southern Spain, Western Mediterranean Sea)
J. ENRIQUE GARCÍA MUŃOZ, JOSE A. CUESTA & J. ENRIQUE GARCÍA RASO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (4): 367–374 (20 Dec. 2013)
First zoeal stage of the partner shrimp Periclimenes paivai Chace, with remarks on the genus Periclimenes O.G. Costa (Caridea, Palaemonidae)

JOĂO A.F. PANTALEĂO, MARIANA TEROSSI, ROGÉRIO C. COSTA & FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (3): 237–250 (19 Dec. 2013)
An update of the blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the Galápagos Islands, and first record of Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) from mainland Ecuador

TAREK I. TANTAWI & BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR

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Article 
Zootaxa 3746 (4): 529–551 (13 Dec. 2013)
Calappid and leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Kerala, India, with the description of a new species of Mursia Desmarest, 1823, from the Arabian Sea and redescription of M. bicristimana Alcock & Anderson, 1894
BIJU A. KUMAR, M. SUSHIL KUMAR & BELLA S. GALIL

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Article 
Zootaxa 3746 (1): 175–193 (10 Dec. 2013)
A new species of fiddler crab from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan, separated from the widely-distributed sister species Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes (White, 1847) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae)
HSI-TE SHIH, TOMOYUKI KOMAI & MIN-YUN LIU

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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (5): 551–568 (9 Dec. 2013)
Vulcanolepas scotiaensis sp. nov., a new deep-sea scalpelliform barnacle
(Eolepadidae: Neolepadinae) from hydrothermal vents in the Scotia Sea, Antarctica
John S. Buckeridge
, Katrin Linse & Jennifer A. Jackson

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Zootaxa 3745 (4): 435–448 (6 Dec. 2013)
Two interstitial species of the genus Semicytherura (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Japan, with notes on their microhabitats
SHINNOSUKE YAMADA & HAYATO TANAKA

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3741 (3): 400–400 (28 Nov. 2013)
A replacement name for Macrobrachium aemulum madhusoodani Pillai & Unnikrishnan, 2013, a junior homonym of Macrobrachium madhusoodani Unnikrishnan, Pillai & Jayachandran, 2011 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae)

P.M. PILLAI & V. UNNIKRISHNAN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3741 (2): 228–242 (27 Nov. 2013)
A new genus and species of Leptocheliidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Isla del Coco (Costa Rica)

PATRICIA ESQUETE, JEFFREY A. SIBAJA-CORDERO & JESÚS S. TRONCOSO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (5): 585–592 (22 Nov. 2013)
Neoliomera moana, a new cavernicolous species of xanthid crab from
the Marquesas Islands (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
JOSEPH POUPIN & JOHN STARMER

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (5): 576–584 (22 Nov. 2013)
New species of Floresorchestia from Micronesia living in unusual habitats (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae)
J.K. LOWRY & A.A MYERS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (4): 454–472 (21 Nov. 2013)
Ogleus pilarae, a new genus and species of leptocheliid tanaidacean
(Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidomorpha) from the tropical Northwest Atlantic with observations on the genus Pseudonototanais Lang, 1973
ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ & RICHARD W. HEARD

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (2): 118–128 (19 Nov. 2013)
Cuapetes yapiensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae),
a new mangrove shrimp from Yap, Caroline Islands
A.J. BRUCE

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (1): 092–096 (18 Nov. 2013)
Munidopsis lauensis Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1992 (Decapoda, Anomura,
Munidopsidae), a newly recorded squat lobster from a cold seep in Taiwan
CHIA-WEI LIN, SHINJI TSUCHIDA, SAULWOOD LIN, CHRISTIAN BERNDT & TIN-YAM CHAN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3737 (1): 033–056 (18 Nov. 2013)
Redescription of five gnathiid species from Japan (Crustacea: Isopoda)

YUZO OTA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (4): 345–367 (14 Nov. 2013)
Description of three species of Halmyrapseudes (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Parapseudidae), with a discussion of biogeography
KEIICHI KAKUI & SAOWAPA ANGSUPANICH

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3736 (3): 300 (13 Nov. 2013)
Erratum: A. ANKER (2011) Two new species of Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 with a deep dorsal depression on the carapace (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae). Zootaxa, 3041, 39–50.
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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (2): 159–174 (12 Nov. 2013)
Latitudinal patterns in the diversity of two subgenera of the genus Daphnia O.F. Müller (Crustacea: Cladocera: Daphniidae)
EKATERINA Y. POPOVA & ALEXEY A. KOTOV

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (2): 101–127 (12 Nov. 2013)
Names and publication dates of the Brachyura in F.É. Guérin (Guérin-Méneville) (Crustacea: Decapoda)

MARTYN E. Y. LOW, PETER K. L. NG & NEAL L. EVENHUIS

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (5): 591–596 (8 Nov. 2013)
First recorded cave-dwelling terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in Iran with a description of a new species

GHASEM M. KASHANI, MOHAMMAD-JAVAD MALEKHOSSEINI & SABER SADEGHI

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (4): 485–491 (7 Nov. 2013)
On a collection of calappid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Fiji, with a description of a new species of Mursia

BELLA S. GALIL

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (4): 401–441 (7 Nov. 2013)
Tanaidaceans from Brunei, IV. The Families Kalliapseudidae, Pagurapseudopsidae, Parapseudidae and Apseudidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha), with descriptions of a new genus and six new species

ROGER N. BAMBER

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (3): 380–384 (6 Nov. 2013)
A new species of deep-sea squat lobster of the genus Munida Leach, 1820 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Munididae) from a hydrothermal field in the southwestern Indian Ocean
XINMING LIU
, RONGCHENG LIN & DINGYONG HUANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (3): 331–344 (6 Nov. 2013)
A re-appraisal of the systematic status of selected genera in Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
SAMMY DE GRAVE & CHRISTOPHER W. ASHELBY

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 072–080 (4 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Robertsella Guinot, 1969 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Panopeidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

MARCOS TAVARES & ARIANE GOUVĘA

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 045–055 (4 Nov. 2013)
A new record of the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium spinipes (Schenkel, 1902) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Taiwan, with notes on its taxonomy
JHY-YUN SHY, DAISY WOWOR &
PETER K. L. NG

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 023–037 (4 Nov. 2013)
New species and new records of deepwater munidid squat lobsters from north-western Australia: Onconida, Bathymunida, Crosnierita, Plesionida and Torbenella
SHANE T. AHYONG, JOANNE TAYLOR & ANNA W. MCCALLUM

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3731 (3): 399–400 (31 Oct. 2013)
Validation of certain family, generic and species names in Krapp-Schickel & Müller, 2011 and Lowry & Myers, 2013
J.K. LOWRY & A.A MYERS

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Zootaxa 3731 (3): 301–323 (31 Oct. 2013)
Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Palau, Micronesia: Families Dexaminidae, Eusiridae, Hyalidae, Ischyroceridae, Leucothoidae and Lysianassidae
A.A. MYERS

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Zootaxa 3731 (2): 234–242 (30 Oct. 2013)
First zoeal stage of ?Cataleptodius parvulus (Fabricius, 1793) and Xanthodius denticulatus (White, 1848) (Decapoda: Brachyura): larval evidences and systematic position
SAMARA DE P. BARROS-ALVES, DOUGLAS F.R. ALVES, EDUARDO ANTÔNIO BOLLA JR,
VALTER JOSÉ COBO & MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO
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Zootaxa 3731 (1): 106–112 (29 Oct. 2013)
Trevathana noae, a new species of coral inhabiting barnacle
(Cirripedia: Thoracica: Pyrgomatidae)
Yair Achituv & Andrew M. Hosie

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Zootaxa 3731 (1): 058–076 (29 Oct. 2013)
On the genus Scalopidia Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea: Scalopidiidae), with the description of one new genus and three new species

PETER K. L. NG & PETER CASTRO

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Zootaxa 3722 (2): 283–300 (22 Oct. 2013)
A remarkable new crab-like hermit crab (Decapoda: Paguridae) from French Polynesia, with comments on carcinization in the Anomura

ARTHUR ANKER & GUSTAV PAULAY

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Zootaxa 3722 (2): 267–282 (22 Oct. 2013)
Notes on two rare and little-known Indo-Pacific snapping shrimps, Alpheus percyi Coutičre, 1908 and A. pseudopugnax (Banner, 1953) (Decapoda, Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER

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Zootaxa 3722 (1): 073–082 (21 Oct. 2013)
Ancylomenes australis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
from South Africa
A.J. BRUCE

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Zootaxa 3722 (1): 050–060 (21 Oct. 2013)
Description of a new subspecies, Macrobrachium aemulum madhusoodani (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Neyyar River, Kerala, S. India
P. M. PILLAI & V. UNNIKRISHNAN

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Zootaxa 3722 (1): 022–032 (21 Oct. 2013)
Morphological and molecular description of the late-stage larvae of Alima Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) from Lizard Island, Australia

KATHRYN D. FELLER, THOMAS W. CRONIN, SHANE T. AHYONG & MEGAN L. PORTER

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Zootaxa 3721 (6): 573–588 (18 Oct. 2013)
Taxonomy and biology of a new species of Pincushion Millipede of the genus Monographis (Diplopoda: Polyxenidae) from Australia

CUONG HUYNH & ANNEKE VEENSTRA

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Zootaxa 3721 (3): 265–280 (15 Oct. 2013)
Caught in speciation? A new host for Conchodytes meleagrinae Peters, 1852 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)

Charles H.J.M. Fransen & Bastian T. Reijnen

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Zootaxa 3721 (3): 201–257 (15 Oct. 2013)
Annotated checklist and keys for cumaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific, with six new species from the Southern Mexican Pacific

JANI JARQUÍN-GONZÁLEZ & MARÍA DEL SOCORRO GARCÍA-MADRIGAL

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3719 (1): 001–102 (10 Oct. 2013)
New species and new records of Ampithoidae (Peracarida: Amphipoda) from Australian Waters
LAUREN E. HUGHES & RACHAEL A. PEART

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Zootaxa 3718 (6): 501–529 (9 Oct. 2013)
On Tetragonicipitidae (Crustacea, Copepoda) from the Channel of Săo Sebastiăo, Brazil, with description of their nauplii and two new species of Phyllopodopsyllus
Tagea Björnberg
& Terue C. Kihara

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Zootaxa 3718 (5): 467–476 (8 Oct. 2013)
A new species of Liropus (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidae) from California, USA, with an illustrated key of the genus

JOSÉ M. GUERRA-GARCÍA & ED A. HENDRYCKS

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Zootaxa 3718 (4): 357–366 (7 Oct. 2013)
Samadinia longispina, a new genus and species of deep-sea spider crab from the western Pacific, and a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, from Papua New Guinea (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Epialtidae)
PETER K. L. NG & BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES

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Zootaxa 3718 (4): 301–316 (7 Oct. 2013)
Embryology of the spider crabs Leurocyclus tuberculosus (H. Milne-Edwards & Lucas 1842) and Libinia spinosa (H. Milne-Edwards 1834) (Brachyura, Majoidea)
XIMENA GONZÁLEZ-PISANI, FERNANDO GASPAR DELLATORRE & LAURA LÓPEZ-GRECO

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Zootaxa 3717 (4): 559–592 (1 Oct. 2013)
Four new species and two new genera of Metapseudidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha) from Australian coral reefs
ANNA STĘPIEŃ & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ

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Zootaxa 3717 (3): 329–344 (30 Sept. 2013)
Freshwater decapods of Puerto Rico: a checklist and reports of new localities
OMAR PÉREZ-REYES, TODD A. CROWL, PABLO J. HERNÁNDEZ-GARCÍA,
RICARDO LEDESMA-FUSTÉ, FERNANDO A. VILLAR-FORNES & ALAN P. COVICH

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Zootaxa 3717 (3): 301–319 (30 Sept. 2013)
Two new species of the genus Munnogonium (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae) from Argentina

BRENDA L. DOTI & DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA

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Zootaxa 3717 (2): 195–223 (27 Sept. 2013)
Intertidal caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, with description of three new species

FARZANEH MOMTAZI & ALIREZA SARI

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Zootaxa 3717 (2): 101–157 (27 Sept. 2013)
Crayfishes (Decapoda : Cambaridae) of Oklahoma: identification, distributions, and natural history

REID L. MOREHOUSE & MICHAEL TOBLER

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Zootaxa 3716 (3): 494–500 (24 Sept. 2013)
The nomenclatural status of the two "spiny-wristed" fiddler crabs: Uca spinicarpa Rathbun, 1900, and U. hesperiae Crane, 1975 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae)
MICHAEL S. ROSENBERG

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Zootaxa 3710 (5): 467–484 (17 Sept. 2013)
Rediscovery and range extension of Ciliopagurus liui Forest, 1995 and description of a new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) from the Kerala State, southwestern India
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, REMA RESHMI & APPUKUTTAN NAIR BIJU KUMAR

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Zootaxa 3710 (4): 354–362 (16 Sept. 2013)
Speleonectes cokei, new species of Remipedia (Crustacea: Speleonectidae) from a submerged ocean cave near Caye Chapel, Belize
JILL YAGER

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Zootaxa 3710 (4): 301–321 (16 Sept. 2013)
The lysianassid genus Pseudambasia in Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassidae, Lysianassinae)
N.M. KILGALLEN & J.K. LOWRY

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Zootaxa 3710 (2): 192–196 (12 Sept. 2013)
The identity of Cancer thunborgii Euphrasén, 1795, a senior synonym of Cronius ruber (Lamarck, 1818) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae)
Peter K. L. Ng & GUDRUN NYBERG

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Zootaxa 3709 (5): 401–431 (9 Sept. 2013)
Planktonic ostracods (Myodocopa: Halocyprididae) from abyssopelagic depths in the Atlantic, North Pacific and Gulf of Oman: Chavturia abyssopelagica (n. gen., n. sp.), Halocypretta profunda (n. sp.), Halocypretta parvirostrata Chavtur and Stovbun, 2008 and Halocypretta striata (Müller, 1906)
MARTIN V. ANGEL

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Zootaxa 3709 (3): 201–229 (5 Sept. 2013)
Substrate dependent talitrid amphipods from fragmented beaches on the north coast of Crete (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae), including a redefinition of the genus Orchestia and descriptions of Orchestia xylino sp. nov. and Cryptorchestia gen. nov.
J.K. LOWRY & LUCIA FANINI

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Zootaxa 3702 (6): 573–586 (30 Aug. 2013)
Elephantis, a new genus for Caridina natalensis Bouvier, 1925 from eastern rivers of Madagascar
MAGALIE CASTELIN, GERARD MARQUET & WERNER KLOTZ

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Zootaxa 3702 (6): 501–533 (30 Aug. 2013)
A Revision of the Australian species of Lynceus Müller, 1776 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata, Lynceidae)
BRIAN V TIMMS

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Zootaxa 3702 (4): 348–356 (28 Aug. 2013)
Freshwater crabs from eastern Panamá: a new species of Potamocarcinus H. Milne Edwards, 1853, and new records of two little-known species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae, Trichodactylidae)
CÉLIO MAGALHĂES, MARTHA R. CAMPOS & MICHAEL TÜRKAY

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Zootaxa 3702 (1): 079–089 (23 Aug. 2013)
Molecular approach to identify sibling species of the Ceriodaphnia cornuta complex (Cladocera: Daphniidae) from Australia with notes on the continental endemism of this group
PRANAY SHARMA & ALEXEY A. KOTOV

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3701 (5): 600 (22 Aug. 2013)
Erratum: A.J. BRUCE (2013) Onycocaris maui sp. nov., a new pontoniine sponge associate (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the Hawai’ian Islands. Zootaxa, 3691 (3), 377–388.
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Correspodence
Zootaxa 3701 (4): 471–472 (21 Aug. 2013)
Priority of the slipper lobster genus Crenarctus Holthuis, 2002, over Antipodarctus Holthuis, 2002 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae)
TIN-YAM CHAN, SHANE T. AHYONG
& CHIEN-HUI YANG

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Zootaxa 3701 (4): 437–446 (21 Aug. 2013)
A new species of Fageapseudes (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from California, with comments on the systematics of the family Apseudidae
DAVID T. DRUMM & ROGER N. BAMBER

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Zootaxa 3701 (3): 322–328 (20 Aug. 2013)
Preservation of internal pleurites in a new palaeocorystid crab (Crustacea, Brachyura, Raninoidia) from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Poitou-Charentes, France
BARRY W. M. VAN BAKEL

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Zootaxa 3700 (3): 534–546 (15 Aug. 2013)
A new species of Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae), M. pantanalense, from the Pantanal, Brazil
Antonina dos Santos, Liliam Hayd & Klaus Anger

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Zootaxa 3700 (1): 159–172 (12 Aug. 2013)
Mantacaprella macaronensis, a new genus and species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Canary Islands and Cape Verde
MAITE VÁZQUEZ-LUIS, JOSÉ M. GUERRA-GARCÍA, SUSANA CARVALHO & LYDIA PNG-GONZALEZ
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Zootaxa 3700 (1): 065–112 (12 Aug. 2013)
Review of amphipods of the Melita group (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from the costal waters of Sakhalin Island (Far East of Russia). I. Genera Megamoera Bate, 1862 and Armatomelita gen. nov.
VJACHESLAV S. LABAY

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3694 (5): 500 (7 Aug. 2013)
Erratum: A.J. BRUCE (2013) Onycocaris maui sp. nov., a new pontoniine sponge associate (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the Hawai’ian Islands. Zootaxa, 3691 (3), 377–388.
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Article
Zootaxa 3694 (5): 434–444 (7 Aug. 2013)
A new species of callianassid ghost shrimp of the genus Nihonotrypaea Manning & Tamaki, 1998 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianassidae) from southern part of the Russian coast of the Sea of Japan

IVAN MARIN
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Zootaxa 3694 (4): 367–380 (6 Aug. 2013)
The ANDEEP Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) revisited II: the family Anarthruridae and family incertae sedis, with descriptions of three new species and the erection of a new genus
KIM LARSEN

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Zootaxa 3694 (4): 343–357 (6 Aug. 2013)
A new species of the sponge-associated pontoniine shrimp genus Nippontonia Bruce & Bauer, 1997 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) from Sabah, Malaysia
CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN

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Zootaxa 3694 (3): 249–261 (5 Aug. 2013)
Annotated Checklist of the large branchiopod crustaceans of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, USA, with the "rediscovery" of a new species of Branchinecta (Anostraca: Branchinectidae)
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS
& MATTHEW A. HILL
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Zootaxa 3694 (3): 221–239 (5 Aug. 2013)
Acrothoracican barnacles (Lithoglyptida) in Taiwan, including the taxonomic status of Balanodytes taiwanus Utinomi, 1950 and cryptic diversity of Auritoglyptes bicornis (Aurivillius, 1892)
BENNY K.K. CHAN, CHI CHIU CHEANG, I-HAN CHEN
& GREGORY A. KOLBASOV
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Zootaxa 3694 (2): 185–195 (2 Aug. 2013)
First species of the family Bogidiellidae Hertzog, 1936 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in Chilean groundwaters: Patagongidiella wefkoi n. sp.
JORGE PÉREZ-SCHULTHEISS

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Zootaxa 3694 (1): 001–039 (1 Aug. 2013)
A re-assessment of Konarus Bamber, 2006 and sympatric leptocheliids from Australasia, and of Pseudoleptochelia Lang, 1973 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea)
ROGER N BAMBER

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Zootaxa 3693 (4): 547–567 (31 Jul. 2013)
Studies on subterranean amphipod crustaceans of Primory, Russia. Part 1. Three new species of the genus Pseudocrangonyx from springs and other groundwater habitats in far eastern Russia
DMITRY A. SIDOROV
& ANDREY A. GONTCHAROV
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Zootaxa 3693 (4): 503–533 (31 Jul. 2013)
Three new species from the Aoridae and Maeridae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Thai Waters
KORAON WONGKAMHAENG, CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN
& PORNSILP PHOLPUNTHIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3693 (3): 358–364 (30 Jul. 2013)
Mimulus Stimpson, 1860, a junior synonym of Pugettia Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea: Epialtidae)
MARY K. WICKSTEN
& JOHN J. STACHOWICZ
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Zootaxa 3693 (3): 329–343 (30 Jul. 2013)
Cladocerans of Alona affinis group (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from North America
ARTEM Y. SINEV

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Zootaxa 3693 (3): 301–319 (30 Jul. 2013)
Pterygosomatid mites of a new species group ligare (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae: Pterygosoma) parasitizing tree iguanas (Squamata: Liolaemidae: Liolaemus)
MONIKA FAJFER
& DANIEL GONZÁLEZ ACUŃA
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Zootaxa 3692 (1): 238–258 (25 Jul. 2013)
A new species of Acanthaspidia Stebbing, 1898 (Isopoda, Asellota, Acanthaspidiidae) from the bathyal Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean)
MARLENE TIMM, STEFANIE KAISER & ANGELIKA BRANDT
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Zootaxa 3692 (1): 160–203 (25 Jul. 2013)
Southern Ocean Macrostylidae reviewed with a key to the species and new descriptions from Maud Rise
TORBEN RIEHL & ANGELIKA BRANDT
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Zootaxa 3692 (1): 136–148 (25 Jul. 2013)
A new species of Fissarcturus Brandt, 1990 (Isopoda, Valvifera, Antarcturidae) from the Southern Ocean, off the South Sandwich Islands
JUDITH M. NICKEL & ANGELIKA BRANDT
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Zootaxa 3692 (1): 123–135 (25 Jul. 2013)
Pseudopolycope (P.) andeep sp. nov. from the deep Southern Ocean (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cladocopina)
IVANA KARANOVIC & SIMONE NUNES BRANDĂO
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3691 (5): 597–600 (24 Jul. 2013)
Cancer (Mantis) digitalis Herbst, 1793, an objective synonym of Oratosquillina quinquedentata (Brooks, 1886): neotype designation and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae)
SHANE T. AHYONG & MARTYN E. Y. LOW

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Zootaxa 3691 (3): 377–388 (22 Jul. 2013)
Onycocaris maui sp. nov., a new pontoniine sponge associate (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the Hawai’ian Islands
A.J. BRUCE

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3691 (2): 291–294 (19 Jul. 2013)
Unusual preservation of fossil mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda): occurrence of mandibles from the Pleistocene Ogushi Formation, Kyushu, Japan
YUSUKE ANDO1, HIROAKI UGAI, SHIGENORI KAWANO, KOJI HIROSE, DAISUKE NAKATANI, HIROMI KUROSU & HIROAKI KARASAWA

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Zootaxa 3691 (2): 240–252 (19 Jul. 2013)
A new species of the pagurid hermit crab genus Lophopagurus McLaughlin, 1981 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from French Polynesia, and additional record of L. indonesiensis McLaughlin, 1997 from the Philippines
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & DWI LISTYO RAHAYU

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3687 (1): 001–095 (17 Jul. 2013)
Ten new Gammarus species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, China
ZHONGE HOU, JUNBO LI & SHUQIANG LI

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Zootaxa 3686 (5): 578–586 (15 Jul. 2013)
On Callistocypris thailandensis sp. nov. (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from Thailand
SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON & KOEN MARTENS

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Zootaxa 3686 (5): 501–533 (15 Jul. 2013)
The genus Cymodoce Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) in the Persian Gulf with description of a new species
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY, NIEL L. BRUCE & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3686 (4): 500 (15 Jul. 2013)
Erratum: JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE & WILLIAM A. NEWMAN (2010) A review of the subfamily Eliminiinae (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Austrobalanidae), including a new genus, Protelminius nov., from the Oligocene of New Zealand. Zootaxa, 2349, 39–54.
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Article
Zootaxa 3686 (1): 065–076 (10 Jul. 2013)
A new species of Mictyris Latreille, 1806 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Mictyridae) from the Andaman coast of Thailand, with notes on its ecology and behaviour
PETER J.F. DAVIE, PUNTIP WISESPONGPAND & HSI-TE SHIH

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Zootaxa 3683 (4): 395–410 (5 Jul. 2013)
Redescription of Ceratothoa carinata (Bianconi, 1869) and Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena Koelbel, 1878 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), buccal-attaching fish parasites new to Australia
MELISSA B. MARTIN, NIEL L. BRUCE & BARBARA F. NOWAK

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3683 (3): 292–294 (4 Jul. 2013)
Identification of Cancer lactatus Linnaeus, 1758 with Lophozozymus pictor (Fabricius, 1798) and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW & JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3682 (4): 599–600 (1 Jul. 2013)
Stebbingiella Marques-Junior & Senna, 2013 in the family Paragammaropsidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Senticaudata)
J.K. LOWRY & L.E. HUGHES
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Zootaxa 3682 (4): 513–520 (1 Jul. 2013)
Discovery of a new genus and new species of Indo-West Pacific pilumnoidid crab from a semisubmersible oil platform (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudozioidea)
PETER K. L. NG & SHANE T. AHYONG

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Zootaxa 3682 (2): 240–248 (27 Jun. 2013)
A new cave-dwelling talitrid genus and species from Japan (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae)
KRISTINE N. WHITE, JAMES K. LOWRY & HIROSHI MORINO

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Zootaxa 3681 (5): 539–551 (25 Jun. 2013)
A new species of sesarmid crab of the genus Chiromantes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & PETER K.L. NG

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Zootaxa 3681 (5): 501–523 (25 Jun. 2013)
Tanymastigites lusitanica sp. nov. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Portugal, first representative of the genus in Europe
MARGARIDA MACHADO & JORDI SALA

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Zootaxa 3681 (4): 347–370 (24 Jun. 2013)
The talitrid amphipods of Tonga (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae)
J.K. LOWRY & ARUNDATHI BOPIAH

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Zootaxa 3681 (3): 257–269 (21 Jun. 2013)
A new species of Fizesereneia Takeda & Tamura, 1980 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Cryptochiridae) from Japan
YUNA ZAYASU, KEIICHI NOMURA, KOUTARO SENO & AKIRA ASAKURA

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Zootaxa 3681 (2): 155–162 (20 Jun. 2013)
New records of gonodactylids (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Gonodactylidae) from the Pacific Coast of Mexico with remarks on the morphology of Neogonodactylus lalibertadensis (Schmitt, 1940)
JOSÉ SALGADO-BARRAGÁN, MICHEL E. HENDRICKX & CRISTIAN M. GALVÁN-VILLA

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Zootaxa 3681 (2): 147–154 (20 Jun. 2013)
A new species of Callianidea H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianideidae) from the Pacific coast of Central America, with key to the genus
PATRICIO HERNÁEZ & RITA VARGAS

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Zootaxa 3676 (1): 001–071 (17 Jun. 2013)
New littoral, shelf, and bathyal Paratanaidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from New Zealand, with descriptions of three new genera
GRAHAM J. BIRD & ROGER N. BAMBER

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Zootaxa 3670 (3): 399–400  (13 Jun. 2013)
Nomenclatural changes for the genus name Perinetia, with a new replacement name for Perinetia Barnard, 1959 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae)

JI-CHUN XING & XIANG-SHENG CHEN

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Zootaxa 3670 (3): 349–361 (13 Jun. 2013)
A new fairy shrimp Phallocryptus tserensodnomi (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Mongolia

MIGUEL ALONSO & MARC VENTURA

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Zootaxa 3670 (3): 339–348 (13 Jun. 2013)
Fissarcturus walteri sp. nov. from the Ross Sea of the Southern Ocean
(Isopoda, Antarcturidae)
ANGELIKA BRANDT

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Zootaxa 3670 (3): 329–338 (13 Jun. 2013)
A new subtidal species of the genus Petrolisthes Stimpson, 1858
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Porcellanidae) from Okinawa, with an account of species of the genus known from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
MASAYUKI OSAWA & DAISUKE UYENO

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Zootaxa 3670 (2): 274–282 (12 Jun. 2013)
Additional records of the pagurid hermit crab genus Trichopagurus de Saint Laurent, 1968 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura),
with description of a new species from the Philippines
TOMOYUKI KOMAI

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Zootaxa 3670 (1): 099–100 (11 Jun. 2013)
A nomenclatorial confusion in Tanymastigidae
(Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
ROSA GRACIELA COHEN

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Zootaxa 3670 (1): 045–054 (11 Jun. 2013)
New occurrences of lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the coasts of Africa, with the description of a new species of Paralomis White, 1856

ISABEL MUŃOZ & EVA GARCÍA-ISARCH

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Zootaxa 3669 (4): 490–502 (10 Jun. 2013)
A redescription of a rare axiid shrimp, Amakusaxius amakusanus (Miyake & Sakai, 1967) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from new material collected off Taiwan 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, TIN-YAM CHAN & JHY-YUN SHY
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Zootaxa 3669 (3): 367–383 (7 Jun. 2013)
Crangonidae and Glyphocrangonidae (Decapoda; Caridea)
of the Southern Gulf of Mexico
ANA ROSA VÁZQUEZ-BADER & ADOLFO GRACIA

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Zootaxa 3669 (3): 350–366 (7 Jun. 2013)
New records of Pagurixus Melin, 1939 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, with description of a new species

MASAYUKI OSAWA, TAKASHI KAWAI & TAKASHI SAKAMAKI

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Zootaxa 3667 (1): 001–089 (5 Jun. 2013)
An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from India
TAPAS CHATTERJEE, ALEXEY A. KOTOV, KAY VAN DAMME, S. V. A. CHANDRASEKHAR & SAMEER PADHYE

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Zootaxa 3666 (4): 436–448 (4 Jun. 2013)
Molecular analysis validates of some informal morphological groups of Pagurus (Fabricius, 1775) (Anomura: Paguridae) from South America

NICOLE OLGUÍN & FERNANDO LUIS MANTELATTO

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Zootaxa 3666 (2): 101–136 (30 May 2013)
Characterization of a monophylum Echinocletodes, its exclusion from
Ancorabolinae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida), and displacement of E. bodini and E. walvisi to Cletodes, including the description of two new species
KAI HORST GEORGE & FLORIAN MÜLLER

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Zootaxa 3666 (1): 084–092 (29 May 2013)
Pinnotheres orcutti Rathbun, 1918, a new Eastern Tropical Pacific species of Tumidotheres Campos, 1989 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) 
ERNESTO CAMPOS & RITA VARGAS-CASTILLO
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Zootaxa 3666 (1): 062–072 (29 May 2013)
Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Vestalenula Rossetti & Martens, 1998 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Darwinulidae), with the description of a new species, V. carinata n. sp., from the island of Florianópolis, Brazil

RICARDO L. PINTO, CARLOS E. F. ROCHA, GIAMPAOLO ROSSETTI & KOEN MARTENS

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Zootaxa 3666 (1): 031–040 (29 May 2013)
A new species of the genus Pleuroxus Baird (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Jeju Island, South Korea

HYUN GI JEONG, ALEXEY A. KOTOV & WONCHOEL LEE

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Zootaxa 3665 (1): 001–414 (22 May 2013)
Significance of the sexual openings and supplementary structures on the phylogeny of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), with new nomina for higher-ranked podotreme taxa
DANIČLE GUINOT, MARCOS TAVARES & PETER CASTRO

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Zootaxa 3664 (4): 554–570 (28 May 2013)
Three new species of Caridina (Decapoda: Atyidae) from Central Sulawesi and Buton Island, Indonesia, and a checklist of the islands’ endemic species 
WERNER KLOTZ & KRISTINA VON RINTELEN
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Zootaxa 3664 (4): 445–478 (28 May 2013)
Review of the marine isopod crustacean genus Hansenium Serov and Wilson, 1995 (Asellota: Stenetriidae) from tropical Australia and Papua New Guinea, with description of a new genus 
NIEL L. BRUCE & CHAD BUXTON
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Zootaxa 3664 (4): 434–444 (28 May 2013)
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Macrobrachium snpurii, a new species of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 from Kerala, India

P.M. PILLAI & V. UNNIKRISHNAN

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Zootaxa 3664 (3): 301–311 (27 May 2013)
Two new species of Cardiodectes Wilson, 1917 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) from gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) in the western Pacific Ocean
DAISUKE UYENO
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Zootaxa 3664 (2): 259–282 (24 May 2013)
A new species of Pseudoleptochelia Lang, 1973 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea: Leptocheliidae) from the Northwest Atlantic with observations on the status of the genus 
ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ, RICHARD W. HEARD & MÓNICA ALFARO
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Zootaxa 3664 (2): 199–225 (24 May 2013)
A taxonomical review of the Gnathophausia (Crustacea, Lophogastrida), with new records from the northern mid-Atlantic ridge 
KENNETH MELAND & PĹL ŘYVIND AAS
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Zootaxa 3664 (2): 149–175 (24 May 2013)
Chirostylidae of Australia’s western continental margin (Crustacea : Decapoda : Anomura), with the description of five new species

ANNA W. MCCALLUM & GARY C. B. POORE

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Zootaxa 3664 (1): 092–094 (23 May 2013)
A note on Conchodytes kempi Bruce 1989 (Crustacea, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae), with the designation of C. kempoides sp. nov.

A. J. BRUCE

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Zootaxa 3664 (1): 045–056 (23 May 2013)
Typtonomenaeus formosanus gen. et sp. nov., a new sponge-associated pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) from northern Taiwan 
IVAN MARIN & TIN-YAM CHAN
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Zootaxa 3652 (5): 533–546 (21 May 2013)
Micromoina arboricola n. gen., n. spec. (Crustacea: Cladocera), a new moinid living in a forest tree-hole in Minas Gerais, Brazil 

HENRI J. DUMONT, ARNOLA C. RIETZLER & EVANGUEDES KALAPOTHAKIS

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Zootaxa 3652 (4): 437–452 (20 May 2013)
Description of Alpheus buckupi spec. nov., a new amphi-Atlantic snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae), based on morphological and molecular data

ALEXANDRE O. ALMEIDA, MARIANA TEROSSI, CATARINA L. ARAÚJO-SILVA & FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO

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Zootaxa 3652 (3): 370–380 (17 May 2013)
Caribboecetes progreso, a new species of sand-dwelling amphipod (Amphipoda: Corophiidea: Ischyroceridae) from the Gulf of Mexico, with a key for the genus

CARLOS E. PAZ-RÍOS & PEDRO-LUIS ARDISSON

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Zootaxa 3652 (3): 343–352 (17 May 2013)
New retroplumid crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura, Retroplumidae Gill, 1894)
from the Eocene of Huesca (Aragón, Spain)
PEDRO ARTAL, BARRY W.M. VAN BAKEL, RENÉ H. B. FRAAIJE & JOHN W. M. JAGT

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Zootaxa 3652 (2): 289–294 (16 May 2013)
A new species of Scandarma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia 
PETER K. L. NG
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Zootaxa 3652 (2): 265–276 (16 May 2013)
Thampramon tonvuthi, a new genus and new species of cavernicolous crab
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Thailand
PETER K. L. NG & CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON

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Zootaxa 3651 (1): 1–62 (14 May 2013)
Copepods associated with polychaete worms in European seas 
IL-HOI KIM, ANDREY SIKORSKI, MYLES O’REILLY & GEOFF A. BOXSHALL
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Zootaxa 3647 (4): 567–576 (13 May 2013)
Two new species of freshwater crabs of the genus Heterochelamon Türkay & Dai, 1997 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China 
TOHRU NARUSE, CHUNCHAO ZHU & XIANMIN ZHOU
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Zootaxa 3647 (3): 479–487 (10 May 2013)
Pseudobranchiomysis arenae, a new genus and species of Leptomysinae (Crustacea: Mysida) in Argentinian sandy beaches 
CECILIA CARCEDO, SANDRA FIORI & MÓNICA HOFFMEYER
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Zootaxa 3647 (3): 470–478 (10 May 2013)
A new species of Megaesthesius Rathbun, 1909 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Chasmocarcinidae) from deep water off Western Australia 
PETER J.F. DAVIE
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Zootaxa 3647 (2): 390–400 (09 May 2013)
Comments on cladocerans of crater lakes of the Nevado de Toluca Volcano (Central Mexico), with the description of a new species, Alona manueli sp. nov. 
ARTEM Y. SINEV & EDYTA ZAWISZA
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Zootaxa 3646 (3): 235–250 (03 May 2013)
Distribution of Sipuncula in the Gulf of Valencia and Cape Nao (western Mediterranean) 
L.M. FERRERO-VICENTE, J.A. DE-LA-OSSA-CARRETERO, Y. DEL-PILAR-RUSO & J.L. SÁNCHEZ-LIZASO
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Zootaxa 3646 (2): 171–179 (02 May 2013)
A new species of the hippolytid genus Paralebbeus Bruce & Chace, 1986 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Coral Seamount, southwestern Indian Ocean 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI
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Zootaxa 3641 (4): 463–475 (26 Apr. 2013)
Description of a new genus and species of the family Melphidippidae Stebbing, 1899 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the deep waters of Brazil

PAULO R. MARQUES-JUNIOR & ANDRÉ R. SENNA

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Zootaxa 3641 (4): 420–432 (26 Apr. 2013)
On the identity of Clistocoeloma balansae A. Milne-Edwards, 1873,
and C. tectum (Rathbun, 1914), with description of a new species from the West Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Sesarmidae)
B.Y. LEE, N.K. NG & PETER K L. NG

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Zootaxa 3641 (3): 289–295 (24 Apr. 2013)
Metopa gigas sp. nov. from southern Greenland, a giant among congeners (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) 
JEAN JUST
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Zootaxa 3641 (2): 165–176 (23 Apr. 2013)
New species of Nuuanu (Amphipoda: Nuuanuidae) from Norfolk Island, Torres Strait and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

L.E. HUGHES & A. BOPIAH

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Zootaxa 3641 (1): 063–073 (22 Apr. 2013)
Cambarus (P.) theepiensis, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda:Cambaridae) from the coalfields region of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern West Virginia, USA
ZACHARY J. LOUGHMAN, DAVID A. FOLTZ, NICOLE L. GARRISON & STUART A. WELSH

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Zootaxa 3641 (1): 021–030 (22 Apr. 2013)
Two new species of scalpelliform barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Cotentin, northwest France
RENÉ-PIERRE CARRIOL

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Zootaxa 3640 (4): 581–588 (19 Apr. 2013)
Ecological remarks and re-description of the hermit crab-associated pleustid amphipod Pleusymtes japonica (Gurjanova, 1938) (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pleustidae: Pleusymtinae) from the Russian coasts of the Sea of Japan

MARIN IVAN, SINELNIKOV SERGEY & SOKOLOVA AGNIYA

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Zootaxa 3640 (2): 224–241 (17 Apr. 2013)
New records of processid shrimps from the Indo-West and East Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda)

SAMMY DE GRAVE & ARTHUR ANKER

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Zootaxa 3640 (2): 152–176 (17 Apr. 2013)
Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793
(Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa
KERRY A. HADFIELD, NIEL L. BRUCE & NICO J. SMIT

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Zootaxa 3640 (1): 001–022 (16 Apr. 2013)
On two South-West Atlantic Diastylis (Cumacea: Crustacea), D. obliquisulcata
n. sp. and D. geocostae, with remarks on this speciose genus
NATALIA A. ALBERICO & DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA

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Zootaxa 3637 (5): 592–596 (15 Apr. 2013)
A new species of the genus Mantisgebia Sakai, 2006 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Gebiidea, Upogebiidae) from the South China Sea

WENLIANG LIU & RUIYU LIU (J. Y. LIU)

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Zootaxa 3637 (4): 412–431 (12 Apr. 2013)
Re-examination of the eastern Pacific and Atlantic material of Alpheus malleator Dana, 1852, with the description of Alpheus wonkimi sp. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)

ARTHUR ANKER & PAULO P.G. PACHELLE

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Zootaxa 3637 (2): 176–182 (10 Apr. 2013)
The leucosiid crabs described by Thomas Bell in 1855: original description and dates of publication (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) 

B. Y. LEE & MARTYN E. Y. LOW

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Zootaxa 3637 (2): 101–112 (10 Apr. 2013)
New species of hippolytid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from a southwest Indian Ocean seamount 

VERITY NYE

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Zootaxa 3636 (4): 501–524 (8 Apr. 2013)
On three new species of Cypretta Vávra, 1895 (Crustacea: Ostracoda)
from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
SERGIO COHUO-DURÁN, MANUEL ELÍAS-GUTIÉRREZ & IVANA KARANOVIC

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Zootaxa 3636 (3): 439–450 (5 Apr. 2013)
Family placement of the enigmatic Otagia neozelanica (Chilton, 1897) Haustorioidea: Otagiidae fam. nov. (Amphipoda: Crustacea)
LAUREN HUGHES & ANNE-NINA LÖRZ

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Zootaxa 3636 (2): 385–393 (4 Apr. 2013)
The Decapoda described by Henri Filhol: checklist and dates of publication (Crustacea: Anomura, Brachyura, Caridea)

MARTYN E. Y. LOW

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Zootaxa 3636 (2): 374–384 (4 Apr. 2013)
A new species of ocellated Xanthias Rathbun, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the Bohol Sea, Philippines

JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA

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Zootaxa 3635 (5): 501–519 (2 Apr. 2013)
Description of the newly-hatched juvenile of Aegla paulensis (Decapoda, Anomura, Aeglidae)
JULIANA CRISTINA BERTACINI DE MORAES & SÉRGIO LUIZ DE SIQUEIRA BUENO

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Zootaxa 3635 (3): 286–296 (27 Mar. 2013)
Hamodactylus macrophthalmus spec. nov., a new coral-associated pontoniine shrimp (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) from Indonesia

CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN & CESSA RAUCH

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Zootaxa 3635 (2): 137–173 (26 Mar. 2013)
Benthic amphipods (Amphipoda: Gammaridea and Corophiidea)
from the Mexican southeast sector of the Gulf of Mexico: checklist, new records and zoogeographic comments
CARLOS E. PAZ-RÍOS & PEDRO-LUIS ARDISSON

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Zootaxa 3635 (1): 15–26 (25 Mar. 2013)
Parapleisticantha Yokoya, 1933, a valid genus of deep-sea inachid spider crab from Japan and the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea), with the description of a new species

BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES, PETER K. L. NG & SHANE T. AHYONG
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Zootaxa 3630 (3): 571–581 (21 Mar. 2013)
Redescription of Alonella lineolata Sars, 1901 (Crustacea, Cladocera, Chydoridae) and its translocation to the subfamily Aloninae and to the new genus Bergamina gen. nov.
LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO, MARIA JOSÉ SANTOS-WISNIEWSKI & ODETE ROCHA

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Zootaxa 3630 (3): 467–488 (21 Mar. 2013)
Redescription of Microprosthema semilaeve (von Martens, 1872) (Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae) and description of a new species of Microprosthema from Dry Tortugas, Florida
JOSEPH W. GOY& JOEL W. MARTIN

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Zootaxa 3630 (3): 424–444 (21 Mar. 2013)
The ANDEEP Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) revisited I: the family Agathotanaidae Lang, with description of four new species
KIM LARSEN, GRAHAM BIRD & MAYUMI OTA

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Zootaxa 3630 (2): 391–399 (20 Mar. 2013)
Two new species and one newly recorded species of the genus Kamaka (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Hainan Province, South China Sea
XIAN-QIU REN & ZHONG-LI SHA

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Zootaxa 3630 (2): 270–290 (20 Mar. 2013)
Leaf litter copepods from a cloud forest mountain top in Honduras
(Copepoda: Cyclopidae, Canthocamptidae)
FRANK FIERS & MERLIJN JOCQUE

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Zootaxa 3630 (2): 243–269 (20 Mar. 2013)
Bathyconchoeciinae, a new subfamily of deep oceanic planktonic halocyprid Ostracod (Myodocopa, Ostracoda)
MARTIN ANGEL & CAROL GRAVES

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Zootaxa 3630 (1): 1–38 (19 Mar. 2013)
New Zealand Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea)
SARAH GERKEN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (4): 499–516 (15 Mar. 2013)
Preliminary report on the living non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Tunisia with the description of a new Psychrodromus species

CHAHIRA ZAIBI, BURKHARD SCHARF, FINN ANDREAS VIEHBERG,
DIETMAR KEYSER & FEKRI KAMOUN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (3): 391–396 (14 Mar. 2013)
Taxonomy and ecology of the Cape Town Spider Crab, Macropodia falcifera (Stimpson, 1858) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Inachidae)
PETER K. L. NG, BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES & GEORGINA JONES

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3626 (2): 300 (13 Mar. 2013)
Erratum: WONG, K.J.H., SHIH, H.-T. & CHAN, B.K.K. (2012) The ghost crab Ocypode mortoni George, 1982 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae): redescription, distribution at its type locality, and the phylogeny of East Asian Ocypode species. Zootaxa, 3550, 71–87.
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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (2): 293–300 (6 Mar. 2013)
A new fossil caridean shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Cretaceous (Albian) of the Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil
WILLIAM SANTANA, ALLYSSON P. PINHEIRO, CAROLINE M. R. DA SILVA & ANTÔNIO ÁLAMO SARAIVA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (3): 394–400 (28 Feb. 2013)
Two new species of Ovitamon Ng & Takeda, 1992 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from the Philippines
MARIVENE R. MANUEL-SANTOS & PETER K. L. NG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (6): 587–596 (25 Feb. 2013)
Redescription and taxonomic status of Paguristes weddellii (H. Milne Edwards) (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae) from the eastern Pacific
MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (5): 495–500 (22 Feb. 2013)
A new species of false spider crab of the genus Elamena H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae), from Davao Gulf, Philippines
DANIEL EDISON M. HUSANA, TOMOKI KASE & JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (2): 190–200 (19 Feb. 2013)
Remarks on the sexual dimorphism and taxonomy of Fabia Dana, 1851 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae)
ERNESTO CAMPOS

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3616 (1): 99–100 (18 Feb. 2013)
Miyakella nom. nov., a replacement name for Miyakea Manning, 1995, (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae), preoccupied by Miyakea Marumo, 1933 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Crambidae)
SHANE T. AHYONG & MARTYN E. Y. LOW

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (5): 482–492 (13 Feb. 2013)
Ctenocheloides almeidai sp. nov., a new ghost shrimp from Brazil (Decapoda, Ctenochelidae)
ARTHUR ANKER & PAULO P. G. PACHELLE

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (4): 380–390 (12 Feb. 2013)
A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, REMA RESHMI & APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (2): 125–145 (8 Feb. 2013)
New or amended data on Mediterranean Amphipoda: genera Dexamine, Ericthonius and Stenothoe
T. KRAPP-SCHICKEL

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3610 (1): 1–80 (5 Feb. 2013)
A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
J.K. LOWRY & A.A MYERS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (5): 451–464 (1 Feb. 2013)
Coral-associated decapods (Crustacea) from the Mexican Tropical Pacific coast
LUIS HERNÁNDEZ GEORGINA RAMÍREZ ORTIZ & HÉCTOR REYES-BONILLA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (3): 319–326 (30 Jan. 2013)
A new species of Chirocephalus (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Iran
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS & MAHMOUD SOUFI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (1): 1–25 (25 Jan. 2013)
A review of Chiromantes obtusifrons (Dana, 1851) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with descriptions of four new sibling-species from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Guam and Taiwan
PETER J. F. DAVIE & PETER K. L. NG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (6): 457–510 (23 Jan. 2013)
New and poorly known species of Neonesidea (Bairdiidae, Ostracoda, Crustacea) from French Frigate Shoals, the Hawaiian Islands
ROSALIE F. MADDOCKS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (5): 357–368 (22 Jan. 2013)
A new species of freshwater shrimp of the genus Micratya (Decapoda: Atyidae: Caridea) from Puerto Rico
ANDREAS KARGE, TIMOTHY J. PAGE & WERNER KLOTZ

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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (3): 191–203 (18 Jan. 2013)
Records of the hermit crab genus Pagurixus Melin, 1939 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from Europa Island, western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & JOSEPH POUPIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (5): 490–494 (9 Jan. 2013)
Munidopsis kareenae, a new species of seamount squat lobster from New Zealand with a key to the New Zealand species of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae)
SHANE T. AHYONG

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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (5): 457–470 (9 Jan. 2013)
Two new genera and three new species of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Pseudothelphusidae: Potamocarcinini) from Chiapas, Mexico
JOSÉ LUIS VILLALOBOS & FERNANDO ÁLVAREZ

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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (5): 446–456 (9 Jan. 2013)
Osornodella gabrielae, n. gen. and n. sp., a new falklandellid (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from freshwaters of the Chilean Coastal Range
JORGE PÉREZ-SCHULTHEISS

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3599 (4): 371–376 (8 Jan. 2013)
The Brachyura described by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing and a listing of Stebbing’s South African Crustacea for the Marine Investigations in South Africa (Crustacea: Decapoda)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW & PETER K. L. NG

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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (2): 161–177 (4 Jan. 2013)
Phylogenetic relationships of the family Sphaeromatidae Latreille, 1825 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda) within Sphaeromatidea based on 18S-rDNA molecular data
REGINA WETZER, MARCOS PÉREZ-LOSADA & NIEL L. BRUCE

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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (2): 136–160 (4 Jan. 2013)
A new genus and some new species of the genus Lauriea Baba, 1971 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Pacific and Indian Oceans, using molecular and morphological characters
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON & AYMEE ROBAINAS-BARCIA

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2012

Monograph
Zootaxa 3598: 1–96 (24 Dec. 2012) 52 plates; 42 references             Accepted: 1 Oct. 2012   
Taxonomic and biological notes on some Atlantic species of the snapping shrimp genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER, PAULO P. G. PACHELLE, SAMMY & KRISTIN M. HULTGREN
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Article
Zootaxa 3595: 35–60 (21 Dec. 2012) 12 plates; 28 references             Accepted: 12 Nov. 2012
Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea: Anostraca: Thamnocephalidae) in Australia, with descriptions of five new species 
BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3589: 30–48 (18 Nov. 2012) 8 plates; 21 references               Accepted: 13 Nov. 2012
The squat lobsters of the genus Sadayoshia Baba, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Munididae): new records including six new species from the Pacific Ocean 
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & KEIJI BABA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3588: 55–63 (17 Nov. 2012) 5 plates; 7 references               Accepted: 19 Nov. 2012
A new species of Nanhaipotamon Bott, 1968 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China 
CHAO HUANG (China), JIAN RONG HUANG (China) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 3583: 51–70 (13 Dec. 2012) 8 plates; 20 references               Accepted: 16 Nov. 2012
A re-assessment of Hexapleomera Dudich, 1931 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidae), with designation of three new species 
ROGER N. BAMBER (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 3583: 31–50 (13 Dec. 2012) 10 plates; 36 references             Accepted: 30 Oct. 2012
Apseudomorph Tanaidacea from the continental shelf of Angola and Namibia with descriptions of three new species 
RALF BOCHERT (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3579: 71–79 (11 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 29 references              Accepted: 25 May 2012
Lysmata jundalini, a new peppermint shrimp (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) from the Western Atlantic 
ANDREW L. RHYNE (USA), RICARDO CALADO (Portugal) & ANTONINA DOS SANTOS (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 3575: 27–48 (7 Dec. 2012) 12 plates; 21 references              Accepted: 6 Nov. 2012
A new species of the genus Cerviniopsis from Sagami Bay, Japan and reinstatement of the genus Neocervinia, with a report on the male of Neocervinia itoi Lee & Yoo, 1998 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Aegisthidae) 
EUN-OK PARK (Korea), MOTOHIRO SHIMANAGA (Japan), SUK HYUN YOON (Korea) & WONCHOEL LEE (Korea)
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Article
Zootaxa 3575: 1–26 (7 Dec. 2012) 14 plates; 26 references                Accepted: 10 Oct. 2012
Talitrid amphipods from ocean beaches along the New South Wales coast of Australia (Amphipoda, Talitridae) 
J.K. LOWRY (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3572: 63–68 (5 Dec. 2012) 3 plates; 12 references              Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Establishment of a new genus for Cyclograpsus lophopus Nobili, 1905, within Sesarmidae Dana, 1851 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) 
TOHRU NARUSE (Japan) & NGAN KEE NG (Singapre)

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Article
Zootaxa 3572: 1–10 (5 Dec. 2012) 4 plates; 20 references                Accepted: 2 Nov. 2012
Stachyops, a new nototanaid genus (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from New Zealand, with remarks on nototanaid and tanaissuid phylogeny 
GRAHAM J. BIRD (New Zealand )

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Article
Zootaxa 3569: 1–24 (30 Nov. 2012) 11 plates; 53 references                  Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Cladocerans of genus Alona Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) and related genera from Aguascalientes State, Mexico 
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & MARCELO SILVA-BRIANO (Mexico)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3565: 68–68 (28 Nov. 2012) 2 plates; 19 references                Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
First record of the exotic isopod Sphaeroma serratum (Crustacea: Isopoda) from Uruguayan waters (southwestern Atlantic) 
BRENDA DOTI (Argentina), EVANGELINA SCHWINDT (Argentina) & FABRIZIO SCARABINO (Uruguay)
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Article
Zootaxa 3560: 32–40 (23 Nov. 2012) 6 plates; 17 references                Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Macrobrachium hungi, a new freshwater palaemonid prawn (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the Tonle Sap Great Lake of Cambodia 
NGUYEN VAN XUAN (Vietnam)

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Article
Zootaxa 3559: 61–68 (22 Nov. 2012) 3 plates; 36 references          Accepted: 23 Oct. 2012
Marmachius, a spectacular new genus of Antarcturidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera) 
GARY C. B. POORE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3559: 44–52 (22 Nov. 2012) 4 plates; 40 references          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012
The Brachyura described by John Robert Kinahan, and a discussion on Kinahan’s overlooked authorship of the family-group name Litocheiridae (Crustacea: Decapoda) 
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan), NIGEL T. MONAGHAN (Ireland) & J. M. C. HOLMES (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3551: 65–81 (16 Nov. 2012) 11 plates; 17 references            Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012
Pleisticanthoides Yokoya, 1933, a valid genus of deep-sea inachid spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea), with descriptions of two new species from the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu 
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3550: 88–88 (15 Nov. 2012)
Erratum: CATARINA DE L. ARAÚJO-SILVA & KIM LARSEN (2012) Tanaidacea (Tanaidacea: Crustacea) from Brazil. IV. A new genus and two new species from the family Leptocheliidae. Zootaxa, 3523, 1–19.
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Article
Zootaxa 3550: 71–87 (15 Nov. 2012) 9 plates; 52 references              Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
The ghost crab Ocypode mortoni George, 1982 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae): redescription, distribution at its type locality, and the phylogeny of East Asian Ocypode species 
KINGSLEY J.H. WONG, HSI-TE SHIH & BENNY K.K. CHAN (R.O.C)

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Article
Zootaxa 3550: 43–60 (15 Nov. 2012) 9 plates; 45 references               Accepted: 3 Oct. 2012
Deep-water decapod crustaceans studied with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda) 
JOSEPH POUPIN, LAURE CORBARI, THIERRY PÉREZ & PIERRE CHEVALDONNÉ (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3546: 81–84 (12 Nov. 2012) 2 plates; 6 references                 Accepted: 20 Aug. 2012
Podosiridae, a new family of North Atlantic deep sea amphipod (Crustacea, Amphipoda) 
J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & A.A MYERS (Ireland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3546: 68–80 (12 Nov. 2012) 8 plates; 24 references               Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012
Description of a new species of the hippolytid shrimp genus Eualus Thallwitz, 1892 from Japan, and clarification of the status of E. kikuchii Miyake & Hayashi, 1967 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & YOSHIHIRO FUJIWARA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3546: 43–52 (12 Nov. 2012) 6 plates; 25 references              Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
A new and commercial species of Gastrosaccus Norman, 1868 (Peracarida: Mysida: Mysidae) from Java, Indonesia 
ROGER N BAMBER & BRIAN MORTON (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 3544: 79–87 (8 Nov. 2012) 5 plates; 11 references             Accepted: 5 Oct. 2012
The shrimp family Pseudochelidae De Grave & Moosa, 2004 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) in Brazil, with the description of a new species 
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3544: 1–27 (8 Nov. 2012) 6 plates; 92 references                Accepted: 20 Sept. 2012
Checklist of Inland Aquatic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) of California 
G.O. GRAENING, D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS, JOHN R. HOLSINGER, CHERYL BARR & RICHARD BOTTORFF (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3542: 69–79 (7 Nov. 2012) 5 plates; 7 references              Accepted: 23 Aug. 2012
Remarks on the deep-sea genus Pseudolamprops (Cumacea: Lampropidae) 
DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA (Argentina) & UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 3540: 59–64 (6 Nov. 2012) 1 plate; 14 references                Accepted: 8 Oct. 2012
Morphology of the second zoeal stage of Grapsus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Grapsoidea) confirms larval characters of the family Grapsidae 
JOSÉ MARÍA LANDEIRA & JOSÉ A. CUESTA (Spain)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3538: 88–88 (5 Nov. 2012)
Erratum: MITSUHASHI, M. (2012) A new species of the genus Philarius (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa, 3481, 82–88.
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Article
Zootaxa 3534: 53–60 (1 Nov. 2012) 4 plates; 2 references              Accepted: 5 Oct. 2012
Description of Alcyonohippolyte brachycarpus sp. nov., a further new hippolytid shrimp (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) associated with soft coral from Taiwan, with the key to the species of the genus Alcyonohippolyte Marin, Okuno & Chan, 2011 
IVAN MARIN (Russia) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R.O.C)

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Article
Zootaxa 3534: 40–52 (1 Nov. 2012) 4 plates; 46 references             Accepted: 24 Sept. 2012
Graptocarcininae n. subfam., an extinct subfamily of Dynomenidae Ortmann, 1892 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Podotremata) 
BARRY W.M. VAN BAKEL (the Netherlands), DANIČLE GUINOT (France), JOSÉ CARMELO CORRAL (Spain) & PEDRO ARTAL (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 3534: 21–39 (1 Nov. 2012) 5 plates; 52 references             Accepted: 28 Sept. 2012
The genus Caligus Müller, 1785 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida): two new species from reef associated fishes in New Caledonia, and some nomenclatural problems resolved 
POLLY HAYES (UK), JEAN-LOU JUSTINE (France) & GEOFFREY A. BOXSHALL (UK)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3533: 1–74 (31 Oct. 2012) 37 plate; 65 references                 Accepted: 26 Sept. 2012   
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod families Mimonectidae and Proscinidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Scinoidea)
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER
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Article
Zootaxa 3527: 83–87 (26 Oct. 2012) 1 plate; 11 references               Accepted: 26 Sept. 2012
First stage larva of the lobster shrimp Allaxius princeps (Boas, 1880) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Axiidae) obtained in the laboratory 
ELENA S. KORNIENKO & OLGA M. KORN (Russia)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3524: 1–124 (24 Oct. 2012) 71 plates; 34 references                   Accepted: 11 Sept. 2012   
New Zealand Ceratocumatidae and Nannastacidae (Crustacea: Cumacea)
SARAH GERKEN
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3523: 64–68 (23 Oct. 2012) 1 plate; 23 references             Accepted: 21 Sept. 2012
Dates of publication and the organisation of Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst 
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3523: 1–19 (23 Oct. 2012) 9 plates; 19 references               Accepted: 28 Sept. 2012
Tanaidacea (Tanaidacea: Crustacea) from Brazil. IV. A new genus and two new species from the family Leptocheliidae 
CATARINA DE L. ARAÚJO-SILVA & KIM LARSEN (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3522: 73–80 (19 Oct. 2012) 6 plates; 10 references               Accepted: 14 Sept. 2012
A new species of Platepistoma Rathbun, 1906 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Cancridae) from deep water off South Africa 
PETER J. F. DAVIE (Australia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 3520: 71–88 (18 Oct. 2012) 8 plates; 28 references                 Accepted: 26 Sept. 2012
Inshore apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Brunei: new records and new species 
ROGER N BAMBER (UK), TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India) & DAVID J MARSHALL (Brunei)
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Article
Zootaxa 3515: 83–88 (12 Oct. 2012) 3 plates; 7 references                Accepted: 30 Jul. 2012
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Phallangothelphusa Pretzmann, 1965, from Colombia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) 
LUISA CARDONA & MARTHA R. CAMPOS (Colombia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3513: 79–85 (10 Oct. 2012) 4 plates; 4 references                 Accepted: 10 Sept. 2012
A new species of palicid crab (Crustacea, Decapoda: Brachyura: Palicidae) from the Andaman Sea, west coast of Thailand 
RUEANGRIT PROMDAM & JARUWAT NABHITABHATA (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3505: 53–66 (3 Oct. 2012) 8 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 3 Sept. 2012
First records of peracarid crustaceans from the Cayo Matias Ocean Blue Hole, SW Cuba, with the description of two new species 
MANUEL ORTIZ (Mexico), IGNACIO WINFIELD (Mexico) & CARLOS VARELA (Cuba)

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Article
Zootaxa 3499: 81–85 (27 Sept. 2012) 2 plates; 3 references                  Accepted: 24 Aug. 2012
A new species of Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from Brazil, with a key to the western Atlantic species 
PAULO RICARDO NUCCI & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3499: 27–45 (27 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 49 references                  Accepted: 14 Aug. 2012
New, mainly southern hemisphere, freshwater families of Amphipoda (Crustacea), together with a description of the first freshwater calliopiid, Lutriwita bradburyi gen. nov. et sp. nov. 
J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & A.A. MYERS (Ireland)

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Article
Zootaxa 3498: 24–44 (26 Sept. 2012) 10 plates; 21 references                Accepted: 3 Sept. 2012
Tanaidacea (Crustacea) from Macaronesia III. The shallow-water Tanaidomorpha from the Cape Verde archipelago 
KIM LARSEN, RYOKO NAGAOKA & ELSA FROUFE (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 3498: 1–23 (26 Sept. 2012) 12 plates; 19 references                  Accepted: 28 Aug. 2012
Review of the family Platyxanthidae Guinot, 1977 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Eriphioidea), with the description of a new genus and a key to genera and species 
BRENT P. THOMA (USA), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3493: 83–88 (21 Sept. 2012) 1 plate; 34 references                    Accepted: 22 Aug. 2012
Resolving the publication date of J.W. Randall’s Catalogue of Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J.K. Townsend, from the west coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, and an updated checklist of the Decapoda described therein (Crustacea: Achelata, Anomura, Astacidea, Brachyura, Caridea, Dendrobranchiata) 
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3493: 49–71 (21 Sept. 2012) 10 plates; 76 references                Accepted: 29 Aug. 2012
Revision of the genus Siolicaris Jakobi, 1972, with redescriptions of S. sioli (Noodt, 1963) and S. jakobi (Noodt, 1963) from South America, and S. sandhya (Ranga Reddy, 2001) comb. nov. from India (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Parastenocarididae)
CORGOSINHO, P.H.C. (Brazil), RANGA REDDY, Y. (India) & MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU, P. (Germany)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3492: 85–88 (20 Sept. 2012) 1 plates; 28 references                  Accepted: 21 Aug. 2012
Cancer amoenus Herbst, 1799, a junior subjective synonym of Atelecyclus undecimdentatus (Herbst, 1783) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Atelecyclidae) 
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3492: 49–64 (20 Sept. 2012) 6 plates; 90 references                  Accepted: 20 Aug. 2012
Calliaxina chalmasii (Brocchi, 1883) comb. nov. (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae: Eucalliacinae), a ghost shrimp from the Middle Miocene of Europe, with reappraisal of the fossil record of Eucalliacinae 
MATÚŠ HYŽNÝ (Slovakia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3492: 1–29 (20 Sept. 2012) 12 plates; 40 references                  Accepted: 8 Aug. 2012
The Agononida incerta species complex unravelled (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Munididae) 
GARY C. B. POORE & NIKOS ANDREAKIS (Australia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3490: 48–48 (19 Sept. 2012) 05 plates; 31 references                  Accepted: 22 Aug. 2012
Danielita Ng, Clark & Tan, 2010 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodoidea: Camptandriidae), preoccupied by Danielita Kiriakoff, 1970 (Lepidoptera: Glossata: Heteroneura: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) 
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (England)

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Article
Zootaxa 3490: 30–47 (19 Sept. 2012) 05 plates; 31 references                  Accepted: 2 Aug. 2012
Gelasimus splendidus Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae), a valid species of fiddler crab from the northern South China Sea and Taiwan Strait 
HSI-TE SHIH (R.O.C), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), KINGSLEY J. H. WONG (R.O.C) & BENNY K. K. CHAN (R.O.C)

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Article
Zootaxa 3486: 63–88 (17 Sept. 2012) 15 plates; 20 references               Accepted: 22 Aug. 2012
The genus Pereionotus (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Phliantidae) from Australia 
CH. OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3485: 4 1–55 (17 Sept. 2012) 10 plates; 15 references                Accepted: 28 Aug. 2012
Two new species of the genus Leipsuropus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Podoceridae) from Japanese and Korean waters 
HIROYUKI ARIYAMA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3481: 82–88 (13 Sept. 2012) 4 plates; 7 references                   Accepted: 30 Jul. 2012  
A new species of the genus Philarius (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Ryukyu Islands, Japan 
MASAKO MITSUHASHI (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3481: 1–26 (13 Sept. 2012) 9 plates; 53 references                   Accepted: 2 Aug. 2012  
A new leptochelioid family, Heterotanoididae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea), and a new species of Heterotanoides from New Zealand 
GRAHAM J. BIRD (New Zealand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3480: 67–79 (12 Sept. 2012) 6 plates; 42 references                 Accepted: 31 Jul. 2012
A new species of the hermit crab genus Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2010 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) discovered in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef of Belize, Caribbean Sea 
RAFAEL LEMAITRE & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3479: 88 (12 Sept. 2012)
LUCAS SILVEIRA ANTONIETTO, CLÁUDIA PINTO MACHADO, DERMEVAL APARECIDO DO CARMO & JOSÉ WILSON CORREA ROSA (2012) Recent Ostracoda (Arthropoda, Crustacea) from Săo Pedro-Săo Paulo Archipelago, Brazil: a preliminary approach. Zootaxa, 3335, 29–53.

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Zootaxa 3476: 55–61 (10 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 18 references                   Accepted: 24 Jul. 2012
New genus and new species of Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the mesophotic coral ecosystem of SW Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea
IORGU PETRESCU (Romania), TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India) & NIKOLAOS V. SCHIZAS (Mayagüez)

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Zootaxa 3475: 69–85 (10 Sept. 2012) 11 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 26 Jul. 2012
Paramoera anivae a new species of Eusiridae Stebbing, 1888 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Okhotsk Sea
VJACHESLAV S. LABAY (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3475: 45–54 (10 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 16 references                    Accepted: 23 Jul. 2012
Alona kotovi sp. nov., a new species of Aloninae (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from South Vietnam
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Vietnam)

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Article
Zootaxa 3475: 36–44 (10 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 33 references                    Accepted: 24 Jul. 2012
A new species of the genus Ilyocryptus Sars, 1862 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Ilyocryptidae) from the East Asian Palaearctic
HYUN GI JEONG, ALEXEY A. KOTOV & WONCHOEL LEE (Korea)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3468: 1–77 (7 Sept. 2012) 43 plates; 63 references                 Accepted: 22 Jun. 2012   
A review of the western Pacific species of the crangonid genus Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965 (Decapoda: Caridea), with descriptions of seven new species
TOMOYUKI KOMAI

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Article
Zootaxa 3452: 47–65 (4 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 21 references                     Accepted: 12 Jul. 2012
Brasileirinidae, a new isopod family (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the cave in Bahia (Brazil) with a discussion on its taxonomic position
SIMONA PREVORČNIK (Slovenia), RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA (Brazil) & BORIS SKET (Slovenia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3451: 68 (4 Sept. 2012)
Erratum: MURAT ÖZAYDINLI & CH. OLIVER COLEMAN (2012) Ampithoe bizseli n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the west coast of Turkey. Zootaxa, 3388, 17–28.
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Zootaxa 3451: 60–67 (4 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 29 references                    Accepted: 26 Jul. 2012
Britorchestia, a new talitrid genus from western Europe and the Mediterranean Sea and a revision of Pseudorchestoidea and Sardorchestia (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae)
J.K. LOWRY & ARUNDATHI BOPIAH (Australia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3450: 64 (4 Sept. 2012)
Erratum: RAFAELA BASTOS-PEREIRA & ALESSANDRA ANGÉLICA DE PÁDUA BUENO (2012) New species and new report of Hyalella S. I. Smith, 1874 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Dogielinotidae) from Minas Gerais state, Southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 3350, 58–68
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Article
Zootaxa 3446: 32–48 (30 Aug. 2012) 8 plates; 46 references                       Accepted: 12 Jul. 2012
Revision of Garthiella Titgen, 1986 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae), with description of a new subfamily and a new species from the central Philippines
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA (Singapore) & MARIVENE R. MANUEL-SANTOS (Philippines)

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Zootaxa 3441: 47–55 (28 Aug. 2012) 5 plates; 9 references                       Accepted: 12 Jul. 2012
Coboldus chazaroi, a new species of iphimediid amphipod (Amphipoda, Gammaridea, Iphimediidae) from a submarine cave, north Cuba
MANUEL ORTIZ (Mexico), IGNACIO WINFIELD (Mexico) & CARLOS VARELA (Cuba)

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Zootaxa 3441: 21–35 (28 Aug. 2012) 10 plates; 5 references                       Accepted: 26 Jul. 2012
Two new species of Gabophlias (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Phliantidae) from Australia
CH. OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3440: 68 (27 Aug. 2012)
Erratum: Anker, A. (2012) “Revision of the western Atlantic members of the Alpheus armillatus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 species complex (Decapoda, Alpheidae), with description of seven new species”. Zootaxa, 3386, 1–109.
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Zootaxa 3440: 50–62 (27 Aug. 2012) 7 plates; 9 references                     Accepted: 12 Jul. 2012
A new species of the pontoniine shrimp genus Onycocaris Nobili, 1904 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Sagami Bay, central Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & ISAMU ITOU (Japan)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3439: 68 (27 Aug. 2012)
Erratum: Anker, A. (2011) “Four new infaunal decapod crustaceans (Caridea: Alpheidae and Gebiidea: Axianassidae) from Lizard Island, Australia, one of them also occurring in Moorea, French Polynesia”. Zootaxa, 2734, 1–22.
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Article
Zootaxa 3437: 43–50 (24 Aug. 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 27 Jun. 2012
A second discovery of Lacertopontonia chadi Marin, 2011 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with remarks on its systematic position
CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN & BASTIAN T. REIJNEN (The Netherlands)

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Zootaxa 3436: 51–60 (23 Aug. 2012) 7 plates; 7 references                      Accepted: 4 Jul. 2012
Periclimenaeus dactylodon sp. nov. (Decapoda: Pontoniinae), from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3436: 41–50 (23 Aug. 2012) 4 plates; 10 references                    Accepted: 29 Jun. 2012
The genus Processa in the vicinity of Carrie Bow Cay (Belize) with description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Processidae)
SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK) & DARRYL. L. FELDER (USA)

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Zootaxa 3436: 24–40 (23 Aug. 2012) 8 plates; 11 references                    Accepted: 26 Jun. 2012
Apocuma (Cumacea: Bodotriidae): two new species from the West-Atlantic and a significant extension of the known distribution of this genus in the Atlantic Ocean
DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA (Argentina), NATALIA A. ALBERICO (Argentina) & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3435: 68 (23 Aug. 2012)
Erratum: Anker A. (2011) “Six new species and three new records of infaunal alpheid shrimps from the genera Leptalpheus Williams, 1965 and Fenneralpheus Felder & Manning, 1986 (Crustacea, Decapoda)”. Zootaxa, 3041, 1–38.
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Article
Zootaxa 3433: 60–68 (22 Aug. 2012) 5 plates; 19 references                    Accepted: 2 Jul. 2012
A new genus and species of Melitidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hadzioidea) from Brazilian waters
ANDRÉ R. SENNA & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3421: 10–68 (14 Aug. 2012) 14 plates; 22 references                  Accepted: 20 Jun. 2012
The discovery of male Potiicoara brasiliensis (Crustacea, Spelaeogriphacea) with notes on biology and distribution
ANA MARIA S. PIRES-VANIN (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3421: 1–31 (14 Aug. 2012) 14 plates; 22 references                      Accepted: 11 May 2012
Cave shrimps Troglocaris s. str. (Dormitzer, 1853), taxonomic revision and description of new taxa after phylogenetic and morphometric studies
JURE JUGOVIC (Slovenia), BRANKO JALŽIĆ (Croatia), SIMONA PREVORČNIK (Slovenia) & BORIS SKET (Slovenia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3418: 68 (9 Jul. 2012)
Erratum: Anker, A., Hurt, C., Knowlton, N. (2009) “Description of cryptic taxa within the Alpheus bouvieri A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 and A. hebes Kim and Abele, 1988 species complexes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)”. Zootaxa, 2153, 1–23.
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Article
Zootaxa 3418: 28–40 (10 Aug. 2012) 4 plates; 55 references                   Accepted: 6 Jun. 2012
Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea) collected during the TALUD XIV cruise in the Gulf of California, Mexico, and rediscovery of Gastroptychus perarmatus (Haig, 1968) in the eastern Pacific
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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Article
Zootaxa 3416: 22–40 (9 Aug. 2012) 3 plates; 134 references                       Accepted: 15 Jun. 2012
Remarks on Inachoididae Dana, 1851, with the description of a new genus and the resurrection of Stenorhynchinae Dana, 1851, and recognition of the inachid subfamily Podochelinae Neumann, 1878 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea)
DANIČLE GUINOT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3407: 22–36 (2 Aug. 2012) 6 plates; 17 references                       Accepted: 5 Jun. 2012
Two new species of hermit crabs of the genus Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2010 (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae) from the eastern tropical Pacific
MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 3406: 1–29 (1 Aug. 2012) 18 plates; 24 references                        Accepted: 5 Jun. 2012
Two new species of Colubotelson Nicholls, 1944 in Tasmania's Lake Pedder: persistence of Phreatoicidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) in therein
GEORGE D. F. WILSON , A. W. OSBORN & G. N. R. FORTEATH (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3402: 54–60 (30 Jul. 2012) 2 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 5 May 2012
A new species of Raphidopus Stimpson, 1858, from the Persian Gulf (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), MOHSEN SAFAIE (Iran) & MURTADA D. NASER (Iraq)

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Zootaxa 3400: 64–68 (26 Jul. 2012) 1 plates; 29 references                       Accepted: 1 Jun. 2012
A new terrestrial talitrid genus from the Philippine Islands (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitrida, Talitridae) and the designation of two informal subgroups
JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia) & CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3400: 20–42 (26 Jul. 2012) 13 plates; 30 references                     Accepted: 30 May 2012
Two new species of Atlantocuma (Crustacea: Cumacea), and a new genus and species from Japan, Northwest Pacific, with observations on the degeneration of mouthparts in ovigerous females
TADASHI AKIYAMA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3400: 1–19 (26 Jul. 2012) 12 plates; 19 references                        Accepted: 24 May 2012
The genus Peramphithoe Conlan & Bousfield, 1982 from Korean waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae)
YOUNG-HYO KIM (Canada), SOON-SANG HONG (Korea), KATHLEEN E. CONLAN (Canada) & KYUNGSOOK LEE (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3398: 40–57 (24 Jul. 2012) 1 plates; 130 references                 Accepted: 1 Jun. 2012
The identities of Cancer arenarius Toreen, in Osbeck, 1765, Cancer arenarius Zimmermann, in Cavolini, 1792, Cancer (Mantis) arenarius Herbst, 1793, and Cancer (Gammarellus) arenarius Herbst, 1793, and other names associated with the genus Ocypode Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Amphipoda, Decapoda, Stomatopoda)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3393: 57–65 (19 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 14 references                     Accepted: 28 May 2012
Calappa karenae, a new species of box crab from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Calappidae)
PETER K. L. NG & JOELLE C. Y. LAI (Republic of Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3393: 27–40 (19 Jul. 2012) 6 plates; 33 references                     Accepted: 25 May 2012
Rediscovery and redescription of a sponge-associated axiid shrimp, Eiconaxius acutifrons Bate, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & SHINJI TSUCHIDA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3393: 1–26 (19 Jul. 2012) 16 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 24 May 2012
Revision of the genus Iphiplateia (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Phliantidae) from Australia
CH. OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3391: 22–38 (18 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 37 references                     Accepted: 15 May 2012
On a new cypridopsine genus (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cyprididae) from the Upper Paraná River Floodplain (Brazil)
JANET HIGUTI (Brazil) & KOEN MARTENS (Belgium)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3390: 68 (18 Apr. 2012)
Erratum: Naruse, T., Chan, T.-Y., Tan H.H., Ahyong, S.T. & Reimer, J.D. (2012) Scientific Results of the Marine Biodiversity Expedition—KUMEJIMA 2009. Zootaxa, 3367, 1–280.
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Zootaxa 3390: 43–55 (17 Jul. 2012) 6 plates; 30 references                     Accepted: 15 May 2012
Redescription of the endemic Australian cladoceran Alona willisi (Smirnov, 1989) and its assignment to Acanthalona gen. nov. (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & TSUYOSHI KOBAYASHI (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3388: 17–28 (13 Jul. 2012) 8 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 15 May 2012
Ampithoe bizseli n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the west coast of Turkey
MURAT ÖZAYDINLI (Turkey) & CH. OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3386: 1–109 (12 Jul. 2012) 70 plates; 103 references                 Accepted: 2 Mar. 2012   
Revision of the western Atlantic members of the Alpheus armillatus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 species complex (Decapoda, Alpheidae), with description of seven new species
ARTHUR ANKER

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Zootaxa 3381: 47–61 (6 Jul. 2012) 9 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 1 Jan 2012
Gnathia marleyi sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from the Eastern Caribbean
CHARON FARQUHARSON, NICO J. SMIT & PAUL C. SIKKEL (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 3380: 1–33 (5 Jul 2012) 21 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 15 May. 2012
New and little-known gnathiid isopod crustaceans (Cymothoida)
from the northern Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea
JÖRUNDUR SVAVARSSON & NIEL L. BRUCE

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3374: 1–67 (4 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 196 references                 Accepted: 13 Mar. 2012   
Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography
REZA NADERLOO & MICHAEL TÜRKAY
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Zootaxa 3371: 1–307 (4 Jul. 2012) 15 plates; 599 references                 Accepted: 16 Mar. 2012   
Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces
MARY K. WICKSTEN

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Zootaxa 3368: 291–299 (4 Jul. 2012) 4 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
A new species and a new genus of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea, Syncarida) from South Korea
JONG-GEUN PARK & YE EUN (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3368: 229–244 (4 Jul. 2012) 9 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
A new Pseudodiaptomus (Copepoda, Calanoida) from Korea supported by molecular data
HO YOUNG SOH, SUN WOO KWON, WONCHEOL LEE & YANG HO YOON (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3368: 197–210 (4 Jul. 2012) 7 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
Two new species of Halicyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from the estuarine interstitial waters in South Korea
CHEON YOUNG CHANG & JIMIN LEE (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3368: 146–160 (4 Jul. 2012) 7 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
Larval stages of Areopaguristes japonicus (Miyake, 1961) (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) described from laboratory reared material
SEOK HYUN LEE & HYUN SOOK KO (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3368: 128–145 (4 Jul. 2012) 9 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
Two new species of Apodopsyllus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from Jeju Island, Korea
JINWOOK BACK & WONCHOEL LEE (Korea)
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Zootaxa 3368: 91–127 (4 Jul. 2012) 12 plates; 66 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
Three new ameirid harpacticoids from Korea and first record of Proameira simplex (Crustacea: Copepoda: Ameiridae)
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC (Australia) & JOO-LAE CHO (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3368: 50–90 (4 Jul. 2012) 27 plates; 96 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of the south-east of the Korean Peninsula, with twenty new records for Korea
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia), HYUN GI JEONG (Korea) & WONCHOEL LEE (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3368: 7–49 (4 Jul. 2012) 21 plates; 90 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2012
A review of candonid ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida) from East  sia, with descriptions of five new species from South Korea
IVANA KARANOVIC (Australia) &WONCHOEL LEE (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3367: 232–251 (4 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 96 references                    Accepted: 18 Jan. 2012
Stomatopod Crustacea of the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan
Shane T. AHYONG

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Zootaxa 3367: 222–231 (4 Jul. 2012) 6 plates; 28 references                     Accepted: 30 Aug. 2011
Two new species of Indopinnixa Manning & Morton, 1987 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Tohru NARUSE & Tadafumi MAENOSONO

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Zootaxa 3367: 211–221 (4 Jul. 2012) 4 plates; 38 references                   Accepted: 15 Aug. 2011
The identity of Pilumnoplax acanthomerus Rathbun, 1911 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae), with new records from the central and western Pacific
Jose Christopher E. MENDOZA, Paul F. CLARK & Peter K. L. NG

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Zootaxa 3367: 204–210 (4 Jul. 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 18 Jan. 2012
Kume tigra, a new genus and new species of carupine swimming crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Kume Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Tohru NARUSE & Peter K. L. NG

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Zootaxa 3367: 191–203 (4 Jul. 2012) 9 plates; 19 references                        Accepted: 28 Sep. 2011
The first zoeal stage morphology of Crossotonotus spinipes (De Man, 1888) and Pseudopalicus serripes (Alcock & Anderson, 1895), with implications for palicoid systematics (Crustacea: Brachyura: Palicoidea)
Paul F. CLARK, Yoshihisa FUJITA, Alexander D. BALL & Peter K. L. NG

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Zootaxa 3367: 176–190 (4 Jul. 2012) 2 plates; 116 references                     Accepted: 6 Aug. 2011
Hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) from the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan
Dwi Listyo RAHAYU & Masayuki OSAWA

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Zootaxa 3367: 165–175 (4 Jul. 2012) 4 plates; 55 references                    Accepted: 14 Aug. 2011
A new cryptic species in the “Calcinus anani Poupin & McLaughlin, 1998” species complex (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae): evidence from colouration and molecular genetics
Maria Celia (Machel) D. MALAY, Tomoyuki KOMAI & Tin-Yam CHAN

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Zootaxa 3367: 155–164 (4 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 26 references                     Accepted: 14 Aug. 2011
A new species of the genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
Masayuki OSAWA

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Zootaxa 3367: 145–154 (4 Jul. 2012) 6 plates; 12 references                     Accepted: 1 Jan. 2011
A new genus and new species of pagurid hermit crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) from a submarine cave in Kume Island, Ryukyu Islands
Tomoyuki KOMAI & Masayuki OSAWA

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Zootaxa 3367: 134–144 (4 Jul. 2012) 4 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 2 Mar. 2011
Raymunida Macpherson & Machordom, 2000 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Munididae) from the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Masayuki OSAWA

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Zootaxa 3367: 126–133 (4 Jul. 2012) 4 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 17 Feb. 2011
Reef lobsters of the genus Enoplometopus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidea) from the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition in Okinawa, with the second record of the rare species E. chacei Kensley & Child, 1986
Tin-Yam CHAN & Yoshihisa FUJITA

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Zootaxa 3367: 115–125 (4 Jul. 2012) 6 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 17 Dec. 2011
A new antipatharian-associated species of the genus Cuapetes Clark, 1919 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) and a new record of C. nilandensis (Borradaile, 1915) from Japan
Junji OKUNO & Tin-Yam CHAN

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Zootaxa 3367: 103–114 (4 Jul. 2012) 8 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
Crinoid-associated pontoniine shrimps of the genus Laomenes Clark, 1919 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) from PANGLAO 2004 and KUMEJIMA 2009 Expeditions, with description of two new species
Ivan MARIN, Tin-Yam CHAN & Junji OKUNO

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Zootaxa 3367: 95–102 (4 Jul. 2012) 3 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 14 Aug. 2011
Hippolytidae and Barbouriidae (Decapoda: Caridea) collected during the Ryukyu “KUMEJIMA 2009” expedition
Sammy DE GRAVE, Tin-Yam CHAN, Yoshihisa FUJITA & Junji OKUNO

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Zootaxa 3367: 79–94 (4 Jul. 2012) 8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 18 Jul. 2011
Gnathiidae from Kumejima Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, southwestern Japan, with description of three new species (Crustacea: Isopoda)
Yuzo OTA

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Zootaxa 3367: 69–78 (4 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 16 Nov. 2011
First record of the genus Thetispelecaris Gutu & Illife, 1998 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Bochusacea) from a submarine cave in the Pacific Ocean
Michitaka SHIMOMURA, Yoshihisa FUJITA & Tohru NARUSE

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Zootaxa 3367: 60–68 (4 Jul. 2012) 3 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 14 Aug. 2011
New species of the copepod genus Anthessius Della Valle, 1880 (Poecilostomatoida: Anthessiidae) from Turbo marmoratus Linnaeus (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) collected during the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition
Daisuke UYENO & Kazuya NAGASAWA

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Zootaxa 3367: 21–48 (4 Jul. 2012) 16 plates; 70 references                        Accepted: 22 Jan. 2012
Epibiotic barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) collected by the Kumejima 2009 Expedition, with descriptions of two new species
Benny K. K. CHAN & Ryota HAYASHI

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Zootaxa 3363: 59–62 (3 Jul. 2012) 0 plates; 43 references                  Accepted: 15 May 2012
The decapod crustaceans described by C. Sankarankutty, and a replacement name for Jonesius Sankarankutty, 1962 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Domeciidae), preoccupied by Jonesius Yamaguti, 1959 (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea: Hymenolepididae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3363: 52–58 (3 Jul. 2012) 3 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 15 May 2012
A new species of Dendrocephalus (Crustacea, Anostraca) from Serra dos Carajás (Pará State, Brasil)
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA), JOĂO PEDRO CORRĘA GOMES (Brazil) & FABIO VIEIRA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3359: 43–54 (28 Jun. 2012) 0 plate; 75 references                  Accepted: 9 May 2012
The Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) described by Sidney Irving Smith: checklist, dates of publication and bibliography, with a discussion on Xantho stimpsoni A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, and X. stimpsonii Smith, 1869
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Republic of Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3356: 1–46 (25 Jun. 2012) 28 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 16 Nov. 2011
New subgenus and new species of marine benthic ostracods of genus Doloria (Ostracoda; Myodocopina) from the Southern Ocean
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR (Russia), SIMONE N. BRANDĂO (Germany)
& ALEXANDER G. BASHMANOV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 3352: 40–50 (20 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 7 May 2012
A new genus and new species of leucosiid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from coral reefs in the Indo-West Pacific
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3350: 58–68 (19 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 9 references                  Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
New species and new report of Hyalella S. I. Smith, 1874 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Dogielinotidae) from Minas Gerais state, Southeastern Brazil
RAFAELA BASTOS-PEREIRA & ALESSANDRA ANGÉLICA DE PÁDUA BUENO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3347: 1–35 (15 Jun. 2012) 9 plates; 106 references                  Accepted: 30 Mar. 2012
Shallow-water caridean shrimps from southern Bahia, Brazil, including the first record of Synalpheus ul (Ríos & Duffy, 2007) (Alpheidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean
ALEXANDRE O. ALMEIDA, GUISLA BOEHS, CATARINA L. ARAÚJO-SILVA
& LUIS ERNESTO A. BEZERRA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3345: 1–33 (13 Jun. 2012) 21 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 23 Apr. 2012
Three new species of Cerviniella Smirnov, 1946 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Arctic
TERUE C. KIHARA & PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3344: 60–68 (13 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 18 Apr. 2012
A distinctive new species of the alpheid genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the northwestern Pacific
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3338: 33–48 (7 Jun. 2012) 7 plates; 33 references                  Accepted: 1 May 2012
Morphology of the larval stages of Macropodia czernjawskii (Brandt, 1880) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Inachidae) reared in the laboratory
ELENA MARCO-HERRERO, ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ & JOSÉ A. CUESTA (Spain)

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Zootaxa 3335: 54–68 (6 Jun. 2012) 10 plates; 25 references                  Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
Discovery of Metacrangonyx in inland groundwaters of Oman (Amphipoda: Gammaridea: Metacrangonyctidae)
DAMIŔ JAUME (Spain) & RONALD VONK (The Netherlands)

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Zootaxa 3335: 29–53 (6 Jun. 2012) 11 plates; 135 references                  Accepted: 4 Apr. 2012
Recent Ostracoda (Arthropoda, Crustacea) from Săo Pedro-Săo Paulo Archipelago, Brazil: a preliminary approach
LUCAS SILVEIRA ANTONIETTO, CLÁUDIA PINTO MACHADO,
DERMEVAL APARECIDO DO CARMO & JOSÉ WILSON CORREA ROSA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3334: 1–28 (5 Jun. 2012) 13 plates; 53 references                  Accepted: 3 Apr. 2012
New and rare Aloninae (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Indochina
ARTEM Y. SINEV & ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3327: 1–19 (29 May 2012) 9 plates; 42 references                  Accepted: 18 Apr. 2012
A review of the genus Speocarcinus Stimpson, 1859 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae), with a key to its species and the description of one new species
MARIANNA BRANDĂO, PETRONIO ALVES COELHO-FILHO & MARCOS TAVARES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3320: 56–60 (22 May 2012) 3 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
A new species of Oxypleurodon Miers, 1886 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea) from the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & LAURE CORBARI (France)

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Zootaxa 3320: 36–46 (22 May 2012) 5 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 26 Mar. 2012
Haploops antennata, a new species from the North Atlantic Ocean (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae) [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 7. ]
R. A. KAIM-MALKA (France)

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Zootaxa 3320: 1–35 (22 May 2012) 22 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
The Cumacean (Crustacea: Peracarida) Genus Petalosarsia (Pseudocumatidae) from the Pacific Ocean
TADASHI AKIYAMA (Japan) & SARAH GERKEN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3319: 1–56 (22 May 2012) 35 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
The cumacean Genus Eudorella (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japanese Waters,
Northwest Pacific, and E. suluensis sp. nov. from the Sulu Sea, Indo-West Pacific
TADASHI AKIYAM & SIGEO GAMÔ (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3317: 1–24 (18 May 2012) 17 plates; 48 references                  Accepted: 19 Apr. 2012
Two new species of freshwater amphipods (Crustacea: Gammaridae) from Central Asia, with comments on the unusual upper lip morphology
DMITRY A. SIDOROV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3314: 45–57 (16 May 2012) 6 plates; 24 references                  Accepted: 2 Apr. 2012
Taxonomy and distribution of the genus Eurydice Leach, 1815 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the Arabian region, including three new species
DAVID ALAN JONES (Spain) & MANICKAM NITHYANANDAN (Kuwait)

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Zootaxa 3312: 59–61 (14 May 2012) 0 plate; 39 references                  Accepted: 2 Mar. 2012
On the identity of Cancer saxatilis Herbst, 1785: an objective synonym of Lophozozymus pictor (Fabricius, 1798), by neotype designation and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae: Zosiminae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3310: 51–65 (11 May 2012) 7 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 26 Mar. 2012
The genus Liljeborgia in the Mediterranean Sea, with the description of a new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Liljeborgiidae)
CÉDRIC D'UDEKEM D'ACOZ (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 3310: 1–50 (11 May 2012) 31 plates; 100 references                  Accepted: 26 Mar. 2012
Two new Pseudorchomene species from the Southern Ocean, with phylogenetic remarks on the genus and related species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae)
CEDRIC D’UDEKEM D’ACOZ & CHARLOTTE HAVERMANS (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 3308: 63–67 (10 May 2012) 2 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 2 Apr. 2012
A new species of Mimonecteola (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Mimonecteolidae) from the Southern Ocean
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3307: 48–61 (10 May 2012) 8 plates; 28 references                  Accepted: 26 Mar. 2012
Notes on the Indo-West Pacific shrimp genus Athanopsis Coutičre, 1897 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae), with the description of a new species associated with echiurans (Annelida, Thalassematidae)
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3307: 1–34 (10 May 2012) 25 plates; 103 references                  Accepted: 8 Mar. 2012
Revision of the lysianassoid genera Acidostoma and Shackletonia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Acidostomatidae fam. nov.)
H.E. STODDART & J.K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3305: 1–27 (9 May 2012) 18 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
The identity of Pilumnus dofleini Balss, 1933 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae), with descriptions of three new species from the Western Pacific
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & HIROSHI MOTOH (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3301: 61–68 (4 May 2012) 6 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 26 Mar. 2012
Caridina vithuraensis sp. nov. (Decapoda: Atyidae) from Vamanapuram River, Kerala region of Western Ghats, India
JAYACHANDRAN, KUNJURAMAN VIJAYAMMA & TESSA THOMAS (India)

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Zootaxa 3299: 61–65 (3 May 2012) 4 plates; 2 references                  Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
Onycocaris longirostris Bruce, 1980 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), new to the Australian fauna
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3297: 64–68 (2 May 2012) 2 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 30 Mar. 2012
A new species of Kamaka (Amphipoda: Kamakidae) from Lake Tonle Sap, Cambodia
HIROSHI MORINO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3297: 34–40 (2 May 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 20 Mar. 2012
New records of deep-sea barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Scalpelliformes) from the Clarion-Clipperton region, Pacific Ocean
OLEG P. POLTARUKHA & VYACHESLAV F. MEL’NIK (Russia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3296: 68 (1 May 2012) 0 plate; 2 references                             Accepted: 20 Mar. 2012
Scleraspis nom. nov., replacement name for Pycnaspis Van Syoc & Dekelboum, 2011
ROBERT J. VAN SYOC & ALLEN M. DEKELBOUM (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3277: 56–68 (24 Apr. 2012) 7 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 15 Mar. 2012
Two new species of shallow-water hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae) from Mayotte, Comoro Islands, southwestern Indian Ocean
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & JOSEPH POUPIN (France)

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Zootaxa 3277: 1–26 (24 Apr. 2012) 15 plates; 68 references                     Accepted: 27 Feb. 2012
New Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916 (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Gay Head-Bermuda transect with special consideration of sexual dimorphism
TORBEN RIEHL (Germany), GEORGE D.F. WILSON (Australia) & ROBERT R. HESSLER (USA)

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Zootaxa 3276: 51–68 (24 Apr. 2012) 10 plates; 42 references                  Accepted: 22 Feb. 2012
The West Mediterranean Alona azorica Frenzel & Alonso, 1988 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) is composed of two species
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia), MIGUEL ALONSO (Spain), MARIA ROSA MIRACLE (Spain)
& MARIA SAHUQUILLO (Spain)

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Zootaxa 3276: 1–37 (24 Apr. 2012) 18 plates; 25 references                  Accepted: 9 Feb. 2012
New Leptocheliidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha) from Australian seagrass and macro-algal habitats, and a redescription of the poorly-known Leptochelia ignota from Sydney Harbour
GRAHAM J. EDGAR (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3272: 35–56 (19 Apr. 2012) 16 plates; 66 references                  Accepted: 27 Feb. 2012
The "Hamopontonia corallicola" Bruce, 1970 species complex (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae): new records and new species from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia 
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Zootaxa 3271: 55–67 (18 Apr. 2012) 6 plates; 27 references                  Accepted: 9 Mar. 2012
New records of callianassid ghost shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from reducing environments in Kyushu, southwestern Japan 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & YOSHIHIRO FUJIWARA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 3269: 31–46 (16 Apr. 2012) 7 plates; 24 references                  Accepted:14 Mar. 2012
The larval development of the mud shrimp Upogebia issaeffi (Balss, 1913) (Decapoda: Gebiidea: Upogebiidae) reared under laboratory conditions 
ELENA S. KORNIENKO, OLGA M. KORN & DARYA D. DEMCHUK (Russia)
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Zootaxa 3266: 53–61 (11 Apr. 2012) 5 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 9 Mar. 2012
A new species of the hermit crab genus Ciliopagurus Forest (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), REMA RESHMI (India) 
& APPUKUTTAN NAIR BIJU KUMAR (India)

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Zootaxa 3264: 53–60 (10 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 28 references                  Accepted: 9 Mar. 2012
A new species of Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from Okinawa, southern Japan 

MASAYUKI OSAWA & TAKUO HIGASHIJI (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3257: 38–55 (4 Apr. 2012) 10 plates; 28 references                  Accepted: 17 Mar. 2012
On some shallow-water Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) of Chilean fjords, with description of a new species of Zeuxoides Sieg, 1980 

PATRICIA ESQUETE (Spain), ROGER BAMBER (UK) & CRISTIAN ALDEA (Chile)

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Article
Zootaxa 3254: 32–54 (2 Apr. 2012) 8 plates; 24 references                  Accepted: 12 Jan. 2012
Scottoecia—a new genus of halocyprid ostracod, with the description of Scottoecia arabica nov. sp. and the redescription of Bathyconchoecia darcythompsoni (Scott, 1909) 

MARTIN V. ANGEL (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3250: 26–42 (29 Mar. 2012) 7 plates; 26 references                  Accepted: 9 Feb. 2012
Tanaidacea (Crustacea) from Macaronesia II. The deep-water fauna from the Azores archipelago, Portugal 

KIM LARSEN (Portugal)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3248: 43–65 (27 Mar. 2012) 12 plates; 33 references                  Accepted: 30 Jan. 2012
Australian and South African conicostomatine amphipods (Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Conicostomatinae subfam. nov.) 

J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3248: 25–34 (27 Mar. 2012) 7 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 8 Feb. 2012
Wood-boring limnoriids (Crustacea, Isopoda) including a new species from mangrove forests of the Tukang Besi Archipelago, Indonesia 

L.J. COOKSON (Australia), S.M. CRAGG (UK) & I.W. HENDY (UK)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3246: 1–69 (23 Mar. 2012) 48 plates; 45 references                 Accepted: 20 Jan. 2012   
The Pachynidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART
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Article 
Zootaxa 3244: 59–67 (22 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
Metopelloides paguri sp. nov., a new species of symbiotic stenothoid amphipod (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Stenothoidae) associated with sublittoral hermit crabs from the Russian coasts of the Sea of Japan 
IVAN MARIN & SERGEY SINELNIKOV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3243: 59–64 (22 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 8 references                  Accepted: 19 Jan. 2012
A new species of the genus Austinogebia Ngoc-Ho, 2001 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Gebiidea, Upogebiidae) from northern China 

WENLIANG LIU & RUIYU LIU (J. Y. LIU) (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3241: 35–63 (21 Mar. 2012) 18 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 28 Jan. 2012
Records of species of the hippolytid genus Lebbeus White, 1847 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean, with descriptions of three new species 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), SHINJI TSUCHIDA (Japan) & MICHEL SEGONZAC (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3236: 55–61 (16 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
A new species of amphipod, Photis inornatus sp. nov. (Corophiidea, Photidae) from a ‘Haploops community’ in Brittany 

ALAN A. MYERS (Ireland), CARINE RIGOLET (France), ERIC THIÉBAUT (France) & STANISLAS F. DUBOIS (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3234: 43–68 (14 Mar. 2012) 0 plate; 106 references                  Accepted: 2 Feb. 2012
Parasitic copepods reported from Mexico 

F. NEPTALÍ MORALES-SERNA, SAMUEL GÓMEZ 
& GERARDO PÉREZ-PONCE DE LEÓN (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3234: 1–42 (14 Mar. 2012) 24 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
Siphonoecetini Just, 1983 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Ischyroceridae) 9: New species in Rhinoecetes Just, 1983, Cephaloecetes gen. nov. and Neoecetes gen. nov. from the south-eastern Australian shelf 
JEAN JUST (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3233: 52–66 (14 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 27 references                  Accepted: 20 Jan. 2012
Classification of Crangonyx islandicus (Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) based on morphological characters and comparison with molecular phylogenies 

ETIENNE KORNOBIS, SNĆBJÖRN PÁLSSON & JÖRUNDUR SVAVARSSON (Iceland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3233: 22–36 (14 Mar. 2012) 10 plates; 32 references                  Accepted: 20 Dec. 2011
Gnathia masca sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia 

CHARON FARQUHARSON (South Africa), NICO J. SMIT (South Africa), ALEXANDRA S. GRUTTER (Australia) & ANGELA J. DAVIES (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3224: 49–56 (7 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 9 references                  Accepted: 31 Jan. 2012
A new squat lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from off NW Spain 

KEIJI BABA (Japan) & ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3224: 4 1–48 (7 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 20 Jan. 2012
Coralliocaris junckeri, a new pontoniine shrimp species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Futuna Island, Central Pacific 

XINZHENG LI (China) & JOSEPH POUPIN (France)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3220: 6 1–64 (2 Mar. 2012) 0 plate; 18 references                  Accepted: 25 Feb. 2012
The Brachyura described by the Australian carcinologist William Aitcheson Haswell: checklist, dates of publication and bibliography (Crustacea: Decapoda) 
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3214: 1–125 (29 Feb. 2012) 2 plates; 736 references                  Accepted: 10 Nov. 2011   
John Edward Gray (1800–1875): his malacological publications and molluscan taxa
RICHARD E. PETIT
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Article 
Zootaxa 3210: 1–25 (28 Feb. 2012) 11 plates; 103 references                  Accepted: 19 Jan. 2012
Redescription of two ghost shrimps (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys: systematics, intraspecific variation, and in situ preservation 

MATÚŠ HYŽNÝ & NATÁLIA HUDÁ
ČKOVÁ (Slovakia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3206: 58–68 (24 Feb. 2012) 5 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 18 Jan. 2012
The systematic status of two enigmatic ocypodoid crabs, "Paracleistostoma" dentatum Tesch, 1918, and "Paracleistostoma" fossulum Barnard, 1955 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3206: 1–40 (24 Feb. 2012) 12 plates; 103 references                     Accepted: 29 Dec. 2011
A revision of the subgenus Eurycercus (Eurycercus) Baird, 1843 emend. nov. (Cladocera: Eurycercidae) in the Holarctic with the description of a new species from Alaska 
EUGENIYA I. BEKKER (Russia), ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & DEREK J. TAYLOR (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3205: 63–68 (24 Feb. 2012) 2 plates; 17 references                     Accepted: 17 Jan. 2012
First record of Prionocrangon Wood Mason & Alcock, 1891 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Crangonidae) in the East Pacific and description of a new species from western Mexico 
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX & MANUEL AYÓN-PARENTE (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3204: 1–19 (23 Feb. 2012) 5 plates; 148 references                     Accepted: 10 Jan. 2012
Illustrated key for the identification of the known zoeal stages of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from tropical and subtropical Brazil, southwestern Atlantic 

ANDREA G. KOETTKER, PAULO Y. G. SUMIDA, RUBENS M. LOPES & ANDREA S. FREIRE (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3200: 49–60 (21 Feb. 2012) 8 plate; 22 references                     Accepted: 17 Jan. 2012
First records of Epimeriidae and Iphimediidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Macquarie Ridge, with description of a new species and its juveniles 

ANNE-NINA LÖRZ (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3192: 24–38 (14 Feb. 2012) 6 plates; 31 references                        Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Postispinatus youngi n. gen., n. sp. (Apseudomorpha; Tanaidacea; Crustacea): phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic remarks about kalliapseudids 

KÁTIA CHRISTOL DOS SANTOS, WILLIAM SANTANA & ANA MARIA SETUBAL PIRES
-VANIN (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3190: 3 1–46 (10 Feb. 2012) 7 plate; 39 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2011
Molecular taxonomy of Speleonectes fuchscockburni, a new pseudocryptic species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from an anchialine cave system on the Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico
MARCO T. NEIBER (Germany), FINJA C. HANSEN (Germany), THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA),
BRETT C. GONZALEZ (USA) & STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3182: 43–50 (03 Feb. 2012) 5 plates; 3 references                           Accepted: 05 Dec. 2011
A new species of pontoniine shrimp genus Philarius Holthuis, 1952 (Crustacea: Decapoda:
 
Palaemonidae) from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3179: 1–38 (1 Feb. 2012) 25 plate; 40 references                           Accepted: 06 Dec. 2011
A new species of Attheyella (Canthosella) from Colombia and redescription of Attheyella (Delachauxiella) freyi (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Canthocamptidae)
SANTIAGO GAVIRIA (France) & DANIELLE DEFAYE (Austria)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3178: 68 (31 Jan. 2012)
Erratum: DWORSCHAK, P. C. (2011) On the identities of Callianassa bouvieri Nobili, 1904, C. maldivensis Borradaile, 1904, and C. gravieri Nobili, 1905 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae): a morphometric approach. Zootaxa 3049: 39–56
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Article 
Zootaxa 3170: 18–30 (24 Jan. 2012) 9 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 29 Nov. 2011
Notes on the morphology and ecology of the adult females of Nesippus species
(Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) with a key for identification
SUSAN M. DIPPENAAR & BEA P. JORDAAN (South Africa)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3167: 17–31 (20 Jan. 2012) 11 plates; 35 references                      Accepted: 22 Nov. 2011
Morphological and morphometric comparisons of the first zoea of four species of purse crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from the Brazilian South Atlantic
GUSTAVO L. HIROSE, RAFAEL A. GREGATI, ADILSON FRANSOZO
& MARIA L. NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3162: 3 1–38 (17 Jan. 2012) 2 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
A new atyid genus and species from Madagascar (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
JASMINE RICHARD, SAMMY DE GRAVE & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3162: 1–30 (17 Jan. 2012) 17 plates; 96 references                           Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
Report on some caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Mayotte, southwest Indian Ocean
XINZHENG LI (China), RÉGIS CLEVA (France) & JOSEPH POUPIN (France)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3161: 67–68 (16 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 74 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Remarks on the taxonomic status of Jaera danubica Brtek, 2003 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Janiridae)
PÉTER BORZA (Hungary)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3161: 20–36 (16 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2011
Two new species of Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in south India with a key to Leptestheriella and Eocyzicus
GULLIPALLI SIMHACHALAM (India) & BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3161: 1–19 (16 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 74 references                           Accepted: 16 Nov. 2011
Nonmarine ostracods (Crustacea) from South Korea, including a description a new species of Tanycypris Triebel (Cyprididae, Cypricercinae)
CHEON YOUNG CHANG (South Korea), JIMIN LEE (South Korea) & ROBIN J. SMITH (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3158: 20–36 (12 Jan. 2012) 8 plate; 41 references                           Accepted: 10 Nov. 2011
The Indonesian species of Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1823, with the description
of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU & DHARMA ARIF NUGROHO (Idonesia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3154: 61–68 (9 Jan. 2012) 4 plate; 4 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2011
Triacanthoneus akumalensis, a new species of alpheid shrimp (Crustacea: Caridea: Alpheidae) from an anchialine cave in Quintana Roo, Mexico
FERNANDO ALVAREZ (Mexico), THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA), BRETT GONZALEZ (USA) & JOSÉ LUIS
VILLALOBOS (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3154: 40–46 (9 Jan. 2012) 4 plate; 6 references                           Accepted: 1 Nov. 2011
Redescription of Desertoniscus taschkentensis (Verhoeff, 1930) and description
of Desertoniscus schmalfussi n. sp. (Isopoda: Oniscidea)
GHASEM M. KASHANI (Iran) & ANDREAS ALLSPACH (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3150: 36–58 (4 Jan. 2012) 12 plate; 30 references                       Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Three new species of copepods (Copepoda: Calanoida and Cyclopoida) from anchialine habitats in Indonesia
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL (UK) & DAMIŔ JAUME (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3150: 1–35 (4 Jan. 2012) 1 plate; 204 references                           Accepted: 1 Nov. 2011
Recent and fossil Isopoda Bopyridae parasitic on squat lobsters and porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea), with notes on nomenclature and biogeography
CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO, JASON D. WILLIAMS & JOHN C. MARKHAM (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3149: 39–56 (4 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 52 references                         Accepted: 3 Nov. 2011
On the identities of Callianassa bouvieri Nobili, 1904, C. maldivensis Borradaile, 1904, and C. gravieri Nobili, 1905 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae): a morphometric approach
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria)

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Zootaxa 3149: 1–38 (4 Jan. 2012) 24 plates; 74 references                         Accepted: 9 Nov. 2011
Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil with taxonomic key
RONY R. R. VIEIRA, RODRIGO S. FERREIRA & FERNANDO D’INCAO (Brazil)
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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 165–191 (23 Dec. 2011
Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

SHANE T. AHYONG, JAMES K. LOWRY, MIGUEL ALONSO, ROGER N. BAMBER, GEOFFREY A. BOXSHALL, PETER CASTRO, SARAH GERKEN, GORDAN S. KARAMAN, JOSEPH W. GOY, DIANA S. JONES, KENNETH MELAND, D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS & JÖRUNDUR SVAVARSSON
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3142: 1–172 (23 Dec. 2011) 111 plates; 125 references               Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
Systematic revision of the family Kalliapseudidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea)
DAVID T. DRUMM & RICHARD W. HEARD

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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 60–68 (22 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 7 references                         Accepted:  3 Oct. 2011
A new species of the genus Parastylodactylus Figueira, 1971 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Stylodactylidae) from off Kollam, southwest coast of India
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & C. P. RAJOOL SHANIS (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 15–37 (22 Dec. 2011) 12 plates; 49 references                    Accepted: 20 Oct. 2011
Groundwater, spring and interstitial Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, including descriptions of three new species and one new genus
ROBIN J. SMITH (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 1–14 (22 Dec. 2011) 1 plate; 27 references                         Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
Taxonomic review of freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Iran
MEHRDAD ZAMANPOORE (Austria), MICHAL GRABOWSKI (Poland), MANFRED POECKL (Austria) & FRIEDRICH SCHIEMER (Austria)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3134: 68 (16 Dec. 2011)
Erratum: YOUNG-HYO KIM, ED A. HENDRYCKS & KYUNG-SOOK LEE (2011) The genus Guernea Chevreux, 1887 from Korean waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Dexaminidae) Zootaxa, 3104, 1–25.
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Zootaxa 3129: 29–38 (14 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 19 references                     Accepted: 07 Nov. 2011
Description of Sarsilatona cf. fernandoi (Rane, 1983) (Crustacea: Cladocera: Sididae) found in the south of Vietnam
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3125: 39–50 (09 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 35 references                        Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
A new genus of Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) for a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific and Pagurus longimanus Wass, 1963 from the tropical western Atlantic
RAFAEL LEMAITRE & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3123: 49–59 (08 Dec. 2011) 7 plates; 1 references                           Accepted: 01 Nov. 2011
Two new species of alcyonacean-associated shrimp genus Alcyonohippolyte Marin, Okuno & Chan, 2010 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae) from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3117: 1–68 (02 Dec. 2011) 47 plates; 42 references                         Accepted: 14 Oct. 2011
New and known species of the family Leuconidae(Cumacea, Peracarida) from Antarctic deep-sea basins
UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL
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Article
Zootaxa 3115: 21–28 (01 Dec. 2011) 6 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 19 Aug. 2011
Speleonectes williamsi, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Bahamas
TAMARA R. HARTKE (Germany), STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany) & JILL YAGER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3111: 49–63 (28 Nov. 2011) 8 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 14 Oct. 2011
Akanthoparapseudes alfaroae, a new genus and species of apseudomorphan tanaidacean (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from Puerto Rican coastal waters
RICHARD W. HEARD & ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3109: 60–68 (24 Nov. 2011) 03 plates; 21 references                        Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
New species of Acasta and Balanus (Balanoidea: Acastinae, Balaninae) from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of the Aquitaine Basin, France
RENÉ-PIERRE CARRIOL, BRUNO CAHUZAC & JEAN-FRANÇOIS LESPORT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3109: 49–59 (24 Nov. 2011) 08 plates; 23 references                        Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
A new genus and species of anchialine Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Samar, Philippines
DANIEL EDISON M. HUSANA (Japan), SWEE HEE TAN (Singapore) & TOMOKI KASE (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3106: 60–66 (22 Nov. 2011) 0 plates; 50 references                         Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha)
ARNOLD ROSS† & MICHAEL G. FRICK (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3104: 26–41 (21 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 59 references                        Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Pagurus
PAULO RICARDO NUCCI & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3104: 1–25 (21 Nov. 2011) 16 plates; 20 references                  Accepted: 02 Sep. 2011
The genus Guernea Chevreux, 1887 from Korean waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Dexaminidae)
YOUNG-HYO KIM (Canada), ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada) & KYUNG-SOOK LEE (Korea)

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Article
Zootaxa 3103: 1–32 (18 Nov. 2011) 16 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
Oxynaspididae (Crustacea, Cirripedia): phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, with descriptions of three new genera and six new species
ROBERT J. VAN SYOC & ALLEN M. DEKELBOUM (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3103: 33–56 (18 Nov. 2011) 11 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 17 Oct. 2011
Parasitic copepods of the family Taeniacanthidae (Crustacea) from triggerfishes (Teleostei, Balistidae) and filefishes (Teleostei, Monacanthidae) collected in the Indo-West Pacific region, with descriptions of two new species of Taeniacanthus Sumpf, 1871
DANNY TANG (Australia), DAISUKE UYENO (Japan) & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3099: 43–56 (16 Nov. 2011) 0 plates; 75 references                         Accepted: 07 Oct. 2011
The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtiss in 1938 and 1944
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), LUCIUS G. ELDREDGE (USA) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3098: 47–54 (15 Nov. 2011) 1 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
Stella Vladimirovna Vassilenko (1936−2011): in memoriam
VICTOR V. PETRYASHOV (Russia), MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA (Finland)
 
& ALEXEY V. CHERNYSHEV (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3096: 41–52 (11 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
Revisiting Pagurus pilosipes (Stimpson, 1858) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae)
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), CHIEN-HUI YANG (Taiwan), JUNJI OKUNO (Japan)
& TIN-YAM CHAN (Taiwan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3091: 60–68 (04 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
A new species of the genus Iiella Băcescu, 1968 (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from Malaysia, with notes on I. elegans (Tattersall, 1960)
KOUKI FUKUOKA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3091: 51–59 (04 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
A new species of Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Cape d’Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong
CHRISTINE N.W. LEE (China) & ROGER N. BAMBER (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 3089: 51–59 (03 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
New species of Plesionika Bate, 1888 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) from Southwestern Atlantic
IRENE A. CARDOSO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 39–53 (02 Nov. 2011) 7 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 19 Sep. 2011
The tanaidacean assemblage from the Central Pacific Manganese Nodule Province. II. The genera Stenotanais and Typhlotanais (Crustacea)
KIM LARSEN (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 57–68 (01 Nov. 2011) 5 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
A new species of Chaceon Manning & Holthuis, 1989, from the southwestern Atlantic, with a key to the western Atlantic species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Geryonidae)
MARCOS TAVARES & ALLYSSON P. PINHEIRO (Brazil)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3078: 1–113 (28 Oct. 2011) 27 plates; 289 references                   Accepted: 26 Aug. 2011
A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
KRISTINE N. WHITE

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3063: 64–68 (20 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
A new species of Keysercypria Karanovic (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Argentina
ANALÍA R. DÍAZ & ESTELA C. LOPRETTO (Argentina)

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Article
Zootaxa 3063: 53–63 (20 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 30 Sep. 2011
A new freshwater species of Neorhynchoplax Sakai, 1938 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hymenosomatidae) from Patna, Bihar, India
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), HASKO F. NESEMANN (India) & GOPAL SHARMA (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 3061: 1–35 (18 Oct. 2011) 18 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Mud-Volcano and Seep Sites on the Norwegian Margin 
MAGDALENA BŁA
ŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & ROGER N. BAMBER (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 3059: 59–68 (14 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 7 references                         Accepted: 08 Sep. 2011
Description of a third species in the alpheid shrimp genus Richalpheus Anker & Jeng, 2006 (Crustacea, Decapoda) 
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3059: 47–58 (14 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 19 Sep. 2011
Bicornucandona gen. nov., sp. nov. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Finegan Springs (Texas, U.S.A.) OKAN KÜLKÖYLÜOĞLU (Turkey), RANDY GIBSON (USA), PETER H. DIAZ (USA) & JEAN-PAUL COLIN (Portugal)
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Article
Zootaxa 3057: 61–68 (12 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 13 Sep. 2011
A new genus for Libinia rostrata Bell, 1835, with comments on the validity of Libinia bellicosa Oliveira, 1944 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea, Epialtidae) 
MARCOS TAVARES & WILLIAM SANTANA (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3052: 51–61 (07 Oct. 2011) 3 plates; 75 references                         Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
The Polydectinae Dana, 1851, of the Philippines, with description of a new genus for Lybia hatagumoana Sakai, 1961 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) 
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 3048: 1–43 (04 Oct. 2011) 18 plates; 83 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Grapsoid crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Thoracotremata) of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman REZA NADERLOO (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3043: 25–32 (28 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 01 Aug. 2011
A new species of Lynceus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata) from Patagonia, with comments on laevicaudatan systematics 
PABLO PESSACQ (Argentina), LUIS B. EPELE (Argentina) & D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3042: 1–14 (27 Sep. 2011) 9 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 02 Sep. 2011
Calappa exanthematosa Alcock & Anderson, 1894, as a valid species of box crab from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Calappidae) 
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), JOELLE C. Y. LAI (Singapore), NEGAR GHOTBEDDIN (Iran) & MOHSEN SAFAIE (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3041: 39–50 (24 Sep. 2011) 6 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Two new species of Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 with a deep dorsal depression on the carapace (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) 
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3041: 1–38 (24 Sep. 2011) 27 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 12 Aug. 2011
Six new species and three new records of infaunal alpheid shrimps from the genera Leptalpheus Williams, 1965 and Fenneralpheus Felder & Manning, 1986 (Crustacea, Decapoda) 
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3036: 26–38 (21 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 40 references                         Accepted: 24 Aug. 2011
Two new species of the deep-sea squat lobster genus Munida Leach, 1820 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munididae) from Taiwan: morphological and molecular evidence 
PATRICIA CABEZAS (Spain), CHIA-WEI LIN (Taiwan) & TIN-YAM CHAN (Taiwan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3027: 52–62 (15 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 19 Aug. 2011
A new sponge-inhabiting leptostracan species of the genus Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, Gulf of Mexico 
MANUEL ORTIZ, IGNACIO WINFIELD & SERGIO CHÁZARO-OLVERA (Mexico)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3026: 1–64 (14 Sep. 2011) 26 plates; 113 references               Accepted: 23 Jun. 2011
Molecular and morphological evidence for short range endemism in the Kinnecaris solitaria complex (Copepoda: Parastenocarididae), with descriptions of seven new species 
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC & STEVEN J.B. COOPER
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Article
Zootaxa 3025: 59–65 (14 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 17 Aug. 2011
Nyctobadistes gen. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Munnopsidae), a new genus from Tasmanian waters, Australia, with the description of a new species 
KELLY L. MERRIN (New Zealand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3025: 1–37 (14 Sep. 2011) 19 plates; 68 references                         Accepted: 28 Jul. 2011
Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Laos 
YUKIO HANAMURA (Japan), HIDEYUKI IMAI (Japan), OULAYTHAM LASASIMMA (Lao), PANY SOULIYAMATH (Lao) & SAYAKA ITO (Japan)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3018: 66–68 (08 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 5 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
A new species of Ancylomenes Okuno & Bruce, 2009 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Kimberley region, Western Australia
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3015: 29–51 (06 Sep. 2011) 10 plates; 62 references                         Accepted: 08 Aug. 2011
Revision of the genus Glyptoxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, and establishment of Glyptoxanthinae nov. subfam. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) 
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA (Singapore) & DANIČLE GUINOT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3011: 45–58 (01 Sep. 2011) 11 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 9 Jun. 2011
A revision of the freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) of the Lake Kivu drainage basin in Central and East Africa 
KIRSTIN S. MEYER & NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3001: 65–67 (23 Aug. 2011) 1 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 11 Jul. 2011
A note on an Ancylomenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Siboga expedition 
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2998: 66–68 (18 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 27 Jul. 2011
Discovery of the shrimp Pycnocaris chagoae Bruce, 1972 (Decapoda: Caridea: Gnathophyllidae) in the Lakshadweep Archipelago, India 
SANJEEVI PRAKASH, IDREES BABU, MOHAN GOPI, THIPPARAMALAI THANGAPPANPILLAI AJITH KUMAR & THANGAVEL BALASUBRAMANIAN (India)

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Zootaxa 2994: 45–59 (12 Aug. 2011) 10 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 14 Jul. 2011
The Cumacean Dimorphostylis elegans Gamô, 1960 (Crustacea), D. bathyelegans n. sp. and D. brevicarpus n. sp. from Japan 
TADASHI AKIYAMA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2990: 45–58 (09 Aug. 2011) 8 plates; 21 references                     Accepted: 18 Jul. 2011
Morphology of the complete larval development of the symbiotic crab Sestrostoma balssi (Shen, 1932) (Varunidae: Gaeticinae) 
ELENA S. KORNIENKO & OLGA M. KORN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 2988: 53–65 (08 Aug. 2011) 7 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 7 Jul. 2011
Early zoeal development of the shrimp Hippolyte leptocerus (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) GUILLERMO GUERAO (Spain), ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ (Spain) & ÁNGEL URZÚA (Germany)
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Zootaxa 2983: 57–68 (03 Aug. 2011) 7 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 01 Jul. 2011
Periclimenaeus echinimanus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), a new species from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea 
ZDEN
ĚK ĎURIŠ (Czech Republic), IVONA HORKÁ (Czech Republic) & FUAD AL–HORANI (Jordan)
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Zootaxa 2982: 33–39 (02 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from Maluku, Indonesia 
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia)
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Zootaxa 2982: 27–32 (02 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from the Philippines 
PAUL F. CLARK (England) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 2978: 1–33 (28 Jul. 2011) 22 plates; 39 references                         Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
Cumacea from the continental shelf of Angola and Namibia with descriptions of new species
RALF BOCHERT & MICHAEL L. ZETTLER (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2972: 59–68 (21 Jul. 2011) 6 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 8 Jun. 2011
Procambarus (Ortmannicus) luxus (Decapoda: Cambaridae), a new crayfish from southern Texas
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)

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Zootaxa 2972: 1–21 (21 Jul. 2011) 14 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
Four new species of the subterranean amphipod genus Stygobromus (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from shallow groundwater habitats on the Coastal Plain and eastern margin of the Piedmont in Maryland and Virginia, USA
JOHN R. HOLSINGER, LYNNETTE MEADOR ANSELL & JUSTIN SHAFER (USA)

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Zootaxa 2971: 17–32 (20 Jul. 2011) 10 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 15 Jun. 2011
The first blind Paranthura species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Paranthuridae) from the 'El Cachucho' Marine Protected Area (Le Danois Bank, southern Bay of Biscay)
INMACULADA FRUTOS (Spain), JEAN CLAUDE SORBE (France) & JUAN JUNOY (Spain)
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Zootaxa 2968: 57–68 (18 Jul. 2011) 7 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 20 Jun. 2011
Lacertopontonia chadi gen. et sp. nov., a new oyster-associated Pontonia-like pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2968: 1–25 (18 Jul. 2011) 12 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 2 Jun. 2011
The genus Limnoria (Limnoriidae, Isopoda, Crustacea) in Europe, including a key to species
JOSÉ CASTELLÓ (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 2966: 51–57 (14 Jul. 2011) 2 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 9 Jun. 2011
New species and new records of cumaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Cumacea) from the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean
IORGU PETRESCU (Romania) & TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2962: 21–35 (11 Jul. 2011) 9 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 22 Apr. 2011
Two new species of sand-bubbler crabs, Scopimera, from North China and the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dotillidae)
KINGSLEY J.H. WONG, HSI-TE SHIH & BENNY K.K. CHAN (R. China)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2956: 1–76 (08 Jul. 2011) 52 plates; 81 references               Accepted: 19 May 2011
The tryphosine genera Photosella gen. nov. and Tryphosella
Bonnier, 1893 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae) in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2955: 1–79 (08 Jul. 2011) 48 plates; 57 references               Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
New species of Hoho, Mallacoota and Parelasmopus
(Maeridae: Amphipoda) from Australian waters
L.E. HUGHES

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2947: 1–154 (08 Jul. 2011) 1 plates; 561 references               Accepted: 22 Mar. 2011
Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands
PETER CASTRO

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Article
Zootaxa 2939: 59–68 (05 Jul. 2011) 6 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 8 Jun. 2011
Fallicambarus (F.) wallsi (Decapoda: Cambaridae), a new burrowing crayfish from eastern Texas
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)
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Zootaxa 2934: 61–67 (30 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 13 Jun. 2011
A new genus for Psopheticus megalops Takeda, 1989 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacidae)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2934: 53–60 (30 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 9 Jun. 2011
Redescription of the rheophilous cladocera Camptocercus vietnamensis Than, 1980 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 2930: 33–46 (27 Jun. 2011) 9 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 30 May 2011
Two new species of cirolanid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from Qeshm and Kish Islands in the Persian Gulf
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)
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Zootaxa 2929: 37–50 (24 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 11 Jun. 2011
A new species of Sandro Karaman & Barnard (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Austroniphargus family group) from South-East Madagascar
MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA (Finland)
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Zootaxa 2929: 22–36 (24 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
The genus Mallacoota (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Maeridae) in New Zealand
NIAMH M. KILGALLEN (New Zealand) & SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2925: 49–56 (21 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 17 May 2011
Description of a new deep-water species of Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 from the Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil) & MARTHA NIZINSKI (USA)
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Zootaxa 2925: 1–18 (21 Jun. 2011) 9 plates; 62 references                         Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
Asterocherids (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) associated with marine invertebrates in the Strait of Gibraltar
MERCEDES CONRADI & MŞ EUGENIA BANDERA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 2924: 63–67 (20 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 11 May 2011
Redescription of Porcellio brevicaudatus Brandt, 1833 (Isopoda: Oniscidea); with some notes on other synonyms of Hemilepistus reaumurii (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
GHASEM M. KASHANI (Iran), JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany) & HELMUT SCHMALFUSS
(Germany)
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Zootaxa 2924: 33–56 (20 Jun. 2011) 19 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 31 May 2011
Four new species of the interstitial family Cobanocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from central Japan
RYOUICHI HIGASHI & AKIRA TSUKAGOSHI (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2919: 1–36 (14 Jun. 2011) 20 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 9 May 2011
Apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from mud-volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz (North-east Atlantic)
MAGDALENA BŁA
ŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland), ROGER N. BAMBER (UK) & MARINA R.CUNHA (Portugal)
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Zootaxa 2918: 29–38 (14 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
Catoptrus iejima, a new species of cavernicolous swimming crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from a submarine cave at Ie Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
YOSHIHISA FUJITA & TOHRU NARUSE (Japan)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2912: 68–68 (9 Jun. 2011) 0 plates; 7 references                         Accepted: 19 May 2011
Dana, replacement name for the New Zealand talitrid amphipod genus Tara Duncan, 1994 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae), preoccupied by Tara Peckham & Peckham, 1886 (Araneae, Salticidae, Amycinae, Astiini)
J.K. LOWRY (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2912: 37–48 (9 Jun. 2011) 39 plates; 68 references                         Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
The highly divergent New World Artemia species (Branchiopoda, Anostraca), A. franciscana and A. persimilis, show subtle differences in morphological traits involved in mating
GRAZIELLA MURA (Italy) & GONZALO GAJARDO (Chile)
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Article
Zootaxa 2911: 57–68 (9 Jun. 2011) 7 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 14 May 2011
Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica
ROBERT PERGER (Costa Rica), RITA VARGAS (Costa Rica) & ADAM WALL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2911: 1–42 (9 Jun. 2011) 21 plates; 66 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
Brachyuran crabs of the family Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) of the Persian Gulf
REZA NADERLOO (Iran), MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany) & MICHAEL APEL (Germany)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2904: 66–68 (2 Jun. 2011) 0 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 17 May 2011
On the nomenclature of the palaemonid names Palaemon spinipes Desmarest, 1817, Palaemon spinipes Schenkel, 1902, and Macrobrachium wallacei Wowor & Ng, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2903: 64–68 (2 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
Further records of the anchialine shrimp, Periclimenes pholeter Holthuis, 1973 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae)
S. DE GRAVE (UK) & T. S. SAKIHARA (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2894: 39–57 (27 May 2011) 13 plates; 18 references                      Accepted: 7 Apr. 2011
Two new Gammarus species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Zagros Mountains, Iran
MARYAM HEKMATARA, ALIREZA SARI & MOHAMMAD-HADI HEIDARY BALADEHI (Iran)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2891: 1–62 (25 May 2011) 34 plates; 45 references                       Accepted: 4 Apr. 2011
Paratanaoidean tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from littoral and shallow sublittoral habitats in New Zealand, with
descriptions of three new genera and seven new species
GRAHAM J. BIRD
(New Zealand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2890: 40–52 (25 May 2011) 1 plates; 101 references                      Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
The position of the Hymenosomatidae MacLeay, 1838, within the Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda)
DANIČLE GUINOT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2890: 29–39 (25 May 2011) 8 plates; 9 references                        Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Fennera holthuisi sp. nov., a new coral-associated pontoniine shrimp (Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) from Moorea, French Polynesia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2889: 49–68 (24 May 2011) 14 plates; 17 references                    Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Two new Byrathis species (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the deep South Atlantic and Southern Ocean and first description of an adult male
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA (Russia) & JASMIN RENZ (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 2889: 35–48 (24 May 2011) 10 plates; 23 references                      Accepted: 3 May 2011
Labuanium vitatum (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), a new Indo-West Pacific species of arboreal crab
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PETER J. F. DAVIE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2886: 19–30 (23 May 2011) 7 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Apseudes talpa revisited (Crustacea; Tanaidacea).
The impact on apseudidaen systematics

KIM LARSEN, IACOPO BERTOCCI & ELSA FROUFE (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 2881: 31–38 (17 May 2011) 3 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Kabutos, a new genus for the western Pacific leucosiid crab, Merocryptus durandi Serčne, 1955 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
HIRONORI KOMATSU (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2877: 4 1–54 (13 May 2011) 6 plates; 25 references                      Accepted: 13 Apr. 2011
Larval development of the freshwater shrimp Atyaephyra desmarestii (Millet, 1831) sensu lato (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) and morphological maturation from juveniles to adults
CHRYSSA ANASTASIADOU, ALEXANDROS NTAKIS & IOANNIS D. LEONARDOS (Greece)

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Article
Zootaxa 2876: 57–68 (12 May 2011) 7 plates; 33 references                     Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Cymothoa hermani sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea), a parasitic isopod, collected off the Zanzibar coast, Tanzania from the mouth of a parrotfish (Scaridae)
KERRY A. HADFIELD (South Africa), NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia) & NICO J. SMIT (South Africa)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2875: 1–64 (11 May 2011) 30 plates; 51 references                       Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Separation of Anthalona gen.n. from Alona Baird, 1843 (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda): morphology and evolution of scraping stenothermic alonines
KAY VAN DAMME (Belgium), ARTEM YU SINEV (Russia) & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2874: 65–68 (11 May 2011) 0 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Neither molecular nor morphological data have all the answers; with an example from Macrobrachium (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Australia
TIMOTHY J. PAGE & JANE M. HUGHES (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2874: 1–37 (11 May 2011) 12 plates; 89 references                      Accepted: 23 Feb. 2011
Recent Cyprididae and Ilyocyprididae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lake Biwa, Japan, including a summary of the lake’s ostracod fauna
ROBIN J. SMITH (Japan), HORST JANZ (Germany) & ICHIRO OKUBO (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2869: 54–62 (6 May 2011) 4 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
Centromedon zoe (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the North Atlantic, with a key to the genus Centromedon
TAMMY HORTON & MICHAEL THURSTON (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2869: 37–53 (6 May 2011) 9 plates; 32 references                        Accepted: 29 Mar. 2011
Andhracoides shabuddin gen. nov., sp. nov., a new phreatoicidean isopod (Crustacea, Hypsimetopidae) from hypogean aquatic habitats in Andhra Pradesh, India
GEORGE D. F. WILSON (Australia) & YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2867: 43–58 (5 May 2011) 8 plates; 27 references                        Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Morphology of larval and first juvenile stages of the kangaroo shrimp Dugastella valentina (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea), a freshwater atyid with abbreviated development and parental care
ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ & JOSÉ A. CUESTA (Spain)

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Article
Zootaxa 2864: 34–42 (3 May 2011) 2 plates; 60 references                        Accepted: 22 Feb. 2011
Nikoides schmitti Manning & Chace, 1971 (Caridea: Processidae) in the South Atlantic Ocean, with an updated list and key for processid shrimps of Brazil
ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA ALMEIDA & LUIS ERNESTO ARRUDA BEZERRA (Brazil)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2857: 1–87 (29 Apr. 2011) 10 plates; 98 references                        Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
Revision of Metaconchoecia (Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) and the designation of two new tribes Conchoeciini
and Metaconchoeciini
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR(Russia) & MARTIN V. ANGEL
(UK)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2855: 1–79 (29 Apr. 2011) 0 plates; 59 references                       Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) 

KOEN MARTENS (
Belgium) & SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2839: 67–84 (29 Apr. 2011) 11 plates; 19 references                  Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
Three new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the tropical western Pacific
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2838: 79–84 (29 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 22 references                      Accepted: 3 Feb. 2011
First genetic data for species of the genus Haploniscus Richardson, 1908 (Isopoda: Asellota: Haploniscidae) from neighbouring deep-sea basins in the South Atlantic
SASKIA BRIX, TORBEN RIEHL & FLORIAN LEESE (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 2834: 1–16 (27 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 25 Mar. 2011
Sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps (Alpheidae: Synalpheus) of Barbados, West Indies, with a description of a new eusocial species
KRISTIN M. HULTGREN, KENNETH S MACDONALD III & J. EMMETT DUFFY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2833: 15–28 (27 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 27 references                       Accepted: 16 Mar. 2011
New Mysida (Crustacea) in the genus Pseudomma from the Bellingshausen Sea (Southern Ocean)
CARLOS SAN VICENTE (Sapin)

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Article
Zootaxa 2826: 45–56 (20 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 39 references                       Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Hormonal induction of males as a method for studying tropical cladocerans:
description of males of four chydorid species (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & LA-ORSRI SANOAMUANG (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2825: 55–68 (20 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 51 references                         Accepted: 18 Jan. 2011
Africorchestia a new genus of sand-hoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from western Africa and south-western Europe
JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia) & CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 2823: 32–46 (18 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 45 references                       Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Two new species of Heteromysis (Olivemysis) (Mysida, Mysidae, Heteromysinae)
from the tropical northwest Atlantic with diagnostics on the subgenus Olivemysis Băcescu, 1968
W. WAYNE PRICE & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2820: 1–61 (14 Apr. 2011) 30 plates; 108 references                       Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
On the recent Cyclocypridinae (Podocopida, Candonidae) with description of two new genera and one new species
IVANA KARANOVIC (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2813: 55–64 (8 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
Dikerogammarus istanbulensis sp. n., a new amphipod species (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Turkey with a key for the genus
MURAT ÖZBEK & NURCAN ÖZKAN (Turkey)

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Article
Zootaxa 2813: 1–54 (8 Apr. 2011) 37 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Remarkable Australasian marine diversity: 18 new species in Pentaceration Just, 2009 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Paramunnidae)
JEAN JUST (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2812: 2 1–27 (8 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
Babamunida debrae, a new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Anomura:
Galatheoidea: Munididae) from the Hawaiian Islands
KEIJI BABA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2809: 58–66 (5 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 9 Mar. 2011
Leelumnus radium, a new genus and species of pilumnid crab from marine encrusting communities in Singapore (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae)
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2809: 33–46 (5 Apr. 2011) 8 plates; 35 references                             Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
New species of small, bathypelagic calanoid copepods from the Arctic Ocean: Brodskius arcticus sp. nov. (Tharybidae) and three new species of Pertsovius gen. nov. (Discoidae)
VLADIMIR N. ANDRONOV & KSENIA N. KOSOBOKOVA (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2809: 1–19 (5 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 18 references                               Accepted: 8 Mar. 2011
Proposal of Fiersiphontina gen. nov., redescription of Fiersiphontina sensillata comb. nov., and new data on the distribution of Spiniferaphonte (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontidae)
MARIA CRISTINA BRUNO & VEZIO COTTARELLI (Italy)

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Article
Zootaxa 2800: 1–17 (25 Mar. 2011) 9 plates; 33 references                       Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
Revision of the genus Alonopsis Sars, 1862 and its position within Aloninae (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV & MARGARITA M. ATROSCHENKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2799: 63–68 (24 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 10 references                     Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
A new species of Hemus (Majoidea: Majidae: Mithracinae) from the Pacific coast of Panamá, with a key to the genus
AMANDA M. WINDSOR & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2793: 35–46 (17 Mar. 2011) 5 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
On Potamocypris compressa (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from temporary rock pools in Utah, USA, with notes on the taxonomic harmonisation of North American and European ostracod faunas
DAVID J. HORNE (UK), MERLIJN JOCQUE (Belgium), LUC BRENDONCK (Belgium) & KOEN MARTENS
(Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 2793: 23–34 (17 Mar. 2011) 6 plates; 37 references                      Accepted: 26 Jan. 2011
The genus Lanocira Hansen, 1890 (Corallanidae: Isopoda: Crustacea) in tropical Australian waters
NIEL L. BRUCE & CONNI SIDABALOK (Australia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2791: 68 (15 Mar. 2011
Erratum: Marin, I., Okuno, J. & Chan, T.-Y. (2011) On the “Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925”
species complex (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae), with the designation of a new genus and description of two new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa, 2768, 32–54.
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Article
Zootaxa 2791: 63–67 (15 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 4 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
A new species of amphipod, Megamphopus katagani sp. nov.
(Crustacea: Peracarida: Photidae) from the Sea of Marmara (Turkey), with a key to the species of Megamphopus in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and associated Seas
KEREM BAKIR (Turkey), MURAT SEZGIN (Turkey) & ALAN A. MYERS (Ireland)

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Article
Zootaxa 2791: 54–62 (15 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 3 Feb. 2011
Validation of the family Bathyporeiidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda)
CEDRIC D'UDEKEM D'ACOZ (Belgium)

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Article
Zootaxa 2789: 49–68 (11 Mar. 2011) 16 plates; 54 references                     Accepted: 10 Dec. 2011
Two Northeast Pacific deep-water barnacle populations (Cirripedia:
Calanticidae and Pachylasmatidae) from seamounts of the Juan de Fuca Ridge; "insular" endemics stemming from Tethys, or by subsequent dispersal from the Western Pacific center of distribution? 
WILLIAM A. NEWMAN & WILLIAM J. JONES (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2788: 45–56 (11 Mar. 2011) 0 plates; 68 references                        Accepted: 28 Jan. 2011
The forgotten Narrative of H.M.S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature
CARLO FROGLIA (Italy) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2788: 1–37 (11 Mar. 2011) 21 plates; 40 references                       Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
Review of eastern Asian species of the mysid genus Rhopalophthalmus Illig, 1906 (Crustacea, Mysida) with descriptions of three new species
YUKIO HANAMURA (Japan), MASAAKI MURANO (Japan) & ALIAS MAN (Malaysia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2787: 1–18 (10 Mar. 2011) 10 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 8 Jan. 2011
Cryptic diversity of the semi-terrestrial amphipod Platorchestia japonica (Tattersall, 1922) (Amphipoda: Talitrida: Talitridae) in Japan and Taiwan, with description of a new species
YU-TING CHENG (R. China), KENJI NAKAZONO (Japan), Y. KIRK LIN (R. China) & BENNY K.K. CHAN
(R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2785: 32–52 (8 Mar. 2011) 12 plates; 36 references                        Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
New records of the family Agathotanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) in the Antarctic, with remarks on Arthrura monacantha (Vanhöffen, 1914)
PIOTR JÓ
ŹWIAK & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2783: 1–20 (4 Mar. 2011) 13 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 21 Jan. 2011
Description of two new species of munnopsid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Asellota) from manganese nodules area of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, Pacific Ocean
MARINA V. MALYUTINA (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2781: 1–28 (2 Mar. 2011) 20 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 8 Jan. 2011
A partial revision of the Philarius gerlachei (Nobili, 1905) species complex (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae), with description of four new species
IVAN MARIN (Russia) & ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2769: 54–64 (21 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
A synopsis of the subterranean asellids of Maryland, U.S.A., with description of Caecidotea alleghenyensis, new species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
JULIAN J. LEWIS, THOMAS E. BOWMAN & DANIEL J. FELLER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2769: 1–53 (21 Feb. 2011) 27 plates; 62 references                        Accepted: 25 Nov. 2010
New tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from submarine
mud-volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz (North-east Atlantic)
MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland), ROGER N BAMBER (UK) & MARINA R CUNHA (Portugal)
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Zootaxa 2768: 32–54 (18 Feb. 2011) 16 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
On the “Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925” species complex (Decapoda,
Caridea, Hippolytidae), with the designation of a new genus and description of two new species from the Indo-West Pacific
IVAN MARIN (Russia), JUNJI OKUNO (Japan) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2767: 41–56 (17 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 22 references                     Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
A new species within the Eurytemora affinis complex (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Atlantic Coast of USA, with observations on eight morphologically different European populations
VICTOR R. ALEKSEEV (Russia) & ANISSA SOUISSI (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2765: 38–46 (15 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
New species of Benthana Budde-Lund, 1908 (Crustacea: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) from Paraná, Brazil
IVANKLIN S. CAMPOS-FILHO & PAULA BEATRIZ ARAUJO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2761: 64–68 (9 Feb. 2011) 0 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2010
On the identity of Collingwood’s Pill-Making Crab, Sphaerapoeia collingwoodii
Collingwood, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Dotillidae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan) & PETER K.L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2758: 26–42 (7 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
Diversity and distribution of assemblages of estuarine decapod larvae
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) in tropical southeastern Brazil
R. A. MAGRIS & L.F. LOUREIRO FERNANDES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2754: 51–59 (1 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Two new deep-sea squat lobsters of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae) from Taiwan
CHIA-WEI LIN & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2749: 62–68 (26 Jan. 2011) 1 plates; 39 references                         Accepted: 23 Dec. 2010
A new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Anostraca) with comments on the large branchiopod crustaceans of Kansas
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA), DON DASIS (USA) & DANIEL G. MURROW (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2747: 53–68 (24 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 68 references                       Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
The new deep-sea families Cebocaridae fam. nov., Cyclocaridae fam. nov. and
Thoriellidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2746: 1–19 (21 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 22 Dec. 2010
Redescription of Callianassa jousseaumei Nobili, 1904, a junior subjective synonym of Callianassa indica de Man, 1905 with description of a new species of Neocallichirus (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae)
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria)

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Article
Zootaxa 2737: 34–48 (12 Jan. 2011) 9 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Pele ramseyi, a new genus and new species of anchialine swimming crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from the Hawaiian Islands
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2734: 63–68 (7 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
The alpheid shrimp genus Leslibetaeus Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann,
2006 in the Western Atlantic, with description of a new species from Tobago (Crustacea, Decapoda)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2734: 1–22 (7 Jan. 2011) 13 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
Four new infaunal decapod crustaceans (Caridea: Alpheidae and Gebiidea:
Axianassidae) from Lizard Island, Australia, one of them also occurring in Moorea, French Polynesia
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2732: 33–48 (5 Jan. 2011) 11 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Three new species of Indochinamon Yeo & Ng, 2007 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamidae) from Vietnam, with a redescription of Ranguna (Ranguna) kimboiensis Dang, 1975
TOHRU NARUSE (Japan), NGUYEN XUAN QUYNH (Vietnam) & DARREN C. J. YEO (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2732: 20–32 (5 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 77 references                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2010
Odiomarinae nov. subfam., a new subfamily for two primitive genera of
Hymenosomatidae MacLeay, 1838, with preliminary remarks on the family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)
DANIČLE GUINOT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2730: 1–22 (24 Dec. 2010) 6 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 15 Nov. 2010
Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) of the North-east Atlantic:
the Agathotanaidae of the AFEN, BIOFAR and BIOICE projects, with a description of a new species of Paragathotanais Lang
GRAHAM J BIRD (New Zealand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2718: 39–50 (9 Dec. 2010) 7 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 29 Oct. 2010
Gnathia grutterae sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) parasitising representatives of the Balistidae, Labridae and Tetraodontidae from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
MARYKE L. FERREIRA (South Africa), NICO J SMIT (South Africa) & ANGELA J DAVIES (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2718: 1–22 (9 Dec. 2010) 8 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 13 Nov. 2010
A new Central European species of the Daphnia curvirostris complex,
Daphnia hrbaceki sp. nov. (Cladocera, Anomopoda, Daphniidae)
PETR JAN JURA
ČKA, VLADIMÍR KOŘÍNEK & ADAM PETRUSEK (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2715: 1–35 (7 Dec. 2010) 12 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 18 Oct. 2010
Six new species of the brine shrimp Parartemia Sayce 1903 (Crustacea: Anostraca: Artemiina) in Western Australia
BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2713: 55–64 (6 Dec. 2010) 3 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
Two new clam shrimp species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata)
from Kerala, India
K. K SUBHASH BABU & S. BIJOY NANDAN (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2713: 25–51 (6 Dec. 2010) 18 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 15 Nov. 2010
Six new species of the genus Chevalia Walker, 1904 (Amphipoda, Corophiidea, Chevaliidae) from Brazilian waters, with a key to world species of the genus
JESSER F. SOUZA-FILHO, ANA MARIA T. SOUZA & MARIA TERESA VALÉRIO-BERARDO
(Brazil)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2712: 1–60 (3 Dec. 2010) 18 plates; 46 references                        Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
Taxonomic revision of the genus Paramunida Baba, 1988 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae): a
morphological and molecular approach
PATRICIA CABEZAS, ENRIQUE MACPHERSON & ANNIE MACHORDOM (Spain)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2691: 53–56 (30 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 13 Nov. 2010
Discovery of the rare burrowing shrimp Calliapagurops charcoti de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in shallow water: first record of the infraorder for Madeira Island
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria) & PETER WIRTZ (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 2691: 4 1–52 (30 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
Phylogeny of Calyptraeotheres Campos, 1990 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) with the description of C. pepeluisi new species from the tropical Mexican Pacific
ERNESTO CAMPOS (Mexico) & IVÁN HERNÁNDEZ-ÁVILA (Venezuela)

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Article
Zootaxa 2691: 1–40 (30 Nov. 2010) 1 plates; 105 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
An annotated list of fish parasites (Copepoda, Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda
and Nematoda) collected from Emperors and Emperor Bream (Lethrinidae) in New Caledonia further highlights parasite biodiversity estimates on coral reef fish
JEAN-LOU JUSTINE (France), IAN BEVERIDGE (Australia), GEOFFREY A. BOXSHALL (UK), ROD
A. BRAY (UK), FRANTIŠEK MORAVEC (Czech Republic) & IAN D. WHITTINGTON (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2690: 32–42 (29 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 5 Nov. 2010
A new hermit crab species of the genus Catapaguroides A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and additional record of C. foresti McLaughlin
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, YUSUKE YAMADA & NAOKI SHIRAKAWA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 56–64 (25 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 4 Nov. 2010
A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
KAREEN E. SCHNABEL (New Zealand) & SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 45–55 (25 Nov. 2010) 8 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 5 Nov. 2010
A new species of Mesokalliapseudes Lang, 1956 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) from Puerto Rico, with remarks on the genus
DAVID T. DRUMM (USA) & ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ (Puerto Rico)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 29–44 (25 Nov. 2010) 10 plates; 22 references                        Accepted: 28 Oct. 2010
Three new species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida)
from gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) in coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean
DAISUKE UYENO & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 1–28 (25 Nov. 2010) 44 plates; 61 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
Reports of Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from Chinese waters, with descriptions of two new species
CHAO DONG & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2684: 1–13 (23 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 20 Oct. 2010
Two new species of Guitonia Garth & Iliffe, 1992 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the central and western Pacific Ocean
ROBERT MURRAY LASLEY JR, JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2680: 45–54 (18 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 14 Oct. 2010
Description of a new species of Athanas Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from Madagascar and Japan
ARTHUR ANKER (USA) & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2680: 33–44 (18 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 61 references                           Accepted: 26 Oct. 2010
Zullobalanus santamariaensis sp. nov., a new late Miocene barnacle species of the family Archaeobalanidae (Cirripedia: Thoracica), from the Azores
KAI WINKELMANN (UK), JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia), ANA CRISTINA COSTA (Portugal),
MARIA ANA MANSO DIONÍSIO (Portugal), ANDRÉ MEDEIROS (Portugal) , MÁRIO CACHĂO (Portugal) & SÉRGIO P. ÁVILA(Portugal)
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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 49–59 (16 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 19 Oct. 2010
A new genus and new species of hermit crab (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae) from the eastern tropical Pacific
MANUEL AYóN-PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 2677: 38–48 (16 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 42 references                              Accepted: 12 Oct. 2010
A new genus of the family Portunidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) and the identity of Portunus (Cycloachelous) yoronensis Sakai, 1974
T. S. NGUYEN & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 1–14 (16 Nov. 2010) 9 plates; 22 references                                Accepted: 20 Oct. 2010
A new species and first record of Gabunillo Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983
(Isopoda, Oniscidea, Armadillidae) from the Neotropics
LEILA A. SOUZA, ANDRé R. SENNA & ADRIANO B. KURY (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2676: 57–68 (15 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 82 references                             Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)

SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia), KEIJI BABA (Japan), ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & GARY
C.B. POORE (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2673: 39–55 (10 Nov. 2010) 8 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 22 Oct. 2010
Two new species of Leydigia Kurz, 1875 (Chydoridae, Cladocera) from Spain
 
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & MIGUEL ALONSO (Spain)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2666: 68–68 (3 Nov. 2010
Erratum: Zamanpoore, M., Grabowski, M., Poeckl, M. & Schiemer, F. (2010) Two new Gammarus
species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from warm springs in the south-east pre-alpine area of the Zagros, Iran: habitats with physiological challenges. Zootaxa, 2546, 31–51.
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Article
Zootaxa 2657: 55–65 (26 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
Glyptogidiella omanica gen. et sp. nov., an inland groundwater bogidiellid from Oman with enlarged coxal plate V (Crustacea, Amphipoda)
RONALD VONK (The Netherlands) & DAMIŔ JAUME (Spain)

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Article
Zootaxa 2657: 18–32 (26 Oct. 2010) 7 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 29 Sep. 2010
Acanthochondria cyclopsetta Pearse, 1952 and A. alleni n. sp. (Copepoda; Cyclopoida; Chondracanthidae) from flatfish hosts of the U.S.A., with comments on the taxonomic position of A. zebriae Ho, Kim & Kumar, 2000 and A. bicornis Shiino, 1955 and the validity of Pterochondria Ho, 1973
DANNY TANG (Australia), JULIANNE E. KALMAN (USA) & JU-SHEY HO (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2655: 52–56 (25 Oct. 2010) 2 plates; 10 references                                Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
The discovery of Microniphargus leruthi Schellenberg, 1934 (Crustacea:
Amphipoda: Niphargidae) in Britain and its distribution in the British Isles
LEE R.F.D. KNIGHT & TERENCE GLEDHILL (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2652: 47–63 (21 Oct. 2010) 10 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 20 Sep. 2010
A new genus and three new species of alpheid shrimps
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the tropical American coasts
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2652: 33–46 (21 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 22 Sep. 2010
Mysids (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the southern Indian Ocean with
descriptions of two new species
ABRAHAM BIJU, PURUSHOTHAMAN JASMINE & SARAMMA U. PANAMPUNNAYIL (India)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2642: 68 (12 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 9 references                                   Accepted: 15 Sep. 2010
Kempella nom. nov., a replacement name for Kempina Manning, 1978
(Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae), preoccupied by Kempina Roewer, 1911, a junior synonym of Zaleptus Thorell, 1877 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Singapore) & SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2642: 53–58 (12 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 13 Sep. 2010
Designation of Synalpheus pectiniger Coutiere, 1907 as a nomen protectum and its senior synonym Alpheus praecox Herrick, 1888 as a nomen oblitum (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)
SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK) & ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2642: 1–18 (12 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 35 references                             Accepted: 11 Sep. 2010
New records and new species of the munidopsine squat lobsters
(Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae: Munidopsinae) from Australia
JOANNE TAYLOR, SHANE T. AHYONG & NIKOS ANDREAKIS (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2640: 20–34 (8 Oct. 2010) 8 plates; 21 references                                Accepted: 9 Sep. 2010
Politolana sanchezi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae), a new benthic bioturbating scavenger from bathyal soft-bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay (northeastern Atlantic Ocean)
INMACULADA FRUTOS (Spain) & JEAN CLAUDE SORBE (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2640: 1–19 (8 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 69 references                                  Accepted: 8 Sep. 2010
Diversity and distribution of fiddler crabs (Brachyura: Ocypodidae: Uca) from China, with new records from Hainan Island in the South China Sea
HSI-TE SHIH (R. China), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), SHOU-HUA FANG (P.R. China), BENNY K. K.
CHAN (R. China) & KINGSLEY J. H. WONG (R. China)
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Zootaxa 2636: 37–48 (5 Oct. 2010) 7 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 19 Aug. 2010
Pinnotherotonia rumphiusi gen. et sp. nov., a new furry bivalve-associated pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Palau
IVAN MARIN (Russia) & GUSTAV PAULAY (USA)

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Zootaxa 2634: 63–68 (4 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 17 references                                  Accepted: 2 Sep. 2010
Lepidepecreellidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters
H.E. STODDART & J.K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2634: 1–24 (4 Oct. 2010) 16 plates; 32 references                                Accepted: 7 Sep. 2010
Two new species of Paramphiascella Lang (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) from a brackish water pond in Thailand
SUPAWADEE CHULLASORN (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2631: 19–35 (30 Sep. 2010) 10 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 25 Aug. 2010
A redescription of a common euryhaline cumacean from southern Brazil:
Diastylis sympterygiae Băcescu & Queiroz, 1985 (Crustacea: Cumacea)
PEDRO A. CRISTALES (Brazil), DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA (Argentina) & NATALIA A. ALBERICO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 2631: 1–18 (30 Sep. 2010) 11 plates; 42 references                             Accepted: 3 Sep. 2010
A new species and a new record of Sphaeroma Bosc, 1802 (Sphaeromatidae: Isopoda: Crustacea) from intertidal marine habitats of the Persian Gulf
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2628: 66–68 (28 Sep. 2010) 0 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 8 Sep. 2010
Kraussia Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), the senior homonym
of Kraussia Davidson, 1852 (Brachiopoda: Terebratulida: Terebratellidina): confirmation and authorship of the replacement name Kraussina Suess, 1859
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (England)

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Zootaxa 2626: 1–45 (27 Sep. 2010) 35 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 3 Jul. 2010
Four new crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of the genus Orconectes from Texas
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)

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Zootaxa 2625: 1–39 (24 Sep. 2010) 21 plates; 66 references                          Accepted: 27 Aug. 2010
The genera Carpias Richardson, Ianiropsis Sars and Janaira Moreira & Pires
(Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae) from Australia, with description of three new species
BRENDA LÍA DOTI (Argentina) & GEORGE D. F. WILSON (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2624: 49–66 (24 Sep. 2010) 4 plates; 63 references                          Accepted: 16 Aug. 2010
Revision of the larval morphology (Zoea I) of the family Hippolytidae
(Decapoda, Caridea), with a description of the first stage of the shrimp Hippolyte obliquimanus Dana, 1852 
MARIANA TEROSSI (Brazil), JOSE A. CUESTA (Spain), INGO S. WEHRTMANN (Costa Rica) & FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2623: 52–68 (23 Sep. 2010) 9 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 31 Aug. 2010
A new species of Pseudodiaptomus (Copepoda: Calanoida) from Japan, with
notes on the closely related P. inopinus Burckhardt, 1913 from Kyushu Island
SAKIKO ORUI SAKAGUCHI & HIROSHI UEDA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2623: 1–51 (23 Sep. 2010) 24 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 25 Aug. 2010
Littoral Maeridae and Melitidae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea)
from the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico
MARÍA DEL SOCORRO GARCÍA-MADRIGAL (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 2613: 51–60 (15 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2010
Redescription of the alpheid shrimp Betaeus levifrons Vinogradov, 1950 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Russian coast of the Sea of Japan
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2612: 57–68 (15 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 35 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
Shallow-water squat lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from
Mayotte (Comoros Island), La Réunion and Madagascar, with the description of a new genus and two new species
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & RÉGIS CLEVA (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2606: 1–24 (9 Sep. 2010) 15 plates; 65 references                              Accepted: 28 Jul. 2010
The marine and estuarine shrimps of the Palaemoninae
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil
RODRIGO SIMŐES FERREIRA, RONY ROBERTO RAMOS VIEIRA & FERNANDO D’INCAO
(Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2604: 52–60 (7 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 12 Aug. 2010
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Allacanthos Smalley, 1964 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pseudothelphusidae) from southern Costa Rica, Central America
CÉLIO MAGALHĂES (Brazil), LUIS RÓLIER LARA (Costa Rica) & INGO S. WEHRTMANN (Costa
Rica)
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Article
Zootaxa 2604: 20–36 (7 Sep. 2010) 11 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 31 Jul. 2010
More pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the
CReefs 2009 Heron Island expedition
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2579: 45–58 (30 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 13 Jul. 2010
Larval development of the shrimp Hippolyte sapphica d’Udekem d’Acoz, 1993
forma A and B (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) reared in the laboratory, confirmation of the conspecific status of the two forms
ALEXANDROS NTAKIS, CHRYSSA ANASTASIADOU, ROMAN LIASKO & IOANNIS D.
LEONARDOS (Greece)
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Article
Zootaxa 2578: 25–46 (27 Aug. 2010) 10 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 20 Jul. 2010
Saltipedis (Spinosaltipedis) puertoricensis, a new subgenus and species of apseudomorphan (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Parapseudidae) from coastal waters off Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, with keys and taxonomic observations
ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ (Puerto Rico), RICHARD W. HEARD (USA) & MÓNICA ALFARO
(Puerto Rico) 
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Article
Zootaxa 2570: 6 1–68 (18 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 2 Aug. 2010
Solenotheres prolixus, a new genus and new species of pinnotherid crab
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) associated with the razor clam, Solen corneus Lamarck, 1818 (Solenidae) in Vietnam
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam)

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Article
Zootaxa 2570: 5 1–60 (18 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 30 Jul. 2010
The species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873, from Lesser Sunda and
Maluku Islands, Indonesia, with description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2568: 1–38 (16 Aug. 2010) 19 plates; 46 references                             Accepted: 7 Jul. 2010
Systematics and phylogeny of Cristacoxidae
(Copepoda, Harpacticoida): a review
RONY HUYS (UK) & TERUE CRISTINA KIHARA (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2564: 62–68 (11 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 15 Jul. 2010
A new species of Parasesarma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the mangroves of Western Australia
P.J.F. DAVIE & L. PABRIKS (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2564: 1–30 (11 Aug. 2010) 27 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 22 Jul. 2010
Kergueleniidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 17–32 (4 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 20 Jun. 2010
The new and the old: littoral tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean
ROGER N BAMBER (UK) & TAPAS CHATTERJEE (Induia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 49–59 (3 Aug. 2010) 8 plates; 5 references                                  Accepted: 4 Jul. 2010
The mud-shrimp genus Axianassa Schmitt, 1924 (Crustacea, Decapoda,
Axianassidae) in the Indo-West Pacific, with description of a new species from French Polynesia
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 29–38 (3 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 29 references                             Accepted: 25 Jun. 2010
Pollicipes caboverdensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Scalpelliformes), an intertidal barnacle from the Cape Verde Islands
JOANA N. FERNANDES (Portugal), TERESA CRUZ (Portugal) & ROBERT VAN SYOC (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2555: 62–68 (2 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 7 references                                  Accepted: 4 Jul. 2010
A new genus and new species of deep-water trapeziid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Trapezioidea) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), TAKUO HIGASHIJI (Japan) & PETER CASTRO (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2555: 49–61 (2 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 78 references                              Accepted: 12 Jul. 2010
New records and taxonomic data for 14 species of sand crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Albuneidae) from localities worldwide
CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2555: 30–48 (2 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 49 references                                Accepted: 6 Jul. 2010
Tanaidacea from Brazil. II. A revision of the subfamily Hemikalliapseudinae (Kalliapseudidae; Tanaidacea; Crustacea) using phylogenetic methods
CATARINA DE L. ARAÚJO-SILVA (Brazil) & KIM LARSEN (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 2552: 37–54 (29 Jul. 2010) 16 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 1 Jul. 2010
Metabetaeus Borradaile, 1899 revisited, with description of a new marine species from French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2551: 37–64 (28 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 84 references                              Accepted: 2 Jun. 2010
The taxonomic research of Jules Richard on Cladocera
(Crustacea: Branchiopoda) and his collection at the National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & FRANK D. FERRARI (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2550: 58–68 (27 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 6 Jul. 2010
Eurycercus (Bullatifrons) norandinus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Eurycercidae), a new species of Cladocera in the Neotropical Region
NELSON ARANGUREN (Colombia), DANIEL MONROY (Colombia) & SANTIAGO GAVIRIA
(Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 2550: 21–38 (27 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 21 references                               Accepted: 7 Jul. 2010
A new species of the Lower Ordovician pliomerid trilobite Pseudocybele and its biostratigraphic significance
NEO E. B. MCADAMS & JONATHAN M. ADRAIN (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2549: 54–68 (26 Jul. 2010) 9 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 4 May 2010
Terrestrial isopods of the subgenus Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) Budde-Lund, 1879 (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Iran 
GHASEM M. KASHANI, ALIREZA SARI & SHIDOKHT HOSSEINIE (OSTAVANI) (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2549: 31–53 (26 Jul. 2010) 21 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
The family Aristiidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
in Australian waters
H.E. STODDART & J.K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2546: 3 1–51 (23 Jul. 2010) 10 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 5 May 2010
Two new Gammarus species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from warm springs in the south-east pre-alpine area of the Zagros, Iran: habitats with physiological challenges
MEHRDAD ZAMANPOORE (Austria), MICHAL GRABOWSKI (Poland), MANFRED POECKL
(Austria) & FRIEDRICH SCHIEMER (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 2541: 50–68 (19 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 40 references                             Accepted: 16 Jul. 2010
Pontoniine Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the CReefs 2009 Heron Island Expedition, with a review of the Heron Island pontoniine fauna
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2536 1–35 (14 Jul. 2010) 22 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Description of four new species from the Haploniscus unicornis Menzies, 1956 complex (Isopoda: Asellota: Haploniscidae)
WIEBKE BRÖKELAND (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2532 64–68 (12 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 11 May 2010
The family Izinkalidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2532 1–54 (12 Jul. 2010) 32 plates; 66 references                             Accepted: 12 Jun. 2010
A taxonomic revision of the genus Habrobathynella Schminke, 1973, with the description of four new species from southeastern India (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Bathynellacea)
YENUMULA RANGA REDDY & VENKATESWARA RAO TOTAKURA (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2528 29–52 (6 Jul. 2010) 12 plates; 30 references                                 Accepted: 8 Jun. 2010
Fairy shrimps from Asiatic Turkey: Redescription of Chirocephalus tauricus Pesta, 1921 and descriptions of Chirocephalus algidus sp. nov. and Chirocephalus brteki sp. nov. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca)
VEZIO COTTARELLI (Italy), CEM AYGEN (Turkey) & GRAZIELLA MURA (Italy)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2521 1–25 (29 Jun. 2010) 16 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2010
Redescription of Haploniscus rostratus (Menzies, 1962) (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda) with observations on the postmarsupial development, size ranges and distribution
WIEBKE BRÖKELAND (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2518 1–31 (25 Jun. 2010) 18 plates; 37 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2010
A new subgenus of eusirid amphipod (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from subterranean waters and springs of the Eastern Sikhote-Alin Mountain Ridge, with comments on the morphology of sternal humps, genital papillae and pleopods
DMITRY A. SIDOROV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2510: 55–67 (18 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 18 May 2010
On the taxonomic status of Monstrilla leucopis Sars (Crustacea: Copepoda: Monstrilloida) from Norway, with comments on the male of M. longiremis Giesbrecht
EDUARDO SUAREZ-MORALES (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2510: 45–54 (18 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 3 May 2010
Periclimenes nevillei sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Vanuatu
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2510: 1–44 (18 Jun. 2010) 30 plates; 55 references                           Accepted: 31 May 2010
Recent developments on the morphology of the brachyuran foregut ossicles and gastric teeth
ANDREAS BRÖSING (Germany)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2509: 67–68 (17 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 10 May 2010
Areopaguristes, a generic replacement name for Stratiotes Thomson, 1899
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea: Diogenidae)
DWI LISTO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2509: 30–38 (17 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 27 May 2010
Two new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from the Philippines and Fiji
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2508: 30–44 (16 Jun. 2010) 12 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 28 May 2010
A new record of Sphaeroma annandalei Stebbing, 1911 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from the Persian Gulf, and description of a new related species (Sphaeroma silvai nov. sp.) from the South Atlantic Ocean
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY (Germany) & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2505: 65–68 (14 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 3 May 2010
Distribution and morphological variation of Synalpheus superus Abele and Kim, 1989 and notes on the distribution of S. fritzmuelleri Coutičre, 1909 (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)
MARGARITA HERMOSO-SALAZAR & VIVIANNE SOLÍS-WEISS (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2504: 31–46 (14 Jun. 2010) 7 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 12 Apr. 2010
Two new species of the laomediid genus Naushonia Kingsley, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gebiidea) from the Indo-West Pacific
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & ARTHUR ANKER (USA)
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Erratum
Zootaxa 2501: 68 (10 Jun. 2010
Erratum—
KIM, YOUNG-HYO., HENDRYCKS, ED A. & LEE, KYUNG-SOOK (2010) A new species and new record of the Amphilochidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Korea. Zootaxa, 2477, 21–36.
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Article 
Zootaxa 2501: 61–67 (10 Jun. 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 10 May 2010
A new dwarf sentinel crab from Mayotte Island, western Indian Ocean
(Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae)
JOSEPH POUPIN & JEAN-MARIE BOUCHARD (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2500: 39–57 (9 Jun. 2010) 14 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 22 Apr. 2010
Two new interstitial species of the genus Parapolycope (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from central Japan
HAYATO TANAKA & AKIRA TSUKAGOSHI (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2500: 1–38 (9 Jun. 2010) 19 plates; 172 references                            Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
Taxonomic revision of the wide-front fiddler crabs of the Uca lactea group
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in the Indo-West Pacific
REZA NADERLOO (Germany), MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany) & †HUI-LIAN CHEN (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2493: 1–15 (3 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 43 references                                 Accepted: 4 May 2010
Redescription of Prosaetes rhinodontis (Wright, 1876) (Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), an enigmatic parasite of the whale shark, Rhincodon typus Smith (Elasmobranchii: Orectolobiformes: Rhincodontidae)
DANNY TANG, MAKIO YANAGISAWA & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2492: 49–62 (2 Jun. 2010) 7 plates; 30 references                             Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
On two snapping shrimps, Alpheus baccheti n. sp. and A. coetivensis Coutičre from the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia (Crustacea, Decapoda)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2491: 61–68 (2 Jun. 2010) 5 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 24 Apr. 2010
Godzilliognomus schrami, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from
Eleuthera, Bahamas
THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA), TINA OTTEN (Germany), & STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2489: 34–46 (31 May 2010) 0 plates; 67 references                           Accepted: 22 Apr. 2010
On the generic nomenclature of nine brachyuran names, with four replacement names and two nomina protecta (Crustacea: Decapoda)
PETER K. L. NG & MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Singapore)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2488: 1–21 (31 May 2010) 6 plates; 34 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Development of sexual characters in the cave shrimp genus Troglocaris
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) and their applicability in taxonomy
JURE JUGOVIC, SIMONA PREVOR
ČNIK & BORIS SKET (Slovenia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2483: 23–34 (25 May 2010) 6 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 4 May 2010
Redescriptions of two morphologically confusing sea lice Caligus aesopus Wilson, 1921 and C. spinosus Yamaguti, 1939 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasitic on amberjacks (Seriola spp.) from Korea
MI-KYUNG CHOE & IL-HOI KIM (Korea)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2482: 64–68 (24 May 2010) 2 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Neostrengeria Pretzmann, 1965, from Colombia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae)
MARTHA R. CAMPOS (Colombia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2482: 22–48 (24 May 2010) 17 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 20 Apr. 2010
Deep-sea Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand and the Ross Sea with key to the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic species
ANNE-NINA LÖRZ (New Zealand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2479: 22–38 (20 May 2010) 13 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 17 Apr. 2010
The family Opisidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australasian waters 
H.E. STODDART & J.K. LOWRY (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2478: 59–68 (20 May 2010) 2 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
Two new species of Indopinnixa Manning & Morton, 1987 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from Lombok, Indonesia 
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2478: 4 1–58 (20 May 2010) 9 plates; 37 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2010
Two new species of the subterranean amphipod genus Stygobromus
(Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from Siberia, with new data on Stygobromus pusillus (Martynov) and remarks on morphology and biogeographic relationships
DMITRY A. SIDOROV (Russia), JOHN R. HOLSINGER (USA) & VADIM V. TAKHTEEV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2477: 2 1–36 (19 May 2010) 7 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 31 Mar. 2010
A new species and new record of the Amphilochidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
from Korea
YOUNG-HYO KIM (Korea), ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada) & KYUNG-SOOK LEE (Korea)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2465: 1–94 (14 May 2010) 69 plates; 50 references                             Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 3. Natural
History Museum, Oslo (NHM) 
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG (Norway)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2452: 67–68 (12 May 2010) 0 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 17 Apr. 2010
A revision on the generic status of three species of the genus Chacella Bruce, 1986 described by Li & Poupin (2009) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2450: 68 (10 May 2010) 0 plates; 2 references                                 Accepted: 30 Mar. 2010
Boreathelphusa, a replacement name for Boreas Cumberlidge and Sternberg, 2002 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamonautidae), preoccupied by Boreas Morris, 1980 (Bryozoa: Hippothoidae)
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2450: 53–60 (10 May 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 1 Mar. 2010
A new species of Medicorophium Bousfield, M. longisetosum n. sp. from the western Mediterranean, coast of Spain
ALAN A. MYERS (Ireland), JOSE ANTONIO DE-LA-OSSA-CARRETERO (Spain), JEAN-CLAUDE
DAUVIN (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2450: 41–52 (10 May 2010) 5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2010
A new species of the rare caridean genus Bresilia Calman (Crustacea: Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, representing a family new to the North Pacific marine fauna
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & YUSUKE YAMADA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2440: 33–48 (29 Apr. 2010) 8 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
Two new Diastylis (Cumacea: Diastylidae) from Antarctic waters: Diastylis andeepae and D. catalinae
NATALIA ALBERICO (Argentina) & UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2439: 35–52 (28 Apr. 2010) 12 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Two new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Amphipoda, fam. Niphargidae) from the Frasassi cave system in Central Italy
GORDAN S. KARAMAN (Montenegro), BETTY BOROWSKY (USA) & SHARMISHTHA
DATTAGUPTA (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2437: 51–68 (26 Apr. 2010) 12 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 3 Mar. 2010
Redescription of the monotypic genus Cinusa Schioedte and Meinert, 1884 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a buccal-cavity isopod from South Africa
KERRY A. HADFIELD (South Africa), NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia) & NICO J. SMIT (South Africa)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2434: 33–46 (23 Apr. 2010) 9 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 22 Mar. 2010
First record and description of male of Metavargula adinothrix Kornicker, 1975 (Ostracoda: Myodocopina) from the Southern Ocean
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR (Russia), DIETMAR KEYSER (Germany) & ALEXANDER G.
BASHMANOV (Russia)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2430: 1–66 (19 Apr. 2010) 25 plates; 153 references                          Accepted: 15 Apr. 2010
The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of six high altitude
water bodies in the North Chilean Andes, with discussion of Andean endemism
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia), ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & VIVIANA LORENA BERRIOS (Chile)

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Zootaxa 2429: 61–68 (19 Apr. 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 16 Mar. 2010
A new species of mud shrimp of the genus Espeleonaushonia Juarrero & Martínez-Iglesias, 1997 (Decapoda: Gebiidea: Laomediidae) from Palau
FERNANDO ALVAREZ (Mexico) , JOSE LUIS VILLALOBOS (Mexico) & THOMAS M. ILIFFE
(USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 47–54 (15 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 8 Mar. 2010
A new cave species of Cryphiops (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Southern Mexico
FABIOLA BALDARI (Italy), LUIS M. MEJÍA-ORTÍZ (Mexico) & MARILÚ LÓPEZ-MEJÍA (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 1–14 (15 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 17 Mar. 2010
Early larval morphology of the armed nylon shrimp Heterocarpus ensifer ensifer A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (Decapoda, Caridea, Pandalidae) from laboratory culture
JOSÉ MARÍA LANDEIRA, FERNANDO LOZANO-SOLDEVILLA, EDUARDO ALMANSA & JUAN IGNACIO
GONZÁLEZ-GORDILLO (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2426: 43–53 (14 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
A new Antarctic species of Aristias Boeck (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Aristiidae), with remarks on the genus in Antarctica
NIAMH M. KILGALLEN (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 31–42 (9 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 26 references                               Accepted: 1 Mar. 2010
Nucleus patterns of zoea I larvae (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the context of
taxonomy
ROLAND MEYER, JANA MARTIN & ROLAND R. MELZER (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2414: 59–66 (30 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 15 Feb. 2010
DNA barcoding of hermit crabs of genus Clibanarius Dana, 1852 (Anomura: Diogenidae) in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
MAMIKO HIROSE, MASAYUKI OSAWA & EUICHI HIROSE (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2414: 52–58 (30 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 16 Feb. 2010
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Odontothelphusa Rodríguez, 1982, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) from Chiapas, Mexico
JOSÉ LUIS VILLALOBOS, ANELLI J. GARCÍA & ERNESTO VELÁZQUEZ (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2413: 61–68 (29 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 9 Feb. 2010
A new species of Eulimnadia (Crustacea; Branchiopoda; Diplostraca; Spinicaudata) from North America
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS, STEPHEN C. WEEKS & WALTER R. HOEH (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2408: 47–58 (24 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 23 Jan. 2010
On Amphibolocypris arida sp.nov. (Crustacea, Ostracoda), from rock pools in Botswana (southern Africa)
MERLIJN JOCQUE (Bulgaria), LUC BRENDONCK (Bulgaria), BRUCE J RIDDOCH (UK) & KOEN
MARTENS (Belgium)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 48–54 (22 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Metadynomene tuamotu, a new species of dynomenid crab from French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & COLIN L MCLAY (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 1–47 (22 Mar. 2010) 30 plates; 61 references                         Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
North West Pacific deep-sea barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) collected by the
TAIWAN expeditions, with descriptions of two new species
BENNY K.K. CHAN (Taiwan), ROMANUS EDY PRABOWO (Indonesia) & KWEN-SHEN LEE
(Taiwan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2404: 55–68 (22 Mar. 2010) 9 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Two new species of the genus Kamaka (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Kamakidae) from Songkhla Lagoon, southern Thailand
HIROYUKI ARIYAMA (Japan), SAOWAPA ANGSUPANICH (Thailand) & EKNARIN RODCHAROEN
(Thailand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2403: 42–58 (19 Mar. 2010) 13 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Final-stage phyllosoma of Palinustus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Achelata: Palinuridae)—The first complete description
FERRAN PALERO (Austria), GUILLERMO GUERAO (Spain), PAUL F. CLARK (UK) & PERE
ABELLÓ (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2403: 23–41 (19 Mar. 2010) 10 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
New findings of rare or little-known alpheid shrimp genera (Crustacea,
Decapoda) in Moorea, French Polynesia
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2399: 51–60 (15 Mar. 2010) 7 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Gammarus kesanensis sp. nov., a new blind amphipod species from Turkey (Amphipoda, Gammaridae), with a key to eyeless Gammarus species of Europe

MURAT ÖZBEK & BELG
İN ÇAMUR-ELİPEK (Turkey)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2397: 61–68 (12 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
Ancinus jarocho (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea: Ancinidae), a new species from the
central Gulf of Mexico, Mexico
ARTURO ROCHA–RAMÍREZ, RAFAEL CHÁVEZ–LÓPEZ & EDGAR PELÁEZ–RODRÍGUEZ
(Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2395: 57–67 (10 Mar. 2010) 17 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Description of a new blind species of Heterokamaka (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Kamakidae) from Dianshan Lake, China
ZHONGE HOU, YITAO PAN & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2392: 33–61 (8 Mar. 2010) 19 plates; 47 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2010
On the Planopilumnidae Serčne, 1984 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudozioidea), with diagnoses of two new pilumnoid genera for species previously assigned to
Planopilumnus Balss, 1933
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2390: 1–25 (5 Mar. 2010) 9 plates; 56 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Three new species of chydorid cladocerans of subfamily Aloninae
(Branchipoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Brazil
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO (Brazil)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2379: 1–77 (26 Feb. 2010) 46 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 17 Jan. 2010
On the subfamily Cypricercinae McKenzie, 1971 (Crustacea, Ostracoda)
from Thailand, with the description of six new species
SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON (Belgium) & KOEN MARTENS (Thailand)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2375: 1–130 (26 Feb. 2010) 50 plates; 239 references                        Accepted: 23 Jan. 2010
Revision of the family Euryplacidae Stimpson, 1871 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea)
PETER CASTRO (USA) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2372: 1-2 (26 Feb. 2010
Title & copyright page

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Zootaxa 2372: 1-2 (26 Feb. 2010)  
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Editorial
Zootaxa 2372: 5-6 (26 Feb. 2010) 0 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 20 Oct. 2009
Contributions to shrimp taxonomy — Editorial

SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK) & CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 7-14 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 3 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Pseudopontonides plumosus sp. nov., a new cnidarian-associated pontoniine
shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Curaçao
NICOLETTE SNIJDERS & CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN
(The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 15-32 (26 Feb. 2010) 10 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
A new genus and two new species of alvinocaridid shrimps (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Caridea) from a hydrothermal vent field off northeastern Taiwan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & TIN-YAM CHAN
(R. China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2372: 33-36 (26 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Allopontonia alastairi sp. nov., a second species of the genus Allopontonia Bruce,
1972 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), from the Australian Northwest Shelf
A.J. BRUCE
(Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 37-52 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
On two new genera of Asian prawns previously assigned to Macrobrachium
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae)
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG
(Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 53-60 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
On a new species of the shrimp genus Athanas Leach, 1814
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from Iran
ARTHUR ANKER (USA), REZA NADERLOO (Germany) & IVAN MARIN
(Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 61-68 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
A second species of the genus Manipontonia Bruce, Okuno & Li, 2005
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
IVAN MARIN
(Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 69-74 (26 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
A new vent shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alvinocarididae)
from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
ANASTASIA A. LUNINA1 & ALEXANDER L. VERESHCHAKA (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 75-79 (26 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Atydina, a new genus for Caridina atyoides Nobili, 1900, from Indonesia
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)
YIXIONG CAI (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 80-84 (26 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Caridina jeani, a replacement name for Caridina typus var. brevirostris J. Roux,
1911 from Eastern Indonesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)
YIXIONG CAI (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 85-105 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 84 references                           Accepted: 17 Sep. 2009
Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ‘Periclimenes aesopius species
group’ (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species
J. OKUNO (Japan) & A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 106-125 (26 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
Periclimenes laevimanus sp. nov. from Vietnam, with a review of the Periclimenes
granulimanus species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae)
ZDEN
ĚK ĎURIŠ (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 126-137 (26 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
Two crested and colourful new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Caridea:
Hippolytidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia
ANNA W. McCALLUM & GARY C. B. POORE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 138-150 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
On two small collections of freshwater shrimps (Decapoda: Atyidae: Caridina)
from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of two new species
ANDREAS KARGE (Germany), KRISTINA VON RINTELEN (Germany) & WERNER KLOTZ (Austria)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 151-156 (26 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 16 Sep. 2009
Palaemonella dijonesae sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from
Western Australia
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 157-168 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
The sand shrimp genus Philocheras (Caridea: Crangonidae) from the continental
margin of Western Australia including the description of a new species and a key to Australian species
JOANNE TAYLOR (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 169-176 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 22 Sep. 2009
Ancylomenes kuboi and A. okunoi spp. nov. (Decapoda: Pontoniinae), from the Australian Northwest Shelf, Vietnam and the Philippines
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 177-205 (26 Feb. 2010) 14 plates; 32 references                       Accepted: 27 Sep. 2009
The shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)
in the tropical western Atlantic, with description of five new species
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 206-220 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 42 references                       Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Two new species of the “Heterocarpus gibbosus Bate, 1888” species group
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Pandalidae) from the western Pacific and north-western Australia
CHIEN-HUI YANG, TIN-YAM CHAN & KA HOU CHU (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 221-262 (26 Feb. 2010) 23 plates; 44 references                       Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps of Curaçao, with descriptions of three new
species
KRISTIN M. HULTGREN, KENNETH S. MACDONALD III & J. EMMETT DUFFY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 263-277 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
A review of the genus Engystenopus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea)
Juxtastenopus, gen. nov. , a new combination for E. spinulatus Holthuis, 1946, and transfer of E. palmipes Alcock & Anderson, 1894 to the family Spongicolidae Schram, 1986
JOSEPH W. GOY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 278-297 (26 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 47 references                       Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
On the taxonomy of Palaemon javanicus Heller, 1862, and Palaemon sundaicus Heller, 1862, with description of a new species of Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Southeast Asia
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 298-304 (26 Feb. 2010) 3 plates; 38 references                       Accepted: 14 Oct. 2009
Lysmata rauli, a new species of peppermint shrimp, (Decapoda: Hippolytidae)
from the southwestern Atlantic
HELIO LAUBENHEIMER (Brazil) & ANDREW L. RHYNE (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 305-337 (26 Feb. 2010) 15 plates; 63 references                       Accepted: 20 Oct. 2009
Caridina H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyoidea:
Atyidae) – freshwater shrimps from eastern and southern Africa
JASMINE RICHARD & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2372: 338-340 (26 Feb. 2010) 0 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 21 Sep. 2009
A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov.
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 341-357 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
New species and new records of Caridea (Hippolytidae: Pasiphaeidae) from New
Zealand
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 358-366 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
A new species of Glyphocrangon (Decapoda: Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae) from
off the coast of western Mexico
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2372: 367-368 (26 Feb. 2010) 0 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 30 Sep. 2009
Additions to the genus Phycomenes Bruce, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Pontoniinae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 369-378 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
A new genus of palaemonid shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) to
accommodate Leander belindae Kemp, 1925, with a redescription of the species
CHRISTOPHER W. ASHELBY & SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 379-388 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 21 Oct. 2009
Periclimenaeus devaneyi sp. nov., from Oahu, Hawai'i (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Pontoniinae)
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 389-404 (26 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 21 Sep. 2009
Description of a new genus and two new species of alpheid shrimps from Guam
(Crustacea, Decapoda)
ARTHUR ANKER (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 405-414 (26 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Eupontonia oahu sp. nov., a second species of the genus Eupontonia Bruce, 1971,
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Oahu, Hawai’ian Islands
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2370: 1–35 (25 Feb. 2010) 18 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2010
Sophrosynidae, a new family in the Lysianassoidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) with a revision of the genus Sophrosyne

J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2362: 55–62 (18 Feb. 2010) 3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Neolithodes flindersi, a new species of king crab from southeastern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2356: 57–68 (10 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
Haploops longiseta, a new species from the Atlantic Ocean (Crustacea, Gammaridea, Ampeliscidae) [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 6.]
R.A. KAIM-MALKA (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2356: 36–56 (10 Feb. 2010) 9 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
A new family for Sotoplax robertsi Guinot, 1984, with a diagnosis and key to the Goneplacoidea Macleay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER CASTRO (USA), DANIČLE GUINOT (France) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2354: 35–44 (9 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 23 Jan. 2010
A new species and subspecies of Ochlesidae Stebbing, 1910 (Amphipoda:
Gammaridea) from the Okhotsk Sea
VJACHESLAV S. LABAY (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2352: 1–28 (5 Feb. 2010) 13 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
Five new species of Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from deep-water
off Taiwan, with description of a new genus
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), FENG-JIAU LIN (R. China) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2349: 65–68 (2 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 31 Dec. 2009
On the occurrence of the genus Paranebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida:
Leptostraca) in northern Patagonia, Argentina
DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA, IGNACIO L. CHIESA, M. PAULA RAFFO & ELENA GÓMEZ SIMES (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2349: 39–54 (2 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 65 references                              Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
A review of the subfamily Eliminiinae (Cirripedia: Thoracica:
Austrobalanidae), including a new genus, Protelminius nov., from the Oligocene of New Zealand
JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia) & WILLIAM A. NEWMAN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2349: 2 1–38 (2 Feb. 2010) 12 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 7 Dec. 2009
The genus Microrchestia (Amphipoda: Talitridae) in eastern Australia
J.K. LOWRY & R. PEART (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2348: 23–39 (1 Feb. 2010) 10 plates; 42 references                          Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
Melitoid amhipods of the genera Ceradocus Costa, 1853 and Victoriopisa Karaman and Barnard, 1979 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae) from the South China Sea, Malaysia
J.H.C. LIM, B.A.R. AZMAN & B.H.R. OTHMAN (Malaysia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2345: 43–59 (27 Jan. 2010) 7 plates; 72 references                          Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
Taxonomy of the sand bubbler crabs Scopimera globosa De Haan, 1835, and S. tuberculata Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dotillidae) in East Asia, with description of a new species from the Ryukyus, Japan
KINGSLEY J. H. WONG, BENNY K. K. CHAN & HSI-TE SHIH (R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2345: 1–18 (27 Jan. 2010) 8 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
A taxonomic revision of Pseudosida szalayi Daday, 1898 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Sididae) over its Asian range, with focus on the northernmost populations first recorded from the Amur River basin (Far East of Russia)
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2343: 31–44 (25 Jan. 2010) 12 plates; 65 references                          Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
First records of six galatheid species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from
Chinese waters
CHAO DONG & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2343: 18–30 (25 Jan. 2010) 1 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
Description of a new species of Aeglidae, and new records of related species
from river basins in Argentina (Crustacea, Anomura)
GEORGINA BOND-BUCKUP (Brazil), CARLOS G. JARA (Chile), LUDWIG BUCKUP (Brazil),
ALESSANDRA A.P. BUENO (Brazil), MARCOS PÉREZ-LOSADA (USA) & KEITH A. CRANDALL (USA)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2340: 65–68 (21 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
A new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Bisetocreagris from China (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae)
JIA YING, ZHAO YONG-WEI & ZHU MING-SHENG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2337: 63–68 (18 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
Mud shrimp associated with burrows from the Oligocene Ashiya Group, northern Kyushu, Japan, with description of a new species of Upogebia
(Decapoda: Gebiidea)
YUSUKE ANDO & HIROAKI KARASAWA (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2337: 47–62 (18 Jan. 2010) 6 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
Uca jocelynae sp. nov., a new species of fiddler crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Western Pacific
HSI-TE SHIH (R. China), TOHRU NARUSE (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2337: 3 1–46 (18 Jan. 2010) 7 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
Type and non-type specimens of Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) housed in the Museo de La Plata, Argentina
INÉS I. CÉSAR & CRISTINA DAMBORENEA (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2336: 36–50 (15 Jan. 2010) 6 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new bomolochid copepod parasitic on bullseye puffer Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns) from Mexico, with reassignment of some species of Acantholochus Cressey and Hamaticolax Ho & Lin
F. N. MORALES-SERNA & S. GÓMEZ (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2332: 61–68 (11 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2009
Lithodes formosae, a new species of king crab from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2330: 1–63 (7 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 278 references                           Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
A checklist of names in Alona Baird 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae) and
their current status: an analysis of the taxonomy of a lump genus
KAY VAN DAMME (Belgium), ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2329: 37–55 (6 Jan. 2010) 14 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
The deep-sea scavenging genus Hirondellea (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Hirondelleidae fam. nov.) in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2327: 1–22 (4 Jan. 2010) 14 plates; 51 references                           Accepted: 21 Nov. 2009
Revision of the Parasesarma plicatum (Latreille, 1803) species-group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 1-23 (24 Dec. 2009) 11 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
New species of Alona from South-East Russia and Mongolia related to Alona
salina Alonso, 1996 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia), MIGUEL ALONSO (Spain) & NATALIA G. SHEVELEVA (Russia)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2324: 1-85 (22 Dec. 2009) 18 plates; 68 references                         Accepted: 23 Oct. 2009
On the diagnostic characters of the genus Stygonitocrella (Copepoda, Harpacticoida), with descriptions
of seven new species from Australian subterranean waters 
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC & PETER HANCOCK (Australia)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2323: 1-71 (22 Dec. 2009) 37 plates; 34 references                         Accepted: 16 Sep. 2009
A review of the Dardanus sinistripes (Stimpson, 1859) (Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae) species complex
with the description of five new species from the Mexican Pacific 
MANUEL AYÓN PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
(Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 38-55 (22 Dec. 2009) 12 plates; 20 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
New species of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Sardinia

STEFANO TAITI & ROBERTO ARGANO (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2312: 1-26 (16 Dec. 2009) 10 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 13 Nov. 2009
The Camptandriidae of Iraq, with description of a new genus and notes on
Leptochryseus Al-Khayat & Jones, 1996 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & MURTADA D. NASER (Iraq)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2309: 43-68 (11 Dec. 2009) 18 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 11 Nov. 2009
A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type
material. 2. The United States National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2305: 33-50 (7 Dec. 2009) 11 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 7 Nov. 2009
Two new species of Sphaeromopsis (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from
the Persian Gulf
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2305: 24-32 (7 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2009
The marsh crab, Sartoriana rokitanskyi (Pretzmann, 1971)
(Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinucidae) from southern Iran
EHSAN KAMRANI (Iran), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), MEHRNOUSH MIRZADEH (Iran) & SAHAR
NAKHODAI (Iran)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2304: 21-40 (4 Dec. 2009) 11 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 2 Nov. 2009
A new family and genus of calanoid copepods (Crustacea) from the abyss of the
Atlantic Ocean
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA (Russia) & KNUD SCHULZ (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2304: 1-20 (4 Dec. 2009) 9 plates; 79 references                          Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
Mysidae (Mysida) of New Zealand; a checklist, identification key to species and
an overview of material in New Zealand collections
M. JOCQUE (Belgium) & W. BLOM (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2302: 61-68 (2 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
Re-evaluation of species allied to Mithrax hispidus (Decapoda: Brachyura:
Majoidea: Mithracidae) based on three mitochondrial genes
AMANDA M. WINDSOR & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2302: 31-47 (2 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Four new species of the family Lithodidae (Decapoda: Anomura) from the
collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
SALLY HALL & SVEN THATJE (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2301: 55-68 (1 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Two new species of the genus Elasmopus Costa, 1853 (Amphipoda:
Gammaridea: Maeridae) from off the Northeast Brazilian Coast
JESSER F. SOUZA-FILHO & ANDRÉ R. SENNA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 1-30 (26 Nov. 2009) 19 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
New species of lysianassoid Amphipoda (Crustacea) associated with seamounts,
marine canyons and cold seeps of New Zealand
NIAMH M. KILGALLEN (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2297: 44-54 (25 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 3 Nov. 2009
A new xanthid crab of the genus Medaeops Guinot, 1967, from Peninsular
Malaysia, with a note on Leptodius granulosus Haswell, 1882 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae)
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA (Singapore), V.C. CHONG (Malaysia) & PETER K. L. NG
(Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2296: 39-46 (24 Nov. 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 10 Sep. 2009
Redescription of Periclimenes brockii (De Man, 1888) (Decapoda: Caridea:
Pontoniinae) and other De Man’s type specimens deposited in the collection of the Senckenberg Natural History Museum (SMF), Frankfurt-at-Maine, Germany
IVAN MARIN (Russia) & MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2294: 62-68 (20 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Podochela meloi Sankarankutty, Ferreira & Cunha, 2001, a junior synonym of
the spider crab Inachoides forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Inachoididae)
WILLIAM SANTANA & MARCOS TAVARES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2294: 39-46 (20 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 16 Oct. 2009
Michaelcallianassa sinica sp. nov. (Crusacea, Decapoda, Thalassinidea,
Callianassidae) from the South China Sea
WENLIANG LIU & RUIYU LIU (J. Y. LIU) (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2293: 35-52 (19 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Two new genera and species of chiltoniid amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda:
Talitroidea) from freshwater mound springs in South Australia
RACHAEL A. KING (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2291: 51-64 (17 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 22 Oct. 2009
A new species of Cypriconcha Sars (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from high mountain
wetlands of Argentina
ANALÍA R. DÍAZ & ESTELA C. LOPRETTO (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2291: 24-34 (17 Nov. 2009) 9 plates; 4 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
Lithoselatium tantichodoki, a new species of intertidal crab (Crustacea:
Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from southern Thailand
RUEANGRIT PROMDAM (Thailand) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 55-60 (13 Nov. 2009) 1 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
A new species of Nannosquilla (Stomatopoda: Nannosquillidae) from the
Western Atlantic Ocean
DÉBORA LUCATELLI DE ALBUQUERQUE & PETRÔNIO ALVES COELHO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 33-47 (13 Nov. 2009) 7 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2009
Aphanodactylidae, a new family of thoracotreme crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura)
symbiotic with polychaete worms
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 1-17 (13 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 10 Sep. 2009
A review of the pontoniine shrimp genus Rapipontonia Marin, 2007
(Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species from the Indo-West Pacific
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2283: 40-50 (6 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
Two new species of the genus Tanzanapseudes B
ăcescu, 1975 (Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha: Tanzanapseudidae) from mid-west Australia
ANNA ST
ĘPIEŃ & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2277: 33-52 (30 Oct. 2009) 13 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 2 Oct. 2009
Description of three new species of the deep-sea munnopsid genus Belonectes
(Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean
MARINA V. MALYUTINA (Russia) & ANGELIKA BRANDT (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2276: 49-68 (29 Oct. 2009) 11 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
Systematics of the Baikalian Babr (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pallaseidae)

MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA (Finland), RAVIL M. KAMALTYNOV (Russia), TYTTI KONTULA (Finland)
& RISTO VÄINÖLÄ (Finland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2276: 40-48 (29 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 3 Oct. 2009
The status of Kunziana Pretzmann, 1971 (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Pseudothelphusidae), with a redescription of the holotype of K. irengis Pretzmann, 1971
CÉLIO MAGALHĂES (Brazil), MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany), & D. BRUCE MEANS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 1-26 (22 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 19 Sep. 2009
A review of the Caligus productus species group, with the description of a new
species, new synonymies and supplementary descriptions
GEOFF A BOXSHALL (UK) & HODA H. EL-RASHIDY (Egypt)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2267: 1-25 (19 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 57 references                          Accepted: 2 Oct. 2009
Overview of Candoninae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) of South America and the
West Indies, with the description of two new species and one new genus
IVANA KARANOVIC (Australia) & THIBAULT DATRY (France)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2260: 1-930 (8 Oct. 2009) 459 plates; 1375 references                       Accepted: 15 Jun. 2009
Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef 

J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & A.A. MYERS (Ireland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2248: 47-68 (6 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 24 Aug. 2009
The brine shrimps (Artemia and Parartemia) of South Australia,
including descriptions of four new species of Parartemia (Crustacea: Anostraca: Artemiina)
BRIAN V TIMMS & PETER HUDSON (Australia)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2243: 68 (30 Sep. 2009
Erratum—
NG, N. K. & MCLAUGHLI, P. A. (2009) A new hermit crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Paguridae) from the eastern North Pacific. Zootaxa, 2227, 63–68.
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2243: 53-56 (30 Sep. 2009) 1 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 27 Aug. 2009
On the presence of Anchistioides willeyi (Borradaile, 1899) (Decapoda: Caridea:
Anchistioididae) in the Red Sea
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2243: 40-52 (30 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 25 Aug. 2009
A new Paraleptamphopidae (Crustacea Amphipoda) in the burrow of
Virilastacus rucapihuelensis (Parastacidae) and surrounding peat bogs. Rudolphia macrodactylus n. gen., n. sp. from southern South America
LUIS E. GROSSO & MARCELA PERALTA (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2240: 60-68 (25 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 24 Aug. 2009
A new species of Lysmata (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hippolytidae) from Venezuela,
southeastern Caribbean Sea
J. ANTONIO BAEZA (Republic of Panama), JUAN A. BOLAŃOS (Venezuela), JESÚS E. HERNANDEZ (Venezuela) & RÉGULO
LÓPEZ (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2240: 31-40 (25 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 8 Sep. 2009
Hansenomysis sorbei n. sp., a new suprabenthic mysid (Crustacea: Mysida:
Petalophthalmidae) from the Bellingshausen Sea (Southern Ocean)
CARLOS SAN VICENTE (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2238: 56-68 (23 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
A revision of the genus Paranarthrurella Lang, 1971a (Crustacea: Tanaidacea)

PIOTR JÓ
ŹWIAK, ANNA STĘPIEŃ & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2238: 43-55 (23 Sep. 2009) 7 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2009
Gnathia nubila n. sp. and a new record of Gnathia grandilaris (Crustacea,
Isopoda, Gnathiidae) that parasitizes elasmobranchs from Okinawan coastal waters, Japan
YUZO OTA & EUICHI HIROSE (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2236: 50-64 (21 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 10 Aug. 2009
A New Species of the Freshwater Cladoceran Genus Scapholeberis Schoedler, 1858 (Cladocera: Anomopoda) from the Semidesert Northern Mexico,
Highlighted by DNA Barcoding
PATRICIA QUIROZ-VÁZQUEZ & MANUEL ELÍAS-GUTIÉRREZ (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2233: 1-38 (16 Sep. 2009) 20 plates; 62 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2009
Contributions to the taxonomy of the Normanellidae (Copepoda,
Harpacticoida): description of a new genus from the Brazilian continental shelf and re-assignment of Pseudocletodes vararensis Scott & Scott, 1893 (ex Nannopodidae)
TERUE CRISTINA KIHARA (Brazil) & RONY HUYS (UK)

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Zootaxa 2227: 63-68 (10 Sep. 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 11 Aug. 2009
A new hermit crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Paguridae) from the
eastern North Pacific
NGAN KEE NG (Singapore) & PATSY A. MCLAUGHLI (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2215: 55-68 (31 Aug. 2009) 8 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 14 Aug. 2009
Description of two new species of the Corophiidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea) and
register of Laticorophium baconi (Shoemaker, 1934) from Brazilian waters
MARIA TERESA VALÉRIO-BERARDO & ANA MARIA THIAGO DE SOUZA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2213: 57-63 (28 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 11 Aug. 2009
Hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) inhabiting the intertidal and
shallow subtidal region of Red Sea coast of Egypt
KHALEID F. ABD EL-WAKEIL, ELHAM S. AHMED, AHMAD H. OBUID-ALLAH & NASSER A. ELSHIMY
(Egypt)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2211: 57-68 (27 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 29 Jul. 2009
A new hermit crab species of the genus Catapagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & MASAYUKI OSAWA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2206: 45-61 (24 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 21 Jul. 2009
Description of the first five larval stages of Plesionika narval (Fabricius, 1787)
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) obtained under laboratory conditions
JOSÉ MARÍA LANDEIRA, FERNANDO LOZANO-SOLDEVILLA & JUAN IGNACIO GONZÁLEZGORDILLO
(Spain)
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Zootaxa 2206: 1-22 (24 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 17 Jul. 2009
Two new species of Eucyclops Claus (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from the
Chihuahuan Desert with a redescription of E. pseudoensifer Dussart
EDUARDO SUÁREZ-MORALES (Mexico) & ELIZABETH J. WALSH (USA)

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Zootaxa 2205: 53-61 (21 Aug. 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 3 Aug. 2009
Lysianopsis adelae, new species of amphipod (Gammaridea: Lysianassidae)
from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, SW Gulf of Mexico
IGNACIO WINFIELD (Mexico) & MANUEL ORTIZ (Cuba)

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Zootaxa 2199: 1-57 (17 Aug. 2009) 34 plates; 60 references                           Accepted: 15 Jun. 2009
The sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae,
Synalpheus) of Discovery Bay, Jamaica, with descriptions of four new species
KENNETH S MACDONALD III (Mexico), KRISTIN HULTGREN (Republic of Panamá) & J. EMMETT
DUFFY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2196: 59-64 (13 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 30 Jun. 2009
A new species of Strouhaloniscellus Tabacaru, 1993 (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Oniscidea) from a cave in Mt Biokovo, Croatia
JANA BEDEK (Croatia) & STEFANO TAITI (Italy)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2183: 1-99 (6 Aug. 2009) 0 plates; 845 references                         Accepted: 20 Jun. 2009
Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in
harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda)
RONY HUYS (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2176: 57-64 (5 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 25 Jun. 2009
First record of the genus Typhlocirolana Racovitza, 1905 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae)
from Tunisia and description of a new species from the National park of Ichkeul
A. GHLALA (Tunisia), D. DELLA VALLE (Italy) & G. MESSANA (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2176: 1-21 (5 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Discrimination between two sibling species of Acroperus (Baird, 1843) from the
Palearctic (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2167: 59-68 (24 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Synopsis of Amphipoda from two recent Ross Sea voyages with description of a
new species of Epimeria (Epimeriidae, Amphipoda, Crustacea)
ANNE-NINA LÖRZ (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2159: 44-68 (16 Jul. 2009) 18 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 2 Jun. 2009
Four species of the genus Seba from Japan, with descriptions of two new species
(Crustacea: Amphipoda: Sebidae)
HIROYUKI ARIYAMA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2158: 57-64 (15 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2009
Thaumatoniscellus speluncae n. sp. (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae),
a new troglobitic oniscid species from Croatia
IVO M. KARAMAN (Serbia and Montenegro), JANA BEDEK (Croatia) & MLADEN HORVATOVI
Ć (Serbia and Montenegro)
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Zootaxa 2154: 30-46 (10 Jul. 2009) 9 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2009
Two new species of Richardina A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Stenopodidae), representing the first occurrences of the genus from the Pacific
TOMOMI SAITO & HIRONORI KOMATSU (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2154: 1-29 (10 Jul. 2009) 18 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2009
Revision of Selatium Serčne & Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae),
with description of a new genus and two new species
CHRISTOPH D. SCHUBART (Germany), HUNG-CHANG LIU (R. China) & PETER K. L. NG
(Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2153: 1-23 (9 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 91 references                            Accepted: 6 May 2009
Description of cryptic taxa within the Alpheus bouvieri A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 and A. hebes Kim and Abele, 1988 species complexes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT & NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2149: 50-61 (6 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 27 May 2009
Two new Cumella (Crustacea: Cumacea: Nannastacidae) from the North Pacific, with a key to the North Pacific Cumella
SARAH GERKEN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2141: 1-19 (25 Jun. 2009) 9 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 5 May 2009
Tanaidacea from Brazil. I. The family Tanaellidae Larsen & Wilson, 2002
KIM LARSEN, CATARINA DE L. ARAÚJO-SILVA & PETRÔNIO ALVES COELHO (Brasil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2140: 38-44 (24 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2009
Macrobrachium pentazona, a new freshwater palaemonid prawn (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemoindae) from Guangdong Province, China
SHUN-LIAN HE, JIE GAO & ZHAO-LIANG GUO (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2140: 45-55 (24 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 29 May 2009
Morphology of the first zoeal stage of the partner shrimp Periclimenes amethysteus Risso, 1827 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) studied with the Scanning EM
HANNES GEISELBRECHT & ROLAND R. MELZER (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2136: 21-39 (19 Jun. 2009) 10 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
Two new sympatric species of freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Southern Zagros Region, Iran
MEHRDAD ZAMANPOORE (Austria), MANFRED POECKL (Austria), MICHAL GRABOWSKI
(POLAND) & FRIEDRICH SCHIEMER (Austria)

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Zootaxa 2134: 36-48 (17 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 14 May 2009
Pentaceration, an unusual new genus of Paramunnidae from Australia (Isopoda, Asellota)
JEAN JUST (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2133: 20-32 (16 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2009
Taxonomic re-examination of the hermit crab species Pagurus forceps and Pagurus comptus (Decapoda: Paguridae) by molecular analysis
FERNANDO LUIS MANTELATTO (Brazil), LUIS MIGUEL PARDO (Chile), LEONARDO GOMES
PILEGGI (Brazil) & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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Zootaxa 2130: 60-68 (11 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 19 May 2009
Cubadeutella cavernicola, a new genus and species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Cuba
MANUEL ORTIZ (Cuba), JOSÉ M. GUERRA-GARCÍA (Spain) & ROGELIO LALANA (Cuba)

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Zootaxa 2130: 31-40 (11 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2009
Periclimenaeus pectinidactylus n. sp. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Belizean Barrier Reef, Caribbean Sea
ZDEN
ĚK ĎURIŠ, IVONA HORKÁ & FLOYD SANDFORD (Czech)
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Zootaxa 2130: 21-30 (11 Jun. 2009) 4 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 7 Apr. 2009
Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, III. A new species of the genus Babamunida (Crustacea: Galatheidae) from Hawaii based on morphological and molecular evidence
KAREEN E. SCHNABEL (New Zealand), JOEL W. MARTIN (USA) & ROBERT B. MOFFITT (USA)

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Zootaxa 2128: 61-68 (9 Jun. 2009) 4 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 12 May 2009
Redescription and mitochondrial identification of Chiromantes boulengeri (Calman, 1920) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) based on fresh material from the Persian Gulf, Iran
REZA NADERLOO & CHRISTOPH D. SCHUBART (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2122: 1-50 (1 Jun. 2009) 22 plates; 64 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Revision of the crab genus Garthambrus Ng, 1996, with the description of two new genera and discussion of the status of Tutankhamen Rathbun, 1925 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Parthenopidae)
COLIN L. MCLAY (New Zealand) & S. H. TAN (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2120: 39-52 (28 May 2009) 2 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
The genus Leptodora Lilljeborg (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) is not monotypic: description of a new species from the Amur River basin (Far East of Russia)

NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2120: 53-68 (28 May 2009) 8 plates; 47 references                          Accepted: 7 May 2009
Report on some Plesionika Bate, 1888 and first record of Stylopandalus
Coutiére, 1905 (Caridea, Pandalidae) from Brazilian waters
IRENE CARDOSO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2119: 39-50 (27 May 2009) 2 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 4 Apr. 2009
Checklist of reef decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the southern
Gulf of California, México
LUIS HERNÁNDEZ, EDUARDO F. BALART & HÉCTOR REYES-BONILLA (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 2119: 51-65 (27 May 2009) 3 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 14 May 2009
A new species of Chaetiliidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera)
from the Río de la Plata estuary, Argentina-Uruguay, and reconsideration of Macrochiridothea and Chiriscus
GARY C. B. POORE (Australia), F. RAMÍREZ (Argentina) & A. SCHIARITI (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 2116: 46-52 (25 May 2009) 2 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 1 Apr. 2009
Two new species of Trevathana (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Balanomorpha,
Pyrgomatidae) from the Western Indian Ocean and French Polynesia 
YAIR ACHITUV & YAAKOV LANGZAM (Israel)
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Zootaxa 2115: 21-33 (22 May 2009) 3 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 30 Apr. 2009
Revalidation of Chlamydopleon aculeatum Ortmann, 1893, and its consequences
for the taxonomy of Gastrosaccinae (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) endemic to coastal waters of America
KARL J. WITTMANN (Austria)

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Zootaxa 2114: 1-49 (22 May 2009) 28 plates; 82 references                          Accepted: 21 Apr. 2009
A survey of Mysida from the Lizard Island area, Great Barrier Reef, Australia,
Subfamily Siriellinae (Crustacea, Mysida, Mysidae)
M. SUZETTE TALBOT (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2114: 50-60 (22 May 2009) 5 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 21 Mar. 2009
Description of Gnathia maculosa and a new record of Gnathia trimaculata
(Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), ectoparasites of elasmobranchs from Okinawan coastal waters
YUZO OTA & EUICHI HIROSE (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2111: 1-66 (18 May 2009) 29 plates; 225 references                         Accepted: 18 Mar. 2009
New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region,
including a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae)
COLIN L. McLAY (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 2110: 1-21 (18 May 2009) 11 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 4 May 2009
Redescription of four species of Hatschekia (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida:
Hatschekiidae) parasitic on tetraodontiform fishes from Japan
DAISUKE UYENO & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2109: 1-44 (18 May 2009) 17 plates; 64 references                          Accepted: 24 Apr. 2009
Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from soft-sediment
habitats off Israel, Eastern Mediterranean
ROGER N BAMBER (UK), GRAHAM BIRD (New Zealand), MAGDALENA BŁA
ŻEWICZPASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & BELLA GALIL (Israel)
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Zootaxa 2107: 41-52 (15 May 2009) 3 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 4 Apr. 2009
Molecular phylogeny and divergence time estimates of Penaeid Shrimp
Lineages (Decapoda: Penaeidae)
CAROLINA M VOLOCH, PABLO R FREIRE & CLAUDIA A M RUSSO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2106: 41-50 (13 May 2009) 4 plates; 57 references                         Accepted: 23 Mar. 2009
Comparative morphology of the seminal receptacles of Ocypode quadrata
(Fabricius, 1787) (Brachyura, Ocypodoidea)
LAURA S. LÓPEZ-GRECO (Argentina), VÍVIAN FRANSOZO (Brazil), MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROSFRANSOZO
(Brazil) & DANIELA CARVALHO DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2106: 51-60 (13 May 2009) 3 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 25 Mar. 2009
Geothelphusa makatao sp. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae), a new
freshwater crab from an uplifted Pleistocene reef in Taiwan
HSI-TE SHIH & JHY-YUN SHY (Taiwan)

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Zootaxa 2096: 1-5 (11 May. 2009
Title & copyright page, table of contents

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 Editorial 
Zootaxa 2096: 6-8 (11 May 2009) 0 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Editorial: Deep-sea taxonomy — a contribution to our knowledge of biodiversity

WIEBKE BRÖKELAND & KAI HORST GEORGE (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 214-256 (11 May 2009) 30 plates; 41 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Description of four new species of Mesocletodes Sars, 1909 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Argestidae) and redescription of Mesocletodes robustus Por, 1965 from the South Atlantic, including remarks on the Mesocletodes abyssicola
-group
LENA MENZEL & KAI HORST GEORGE (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 257-286 (11 May 2009) 18 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Description of two new species of Dorsiceratus Drzycimski, 1967 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ancorabolidae) from
Sedlo and Seine Seamounts (Northeastern Atlantic) and remarks on the phylogenetic status of the genus
KAI HORST GEORGE & CHRISTOPH PLUM (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 287-298 (11 May 2009) 6 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
A new genus of Pseudomesochrinae Willen, 1996 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) from the Guinea
Basin
ELKE WILLEN & JANINE DITTMAR (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 299-312 (11 May 2009) 8 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Nyxis rostrocularis, a new genus and species of Paranannopinae Por, 1986 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the
Southern Atlantic deep sea
ELKE WILLEN (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 313-326 (11 May 2009) 9 plates; 21 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Kliopsyllus schminkei sp. n. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Paramesochridae) — a new copepod from the southeast
Atlantic deep sea (Angola Basin)
GRITTA VEIT-KÖHLER & JAN DREWES (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 327-337 (11 May 2009) 5 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
First record of the genus Kliopsyllus Kunz, 1962 (Copepoda Harpacticoida, Paramesochridae) from Northeastern Brazil with description of the deep-sea species Kliopsyllus minor
sp. nov.
DANIELLE MENOR VASCONCELOS (Brazil), GRITTA VEIT-KÖHLER (Germany), JAN DREWES (Germany), PAULO JORGE PARREIRA DOS SANTOS (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 338-355 (11 May 2009) 12 plates; 11 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Discovery of Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Tegastidae) in a deep-sea cold
seep, with the description of a new species from the Gulf of Mexico
CHRISTOPH PLUM & PEDRO MARTINEZ ARBIZU (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 356-370 (11 May 2009) 6 plates; 40 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Macrostylis cerritus sp. nov., a new species of Macrostylidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the Weddell Sea, Southern
Ocean
AIDAN VEY (The Netherlands) & SASKIA BRIX (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 371-380 (11 May 2009) 3 plates; 27 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Nymphodora gen. nov., a new genus of Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota, Janiroidea) from the high
Arctic
STEFANIE KAISER (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 381-394 (11 May 2009) 5 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Thylakogaster namibiensis sp. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiroidea), a new species of Haplomunnidae from the
southeast Atlantic deep sea
NILS BRENKE & ANIKA BUSCHMANN (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 395-412 (11 May 2009) 10 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Holodentata gen. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae) with a description of two new species: H. caeca and H. triangulata
from the Southern Ocean
BRENDA LÍA DOTI (Argentina), MADHUMITA CHOUDHURY (Germany) & ANGELIKA BRANDT (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 413-432 (11 May 2009) 6 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Cumacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) in the deep Mediterranean, with the description of one new species
UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 433-441 (11 May 2009) 3 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Hirondellea sindhusagar (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), a new deep-water scavenger species from the Indian Ocean, with a key to the genus Hirondellea

TAMMY HORTON & MICHAEL THURSTON (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2095: 47-56 (8 May 2009) 0 plates; 63 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Public online databases as a tool of collaborative taxonomy: a case study on
subteranean amphipods
CENE FIŠER, BORIS SKET, MARTIN TURJAK & PETER TRONTELJ (Slovenia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2093: 1-36 (6 May 2009) 23 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 1 Apr. 2009
A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type
material. 1. Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (ZMUC)
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG & WIM VADER (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2092: 47-57 (6 May 2009) 2 plates; 36 references                          Accepted: 2 Apr. 2009
Bomolochus bramus n. sp. (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida, Bomolochidae) from
the pomfrets (Bramidae) off Taiwan, with a list of nominal species and key to valid species of Bomolochus von Nordmann, 1832
JU-SHEY HO (USA) & CHING-LONG LIN (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2088: 24-30 (1 May 2009) 4 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
A new mud shrimp species of Calastacus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)
from the South China Sea
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), FENG-JIAU LIN (Taiwan) & TIN-YAM CHAN (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2088: 31-40 (1 May 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
Aegla manuinflata, a new species of freshwater anomuran (Decapoda:
Anomura: Aeglidae) from Brazil, determined by morphological and molecular characters
SANDRO SANTOS (Brasil), GEORGINA BOND-BUCKUP(Brasil), MARCOS PÉREZ-LOSADA
(Portugal), MARLISE LADVOCAT BARTHOLOMEI-SANTOS(Brasil) & LUDWIG BUCKUP (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 2085: 27-44 (29 Apr. 2009) 8 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 23 Mar. 2009
A new species of Palaemon (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from West
Africa, with a re-description of Palaemon maculatus (Thallwitz, 1892)
CHRISTOPHER W. ASHELBY & SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK)

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Zootaxa 2085: 45-60 (29 Apr. 2009) 6 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 26 Mar. 2009
Calappoidea and Leucosioidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
from Luzon, Philippines, with descriptions of two new species of Mursia
BELLA S. GALIL (Israel) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2082: 1-84 (24 Apr. 2009) 32 plates; 180 references                         Accepted: 21 Feb. 2009
A revision of Leydigia Kurz, 1875 (Anomopoda, Cladocera, Branchiopoda), and
subgeneric differentiation within the genus
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2077: 31-55 (20 Apr. 2009) 14 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 17 Mar. 2009
Two new Parastenocarididae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from India:
Parastenocaris muvattupuzha n. sp. from a river and P. kotumsarensis n. sp. from a cave
YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (India) & DANIELLE DEFAYE (France)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2076: 60-62 (17 Apr. 2009) 0 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
Comments on the generic position of Typton australis Bruce, 1973, and some
related taxa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2073: 45-56 (16 Apr. 2009) 7 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 17 Mar. 2009
A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus topkarai sp. nov.,
from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae), with a key for Turkish freshwater Gammarus species
MURAT ÖZBEK & SULEYMAN BALIK (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2071: 50-60 (14 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 7 Mar. 2009
Two new species of Holthuisana Bott, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura:
Gecarcinucidae) from West Papua, Indonesia
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2071: 21-34 (14 Apr. 2009) 1 plates; 62 references                          Accepted: 13 Mar. 2009
Holotypes of ostracods of Order Podocopida from the collection of the Museum
of A.V.Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS (Vladivostok)
EVGENY I. SCHORNIKOV & OLGA A. TSAREVA (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2067: 29-50 (8 Apr. 2009) 1 plates; 156 references                           Accepted: 2 Mar. 2009
An updated and annotated checklist of recent nonmarine ostracods from China
NA YU, QUANHONG ZHAO, ERCHAO LI, SHIMEI CHEN & LIQIAO CHEN (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2061: 61-68 (3 Apr. 2009) 4 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 25 Feb. 2009
Macrobrachium santanderensis, new species of freshwater prawn (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the northeastern Andes mountains of Colombia
ALFREDO GARCIA-PEREZ (USA) & JORGE VILLAMIZAR (Colombia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2061: 1-22 (3 Apr. 2009) 14 plates; 59 references                           Accepted: 4 Mar. 2009
Toward a unified taxonomy of Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda):
a review of morphological variability
CENE FIŠER, PETER TRONTELJ, ROMAN LUŠTRIK & BORIS SKET (Slovenia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2059: 51-68 (1 Apr. 2009) 4 plates; 91 references                           Accepted: 4 Mar. 2009
Second representative of the order Misophrioida (Crustacea, Copepoda)
from Australia challenges the hypothesis of the Tethyan origin of some anchialine faunas
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC & STEFAN M. EBERHARD (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2057: 53-62 (30 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 11 Feb. 2009
Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, II. First
record of the unusual hermit crab genera Porcellanopagurus Filhol, 1885, and Solitariopagurus Türkay, 1986 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae)
JOEL W. MARTIN, ROBERT B. MOFFITT, & PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2053: 59-68 (25 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
A new genus and new species of symbiotic crab (Crustacea: Brachyura:
Pinnotheroidea) from Okinawa, Japan
TOHRU NARUSE (Japan), YOSHIHISA FUJITA (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2051: 26-40 (25 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 13 Feb. 2009
Notes on chydorid endemism in continental Africa: Matralona gen. n., a
monotypic Alonine from the Fouta Djalon Plateau (Guinea, West Africa) (Crustacea: Cladocera: Anomopoda)
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2050: 65-68 (23 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 25 Feb. 2009
Neocrangon orientalis, a new caridean shrimp species (Crustacea, Decapoda,
Crangonidae) from the East China Sea
QINGXI HAN & XINZHENG LI (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2045: 15-32 (18 Mar. 2009) 9 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
Partial revision of freshwater shrimps from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with
descriptions of two new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)
YIXIONG CAI (Singapore), DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & SATISH CHOY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2035: 41-68 (13 Mar. 2009) 17 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 5 Feb. 2009
The tantulocarid genus Arcticotantalus removed from Basipodellidae into
Deoterthridae (Crustacea: Maxillopoda) after the description of a new species from Greenland, with first live photographs and an overview of the class
STEEN WILHELM KNUDSEN, MAJA KIRKEGAARD & JŘRGEN OLESEN (Denmark)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2029: 1-70 (6 Mar. 2009) 31 plates; 113 references                           Accepted: 10 Dec. 2008
Freshwater cyclopoids and harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the
Gnangara Mound region of Western Australia
DANNY TANG & BRENTON KNOTT (Germany)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2028: 67-68 (6 Mar. 2009) 0 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 15 Feb. 2009
Cuapetes Clark, 1919, a senior synonym of Kemponia Bruce, 2004
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
JUNJI OKUNO (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2025: 1-20 (2 Mar. 2009) 11 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
New genera, new species and new records of Indo-West Pacific spider crabs
(Crustacea: Brachyura: Epialtidae: Majoidea)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2025: 21-31 (2 Mar. 2009) 9 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Two new species of sesarmid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
associated with limestone formations in West Papua, Indonesia
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2025: 32-42 (2 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 41 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
Genetic evidence for cryptic speciation in the freshwater shrimp genus
Atyaephyra de Brito Capello (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae)
JOSÉ E. GARCÍA MUŃOZ, ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ, J. ENRIQUE GARCÍA RASO &
JOSÉ A. CUESTA (Spain)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2024: 56-68 (2 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 22 Jan. 2009
New species of squat lobsters of the genera Agononida and Paramunida
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the western Pacific
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & KEIJI BABA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2022: 1-14 (27 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 53 references                           Accepted: 23 Dec. 2008
Phylogenetic relationships within the Pylochelidae (Decapoda: Anomura:
Paguroidea): A cladistic analysis based on morphological characters 
RAFAEL LEMAITRE, PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN & ULF SORHANNUS (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2022: 15-28 (27 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
A new species of Cantellius and a redescription of C. sextus (Hiro, 1938)
(Cirripedia, Balanomorpha Pyrgomatidae) from the elephant skin coral, Pachyseris speciosa (Dana, 1846) (Scleractinia, Agariciidae) from Taiwan
YAIR ACHITUV (Israel), LING MING TSANG (Hong Kong) & BENNY KWOK KAN CHAN (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2022: 29-44 (27 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 9 Jan. 2009
A new species and two new genera of pinnotherid crabs from the northeastern
Pacific Ocean, with a reappraisal of the subfamily Pinnotherinae de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
ERNESTO CAMPOS (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2021: 57-65 (27 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2009
Ashinkailepas kermadecensis, a new species of deep-sea scalpelliform barnacle
(Thoracica: Eolepadidae) from the Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific
JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2019: 57-68 (23 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Morphology and distribution of the acorn barnacle Tetraclita reni nom. nov. (Crustacea: Cirripedia) in Madagascar and adjacent waters
BENNY KWOK KAN CHAN, CHIH-HSIUNG HSU & PEI-CHEN TSAI (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2018: 25-44 (23 Feb. 2009) 11 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, I.
A review of the genus Sakaila Manning and Holthuis, 1981 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Aethridae), with the description of a new species from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
JOEL W. MARTIN, SCOTT GODWIN, & ROBERT MOFFITT (USA)

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Zootaxa 2016: 51-66 (20 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Speleonectes kakuki, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from anchialine
and sub-seafloor caves on Andros and Cat Island, Bahamas 
JANA DAENEKAS (Germany), THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA), JILL YAGER (USA)& STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2015: 1-41 (18 Feb. 2009) 22 plates; 60 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
On Recent species of Tonnacypris Diebel & Pietrzeniuk, 1975
(Crustacea, Ostracoda), with new species descriptions from Mongolia
THIJS VAN DER MEEREN (Belgium), YONDON KHAND (Mongolia) & KOEN MARTENS (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 2015: 42-54 (18 Feb. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
A new species of the genus Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridae)
from the low salinity habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico
BRENT P. THOMA & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2007: 1-42 (11 Feb. 2009) 21 plates; 103 references                           Accepted: 11 Dec. 2008
Redescription of the type species of Strandesia Stuhlmann, 1888 and Cypricercus
Sars, 1895 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cypricercinae), with a description of a new species of Cypricercus from South Africa
SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON & KOEN MARTENS (Belgium)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2000: 1-117 (4 Feb. 2009) 45 plates; 82 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Lanceoloidea Bowman &
Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 1995: 1-75 (4 Feb. 2009) 39 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
African Caridina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae): redescriptions of
C. africana Kingsley, 1882, C. togoensis Hilgendorf, 1893, C. natalensis Bouvier, 1925 and C. roubaudi Bouvier, 1925 with descriptions of 14 new species
JASMINE RICHARD & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1992: 20-36 (2 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 4 Dec. 2008
New species of Neotanais Beddard, 1886 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from the deep sea of the tropical and southern East Atlantic Ocean
SIMON WEIGMANN & JÜRGEN GUERRERO-KOMMRITZ (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1990: 41-54 (30 Jan. 2009) 7 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Cladocerans of the Alona affinis (Leydig, 1860) group from South Africa
ARTEM YU SINEV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1990: 55-64 (30 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
First record of the thermosbaenacean genus Halosbaena from Asia: H. daitoensis sp. nov. (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea: Halosbaenidae) from an anchialine cave of Minamidaito-jima Is., in Okinawa, southern Japan
MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA & YOSHIHISA FUJITA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1987: 61-68 (23 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Establishment of a new genus for Asthenognathus gallardoi Serčne & Soh, 1976 within Gaeticinae Davie & N.K. Ng, 2007 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae)
TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1986: 51-66 (23 Jan. 2009) 7 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 25 Nov. 2008
Morphology of first seven larval stages of the striped soldier shrimp, Plesionika edwardsii (Brandt, 1851) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pandalidae) from laboratory reared material
JOSÉ MARÍA LANDEIRA, FERNANDO LOZANO-SOLDEVILLA &JUAN IGNACIO GONZÁLEZ-GORDILLO (Spain)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1982: 66-68 (19 Jan. 2009) 1 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
First records of Thryaplax Castro, 2007 and Calocarcinus Calman, 1909 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1981: 29-42 (16 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2008
A revision of the freshwater crabs of Mt Kenya and the Aberdare Mountains, Kenya, East Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae)
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1980: 29-40 (16 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2008
Two new species of Parasesarma De Man, 1895, from Southeast Asia
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1980: 41-52 (16 Jan. 2009) 4 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 28 Nov. 2008
Redescription of Asterocheres suberitis Giesbrecht, 1897 and A. tenerus (Hansen, 1923) (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), including notes on A. abyssi (Hansen, 1923) and A. intermedius (Hansen, 1923)
EUGENIA BANDERA & MERCEDES CONRADI (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1980: 1-15 (16 Jan. 2009) 7 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
Triaina, a new genus in the Janirellidae Menzies, 1956 (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Asellota), with two new species from south-eastern Australia, and a new diagnosis for the family
JEAN JUST (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1977: 49-54 (14 Jan. 2009) 2 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2008
Range extension for three species of South American freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Trichodactylidae)
PABLO A. COLLINS, FEDERICO GIRI & VERÓNICA WILLINER (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1977: 21-38 (14 Jan. 2009) 9 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 18 Nov. 2008
Andeepia ingridae a new genus and species of Pardaliscidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the Antarctic deep-sea and short redescription of
Nicippe unidentata K.H. Barnard, 1932
TAPATI BISWAS (Germany), CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany) &
ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1971: 59-68 (7 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 30 Oct. 2008
A new species of copepod (Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasitic on the striped trumpeter, Latris lineata (Forster), from Tasmania
MELANIE ANDREWS, NATHAN BOTT, STEPHEN BATTAGLENE & BARBARA NOWAK (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1971: 1-49 (7 Jan. 2009) 36 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Crinoid-associated shrimps of the genus Laomenes A.H. Clark, 1919
(Caridea: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae): new species and probable diversity
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1967: 1-35 (19 Dec. 2008) 25 plates; 43 references                        Accepted: 29 Oct. 2008
New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839,
with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1962: 49-64 (12 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 62 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Revision of Ilyocryptus Sars, 1862 (Cladocera: Ilyocryptidae) of Brazil with
description of two new subspecies
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO (Brasil)

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Zootaxa 1961: 11-25 (10 Dec. 2008) 7 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
One new and four newly recorded species of the genus Macrobrachium
(Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemoindae) from Guangdong Province, southern China
ZHAO-LIANG GUO & SHUN-LIAN HE (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1961: 26-36 (10 Dec. 2008) 2 plates; 32 references                        Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Haploops antarctica n. sp. (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae):
the first species of the genus Haploops from the Southern Antarctic Ocean
DENISE BELLAN-SANTINI & JEAN-CLAUDE DAUVIN (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1960: 1-44 (10 Dec. 2008) 8 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
Further division of Alona Baird, 1843: separation and position of Coronatella
Dybowski & Grochowski and Ovalona gen.n. (Crustacea: Cladocera)
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1956: 1-58 (5 Dec. 2008) 1 plate; 249 references                        Accepted: 20 Oct. 2008
Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of
northern and northeastern Brazil
PETRÔNIO ALVES COELHO, ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA DE ALMEIDA &
LUIS ERNESTO ARRUDA BEZERRA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1943: 1-25 (26 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 46 references                          Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
The 'true' genus Alona Baird, 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Anomopoda): position of the A. quadrangularis-group and description of a new species from the Democratic Republic of Congo
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1943: 53-68 (26 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 56 references                          Accepted: 21 Jul. 2008
Revision of the Alpheus cylindricus Kingsley, 1878 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. vanderbilti Boone, 1930
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, JAVIER A. JARA & NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1939: 61-64 (21 Nov. 2008) 0 plates; 17 references                      Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
On the diagnostic characters of the genus Gibbesia (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae)
RODRIGO TADEU BENTO, PAOLA LUPIANHES DALL´OCCO & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1932: 1-17 (14 Nov. 2008) 12 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
Taxonomic position of Pontonides sympathes De Ridder & Holthuis and species of the genus Veleronia Holthuis (Decapoda, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae) with the description of a new genus
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1932: 47-60 (14 Nov. 2008) 10 plates; 15 references                       Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
Three new species of Artotrogidae (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the southeastern coast of Pernambuco State, Brazil
ELIZABETH NEVES & RODRIGO JOHNSSON (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1925: 14-22 (7 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
A new species of Periclimenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Guarapari, Espirito Santo, Brazil
S. DE GRAVE (UK)
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Zootaxa 1924: 43-52 (5 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Some lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from Taiwan and adjacent waters, with the description of one new species from Guam
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & TIN-YAM CHAN (Rep. China)

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Zootaxa 1919: 1-24 (31 Oct. 2008) 13 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Five new species of chirostylid crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from Taiwan
KEIJI BABA (Japan) & CHIA-WEI LIN (Taiwan)
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Zootaxa 1919: 25-44 (31 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 54 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Taxonomic consideration of eight Chinese bisexual Artemia populations, based on the morphology of frontal knob and gonopod and the result of cross-breeding tests
BO ZHENG & SHI-CHUN SUN (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1919: 45-57 (31 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 84 references                           Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
An updated checklist of inland Cladocera (Crustacea: Orders Ctenopoda and Anomopoda) from Venezuela
EVELYN ZOPPI DE ROA & CARLOS LÓPEZ (Venezuela)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1919: 58-60 (31 Oct. 2008) 1 plate; 8 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
First record of an early pea crab stage on Tonicia chilensis (Frembly, 1827) (Mollusca, Polyplacophora)
ROLAND R. MELZER & ENRICO SCHWABE (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1919: 61-68 (31 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 22 Sept. 2008
Alain raymondi, a new species of deepwater pinnotherid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Philippines, commensal with holothurians
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & PETER K.L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1915: 1-28 (27 Oct. 2008) 15 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 12 May. 2008
A preliminary revision of the Synalpheus paraneptunus Coutičre, 1909 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER & EVA TÓTH (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1914: 62-64 (24 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 14 references                       Accepted: 3 Sept. 2008
Laurentaeglyphea Forest, 2006 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Glypheidae): a cautionary tale of nomina nuda and the unpredictability of publication schedules
CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1911: 52-68  (22 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 51 references                            Accepted: 25 Sept. 2008
Larvae of two species of Trizocheles (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea:
Pylochelidae: Trizochelinae), description of the adult of one, and preliminary implications of development on pylochelid phylogeny
PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN & RAFAEL LEMAITRE (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1908: 51-56 (17 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
New Zealand exports: Pseudosphaeroma Chilton, 1909 (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae), a Southern Hemisphere genus introduced to the Pacific coast of North America
Niel L. Bruce (Australia) & Regina Wetzer (USA)

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Zootaxa 1907: 1-27 (17 Oct. 2008) 10 plates; 81 references                           Accepted: 11 Sept. 2008
Ibericancridae, a new dakoticancroid family (Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Spain 

PEDRO ARTAL (Spain), DANIČLE GUINOT (France), BARRY VAN BAKEL (The Netherlands) & JUAN CASTILLO (Spain)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1905: 1-220 (15 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 679 references                           Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura—families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)
KEIJI BABA (Japan), ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain), GARY C. B. POORE (Australia), SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand), ADRIANA BERMUDEZ (Colombia), PATRICIA CABEZAS (Spain), CHIA-WEI LIN (R. China), MARTHA NIZINSKI (USA), CELSO RODRIGUES (Brazil) & KAREEN E. SCHNABEL (New Zealand)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1904: 1-166 (15 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 406 references                         Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
Metazoan parasites of Mexican amphibians and reptiles
RICARDO PAREDES-LEóN, LUIS GARCíA-PRIETO, CARMEN GUZMáN-CORNEJO, VIRGINIA LEóN-RčGAGNON & TILA M. PéREZ (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1897: 20-26 (10 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from Indonesia
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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Zootaxa 1897: 43-52 (10 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
Two new species and a new subspecies of Tetraclitella (Cirripedia: Thoracica) from the Cainozoic of Australia and New Zealand and a consideration of the significance of tubiferous walls
JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1897: 53-63 (10 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 10 Sept. 2008
A new species of Alainodaeus Davie, 1993 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from Balicasag Island, Philippines, with a key to the genus
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K.L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1897: 64-66 (10 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
A revision of the generic position of Typton australis Bruce, 1973 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae), with a new diagnosis for the pontoniine shrimp genus Onycocaridella Bruce, 1981
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1894: 23-41 (8 Oct. 2008) 10 plates;  2 7 references                            Accepted: 26 Aug. 2008
Gnathia pilosus sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from the East Coast of South Africa
KERRY A. HADFIELD, NICO J. SMIT & ANNEMARIÉ AVENANT-OLDEWAGE (S. Africa)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1884: 60-68 (24 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
A new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from the Argentinian Tierra del Fuego
ROSA GRACIELA COHEN (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1882: 46-56 (22 Sept. 2008) 8 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2008
A new species of the pandalid shrimp genus Pandalus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Sea of Okhotsk off eastern Sakhalin, Russian Far East
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & MARIA ELETSKAYA (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1881: 43-68 (22 Sept. 2008) 1 plate; 64 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2008
Checklist of the Decapods (Crustacea) from the Fernando de Noronha
Archipelago, Brazil
MARIA DE LOURDES ALVES, MARILENA RAMOS-PORTO & GIRLENE FáBIA SEGUNDO VIANA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1877: 1-36 (10 Sept. 2008) 17 plates; 44 references                           Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
Untying the Gordian Knot: on Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson (Crustacea, Tanaidacea, Tanaidae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of two new
Zeuxoides species
GRAHAM J BIRD (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1877: 37-48 (10 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
A new species of Geothelphusa Stimpson, 1857, from Taiwan (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence, with notes on species from western Taiwan
HSI-TE SHIH (Taiwan), TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore) & DARREN C. J. YEO (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1872: 45-58 (8 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 17 Jul. 2008
A new shrimp species of the genus Leptomenaeus Bruce, 2007 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Vietnam
ZDENĚK ĎURIŠ & IVONA HORKÁ (Czech Republic)                   
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 223-262 (3 Sep. 2008) 25 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Argestes angolaensis sp. nov. (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Argestidae) from the Angola Basin (Southeast Atlantic), and the phylogenetic characterization of the taxon Argestes Sars, including the redescription of A. mollis Sars, 1910, and A. reductus
(Itô, 1983)
KAI HORST GEORGE (Germnay)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 263-276 (3 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new species of Ischnomesidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Southern Ocean, Stylomesus weddellensis sp. nov.
ANGELIKA BRANDT & HANS GEORG ANDRES (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 277-289 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Caudacalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida): a new benthopelagic genus from the abyss of the tropical South Atlantic and
Southern Ocean
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA (Germany) & KNUD SCHULZ (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 290-302 (3 Sep. 2008) 8 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new genus and species of Brychiopontiidae Humes, 1974 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) associated
with an abyssal holothurian in the Northeast Pacific nodule province
RADITH MAHATMA (Germany), PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU (Germany) & VIATCHESLAV N.
IVANENKO (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 303-322 (3 Sep. 2008) 13 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new and exceptional species of Bradya Boeck, 1873 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from the abyssal
plain of the Angola Basin and the variability of deep-sea Harpacticoida
SYBILLE SEIFRIED & PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 323-336 (3 Sep. 2008) 6 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new species of deep-sea Tegastidae (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from 9°50´N on the East Pacific Rise,
with remarks on its ecology
SABINE GOLLNER (Austria), VIATCHESLAV N. IVANENKO (Russia) & PEDRO MARTINEZ ARBIZU
(Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 337-348 (3 Sep. 2008) 12 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First record of the genus Pseudomesochra T. Scott (Harpacticoida: Pseudotachidiidae) in the South Atlantic with description of a deep-sea species: Pseudomesochra longiseta
sp. nov.
DANIELLE MENOR VASCONCELOS (Brazil), KAI HORST GEORGE (Germany) & PAULO JORGE PARREIRA
DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 349-372 (3 Sep. 2008) 10 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First Record of a living Platycopida (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Antarctic waters and a Discussion on Cytherella serratula
(Brady, 1880)
SIMONE N. BRANDĂO (Germnay)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 373-452 (3 Sep. 2008) 47 plates; 63 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
New species of Bairdioidea (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from the Southern Ocean and discussions on Bairdoppilata simplex (Brady, 1880), ?Bairdoppilata labiata (Müller, 1908) and Bythopussella aculeata
(Müller, 1908)
SIMONE N. BRANDĂO (Germnay)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 453-466 (3 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Two new deep-water species of Caecoserolis Wägele, 1994 (Isopoda, Sphaeromatidea, Serolidae) from off North
Island, New Zealand
NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 467-481 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First record and new species of the genus Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the deep Weddell Sea Basin

STEFANIE KAISER (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 482-492 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Prochelator tupuhi sp. nov., the first record of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Crustacea: Isopoda) from New Zealand
waters
SASKIA BRIX (Germnay) & NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 493-539 (3 Sep. 2008) 26 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Results of the DIVA-1 Expedition of RV “Meteor” (Cruise M48:1): Three new species of Munnopsidae Sars, 1864
from abyssal depths of the Angola Basin (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
ANDRE MURSCH, NILS BRENKE & JOHANN WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 540-554 (3 Sep. 2008) 9 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Eurycope crassiramis sp. nov., a new species of Munnopsidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the Weddell Sea,
Southern Ocean
OLGA A. GOLOVAN (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 555-574 (3 Sep. 2008) 11 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Microcope gen. nov.—a new deep-sea genus of Munnopsidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota), with description of
two new species from the Southern Hemisphere
MARINA V. MALYUTINA (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1861: 17-28 (1 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
New records of deep-sea spider crabs of the genus Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886, from the Pacific Ocean, with description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae)

BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1860: 35-50 (1 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 32 references                             Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Periclimenes sulcatus sp. nov., a new pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Vietnam

ZDENĚK ĎURIŠ
(Czech Republic), IVONA HORKÁ (Czech Republic) & IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1857: 44-54 (27 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Palinustus mossambicus Barnard, 1926 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Achelata: Palinuridae); morphology of the puerulus stage

FERRAN PALERO (Spain), GUILLERMO GUERAO (Spain) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1857: 55-65 (27 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 31 Jul. 2008
Description of two new species of Ischyroceridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the coast of Southeastern Brazil

MARIA TERESA VALÉRIO-BERARDO, ANA MARIA THIAGO DE SOUZA & CARINA WAITEMAN RODRIGUES (Brasil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1853: 68 (20 Aug. 2008) 0 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
A note on the nomenclature of Stylodactylus gracilis Cleva, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Stylodactylidae)
REGIS CLEVA (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1852: 59-64 (18 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Mecynocera clausi I.C. Thompson, 1888 (Copepoda: Calanoida) is a paracalanid
JANET M. BRADFORD-GRIEVE (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1850: 1-26 (15 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 85 references                              Accepted: 2 Jul. 2008
A re-evaluation of the Dynomenidae Ortmann, 1892 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata), with the recognition of four subfamilies
DANIELE GUINOT (France)

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Zootaxa 1849: 28-34 (13 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 24 Jul. 2008
Description of a new subspecies of the crayfish Parastacus brasiliensis (Von Martens, 1869) from Sao Francisco de Paula, RS, Brazil (Decapoda, Parastacidae)
NELSON FERREIRA FONTOURA & MARIA-ROTRAUT CONTER (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1847: 49-61 (11 Aug. 2008) 8 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 18 Jul. 2008
Epimeriidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from New Zealand with a description of a new species
ANNE-NINA LORZ (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1844: 63-68 (6 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 3 Jul. 2008
A new species of Palaemonella Dana, 1852, (Crustacea: Decapoda; Pontoniinae) from the Red Sea
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1844: 47-54 (6 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 18 Jun. 2008
Macrobrachium agwi - a new species of freshwater prawn (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from East Bengal, India
WERNER KLOTZ (Austria)

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Zootaxa 1844: 37-46 (6 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 10 Jul. 2008
Verruca punica, a new species of verrucomorph barnacle (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Lower Danian (Palaeocene) of Tunisia
John S. Buckeridge (Australia), JOHN W. M. JAGT (the Netherlands) & ROBERT P. SPEIJER (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1844: 1-24 (6 Aug. 2008) 12 plates; 24 references                              Accepted: 10 Jul. 2008
Six new species of deep water Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Brazilian Coast
MARIA TERESA VALERIO-BERARDO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1843: 57-66 (6 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
Alicellidae and Valettiopsidae, two new callynophorate families (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & C. DE BROYER (Belgium)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1841: 61-64 (4 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Jun. 2008
Acartia (Odontacartia) ohtsukai Ueda and Bucklin, 2006 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Acartiidae): First Record of its Occurrence in Korean Waters and Habitat Segregation from its Sibling Species A. pacifica Steuer, 1915
SEONG YONG MOON (Korea), SUSUMU OHTSUKA (Japan), HIROSHI UEDA (Japan) & HO YOUNG SOH (Korea)

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Zootaxa 1841: 31-42 (4 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 83 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
Specimens of Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by N.Pq. "Soloncy Moura" off the Southern Coast of Brazil under the Revizee Program

GUSTAVO A. SCHMIDT DE MELO-FILHO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1840: 54-66 (1 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 24 Jun. 2008
The genus Pseudopaguristes McLaughlin (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the southwestern Pacific, with the descriptions of two new species
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1840: 67-68 (1 Aug. 2008) 0 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 15 Jul. 2008
Thurstonella, replacement name for the Antarctic amphipod genus Clarencia K.H. Barnard, 1931 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Thurstonellidae), preoccupied by Clarencia Sloane, 1917 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae)
JIM LOWRY (Australia) & WOLFGANG ZEIDLER (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1839: 1-42 (1 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 86 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
DNA barcodes for Cladocera and Copepoda from Mexico and Guatemala, highlights and new discoveries
MANUEL ELIAS-GUTIERREZ (Mexico), FERNANDO MARTINEZ JERONIMO (Mexico), NATALIA V. IVANOVA (Canada), MARTHA VALDEZ-MORENO (Mexico) & PAUL D. N. HEBERT (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1836: 1-92 (30 Jul. 2008) 45 plates; 33 references                             Accepted: 26 May 2008
Shallow water Tanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) of Australia
GRAHAM J. EDGAR (Australia)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1831: 1-530 (30 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 4557 references                         Accepted: 12 Feb. 2008
Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography
DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1829: 52-60 (25 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
A new species of the genus Atopobathynella Schminke, 1973 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Bathynellacea) from the hyporheic zone of the River Godavari, South India
Y. RANGA REDDY (India), J. DREWES (Germany) & H. K. SCHMINKE (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1829: 61-68 (25 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
Phalloleucon abyssalis, a new cumacean genus and species (Crustacea: Peracarida: Leuconidae) from the Peru Basin
UTE MUHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1828: 29-42 (23 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 45 references                              Accepted: 19 Jun. 2008
On the first terrestrial ostracod of the Superfamily Cytheroidea (Crustacea, Ostracoda): description of Intrepidocythere ibipora n. gen. n. sp. from forest leaf litter in Sao Paulo State, Brazil

RICARDO L. PINTO (Brazil), CARLOS E. F. ROCHA (Brazil) & KOEN MARTENS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1828: 1-17 (23 Jul. 2008) 10 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
The Cumacea of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, with the description of four new species and one genus
UTE MUHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1823: 51-64 (16 Jul. 2008) 8 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 29 May 2008
New species and a new genus of Cirolanidae (Isopoda: Cymothoida: Crustacea) from groundwater in calcretes in the Pilbarra, northern Western Australia
Niel L. Bruce (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1820: 60-66 (9 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 15 May 2008
A new genus and two new species of Saurodocus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia
MICHELLE N. YERMAN (Australia) & TRAUDL KRAPP-SCHICKEL (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1815: 1-24 (4 Jul. 2008) 14 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Palaemonoid shrimps from the Australian north west shelf
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1814: 49-57 (2 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 4 Jun. 2008
Macrobrachium sbordonii (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), a new stygobitic species of freshwater prawn from Chiapas Mexico
LUIS M. MEJIA-ORTIZ (Mexico), FABIOLA BALDARI (Italy) & MARILU LOPEZ-MEJIA (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1813: 29-41 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 9 Jun. 2008
Stylodactylidae and Bathypalaemonellidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the PANGLAO 2004 and 2005 expeditions to the Philippines, with description of a new species of Stylodactylus A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
REGIS CLEVA (France)

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Zootaxa 1812: 49-68 (30 Jun. 2008) 15 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 8 May 2008
Five new species of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from China
TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore), DARREN C. J. YEO (Singapore) & XIANMIN ZHOU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1810: 40-50 (25 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 45 references                           Accepted: 12 May 2008
Discovery of the genus Rybocyclops Dussart, 1982 (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in subterranean groundwaters of southeastern India, with the description of a new species and its biogeographic significance
YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (India) & DANIELLE DEFAYE (France)

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Zootaxa 1807: 47-62 (23 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 11 Mar. 2008
Records of the crangonid shrimp genus Pontocaris Bate, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Chinese waters, with notes on biology of P. pennata Bate, 1888
QINGXI HAN & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1807: 63-68 (23 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2008
A new species of the sentinel crab Macrophthalmus (Mareotis) Barnes, 1967 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) from Western Australia
R.S.K. BARNES (UK) & PETER J.F. DAVIE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1795: 57-66 (13 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 19 May 2008
A new family of the order Ctenopoda (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the depths of the Black Sea
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia) & NELLI G. SERGEEVA (Ukraine)

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Zootaxa 1795: 1-28 (13 Jun. 2008) 12 plates; 44 references                           Accepted: 12 May 2008
Four new species and a new record of Cryptoniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda: Hemioniscidae and Crinoniscidae) parasitising stalked barnacles from New Zealand
ANDREW M. HOSIE (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1788: 47-56 (9 Jun. 2008) 0 plates; 62 references                              Accepted: 13 May 2008
Check-List of the South-African Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda)
N.N. SMIRNOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1788: 1-20 (9 Jun. 2008) 10 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
Juvenile development of Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae), from megalopae obtained in the neuston
EDUARDO ANTONIO BOLLA JUNIOR, MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO & ADILSON FRANSOZO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1778: 1-25 (28 May 2008) 5 plates; 46 references                              Accepted: 10 Mar. 2008
Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas
BAOQUAN LI & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1777: 53-68 (28 May 2008) 8 plates; 26 references                              Accepted: 2 Apr. 2008
Rhadinoplax, a new genus of Progeryonidae Stevcic, 2005, for Carcinoplax microphthalmus Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981, and a redescription of Paragalene longicrura (Nardo, 1868) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea)
PETER CASTRO (USA) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1775: 61-68 (23 May 2008) 2 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 29 Apr. 2008
A new species of Oratosquillina Manning, 1995 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae) from the Indo-West Pacific region with a key to the genus
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Zootaxa 1775: 25-38 (23 May 2008) 6 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 26 Mar. 2008
Separation of Pleuroxus pamirensis (Werestschagin, 1923) from P. annandalei (Daday, 1908) (Cladocera: Chydoridae)
ALEXEY A. KOTOV & NATALIA G. SHEVELEVA (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1764: 19-24 (7 May 2008) 2 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 2 Apr. 2008
Notes on morphology and ecological difference between species of pontoniine shrimp genus Crinotonia Marin (Caridea: Palaemonidae) associated with shallow-water feather stars Phanogenia spp. (Crinoidea: Comasteridae)
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1761: 1-16 (2 May 2008) 8 plates; 46 references                              Accepted: 8 Apr. 2008
A new species of Halophytophilus Brian, 1919 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from cold-water corals in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic)
HENDRIK GHEERARDYN (Belgium), SYBILLE SEIFRIED (Germany) & ANN VANREUSEL (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1761: 17-29 (2 May 2008) 5 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 28 Feb. 2008
A re-description of Accalathura crenulata (Richardson, 1901) from type material and the description of two new Accalathura species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoida)
RACHAEL A. KING (USA)

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Zootaxa 1760: 59-68 (30 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 1 Feb. 2008
A new genus and species of cyproideid amphipod associated with unstalked crinoids on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & B.A.R. AZMAN (Malaysia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1760: 24-36 (30 Apr. 2008) 7 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 7 Feb. 2008
New species and new reports of Hyalella (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Dogielinotidae) from Argentina
ANA LUCIA FREITAS DOS SANTOS, PAULA BEATRIZ ARAUJO & GEORGINA BOND-BUCKUP (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1758: 45-60 (28 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 18 Mar. 2008
A review of Pseudoleptomesochrella Lang, 1965 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Ameiridae), including a redescription of P. halophila (Noodt, 1952) from the Black Sea and a key to species
SERDAR SAK (Turkey), SUPHAN KARAYTUG (Turkey) & RONY HUYS (UK)

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Zootaxa 1753: 49-68 (21 Apr. 2008) 10 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 20 Mar. 2008
Two new species of Turleania McLaughlin, 1997 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, and a redescription of T. balli (McLaughlin & Haig, 1996)
MASAYUKI OSAWA & YOSHIHISA FUJITA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1752: 1-40 (18 Apr. 2008) 0 plates; 116 references                           Accepted: 18 Feb. 2008
A catalogue of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) with taxonomic, distribution and ecological data
GLORIA M. ALONSO DE PINA (Argentina), MARTIN RAUSCHERT (Germany) & CLAUDE DE BROYER (Belgium)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1750: 68 (16 Apr. 2008)  
Erratum (
PEREZ-SCHULTHEISS & CRESPO (2008). A new species of Parhyalella Kunkel, 1910 (Amphipoda, Talitroidea, Dogielinotidae) from the coast of Chile. Zootaxa, 1724, 61-68.)
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Zootaxa 1750: 43-52 (16 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 11 Mar. 2008
Leptathanas powelli gen. nov., sp. nov, a new infaunal alpheid shrimp associated with upogebiid mudshrimps in Nigeria (Crustacea, Decapoda)
S. De Grave (UK) & A. Anker (USA)
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Zootaxa 1744: 19-30 (9 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 18 Feb. 2008
Phylogenetic analysis of the Paulsoni species group (Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the American Pacific, with implications for the phylogenetic classification of the genus Synalpheus
MARGARITA HERMOSO-SALAZAR (Mexico), MARY WICKSTEN (USA) & JUAN J. MORRONE (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1743: 17-33 (7 Apr. 2008) 12 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 5 Mar. 2008
New cumacean species (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Salomon Islands
JORDI CORBERA (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1739: 21-40 (2 Apr. 2008) 9 plates; 33 references                              Accepted: 1 Feb. 2008
Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic false spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from Indonesia, with notes on Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991
TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & DANIELE GUINOT (France)

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Zootaxa 1734: 43-58 (28 Mar. 2008) 11 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
New species of Tridentella Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Cymothoida:
Tridentellidae), tropical marine isopod crustaceans from the Banda Sea, Indonesia
NIEL L BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1731: 63-68 (25 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
A new species of Pseudolambrus (Crustacea: Brachyura: Parthenopidae: Parthenopinae) from Panglao, Bohol, the Philippines
S. H. TAN (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1726: 49-59 (12 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 4 Feb. 2008
Descriptions of four new species of Caridina (Decapoda: Atyidae) from China
LIQING WANG, XIANGQIU LIANG & FAN LI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1726: 1-17 (12 Mar. 2008) 9 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 17 Jan. 2008
Morphology of the larval stages of the spider crab Herbstia condyliata (Fabricius, 1787) (Brachyura: Majoidea: Pisidae) obtained in laboratory conditions
GUILLERMO GUERAO, PERE ABELLO & CORAL HISPANO (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1724: 61-68 (10 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2008
A new species of Parhyalella Kunkel, 1910 (Amphipoda, Talitroidea, Dogielinotidae) from the coast of Chile
JORGE PEREZ-SCHULTHEISS & JULIO E. CRESPO (Chile)
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Zootaxa 1721: 24-34 (7 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
A new species of Moina Baird, 1950 (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Socotra Island, Yemen
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1719: 61-68 (5 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 31 Jan. 2008
A new species of Symmius Richardson (Crustacea: Isopoda: Chaetiliidae) from Japan
MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1718: 45-68 (3 Mar. 2008) 12 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 28 Jan. 2007
Amaryllididae and Lysianassidae (Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) from off the central coast of Brazil (11oS-22oS), with descriptions of three new species
ANDRE R. SENNA & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1717: 1-23 (3 Mar. 2008) 17 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Descriptions of two new crayfishes of the genus Fallicambarus from southeast Texas with notes on the distribution of F. (F.) macneesei
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1708: 1-72 (22 Feb. 2008) 29 plates; 130 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Deepwater crabs from seamounts and chemosynthetic habitats off eastern New Zealand (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1707: 1-22 (20 Feb. 2008) 7 plates; 94 references                              Accepted: 29 Nov. 2007
Revision of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of A. formosus and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1707: 23-36 (20 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 17 Jan. 2008
A new species related to Alona costata Sars, 1862 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from South Africa
ARTEM YU SINEV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1706: 51-68 (20 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 16 Jan. 2008
Description of a new species of Onychostenhelia Ito (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Miraciidae) from the Bohai Sea, China
RONY HUYS (UK) & FANG-HONG MU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1703: 1-24 (13 Feb. 2008) 14 plates; 40 references                           Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
Identity of the coral-associated pontoniine shrimp species, Coralliocaris nudirostris (Heller, 1861) and C. venusta Kemp, 1922 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with descriptions of two new species
MASAKO MITSUHASHI & MASATSUNE TAKEDA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1695: 53-60 (1 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Diaphanosoma senegal Gauthier, 1951 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Sididae) in South-East Asia
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia) & LA-ORSRI SANOAMUANG (Thailand)

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Zootaxa 1694: 38-50 (31 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 45 references                           Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
Phylogenetic relationships among the genera of the Penaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) revealed by mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequences
Tin-Yam Chan (R. China), Jingou Tong (P.R. China), Yan Kit Tam (P.R. China) & Ka Hou Chu (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1694: 51-68 (31 Jan. 2008) 7 plates; 52 references                              Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
Revision of the Alpheus websteri Kingsley, 1880 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. arenensis (Chace, 1937)
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1693: 1-26 (31 Jan. 2008) 10 plates; 66 references                           Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
A reexamination of adults and larval stages of Diogenes nitidimanus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae)
OLGA M. KORN (Russia) , ELENA S. KORNIENKO (Russia) & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1690: 1-62 (25 Jan. 2008) 24 plates; 48 references                        Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
New species of Mesamphisopus, an endemic South African freshwater isopod
genus (Isopoda: Phreatoicidea: Mesamphisopidae)
GAVIN GOUWS (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1687: 60-66 (23 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 12 Dec. 2007
Mladenoniscus belavodae n. g., n. sp., a troglobitic oniscid (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia
IVO M. KARAMAN & MLADEN HORVATOVIC (Serbia)
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Zootaxa 1684: 1-34 (18 Jan. 2008) 19 plates; 75 references                           Accepted: 29 Nov. 2007
Identities of three taxa of the hippolytid shrimp genus Heptacarpus (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Caridea), with description of a new species from East Asian waters
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & BORIS G. IVANOV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1684: 35-57 (18 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 52 references                           Accepted: 29 Nov. 2007
Euphilomedes chupacabra (Ostracoda: Myodocopida: Philomedidae),
a new demersal marine species from coastal Puerto Rico with male-biased vespertine swimming activity
KIMBERLY E. LUM, ANNA E. SYME, ANASTASIA K. SCHWAB & TODD H. OAKLEY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1682: 27-32 (16 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                                 Accepted: 7 Jan. 2008
Periclimenes aqabai sp. nov, a further species of the aesopius species group
(Caridea: Pontoniinae) from the Red Sea
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1682: 45-61 (16 Jan. 2008) 8 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Overview of Sididae (Crustacea: Cladocera: Ctenopoda) of Northeast and East
Thailand, with description of a new species of the genus Diaphanosoma
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY  (Russia) & LA-ORSRI SANOAMUANG (Thailand)
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Zootaxa 1682: 62-68 (16 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                               Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
A new species and two new record species of genus Allokepon Markham, 1982
(Isopoda: Epicaridea: Bopyridae) from China
JIANGYAN DUAN, JIANMEI AN & HAIYAN YU (China)
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Zootaxa 1680: 1-24 (14 Jan. 2008) 7 plates; 41 references                              Accepted: 12 Dec. 2007
A review of taxonomic concepts in the Nannoniscidae (Isopoda, Asellota), with a key to the genera and a description of Nannoniscus oblongus Sars
GEORGE D.F. WILSON (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1678: 1-24 (11 Jan. 2008) 12 plates; 41 references                           Accepted: 14 Dec. 2007
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. IV. Shallow-water species from Akajima with notes on the recolonization potential of tanaids
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1678: 25-49 (11 Jan. 2008) 20 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Bathycopea (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea: Ancinidae) from Japan, with descriptions of two new species and redescription of B. parallela Birstein
MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1675: 31-48 (9 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 47 references                              Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
New genus and new species of Cirripedia (Chthamalidae, Tetraclitidae, Archaeobalanidae and Balanidae) from the Middle Miocene of the faluns of Touraine (France)
RENE-PIERRE CARRIOL (France)

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Zootaxa 1675: 49-58 (9 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Description of the first marine interstitial ingolfiellid from Philippines, Ingolfiella alba sp. nov., with some remarks on the systematic of the genus (Amphipoda: Ingolfiellidae)
VALENTINA IANNILLI, RAFFAELLA BERERA & VEZIO COTTARELLI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1674: 59-64 (7 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 22 Nov. 2007
First records of the giant barnacles, Austromegabalanus nigrescens (Lamarck, 1818) and A. psittacus (Molina, 1782) (Cirripedia: Balanidae) from New Zealand, with a key to New Zealand Balanidae
ANDREW HOSIE & SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1673: 68 (4 Jan. 2008)  
Erratum ( Garfias-Espejo, T., Elias-Gutierrez, M. & Silva-Briano, M. (2007) On Macrothrix agsensis Dumont, Silva-Briano & Babu, 2002 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Macrothricidae), with description of the male and ephippial females, and comments on the distribution of the genus in Mexico. Zootaxa, 1632, 49-60.)
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Zootaxa 1671: 59-68 (1 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 59 references                              Accepted: 22 Nov. 2007
A new record of the Late Cretaceous cirripede Eoverruca hewitti
(Verrucomorpha, Proverrucidae) from southern Poland
JOHN W.M. JAGT  (The Netherlands), IWONA JASKULA (née JABLEKA)  (Poland), ANNA WITEK  (Poland) & ELENA A. JAGT-YAZYKOVA (Poland)
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2007

 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 313-325 (21 Dec. 2007) 68 references                                      Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1666: 23-41 (19 Dec. 2007)  11 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Three new species of Kudinopasternakia Gutu, 1991 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Sphyrapodidae) from Brazilian waters
KATIA CHRISTOL DOS SANTOS (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1665: 53-60 (19 Dec. 2007)  4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 6 Nov. 2007
Liagore pulchella, a new species of xanthid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Vanuatu
PETER K. L. NG & TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1665: 31-41 (19 Dec. 2007)  4 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Stephonyx arabiensis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the Indian Ocean, with a key to the genus Stephonyx
MARK DIFFENTHAL & TAMMY HORTON (UK)
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Zootaxa 1662: 15-24 (17 Dec. 2007)  5 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 4 Nov. 2007
A new genus and new species of leucosiid crab from New Caledonia, with a note on the validity of Tanaoa serenei (Richer de Forges, 1983) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia)

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Zootaxa 1662: 25-33 (17 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 4 Nov. 2007
Historical record and supplementary description of Cymbasoma bullatum (A. Scott) (Copepoda: Monstrilloida) from the "Albatross" cruise in the Philippines
EDUARDO SUAREZ-MORALES (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1658: 21-38 (11 Dec. 2007)  10 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 2 Nov. 2007
Two new species of the genus Pseudomesus Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota) from the Southern hemisphere: Pseudomesus pitombo sp. nov. and Pseudomesus satanus sp. nov.
Stefanie Kaiser & SASKIA BRIX (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1656: 1-49 (7 Dec. 2007)  10 plates; 84 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
Three new cryptic species of the freshwater zooplankton genus Holopedium (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Ctenopoda), revealed by genetic methods
CHAD L. ROWE, SARAH J. ADAMOWICZ & PAUL D. N. HEBERT (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1653: 21-39 (3 Dec. 2007)  8 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
New species and records of alpheid shrimps, genera Salmoneus Holthuis and Parabetaeus Coutiere, from the tropical western Atlantic (Decapoda, Caridea)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Zootaxa 1653: 41-55 (3 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 5 Nov. 2007
A new species of freshwater isopod (Sphaeromatidea: Sphaeromatidae) from an inland karstic stream on Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific
DAMIA JAUME (Spain) & ERIK QUEINNEC (France)

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Zootaxa 1646: 41-49 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cheiriphotis (Crustacea : Amphipoda: Corophiidae: Protomedeiinae) from the coast of Southeastern Brazil, with a key to species in the genus
MARIA TERESA VALERIO-BERARDO, ANA MARIA THIAGO DE SOUZA & CARINA WAITEMAN RODRIGUES (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1646: 67-68 (26 Nov. 2007)  0 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 6 Nov. 2007
Neophryxus, a new name for Prophryxus Bruce, 1973 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1644: 41-49 (23 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
Crosniera wennerae, a new species of thalassinidean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thomassiniidae) from the South Atlantic Bight
RICHARD W. HEARD & RACHAEL A. KING (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1644: 51-57 (23 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 23 Oct. 2007
On a new genus and new species of deep-water spider crab from the Philippines (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majidae)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Republic of Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1644: 59-68 (23 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Re-examination of Borradaile's Urocaris longicaudata specimens from the 1905 J.S. Gardiner Collection (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1639: 68 (16 Nov. 2007)  
Erratum ( Song, S.J., Rho, H.S. & Kim, W. (2007) A new species of Huntemannia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Huntemanniidae) from the Yellow Sea, Korea. Zootaxa, 1616, 37-48.)
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Zootaxa 1639: 23-39 (16 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 6 Oct. 2007
Taraxapseudes n. gen., Taraxapseudes diversus (Lang, 1968) n. comb. and two new species of Atlantapseudes B|cescu, 1978 (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) from Brazil and Madagascar, with a key for the genus
Katia Christol dos Santos (Brazil) & Tom Hansknecht (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1638: 21-37 (14 Nov. 2007)  10 plates; 23 references                        Accepted: 14 Oct. 2007
The megalopa stage of Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 and Portunus gibbesii (Stimpson, 1859) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae) from the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States
MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO (Brazil), NADIA MEYERS (USA), VIVIAN FRANSOZO (Brazil) & SUSAN THORTON-DE VICTOR (USA)
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Zootaxa 1635: 1-21 (12 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 14 Sep. 2007
The coral-associated shrimp genus Pontonides (Caridea, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae) in Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam, with description of two new species
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1632: 21-36 (7 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
Diversity within the Ponto-Caspian Paramysis baeri Czerniavsky sensu lato revisited: P. bakuensis G.O. Sars restored (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae)
MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA, ASTA AUDZIJONYTE & RISTO VAINOLA (Finland)

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Zootaxa 1632: 37-48 (7 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
Redescription of Orthoprotella mayeri K.H. Barnard, 1916 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from Cape Province, South Africa and description of O. berentsae sp. nov. from New South Wales, Australia
ICHIRO TAKEUCHI (Japan) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1632: 49-60 (7 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
On Macrothrix agsensis Dumont, Silva-Briano & Babu, 2002 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Macrothricidae), with description of the male and ephippial females, and comments on the distribution of the genus in Mexico
TANIA GARFIAS-ESPEJO, MANUEL ELIAS-GUTIERREZ & MARCELO SILVA-BRIANO (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1632: 61-67 (7 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 23 Oct. 2007
The resurrection of the pontoniine genus Urocaris Stimpson, 1860, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1628: 43-58 (2 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
New Mysida (Crustacea) in the genera Amblyops and Pseudomma from the Iceland Basin
KENNETH MELAND & TORLEIV BRATTEGARD (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1627: 41-51 (31 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 4 Oct. 2007
A new hermit crab species of the Pagurixus anceps group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from southern Japan, and supplemental notes on P. patiae Komai, 2006
MASAYUKI OSAWA & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1626: 1-23 (31 Oct. 2007)  12 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 13 Sep. 2007
Three transisthmian snapping shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus) associated with innkeeper worms (Echiura: Thalassematidae) in Panama
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT & NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1626: 25-37 (31 Oct. 2007)  6 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
Description of three new species of Ampelisca (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampeliscidae) from Southwestern Atlantic, with a key of the genus for Brazilian species
MARIA TERESA VALERIO-BERARDO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1621: 33-44 (23 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 5 Sep. 2007
The mesopelagic copepod Gaussia princeps (Scott) (Calanoida: Metridinidae) from the Western Caribbean with notes on integumental pore patterns
EDUARDO SUAREZ-MORALES (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1621: 17-31 (23 Oct. 2007)  9 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
On the taxonomy of the genus Hymenicoides Kemp, 1917 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae), with resurrection of Limnopilos Chuang & Ng, 1991, and descriptions of two new species
TOHRU NARUSE & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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 Erratum
Zo
otaxa
1621: 68 (23 Oct. 2007)

Erratum ( Messouli, M., Holsinger, J.R. & Reddy, Y.R. (2007) Kotumsaridae, a new family of subterranean amphipod crustaceans from India, with description of Kotumsaria bastarensis, new genus, new species. Zootaxa, 1589, 33–46.)
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Zootaxa 1616: 37-48 (17 Oct. 2007)  6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 5 Sep. 2007
A new species of Huntemannia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Huntemanniidae) from the Yellow Sea, Korea
SUNG JOON SONG, HYUN SOO RHO & WON KIM (Korea)

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Zootaxa 1610: 1-25 (8 Oct. 2007)  12 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
Apseudomorpha (Malacostraca: Tanaidacea) of the ANDEEP III Antarctic Expedition
PIOTR JOZWIAK & MAGDALENA BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1610: 61-68 (8 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 28 Aug. 2007
A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, from Guam (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majidae)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia)
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Zootaxa 1607: 47-55 (3 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
The southernmost South American record of the genus Halicyclops Norman, 1903 (Cyclopoida: Cyclopidae) with the description of a new species
SILVINA MENU-MARQUE (Argentina) & DORA SORARRAIN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1607: 57-62 (3 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 28 Aug. 2007
Parapinnixa bolagnosi
, a new species of pinnotherid crab from Cubagua Island and Los Frailes Archipelago, Venezuela (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
IVAN HERNANDEZ-AVILA (Venezuela) & ERNESTO CAMPOS (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1607: 63-67 (3 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 24 Aug. 2007
A new species of Geosesarma from Palawan, Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)
MARIVENE R. MANUEL-SANTOS (Philippines) & DARREN C.J. YEO (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1605: 1-32 (1 Oct. 2007)  12 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Postembryonal development in Caprellidae: SEM description and comparison of ready-to-hatch juveniles and adults of two Mediterranean skeleton shrimps (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Carola Lang, Traudl Krapp & Roland R. Melzer (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1602: 1-89 (28 Sep. 2007)  39 plates; 98 references                           Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
A review of the sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, with description of Zuzalpheus, new genus, and six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
RUBEN RIOS & J. EMMETT DUFFY (USA)

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 Monograph 
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan III. The deep trenches; the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Eds.)

Zootaxa 1599: 1-4 (28 Sep. 2007)
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Zootaxa 1599: 5-12 (28 Sep. 2007)
Foreword
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1599: 13-40 (28 Sep. 2007)  15 plates; 29 references                        Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Suborders Apseudomorpha Sieg, 1980 and Neotanaidomorpha Sieg, 1980
ROGER N. BAMBER
(UK)
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Zootaxa 1599: 41-60 (28 Sep. 2007)  13 plates; 16 references                        Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family Agathotanaidae Lang, 1971a
KIM LARSEN (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1599: 61-85 (28 Sep. 2007)  11 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Families Anarthruridae Lang, 1971, Colletteidae Larsen & Wilson, 2002, and Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976
GRAHAM J. BIRD (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1599: 87-99 (28 Sep. 2007)  6 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family Pseudotanaidae Sieg, 1976
JERRY A. MCLELLAND (USA)

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Zootaxa 1599: 101-120 (28 Sep. 2007)  10 plates; 32 references                   Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family Nototanaidae Sieg, 1976 and Typhlotanaidae Sieg, 1984
MAGDALENA BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1599: 121-149 (28 Sep. 2007)  19 plates; 46 references                    Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family incertae cedis 
GRAHAM J BIRD (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1598: 1-141 (28 Sep. 2007)  81 plates; 106 references                         Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
A revision of the family Typhlotanaidae Sieg 1984 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) with the remarks on the Nototanaidae Sieg, 1976
MAGDALENA BLA
ZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1593: 1-54 (24 Sep. 2007)  25 plates; 59 references                            Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Decapod Crustacea collected by the NORFANZ Expedition: Galatheidae and Polychelidae
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1593: 55-67 (24 Sep. 2007)  7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 3 Jul. 2007
Two new species of Quadrimaera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Atol das Rocas, Brazil
ANDRE R. SENNA & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO (Brazil)

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Zo
otaxa
1593: 68 (24 Sep. 2007)

Erratum ( Reddy, Y.R. & Defaye, D. (2007) Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) of India: description of Parastenocaris mahanadi n. sp., and redescription of P. curvispinus Enckell, 1970 from hyporheic habitats. Zootaxa, 1580, 1-26)
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Zootaxa 1589: 33-46 (19 Sep. 2007)  7 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 9 Sep. 2007
Kotumsaridae, a new family of subterranean amphipod crustaceans from India, with description of Kotumsaria bastarensis, new genus, new species
MOHAMMED MESSOULI (Morocco), JOHN R. HOLSINGER (USA) & Y. RANGA REDDY (India)

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Zootaxa 1585: 1-44 (14 Sep. 2007)  25 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 8 Aug. 2007
Taxonomy of Aristeidae (Dendrobranchiata:Penaeoidea) from the central coast of Brazil, collected by the Revizee program, between 19oand 22oS
CAROLINA R. TAVARES & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1585: 45-57 (14 Sep. 2007)  0 plates; 152 references                           Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Checklist of fresh and brackish water free-living copepods (Crustacea: Calanoida and Cyclopoida) from Croatia
IVANCICA TERNJEJ & IGOR STANKOVIC (Croatia)

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Zootaxa 1582: 59-68 (12 Sep. 2007)  4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 2 Aug. 2007
A new species of Dactylopusioides (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Thalestridae) infesting brown algae, and its life history
TAKAKI SHIMONO, NOZOMU IWASAKI & HIROSHI KAWAI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1580: 1-26 (10 Sep. 2007)  10 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2007
Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) of India: description of Parastenocaris mahanadi n. sp., and redescription of P. curvispinus Enckell, 1970 from hyporheic habitats
Yenumula RANGA REDDY (India) & Danielle DEFAYE (France)

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Zootaxa 1577: 17-31 (7 Sep. 2007) 4 plates; 92 references                              Accepted: 12 Jul. 2007
A new species of Goneplax Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) from the south Atlantic and the western limits of the Indo-West Pacific region, long confused with G. rhomboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
DANIELE GUINOT (France) & PETER CASTRO (USA)

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Zootaxa 1577: 33-39 (7 Sep. 2007) 3 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 29 Jun. 2007
Distribution of Heterocarpus laevigatus Bate, 1888 and Plesionika escatilis (Stimpson, 1860) along the Atlantic coast of South America (Crustacea: Caridea: Pandalidae)
GIRLENE FABIA SEGUNDO VIANA, MARILENA RAMOS-PORTO, MARIA FERNANDA ABRANTES TORRES & MARIA DO CARMO FERRAO SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1577: 41-60 (7 Sep. 2007) 8 plates; 53 references                              Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
Revision of the Alpheus nuttingi (Schmitt) species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1574: 1-30 (3 Sep. 2007) 19 plates; 31 references                             Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
Systematics and biogeography of Tropical Eastern Pacific Chthamalus with descriptions of two new species (Cirripedia, Thoracica)
FABIO BETTINI PITOMBO (Brazil) & RON BURTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1574: 49-68 (3 Sep. 2007) 1 plates; 134 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
Parasitic copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Algerian marine fishes
ZOUHIR RAMDANE & JEAN-PAUL TRILLES (France)

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Zootaxa 1568: 1-872 (31 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 1409 references                       Accepted: 9 Feb. 2007
An annotated checklist and keys to the species of Copepoda Harpacticoida (Crustacea)
J.B.J. WELLS
(New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1566: 1-95 (31 Aug. 2007) 73 plates; 58 references                          Accepted: 28 Jun. 2007
A review of the Australian species of Ampithoe Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of seventeen new species
RACHAEL A. PEART
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 1565: 1-151 (31 Aug. 2007) 81 plates; 103 references                      Accepted: 10 May 2007
Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Anchialine Caves and Ocean Blue Holes
LOUIS S. KORNICKER, THOMAS M. ILIFFE & ELIZABETH HARRISON-NELSON
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1563: 17-30 (29 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 23 May 2007
Description of two species in the alpheid shrimp genus Athanas Leach, 1814, with remarks on A. amazone Holthuis, 1951 (Decapoda, Caridea)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA) & SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1563: 37-54 (29 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 11 Aug. 2007
Two new sphyrapodid species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha) from southwestern Japan
KEIICHI KAKUI, HIROSHI KAJIHARA & SHUNSUKE F. MAWATARI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1560: 31-41 (27 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
A new and distinctive species of the hermit crab genus Catapaguropsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the South China Sea
PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN & RAFAEL LEMAITRE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1559: 59-68 (24 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 24 May 2007
Julmarichardia gutui, a new species of Apseudomorph Tanaidacean (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from the Australian northwest continental shelf
REBECCA KIRK RITGER & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)

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Zootaxa 1558: 39-68 (24 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 60 references                         Accepted: 28 May 2007
Establishment of the Vultocinidae, a new family for an unusual new genus and new species of Indo-West Pacific crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea), with comments on the taxonomy of the Goneplacidae
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & MARIVENE R. MANUEL-SANTOS (Philippines)

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Zootaxa 1557: 33-45 (22 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
Benthic decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Cubagua Island, Venezuela
IVAN HERNANDEZ-AVILA, ALFREDO GOMEZ, CARLOS LIRA & LEE GALINDO (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1555: 53-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
Rediscovery of Bathypsammis Huys & Gee, 1993 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) with description of a new species from the Antarctic deep sea
ELKE WILLEN & MAXIMILIAN SCHULZ (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1553: 1-45 (20 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 146 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2007
Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil
Alexandre Oliveira de Almeida, Maria Cecilia Guerrazzi & Petronio Alves Coelho (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1551: 49-59 (15 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 7 Jun. 2007
A new genus and species of branchipodid fairy shrimp (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Australia
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA), BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia), MERLIJN JOCQUE(Belgium) & LUC BRENDONCK (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1549: 43-53 (15 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
On a new genus and species of euryplacid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea) from the Philippines
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PETER CASTRO (USA)

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Zootaxa 1548: 1-49 (13 Aug. 2007) 15 plates; 107 references                         Accepted: 22 May 2007
Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands
MASAYUKI OSAWA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1545: 33-47 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 78 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2007
A review of the brachylepadomorph cirripede genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East*
JOHN W.M. JAGT (Netherlands), TATIANA D. ZONOVA (Russia) & ELENA A. JAGT-YAZYKOVA (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1543: 61-68 (6 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 12 references                                Accepted: 7 Jun. 2007
Speleonectes emersoni, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Dominican Republic
DORTE LORENTZEN (Germany), STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany) & THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA)

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Zootaxa 1541: 17-29 (2 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 38 references                              Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
A new Tropocyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) from Lake Matano, Indonesia
DANIELLE DEFAYE (France)

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Zootaxa 1540: 1-53 (2 Aug. 2007) 40 plates; 43 references                               Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
A review of Australian Cymadusa (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of eight new species
RACHAEL A. PEART (Australia)

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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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 Article 
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: 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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 Article 
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 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 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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 Article 
Zootaxa 1515: 1-29 (25 Jun. 2007) 11 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 13 Apr. 2007
Revision of Austrosignum Hodgson and Munnogonium George & Stromberg (Paramunnidae) with descriptions of eight new genera and two new species, (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
JEAN JUST & GEORGE D. F. WILSON (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1512: 39-49 (21 Jun. 2007) 5 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
A new species of Paradella Harrison & Holdich, 1982 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from Baja California, Mexico, with a key to East Pacific species
Regina Wetzer (USA) & Niel L. Bruce (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1509: 17-30 (18 Jun. 2007) 6 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2007
Description of the first juvenile of Aegla franca Schmitt, 1942 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Aeglidae)
DEBORA A. FRANCISCO, SERGIO L. S. BUENO & TERUE C. KIHARA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1508: 49-59 (18 Jun. 2007) 7 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
The first phyllosoma stage of Palinurus mauritanicus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae)
FERRAN PALERO & PERE ABELLO(Spain)

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Zootaxa 1505: 19-35 (14 Jun. 2007) 9 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 2 Mar. 2007
New records of two rare genera, Monstrotanais Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981 and Robustochelia Kudinova-Pasternak, 1983 (Tanaidacea: Crustacea)
PIOTR JOZWIAK & MAGDALENA BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1505: 37-50 (14 Jun. 2007) 7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Two new species of deep-water xanthid crabs of the genera Euryxanthops Garth & Kim, 1983, and Medaeops Guinot, 1967 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from New Zealand
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & COLIN L. MCLAY (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1505: 51-62 (14 Jun. 2007) 6 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 1 May 2007
A new species of deep-sea crab of the genus Chaceon Manning & Holthuis, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Geryonidae) from Western Australia
DAVIE, P.J.F. (Australia), NG, P.K.L. (Singapore) & DAWSON, E.W. (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1505: 63-68 (14 Jun. 2007) 0 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
Catalogue of the dry specimens in the carcinological collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
RODRIGO TADEU BENTO, PAOLA LUPIANHES DALL'OCCO & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1501: 45-56 (7 Jun. 2007) 5 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 23 Apr. 2007
A new species of Valettiopsis Holmes, 1908 (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Lysianassoidea) from abyssal waters off California
ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1498: 27-33 (4 Jun. 2007) 2 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 13 Apr. 2007
A new genus of the family Plagusiidae Dana, 1851, close to Plagusia Latreille, 1804 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)
DANI
OLE GUINOT (France)

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Zootaxa 1494: 1-44 (31 May 2007) 26 plates; 33 references                          Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
New species and host associations of commensal leucothoid amphipods from coral reefs in Florida and Belize (Crustacea:Amphipoda)
JAMES DARWIN THOMAS & KRISTINE N. KLEBBA (USA)

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Zootaxa 1470: 59-68 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 17 Jan. 2007
A new species of Paguristes Dana, 1851 (Anomura, Paguroidea, Diogenidae) from the Mexican Pacific
MANUEL AYON PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1466: 1-10 (7 May 2007) 4 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 2 Apr. 2007
A redescription of two atyid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridina) from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
W. KLOTZ (Austria), A. KARGE (Germany) & K. VON RINTELEN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1466: 11-18 (7 May 2007) 3 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 17 Jan. 2007
Description of Metaprotella haswelliana (Mayer, 1882) (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from Western Australia with designation of a neotype
ICHIRO TAKEUCHI (Japan) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1464: 1-43 (3 May 2007) 21 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 5 Mar. 2007
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. II. Tanaidomorpha from the East China Sea, the West Pacific Ocean and the Nansei Islands
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1460: 1-24 (27 Apr. 2007) 18 plates; 54 references                          Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
The Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of the Red Sea with description of a new species of Petrolisthes
BERND WERDING & ALEXANDRA HILLER
(Germany)
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Zootaxa 1460: 35-46 (27 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 2 Apr. 2007
A new subfamily, Vulcanocalliacinae n.subfam., for Vulcanocalliax arutyunovi n.gen., n.sp. from a mud volcano in the Gulf of Cádiz (Crustacea, Decapoda, Callianassidae)
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria) & MARINA R. CUNHA
(Portugal)
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Zootaxa 1459: 37-68 (27 Apr. 2007) 14 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
A revision of the Brementia-group of genera (Copepoda: Notodelphyidae), with descriptions of a new genus and four new species
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL (UK) & ANDREY MARCHENKOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1456: 1-44 (25 Apr. 2007) 25 plates; 58 references                           Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) of Colombia
DIEGO M. VALENCIA & MARTHA R. CAMPOS
(Colombia)
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Zootaxa 1454: 59-68 (23 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 28 Dec. 2006
A new species of Talitridae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from Tioman Island, Malaysia
B.H.R. OTHMAN & B.A.R. AZMAN (Malaysia)

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Zootaxa 1450: 1-20 (19 Apr. 2007) 8 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 10 Mar. 2007
Four new species of coral crabs belonging to the genus Tetralia Dana, 1851 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Tetraliidae)
SANDRA E. TRAUTWEIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1450: 21-29 (19 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
A new species of Polyonyx Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from the Philippines and Loyalty Islands
MASAYUKI OSAWA
(Japan)

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Zootaxa 1450: 31-43 (19 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
A new species of Chirostylus Ortmann, 1892 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, with a supplemental description of Chirostylus ortmanni Miyake & Baba, 1968
MASAYUKI OSAWA
(Japan)

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Zo
otaxa
1450: 57-62 (19 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 21 Feb. 2007
Morphological variation of Stratiodrilus circensis (Polychaeta, Histriobdellidae) from a new host, Aegla leptodactyla (Crustacea, Anomura, Aeglidae) with identification of its type host species
LUIZ C. C. DAUDT & JOSE F. R. AMATO
(Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1447: 57-62 (12 Apr. 2007) 2 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Microthelphusa (Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from a remote isolated cloud forest on a tabletop mountain in western Guyana, South America
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1445: 1-26 (9 Apr. 2007) 12 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 28 Feb. 2007
Amphipoda (Crustacea; Peracarida) from the Hydrothermal vent system of the Juan De Fuca Ridge, Escabana trough and Gorda ridge, Northeast Pacific. Part I. Lysianassidae and Sebidae
KIM LARSEN
(Japan)
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Zootaxa 1445: 27-34 (9 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 29 Dec. 2006
A new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Brasil
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS
(USA) & ALOISIO FERREIRA (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1441: 1-19 (5 Apr. 2007) 12 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 23 Feb. 2007
Two new species of Tanaidacea of the genus Kalliapseudes Stebbing, 1910 (Crustacea: Apseudomorpha: Kalliapseudidae) from Australia
D.T. DRUMM (USA)
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Zootaxa 1437: 1-28 (2 Apr. 2007) 18 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Three new species of Remaneicaris Jakobi, 1972 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida,
Parastenocarididae) from the Ribeirao do Ouro River, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with some remarks on the groundpattern of the Parastenocarididae
P.H.C. CORGOSINHO (Brazil), P.M. ARBIZU (Germany) & E.N. D. SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1435: 25-36 (29 Mar. 2007) 6 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2007
A new species of vent associated Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura:
Galatheidae) from the Western Pacific, with notes on its genetic identification
SHERINE SONIA CUBELIO (Japan), SHINJI TSUCHIDA (Japan), MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico), RYUSUKE KADO (Japan) & SEIICHI WATANABE (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1432: 1-21 (26 Mar. 2007) 14 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 10 Jan. 2007
A new species of Parabradya Lang, 1944 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida:
Ectinosomatidae) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin
SYBILLE SEIFRIED, CHRISTOPH PLUM & MAXIMILIAN SCHULZ (Germany)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1432: 67-68 (26 Mar. 2007) 4 references                                          Accepted: 14 Mar. 2007
A revision of the generic status of Periclimenes jackhintoni Bruce, 2006, with a
new key to the genus Laomenes Clark (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1429: 1-38 (22 Mar. 2007) 18 plates; 199 references                           Accepted: 9 Jan. 2007
A revision of the shovel-nosed lobsters of the genus Thenus
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae), with descriptions of three new species
T.E. BURTON & P.J.F. DAVIE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1429: 55-68 (22 Mar. 2007) 6 plates; 36 references                          Accepted: 23 Jan. 2007
The first zoea of Inachus aguiarii, Inachus communissimus and Ergasticus clouei
(Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea) with implications for the systematics of the family Inachidae
GUILLERMO GUERAO & PERE ABELLO (Spain)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1424: 1-62 (12 Mar. 2007) 44 plates; 92 references                            Accepted: 4 Dec. 2006
A revision of the tropical/temperate amphipod genus Dulichiella Stout, 1912, and
the description of a new Atlantic genus Verdeia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae)
J.K. LOWRY & R.T. SPRINGTHORPE (Australia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1417: 1-135 (8 Mar. 2007) 55 plates; 103 references                         Accepted: 2 Nov. 2006
Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the
Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae)
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1410: 55-68 (22 Feb. 2007)    9 plates; 39 references                        Accepted: 16 Jan. 2007
Studies on the genus Onisimus Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae) II. The barentsi and edwardsii groups
J. BERGE, W. VADER, & J.R. JOHNSEN (Norway)

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Zootaxa 1409: 61-67 (19 Feb. 2007)  5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 2 Jan. 2007
A new species of Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae) from Micronesia
B.R. DE FORGES (Nouvelle-Caledonie) & P.K.L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1406: 47-59  (12 Feb. 2007)  4 plates; 61 references                           Accepted: 9 Jan. 2007
Hermit crabs from Brazil. Family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea): Genus Pagurus
P.R. NUCCI & G.A.S.T DE MELO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1406: 41-46 (12 Feb. 2007)  1 plate; 12 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2006
Redescription of Pylocheles (Bathycheles) cubensis Ortiz & Gomez, 1986, the senior synonym of Pylocheles (B.) chacei Forest, 1987 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguroidea, Pylochelidae)
P.A. MCLAUGHLIN, R. LEMAITRE & M. ORTIZ (USA)

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Zootaxa 1406: 33-39 (12 Feb. 2007)  4 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 21 Dec. 2006
Gammaropsis (Podoceropsis) grasslei (Amphipoda: Photidae) a new species of commensal amphipod of the deep-water lithodid Neolithodes diomedeae from the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California
L.A. SOTO (Mexico) & A. CORONA (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1402: 23-37 (1 Feb. 2007)  8 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 6 Dec. 2006
Epimeria schiaparelli sp. nov., an amphipod crustacean (family Epimeriidae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with molecular characterisation of the species complex
A.-N. LORZ (New Zealand) E.W. MAAS (New Zealand), K. LINSE (UK) & G.D. FENWICK (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1401: 1-32 (1 Feb. 2007)  15 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Parapseudid tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Tanaidacea:Apseudomorpha) from Eastern Australia
M. BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & R.N. BAMBER (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1397: 29-37 (25 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 8 Dec. 2006
A new species of Pseudocoutierea Holthuis from the Caribbean coast of Panama (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae), with a key to the genus

S. DE GRAVE (UK)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1396: 1-84 (22 Jan. 2007)  21 plates; 133 references                         Accepted: 30 Oct. 2006
On a small collection of harpacticoids from Easter Island: the family Laophontidae T. Scott (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida)

S. GÓMEZ & C.B. BOYKO

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1394: 47-68 (18 Jan. 2007)  11 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 6 Dec. 2006
Two new species of the genus Austroniscus Vanhoeffen, 1914 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the Antarctic shelf
S. KAISER & A. BRANDT (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1393: 61-68 (18 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 3 references                              Accepted: 9 Dec. 2006
Periclimenes sarkanae sp. nov. a new pontoniine shrimp from Moreton Bay, Queensland (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
BRUCE, A.J. (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1389: 45-54 (11 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 14 Nov. 2006
Ampelisca mississippiana: a new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Mississippi Canyon (Northern Gulf of Mexico)
Y. SOLIMAN & M. WICKSTEN (USA)

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2006

Zootaxa 1370: 23-37 (4 Dec. 2006) 7 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
First Asian report of the genus Chilibathynella Noodt, 1963 (Bathynellacea, Syncarida), with the description and biogeographic significance of a new species from Kotumsar Cave, India
Y. RANGA REDDY (India)
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Zootaxa 1383: 23-43 (18 Dec. 2006) 9 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Three new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae) from the Northeastern Pacific
G.C. JENSEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1378: 1-17 (11 Dec. 2006) 7 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 17 Nov. 2006
Two new species of Pleistacantha Miers, 1879 from the Indo-West Pacific region (Crustacea, Decapoda, Majidae)
S.T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & T. LEE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1374: 1-54 (7 Dec. 2006) 1 plate; 258 references                               Accepted: 13 Oct. 2006
An annotated checklist of the Syncarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the world
A.I. CAMACHO (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1372: 1-16 (4 Dec. 2006) 6 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
A new species of Naushonia Kingsley, 1897 (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Laomediidae) from Vietnam and the Philippines with notes on the genus Espeleonaushonia Juarrero & Martinez-Iglesias, 1997
P.C. DWORSCHAK (Austria), I. MARIN (Russia) & A. ANKER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1370: 59-68 (4 Dec. 2006) 3 plates; 8 references                                Accepted: 12 Oct. 2006
The first record of the crustacean isopod genus Pseudarachna Sars, 1897 (Isopoda: Asellota: Munnopsidae) from the Southern Hemisphere, with description of a new species from New Zealand
K.L. MERRIN (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1370: 49-57 (4 Dec. 2006) 4 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 13 Oct. 2006
A new species of Brazilian Dendrocephalus (Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae)
N. RABET (France)
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Zootaxa 1370: 1-22 (4 Dec. 2006) 13 plates; 20 references                                Accepted: 5 Oct. 2006
Melitids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the genera Ceradocus and Mallacoota from Rodrigues Island (Indian Ocean)
C. APPADOO (Mauritius) & A.A. MYERS (Ireland)
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Zootaxa 1368: 57-68 (30 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
A new species of Parastenocaris from Mindoro Island, Philippines: Parastenocaris distincta sp. nov. (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae)
V. Cottarelli, M.C. Bruno & R. Berera (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1368: 1-18 (30 Nov. 2006) 7 plates; 51 references                             Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Sensiava longiseta (Copepoda, Calanoida): a new genus and species from the abyss of the Weddell Sea
E.L. MARKHASEVA (Russia) & K. SCHULZ (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1365: 1-17 (27 Nov. 2006) 7 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2006
Crangonyx islandicus sp. nov., a subterranean freshwater amphipod (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) from springs in lava fields in Iceland

J. SVAVARSSON & B.K. KRISTJÁNSSON (Iceland)

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Zootaxa 1364: 1-44 (23 Nov. 2006) 27 plates; 65 references                            Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
Caridea (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected on the Brazilian (13o/22oS) continental shelf and slope
I. CARDOSO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1363: 39-48 (23 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 9 Oct. 2006
Redescription of Parapagurapseudopsis carinatus (Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha) and remarks about the male form
K.C.D. SANTOS & A.M.S. PIRES-VANIN (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1363: 1-21 (23 Nov. 2006) 12 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 4 Oct. 2006
A revision of the North Atlantic amphipod genus Normanion (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
N.M. KILGALLEN, A.A. MYERS & D. MCGRATH (Ireland)
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Zootaxa 1358: 67-68 (16 Nov. 2006)  5 references                                           Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Retropluma solomonensis nom. nov., a replacement name for Retropluma laurentae McLay, 2006 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Retroplumidae)
C.L. MCLAY (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1358: 39-48 (16 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 11 Oct. 2006
A new species of Calappa Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Calappidae) from East and South Africa
J.C.Y. LAI & P.K.L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1352: 1-70 (6 Nov. 2006)  37 plates; 60 references                            Accepted: 7 Sept. 2006
On a small collection of harpacticoids from Easter Island: the family Laophontidae T. Scott (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida)

S. GÓMEZ & C.B. BOYKO

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Zootaxa 1351: 23-34 (6 Nov. 2006)  5 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 22 Sept. 2006
A new species of Asterocheres (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Asterocheridae) associated to Placospongia cristata Boury-Esnault (Porifera) in Bahia State, Brazil
R. BISPO, R. JOHNSSON & E. NEVES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1344: 33-41 (26 Oct. 2006)  2 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
Systematics of the genus Scleroplax Rathbun, 1893 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
E. CAMPOS (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1344: 1-22 (26 Oct. 2006)  13 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
A revision of Pseudopleonexes Conlan, 1982 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with description of three new species from Australia
R.A. PEART (Australia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1342: 1-66 (26 Oct. 2006)  7 plates; 140 references                         Accepted: 12 Sept. 2006
Biodiversity of benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) in the Southwest Atlantic between 35°S and 56°S
J.L. GAPPA, G.M. ALONSO & N.A. LANDONI (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1341: 29-48 (23 Oct. 2006)  6 plates; 36 references                        Accepted: 12 Sept. 2006
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. I. Apseudomorpha
from the East China Sea, Seto Inland Sea, and Nansei Islands
K. LARSEN & M. SHIMOMURA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1338: 57-68  (19 Oct. 2006)   4 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 22 Sept. 2006
Elthusa arnoglossi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a branchial parasite of flatfishes (Bothidae) from the Chesterfield Islands, New Caledonia
J.-P. TRILLES (France) & J.-L. JUSTINE (Nouvelle Caledonie)

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Zootaxa 1332: 37-50 (12 Oct. 2006)  8 plates; 20 references                       Accepted:  5 Sept. 2006
Sacculina nectocarcini, a new species of rhizocephalan (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) parasitising the red rock crab Nectocarcinus integrifrons (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae)
R.H. GURNEY (Australia), A.V. RYBAKOV (Russia), J.T. HOEG (Denmark) & A.M. KURIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1319: 29-41 (25 Sept. 2006) 7 plates; 16  references                       Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
Pyrgopsella (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) is not a sponge-inhabiting barnacle

Y. ACHITUV & N. SIMON-BLECHER (Israel)

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Zootaxa 1313: 57-68 (14 Sept. 2006) 4 plates; 24  references                       Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
Edotia tangaroa sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae) from the western Ross Sea, Antarctica

A. BRANDT (Germany) & N. BRUCE (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1309: 45-54 (7 Sept. 2006) 4 plates; 8  references                             Accepted:  15 Jul. 2006
Periclimenes manihine sp. nov., a new pontoniine shrimp of the P. alcocki species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)

A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1306: 57-67 (31 Aug. 2006)  3 plates; 21  references                         Accepted:  3 Aug. 2006
A new species, Apseudes larseni (Crustacea: Tanaidacea),from the marine waters of New Zealand
J.S. KNIGHT & R.W. HEARD (USA)
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Zootaxa 1305: 51-67 (31 Aug. 2006)  6 plates; 23  references                          Accepted:  7 Jul. 2006
Three new ostracod species from coastal Australian waters (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Myodocopa: Cylindroleberididae).
A.E. SYME & G.C.B. POORE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1305: 21-32 (31 Aug. 2006)  2 plates; 28  references                         Accepted:  31 Jul. 2006
Listriella longipalma sp. nov., a new amphipod species (Crustacea: Liljeborgiidae) from the Straits of Melaka, Malaysia

B.H.R. OTHMAN (Malaysia) & H. MORINO (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1303: 45-68 (28 Aug. 2006)  10 plates; 25  references                        Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
Lithodidae from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with descriptions of two new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
S.T. AHYONG & E.W. DAWSON (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1300: 51-68 (21 Aug. 2006)  7 plates; 45 references                          Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
Haplomesus longiramus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota), a new ischnomesid species from the Bay of Biscay, North East Atlantic Ocean

F.A. KAVANAGH (Ireland) & J.-C. SORBE (France)
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Zootaxa 1298: 17-27 (17 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 31 Jul. 2006
Transkalliapseudes spinulata, new genus, new species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) from the northwest Australian shelf
D.T. DRUMM & R.W. HEARD (USA)

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Zootaxa 1297: 57-68 (17 Aug. 2006) 5 plates; 23 references                             Accepted: 28 Jul. 2006
A new genus and species of the hermit crab family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) from Australia
R. LEMAITRE & P.A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1296: 45-53 (17 Aug. 2006) 7 plates; 30 references                            Accepted:  1 Aug. 2006
Comparison of the amplexial morphology of two Argentine populations of Artemia (Crustacea, Anostraca, Artemiidae): a reliable taxonomical tool
X. I. PASTORINO & R.G. COHEN (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1294: 29-59 (14 Aug. 2006) 2 plates; 173 references                         Accepted:  26 Jul. 2006
Checklist of the ostracod (Crustacea) fauna of Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan
E.I. SCHORNIKOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1286: 1-14 (11 Aug. 2006) 7 plates; 20 references                            Accepted:  14 Feb. 2006
Ampeliscidae from the Brazilian coast. Record of Ampelisca burkey Barnard & Thomas, 1989 and descriptions of two new species of Ampelisca (Crustacea, Amphipoda)
M.T. VALÉRIO-BERARDO & Y. WAKABARA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1285: 1-19 (11 Aug. 2006) 1 plate; 115 references                               Accepted:  11 Jul. 2006
A checklist of the marine Harpacticoida (Copepoda) of the Caribbean Sea
E. SUÁREZ-MORALES (Mexico), M. DE TROCH (Belgium) & F. FIERS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1277: 1-21 (31 Jul. 2006) 9 plates; 38 references                               Accepted:  10 Jul. 2006
Copepods of the family Dirivultidae (Siphonostomatoida) from deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 14şN and 5şS
V.N. IVANENKO (Russia), P.M. ARBIZU (Germany) & J. STECHER (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1277: 29-38 (31 Jul. 2006) 4 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 19 Jun. 2006
Redescription of Kalliapseudes obtusifrons (Haswell, 1882), from Southeast Australia (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha: Kalliapseudidae), with the designation of a lectotype
D.T. DRUMM & R.W. HEARD (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1272: 1-44 (27 Jul. 2006) 22 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 1 Jun. 2006
A revaluation of the Eurycopinae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Munnopsidae) with a description of Dubinectes gen. nov. from the southern Atlantic deep sea
M. MALYUTINA (Russia) & A. BRANDT (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1269: 1-29 (24 Jul. 2006) 8 plates; 63 references                               Accepted: 19 Jun. 2006
Revision of Bowmaniella sensu Bacescu, 1968 (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae: Gastrosaccinae): a taxonomic conundrum
R.W. HEARD & W.W. PRICE (USA) 
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Zootaxa
1262: 1-139 (17 Jul. 2006) 98 plates; 102 references                           Accepted: 3 Mar. 2006
Taxonomy and biogeography of the freshwater crabs of Tanzania, East Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae, Platythelphusidae, Deckeniidae)
S.K. REED & N. CUMBERLIDGE (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1260: 47-55 (14 Jul. 2006) 2 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 15 Jun. 2006
Referral of the Halocypridina Thaumatocypris (Miocene, Australia) to the Cladocopina (Ostracoda, Halocyprida)
M.T. WARNE
(Australia), P.J. JONES (Australia) & L.S. KORNICKER (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1260: 1-25 (14 Jul. 2006)  3 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 29 May 2006
A genus level revision of the Thamnocephalidae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
D.C. ROGERS (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1260: 56-66 (14 Jul. 2006)  4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 15 Jun. 2006
A new species of Ptychognathus Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
M. OSAWA (Japan) & N. NG (Singapore) 
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Zootaxa 1260: 67-68 (14 Jul. 2006) 13 references                                          Accepted: 27 Jun. 2006
A replacement name for Wilsoniella Pettibone, 1993 (Annelida: Polynoidae), junior homonym of Wilsoniella Khalfin, 1939 (Brachiopoda: Rhynchonellida), and revalidation of Pessoaiella Guimarăes, 1940 over Wilsoniella Eichler, 1940 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) also a junior homonym of Wilsoniella Khalfin, 1939 
A. NEMÉSIO (
Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1259: 1-23 (14 Jul. 2006) 11 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2006
Astacilla boreaphilis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera) from shallow and deep North Atlantic waters
B. STRANSKY (Germany) & J. SVAVARSSON (Ireland) 
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Zootaxa 1257: 57-68 (10 Jul. 2006)  1 plate; 25 references                             Accepted: 12 Jun. 2006
Evidence for cryptic species in the tadpole shrimp Triops granarius (Lucas, 1864) (Crustacea: Notostraca)
M. KORN & A.K. HUNDSDOERFER (Germany) 
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Zootaxa 1254: 1-28 (6 Jul. 2006)  6 plates; 58 references                               Accepted: 18 May 2006
New families and subfamilies of amphipod crustaceans
J.K. LOWRY (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1252: 1-35 (6 Jul. 2006) 19 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 10 May 2006
On the Atlantic species of the genus Abyssianira Menzies, 1956 (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae)
B.L. DOTI & D. ROCCATAGLIATA (Argentina) 
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Zootaxa 1250: 53-68 (3 Jul. 2006) 6 plates; 26 references                               Accepted: 24 May 2006
Redescription of Echinolaophonte armiger (Gurney) (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Gulf of Mexico
W. LEE (R. Korea), HO Y. SOH (R. Korea) & P.A. MONTAGNA (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1247: 25-42 (29 Jun. 2006) 9 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2006
Brevisomabathynella gen. nov. with two new species from Western Australia (Bathynellacea, Syncarida): the first definitive evidence of predation in Parabathynellidae
J.-L. CHO (R. Korea), J.-G. PARK (R. Korea) & Y.R. REDDY (India) 
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Zootaxa 1246: 15-54 (29 Jun. 2006) 6 plates; 106 references                          Accepted: 31 May 2006
Revision of Mesozoic Myodocopina (Ostracoda) and a new genus and species, Mesoleberis hollandica, from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium and The Netherlands
L.S. KORNICKER (USA), B.W.M. VAN BAKEL  (The Netherlands), R.H.B. FRAAIJE  (The Netherlands) & J.W.M. JAGT  (The Netherlands) 
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Zootaxa 1240: 57-68 (21 Jun. 2006) 4 plates; 5 references                                 Accepted: 6 Jun. 2006
Three species of Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989, including two new to science, from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia (Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Axiidae)
N. NGOC-HO (France) 
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Zootaxa 1238: 1-22 (21 Jun. 2006) 1 plate; 86 references                                  Accepted: 1 May 2006
Reports on the results of the N.Oc. "Prof. W. Besnard" expeditions to the southern coast of Brazil under the Revizee Program: Chirostylidae and Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
G.A.S. DE MELO-FILHO (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1238: 23-33 (21 Jun. 2006) 4 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 1 May 2006
A new anchialine shrimp of the genus Procaris from Christmas Island: the first occurrence of the Procarididae in the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
A.J. BRUCE & P.J.F. DAVIE (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1230: 1-54 (12 Jun. 2006) 32 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2006
Dardanus sanguinocarpus Degener, 1925 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) species complex: a redescription of D. sanguinocarpus and descriptions of three new species
A. ASAKURA (Japan) 
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Zootaxa 1227: 1-29 (9 Jun. 2006) 17 plates; 76 references                                 Accepted: 2 May 2006
First stage zoeal descriptions of five Galatheoidea species from Western Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
GUILLERMO GUERAO (Spain), ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain), S. SAMADI (France), B.R. DE FORGES (France) & M.-C. BOISSELIER (France) 
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Zootaxa 1224: 1-22 (5 Jun. 2006) 9 plates; 17 references                                Accepted: 20 Apr. 2006
Periclimenaeus nielbrucei sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), a new sponge associate from the Capricorn Islands, Queensland, with notes on related Periclimenaeus species
A.J. BRUCE (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1224: 23-31 (5 Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2006
Aega sheni, a new species of Aegidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoida) from southern China and Australia
H.Y. YU (P.R. China) & N.L. BRUCE (New Zealand) 
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Zootaxa 1222: 1-52 (1 Jun. 2006) 23 plates; 76 references                             Accepted: 30 Mar. 2006
New species of Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Solitary Islands, New South Wales, Australia
L.E. HUGHES & J.K. LOWRY ( Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1221: 41-62 (1 Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 70 references                                               20 Mar. 2006
Diversity and distribution of the marine and estuarine shrimps (Dendrobranchiata, Stenopodidea and Caridea) from North and Northeast Brazil
P.A. COELHO; A.O. DE ALMEIDA; J.F. DE SOUZA-FILHO; L.E.A. BEZERRA & B.W. GIRALDES (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1220: 19-34 (30 May 2006) 5 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 26 Apr. 2006
A new species of Ischyromene Racovitza, 1908 (Sphaeromatidae: Isopoda: Crustacea) from intertidal marine habitats in New Zealand
NIEL L BRUCE ( New Zealand) 
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Zootaxa 1214: 1-107 (26 May 2006) 48 plates;  43 references                      Accepted: 16 Mar. 2006
A review of the Pagurixus boninensis species group, with descriptions of six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae)
T. KOMAI & M. OSAWA (Japan) 
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Zootaxa 1208: 37-56 (22 May 2006) 6 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 13 Mar. 2006
Two new genera and two new species of the subterranean family Bogidiellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from groundwaters in northern Oman, with notes on the geographic distribution of the family
V. IANNILLI (Italy), J.R. HOLSINGER (USA), S. RUFFO (Italy) & R. VONK (The Netherlands) 
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Zootaxa 1203: 39-56 (15 May 2006) 5 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 13 Mar. 2006
Monopseudocuma a new genus from the North East Atlantic and redescription of Pseudocuma gilsoni Bacescu, 1950 (Cumacea: Pseudocumatidae)
A.M. MCCARTHY (Ireland) , S. GERKEN (USA), D. MCGRATH (Ireland) & G.P. MCCORMACK (Ireland) 
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Zootaxa 1202: 39-52 (15 May 2006) 6 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 7 Apr. 2006
Carraroenia ruthae gen. et sp. nov. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontidae) from maerl substrates of the Irish west coast
E. McCORMACK (Ireland) 
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Zootaxa 1200: 61-68 (11 May 2006)  3 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 11 Apr. 2006
Heterocarpus tenuidentatus, a new species of shrimp from the Solomon Islands (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea, Pandalidae)
R. CLEVA & A. CROSNIER (France) 
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Zootaxa 1200: 29-41 (11 May 2006)  4 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 30 Mar. 2006
A new crayfish of the genus Cambarus Erichson, 1846 (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from an under-sampled habitat type in central Tennessee, USA
C.A. TAYLOR, D.J. SOUCEK & E.L. ORGAN (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1199: 1-17 (11 May 2006)  8 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 6 Apr. 2006
A review of the genus Apocepon Nierstrasz & Brender ŕ Brandis (Isopoda: Epicaridea: Bopyridae) parasitic on purse crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from Chinese waters, with description of a new species
J.M. AN, H.Y. YU & X.Z. LI (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1192: 1-76 (4 May 2006) 33 plates; 47 references                             Accepted: 17 Mar. 2006
The North Atlantic genus Heteromesus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota: Ischnomesidae)
M.R. CUNHA (Portugal) & G.D.F. WILSON (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1188: 49-54 (28 Apr. 2006)  28 references                                             Accepted: 1 Feb. 2006
Parartemiopsis longicornis (Smirnov), senior synonym of P. mongolica Rogers (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca), with remarks on the validity of the genus
D.C. ROGERS (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1187: 1-36 (28 Apr. 2006) 11 plates; 46 references                            Accepted: 23 Feb. 2006
Tanaidacean (Crustacea: Peracarida) fauna from chemically reduced habitats—the lucky strike hydrothermal vent system, mid-atlantic ridge
K. LARSEN (Denmark), M. BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & M.R. CUNHA (Portugal) 
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Zootaxa 1187: 37-46 (28 Apr. 2006) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 20 Mar. 2006
A new species of Palaemon (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Qatar
S. DE GRAVE & I. AL-MASLAMANI (UK) 
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Zootaxa 1186: 57-68 (28 Apr. 2006) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 20 Mar. 2006
Description of a new genus and two new species of Ioninae (Isopoda: Epicaridea: Bopyridae) parasites of Leucosiidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) from Beibu Gulf
J.M. AN, H.Y. YU & X.Z. LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1184: 1-27 (24 Apr. 2006) 2 plates; 57 references                             Accepted: 20 Feb. 2006
Checklist of the Decapods (Crustacea) from the outer continental shelf and seamounts from Northeast of BrazilREVIZEE Program (NE III)
P.A.C. FILHO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1183: 27-41 (24 Apr. 2006) 6 plates; 45 references                              Accepted: 8 Jan. 2006
Leslibetaeus coibita, n. gen., n. sp., a new alpheid shrimp from the Pacific coast of Panama (Crustacea: Decapoda)
A. ANKER (USA), D. PODDOUBTCHENKO (USA) & I.S. WEHRTMANN (Costa Rica)
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Zootaxa 1174: 27-39 (19 Apr. 2006) 8 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 17 Mar. 2006
Deep-sea Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from off the Brazilian central coast between 11° and 22°S, collected by the Revizee Program
C.R. TAVARES & I.A. CARDOSO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1174: 41-48 (19 Apr. 2006) 4 plates; 2 references                               Accepted: 8 Mar. 2006
Two new species of Cumacea (Malacostraca, Peracarida) from Peter The Great Bay (Sea of Japan)
L. TZAREVA & S. VASSILENKO (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1173: 39-56 (13 Apr. 2006) 10 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 27 Feb. 2006
New species of Gnathiidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoida) from seamounts off northern New Zealand
J. SVAVARSSON (Iceland)
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Zootaxa 1172: 49-67 (13 Apr. 2006) 6 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 10 Mar. 2006
New records of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheidae) from New Zealand with description of two new species from a seamount and underwater canyon
K.E. SCHNABEL & N.L. BRUCE (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1171: 1-16 (10 Apr. 2006) 6 plates; 22 references                               Accepted: 3 Mar. 2006
Macrophthalmus (Macrophthalmus) microfylacas, a new species of sentinel crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from western Japan
T. NAGAI (Japan), T. WATANABE (Japan)  & T. NARUSE (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1170: 57-68 (10 Apr. 2006) 5 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 13 Oct. 2005
A redescription of Leucothoe spinicarpa (Abildgaard, 1789) based on material from the North Atlantic (Amphipoda: Leucothoidae)
S.E. CROWE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1168: 1-20 (6 Apr. 2006) 9 plates; 28 references                                Accepted: 2 Mar. 2006
Eriocheir ogasawaraensis Komai, a new species of mitten crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with notes on the systematics of Eriocheir De Haan, 1835
T. KOMAI, I. YAMASAKI, S. KOBAYASHI, T. YAMAMOTO & S. WATANABE (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1165: 1-31 (3 Apr. 2006) 10 plates; 21 references                             Accepted: 16 Feb. 2006
Thaumatelsonine Stenothoids (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Part 2
T. KRAPP-SCHICKEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1164: 1-33 (3 Apr. 2006) 12 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 16 Feb. 2006
Tanaidacea (Crustacea; Peracarida) from chemically reduced habitats—the hydrothermal vent system of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Escabana Trough and Gorda Ridge, northeast Pacific
K. LARSEN (Denmark)
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Zootaxa 1153: 43-50 (17 Mar. 2006
Caridina xiangnanensis
, a new freshwater atyid shrimp
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae) from Hunan Province, China
X.-Y. LIU, Z.-L. GUO & H. YU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1150: 53-68 (14 Mar. 2006) 7 plates; 32 references                             Accepted: 3 Feb. 2006
Niphargus echion, a new species of amphipod (Crustacea Amphipoda, Niphargidae) from Istra, Croatia
G.S. KARAMAN (Serbia & Montenegro) & S.G. MATOCEC (Croatia)
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Zootaxa 1148: 1-25 (10 Mar. 2006) 11 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 22 Dec. 2005
Ringanui, a new genus of stygobitic amphipod from New Zealand (Amphipoda: Gammaridea: Paraleptamphopidae)
G.D. FENWICK (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1148: 27-45 (10 Mar. 2006) 7 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 6 Jan. 2006
Two new species of Pagurixus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from submarine caves of the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
M. OSAWA , Y. FUJITA & J. OKUNO (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1137: 1-36 (2 Mar. 2006) 9 plates; 54 references                                  Accepted: 6 Jan. 2006
Pontoniine shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the island of Socotra, with descriptions of new species of Dactylonia Fransen, 2002 and Periclimenoides Bruce, 1990
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1136: 1-38 (27 Feb. 2006) 8 plates; 62 references                             Accepted: 16 Jan. 2006
A revision of the Iblidae and the stalked barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica), including new ordinal, familial and generic taxa, and two new species from New Zealand and Tasmanian waters
J.S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia) & W.A. NEWMAN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1130: 43-55 (16 Feb. 2006) 8 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 6 Dec. 2005
Antennuloniscus alfi n. sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Haploniscidae) from the Scotia Sea, Antarctica
L. WURZBERG & W. BROKELAND (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1129: 47-60 (16 Feb. 2006) 6 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 19 Dec. 2005
Redescription of Ilyarachna zachsi Gurjanova, 1933 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsidae) from the Sea of Japan, with the synonymisation of I. starokadomskii Gurjanova, 1933
O.A. GOLOVAN & M.V. MALYUTINA  (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1126: 35-51 (10 Feb. 2006) 5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 22 Dec. 2005
Three new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from the Nearctic
D.C. ROGERS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1125: 1-37 (10 Feb. 2006) 11 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 2 Dec. 2005
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Archaeoscinoidea Vinogradov, Volkov & Semenova, 1982 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
W. ZEIDLER (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1125: 39-43 (10 Feb. 2006) 1 plate; 14 references                                Accepted: 5 Dec. 2005
Authorship and publication date of the Palaeozoic genera Cypridinella, Cypridellina, Sulcuna, Rhombina, and Offa (Ostracoda: Myodocopa)
LOUIS S. KORNICKER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1120: 1-33 (2 Feb. 2006) 15 plates; 50 references                             Accepted: 14 Nov. 2005
Heterochrony in Haplomesus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ischnomesidae): revision of two species and description of two new species
F.A. KAVANAGH, G.D.F. WILSON & A.M. POWER (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1119: 1-27 (30 Jan. 2006) 9 plates; 61 references                               Accepted: 1 Nov. 2005
Cladocera (Crustacea: Ctenopoda, Anomopoda) from southern Mexico, Belize and northern Guatemala, with some biogeographical notes
M. ELIAS-GUTIERREZ (Mexico), A.A. KOTOV (Russia) & T. GARFIAS-ESPEJO  (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1118: 57-68 (30 Jan. 2006) 5 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2005
A new genus and species of high intertidal barnacle (Cirripedia, Tetraclitidae) from Baja California Sur, Mexico
L. GOMEZ-DAGLIO (Mexico) & R. VAN SYOC (USA)
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Zootaxa 1116: 1-27 (27 Jan. 2006) 13 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 10 Nov. 2005
New species of Pygolabis Wilson, 2003 (Isopoda, Tainisopidae, Crustacea) from Western Australia
S.J. KEABLE & G.D.F. WILSON (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1116: 55-68 (27 Jan. 2006) 5 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 15 Nov. 2005
A new genus with two new species of hermit crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Paguroidea, Paguridae) from an unique habitat
P.A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA) & D. RAHAYU  (Indonesia)
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Zootaxa 1115: 1-29 (27 Jan. 2006) 17 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2005
Three species of the isopod crustacean genus Antennuloniscus Menzies, 1962 (Asellota: Haploniscidae) from the Southern Ocean
W. BRÖKELAND (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1111: 21-58 (20 Jan. 2006) 19 plates; 1 7 references                          Accepted: 9 Nov. 2005
Revision of Southern Hemisphere Austronanus Hodgson, 1910, with two new genera and five new species of Paramunnidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
J. JUST & G.D.F. WILSON  (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1109: 1-14 (17 Jan. 2006) 2 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 12 Nov. 2005
Phylogeny of the clawed lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Homarida)
S. T. AHYONG (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1108: 1-21 (13 Jan. 2006) 5 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 30 Nov. 2005
Shallow water tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands
R.N. BAMBER (UK)
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2005

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Zootaxa 1095: 1-60 (13 Dec. 2005) 16 plates; 112 references                         Accepted: 19 Oct. 2005
Species of the genus Munidopsis (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the deep Atlantic Ocean, including cold-seep and hydrothermal vent areas
E. MACPHERSON (Spain) & M. SEGONZAC (France)
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Zootaxa 1092: 47-63 (8 Dec. 2005) 11 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 11 Sept. 2005
First record of Sergestes belonging to edwardsii species group (Sergestidae, Crustacea) from the Indian Ocean
F. YOUSUF & Q. B. KAZMI  (Pakistan)
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Zootaxa 1091: 41-51 (5 Dec. 2005) 3 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 25 Oct. 2005
Astacoides hobbsi, a new crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parastacidae) from Madagascar
C. B. BOYKO (USA), O. R. RAVOAHANGIMALALA (Madagascar), D. RANDRIAMASIMANANA (Madagascar), & T. H. RAZAFINDRAZAKA  (Madagascar)
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Zootaxa 1090: 1-34 (2 Dec. 2005) 20 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 10 Oct. 2005
A review of the genus Micropagurus (Crustacea Decapoda Anomura Paguridae)
AKIRA ASAKURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1089: 57-63 (2 Dec. 2005) 2 plates; 9 references                                 Accepted: 8 Oct. 2005
Charybdis moretonensis Rees & Stephenson, 1966, a junior synonym of Charybdis granulata (de Haan, 1833) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
S.T. AHYONG  & T. LEE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1089: 64 (2 Dec. 2005)  4 references                                                   Accepted: 10  Oct. 2005
Pagurodofleinia, a replacement generic name for Dofleinia McLaughlin & Asakura, 2004 (Crustacea: Decapoda), preoccupied by Dofleinia Wassilieff, 1908 (Cnidaria: Anthozoa)
AKIRA ASAKURA
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Zootaxa 1087: 1-31 (29 Nov. 2005) 15 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 6 Oct. 2005
Cumaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Persian Gulf
J. CORBERA, P. TIRADO & D. MARTIN (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1085: 1-19 (22 Nov. 2005) 7 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 6 Oct. 2005
New species of the genus Collettea Lang, 1973 (Peracarida: Tanaidacea, Colletteidae) from the Antarctic
M. BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & K. LARSEN (Denmark)
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Zootaxa 1085: 21-32 (22 Nov. 2005) 4 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 18 Oct. 2005
Xenosellidae, a new family of Janiroidea (Asellota: Isopoda: Crustacea), for Xenosella coxospinosa gen. nov., sp. nov., from the marine bathyal of eastern Australia
J. JUST (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1083: 37-62 (18 Nov. 2005) 6 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 11 Oct. 2005
Two new species of Paguristes sensu stricto (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae) and a review of Paguristes pusillus Henderson
P. A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA) & D. RAHAYU (Indonesia)
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Zootaxa 1070: 31-42 (25 Oct. 2005) 6 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 9 Sept. 2005
Two new species of the mesopelagic isopod genus Syscenus Harger, 1880 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Aegidae) from the southwestern Pacific 
N. L. BRUCE
(New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1049: 33-48 (13 Sept. 2005) 3 plates; 51 references                           Accepted: 2 Sept. 2005
Updated diagnoses for the Indian species of Streptocephalus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
C. S VELU & N. MUNUSWAMY (India)
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Zootaxa 1044: 57-64 (2 Sept. 2005) 3 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 22 Jul. 2005
Species of Moguai Tan and Ng, 1999 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Camptandriidae) from brackish waters in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with the description of a new species
T. NARUSE (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1039: 39-55 (23 Aug. 2005) 11 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 4 Apr. 2005
A new species of Catinia Bocquet & Stock, 1957 (Copepoda, Catiniidae) associated with mud shrimps, Axianassa australis Rodrigues & Shimizu, 1992 (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Laomediidae), from Brazil
T. C. KIHARA, C. E. F. ROCHA & C.  SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1038: 53-63 (19 Aug. 2005) 4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2005
A new species of Lissoporcellana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from Okinawa, southwestern Japan
M. OSAWA  & Y. FUJITA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1035: 51-59 (15 Aug. 2005) 3 plates; 17 references                            Accepted:13 Jul. 2005
A revision of Metapontius (Siphonostomatoida: Artotrogidae) with the description of a new species associated with an octocoral from Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands (USA)
R. JOHNSSON & E.G. NEVES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1031: 1-76 (8 Aug. 2005) 58 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 15 Jun. 2005
Deep-sea Oplophoridae (Crustacea Caridea) from the southwestern Brazil
I. CARDOSO & P. YOUNG (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1029: 1-30 (5 Aug. 2005) 7 plates; 79 references                              Accepted: 30 Jun. 2005
On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
C.L. MCLAY (New Zealand) & P.K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1029: 31-38 (5 Aug. 2005) 3 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 29 Jun. 2005
On a new species of coral-symbiont crab of the genus Cymo de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae), from the South China Sea
P.-H. HO (R. China) & PETER K. L. NG  (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1029: 39-46 (5 Aug. 2005) 4 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 29 Jun. 2005
Dicranodromia danielae, a new species of homolodromiid crab from the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
P.K.L. NG (Singapore) & C.L. MCLAY  (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1027: 1-26 (29 Jul. 2005) 11 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 2 Jun. 2005
Redescriptions and taxonomic notes on species of the Synalpheus townsendi Coutiere, 1909 complex (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)
M.H. SALAZAR (Mexico), M. WICKSTEN (USA) & J.J. MORRONE  (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1021: 13-27 (22 Jul. 2005) 7 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2005
A new stygiobiont species of Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from an anchialine cave on Miyako Island, Ryukyu Islands
T. KOMAI & Y. FUJITA  (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1019: 27-42 (19 Jul. 2005) 7 plates; 13 references                               Accepted: 7 Jul. 2005
A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) and a new record of A. muricola from methane seeps on the Blake Ridge Diapir, Northwestern Atlantic
T. KOMAI (Japan), T.M. SHANK (USA) & C.L. VAN DOVER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1018: 55-60 (15 Jul. 2005) 3 plates; 3 references                                  Accepted: 8 Jul. 2005
A new species of Alboscia Schultz, 1995 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) from Brazil
P.B. ARAUJO & A.F. QUADROS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1015: 1-66 (5 Jul. 2005) 19 plates; 139 references                             Accepted: 13 May 2005
A revision of the genus Pachygrapsus Randall, 1840 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura, Grapsidae), with special reference to the Southwest Pacific species
J. POUPIN (France), P.J.F. DAVIE (Australia) & J.-C. CEXUS (France)
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Zootaxa 1013: 35-64 (30 Jun. 2005) 9 plates; 44 references                              Accepted: 8 Jun. 2005
Revision of the Lithoglyptidae sensu Tomlinson, 1969 and Lithoglyptes Aurivillius, 1892 (Cirripedia, Acrothoracica,), including a new species from Bermuda
G.A. KOLBASOV (Russia) & W.A. NEWMAN  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1008: 13-20 (14 Jun. 2005) 1 plate; 18 references                              Accepted: 14 May 2005
Caridina longiacuta
, a new species of freshwater atyid shrimp (Decapoda, Atyidae) from Hunan Province, China
Z.-L. GUO & X.-Q. WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1002: 1-20 (1 Jun. 2005) 8 plates; 27 references                               Accepted: 16 May 2005
New sphaeromatids (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea) from coastal and freshwater habitats in New Zealand
N.L BRUCE (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1002: 59-64 (1 Jun. 2005) 2 plates; 7 references                               Accepted: 12 May 2005
A new species of Argeiopsis Kensley, 1974 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae: Argeiinae) from the northern Arabian Sea 
C.B. BOYKO (USA) & Q.B. KAZMI  (Pakistan)
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Zootaxa 997: 1-10 (25 May 2005) 1 plate; 20 references                                  Accepted: 7 May 2005
A new genus and species of chirocephalid fairy shrimp (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Mongolia
D.C. ROGERS (USA)
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Zootaxa 981: 1-20 (16 May 2005) 7 plates; 9 references                                  Accepted: 30 Apr. 2005
Pontoniine shrimps from the 2003 NORFANZ Expedition, 10 May–16 June (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A.J. BRUCE  (Australia)
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Zootaxa 962: 1-6 (29 Apr. 2005) 4 plates; 9 references                                   Accepted: 17 Apr. 2005
Ingolfiella rocaensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ingolfiellidea): first record of ingolfiellidean amphipods in Brazilian waters
A.R. SENNA & C.S. SEREJO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 926: 1-11 (31 Mar. 2005) 3 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 10 Mar. 2005
Manipontonia gen. nov., a new pontoniine shrimp genus for Periclimenes psamathe (De Man) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia), J. OKUNO (Japan) & X.Z. LI  (P.R. China
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Zootaxa 925: 1-10 (31 Mar. 2005) 5 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 14 Mar. 2005
A new locality and host for Pseudione minimocrenulata Nierstrasz & Brender ŕ Brandis, 1931 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) in the Indian Ocean, with comments on the identity of the type specimens
Q.B. KAZMI (Parkistan) & C.B. BOYKO (USA
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Zootaxa 917: 1-15 (24 Mar. 2005) 6 plates; 24 references                               Accepted:11 Mar. 2005
On a new genus and species of freshwater crab from Vietnam, with comments on the nomenclatural status of Orientalia Dang, 1975 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae: Potamiscinae)
D.C.J. YEO & P.K.L. NG (Singapore
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Zootaxa 878: 1-15 (1 Mar. 2005) 8 plates; 5 references                                   Accepted: 12 Feb. 2005
A new species of Tenagomysis (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from New Zealand with notes on three Tenagomysis species
K. FUKUOKA (Japan) & N.L. BRUCE (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 877: 1-7 (1 Mar. 2005) 2 plates; 10 references                                   Accepted: 20 Feb. 2005
Neorhynchoplax yaeyamaensis, a new false spider crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from the Yaeyama Group, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
T. NARUSE, S. SHOKITA & T. KAWAHARA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 876: 1-12 (1 Mar. 2005) 4 plates; 14 references                                   Accepted: 8 Feb. 2005
A new species of Pagurixus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from Southern Japan
T. KOMAI & E. MYORIN (Japan)
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Zootaxa 873: 1-20 (25 Feb. 2005) 9 plates; 26 references                               Accepted: 16 Feb. 2005
Phyllosoma and nisto stages of Scyllarinae sp. D (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the south-west lagoon of New Caledonia
E.  COUTURES (New Caledonia) & R. WEBBER (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 861: 1-11 (18 Feb. 2005) 3 plates; 21 references                               Accepted: 15 Jan. 2005
A new amphipod species from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Podoprionidae)
T. HORTON (UK)
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Zootaxa 841: 1-14 (27 Jan. 2005) 6 plates, 32 references                              Accepted: 21 Jan. 2005
The Indo-West Pacific Pilumnidae XVIII: On the taxonomy of Pilumnus scabriusculus Adams and White, 1849, and P. sluiteri De Man, 1892, with a note on Cancer incanus Forskĺl, 1775 (Brachyura: Xanthoidea)
P.K. L. NG (Singapore) & P.F. CLARK  (UK)
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Zootaxa 833: 1-31 (24 Jan. 2005) 17 plates, 16 references                              Accepted: 14 Jan. 2005
The redescription of three species of Sicyonella (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata: Sergestidae)
K. FUKUOKA, M. TAMAKI  & T. KIKUCHI  (Japan)
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Zootaxa 831: 1-42 (24 Jan. 2005) 14 plates, 48 references                               Accepted: 12 Jan. 2005
Additions to the Indonesian fauna of the hermit crab genus Pseudopaguristes McLaughlin and a further division of the genus Paguristes Dana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea: Diogenidae)
D.L. RAHAYU (Indonesia)
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Zootaxa 826: 1-4 (20 Jan. 2005) 1 plate, 7 references                                      Accepted: 15 Jan. 2005
A new genus Pontoniopsides, for Pontoniopsis paulae Gore, 1981 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
A.J. BRUCE  (Australia)
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Zootaxa 824: 1-8 (20 Jan. 2005) 4 plates, 19 references                                    Accepted: 6 Jan. 2005
Caenestheriella mariae sp. nov. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Cyzicidae): a new clam shrimp from Western Australia
J. OLESEN (Denmark) & B. TIMMS (Australia)
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Zootaxa 822: 1-10 (17 Jan. 2005) 2 plates, 15 references                                 Accepted: 11 Jan. 2005
Pleistacantha stilipes, a new species of spider crab from the South China Sea (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae)
S.T. AHYONG (Australia), H. CHEN (P.R. China) & P.K.L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 819: 1-12 (17 Jan. 2005) 5 plates, 23 references                                 Accepted: 12 Jan. 2005
Pagurus ikedai (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae), a new hermit crab species of the bernhardus group from Japanese waters
R. LEMAITRE (USA) & H. WATABE (Japan)
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Zootaxa 801: 1-20 (7 Jan. 2005) 6 plates, 17 references                                   Accepted: 22 Dec. 2004
A new species of Trichopagurus de Saint Laurent (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu and Yap Islands, and redescription of T. trichophthalmus (Forest)
T. KOMAI  & M. OSAWA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 793: 1-28 (24 December 2004) 5 plates, 44 references                      Accepted: 16 Dec. 2004
New species and new records of stomatopod Crustacea from the Philippines
S.T. AHYONG
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 760: 1-26 (10 December 2004) 5 plates; 22 references                     Accepted: 26 Nov. 2004
Phylogenetic relationships among families of the order Anomopoda (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Cladocera)
L.M.A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 756: 1-6 (7 December 2004) 9 references                                            Accepted: 25 Oct. 2004
Nomenclatural emendations (Cirripedia, Pedunculata) involving the family-group names Priscansermarinidae Newman, 1996, Neolepadinae Newman, 1996 & Zeugmatolepadidae Newman, 1996
W.A. NEWMAN
(USA)
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Zootaxa 754: 1-10 (7 December 2004) 4 plates; 22 references                        Accepted: 25 Oct. 2004
A new species of Corophium from eastern Australian estuaries (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophiidae: Corophiinae: Corophiini)
J.K. LOWRY
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 742: 1-28 (25 November 2004) 2 plates; 64 references                     Accepted: 17 Nov. 2004
Paguristes puniceus Henderson, 1896 (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae): A study in intraspecific variability
P.A. MCLAUGHLIN
(USA)
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Zootaxa 724: 1-10 (15 November 2004) 4 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 2 Nov. 2004
A description of Harpinia karamani sp. nov. (Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae) from the Mediterranean, with a redescription of Harpinia truncata Sars, 1891
R.A. KING (USA)
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Zootaxa 721: 1-12 (11 November 2004) 5 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 1 Nov. 2004
Three new species of Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Costa Rica
I. PETRESCU (Romania) & R.W. HEARD (USA)

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Zootaxa 702: 1-16 (29 October 2004) 8 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 14 Oct. 2004
New Cumacea species (Malacostraca, Peracarida) from the deepwater area of the Sea of Japan (Collections of the 52nd Cruise by the R/V «Vityaz», 1972)
S. VASSILENKO & L. TZAREVA (Russia)
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Zootaxa 674: 1-14 (6 October 2004)  3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 27 Sept. 2004
A new species of the genus Dactylopleustes (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pleustidae) from Japan, with a partial redescription of D. echinoides Bousfield and Hendrycks, 1995
K. TOMIKAWA (Japan), E.A. HENDRYCKS (Canada) & S.F. MAWATARI (Japan)
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Zootaxa 657: 1-24 (27 September 2004)  14 plates; 15 references                 Accepted: 30 Aug. 2004
A taxonomic revision of the genus Paradynomene Sakai, 1963 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Dynomenidae)
C.L. MCLAY (New Zealand) & P.K.L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 653: 1-8 (24 September 2004) 2 plates, 17 references                      Accepted: 24 Aug. 2004
Amamiku, a new genus for the true freshwater crab, Candidiopotamon amamense Minei, 1973 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae), from the Central Ryukyu Islands, Japan
T. NARUSE, R. SEGAWA & S. SHOKITA
(Japan)
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Zootaxa 649: 1-30 (20 September 2004) 4 plates, 69 references                      Accepted: 1 Sept. 2004
Species diversity and phylogeny of the deep-sea genus Pseudomma (Crustacea: Mysida)
K. MELAND (Norway)
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Zootaxa 646: 1-29 (16 September 2004) 13 plates; 38 references                  Accepted: 27 Aug. 2004
Talitridae (Amphipoda, Gammaridea) from the Brazilian coastline
C.S. SEREJO
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 645: 1-15 (16 September 2004) 6 plates; 17 references                    Accepted: 27 Aug. 2004
The genus Trischizostoma (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Trischizostomidae) from the Southwest Atlantic, collected by the REVIZEE Program
P.R. FREIRE & C.S. SEREJO
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 643: 1-70 (16 September 2004) 7 plates; 137 references                  Accepted: 14 Aug. 2004
Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family
P. CASTRO (USA), P.K.L. NG (Singapore) & S.T. AHYONG 
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 623: 1-12 (1 September 2004) 5 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 12 Aug. 2004
Paradella tiffany sp. nov., a distinctive sphaeromatid isopod (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea) from Baja California, Mexico
N.L. BRUCE
(New Zealand) & R. WETZER (USA)
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Zootaxa 618: 1-12 (27 August 2004) 7 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 13 Aug. 2004
Kaloketos pilosus, a new genus and species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Turks and Caicos Islands
S. KOENEMANN  (The Netherlands), T.M. ILIFFE (USA) & J. YAGER (USA)

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Zootaxa 617: 1-18 (27 August 2004) 6 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 17 Jun. 2004
A new species of Eucyclops Claus (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from Southeast Mexico with a key for the identification of the species recorded in Mexico
E. SUÁREZ-MORALES
(Mexico)
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Zootaxa 603: 1-12 (11 August 2004) 6 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 1 July 2004
Choniomyzon libiniae, sp. n. (Crustacea, Copepoda, Nicothoidae) from Săo Sebastiăo, SP, Brazil
C. SANTOS & T. BJÖRNBERG
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 600: 1-26 (9 August 2004) 14 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 16 July 2004
Redescription of Hymenopenaeus obliquirostris (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeoidea, Solenoceridae) and descriptions of two new species of Hymenopenaeus from the Indo-West Pacific
A. CROSNIER (France) & W. DALL (Australia)
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Zootaxa 582: 1-26 (23 July 2004)  98 references                                              Accepted: 12 July 2004
A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 567: 1-66 (14 July 2004)  10 plates; 192 references                             Accepted: 6 July 2004
A review of the families and genera of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Phronimoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
W. ZEIDLER (Australia)

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Zootaxa 550: 1-20 (25 June 2004)  10 plates, 11 references                           Accepted: 15 June 2004
Acanthocopinae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) from the Southern Ocean deep sea with the description of Acanthocope eleganta sp. nov.
M. MALYUTINA (Russia) & A. BRANDT (Germany)

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Zootaxa 535: 1-12 (11 June 2004)  4 plates, 17 references                              Accepted: 23 May 2004
A description of a new species of Typhlotanais (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from West Antarctic with a note on the genus
M. B
LAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 520: 1-18 (24 May 2004)  4 plates, 66 references                               Accepted: 12 May 2004
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Lycaeopsoidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
W. ZEIDLER
(Australia)

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Zootaxa 513: 1-27 (17 May 2004) 9 plates; 20 references                                 Accepted: 5 May 2004
Review of the deep-water asellote genus Notopais Hodgson, 1910 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsididae) with description of three new species from the south-western Pacific. 
K.L. MERRIN (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 501: 1-10 (30 April 2004) 4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 20 April 2004
Mesosignum weddellensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Asellota: Mesosignidae), a new isopod species from the abyssal Weddell Sea, Antarctica
M. CHOUDHURY & A. BRANDT
(Germany
)
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Zootaxa 489: 1-11 (13 April 2004) 5 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 1 April 2004
Mexicope sushara sp. nov., the first New Zealand record of the isopod crustacean family Acanthaspidiidae (Asellota)
N.L. BRUCE
(New
Zealand)
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Zootaxa 481: 1-63 (2 April 2004) 27 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 23 March 2004
A revision of the genus Paraleptognathia Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) and description of four new species
J. GUERRERO-KOMMRITZ (Germany)

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Zootaxa 472: 1-76 (23 March 2004) 17 plates; 65 references                     Accepted: 16 March 2004
Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia
S.T. AHYONG & G.C. B. POORE
(Australia)

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Zootaxa 471: 1-44 (23 March 2004) 18 plates; 41 references                     Accepted: 12 March 2004
Tanaidacea (Crustacea) of the Northeast Atlantic: non-filiform species of Anarthruridae Lang from the Atlantic Margin
G. BIRD
(UK)

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Zootaxa 466: 1-8 (16 March 2004) 2 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 10 March 2004
A description of the first complete specimen of Diogenes guttatus Henderson, 1888 (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae)
P.A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 461: 1-4 (12 March 2004) 1 plate; 7 references                               Accepted: 8 March 2004
Heptacarpus littoralis Butler a synonym of Heptacarpus sitchensis (Brandt) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae)
L. STAMATIOU & G.C. JENSEN (USA)

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Zootaxa 459: 1-20 (12 March 2004) 9 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 4 March 2004
New species of Tanaella Norman and Stebbing, 1886 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaellidae) from the deep-sea off the Antarctic and the Angola Basin, with a key to the genus
J. GUERRERO-KOMMRITZ (Germany) & M. BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 448: 1-35 (1 March 2004) 18 plates; 18 references                  Accepted: 20 February 2004
New deep-sea species of Macrostylidae (Asellota: Isopoda: Malacostraca) from the Angola Basin off Namibia, South West Africa
A. BRANDT (Germany)

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Zootaxa 444: 1-26 (1 March 2004) 7 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 4 February 2004
A new species of Alvinocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alvinocarididae) and new records of alvinocaridids from hydrothermal vents north of New Zealand
W.R. WEBBER (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 436: 1-88 (18 February 2004) 28 plates; 43 references              Accepted: 21 January 2004
The Chirostylidae of southern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
S.T. AHYONG & G.C.B. POORE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 433: 1-16 (12 February 2004) 2 plates; 29 references                Accepted: 5 February 2004
A reappraisal of the hermit crab genera Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Hemipagurus Smith (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae), with the description of a new species
P.A. MCLAUGHLIN  (USA)

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Zootaxa 422: 1-27 (3 February 2004) 9 plates; 52 references                         Accepted: 22 Jan. 2004
Erimetopus vandenbrandeni (Balss, 1936) n. comb., with notes on the taxonomy of the genus Erimetopus Rathbun, 1894 (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from Central Africa
N. CUMBERLIDGE  & S.K. REED (USA)

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Zootaxa 420: 1-10 (3 February 2004) 5 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 20 January 2004
Globuloverruca spongophila gen. nov., sp. nov. a sponge-associated verrucid (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) from Easter Island, with discussion on the morphology of the plate tubules
P.S. YOUNG (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 418: 1-20 (30 January 2004) 5 plates; 35 references               Accepted: 16 December 2003
Notes on the taxonomy of Potamonautes obesus (A Milne-Edwards, 1868) and Potamonautes calcaratus (Gordon, 1929) (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from eastern and southern Africa
S.K. REED & N. CUMBERLIDGE (USA)

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2003 (22 papers; 526 pages)

Zootaxa 393: 1-11 (23 December 2003) 5 plates; 16 references           Accepted: 17 December 2003
A new species of Typhlocirolana (Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the Ullal de la Rambla de Miravet, Spain
S. DE GRAVE (UK) & S. HERRANDO-PÉREZ (Spain)

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Zootaxa 391: 1-20 (19 December 2003) 5 plates; 29 references            Accepted: 17 December 2003
Hermit crabs of the genus Calcinus Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, with description of a new species
J. POUPIN (France) & R. LEMAITRE (USA)

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Zootaxa 386: 1-11 (16 December 2003) 4 plates; 8 references                Accepted: 8 December 2003
A strikingly coloured new species of Paragiopagurus Lemaitre, 1996 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Parapaguridae) from French Polynesia
R. LEMAITRE (USA) & J. POUPIN (France)

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Zootaxa 372: 1-10 (1 December 2003) 3 plates; 6 references               Accepted: 10 November 2003
Haplodendron buzwilsoni gen. nov., sp. nov., the first record of Haplomunnidae from the southern Indo-Pacific (Isopoda: Asellota)
J. JUST
(Australia)

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Zootaxa 357: 1-12 (19 November 2003) 5 plates; 19 references          Accepted: 14 November 2003
Kalliapseudes (Mesokalliapseudes) macsweenyi, a new species of Kalliapseudidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha) from mangroves in Florida
D.T. DRUMM  (USA) 
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Zootaxa 356: 1-8 (19 November 2003) 5  plates; 4 references             Accepted: 10 November 2003
A new species of Melita Leach (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from oligosaline waters of Russian Far East
V.S. LABAY  (Russia) 
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Zootaxa 339: 1-11 (24 October 2003) 4 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 17 October 2003
A new species of Neotanais Beddard (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Subantartctic, off the Falkland Islands
K. LARSEN (USA) & M. BLAZEWICZ-PASZKWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 330: 1-15 (21 October 2003) 5 plates; 13 references                   Accepted: 10 October 2003
Agathotanaididae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Angola BasinJ. 
J. GUERRERO-KOMMRITZ 
(Germany)

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Zootaxa 326: 1-16 (10 October 2003) 3 plates; 40 references                     Accepted: 1 October 2003
Haplomunnidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) reviewed, with a description of an intact specimen of Thylakogaster Wilson & Hessler, 1974
M.R. CUNHA (Portugal)
& G.D.F. WILSON (Australia)
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Zootaxa 282: 1-14 (2 September 2003) 4 plates, 12 references                  Accepted: 18 August 2003
Portaratrum, a new genus of deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea) with description of two new species
J. GUERRERO-KOMMRITZ (Germany)

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Zootaxa 280: 1-104 (29 August 2003) 38 plates, 165 references              Accepted: 14 August 2003
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Vibilioidea Bowman and Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)  
W. ZEIDLER
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 265: 1-12 (11 August 2003) 4 plates, 19 references                         Accepted: 5 August 2003
A new deep-water species of Natatolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from the Chatham Rise, eastern New Zealand
N.L. BRUCE (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 257: 1-14  (4 August 2003) 4 plates, 52 references                            Accepted: 11 July 2003
Revision of the thamnocephalid Genus Phallocryptus (Crustacea; Branchiopoda; Anostraca)
D.C. ROGERS (USA )
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Zootaxa 254: 1-20  (1 August 2003) 2 plates, 62 references                             Accepted: 25 July 2003
Description of Durckheimia lochi n. sp., with an annotated checklist of Australian Pinnotheridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
S.T. AHYONG  & D.E. BROWN (Australia )
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Zootaxa 251: 1-12  (30 July 2003) 2 plates, 29 references                              Accepted: 11 July 2003
The development of the male second antenna in Polyartemiella hazeni (Murdoch, 1884) with a morphological definition of the Chirocephalidae (Crustacea: Anostraca)
D.C. ROGERS (USA )
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Zootaxa 245: 1-20 (21 July 2003) 7 plates; 33 references                               Accepted: 11 July 2003
A new genus of Tainisopidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Pilbara, Western Australia
G.D.F. WILSON (Australia)
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Zootaxa 232: 1-24  (4 July 2003) 11 plates; 39 references                              Accepted: 23 June 2003
The Caprellidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Mauritius Island, Western Indian Ocean
J. M. GUERRA-GARCÍA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 229: 1-102  (4 July 2003) 52 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 17 June 2003
Morphology and distribution of some new pelagic ostracods of genus Metaconchoecia (Halocyprida: Halocyprididae) from the North Pacific
V. G. CHAVTUR  (Russia)
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Zootaxa 227: 1-16 (30 June 2003) 5 plates; 39 references                              Accepted: 23 June 2003
A new species of Amphiascoides Nicholls, 1941 (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Caribbean coast of Mexico 
E. SUÁREZ-MORALES & S. AVILÉS-TORRES
(Mexico)
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Zootaxa 208: 1-12 (4 June 2003) 3 plates;  18 references                               Accepted: 23 May 2003
A review of the clam shrimp family Leptestheriidae (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) from Venezuela, with descriptions of two new species
J.V. GARCIA & G. PEREIRA (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 205: 1-19 (4 June 2003) 6 plates; 58 references                                Accepted: 23 May 2003
A new species of Moraria (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Laurentian Great Lakes
J.W. REID & L.T. LESKO  (USA)

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Zootaxa 141: 1-43 (31 January 2003) 15 plates; 60 references               Accepted: 27 January 2003
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod family Cystisomatidae Willemöes-Suhm, 1875 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER (Australia)

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2002 (9 papers; 197 pages)

Zootaxa 126: 1-20 (20 December 2002) 8 plates; 34 references             Accepted: 4 December 2002
Scottia birigida sp. nov. (Cypridoidea: Ostracoda) from western Honshu, Japan and a key to the subfamily Scottiinae Bronstein, 1947
R. J. SMITH (UK), R. MATZKE-KARASZ (Germany), T. KAMIYA (Japan) & Y. IKEDA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 123: 1-16 (20 December 2002) 1 plate; 70 references               Accepted: 3 December 2002
Peracarid crustaceans from three inlets in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico: new records and range extensions
S. CHÁZARO-OLVERA (Mexico), I. WINFIELD (Mexico), M. ORTIZ (Cuba)  & F. ÁLVAREZ (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 116: 1-12 (12 December 2002)  3 plates; 7 references              Accepted: 4 December 2002
Paranarthrura Hansen, 1913 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Angola Basin, description of Paranarthrura angolensis n. sp.
J. GUERRERO-KOMMRITZ, A. SCHMIDT & A. BRANDT (Germany)

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Zootaxa 88: 1-36 (24 October 2002)  22 plates; 15 references                   Accepted: 1 October 2002
New species of Nannoniscidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) and Saetoniscus n. gen. from the deep sea of the Angola Basin
A. BRANDT (Germany)

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Zootaxa 82: 1-60 (17 October 2002)  36 plates; 29 references                   Accepted: 3 October 2002
Expanathuridae (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Australian region
GARY C. B. POORE & HELEN M. LEW TON  (Australia)
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Zootaxa 74: 1-18 (3 October 2002)  9 plates; 20 references                Accepted: 23 September 2002
Two new species of Deutella Mayer, 1890 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pariambidae) collected by the R.V. "Anton Bruun" during the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1963-1964
J.M. GUERRA-GARCÍA
(Spain)
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Zootaxa 66: 1-15 (29 August 2002) 4 plates; 21 references                        Accepted: 23 August 2002
On a new species of Potamocypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Chalakkudy River, Kerala (India), with a checklist of the Potamocypris-species of the world
S.  GEORGE (India) & K. MARTENS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 62: 1-8 (8 August 2002) 20 references                                                 Accepted: 26 July 2002
New records and a checklist of continental free-living Copepoda (Crustacea) from Panama
W. K. REEVES  & J.W. REID  (USA)
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Zootaxa 28: 1-12 (12 April 2002) 6 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 26 March 2002
Ameroculodes miltoni, a new species of estuarine amphipod (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Oedicerotidae) from the southeastern United States
JOHN M. FOSTER & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)
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2001 (2 papers 33 pages)

Zootaxa 19: 1-22 (20 December 2001) 9 plates; 12 references               Accepted: 8 December 2001
A new tanaidacean subfamily, Bathytanaidinae (Crustacea: Paratanaididae), from the Australian continental shelf and slope
KIM LARSEN  & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)
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Zootaxa 18: 1-11 (20 December 2001) 3 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 8 December 2001
Saltipedis navassensis, a new species of apseudomorph tanaidacean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Parapseudidae) from the tropical north-western Atlantic 
TOM HANSKNECHT, RICHARD W. HEARD  & JOEL W. MARTIN (USA)
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