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2015

Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 140–189 (24 Dec. 2015)
Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO, DAVID G. SMITH, JOHN E. MCCOSKER, YUSUKE HIBINO, KAR-HOE LOH, KENNETH A. TIGHE & KWANG-TSAO SHAO
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 131–139 (24 Dec. 2015)
Notes on the congrid eel genus Parabathymyrus from the western Pacific Ocean, with the description of a new species (Pisces: Anguilliformes: Congridae)
HSUAN-CHING HO, DAVID G. SMITH & KWANG-TSAO SHAO
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 121–130 (24 Dec. 2015)
Saurenchelys gigas sp. nov., a new nettastomatid eel (Teleostei, Anguilliformes, Nettastomatidae) from the western central Pacific
JAMES LIN, DAVID G. SMITH, KWANG-TSAO SHAO & HONG-MING CHEN
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 105–120 (24 Dec. 2015)
The eels of the genus Nettenchelys, with description of a new species from Taiwan (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Nettastomatidae)
DAVID G. SMITH, JAMES LIN, HONG-MING CHEN & JOHN J. POGONOSKI
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 086–104 (24 Dec. 2015)
Review of the arrowtooth eel genera Dysomma and Dysommina in Taiwan, with the description of a new species (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae: Ilyophinae)
HSUAN-CHING HO, DAVID G. SMITH & KENNETH A. TIGHE
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 071–085 (24 Dec. 2015)
New species of the snake eels Echelus and Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Taiwan
JOHN E. McCOSKER & HSUAN-CHING HO
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 062–070 (24 Dec. 2015)
A new species of Muraenichthys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with revised generic diagnosis
YUSUKE HIBINO & SEISHI KIMURA
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 056–061 (24 Dec. 2015)
A new species of Neenchelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae: Myrophinae) from the eastern Indian Ocean
YUSUKE HIBINO, UKKRIT SATAPOOMIN & SEISHI KIMURA
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 052–055 (24 Dec. 2015)
A new species of the worm-eel genus Neenchelys (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from southern Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO & KAR-HOE LOH
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 049–051 (24 Dec. 2015)
Renaming of three recently described eels of the genus Neenchelys (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the western Pacific
HSUAN-CHING HO, JOHN E. MCCOSKER & DAVID G. SMITH
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 041–048 (24 Dec. 2015)
A new genus and species of worm eels, Sympenchelys taiwanensis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae: Myrophinae), from the northwestern Pacific Ocean
YUSUKE HIBINO, HSUAN-CHING HO & SEISHI KIMURA
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 030–040 (24 Dec. 2015)
A new species of moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from Taiwan, with comments on related elongate unpatterned species
KAR-HOE LOH, KWANG-TSAO SHAO, HSUAN-CHING HO, PHAIK-EEM LIM & HONG-MING CHEN
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 019–029 (24 Dec. 2015)
Three new species of the genus Chlopsis (Anguilliformes: Chlopsidae) from the Indo-Pacific
KENNETH A. TIGHE, JOHN J. POGONOSKI, YUSUKE HIBINO, HSUAN-CHING HO & QUAN VAN NGUYEN
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Article 
Zootaxa 4060 (1): 005–018 (24 Dec. 2015)
Introduction to the systematics and biodiversity of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) of Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO, JOHN E. MCCOSKER, DAVID G. SMITH & KWANG-TSAO SHAO
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Article
Zootaxa 4059 (3): 555–568 (23 Dec. 2015)
Redescription of Nemachilichthys rueppelli, a senior synonym of N. shimogensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
ASHWINI KESKAR, PRADEEP KUMKAR, UNMESH KATWATE, ANVAR ALI, RAJEEV RAGHAVAN & NEELESH DAHANUKAR
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Article
Zootaxa 4059 (2): 335–350 (22 Dec. 2015)
Insights on the identities of sharks of the Rhizoprionodon acutus (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes) species complex based on three new species of Phoreiobothrium (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea)
J. N. CAIRA & K. JENSEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4059 (1): 151–168 (21 Dec. 2015)
Mitochondrial phylogeny of Chinese barred species of the cyprinid genus Acrossocheilus Oshima, 1919 (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) and its taxonomic implications
LE-YANG YUAN, XIAO-XIANG LIU & E ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 4059 (1): 133–150 (21 Dec. 2015)
Redescriptions of Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus (Klunzinger 1870) and P. lineopunctatus (Boulenger 1903), with two new species from Western Indian Ocean
YUKIO IWATSUKI & PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (4): 490–510 (14 Dec. 2015)
Review of the scorpionfish genus Pteroidichthys (Scorpaenidae), with descriptions of two new species
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA & YUKA KANADE
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (3): 371–384 (11 Dec. 2015)
A new species of Near-shore Marine Goby (Pisces: Gobiidae: Nesogobius) from Kangaroo Island, Australia
MICHAEL P. HAMMER, DOUGLASS F. HOESE & TERRY BERTOZZI
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (5): 569–572 (7 Dec. 2015)
On the attribution of authorship for several elasmobranch species in Müller and Henle’s Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii)
CHRISTIAN M. JONES, WILLIAM B. DRIGGERS III, JOSÉ I. CASTRO & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (4): 457–464 (4 Dec. 2015)
A new species of Barbatula from the Russian Altai (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
ARTEM M. PROKOFIEV
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (3): 359–365 (3 Dec. 2015)
Description of a new species of Hemigrammocapoeta (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Lake Işıklı, Turkey
FAHRETTİN KÜÇÜK, ESRA BAYÇELEBİ, SALİM SERKAN GÜÇLÜ & İSKENDER GÜLLE
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Zootaxa 4048 (3): 441–445 (26 Nov. 2015)
Exostoma tenuicaudata, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from the upper Brahmaputra drainage, northeastern India
LAKPA TAMANG, BIKRAMJIT SINHA & SHANTABALA DEVI GURUMAYUM
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (1): 075–089 (24 Nov. 2015)
Garra mondica, a new species from the Mond River drainage with remarks on the genus Garra from the Persian Gulf basin in Iran (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
GOLNAZ SAYYADZADEH, HAMID REZA ESMAEILI & JÖRG FREYHOF
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (3): 371–390 (19 Nov. 2015)
Three new species of the Indo-Pacific fish genus Hime (Aulopidae, Aulopiformes), all resembling the type species H. japonica (Günther 1877)
MARTIN F. GOMON & CARL D. STRUTHERS
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (1): 079–092 (17 Nov. 2015)
A new species of Ptychochromis from southeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
CHRISTOPHER M. MARTINEZ, JAIRO ARROYAVE & JOHN S. SPARKS
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (1): 045–064 (17 Nov. 2015)
Two new species of African suckermouth catfishes, genus Chiloglanis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae), from Kenya with remarks on other taxa from the area
RAY C. SCHMIDT, HENRY L. BART JR & WANJA DOROTHY NYINGI
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (4): 583–588 (13 Nov. 2015)
Parambassis serrata, a new species of glassperch (Teleostei: Ambassidae) from the Kaladan drainage, India
MAYANGLAMBAM DISHMA & WAIKHOM VISHWANATH
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (4): 559–568 (13 Nov. 2015)
A new species of deepwater wrasse (Labridae: Terelabrus) from the western Pacific Ocean
YOSHINO FUKUI & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (3): 371–383 (11 Nov. 2015)
A new species of Characidium Reinhardt (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from coastal rivers in the extreme south of Bahia, Brazil
ANGELA M. ZANATA, LUISA M. SARMENTO-SOARES & RONALDO F. MARTINS-PINHEIRO
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (2): 323–344 (4 Nov. 2015)
Revision of the aphyonid genus Aphyonus (Teleostei, Ophidiiformes) with a new genus and two new species
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (3): 556–564 (30 Oct. 2015)
A new species of Pareiorhaphis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the headwaters of the Arroio Garapiá, coastal drainage of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
EDSON H. L. PEREIRA, PABLO LEHMANN A, LUCAS J. SCHVAMBACH & ROBERTO E. REIS
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Article
Zootaxa 4033 (1): 117–128 (21 Oct. 2015)
A new species of Pseudophoxinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Southwestern Anatolia, Turkey
F. GÜLER EKMEKÇİ, M. ALTUĞ ATALAY, BARAN YOĞURTÇUOĞLU, DAVUT TURAN & FAHRETTİN KÜÇÜK
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (5): 535–550 (20 Oct. 2015)
Silversides of the genus Labidesthes (Atheriniformes: Atherinopsidae)
DAVID C. WERNEKE & JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (4): 417–425 (19 Oct. 2015)
A new species of Moenkhausia Eigenmann (Characiformes: Characidae) from the upper rio Juruena basin, Central Brazil
FERNANDO C. P. DAGOSTA, MANOELA M. F. MARINHO & RICARDO C. BENINE
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4032 (1): 147–150 (14 Oct. 2015)
Clarification of type material for Bornean species of the genus Osteochilus (Cyprinidae)
CALEB D. MCMAHAN & SUSAN F. MOCHEL
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Article
Zootaxa 4028 (4): 527–538 (12 Oct. 2015)
Spratelloides atrofasciatus Schultz, 1943, a valid species of round herring (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae)
HIRO O ISHIMORI, KOUICHI HIDAKA, TAIHEI YAMAMURO & TETSUO YOSHINO
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (4): 538–550 (6 Oct. 2015)
Description of a new species of Trimma (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea, with a discussion of the generic separation of Trimma and Priolepis, with discussion of sensory papillae terminology
DOUGLASS F. HOESE, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY & AHMAD O. MAL
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (3): 389–407 (5 Oct. 2015)
Redescription of Ateleopus japonicus Bleeker 1853, a senior synonym of Ateleopus schlegelii van der Hoeven 1855, Ateleopus purpureus Tanaka 1915, and Ateleopus tanabensis Tanaka 1918 with designation of a lectotype for A. japonicus and A. schlegelii (Ateleopodiformes: Ateleopodidae)
TATSUYA KAGA, MARTIEN J.P. VAN OIJEN, YOSHIKAZU KUBO & EMI KITAGAWA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4027 (1): 140–144 (1 Oct. 2015)
A new species of Short Brown Unpatterned Moray Eel of the Genus Gymnothorax (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from the Bay of Bengal
DIPANJAN RAY, ANIL MOHAPATRA & DAVID G. SMITH
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (4): 529–540 (29 Sept. 2015)
Redescription of the Indo-West Pacific scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae), Neomerinthe erostris (Alcock 1896), a senior synonym of Scorpaena gibbifrons Fowler 1938, N. rotunda Chen 1981, and N. bathyperimensis Zajonz & Klausewitz 2002
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA, ROMAIN CAUSSE, PHILIPPE BÉAREZ & SUBHRENDU SEKHAR MISHRA
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (3): 475–481 (28 Sept. 2015)
Redescription of the percoid fish Symphysanodon andersoni Kotthaus (Symphysanodontidae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean, based on the holotype and the second known specimen
WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR., MIKHAIL V. CHESALIN, LAITH A. JAWAD & SAID R. AL SHAJIBI
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (2): 368–376 (25 Sept. 2015)
A new species of Characidium Reinhardt (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from headwaters of rio Pacaás Novos, rio Madeira basin, Rondônia, Brazil
ANGELA M. ZANATA & WILLIAN M. OHARA
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (2): 243–281 (25 Sept. 2015)
A review of Galaxiella pusilla (Mack) (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia with a description of a new species
RHYS A. COLEMAN, ARY A. HOFFMANN & TARMO A. RAADIK
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (1): 187–194 (24 Sept. 2015)
New species of Characidium (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the Rio Tapajós and Rio Xingu drainages, Pará, Brazil
MARINA B. MENDONÇA & ANDRE L. NETTO-FERREIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 4020 (3): 517–532 (23 Sept. 2015)
A new species of pencil smelt Nansenia boreacrassicauda (Microstomatidae, Argentiniformes) from the North Atlantic Ocean
JAN YDE POULSEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4020 (2): 375–389 (22 Sept. 2015)
A new species of Ituglanis Costa & Bockmann, 1993 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) endemic to the Tramandaí–Mampituba ecoregion, southern Brazil
JULIANO FERRER, LAURA M. DONIN & LUIZ R. MALABARBA
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Article
Zootaxa 4018 (3): 381–395 (16 Sept. 2015)
A new species of the genus Stiphodon from Palawan, Philippines (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae)
KEN MAEDA & HERMINIE P. PALLA
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Article
Zootaxa 4018 (3): 301–348 (16 Sept. 2015)
Snailfishes of the Careproctus rastrinus complex (Liparidae): redescriptions of seven species in the North Pacific Ocean region, with the description of a new species from the Beaufort Sea
JAMES WILDER ORR, YOSHIAKI KAI & TETSUJI NAKABO
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4018 (1): 001–150 (14 Sept. 2015)
Taxonomic status of Tetragonopterus anomalus Steindachner, 1891, an inquirenda species in Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes)
FERNANDO R. CARVALHO & ANA CLÁUDIA SANTOS
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (1): 120–138 (7 Sept. 2015)
Bythaelurus tenuicephalus n. sp., a new deep-water catshark (Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae) from the western Indian Ocean
CARINA JULIA KASCHNER, SIMON WEIGMANN & RALF THIEL
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Erratum
Zootaxa 4007 (0): 600 (31 Aug. 2015)
Erratum: OFER GON, YUN-CHIH LIAO & SHAO KWANG-TSAO (2015) A new species of the cardinalfish genus Jaydia (Teleostei: Apogonidae) from the Philippines. Zootaxa, 3980 (2): 286–292.
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (4): 529–544 (31 Aug. 2015)
Metazoan parasites of fishes from the Celestun coastal lagoon, Yucatan, Mexico
TRINIDAD SOSA-MEDINA, VÍCTOR M. VIDAL-MARTÍNEZ & M. LEOPOLDINA AGUIRRE-MACEDO
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (4): 451–480 (31 Aug. 2015)
Status of Gobiosoma (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Brazil: description of a new species, redescription of G. hemigymnum, molecular phylogeny of the genus, and key to Atlantic species
JAMES L. VAN TASSELL, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOYEUX, RAPHAEL MARIANO MACIEIRA & LUKE TORNABENE
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (3): 399–408 (28 Aug. 2015)
Two new dwarfgobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan: Eviota flavipinnata and Eviota rubrimaculata
TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI, DAVID W. GREENFIELD & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (2): 267–275 (27 Aug. 2015)
A new species of torrent catfish, Liobagrus hyeongsanensis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae), from Korea
SU-HWAN KIM, HYEONG-SU KIM & JONG-YOUNG PARK
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (2): 195–206 (27 Aug. 2015)
Amamiichthys, a new genus for the sparid fish Cheimerius matsubarai Akazaki 1962, and redescription of the species, with designation of a neotype
FUMIYA TANAKA & YUKIO IWATSUKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (1): 082–090 (26 Aug. 2015)
Northernmost record of a poorly known tuskfish, Choerodon margaritiferus (Perciformes: Labridae), from southern Japan, and first description of a female
KEI MIYAMOTO, AI NONAKA & SHIN-ICHIRO OKA
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Article
Zootaxa 4006 (3): 551–568 (25 Aug. 2015)
Mahseers genera Tor and Neolissochilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from southern Vietnam
HUY ĐỨC HOÀNG, HÙNG MẠNH PHẠM, JEAN-DOMINIQUE DURAND, NGÂN TRỌNG TRẦN & PHÚC ĐÌNH PHAN
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Article
Zootaxa 4000 (5): 518–530 (19 Aug. 2015)
Description of two new species of Laubuka (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from River Cauvery, southern Iandia
J. D. MARCUS KNIGHT
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3999 (2): 295–297 (10 Aug. 2015)
Designation of a neotype for the kyphosid fish Kyphosus sectatrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
CARTER R. GILBERT
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3999 (2): 291–294 (10 Aug. 2015)
Repatriating a lost name: notes on McClelland and Griffith’s Cobitis boutanensis (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae)
RYAN J. THONI & ROBBIE HART
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Article
Zootaxa 3999 (2): 255–271 (10 Aug. 2015)
Description of a new species and redescriptions of two rare species of Parapercis (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) from the tropical Pacific Ocean
HSUAN-CHING HO
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Article
Zootaxa 3999 (2): 211–234 (10 Aug. 2015)
Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini), with the description of eight new Middle American Genera
CALEB D. MCMAHAN, WILFREDO A. MATAMOROS, KYLE R. PILLER & PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3994 (4): 593–596 (4 Aug. 2015)
A case of mything teeth: on the presence of vomerine and palatine teeth in the Pomacanthidae (Teleostei)
ANTHONY C. GILL
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (4): 507–530 (4 Aug. 2015)
A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea
MENACHEM GOREN & BELLA S. GALIL
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (1): 133–141 (30 Jul. 2015)
Bryconops munduruku (Characiformes: Characidae), a new species of fish from the lower Tapajós River basin, Brazil
CÁRLISON SILVA-OLIVEIRA, ANDRÉ LUIZ C. CANTO & FRANK RAYNNER V. RIBEIRO
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (1): 053–068 (30 Jul. 2015)
Danio annulosus, a new species of chain Danio from the Shuvolong Falls in Bangladesh (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Danioninae)
SVEN O. KULLANDER, MD. MIZANUR RAHMAN, MICHAEL NORÉN & ABDUR ROB MOLLAH
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Article
Zootaxa 3990 (4): 575–583 (28 Jul. 2015)
Why is Pseudosphromenus cupanus (Teleostei: Osphronemidae) reported from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Pakistan?
SVEN O. KULLANDER, MD. MIZANUR RAHMAN, MICHAEL NORÉN & ABDUR ROB MOLLAH
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Article
Zootaxa 3990 (1): 113–122 (23 Jul. 2015)
Lepadichthys bilineatus, a new species of clingfish from Oman (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae), with a redescription of Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs and Link from the Red Sea
MATTHEW T. CRAIG, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY, JOHN E. RANDALL & AHMAD O. MAL
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3988 (1): 001–095 (22 Jul. 2015)
A revision of the fish genus Oxyurichthys (Gobioidei: Gobiidae) with descriptions of four new species
FRANK L. PEZOLD & HELEN K. LARSON
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Article
Zootaxa 3986 (5): 577–587 (21 Jul. 2015)
A new species of Aspidoras Ihering (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae: Corydoradinae) from the Rio Xingu Basin, Pará, Brazil
MANUELA D. V. LEÃO, MARCELO R. BRITTO & WOLMAR B. WOSIACKI
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3986 (4): 499–500 (20 Jul. 2015)
The authorship of Neolissochilus soro (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae): a correction to Khaironizam et al. (2015)
CHRISTOPHER SCHARPF
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Article
Zootaxa 3986 (4): 401–420 (20 Jul. 2015)
Description of three new species of Moenkhausia (Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae) with the definition of the Moenkhausia jamesi species complex
MARINA G. PETROLLI & RICARDO C. BENINE
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Article
Zootaxa 3986 (2): 201–216 (16 Jul. 2015)
Descriptions of three new species of Glossogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from New Guinea
DOUGLASS F. HOESE & GERALD R. ALLEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3986 (2): 193–200 (16 Jul. 2015)
Badis laspiophilus, a new miniature addition to the ichthyofauna of West Bengal, north-eastern India, with observations on its ecology and preliminary notes on its ethology (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae)
STEFANO VALDESALICI & STEFAN VAN DER VOORT
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Article
Zootaxa 3986 (1): 061–087 (15 Jul. 2015)
Revision of the Amphilius jacksonii complex (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae), with the descriptions of five new species
ALFRED W. THOMSON, LAWRENCE M. PAGE & SAMANTHA A. HILBER
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (4): 491–522 (14 Jul. 2015)
Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus, a new species of sweetlips (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from northern Australia and the resurrection of P. unicolor (Macleay, 1883), species previously confused with P. schotaf (Forsskål, 1775)
JEFFREY W. JOHNSON & JESSICA WORTHINGTON WILMER
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (3): 391–408 (13 Jul. 2015)
Four new species of the Indo-Burmese genus Badis from West Bengal, India (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Badidae)
STEFANO VALDESALICI & STEFAN VAN DER VOORT
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (3): 349–374 (13 Jul. 2015)
An annotated checklist of Acanthocephala from Australian fish
LESLEY R SMALES & HAYLEE J WEAVER
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (2): 284–290 (10 Jul. 2015)
Garra robertsi, a new cyprinid (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) fish species from Borneo
RYAN J. THONI1 & RICHARD L. MAYDEN
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3982 (1): 001–082 (8 Jul. 2015)
Systematics and morphology of Potamotrygon orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855) and allied forms (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygonidae)
JOÃO PAULO C. B. DA SILVA & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO
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Article
Zootaxa 3981 (3): 367–384 (6 Jul. 2015)
Fiddling with the proof: the Magpie Fiddler Ray is a colour pattern variant of the common Southern Fiddler Ray (Rhinobatidae: Trygonorrhina)
STEPHEN C. DONNELLAN, RALPH FOSTER, CLAUDIA JUNGE, CHARLIE HUVENEERS, PAUL ROGERS, ANDRZEJ KILIAN & TERRY BERTOZZI
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Article
Zootaxa 3980 (2): 286–292 (29 Jun. 2015)
A new species of the cardinalfish genus Jaydia (Teleostei: Apogonidae) from the Philippines
OFER GON, YUN-CHIH LIAO & SHAO KWANG-TSAO
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Article
Zootaxa 3980 (1): 051–066 (26 Jun. 2015)
A new goatfish of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) from Lombok, Indonesia and first verified record of U. asymmetricus for the Indian Ocean
FRANZ UIBLEIN & WILLIAM T. WHITE
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Article
Zootaxa 3973 (2): 369–380 (17 Jun. 2015)
Retroculus acherontos, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei) from the Rio Tocantins basin
MARIA ISABEL LANDIM, CRISTIANO R. MOREIRA & CARLOS A. FIGUEIREDO
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Article
Zootaxa 3973 (2): 309–320 (17 Jun. 2015)
Pseudacanthicus pitanga: a new species of Ancistrini (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Hypostominae) from rio Tocantins Basin, North Brazil
CARINE C. CHAMON
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Article
Zootaxa 3973 (2): 201–226 (17 Jun. 2015)
New species of Trimma (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae) from Indonesia, with comments on head papillae nomenclature
RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM, MARK V. ERDMANN & N. K. DITA CAHYANI
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Article
Zootaxa 3972 (4): 562–572 (15 Jun. 2015)
Hyphessobrycon lucenorum (Characiformes: Characidae), a new species from the rio Madeira basin, Rondônia State, Brazil
WILLIAN M. OHARA & FLÁVIO. C.T. LIMA
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Article
Zootaxa 3972 (3): 393–406 (12 Jun. 2015)
Characterization of mitochondrial control region in Merlucciidae: sequence variation and molecular phylogeny
MARTA CROUS & MARÍA I ROLDÁN
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Article
Zootaxa 3964 (4): 401–418 (4 Jun. 2015)
The identity of Hamilton’s Ticto Barb, Pethia ticto (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
UNMESH KATWATE, RAJEEV RAGHAVAN & NEELESH DAHANUKAR
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3964 (2): 300–300 (2 Jun. 2015)
CATHERINE W. MECKLENBURG & M. ERIC ANDERSON (2015) Reassessment of multiple species of Gymnelus (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) in Pacific Arctic and boreal regions. Zootaxa,
3948 (2): 263–278.

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3964 (2): 298–299 (2 Jun. 2015)
Formalizing the names of subfamilies and tribes of ponyfishes (Leiognathidae Gill 1893)
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY & JOHN S. SPARKS
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Article
Zootaxa 3963 (1): 045–054 (25 May 2015)
An additional record of Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Osteichthyes, Kyphosidae) from Sicily clarifies the confused situation of the Mediterranean kyphosids
ANNA MARIA MANNINO, PAOLO BALISTRERI, DAVIDE IACIOFANO,
BELLA S. GALIL & SABRINA LO BRUTTO
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Editorial
Zootaxa 3962 (1): 005–009 (22 May 2015)
Preface and Constitution of the Asian Society of Ichthyologists
LAWRENCE M. PAGE & SITI AZIZAH MOHD NOR
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Article 
Zootaxa 3962 (1): 010–113 (22 May 2015)
Catalogue of the type specimens in the fish collection of the National Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
ENQI YE, YINGCHUN XING, CHUNGUANG ZHANG & YAHUI ZHAO
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Zootaxa 3962 (1): 114–122 (22 May 2015)
Glyptothorax mibangi, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Tisa River, Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India
ACHOM DARSHAN, RASHMI DUTTA, AKASH KACHARI, BUDHIN GOGOI & DEBANGSHU NARAYAN DAS
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Zootaxa 3962 (1): 123–138 (22 May 2015)
Two new species of shovel-jaw carp Onychostoma (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from southern Vietnam
HUY DUC HOANG, HUNG MANH PHAM & NGAN TRONG TRAN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3962 (1): 139–157 (22 May 2015)
Cyprinid fishes of the genus Neolissochilus in Peninsular Malaysia
M. Z. KHAIRONIZAM, M. ZAKARIA-ISMAIL & JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER
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Article 
Zootaxa 3962 (1): 158–170 (22 May 2015)
A new species of highland loach, Schistura sirindhornae, from the upper Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand (Pisces: Ostariophysi: Nemacheilidae)
APINUN SUVARNARAKSHA
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Zootaxa 3962 (1): 171–178 (22 May 2015)
Psilorhynchus kaladanensis, a new species (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India
LALRAMLIANA, LALNUNTLUANGA & SAMUEL LALRONUNGA
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3962 (1): 179–181 (22 May 2015)
Aperioptus pictorius Richardson 1848 is a senior synonym of Acanthopsoides molobrion Siebert 1991, and Aperioptus is a senior synonym of Acanthopsoides Fowler 1934 (Cypriniformes: Cobitidae)
LAWRENCE M. PAGE & WEERAPONGSE TANGJITJAROEN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3962 (1): 182–190 (22 May 2015)
Genetic identification and structure of Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Southeast Asia using a mitochondrial DNA marker
PAOLIN LEE & ZOHRAH SULAIMAN
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Zootaxa 3962 (1): 191–205 (22 May 2015)
Revalidation and redescription of Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li, 1966 (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae) from China
YING-CHUN XING, BIN-BIN LV, EN-QI YE, EN-YUAN FAN, SHI-YANG LI, LI-XIN WANG, CHUNGUANG ZHANG & YA-HUI ZHAO
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Zootaxa 3962 (1): 206–225 (22 May 2015)
Revision of the hillstream lizard loaches, genus Balitoropsis (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae)
ZACHARY S. RANDALL & PATRICK A. RIGGS
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (1): 109–119 (13 May 2015)
Dentex carpenteri, a new species of deepwater seabream from Western Australia (Pisces: Sparidae)
YUKIO IWATSUKI, STEPHEN J. NEWMAN & BARRY C. RUSSELL
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (4): 559–568 (12 May 2015)
Saurida lessepsianus a new species of lizardfish (Pisces: Synodontidae) from the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea, with a key to Saurida species in the Red Sea
BARRY C. RUSSELL, DANIEL GOLANI & YARON TIKOCHINSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (2): 271–280 (8 May 2015)
A new species of Larimichthys from Terengganu, east coast of Peninsular Malaysia (Perciformes: Sciaenidae)
YING GIAT SEAH, NORHAFIZ HANAFI, ABD GHAFFAR MAZLAN & NING LABBISH CHAO
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (1): 029–055 (7 May 2015)
Merluccius tasmanicus Matallanas & Lloris 2006 is a junior synonym of M. australis (Hutton 1872) (Gadiformes: Merluciidae) based on morphological and molecular data
MARIANA Y. DELI ANTONI, SERGIO M. DELPIANI, ANDREW L. STEWART, MARIANO GONZÁLEZ-CASTRO & JUAN M. DÍAZ DE ASTARLOA
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (1): 001–028 (7 May 2015)
Taxonomic revision and molecular phylogeny of Gymnocorymbus Eigenmann, 1908 (Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae)
RICARDO C. BENINE, BRUNO F. MELO, RICARDO M. C. CASTRO & CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3949 (3): 419–430 (28 Apr. 2015)
A new species of Cottus from the Onega River drainage, White Sea basin (Actinopterygii: Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae)
VALENTINA G. SIDELEVA, ALEXANDER M. NASEKA & ZAKHAR V. ZHIDKOV
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Zootaxa 3949 (2): 289–296 (24 Apr. 2015)
Rivulus berovidesi, a new killifish species (Teleostei: Rivulidae) from western Cuba
RODET RODRIGUEZ SILVA
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Article
Zootaxa 3949 (1): 041–081 (23 Apr. 2015)
Phylogenetic relationships of the species and biogeography of the characid genus Oligosarcus Günther, 1864 (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Characidae)
ALEXANDRE CUNHA RIBEIRO & NAÉRCIO AQUINO MENEZES
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Article
Zootaxa 3948 (3): 587–600 (22 Apr. 2015)
First record of Mollisquama sp. (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes: Dalatiidae) from the Gulf of Mexico, with a morphological comparison to the holotype description of Mollisquama parini Dolganov
MARK A. GRACE, MICHAEL H. DOOSEY, HENRY L. BART & GAVIN J. P. NAYLOR
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Article
Zootaxa 3948 (3): 521–548 (22 Apr. 2015)
Redescription of the eagle rays Myliobatis hamlyni Ogilby, 1911 and M. tobijei Bleeker, 1854 (Myliobatiformes: Myliobatidae) from the East Indo-West Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, JUNRO KAWAUCHI, SHANNON CORRIGAN, ELISABETH ROCHEL & GAVIN J.P. NAYLOR
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Article
Zootaxa 3948 (2): 263–278 (21 Apr. 2015)
Reassessment of multiple species of Gymnelus (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) in Pacific Arctic and boreal regions
CATHERINE W. MECKLENBURG & M. ERIC ANDERSON
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Article
Zootaxa 3948 (2): 233–247 (21 Apr. 2015)
Description of Danio absconditus, new species, and redescription of Danio feegradei (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the Rakhine Yoma hotspot in south-western Myanmar
SVEN O. KULLANDER & RALF BRITZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3948 (2): 218–232 (21 Apr. 2015)
A new species of Hemigrammus Gill, 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae) from the central and western Amazon and rio Paraná-Paraguai basins
RAFAELA P. OTA, FLÁVIO C. T. LIMA & CARLA S. PAVANELLI
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Article
Zootaxa 3947 (3): 440–446 (16 Apr. 2015)
A new species of Saurida (Pisces: Synodontidae) from the Mascarene Plateau, Western Indian Ocean
BARRY C. RUSSELL
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Article
Zootaxa 3947 (2): 181–190 (15 Apr. 2015)
Description of a new genus of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with a review of the current generic-level composition of the family
JOHN S. SPARKS & PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3941 (4): 600 (2 Apr. 2015)
Erratum: NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES, MAURO NIRCHIO & CLÁUDIO DE OLIVEIRA & RAQUEL SICCHARAMIREZ (2015). Taxonomic review of the species of Mugil (Teleostei: Perciformes: Mugilidae) from the Atlantic South Caribbean and South America, with integration of morphological, cytogenetic and molecular data. Zootaxa, 3918 (1): 001–038.
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Article
Zootaxa 3941 (3): 429–436 (1 Apr. 2015)
Badis britzi, a new percomorph fish (Teleostei: Badidae) from the Western Ghats of India
NEELESH DAHANUKAR, PRADEEP KUMKAR, UNMESH KATWATE & RAJEEV RAGHAVAN
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3941 (2): 299–300 (31 Mar. 2015)
Taxonomic status of Engraulis nattereri Steindachner, 1880 (Osteichthyes: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae)
MARINA VIANNA LOEB & NAÉRCIO AQUINO MENEZES
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Zootaxa 3941 (1): 117–124 (30 Mar. 2015)
A new species of anchovy, Encrasicholina macrocephala (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae), from the northwestern Indian Ocean
HARUTAKA HATA & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA
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Article
Zootaxa 3941 (1): 049–078 (30 Mar. 2015)
A review of the finless snake eels of the genus Apterichtus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of five new species
JOHN E. McCOSKER & YUSUKE HIBINO
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Article
Zootaxa 3937 (2): 377–385 (25 Mar. 2015)
A new species of the genus Pareiorhina (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, southeastern Brazil
VALTER M. AZEVEDO-SANTOS & FÁBIO F. ROXO
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Article
Zootaxa 3937 (2): 347–361 (25 Mar. 2015)
Scyliorhinus ugoi, a new species of catshark from Brazil (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae)
KARLA D. A. SOARES, OTTO F. B. GADIG & ULISSES L. GOMES
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Article
Zootaxa 3936 (4): 575–583 (23 Mar. 2015)
Redescription of Pethia melanomaculata (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Sri Lanka
SUDESH BATUWITA, KALANA MADUWAGE & HIRANYA SUDASINGHE
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Article
Zootaxa 3936 (2): 237–250 (19 Mar. 2015)
Tetronarce cowleyi, sp. nov., a new species of electric ray from southern Africa (Chondrichthyes: Torpediniformes: Torpedinidae)
DAVID A. EBERT, DIANE L. HAAS & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3936 (1): 147–150 (18 Mar. 2015)
Fried spicy Linnaeus—the consequences of indiscriminate citation of authors of scientific names
MAURICE KOTTELAT
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3934 (1): 001–102 (17 Mar. 2015)
A revision of the Australian species of Trimma (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae), with descriptions of six new species and redescriptions of twenty-three valid species
RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM & DOUGLASS F. HOESE
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Article
Zootaxa 3931 (4): 568–578 (16 Mar. 2015)
Redescription of Astyanax guianensis Eigenmann 1909 (Characiformes: Characidae), a poorly known and widespread fish from the Amazon, Orinoco and Guiana Shield drainages
MANOELA M. F. MARINHO, PRISCILA CAMELIER & JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI
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Article
Zootaxa 3931 (1): 140–150 (11 Mar. 2015)
Coreoleuciscus aeruginos (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a new species from the Seomjin and Nakdong rivers, Korea
HA-YOON SONG & IN-CHUL BANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (3): 396–412 (6 Mar. 2015)
Barilius ardens (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species from the Western Ghats, India, with redescription of B. malabaricus and B. canarensis
J. D. MARCUS KNIGHT, ASHWIN RAI, RONALD. K. P. D’SOUZA & BALAJI VIJAYKRISHNAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (1): 057–086 (4 Mar. 2015)
On the paraphyly of Homaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India
ZACHARY S. RANDALL & LAWRENCE M. PAGE
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3925 (4): 600 (3 Mar. 2015)
Erratum: ANAÏS GRAND, RENE ZARAGÜETA BAGILS, LINA MARÍA VÉLEZ & VISOTHEARY UNG (2014) A cladistic re-analysis of the Gadiformes (Teleostei, Paracanthopterygii) using three-item analysis. Zootaxa, 3889(4): 525–552.
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Article
Zootaxa 3920 (3): 453–462 (23 Feb. 2015)
Nematocharax costai Bragança, Barbosa & Mattos a junior synonym of Nematocharax venustus Weitzman, Menezes & Britski (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES, ANGELA M. ZANATA & PRISCILA CAMELIER
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Article
Zootaxa 3918 (1): 001–038 (10 Feb. 2015)
Taxonomic review of the species of Mugil (Teleostei: Perciformes: Mugilidae) from the Atlantic South Caribbean and South America, with integration of morphological, cytogenetic and molecular data
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES, MAURO NIRCHIO & CLÁUDIO DE OLIVEIRA & RAQUEL SICCHARAMIREZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (4): 581–590 (5 Feb. 2015)
Oligosarcus amome (Ostariophysi: Characidae), a new species from the río Uruguay basin, Misiones, Argentina
ADRIANA ALMIRÓN, JORGE CASCIOTTA, LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK, KLÁRA DOUBNEROVÁ & OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3914 (5): 558–568 (30 Jan. 2015)
Cobitis avicennae, a new species of spined loach from the Tigris River drainage (Teleostei: Cobitidae)
HAMED MOUSAVI-SABET, SABER VATANDOUST, HAMID REZA ESMAEILI, MATTHIAS F. GEIGER & JÖRG FREYHOF
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Article
Zootaxa 3914 (2): 157–167 (27 Jan. 2015)
A review of the species of Oreichthys (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in the Western Ghats, India
J. D. MARCUS KNIGHT & RAHUL G. KUMAR
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (3): 433–442 (20 Jan. 2015)
New species of Bryconamericus Eigenmann (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio Teles Pires, rio Tapajós basin, central Brazil
FERNANDO C. P. DAGOSTA & ANDRÉ L. NETTO-FERREIRA
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Zootaxa 3911 (2): 287–293 (19 Jan. 2015)
A new fish species of the subfamily Serraninae (Perciformes, Serranidae) from the Philippines
JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS & KENT E. CARPENTER
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (1): 139–144 (16 Jan. 2015)
Dario huli, a new species of badid from Karnataka, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)
RALF BRITZ & ANVAR ALI
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (3): 418–424 (13 Jan. 2015)
A new species of the genus Triplophysa (Nemacheilinae), Triplophysa qilianensis sp. nov, from Qinghai, China
WEN-JING LI, XIAO-CHENG CHEN & YAN-PING HU
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (3): 397–406 (13 Jan. 2015)
A new species of Equinoxiodus (Dipnoi: ?Neoceratodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil
ELIANE PINHEIRO DE SOUSA, MANUEL ALFREDO MEDEIROS, CARLOS EDUARDO VIEIRA TOLEDO, REINALDO J. BERTINI, AGOSTINHA ARAÚJO PEREIRA & RAFAEL MATOS LINDOSO
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (1): 138–144 (9 Jan. 2015)
A new species of Bibarba (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) from Guangxi, China
TIE-JUN WU, JIAN YANG & LI-HUI XIU
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (4): 589–595 (8 Jan. 2015)
Chriolepis prolata, a new species of Atlantic goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the North American continental shelf
PHILIP A. HASTINGS & LLOYD T. FINDLEY
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (3): 359–386 (7 Jan. 2015)
Systematic revision of the pennellid genus Creopelates Shiino, 1958 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) and the proposal of a new genus
DAISUKE UYENO
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Article
Zootaxa 3904 (2): 151–207 (6 Jan. 2015)
Taxonomic revision of the flathead fish genus Platycephalus Bloch, 1785 (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) from Australia, with description of a new species
HISASHI IMAMURA
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2014

Article
Zootaxa 3900 (1): 135–140 (19 Dec. 2014)
Satyrichthys kikingeri Pogoreutz, Vitecek & Ahnelt, 2013, a junior synonym of Satyrichthys laticeps (Schlegel, 1852) (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Peristediidae)
TOSHIO KAWAI
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3898 (1): 001–198 (18 Dec. 2014)
Fifteen from one: a revision of the Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 complex (Teleostei, Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia recognises three previously described taxa and describes 12 new species
TARMO A. RAADIK
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (3): 301–345 (16 Dec. 2014)
Geographical distribution of pelagic decapod shrimp in the Atlantic Ocean
DAVID C. JUDKINS
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (4): 525–552 (3 Dec. 2014)
A cladistic re-analysis of the Gadiformes (Teleostei, Paracanthopterygii) using three-item analysis
ANAÏS GRAND, RENE ZARAGÜETA BAGILS, LINA MARÍA VÉLEZ & VISOTHEARY UNG
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3888 (1): 001–073 (28 Nov. 2014)
Head and otolith morphology of the genera Hymenocephalus, Hymenogadus and Spicomacrurus (Macrouridae), with the description of three new species
WERNER SCHWARZHANS
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (5): 569–582 (27 Nov. 2014)
Aphanius marassantensis, a new toothcarp from the Kızılırmak drainage in northern Anatolia (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae)
S. JOHANNES PFLEIDERER, MATTHIAS F. GEIGER & FABIAN HERDER
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (3): 377–392 (25 Nov. 2014)
Rebuttal to Koeda et al. (2014) on the Red Sea fishes of the perciform genus Pempheris
JOHN E. RANDALL, BENJAMIN C. VICTOR, TILMAN J. ALPERMANN, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY, AHMAD O. MAL, UKKRIT SATAPOOMIN & K.K. BINEESH7
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (2): 191–224 (24 Nov. 2014)
The deepwater demersal ichthyofauna of the western Coral Sea
PETER R. LAST, JOHN J. POGONOSKI, DANIEL C. GLEDHILL, WILLIAM T. WHITE &
CHRIS J. WALKER
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (1): 037–054 (21 Nov. 2014)
Two new species of the South Asian catfish genus Pseudolaguvia from northeastern India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
LAKPA TAMANG & BIKRAMJIT SINHA
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (5): 437–444 (18 Nov. 2014)
Clarias serniosus, a new walking catfish (Teleostei: Clariidae) from Laos
HEOK HEE NG & MAURICE KOTTELAT
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (4): 371–378 (17 Nov. 2014)
A new species of the genus Bathylagichthys (Pisces, Bathylagidae) from New Zealand
OFER GON & ANDREW L. STEWART
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (4): 360–370 (17 Nov. 2014)
A new species of Limatulichthys Isbrücker & Nijssen (Loricariidae, Loricariinae) from the western Guiana Shield
ALEJANDRO LONDOÑO-BURBANO, STÉPHANIE L. LEFEBVRE & NATHAN K. LUJAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (3): 201–221 (14 Nov. 2014)
The identity of Pethia punctata, a senior synonym of P. muvattupuzhaensis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
UNMESH KATWATE, FIBIN BABY, RAJEEV RAGHAVAN & NEELESH DAHANUKAR
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (1): 055–064 (12 Nov. 2014)
Description of a new species of Microstoma (Pisces, Microstomatidae) from the southwestern Pacific Ocean
OFER GON & ANDREW L. STEWART
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3882 (1): 001–230 (11 Nov. 2014)
Family-group names of Recent fishes
RICHARD VAN DER LAAN, WILLIAM N. ESCHMEYER & RONALD FRICKE
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (6): 513–531 (10 Nov. 2014)
Two new species of Coryogalops (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea
MARCELO KOVAČIĆ, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY & AHMAD O. MAL
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (4): 373–384 (6 Nov. 2014)
Horabagrus melanosoma: a junior synonym of Horabagrus brachysoma (Teleostei: Horabagridae)
ANVAR ALI1, UNMESH KATWATE, SIBY PHILIP, K.V. DHANEESH, A. BIJUKUMAR, RAJEEV RAGHAVAN & NEELESH DAHANUKAR
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (4): 328–340 (6 Nov. 2014)
A new species of the cardinalfish genus Siphamia (Perciformes, Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia
OFER GON, GERALD R. ALLEN, MARK V. ERDMANN & GAVIN GOUWS
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Article
Zootaxa 3881 (1): 001–016 (3 Nov. 2014)
Apristurus breviventralis, a new species of deep-water catshark (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Gulf of Aden
JUNRO KAWAUCHI, SIMON WEIGMANN & KAZUHIRO NAKAYA
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Article
Zootaxa 3878 (2): 167–178 (23 Oct. 2014)
Foa yamba, a new species of cardinalfish (Percomorpha: Apogonidae: Apogonichthyini) from the tidal region of the Clarence River, Australia and redescriptions of the West Pacific Foa longimana and Foa hyalina
THOMAS H. FRASER
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (4): 560–570 (20 Oct. 2014)
Microlepidogaster discus, a new species of Hypoptopomatinae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Jequitinhonha basin, southeastern Brazil
FERNANDA O. MARTINS, ALAINA C. ROSA & FRANCISCO LANGEANI
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (1): 037–048 (14 Oct. 2014)
Sinocyclocheilus brevifinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species of cavefish from Guangxi, China
JIE LI, XINHUI LI & RICHARD L. MAYDEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3872 (2): 167–179 (8 Oct. 2014)
A new Hyphessobrycon (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae) from the middle Amazon basin, Brazil
FLÁVIO C.T. LIMA, DANIEL P. COUTINHO & WOLMAR B. WOSIACKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3872 (1): 031–047 (7 Oct. 2014)
Rhinobatos whitei, a new shovelnose ray (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) from the Philippine Archipelago
PETER R. LAST, SHANNON CORRIGAN & GAVIN NAYLOR
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (4): 420–434 (2 Oct. 2014)
A review of the glyptosternine catfish genus Exostoma Blyth 1860 from Thailand, with descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Siluriformes)
HEOK HEE NG & CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (4): 409–419 (2 Oct. 2014)
Apistogramma ortegai (Teleostei: Cichlidae), a new species of cichlid fish from the Ampyiacu River in the Peruvian Amazon basin
RICARDO BRITZKE, CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA & SVEN O. KULLANDER
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (3): 306–312 (1 Oct. 2014)
Parachiloglanis bhutanensis, a new species of torrent catfish (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from Bhutan
R.J. THONI & D.B. GURUNG
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (6): 554–574 (18 Sept. 2014)
Records of chimaeroid fishes (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes) from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, with the description of a new species of Chimera (Chimaeridae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean
ARTURO ANGULO, MYRNA I. LÓPEZ, WILLIAM A. BUSSING & ATSUNOBU MURASE
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (4): 317–332 (16 Sept. 2014)
Morphological and molecular evidence for the occurrence of three Hippocampus species (Teleostei: Syngnathidae) in Brazil
ROSANA BEATRIZ SILVEIRA, RAQUEL SICCHA-RAMIREZ, JOSÉ RODRIGO SANTOS SILVA & CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (3): 253–260 (5 Sept. 2014)
Schistura andrewi, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India
BEIHROSA SOLO, LALRAMLIANA, SAMUEL LALRONUNGA & LALNUNTLUANGA
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (2): 149–166 (4 Sept. 2014)
A revised generic arrangement for the eagle ray family Myliobatidae, with definitions for the valid genera
WILLIAM T. WHITE
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3857 (4): 599–600 (1 Sept. 2014)
Serranus magnificus Macleay 1882, a junior synonym of Epinephelus lanceolatus (Bloch 1790) (Teleostei: Serranidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (4): 581–590 (1 Sept. 2014)
Redescription of Parapercis okamurai Kamohara, 1960 (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae), based on specimens newly collected from Taiwan and Japan
HSUAN-CHING HO
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (3): 433–443 (29 Aug. 2014)
Macropharyngodon pakoko, a new species of wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae) endemic to the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
ERWAN DELRIEU-TROTTIN, JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS & SERGE PLANES
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (1): 071–100 (27 Aug. 2014)
The sparid fishes of Pakistan, with new distribution records
PIRZADA JAMAL SIDDIQUI, SHABIR ALI AMIR & RAFAQAT MASROOR
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Article
Zootaxa 3856 (3): 484–500 (26 Aug. 2014)
Parapercis nigrodorsalis (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae), a new species of sandperch
from northern New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, Tasman Sea and remarks on P. binivirgata (Waite, 1904)
JEFFREY W. JOHNSON, CARL D. STRUTHERS & JESSICA WORTHINGTON WILMER
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Article
Zootaxa 3856 (1): 117–134 (21 Aug. 2014)
Descriptions of four species of grenadier fishes of the genera Hymenocephalus and Hymenogadus (Teleostei, Gadiformes, Macrouridae) from the New Zealand region and Tasman Sea, including two new species of Hymenocephalus
PETER MCMILLAN & TOMIO IWAMOTO
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (5):599–599 (19 Aug. 2014)
Correction of the spelling of Trichomycterus eichhorniarum Miranda Ribeiro, 1912 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
STEFAN KOERBER & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (4):401–437 (18 Aug. 2014)
Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea
SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY, TILMAN J. ALPERMANN, AHMAD O. MAL & MOHAMED H. GABR
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (3):391–400 (15 Aug. 2014)
Lamprologus markerti, a new lamprologine cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) endemic to the lower Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, west-central Africa
STEPHANIE TOUGAS & MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (2):283–293 (14 Aug. 2014)
A new genus of cardinalfish from tropical Australia and southern New Guinea (Percomorpha: Apogonidae)
THOMAS H. FRASER
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (3): 359–387 (8 Aug. 2014)
Rajella paucispinosa n. sp., a new deep-water skate (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae) from the western Indian Ocean off South Mozambique, and a revised generic diagnosis
SIMON WEIGMANN, MATTHIAS F.W. STEHMANN & RALF THIEL
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (2): 283–291 (7 Aug. 2014)
Re-description of the gudgeon species Saurogobio gracilicaudatus Yao & Yang in Luo, Yue & Chen, 1977 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Chang-Jiang basin, South China, with a note on its generic classification
ZHEN-YAN DAI, E ZHANG, ZHONG-GUAN JIANG & XUE WANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (1): 057–079 (6 Aug. 2014)
Review of the species of the genus Serrapinnus Malabarba, 1998 (Teleostei: Characidae: Cheirodontinae) from the rio Tocantins-Araguaia basin, with description of three new species
LUIZ R. MALABARBA & FERNANDO C. JEREP
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (4): 577–583 (5 Aug. 2014)
Description of Hylopanchax paucisquamatus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), a new lampeye species from the Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo
RAINER SONNENBERG, JOHN P. FRIEL & JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3846 (3): 447–450 (4 Aug. 2014)
Grammoplites vittatus (Valenciennes), (Scorpaeniformes, Platycephalidae), removed from synonymy with Grammoplites scaber (Linnaeus)
LESLIE W. KNAPP & HISASHI IMAMURA
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (2): 235–248 (1 Aug. 2014)
Pethia longicauda, a new species of barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the northern Western Ghats, India
UNMESH KATWATE, MANDAR S. PAINGANKAR, RAJEEV RAGHAVAN & NEELESH DAHANUKAR
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (2): 151–203 (1 Aug. 2014)
Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters
KOHJI MABUCHI, THOMAS H. FRASER, HAYEUN SONG, YOICHIRO AZUMA & MUTSUMI NISHIDA
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (1): 119–126 (31 Jul. 2014)
A new species of Hetereleotris (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Farasan Island (Red Sea)
MARCELO KOVAČIĆ, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY & AHMAD O. MAL
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (3): 379–402 (28 Jul. 2014)
A revision of the Rutilus complex from Mediterranean Europe with description of a new genus, Sarmarutilus, and a new species, Rutilus stoumboudae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
PIER GIORGIO BIANCO & VALERIO KETMAIER
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (2): 257–270 (25 Jul. 2014)
Paraqianlabeo lineatus, a new genus and species of labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China
HAI-TAO ZHAO, JOHN P. SULLIVAN, YAO-GUANG ZHANG & ZUO-GANG PENG
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3838 (5): 595–600 (22 Jul. 2014)
Validation of the South Asian cichlid genus Pseudetroplus Bleeker (Pisces: Cichlidae)
ROHAN PETHIYAGODA, KALANA MADUWAGE & KELUM MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI
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Article
Zootaxa 3838 (4): 401–422 (21 Jul. 2014)
First mature male record of Bathyraja schroederi (Elasmobranchii, Arhynchobatidae) from the South Atlantic, with descriptions of its clasper and skeletal characters
MATTHIAS F.W. STEHMANN & JOOST H.W. POMPERT
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Article
Zootaxa 3838 (3): 367–384 (18 Jul. 2014)
Three new species of Trimma (Pisces; Gobioidei) from Indonesia
RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM, MARK V. ERDMANN & N. K. DITA CAHYANI
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (3): 376–380 (11 Jul. 2014)
An extraordinary new blind catfish, Xiurenbagrus dorsalis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae), from Guangxi, China
LI-HUI XIU, JIAN YANG & HUI-FANG ZHENG
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3832 (1): 001–247 (8 Jul. 2014)
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records
RONALD FRICKE, GERALD R. ALLEN, SERGE ANDRÉFOUËT, WEI-JEN CHEN, MÉLANIE A. HAMEL, PIERRE LABOUTE, RALPH MANA, TAN HEOK HUI & DAISUKE UYENO
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Article
Zootaxa 3827 (3): 366–374 (4 Jul. 2014)
Pethia rutila (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species from Mizoram, Northeast India
LALRAMLIANA, J. D. MARCUS KNIGHT & ZATHANG LALTLANHLUA
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Article
Zootaxa 3827 (1): 078–086 (2 Jul. 2014)
Devario deruptotalea, a new species of cyprinid fish from Manipur, India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
YUMNAM RAMANANDA & WAIKHOM VISHWANATH
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Article
Zootaxa 3821 (2): 280–284 (20 Jun. 2014)
A further note on the identity of Barbus mussullah Sykes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
J. D. MARCUS KNIGHT, ASHWIN RAI & RONALD K. P. D’SOUZA
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Article
Zootaxa 3821 (2): 265–272 (20 Jun. 2014)
Olyra saginata, a new species of bagrid catfish (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes) from northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG, LALRAMLIANA & HMAR LALTHANZARA
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Article
Zootaxa 3821 (1): 071–087 (19 Jun. 2014)
Carcharhinus humani sp. nov., a new whaler shark (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) from the western Indian Ocean
WILLIAM T. WHITE & SIMON WEIGMANN
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3814 (2): 297–300 (9 Jun. 2014)
Reading Trees
MALTE C. EBACH & DAVID M. WILLIAMS
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Article
Zootaxa 3811 (1): 129–136 (30 May 2014)
Description of a new species of rabbitfish (Perciformes: Siganidae) from southern India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives
DAVID J. WOODLAND & R. CHARLES ANDERSON
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Article
Zootaxa 3811 (1): 119–128 (30 May 2014)
On the colour types in Lycodes nakamurae (Tanaka, 1914) and species composition of the subgenus Furcimanus (Perciformes: Zoarcidae: Lycodes) in the Sea of Japan
PAVEL A. SAVELIEV, ANDREY A. BALANOV & ANDREY D. KUKHLEVSKII
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3803 (1): 001–120 (29 May 2014)
Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist
William F. Smith-Vaniz & Howard L. Jelks
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Article
Zootaxa 3802 (3): 335–345 (27 May 2014)
A new species of the sandperch genus Parapercis from the western Indian Ocean (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae)
HSUAN-CHING HO, PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA & HISASHI IMAMURA
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Article
Zootaxa 3802 (2): 209–216 (26 May 2014)
Trimma irinae, (Pisces; Gobioidei) a new species of gobiid fish from Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM
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Article
Zootaxa 3802 (1): 085–097 (23 May 2014)
Vanmanenia maculata, a new species of hillstream loach from the Chang-Jiang Basin, South China (Teleostei: Gastromyzontidae)
WEN-JING YI, E ZHANG & JIAN-ZHONG SHEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3795 (2): 101–125 (12 May 2014)
Gryporhynchidae (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) in Mexico: species list, hosts, distribution and new records
MIRZA P. ORTEGA-OLIVARES, LUIS GARCÍA-PRIETO & MARTÍN GARCÍA-VARELA
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Article
Zootaxa 3794 (3): 492–500 (7 May 2014)
Astyanax douradilho, a new characid fish from the rio Tramandaí system, southern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
VINICIUS A. BERTACO
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3793 (4): 499–500 (1 May 2014)
Gobduntaulepis, a new generic name for Acantholepis Pianovskij, 1989 (Conodonta) non Krøyer, 1846 (Actinopterygii)
ALEXANDER B. DOWELD
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (4): 453–464 (1 May 2014)
A new species of Didogobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Canary Islands
JAMES L. VAN TASSELL & ANNEMARIE KRAMER
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (3): 379–386 (30 Apr. 2014)
Stenorynchoacrum xijiangensis, a new genus and a new species of Labeoninae fish from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
YANFEI HUANG, JUNXING YANG & XIAOYONG CHEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (3): 301–330 (30 Apr. 2014)
A review of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes, Pempheridae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species
KEITA KOEDA, TETSUO YOSHINO, HIDEYUKI IMAI & KATSUNORI TACHIHARA
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (2): 265–272 (29 Apr. 2014)
Psilorhynchus khopai, a new fish species (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from Mizoram, northeastern India
LALRAMLIANA, BEIHROSA SOLO, SAMUEL LALRONUNGA & LALNUNTLUANGA
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (1): 133–146 (28 Apr. 2014)
Eviota brahmi n. sp. from Papua New Guinea, with a redescription of Eviota nigriventris (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
David W. Greenfield & LUKE TORNABENE
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Article
Zootaxa 3790 (4): 543–554 (23 Apr. 2014)
Garra waensis, a new cyprinid fish (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes) from the Nan River basin of the Chao Phraya River system, northern Thailand
AMORNCHAI LOTHONGKHAM, SAKDA ARBSUWAN & PRACHYA MUSIKASINTHORN
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Article
Zootaxa 3790 (3): 466–476 (22 Apr. 2014)
A new species of Ituglanis from the Rio Xingu basin, Brazil, and the evolution of pelvic fin loss in trichomycterid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
ALÉSSIO DATOVO
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Article
Zootaxa 3790 (3): 425–438 (22 Apr. 2014)
Chalinochromis cyanophleps, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
SVEN O. KULLANDER, MIKAEL KARLSSON, MAGNUS KARLSSON & MICHAEL NORÉN
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Article
Zootaxa 3790 (1): 165–176 (16 Apr. 2014)
Rhodeus albomarginatus, a new bitterling (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Acheilognathinae) from China
FAN LI & RYOICHI ARAI
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (5): 587–592 (14 Apr. 2014)
Rediscovery of Lophiodes triradiatus (Lloyd, 1909), a senior synonym of L. infrabrunneus Smith and Radcliffe (Lophiiformes: Lophiidae)
HSUAN-CHING HO, K. K. BINEESH & K.V. AKHILESH
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (3): 382–400 (10 Apr. 2014)
First fossil occurrence of a filefish (Tetraodontiformes; Monacanthidae) in Asia, from the Middle Miocene in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan
YUSUKE MIYAJIMA, FUMIO OHE, HAKUICHI KOIKE & HIROSHIGE MATSUOKA

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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (3): 246–268 (10 Apr. 2014)
Two new species of the tooth-carp Aphanius (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) and the evolutionary history of the Iranian inland and inland-related Aphanius species
HAMID REZA ESMAEILI, AZAD TEIMORI, ZEINAB GHOLAMI & BETTINA REICHENBACHER

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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (2): 181–191 (9 Apr. 2014)
Schistura phamhringi, a new stone loach from Chindwin Basin in Manipur, India (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae)
BungDon Shangningam, Yumnam Lokeshwor & Waikhom Vishwanath

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Article
Zootaxa 3785 (3): 490–496 (4 Apr. 2014)
Plectranthias alcocki, a new anthiine fish species (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Arabian Sea, off southwest India
K. K. BINEESH, K. V. AKHILESH, A. GOPALAKRISHNAN & J. K. JENA

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (3): 594–600 (24 Mar. 2014)
Taxonomic validity and phylogenetic relationships of a newly-described tooth-carp, Aphanius mesopotamicus Coad, 2009 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae)
MOHAMMAD SADEGH ALAVI-YEGANEH, YAZDAN KEIVANY, JAFAR SEYFABADI, BAHRAM KAZEMI & GRAHAM P. WALLIS

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (3): 455–480 (24 Mar. 2014)
Descriptions of three new species of Marcusenius Gill, 1862 (Teleostei: Mormyridae) from South Africa and Mozambique
PHOLOSHI A. MAAKE, OFER GON & ERNST R. SWARTZ

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (2): 388–398 (21 Mar. 2014)
Pempheris bexillon, a new species of sweeper (Teleostei: Pempheridae) from the Western Indian Ocean
RANDALL D. MOOI & JOHN E. RANDALL

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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (1): 171–193 (20 Mar. 2014)
Phylogeny and taxonomy of Petroschmidtia teraoi (Katayama, 1943) (Osteichthyes: Perciformes: Zoarcidae)
MIKHAIL V. NAZARKIN, GENTO SHINOHARA & SHIGERU M. SHIRAI
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Article
Zootaxa 3779 (3): 341–352 (17 Mar. 2014)
A revision of the spirit loaches, genus Lepidocephalus (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae)
GRIDSADA DEEIN, WEERAPONGSE TANGJITJAROEN & LAWRENCE M. PAGE

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Article
Zootaxa 3779 (2): 100–132 (14 Mar. 2014)
Complementary redescription of Anacanthobatis ori (Wallace, 1967) and its assignment to Indobatis n. g. (Elasmobranchii, Anacanthobatidae), with comments on other legskates
SIMON WEIGMANN, MATTHIAS F.W. STEHMANN & RALF THIEL

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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (5): 481–488 (10 Mar. 2014)
Two new dwarfgobies of the genus Eviota from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD, TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI & KOICHI SHIBUKAWA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (5): 583–590 (28 Feb. 2014)
A new cavefish species from Southwest China, Sinocyclocheilus gracilicaudatus sp. nov. (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
DAN WANG, YAHUI ZHAO, JUNXING YANG & CHUNGUANG ZHANG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (1): 073–087 (24 Feb. 2014)
New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species
R. A. BRAY, A. WAESCHENBACH, P. DYAL, D.T.J. LITTLEWOOD & S. MORAND

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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (1): 023–042 (24 Feb. 2014)
Revision of the subgenus Parapterygotrigla (Pisces: Triglidae: Pterygotrigla)
WILLIAM J. RICHARDS & TAKUJI YATO
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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (6): 571–582 (21 Feb. 2014)
New species of Creagrutus Günther (Characiformes: Characidae) from rio Tapajós basin, Brazil, with comments on its phylogenetic position
FERNANDO CESAR PAIVA DAGOSTA & MURILO NOGUEIRA DE LIMA PASTANA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (3): 249–268 (18 Feb. 2014)
Potamotrygon limai, sp. nov., a new species of freshwater stingray from the upper Madeira River system, Amazon basin (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)
JOÃO PEDRO FONTENELLE, JOÃO PAULO C. B. DA SILVA & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (2): 134–142 (17 Feb. 2014)
A new trans-Andean Stick Catfish of the genus Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with the first record of the genus for the río Magdalena Basin in Colombia
GUSTAVO A. BALLEN & JOSÉ IVÁN MOJICA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3764 (5): 571–580 (13 Feb. 2014)
Callogobius liolepis Bleeker, a senior synonym of Gobiopsis aporia Lachner and McKinney (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiopsis)
NAOMI R. DELVENTHAL& RANDALL D. MOOI

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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (4): 475–481 (12 Feb. 2014)
A new species of Hetereleotris (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea
MARCELO KOVAČIĆ & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY

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Article 
Zootaxa 3764 (1): 001–025 (07 Feb. 2014)
Four new species of Rasbora of the Sumatrana group 
(Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from northern Sumatra, Indonesia
DANIEL N. LUMBANTOBING
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Article
Zootaxa 3760 (3): 420–428 (03 Feb. 2014)
Trimma helenae (Pisces; Gobioidei), a new species of gobiid fish from Indonesia
RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM, MARK V. ERDMANN & N. K. DITA CAHYANI

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Article
Zootaxa 3755 (5): 491–495 (24 Jan. 2014)
Gymnoxenisthmus tigrellus, new genus and species of gobioid fish 
from the Red Sea (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY & AHMAD O. MAL
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Article
Zootaxa 3755 (3): 295–300 (22 Jan. 2014)
Eviota piperata, a new gobiid species from Palau (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
David W. Greenfield & RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM

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Article
Zootaxa 3755 (3): 241–258 (22 Jan. 2014)
Cottus schitsuumsh, a new species of sculpin (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae)  
in the Columbia River basin, Idaho-Montana, USA
MICHAEL LEMOINE, MICHAEL K. YOUNG, KEVIN S. MCKELVEY,
LISA EBY, KRISTINE L. PILGRIM & MICHAEL K. SCHWARTZ

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Article
Zootaxa 3755 (1): 033–061 (20 Jan. 2014
Stone loaches of Choman River system, Kurdistan, Iran (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae)
BARZAN BAHRAMI KAMANGAR, ARTEM M. PROKOFIEV
EDRIS GHADERI, & THEODORE T. NALBANT

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Article
Zootaxa 3755 (1): 033–061 (20 Jan. 2014
Stone loaches of Choman River system, Kurdistan, Iran (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae)
BARZAN BAHRAMI KAMANGAR, ARTEM M. PROKOFIEV
EDRIS GHADERI, & THEODORE T. NALBANT

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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (2): 101–116 (14 Jan. 2014)
Three new species of Alburnoides (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from 
Euphrates River, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey
DAVUT TURAN, CÜNEYT KAYA, F. GÜLER EKMEKÇİ & ESRA DOĞAN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3753 (4): 384–390 (08 Jan. 2014)
Hamacantha (Hamacantha) boomerang sp. nov. from deep-sea coral mounds at Campos Basin, SW Atlantic, and redescription of H. (H.) schmidtii (Carter, 1882) (Hamacanthidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae)

EDUARDO HAJDU & CRISTIANA CASTELLO-BRANCO

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2013

Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 279–386 (24 Dec. 2013)
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan
DAVID A. EBERT, WILLIAM T. WHITE, HSUAN-CHING HO, PETER R. LAST, KAZUHIRO NAKAYA, BERNARD SÉRET, NICOLAS STRAUBE, GAVIN J. P. NAYLOR & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 256–278 (24 Dec. 2013)
A DNA sequence-based identification checklist for Taiwanese chondrichthyans
NICOLAS STRAUBE, WILLIAM T. WHITE, HSUAN-CHING HO, ELISABETH ROCHEL, SHANNON CORRIGAN, CHENHONG LI & GAVIN J.P. NAYLOR
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 249–255 (24 Dec. 2013)
Records of new and rare elasmobranchs from Taiwan
HUA HSUN HSU, SHOOU JENG JOUNG, DAVID A. EBERT & CHIA YEN LIN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 228–248 (24 Dec. 2013)
Notes on shark and ray types at the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute (SCSFRI) in Guangzhou, China
WILLIAM T. WHITE & PETER R. LAST
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 214–227 (24 Dec. 2013)
Dipturus amphispinus sp. nov., a new longsnout skate (Rajoidei: Rajidae) from the Philippines
PETER R. LAST & MOONYEEN ALAVA
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 199–213 (24 Dec. 2013)
Redescription of Aetobatus flagellum (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), an endangered eagle ray (Myliobatoidea: Myliobatidae) from the Indo–West Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE & ALEC B.M. MOORE
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 185–198 (24 Dec. 2013)
A new species of wedgefish, Rhynchobatus immaculatus (Chondrichthyes, Rhynchobatidae), from Taiwan
PETER R. LAST, HSUAN-CHING HO & ROU-RONG CHEN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 172–184 (24 Dec. 2013)
Redescription of Paragaleus tengi (Chen, 1963) (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae) and first record of Paragaleus randalli Compagno, Krupp & Carpenter, 1996 from the western North Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE & MARK HARRIS
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 130–171 (24 Dec. 2013)
A review of the genus Apristurus (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Taiwanese waters
KAZUHIRO NAKAYA & JUNRO KAWAUCHI
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 101–129 (24 Dec. 2013)
A review of the genus Cephaloscyllium (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Taiwanese waters
KAZUHIRO NAKAYA, SHINSUKE INOUE & HSUAN-CHING HO
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 086–100 (24 Dec. 2013)
Pristiophorus lanae sp. nov., a new sawshark species from the Western North Pacific, with comments on the genus Pristiophorus Müller & Henle, 1837 (Chondrichthyes: Pristiophoridae)
DAVID A. EBERT & HANA A. WILMS
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 073–085 (24 Dec. 2013)
Lost and found: recovery of the holotype of the ocellated angelshark, Squatina tergocellatoides Chen, 1963 (Squatinidae), with comments on western Pacific squatinids
SUSAN M. THEISS & DAVID A. EBERT
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 035–072 (24 Dec. 2013)
Revision of the genus Centrophorus (Squaliformes: Centrophoridae): Part 1—Redescription of Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider), a senior synonym of C. acus Garman and C. niaukang Teng
WILLIAM T. WHITE, DAVID A. EBERT, GAVIN J.P. NAYLOR, HSUAN-CHING HO, PAUL CLERKIN, ANA VERÍSSIMO & CHARLES F. COTTON
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Article 
Zootaxa 3752: 020–034 (24 Dec. 2013)
Redescription of Hexanchus nakamurai Teng, 1962, (Chondrichthyes: Hexanchiformes: Hexanchidae), with designation of a neotype
DAVID A. EBERT, WILLIAM T. WHITE & HSUAN-CHING HO
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Editorial
Zootaxa 3752: 005–019 (24 Dec. 2013)
Introduction to the systematics and biodiversity of sharks, rays, and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of Taiwan 
DAVID A. EBERT, HSUAN-CHING HO, WILLIAM T. WHITE & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3751 (1): 001–101 (24 Dec. 2013)
Revision of the fish family Kyphosidae (Teleostei: Perciformes)
STEEN WILHELM KNUDSEN & KENDALL D. CLEMENTS

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Editorial
Zootaxa 3750 (3): 265–276 (19 Dec. 2013)
The salmon, the lungfish (or the coelacanth) and the cow: a revival?

FLÁVIO A. BOCKMANN, MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO & MURILO DE CARVALHO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (3): 216–222 (19 Dec. 2013)
Acanthoplesiops cappuccino, a new species of acanthoclinine fish from the Red Sea (Teleostei: Plesiopidae)

ANTHONY C. GILL, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY & AHMAD O. MAL

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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (3): 201–215 (19 Dec. 2013)
On the identities of Barbus mussullah Sykes and Cyprinus curmuca Hamilton with notes on the status of Gobio canarensis Jerdon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

J. D. MARCUS KNIGHT, ASHWIN RAI & RONALD. K. P. D’SOUZA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3746 (4): 597–599 (13 Dec. 2013)
The genus Orestias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae): nomenclatural errors in the assignation of species names
FRANCO CRUZ-JOFRÉ, MOISÉS A. VALLADARES, IRMA VILA & MARCO A. MÉNDEZ

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Article 
Zootaxa 3746 (4): 552–566 (13 Dec. 2013)
Taxonomic study of Bathygadidae fishes (Gadiformes) from Atlantic Spanish waters combining morphological and molecular approaches
RAFAEL BAÑÓN, JUAN CARLOS ARRONTE, DAVID BARROS-GARCÍA,
SANDRA VÁZQUEZ-DORADO & ALEJANDRO DE CARLOS
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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (5): 596–600 (9 Dec. 2013)
Chriolepis bilix, a new species of goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
from deep waters of the western Atlantic
PHILIP A. HASTINGS & LLOYD T. FINDLEY

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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (3): 365–378 (5 Dec. 2013)
Loricaria luciae, a new species of whiptail catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Paraguay and lower Paraná River basins of
southeastern South America
MATTHEW R. THOMAS, MÓNICA S. RODRIGUEZ, MARCEL R. CAVALLARO, OTÁVIO FROEHLICH & RICARDO MACEDO CORRÊA E CASTRO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3741 (3): 593–600 (29 Nov. 2013)
Eviota santanai, a new Dwarfgoby from Timor-Leste (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
David W. Greenfield & mARK V. ERDMANN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (3): 236–248 (13 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Physoschistura (Pisces: Nemacheilidae) from northern Thailand

APINUN SUVARNARAKSHA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3736 (1): 082–088 (11 Nov. 2013)
A new species of the genus Pethia from Mizoram, northeastern India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
MAYANGLAMBAM DISHMA & WAIKHOM VISHWANATH

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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (2): 101–129 (5 Nov. 2013)
Description of three new species of the genus Herichthys (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from eastern Mexico, with redescription of H. labridens, H. steindachneri, and H. pantostictus
MAURICIO DE LA MAZA-BENIGNOS & MA. DE LOURDES LOZANO-VILANO

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (4): 561–576 (1 Nov. 2013)
Two new species of stone loaches of the genus Schistura from the Koladyne basin, Mizoram, India (Teleostei: Cobitoidei: Nemacheilidae)

Y. LOKESHWOR & W. VISHWANATH

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (3): 331–337 (31 Oct. 2013)
Dario kajal, a new species of badid fish from Meghalaya, India (Teleostei: Badidae)
RALF BRITZ & SVEN O KULLANDER

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (2): 287–294 (30 Oct. 2013)
Channa andrao, a new species of dwarf snakehead from West Bengal, India (Teleostei: Channidae)

RALF BRITZ

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (2): 279–286 (30 Oct. 2013)
Geophagus crocatus, a new species of geophagine cichlid from the Berbice River, Guyana, South America (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

Frances E. Hauser & Hernán López-Fernández

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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (2): 255–266 (30 Oct. 2013)
A new species of Brycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from Nicaragua and Costa Rica, with a key to the lower Mesoamerican species of the genus

ARTURO ANGULO & JATZIRY MARLENE GRACIAN-NEGRETE

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Zootaxa 3731 (1): 171–182 (29 Oct. 2013)
Molecular evidence for taxonomic status of the gudgeon genus Huigobio Fang, 1938 (Teleostei: Cypriniformes), with a description of a new species from Guangdong Province, South China
ZHONG-GUAN JIANG & E. ZHANG

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Zootaxa 3722 (3): 361–371 (23 Oct. 2013)
The types of Osteoglossum formosum Müller & Schlegel, 1840 (Teleostei, Osteoglossidae)
MARTIEN J.P. VAN OIJEN & SANCIA E.T. VAN DER MEIJ

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Zootaxa 3722 (1): 083–091 (21 Oct. 2013)
Anampses viridis Valenciennes 1840 (Pisces: Labridae)—a case of taxonomic confusion and mistaken extinction

BARRY C. RUSSELL & MATTHEW T. CRAIG

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Zootaxa 3722 (1): 001–021 (21 Oct. 2013)
Two new stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Dasyatidae) from the eastern Indonesian Archipelago

PETER R. LAST & WILLIAM T. WHITE

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Zootaxa 3721 (4): 379–386 (16 Oct. 2013)
Crenicichla taikyra (Teleostei: Cichlidae), a new species of pike cichlid from
the middle río Paraná, Argentina
JORGE CASCIOTTA, ADRIANA ALMIRÓN, DANILO AICHINO, SERGIO GÓMEZ,
LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK& OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN
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Zootaxa 3718 (6): 583–590 (9 Oct. 2013)
Schistura maculosa, a new species of loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
from Mizoram, northeastern India
SAMUEL LALRONUNGA, LALNUNTLUANGA & LALRAMLIANA

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Zootaxa 3718 (5): 496–499 (8 Oct. 2013)
A new species of frogfish of the genus Kuiterichthys (Lophiiformes: Antennariidae: Histiophryninae) from New South Wales, Australia
RACHEL J. ARNOLD

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Zootaxa 3718 (4): 367–377 (7 Oct. 2013)
A new fish species of the Genus Hapalogenys (Perciformes: Hapalogenyidae) from the Bay of Bengal, India
ANIL MOHAPATRA, DIPANJAN RAY & VIKAS KUMAR

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Zootaxa 3718 (2): 128–136 (3 Oct. 2013)
Classification and relationships of Assiculus and Assiculoides (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL

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Zootaxa 3718 (1): 097–100 (2 Oct. 2013)
Sunagocia omanensis, a new flathead fish (Scorpaeniformes, Platycephalidae) from the Western Indian Ocean, with comments on the distribution of
Sunagocia carbuncula
LESLIE W. KNAPP & JOHN E. RANDALL

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Zootaxa 3717 (2): 179–194 (27 Sept. 2013)
Two new species of Cabillus (Perciformes: Gobiidae) and the first record of Cabillus macrophthalmus from the Western Indian Ocean
MARCELO KOVAČIĆ& SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY

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Zootaxa 3717 (1): 085–095 (26 Sept. 2013)
A new goatfish of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) from Angoche, northern Mozambique
FRANZ UIBLEIN & MARK LISHER

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Zootaxa 3717 (1): 001–022 (26 Sept. 2013)
A new Brachyrhamdia (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from Rio Japurá basin, Brazil, with comments on its phylogenetic affinities, biogeography and mimicry in the genus
VERONICA SLOBODIAN & FLÁVIO ALICINO BOCKMANN

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Zootaxa 3716 (2): 289–300 (23 Sept. 2013)
Two new species of the batfish genus Malthopsis (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae) from the Western Indian Ocean
HSUAN-CHING HO

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Zootaxa 3714 (1): 001–063 (19 Sept. 2013)
A new genus of cardinalfish (Apogonidae: Percomorpha), redescription of Archamia and resemblances and relationships with Kurtus (Kurtidae: Percomorpha)
THOMAS H. FRASER

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Zootaxa 3711 (1): 001–064 (19 Sept. 2013)
Annotated list and key to the stream fishes of Trinidad & Tobago
DAWN A.T. PHILLIP, DONALD C. TAPHORN, ERLING HOLM, JAMES F. GILLIAM, BRADLEY A. LAMPHERE & HERNÁN LÓPEZ-FERNÁNDEZ
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Zootaxa 3710 (5): 436–448 (17 Sept. 2013)
Two new species of the coffinfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the Indian Ocean
HSUAN-CHING HO & PETER R. LAST

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Zootaxa 3709 (4): 301–329 (6 Sept. 2013)
Four new species of coral gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiodon), with comments on their relationships within the genus
JUERGEN HERLER, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY & TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI

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Zootaxa 3709 (1): 095–100 (3 Sept. 2013)
A new species of the genus Hypleurochilus (Teleostei: Blenniidae) from Trindade Island and Martin Vaz Archipelago, Brazil
HUDSON T. PINHEIRO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & CARLOS A. RANGEL

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Zootaxa 3702 (3): 262–272 (27 Aug. 2013)
Caesio xanthalytos, a new species of fusilier (Perciformes: Caesionidae) from the Western Indian Ocean, with records of range extensions for several species of Caesionidae
WOUTER HOLLEMAN, ALLAN D. CONNELL & KENT E. CARPENTER

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Zootaxa 3702 (2): 159–178 (26 Aug. 2013)
Sphyrna gilberti sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the western Atlantic Ocean
JOSEPH M. QUATTRO, WILLIAM B. DRIGGERS III, JAMES M. GRADY,
GLENN F. ULRICH & MARK A. ROBERTS
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Zootaxa 3701 (1): 093–100 (16 Aug. 2013)
Description of a new species of the cardinalfish genus Pseudamiops (Perciformes, Apogonidae) from the Red Sea
OFER GON, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY & AHMAD O. MAL

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Zootaxa 3701 (1): 035–053 (16 Aug. 2013)
Description of three new species of Hylopanchax Poll & Lambert, 1965 from the central Congo Basin (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Procatopodini) with a redefinition of the genus
JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE, RAINER SONNENBERG & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN

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Zootaxa 3700 (3): 411–422 (14 Aug. 2013)
Epiplatys atratus (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of the E. multifasciatus species group from the Lulua Basin (Kasaï drainage), Democratic Republic of Congo
JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE, JOSÉ J. MBIMBI MAYI MUNENE & RAINER SONNENBERG

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Zootaxa 3700 (2): 283–292 (13 Aug. 2013)
Biodiversity of hillstream fishes in Bangladesh
ABU TWEB ABU AHMED, MD. MIZANUR RAHMAN & SUMAN MANDAL

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Zootaxa 3700 (2): 226–236 (13 Aug. 2013)
A new species of Astyanax from headwater streams of southern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
CARLOS A. S. DE LUCENA, VINICIUS A. BERTACO & GUILHERME BERBIGIER

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Zootaxa 3700 (1): 173–184 (12 Aug. 2013)
Pethia aurea (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species of barb from West Bengal, India, with redescription of P. gelius and P. canius

J. D. MARCUS KNIGHT

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Zootaxa 3700 (1): 113–139 (12 Aug. 2013)
The phylogenetic position of Lepidopygopsis typus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a monotypic freshwater fish endemic to the Western Ghats of India
NEELESH DAHANUKAR, SIBY PHILIP, K. KRISHNAKUMAR, ANVAR ALI
& RAJEEV RAGHAVAN

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Zootaxa 3696 (1): 001–293 (9 Aug. 2013)
An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia
HELEN K. LARSON, REX S. WILLIAMS & MICHAEL P. HAMMER

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Zootaxa 3695 (1): 001–081 (9 Aug. 2013)
Morphological and taxonomic revision of species of Squatina from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes: Squatinidae)
DIEGO F. B. VAZ & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO

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Zootaxa 3694 (4): 381–390 (6 Aug. 2013)
A new species of Psilorhynchus (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Chindwin basin of Manipur, India
BUNGDON SHANGNINGAM
& WAIKHOM VISHWANATH
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Zootaxa 3694 (2): 161–166 (2 Aug. 2013)
Ompok karunkodu, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern India
HEOK HEE NG

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Zootaxa 3694 (2): 153–160 (2 Aug. 2013)
A new species of Satyrichthys (Teleostei: Peristediidae) from the Maldives Archipelago (Indian Ocean)
CLAUDIA POGOREUTZ, SIMON VITECEK
& HARALD AHNELT
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Zootaxa 3693 (4): 479–490 (31 Jul. 2013)
A new ectoparasitic distichodontid of the genus Eugnathichthys (Characiformes: Citharinoidei) from the Congo basin of central Africa, with a molecular phylogeny for the genus
MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY,
JOHN S.S. DENTON & RAOUL J.C. MONSEMBULA IYABA
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Zootaxa 3693 (4): 401–440 (31 Jul. 2013)
Revision of the Indo-West Pacific genus Brachypterois (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), with description of a new species from northeastern Australia
MIZUKI MATSUNUMA, MAKOTO SAKURAI
& HIROYUKI MOTOMURA
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Zootaxa 3693 (2): 200–206 (29 Jul. 2013)
A new species of Lycengraulis Günther, 1868 (Clupeiformes: Engraulinae) from the Amazon basin, Brazil, with comments on Lycengraulis batesii (Günther, 1868)
MARINA VIANNA LOEB & AYDA VERA ALCÂNTARA

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Zootaxa 3693 (2): 152–162 (29 Jul. 2013)
Krobia petitella, a new species of cichlid fish from the Berbice River in Guyana (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
SARAH E. STEELE, ELFORD LIVERPOOL & HERNÁN LÓPEZ-FERNÁNDEZ

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Zootaxa 3691 (1): 192–198 (18 Jul. 2013)
A new distinctively banded species of Panaqolus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the western Amazon Basin in Peru
NATHAN K. LUJAN, SARAH STEELE & MIQUEL VELASQUEZ

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Zootaxa 3691 (1): 165–191 (18 Jul. 2013)
Revision of Notoglanidium and related genera (Siluriformes: Claroteidae)
based on morphology and osteology
TOM GEERINCKX, EMMANUEL VREVEN, MANUEL DIERICK, LUC VAN HOOREBEKE & DOMINIQUE ADRIAENS

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Zootaxa 3691 (1): 153–164 (18 Jul. 2013)
Description of Notoglanidium pembetadi new species (Siluriformes: Claroteidae) from the Kouilou-Niari River, Republic of the Congo
EMMANUEL VREVEN, ARMEL IBALA ZAMBA, VICTOR MAMONEKENE & TOM GEERINCKX

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Zootaxa 3686 (5): 565–577 (15 Jul. 2013)
A new redfin species, Pseudobarbus skeltoni (Cyprinidae, Teleostei), from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
ALBERT CHAKONA & ERNST R. SWARTZ

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Zootaxa 3686 (2): 201–243 (11 Jul. 2013)
On Psilorhynchus sucatio and P. nudithoracicus, with the description of a new species of Psilorhynchus from northeastern India (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae)
KEVIN W. CONWAY, DREW E. DITTMER, LACI E. JEZISEK & HEOK HEE NG

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Zootaxa 3686 (1): 077–084 (10 Jul. 2013)
Tetraodon palustris, a new freshwater pufferfish (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from the Mekong Basin of Thailand
PASAKORN SAENJUNDAENG, CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON & CHAIWUT GRUDPUN

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Zootaxa 3683 (5): 581–588 (8 Jul. 2013)
Schistura paucireticulata, a new loach from Tuirial River, Mizoram, India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
Y. LOKESHWOR , W. VISHWANATH1 & L. KOSYGIN

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Zootaxa 3682 (4): 594–598 (1 Jul. 2013)
DNA sequences and morphological variation in Lophiodes iwamotoi Ho, Serét & Shao, 2011 based on new material from New Caledonia
HSUAN-CHING HO & WEI-JEN CHEN

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Zootaxa 3682 (4): 501–512 (1 Jul. 2013)
Glyptothorax radiolus, a new species of sisorid catfish (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) from northeastern India, with a redescription of G. striatus McClelland 1842
HEOK HEE NG & LALRAMLIANA

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Zootaxa 3681 (5): 552–562 (25 Jun. 2013)
Glyptothorax igniculus, a new species of sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Myanmar
HEOK HEE NG & SVEN O. KULLANDER

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Zootaxa 3681 (3): 281–285 (21 Jun. 2013)
Dates of publication of Bleeker’s Atlas ichthyologique and Poissons de Madagascar
MAURICE KOTTELAT

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Zootaxa 3681 (3): 241–248 (21 Jun. 2013)
A new species of the hoplichthyid genus Hoplichthys (Teleostei: Hoplichthyidae) from northern Western Australia
YUKI NAGANO, MARK A. McGROUTHER & MAMORU YABE

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Zootaxa 3681 (2): 101–135 (20 Jun. 2013)
Limits and phylogenetic relationships of East Asian fishes in the subfamily Oxygastrinae (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
KEVIN L. TANG, MARY K. AGNEW, M. VINCENT HIRT, DANIEL N. LUMBANTOBING, MORGAN E. RALEY, TETSUYA SADO, VIEW-HUNE TEOH, LEI YANG, HENRY L. BART, PHILLIP M. HARRIS, SHUNPING HE, MASAKI MIYA, KENJI SAITOH, ANDREW M. SIMONS, ROBERT M. WOOD & RICHARD L. MAYDEN

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Zootaxa 3670 (4): 516–530 (14 Jun. 2013)
Aphyosemion pamaense, a new killifish species (Cyprinodontiformes:
Nothobranchiidae) from Cameroon
JEAN-FRANCOIS AGNESE, OLIVIER LEGROS, BENOITE CAZAUX & GUILLAIN ESTIVALS

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Zootaxa 3670 (2): 207–214 (12 Jun. 2013)
Putative type specimens of Satyrichthys (Scorpaeniformes: Peristediidae) in the Bleeker collection of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
MARTIEN J.P. VAN OIJEN, TOSHIO KAWAI & INEKE LOOTS

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Zootaxa 3670 (2): 177–192 (12 Jun. 2013)
A new barbeled goby from south China (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
RONGFENG CUI, YASHU PAN, XINMING YANG & YINGYONG WANG

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Zootaxa 3669 (4): 551–570 (10 Jun. 2013)
Rediscovery of Sagittalarva inornata n. gen., n. comb. (Gilbert, 1890)
(Perciformes: Labridae), a long-lost deepwater fish from the eastern Pacific Ocean: a case study of a forensic approach to taxonomy using DNA barcoding
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR, MICHAEL E. ALFARO & LAURIE SORENSON

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Zootaxa 3669 (1): 065–075 (5 Jun. 2013)
Early development of fat snook, Centropomus parallelus (Poey 1860) (Teleostei, Centropomidae) from Southeastern Brazil

MICHAEL KENGO ITAGAKI, MARIO KATSURAGAWA, CELINA MARIA MARCONDES PIMENTEL, IDILI DA ROCHA OLIVEIRA & MARCIO HIDEKAZU OHKAWARA

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Zootaxa 3666 (3): 337–344 (31 May 2013)
A new deep-water goatfish of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae)
from Vanuatu, South Pacific
FRANZ UIBLEIN & ROMAIN CAUSSE

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Zootaxa 3664 (3): 369–376 (27 May 2013)
New species of Pyrrhulina (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the Brazilian Shield, with comments on a putative monophyletic group of species in the genus 
ANDRÉ L. NETTO-FERREIRA & MANOELA M. F. MARINHO
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Zootaxa 3664 (3): 361–368 (27 May 2013)
A new miniature species of Characidium Reinhardt (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the headwaters of the rio Araguaia, Brazil 
ANDRÉ L. NETTO-FERREIRA, JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI & PAULO A. BUCKUP
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Zootaxa 3652 (5): 562–568 (21 May 2013)
New species of Lebiasina (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the upper Mazaruni River drainage, Guyana 
ANDRÉ L. NETTO-FERREIRA, HERNÁN LOPEZ-FERNANDEZ, DONALD C. TAPHORN & ELFORD A. LIVERPOOL
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Zootaxa 3652 (4): 475–484 (20 May 2013)
Redescription of Astyanax guaporensis Eigenmann, 1911
(Characiformes: Characidae), a small characid from the rio Madeira basin
MANOELA M. F. MARINHO & WILLIAN M. OHARA

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Zootaxa 3652 (2): 299–300 (16 May 2013)
Corrections to a recently published area taxonomy of Australia

MALTE C. EBACH, ANTHONY C. GILL, ALAN KWAN, SHANE T. AHYONG, DANIEL J. MURPHY, & GERASIMOS CASSIS

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Zootaxa 3647 (4): 518–526 (13 May 2013)
Pseudolaguvia nubila, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from northeastern India 
HEOK HEE NG, LALRAMLIANA, SAMUEL LALRONUNGA & LALNUNTLUANGA
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Zootaxa 3647 (1): 167–180 (08 May 2013)
Two new fish species of the subfamily Anthiinae (Perciformes, Serranidae) from the Marquesas

JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS, ERWAN DELRIEU-TROTTIN & SERGE PLANES

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Zootaxa 3647 (1): 101–136 (08 May 2013)
Descriptions of five new species of Metriaclima (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malaŵi, Africa 
JAY R. STAUFFER JR., KRISTIN BLACK & ADRIANUS F. KONINGS
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Zootaxa 3646 (5): 581–586 (07 May 2013)
Description of larvae of the Feather Blenny, Hypsoblennius hentz (Pisces: Blenniidae), from New York Waters 
ROBERT E. SCHMIDT & PAUL A. MOCCIO
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Zootaxa 3646 (3): 265–276 (03 May 2013)
Monophyly of the Agoniatinae (Characiformes: Characidae)

FERNANDO C.P. DAGOSTA & ALÉSSIO DATOVO

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Zootaxa 3646 (2): 199 (02 May 2013)
Haludaria, a replacement generic name for Dravidia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

ROHAN PETHIYAGODA

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Zootaxa 3646 (1): 097–099 (01 May 2013)
First record of Latris lineata (Forster, 1801) in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean
JUAN A. WAESSLE & ANDRÉS C. MILESSI
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Zootaxa 3642 (1): 1–105 (30 Apr. 2013)
Phylogenetic systematics of the family Sillaginidae (Percomorpha: order Perciformes)
TATSUYA KAGA
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Zootaxa 3641 (5): 587–594 (29 Apr. 2013)
Implementation as theory, hierarchy as transformation,
homology as synapomorphy
MALTE C. EBACH, DAVID M. WILLIAMS & TEGAN A. VANDERLAAN

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Zootaxa 3641 (5): 524–532 (29 Apr. 2013)
Epinephelus geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870) (Pisces: Serranidae), a valid species of grouper endemic to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden

JOHN E. RANDALL, SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY, FRIEDHELM KRUPP,
JEAN MICHEL ROSE & RONALD FRICKE
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Zootaxa 3641 (4): 343–370 (26 Apr. 2013)
Trans-Andean Ancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)

DONALD C. TAPHORN, JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER, FRANCISCO VILLA-NAVARRO & C. KEITH RAY

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Zootaxa 3641 (2): 197–200 (23 Apr. 2013)
First record of the moray eel Gymnothorax reticularis, Bloch, 1795 in the Mediterranean Sea, with a note on its taxonomy and distribution

NIR STERN & MENACHEM GOREN

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Zootaxa 3641 (2): 177–187 (23 Apr. 2013)
Teleocichla wajapi, a new species of cichlid from the rio Jari, Brazil,
with comments on T. centrarchus Kullander, 1988 (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
HENRIQUE R. VARELLA & CRISTIANO R. MOREIRA

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Zootaxa 3641 (2): 149–164 (23 Apr. 2013)
Crenicichla gillmorlisi, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
from the Paraná river drainage in Paraguay
SVEN O. KULLANDER & CARLOS A. SANTOS DE LUCENA

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Zootaxa 3640 (4): 557–571 (19 Apr. 2013)
Description of Loraxichthys lexa, new genus and species (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Río Huallaga Basin, central Peru, with notes on the morphology of the enigmatic Lipopterichthys carrioni Norman, 1935 
NORMA J. SALCEDO
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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (3): 483–484 (18 Apr. 2013)
Comments on ‘The valid generic names for the fish species usually placed in Cyclocheilichthys’ (KOTTELAT 2013) and a correction of Pasco-viel et al. (2012)

EMMANUEL PASCO-VIEL, MONETTE VERAN & LAURENT VIRIOT

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Zootaxa 3640 (3): 479–482 (18 Apr. 2013)
The valid generic names for the fish species usually placed in Cyclocheilichthys (Pisces: Cyprinidae)

MAURICE KOTTELAT

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Zootaxa 3640 (3): 373–394 (18 Apr. 2013)
Non-invasive ancient DNA protocol for fluid-preserved specimens and phylogenetic systematics of the genus Orestias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae)

YARELI ESQUER GARRIGOS, BERNARD HUGUENY, KELLIE KOERNER, CARLA IBAÑEZ, CELINE BONILLO, PATRICE PRUVOST, ROMAIN CAUSSE, CORINNE CRUAUD &
PHILIPPE GAUBERT
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3640 (2): 299–300 (17 Apr. 2013)
A name for the glass catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) revisited

HEOK HEE NG & MAURICE KOTTELAT

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Zootaxa 3640 (1): 088–094 (16 Apr. 2013)
A new species of Suezichthys (Teleostei: Perciformes: Labridae) from the south-eastern Pacific, with a redefinition of the genus and a key to species

BARRY C RUSSELL & MARK W WESTNEAT

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Zootaxa 3637 (5): 541–560 (15 Apr. 2013)
Taxonomic review of the Sebastes pachycephalus complex
(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)
YOSHIAKI KAI & TETSUJI NAKABO

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Zootaxa 3637 (4): 401–411 (12 Apr. 2013)
Nannoperca pygmaea, a new species of pygmy perch (Teleostei: Percichthyidae) from Western Australia 

DAVID L. MORGAN, STEPHEN J. BEATTY & MARK ADAMS

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Zootaxa 3637 (3): 308–324 (11 Apr. 2013)
Two new species of Squalius, S. adanaensis and S. seyhanensis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the Seyhan River in Turkey

DAVUT TURAN, MAURICE KOTTELAT & ESRA DO
ĞAN
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Zootaxa 3637 (2): 169–175 (10 Apr. 2013)
Eviota nigramembrana, a new dwarfgoby from the Western Pacific
(Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD & TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI

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Zootaxa 3636 (2): 361–373 (4 Apr. 2013)
Three new species of triplefin blennies of the genus Enneanectes (Teleostei, Tripterygiidae) from the tropical eastern Pacific with a key to Pacific species of Enneanectes

RICHARD H. ROSENBLATT, ELIZABETH C. MILLER & PHILIP A. HASTINGS

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Zootaxa 3635 (5): 598–598 (2 Apr. 2013)
Designation of a lectotype for Deuterodon pedri Eigenmann, 1908 (Characiformes: Characidae)
CARLOS ALBERTO SANTOS DE LUCENA & ZILDA MARGARETE SEIXAS DE LUCENA

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Zootaxa 3635 (4): 419–438 (28 Mar. 2013)
Revision of the peristediid genus Satyrichthys (Actinopterygii: Teleostei)
with the description of a new species, S. milleri sp. nov.
TOSHIO KAWAI

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Zootaxa 3635 (4): 379–401 (28 Mar. 2013)
Diversity within the Redeye Bass, Micropterus coosae (Perciformes:
Centrarchidae) species group, with descriptions of four new species
WINSTON H. BAKERREBECCA E. BLANTON& CAROL E. JOHNSTON
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Zootaxa 3635 (3): 269–274 (27 Mar. 2013)
The bioregionalisation revival

MALTE C. EBACH

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Zootaxa 3635 (1): 62–70 (25 Mar. 2013)
The identity of the cyprinid fishes Rasbora dusonensis and R. tornieri
(Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
HEOK HEE NG & MAURICE KOTTELAT
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Zootaxa 3630 (2): 308–316 (20 Mar. 2013)
After eighty years of misidentification, a name for the glass catfish
(Teleostei: Siluridae)
HEOK HEE NG & MAURICE KOTTELAT

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Zootaxa 3630 (1): 19 1–197 (19 Mar. 2013)
A new species of Nemipterus (Pisces: Nemipteridae) from the Western Indian Ocean
BARRY C. RUSSELL & DENIS TWEDDLE

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Zootaxa 3630 (1): 155–164 (19 Mar. 2013)
Callogobius winterbottomi, a new species of goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Western Indian Ocean
NAOMI R. DELVENTHAL & RANDALL D. MOOI

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Zootaxa 3626 (1): 188–200 (12 Mar. 2013)
Revision of batfishes (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae) of New Zealand and adjacent waters, with description of two new species of the genus Malthopsis
HSUAN-CHING HO, CLIVE D. ROBERTS & KWANG-TSAO SHAO

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Zootaxa 3620 (3): 379–403 (7 Mar. 2013)
Symphurus orientalis (Bleeker) redefined based on morphological and molecular characters (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae)

MAO-YING LEE, THOMAS A. MUNROE & KWANG-TSAO SHAO

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Zootaxa 3620 (2): 273–282 (6 Mar. 2013)
Redescription of Parapercis macrophthalma (Pietschmann, 1911) and description of a new species of Parapercis (Pisces: Pinguipedidae) from Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO & JEFFREY W. JOHNSON

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Zootaxa 3620 (1): 89–111 (5 Mar. 2013)
A review of the anglerfish genus Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from New Zealand and adjacent waters, with descriptions of four new species

HSUAN-CHING HO, CLIVE D. ROBERTS & ANDREW L. STEWART

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Zootaxa 3619 (4): 467–490 (1 Mar. 2013)
Scale surface microstructure and scale size in the tooth-carp genus Aphanius (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae) from endorheic basins in Southwest Iran
ZEINAB GHOLAMI, AZAD TEIMORI, HAMID REZA ESMAEILI, TANJA SCHULZ-MIRBACH & BETTINA REICHENBACHER

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Zootaxa 3619 (3): 369–382 (28 Feb. 2013)
Phylogenetic placement of the European sand gobies in Gobionellidae and characterization of gobionellid lineages (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei)
CHRISTINE E. THACKER

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Zootaxa 3619 (3): 315–342 (28 Feb. 2013)
Towards an Australian Bioregionalisation Atlas: A provisional area taxonomy of Australia’s biogeographical regions
MALTE C. EBACH, ANTHONY C. GILL, ALAN KWAN, SHANE T. AHYONG, DANIEL J. MURPHY, & GERASIMOS CASSIS

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Zootaxa 3619 (2): 130–144 (27 Feb. 2013)
Two new species of cascudinhos of the genus Otothyropsis (Siluriformes: Hypoptopomatinae) from the rio Paraná basin, Brazil
BÁRBARA B. CALEGARI, PABLO LEHMANN A. & ROBERTO E. REIS

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Zootaxa 3616 (5): 461–477 (22 Feb. 2013)
A review of the rudderfish genus Tubbia (Stromateoidei: Centrolophidae) with the description of a new species from the Southern Hemisphere
PETER R. LAST, ROSS K. DALEY & GUY DUHAMEL

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Zootaxa 3616 (2): 135–150 (19 Feb. 2013)
A new species of the blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley
HELEN K. LARSON, RALPH FOSTER , WILLIAM F. HUMPHREYS & MARK I. STEVENS

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Zootaxa 3616 (2): 135–150 (19 Feb. 2013)
A new species of the blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley
HELEN K. LARSON, RALPH FOSTER , WILLIAM F. HUMPHREYS & MARK I. STEVENS

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Zootaxa 3613 (4): 369–379 (12 Feb. 2013)
Silhouettea chaimi Goren, 1978, a junior synonym of Papillogobius melanobranchus (Fowler, 1934) (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
MARCELO KOVAČIĆ & SERGEY BOGORODSKY

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Zootaxa 3609 (5): 484–494 (1 Feb. 2013)
Cottus specus, a new troglomorphic species of sculpin (Cottidae) from southeastern Missouri
GINNY L. ADAMS, BROOKS M. BURR, JULIE L. DAY & DAVID E. STARKEY

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Zootaxa 3609 (4): 443–449 (31 Jan. 2013)
A new species of the genus Scolopsis Cuvier, 1830 (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) from southern India and Sri Lanka
S.S. MISHRA, SUDEEPTA BISWAS, BARRY C. RUSSELL, K.K. SATPATHY & M. SELVANAYAGAM

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Zootaxa 3609 (2): 231–238 (29 Jan. 2013)
Pempheris ufuagari sp. nov., a new species in the genus Pempheris (Perciformes, Pempheridae) from the oceanic islands of Japan
KEITA KOEDA, TETSUO YOSHINO & KATSUNORI TACHIHARA

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Zootaxa 3609 (2): 163–181 (29 Jan. 2013)
Planonasus parini n. g. and n. sp., a new genus and species of false cat sharks (Carchariniformes, Pseudotriakidae) from the deep northwestern Indian Ocean off Socotra Islands
SIMON WEIGMANN, MATTHIAS F.W. STEHMANN & RALF THIEL

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Zootaxa 3608 (7): 587–594 (24 Jan. 2013)
Re-description of two species of the cardinalfish genus Archamia (Teleostei: Apogonidae) from the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean
OFER GON, GAVIN GOUWS, JAMES MWALUMA & MONICA MWALE

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Zootaxa 3608 (6): 440–456 (23 Jan. 2013)
Checklist of the Inland Fishes of El Salvador
CALEB D. MCMAHAN, WILFREDO A. MATAMOROS, FRANCISCO S. ÁLVAREZ CALDERÓN, WENDY YAMILETH HENRÍQUEZ, H. MICHELLE RECINOS, PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY, ENRIQUE BARRAZA & NÉSTOR HERRERA

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Zootaxa 3608 (5): 379–388 (22 Jan. 2013)
Microlepidogaster arachas, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil
FERNANDA O. MARTINS, BÁRBARA B. CALEGARI & FRANCISCO LANGEANI

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Zootaxa 3608 (2): 127–136 (17 Jan. 2013)
Descriptions of four new species of Thysanophrys (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) from the Western Indian Ocean
LESLIE W. KNAPP

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Zootaxa 3599 (2): 189–196 (4 Jan. 2013)
Reclassification of the Indo-Pacific Hawkfish Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster)
MICHELLE R. GAITHER & JOHN E. RANDALL

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Zootaxa 3599 (1): 1–18 (3 Jan. 2013)
Kyphosus gladius, a new species of sea chub from Western Australia (Teleostei: Kyphosidae), with comments on Segutilum klunzingeri Whitley
STEEN WILHELM KNUDSEN & KENDALL D. CLEMENTS

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Article
Zootaxa 3593: 59–74 (20 Dec. 2012) 1 plate; 63 references                 Accepted: 1 Oct. 2012
Update to the catalogue of South Australian freshwater fishes (Petromyzontida & Actinopterygii) 
MICHAEL P. HAMMER, MARK ADAMS & RALPH FOSTER(Australia)
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Zootaxa 3588: 1–54 (17 Nov. 2012) 37 plates; 36 references               Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012
A Review of the Snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) of New Zealand, Including Descriptions of a New Genus and Sixteen New Species 
DAVID L. STEIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3586: 359–376 (14 Dec. 2012) 2 plates; 100 references          Accepted: 22 Nov. 2012
Cypriniformes of Borneo (Actinopterygii, Otophysi): An Extraordinary Fauna for Integrated Studies on Diversity, Systematics, Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation
ZOHRAH H. SULAIMAN (Brunei) & R.L MAYDEN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3586: 353–358 (14 Dec. 2012) 3 plates; 19 references            Accepted: 12 Nov. 2012
Sexual dimorphism in species of Schistura (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from the Mae Khlong basin and peninsular Thailand
RUNGTHIP PLONGSESTHEE (Thailand), F. WILLIAM H. BEAMISH (Thailand) & LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA)

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Zootaxa 3586: 329–346 (14 Dec. 2012) 8 plates; 41 references             Accepted: 21 Nov. 2012
Resurrection of the genus Homalopteroides (Teleostei: Balitoridae) with a redescription of H. modestus (Vinciguerra 1890)
ZACHARY S. RANDALL & LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA)

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Zootaxa 3586: 319–328 (14 Dec. 2012) 7 plates; 8 references               Accepted: 19 Nov. 2012
Schistura (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in the Mae Khlong basin in southwestern Thailand with description of a new species
LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA), RUNGTHIP PLONGSESTHEE (Thailand), F. WILLIAM H. BEAMISH (Thailand), PUNNATUT KANGRANG (Thailand), ZACHARY S. RANDALL (USA), RANDAL A. SINGER (USA) & ZACHARY P. MARTIN (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 313–318 (14 Dec. 2012) 3 plates; 17 references             Accepted: 12 Nov. 2012
Homatula wuliangensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), a new loach from Yunnan, China
RUI MIN, JUN-XING YANG & XIAO-YONG CHEN (China)

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Zootaxa 3586: 304–312 (14 Dec. 2012) 4 plates; 17 references             Accepted: 12 Nov. 2012
Traccatichthys tuberculum, a new species of nemacheiline loach from Guangdong Province, South China (Pisces: Balitoridae)
CHUN-XIAN DU, E ZHANG & BOSCO PUI LOK CHAN (China)

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Zootaxa 3586: 281–303 (14 Dec. 2012) 3 plates; 84 references             Accepted: 12 Nov. 2012
Molecular systematics of western North American cyprinids (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
SUSANA SCHÖNHUTH, DENNIS K. SHIOZAWA, THOMAS E. DOWLING & RICHARD L. MAYDEN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3586: 272–280 (14 Dec. 2012) 4 plates; 11 references             Accepted: 8 Nov. 2012
Triplophysa pseudostenura, a new nemacheiline loach (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) from the Yalong River of China
CHUNLIN HE, E ZHANG & ZHAOBIN SONG (China)

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Zootaxa 3586: 255–263 (14 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 21 references             Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Schistura obliquofascia, a new loach from Uttarakhand, India (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae)
Y. LOKESHWOR, A. BARAT, J. SATI, A. DARSHAN, W. VISHWANATH & P.C. MAHANTA (India)

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Zootaxa 3586: 249–254 (14 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 8 references               Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Physoschistura dikrongensis, a new loach from Arunachal Pradesh, India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
Y. LOKESHWOR & W. VISHWANATH (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 236–248 (14 Dec. 2012) 4 plates; 36 references             Accepted: 26 Oct. 2012
Revision of the loach species Barbatula nuda (Bleeker 1865) (Pisces: Balitoridae) from North China, with a description of a new species from Inner Mongolia
LIANG CAO (China), ROMAIN CAUSSE (France) & E ZHANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 228–235 (14 Dec. 2012) 4 plates; 12 references             Accepted: 8 Nov. 2012
Thryssocypris wongrati, a new anchovy-like cyprinid (Cypriniformes) from the Chao Phraya basin, Thailand
CHAIWUT GRUDPAN & JARUNGJIT GRUDPAN (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 222–227 (14 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 7 references               Accepted: 8 Nov. 2012
Schistura albirostris, a new nemacheiline loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the Irrawaddy River drainage of Yunnan Province, China
CHEN XIAO-YONG (China) & DAVID A. NEELY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 211–221 (14 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 42 references             Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Microphysogobio nudiventris, a new species of gudgeon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the middle Chang-Jiang (Yangtze River) basin, Hubei Province, South China
ZHONG-GUAN JIANG, ER-HU GAO3 & E ZHANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 195–210 (14 Dec. 2012) 2 plates; 63 references             Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Phylogeny of suckers (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Catostomidae): further evidence of relationships provided by the single-copy nuclear gene IRBP2
WEI-JEN CHEN (R.O.C)) & RICHARD L. MAYDEN(USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 187–194 (14 Dec. 2012) 4 plates; 28 references             Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
A new species of the genus Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), Triplophysa longliensis sp. nov, from Guizhou, China
QIU REN (China), JUN-XING YANG (China) & XIAO-YONG CHEN (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 173–186 (14 Dec. 2012) 10 plates; 12 references           Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
Yaoshania and Erromyzon kalotaenia, a new genus and a new species of balitorid loaches from Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cypriniformes)
JIAN YANG (China), MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore), JUN-XING YANG (China) & XIAO-YONG CHEN (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 160–172 (14 Dec. 2012) 8 plates; 21 references             Accepted: 26 Oct. 2012
Acrossocheilus longipinnis (Wu 1939), a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus stenotaeniatus Chu & Cui 1989 from the Pearl River basin (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
LE-YANG YUAN, BOSCO PUI LOK CHAN & E ZHANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 148–159 (14 Dec. 2012) 8 plates; 18 references             Accepted: 19 Oct. 2012
Redescription of Barilius ornatus Sauvage (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) with data from a population from the eastern part of the Isthmus of Kra, Thailand
ANURATANA TEJAVEJ (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 138–147 (14 Dec. 2012) 9 plates; 24 references             Accepted: 19 Oct. 2012
Barilius signicaudus, a new species of cyprinid fish from Maeklong Basin, western Thailand (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
ANURATANA TEJAVEJ (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 131–137 (14 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 19 references             Accepted: 26 Oct. 2012
Schistura maejotigrina, a new stream loach (Pisces: Nemacheilidae) from northern Thailand
APINUN SUVARNARAKSHA (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 103–130 (14 Dec. 2012) 8 plates; 49 references             Accepted: 26 Oct. 2012
Taxonomic study of the Cobitis striata complex (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae) in Japan
JUN NAKAJIMA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 95–102 (14 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 11 references               Accepted: 19 Oct. 2012
A new loach of the genus Physoschistura Bănărescu & Nalbant (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Chindwin basin, Manipur, India
Y. LOKESHWOR & W. VISHWANATH (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 3586: 78–94 (14 Dec. 2012) 6 plates; 50 references                 Accepted: 17 Oct. 2012
Phylogenetic Relationships of the Genus Homatula (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), with Special Reference to the Biogeographic History around the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau
RUI MIN (China), XIAO-YONG CHEN (China), JUN-XING YANG (China), RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM (Canada) & RICHARD L. MAYDEN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3586: 69–77 (14 Dec. 2012) 6 plates; 17 references                 Accepted: 16 Oct. 2012
Schistura tenebrosa, a new species of loach from the Kwai Noi River system, Mae Khlong basin, Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
PUNNATUT KANGRANG (Thailand), LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA) & F. WILLIAM H. BEAMISH (Thailand)

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Zootaxa 3586: 55–68 (14 Dec. 2012) 7 plates; 22 references                 Accepted: 26 Oct. 2012
Rectoris longibarbus, a new styglophic labeonine species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China, with a note on the taxonomy of R. mutabilis (Lin 1933)
DING-GUI ZHU, E ZHANG & JIA-HU LAN (China)

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Zootaxa 3586: 41–54 (14 Dec. 2012) 8 plates; 26 references                 Accepted: 19 Oct. 2012
Bleeker was right: Revision of the genus Cyclocheilichthys (Bleeker 1859) and resurrection of the genus Anematichthys (Bleeker 1859), based on morphological and molecular data of Southeast Asian Cyprininae (Teleostei, Cypriniformes)
EMMANUEL PASCO-VIEL, MONETTE VERAN & LAURENT VIRIOT (France)

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Zootaxa 3586: 26–40 (14 Dec. 2012) 1 plate; 73 references                   Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
Phylogenetic placements of the barbin genera Discherodontus, Chagunius, and Hypselobarbus in the subfamily Cyprininae (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) and their relationships with other barbins
LEI YANG (USA), M. VINCENT HIRT (USA), TETSUYA SADO (Japan), M. ARUNACHALAM (India), RAJA MANICKAM (USA), KEVIN L. TANG (USA), ANDREW M. SIMONS (USA), HSIN-HUI WU (USA), RICHARD L. MAYDEN (USA) & MASAKI MIYA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 3586: 17–25 (14 Dec. 2012) 4 plates; 20 references                 Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
Sinigarra napoense, a new genus and species of labeonin fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Guangxi Province, South China
E ZHANG & WEI ZHOU (China)
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Zootaxa 3586: 8–16 (14 Dec. 2012) 6 plates; 3 references                     Accepted: 8 Nov. 2012
Standardized measurements, landmarks, and meristic counts for cypriniform fishes
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA)

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Zootaxa 3583: 71–76 (13 Dec. 2012) 2 plates; 11 references                Accepted: 6 Nov. 2012
A new species of the Genus Microbrotula (Teleostei: Bythitidae) from Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea, Indonesia 
WERNER SCHWARZHANS (Germany) & JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark)

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Zootaxa 3579: 1–36 (11 Dec. 2012) 26 plates; 29 references              Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
Revision of Hastatobythites and Saccogaster (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with three new species and a new genus 
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), WERNER SCHWARZHANS (Germany) & DANIEL M. COHEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 3572: 33–42 (5 Dec. 2012) 11 plates; 7 references             Accepted: 25 Oct. 2012
Two new dwarfgobies from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA) & RICHARD WINTERBOTTOM (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3569: 55–66 (30 Nov. 2012) 7 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 11 Oct. 2012
A new species of prickleback, Dictyosoma tongyeongensis (Perciformes: Stichaeidae) from the South Sea of Korea 
HWAN-SUNG JI & JIN-KOO KIM (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3565: 31–43 (28 Nov. 2012) 8 plates; 16 references                Accepted: 11 Oct. 2012
A new species of Trichonotus (Perciformes: Trichonotidae) from Somalia and redescription of Trichonotus cyclograptus (Alcock, 1890) with designation of a lectotype 
ERI KATAYAMA, HIROYUKI MOTOMURA & HIROMITSU ENDO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3559: 39–43 (22 Nov. 2012) 2 plates; 22 references          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012
A new species of Pachycara Zugmayer (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from off Monterey Bay, California, USA, with comments on two North Pacific Lycenchelys species 
M. ERIC ANDERSON (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 3550: 61–70 (15 Nov. 2012) 2 plates; 23 references              Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012
A new deep-water goatfish of the genus Upeneus (Mullidae) from northern Australia and the Philippines, with a taxonomic account of U. subvittatus and remarks on U. mascareinsis 
FRANZ UIBLEIN (Norway) & MARK MCGROUTHER (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3546: 85–88 (12 Nov. 2012) 1 plate; 14 references                 Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012
On the synonymy of Caristius groenlandicus Jensen and Pteraclis fasciatus Borodin (Pisces: Caristiidae) 
RALF BRITZ (UK) & KARSTEN E. HARTEL (USA)
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Zootaxa 3538: 79–87 (5 Nov. 2012) 4 plates; 18 references                Accepted: 2 Oct. 2012
A new catfish of the genus Glyptothorax from the Kaladan basin, Northeast India (Teleostei: Sisoridae) 
YUMNAM RAMESHORI & WAIKHOM VISHWANATH (India)

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Zootaxa 3527: 63–71 (26 Oct. 2012) 7 plates; 13 references              Accepted: 13 Sept. 2012
A new species of annual fish, Hypsolebias tocantinensis sp.n. (Cyprinodontiformes:Rivulidae) from the rio Tocantins basin, northeastern Brazil 
DALTON TAVARES BRESSANE NIELSEN, JOÃO CARLOS CRUZ & ARSÊNIO CALDEIRA BAPTISTA JUNIOR (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3523: 80–88 (23 Oct. 2012) 7 plates; 25 references          Accepted: 20 Sept. 2012
A new species of Indo-Pacific fish, Canthigaster criobe, with comments on other Canthigaster (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) at the Gambier Archipelago 
JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS (USA), ERWAN DELRIEU-TROTTIN (France) & SERGE PLANES (France)

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Zootaxa 3523: 20–24 (23 Oct. 2012) 4 plates; 6 references              Accepted: 17 Sept. 2012
Opistognathus pardus, a new species of jawfish (Teleostei: Opistognathidae) from the Western Indian Ocean 
WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA), K. K. BINEESH (India) & K. V. AKHILESH (India)

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Zootaxa 3522: 81–88 (19 Oct. 2012) 2 plates; 15 references               Accepted: 17 Sept. 2012
Pseudolaguvia viriosa, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from north-eastern India 
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LAKPA TAMANG (India)

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Zootaxa 3522: 49–60 (19 Oct. 2012) 6 plates; 31 references               Accepted: 17 Sept. 2012
Betta mahachaiensis, a new species of bubble-nesting fighting fish (Teleostei: Osphronemidae) from Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand 
CHANON KOWASUPAT, BHINYO PANIJPAN, PINTIP RUENWONGSA & NAMKANG SRIWATTANAROTHAI (Thailand)

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Zootaxa 3522: 42–48 (19 Oct. 2012) 10 plates; 8 references               Accepted: 17 Sept. 2012
Eviota fallax, a New Dwarfgoby from the Western Pacific (Teleostei: Gobiidae) 
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3515: 67–74 (12 Oct. 2012) 6 plates; 5 references                Accepted: 3 Sept. 2012
Two new Gobiid fishes of the genus Eviota from the Indian Ocean (Teleostei: Gobiidae) 
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (Canada) & SUSAN L. JEWETT (USA)

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Zootaxa 3513: 61–67 (10 Oct. 2012) 3 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 11 Sept. 2012
Redescription of Sillago (Parasillago) indica McKay, Dutt & Sujatha, 1985 (Perciformes: Sillaginidae), with a reassignment to the subgenus Sillago 
TATSUYA KAGA (Japan) & HSUAN-CHING HO (ROC)

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Zootaxa 3512: 64–74 (10 Oct. 2012) 5 plates; 15 references                 Accepted: 13 Sept. 2012
Description of a new species of Pareiorhina (Siluriformes: Neoplecostominae) from Rio São Francisco basin 
FÁBIO FERNANDES ROXO, GABRIEL DE SOUZA DA COSTA E SILVA, MAHMOUD MEHANNA & CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3513: 61–67 (10 Oct. 2012) 3 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 11 Sept. 2012
Redescription of Sillago (Parasillago) indica McKay, Dutt & Sujatha, 1985 (Perciformes: Sillaginidae), with a reassignment to the subgenus Sillago 
TATSUYA KAGA (Japan) & HSUAN-CHING HO (ROC)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3498: 87–88 (26 Sept. 2012) 0 plate; 16 references                    Accepted: 27 Jul. 2012
Authorship and type specimens of Alburnoides kubanicus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) 
RADEK ŠANDA & JIŘÍ MLÍKOVSKÝ (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3493: 27–34 (21 Sept. 2012) 4 plates; 16 references                  Accepted: 22 Aug. 2012
A New Species of the Genus Eulophias (Zoarcoidei: Stichaeidae) from Korea 
HYUCK JOON KWUN & JIN KOO KIM (Korea)

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Zootaxa 3492: 77–84 (20 Sept. 2012) 2 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 20 Aug. 2012
A new species of deeper dwelling West Pacific cardinalfish (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) with a redescription of Ostorhinchus atrogaster 
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA)

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Zootaxa 3492: 30–48 (20 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 24 references                  Accepted: 22 Aug. 2012
Lepidiolamprologus kamambae, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika 
SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden), MAGNUS KARLSSON (Tanzania) & MIKAEL KARLSSON (Tanzania)

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Zootaxa 3484: 53–64 (14 Sept. 2012) 11 plates; 31 references                 Accepted: 3 Aug. 2012  
The tropical species of the subgenus Pterygotrigla (Pisces: Triglidae: Pterygotrigla) with description of a new species
WILLIAM J. RICHARDS (USA) & TAKUJI YATO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3480: 48–66 (12 Sept. 2012) 10 plates; 48 references               Accepted: 23 Jul. 2012
A new species of cave catfish from Brazil, Trichomycterus rubbioli sp.n., from Serra do Ramalho karstic area, São Francisco River basin, Bahia State (Silurifomes: Trichomycteridae) 
MARIA ELINA BICHUETTE & PEDRO PEREIRA RIZZATO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3479: 77–87 (12 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 6 references                 Accepted: 26 Jul. 2012
Protoblepharon mccoskeri, a new flashlight fish from eastern Taiwan (Teleostei: Anomalopidae) HSUAN-CHING HO (R.O.C) & G. DAVID JOHNSON (U.S.A.)
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Zootaxa 3474: 1–64 (7 Sept. 2012) 0 plate; 29 references                   Accepted: 17 May 2012   
A checklist of the moray eels of the world (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae)
DAVID G. SMITH

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Zootaxa 3453: 84–88 (5 Sept. 2012) 5 plates; 10 references                   Accepted: 27 Jul. 2012
Epigonus exodon, a new species of deepwater cardinalfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Epigonidae) from Réunion, western Indian Ocean
MAKOTO OKAMOTO & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3453: 69–83 (5 Sept. 2012) 3 plates; 41 references                   Accepted: 23 Jul. 2012
Origin of species diversity in the catfish genus Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) inhabiting the Paraná river basin, with the description of a new species
YAMILA P. CARDOSO (Argentina), ADRIANA ALMIRÓN (Argentina), JORGE CASCIOTTA (Argentina), DANILO AICHINO (Argentina), MARTA S. LIZARRALDE (Argentina) & JUAN I. MONTOYA-BURGOS (Switzerland)

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Zootaxa 3453: 43–55 (5 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 11 references                   Accepted: 11 Jun. 2012
A new species of riffle minnow, Alburnoides holciki, from the Hari River basin in Afghanistan and Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)
BRIAN W. COAD (Canada) & NINA G. BOGUTSKAYA (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3450: 23–32 (4 Sept. 2012) 5 plates; 14 references                     Accepted: 30 Jul. 2012
Validity and redescription of the flathead fish, Onigocia macrocephala (Weber, 1913) (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3447: 41–55 (31 Aug. 2012) 6 plates; 23 references                      Accepted: 16 Jul. 2012
Microgobius urraca (Teleostei: Gobiidae), a new species of goby from the tropical eastern Pacific
LUKE TORNABENE (USA), JAMES L. VAN TASSELL (USA) & D. ROSS ROBERTSON (Panama)

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Zootaxa 3439: 43–50 (27 Aug. 2012) 5 plates; 14 references                       Accepted: 11 Jul. 2012
Liopropoma randalli, a new serranid (Teleostei: Perciformes) fish from the Indian Ocean
K.V. AKHILESH (India), K.K. BINEESH (India) & WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3437: 24–31 (24 Aug. 2012) 10 plates; 8 references                     Accepted: 16 Jul. 2012
Colletteichthys flavipinnis, a new toadfish species from Sri Lanka and India (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA), K.K. BINEESH (India) & K.V. AKHILESH (India)

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Zootaxa 3436: 6 1–68 (23 Aug. 2012) 4 plates; 9 references                     Accepted: 4 Jul. 2012
On the validity of Pelvicachromis sacrimontis Paulo, 1977 (Perciformes, Cichlidae), with designation of a neotype, and redescription of the species
ANTON LAMBOJ & CHRISTOPHER PICHLER (Austria)

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Zootaxa 3435: 40–67 (23 Aug. 2012) 4 plates; 203 references                   Accepted: 13 Jun. 2012
The limits of understanding in biological systematics
KIRK FITZHUGH (USA)

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Zootaxa 3425: 55–68 (16 Aug. 2012) 7 plates; 13 references                    Accepted: 15 Jun. 2012
New species of Pseudanos Winterbottom, 1980 (Characiformes: Anostomidae), with notes on the taxonomy of P. gracilis and P. trimaculatus
JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI, FLÁVIO C. T. LIMA & HERALDO A. BRITSKI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3425: 42–54 (16 Aug. 2012) 3 plates; 48 references                     Accepted: 25 May 2012
Revision of the genus Parequula (Pisces: Gerreidae) with a new species from southwestern Australia
YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan), JOHN J. POGONOSKI (Australia) & PETER LAST (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3418: 61–67 (10 Aug. 2012) 4 plates; 22 references                  Accepted: 13 Jun. 2012
A new species of the gobiid genus Eviota (Teleostei: Gobioidei) from the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
DOUGLASS F. HOESE (Australia) & ANDREW L. STEWART (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 3418: 51–60 (10 Aug. 2012) 10 plates; 15 references                 Accepted: 21 Jun. 2012
Paracaesio brevidentata n. sp., a new snapper (Lutjanidae: Apsilinae) from Indonesia
WILLIAM T. WHITE & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3416: 44–52 (9 Aug. 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                        Accepted: 26 Jun. 2012
Glyptothorax maceriatus, a new species of sisorid catfish (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes) from north-eastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LALRAMLIANA (India)

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Zootaxa 3410: 61–68 (6 Aug. 2012) 4 plates; 13 references                        Accepted: 19 Jun. 2012
A new grenadier of the genus Nezumia (Pisces: Gadiformes: Macrouridae) from southern Japan
NAOHIDE NAKAYAMA & HIROMITSU ENDO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3410: 35–50 (6 Aug. 2012) 8 plates; 22 references                        Accepted: 11 Jun. 2012
Hemitaeniochromis brachyrhynchus, a new species of cichlid fish from Lake Malaŵi, with comments on some other supposed members of the genus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
MICHAEL K. OLIVER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3400: 58–63 (26 Jul. 2012) 6 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 31 May 2012
Austrobatrachus iselesele, a new toadfish species from South Africa (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA)

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Zootaxa 3398: 58–68 (24 Jul. 2012) 6 plates; 33 references                  Accepted: 5 Jun. 2012
Mystus velifer, a new species of catfish from Indochina (Teleostei: Bagridae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3392: 1–34 (18 Jul. 2012) 12 plates; 152 references                     Accepted: 24 May 2012
A history of biogeographical regionalisation in Australia
MALTE C. EBACH (Australia)
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Zootaxa 3391: 39–51 (18 Jul. 2012) 8 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 17 May 2012
Cyanocharax obi, a new species (Characiformes: Characidae) and the first record of the genus from tributaries of the río Paraná basin, Argentina
JORGE CASCIOTTA (Argentina), ADRIANA ALMIRÓN (Argentina), LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK (Czech Republic) & OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 3390: 56–64 (17 Jul. 2012) 4 plates; 6 references                       Accepted: 20 Apr. 2012
A new species of Parotocinclus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio São Francisco, Brazil
PABLO LEHMANN A. & ROBERTO E. REIS (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3390: 33–42 (17 Jul. 2012) 2 plates; 43 references                     Accepted: 18 May 2012
Molecular systematics of the armored neotropical catfish subfamily Neoplecostominae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
FÁBIO F. ROXO, CLÁUDIO H. ZAWADZKI, GUILHERME J. DA COSTA SILVA,
MARCIO C. CHIACHIO, FAUSTO FORESTI & CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3380: 34–38 (5 Jul. 2012) 3 plate; 21 references                  Accepted: 8 Mar 2012
A new species of the deepwater clingfish genus Kopua (Gobiesociformes: Gobiesocidae) from the East China Sea—an example of antitropicality?
GLENN I. MOORE1, J. BARRY HUTCHINS1 & MAKOTO OKAMOTO

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Zootaxa 3367: 274–280 (4 Jul. 2012) 4 plates; 10 references                     Accepted: 15 Nov. 2011
A new deepwater goby of the genus Discordipinna Hoese & Fourmanoir, 1978 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Kumejima of the Ryukyus, Japan
I-Shiung CHEN, Toshiyuki SUZUKI & Kwang-Tsao SHAO

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Zootaxa 3367: 269–273 (4 Jul. 2012) 2 plates; 11 references                     Accepted: 18 Jan. 2011
A new Obliquogobius Koumans, 1941 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Kumejima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
I-Shiung CHEN, Zeehan JAAFAR & Kwang-Tsao SHAO

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Article
Zootaxa 3367: 49–59 (4 Jul. 2012) 5 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 14 Aug. 2011
Two new species of the copepod Hatschekia Poche, 1902 (Siphonostomatoida: Hatschekiidae) from angelfishes (Pisces: Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) collected during the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition
Daisuke UYENO & Kazuya NAGASAWA

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3366: 1–111 (4 Jul. 2012) 96 plates; 99 references                   Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012   
Phylogenetic Systematics of the Family Pentacerotidae(Actinopterygii: Order Perciformes)
SEONG-YONG KIM

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Zootaxa 3363: 45–51 (3 Jul. 2012) 4 plate; 7 references                      Accepted: 14 Mar 2012
Phallostethus cuulong, a new species of priapiumfish (Actinopterygii: Atheriniformes: Phallostethidae) from the Vietnamese Mekong
KOICHI SHIBUKAWA (Japan), DINH DAC TRAN (Vietnam) & LOI XUAN TRAN (Vietnam)

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Zootaxa 3363: 38–44 (3 Jul. 2012) 3 plate; 5 references                     Accepted: 10 May 2012
Redescription of Parapercis rufa Randall, 2001, a replacement name for P. rosea Fourmanoir, 1985, based on specimens newly collected from southern Taiwan
HSUAN–CHING HO (Taiwan) & ROMAIN CAUSSE (France)
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Zootaxa 3362: 54–64 (2 Jul. 2012) 3 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012
Review of the shrimp-associated goby genus Lotilia (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), with description of a new species from the West Pacific
KOICHI SHIBUKAWA, TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI & HIROSHI SENOU (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3352: 60–68 (20 Jun. 2012) 3 plates; 33 references                  Accepted: 2 May 2012
Trichomycterus argos (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae), a new species from the Doce River Basin, Eastern Brazil
ANTÔNIO QUEIROZ LEZAMA, MAURO L. TRIQUES & PATRÍCIA S. SANTOS (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3352: 17–24 (20 Jun. 2012) 4 plates; 25 references                  Accepted: 12 Mar. 2012
Rediscovery and phylogenetic placement of the endemic Malagasy cichlid Ptychochromoides itasy (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Ptychochrominae)
JOHN S. SPARKS, PAUL V. LOISELLE & ZACHARY H. BALDWIN (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3348: 63–68 (15 Jun. 2012) 4 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 2 May 2012
Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK), ANVAR ALI (India) & SIBY PHILIP (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 3345: 59–68 (13 Jun. 2012) 5 plates; 35 references                  Accepted: 16 Apr. 2012
Pristolepis rubripinnis, a new species of fish from southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Pristolepididae)
RALF BRITZ (UK), KRISHNA KUMAR (India) & FIBIN BABY (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 3340: 29–43 (8 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 50 references                  Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
Comparative morphology of rostral cartilages in extant mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae) using CT scanning
FREDERIK H. MOLLEN (Belgium), SABINE P. WINTNER (South Africa), SAMUEL P. IGLÉSIAS (France),
SEAN R. VAN SOMMERAN (USA) & JOHN W. M. JAGT (The Netherland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3331: 44–68 (1 Jun. 2012) 21 plates; 31 references                  Accepted: 1 May 2012
Complementary redescription of Raja lintea Fries, 1839 (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae) and its revised generic assignment
MATTHIAS F.W. STEHMANN (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3327: 45–52 (29 May 2012) 5 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
Acanthocobitis pictilis, a new species of loach from Myanmar and Thailand (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)
MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland)

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Article
Zootaxa 3327: 33–44 (29 May 2012) 5 plates; 44 references                  Accepted: 18 Apr. 2012
A new species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus from the La Plata River basin, southern Brazil, with comments on its putative phylogenetic position (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
ALÉSSIO DATOVO, MURILO CARVALHO & JULIANO FERRER (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3327: 20–32 (29 May 2012) 6 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 18 Apr. 2012
Himantura randalli sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatoidea: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf
PETER R. LAST (Australia), B. MABEL MANJAJI-MATSUMOTO (Malaysia) 
& ALEC B. M. MOORE (UK)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3325: 68 (25 May 2012)
Erratum: ROMAN KUCHTA, ALENA BURIANOVÁ, MILOSLAV JIRKŮ, ALAIN de CHAMBRIER, MIKULÁŠ OROS, JAN BRABEC & TOMÁŠ SCHOLZ (2012) Bothriocephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) of freshwater fish in Africa, including erection of Kirstenella n. gen. and description of Tetracampos martinae n. sp.. Zootaxa, 3309, 1–35.
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Article
Zootaxa 3319: 57–68 (22 May 2012) 3 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 30 Apr. 2012
Parapercis pariomaculata (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae), a new species of sandperch from Lombok and Bali, Indonesia and remarks on the validity of P. quadrispinosa (Weber 1913)
JEFFREY W. JOHNSON & WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3317: 59–64 (18 May 2012) 4 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 16 Apr. 2012
Parambassis bistigmata, a new species of glassperch from north-eastern India (Teleostei: Ambassidae)
KHANGJRAKPAM GEETAKUMARI (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 3314: 17–30 (16 May 2012) 7 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 27 Mar. 2012
Description of a rheophilic Tilapia species Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
from Guinea with comments on Tilapia rheophila Daget, 1962
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3314: 1–16 (16 May 2012) 7 plates; 56 references                  Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
Description of two new species of sea bass (Teleostei: Latidae: Lates) from Myanmar and Sri Lanka
ROHAN PETHIYAGODA & ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3304: 54–62 (8 May 2012) 5 plates; 18 references                  Accepted: 23 Mar. 2012
Glyptothorax jayarami, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Mizoram, northeastern India
YUMNAM RAMESHORI & WAIKHOM VISHWANATH (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 3297: 1–33 (2 May 2012) 13 plates; 27 references                   Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012
The spotted flounder, Azygopus flemingi Nielsen 1961 (Pisces: Pleuronectiformes: Rhombosoleidae), from deep waters off New Zealand: a second valid species of Azygopus Norman 1926, with notes on distribution, size, maturity, and ecology
THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3296: 1–18 (1 May 2012) 10 plates; 31 references                  Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012
Redescription of Iluocoetes Jenyns, 1842; proposal of a new genus, Argentinolycus, for Iluocoetes elongatus (Smitt, 1898), and description of Patagolycus melastomus gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei, Zoarcidae)
JESÚS MATALLANAS & CECÍLIA CORBELLA (Spain)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3294: 1–84 (30 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 79 references                 Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012   
Revision of the Indo-Pacific cardinalfish genus Siphamia (Perciformes: Apogonidae)
OFER GON & GERALD R. ALLEN
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3285: 1–120 (30 Apr. 2012) 80 plates; 93 references                   Accepted: 7 Nov. 2011   
Snailfishes (Family Liparidae) of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, and Closely Adjacent Waters
DAVID L. STEIN

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Article
Zootaxa 3277: 43–55 (24 Apr. 2012) 8 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 9 Mar. 2012
Systematics of the Etheostoma cinereum (Teleostei: Percidae) species complex
(subgenus Allohistium)
STEVEN L. POWERS, BERNARD R. KUHAJDA, & SARAH E. AHLBRAND (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3269: 57–64 (16 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 22 references                  Accepted:9 Mar. 2012
Description of a new species of the genus Yunnanilus Nichols, 1925 (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Yunnan, China 
ZIMING CHEN, JIAN YANG& JUNXING YANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3266: 41–52 (11 Apr. 2012) 6 plates; 43 references                  Accepted: 2 Mar. 2012
Thalasseleotrididae, new family of marine gobioid fishes from New Zealand and temperate Australia, with a revised definition of its sister taxon, the Gobiidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha) 

ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia) & RANDALL D. MOOI (Canada)

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Article
Zootaxa 3263: 1–46 (9 Apr. 2012) 8 plates; 202 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
Mediterranean fish biodiversity: an updated inventory with focus on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas 

PETER NICK PSOMADAKIS, STEFANO GIUSTINO & MARINO VACCHI (Italy)

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Article
Zootaxa 3258: 37–45 (5 Apr. 2012) 4 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 14 Feb. 2012
Chaca serica, a new species of frogmouth catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from southern Borneo 

HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3258: 1–27 (5 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 16 Feb. 2012
Review of the Lake Mala
ŵi genus Melanochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) with a description of a new species 
ADRIANUS F. KONINGS & JAY R. STAUFFER, JR. (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3257: 56–65 (4 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 16 references                  Accepted: 23 Feb. 2012
Description of a new species of genus Gobio from Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) 

DAVUT TURAN (Turkey), F. GÜLER EKMEKÇI (Turkey), VERA LUSKOVA (Czech Republic) & JAN MENDEL (Czech Republic)

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Article
Zootaxa 3254: 55–68 (2 Apr. 2012) 4 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 24 Feb. 2012
The catfish genus Erethistoides (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) in Myanmar, with descriptions of three new species 

HEOK HEE NG (Singapore), CARL J. FERRARIS, JR. (USA) & DAVID A. NEELY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3253: 62–68 (2 Apr. 2012) 4 plates; 1 9 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
A new species of frogfish of the genus Histiophryne (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennariidae) from Lombok and Komodo, Indonesia 
RACHEL J. ARNOLD (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3250: 54–62 (29 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 14 Feb. 2012
Glyptothorax lanceatus, a new species of sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from southwestern China 
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore), WAN-SHENG JIANG (China) & XIAO-YONG CHEN (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3249: 39–46 (28 Mar. 2012) 7 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 21 Feb. 2012
Adelotremus leptus, a new genus and species of sabertooth blenny from the Red Sea (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Nemophini) 

WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA) & JEAN MICHEL ROSE (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3249: 31–38 (28 Mar. 2012) 5 plates; 20 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
A new species of deepwater tilefish (Percoidea: Branchiostegidae) from the Philippines, with a brief discussion of the status of tilefish systematics 

JAMES K. DOOLEY (USA) & YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3245: 54–62 (23 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 15 Feb. 2012
Pseudopataecus carnatobarbatus, a new species of velvetfish (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes: Aploactinidae) from the Kimberley coast of Western Australia 

JEFFREY W. JOHNSON (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3243: 52–58 (22 Mar. 2012) 3 plates;12 references                  Accepted: 13 Feb. 2012
Cordylancistrus santarosensis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species with unique snout deplatation from the Río Santa Rosa, Ecuador 

MILTON TAN & JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3241: 1–34 (21 Mar. 2012) 14 plates; 52 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
A redescription of Carcharhinus dussumieri and C. sealei, with resurrection of C. coatesi and C. tjutjot as valid species (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) 

WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3235: 65–68 (15 Mar. 2012) 0 plate; 13 references                  Accepted: 10 Jan. 2012
Corroboration assessments and recent progress towards integrative systematics: a reply to Farris and Carpenter 

DANIEL P. FAITH, FRANK KÖHLER, LOUISE PUSLEDNIK & J.W.O. BALLARD (Australia)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3235: 62–64 (15 Mar. 2012) 0 plate; 14 references                  Accepted: 10 Jan. 2012
Faith et al.'s (2011) "corroboration assessment" leads to verificationism 

JAMES S. FARRIS (Sweden) & JAMES M. CARPENTER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3233: 1–21 (14 Mar. 2012) 9 plates; 26 references                  Accepted: 9 Jan. 2012
Three new species of Neoplecostomus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Upper Rio Paraná basin of southeastern Brazil 
FÁBIO F. ROXO, CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA & CLÁUDIO H. ZAWADZKI (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3221: 48–59 (5 Mar. 2012) 6 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 12 Jan. 2012
Description of a new species of deepwater catshark, Bythaelurus giddingsi sp. nov., from the Galápagos Islands (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) 
JOHN E. McCOSKER, DOUGLAS J. LONG & CAROLE C. BALDWIN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3210: 39–49 (28 Feb. 2012) 2 plates; 49 references                   Accepted: 24 Jan. 2012
Review of the African catfish genus Andersonia (Teleostei: Siluriformes) 
CARL J. FERRARIS, JR. & RICHARD P. VARI (USA)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3208: 68 (27 Feb. 2012)
Erratum: SPARKS, J.S. & BALDWIN, Z.H. (2012) A new species of Parapercis (Teleostei: Pinguipedidae) from Madagascar. Zootaxa, 3024, 31–39.

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Article 
Zootaxa 3208: 58–67 (27 Feb. 2012) 4 plates; 27 references                   Accepted: 16 Jan. 2012
Re-validation and re-description of an endemic and threatened species, Aphanius pluristriatus (Jenkins, 1910) (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae), from southern Iran 
HAMID REZA ESMAEILI (Iran), AZAD TEIMORI (Iran), ZEINAB GHOLAMI (Germany), NEDA ZAREI (Iran) & BETTINA REICHENBACHER (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3206: 4 1–57 (24 Feb. 2012) 9 plates; 73 references                     Accepted: 13 Jan. 2012
A valid priacanthid species, Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862), and a redescription of P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829) in the Indo-West Pacific (Perciformes: Priacanthidae) 
YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan), TSUYOSHI MATSUDA (Japan), WAYNE C. STARNES (USA), TETSUJI NAKABO (Japan) & TETSUO YOSHINO (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3204: 47–60 (23 Feb. 2012) 7 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Revalidation of the genus Ectrepopterus Fowler (Teleostei: Characiformes), with the redescription of its type species, E. uruguayensis 

LUIZ R. MALABARBA (Brazil), VINICIUS A. BERTACO (Brazil), FERNANDO R. CARVALHO (Brazil) & THOMAS O. LITZ (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3204: 31–39 (23 Feb. 2012) 3 plates; 23 references                     Accepted: 3 Jan. 2012
A new species of Parapercis (Teleostei: Pinguipedidae) from Madagascar 

JOHN S. SPARKS & ZACHARY H. BALDWIN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3199: 60–65 (20 Feb. 2012) 3 plates; 17 references                     Accepted: 23 Dec. 2011
Alloblennius frondiculus, a new species of blenny from the Andaman Islands (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Salariini) 

WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3197: 55–62 (17 Feb. 2012) 10 plates; 11 references                     Accepted: 23 Dec. 2011
Eviota atriventris, a New Goby Previously Misidentified as Eviota pellucida Larson (Teleostei: Gobiidae) 

DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA) & TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3197: 43–54 (17 Feb. 2012) 9 plates; 16 references                      Accepted: 9 Jan. 2011
Krobia xinguensis, a new species of cichlid fish from the Xingu River drainage in Brazil (Teleostei: Cichlidae) 
SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3195: 39–50 (16 Feb. 2012) 6 plates; 22 references                   Accepted: 10 Jan. 2011
Two new gurnards of the genus Pterygotrigla (Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae) from Australian seas
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & WILLIAM J. RICHARDS (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3192: 1–23 (14 Feb. 2012) 14 plates; 94 references                           Accepted: 23 Dec. 2011
A new deep-bodied fossil fish (Actinopterygii) from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Paraná Basin, Brazil 

ELISEU VIEIRA DIAS (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3182: 57–64 (03 Feb. 2012) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 09 Dec. 2011
Description of the clasper of the Southern Thorny Skate Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi,
1935) (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae)
GABRIELA DELPIANI, DANIEL E. FIGUEROA & EZEQUIEL MABRAGAÑA (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3170: 1–17 (24 Jan. 2012) 19 plates; 16 references                      Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
Gobiid fishes of the genus Bryaninops from the Red Sea, with description of two
new species and two new records
TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI (Japan), SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3167: 1–16 (20 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 83 references                      Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii)
ALEC B.M. MOORE, ROBERT D. WARD & RICHARD PEIRCE (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 3166: 59–68 (19 Jan. 2012) 6 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 1 Nov. 2011
A new Alestopetersius (Characiformes: Alestidae) from the Kwilu River (Kasai basin) of central Africa; with a phylogeny for the genus and synonymy of Duboisialestes
JOSÉ JUSTIN MBIMBI MAYI MUNENE (Democratic Republic of Congo)
& MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3165: 64–68 (19 Jan. 2012) 5 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Colletteichthys occidentalis, a new Toadfish Species from the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Arabian Sea (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3165: 25–38 (19 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 21 Nov. 2011
Two new species of striped Pseudochromis from the Philippine Islands and
Indonesia, with a redescription of P. colei (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia), GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia) & MARK ERDMANN (Indonesia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3165: 1–24 (19 Jan. 2012) 17 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
A new species of grenadier, genus Macrourus (Teleostei, Gadiformes, Macrouridae) from the southern hemisphere and a revision of the genus
PETER MCMILLAN (New Zealand), TOMIO IWAMOTO (USA), ANDREW STEWART (New Zealand)
& PETER J SMITH (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3161: 60–66 (16 Jan. 2012) 3 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Giganthias serratospinosus, a new serranid (Perciformes: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from the island of Lombok in Indonesia
WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia) & DHARMADI (Indonesia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3161: 53–60 (16 Jan. 2012) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Two new dottyback species of the genus Pseudochromis from southern Indonesia (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia), GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia) & MARK ERDMANN (Indonesia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3155: 47–64 (10 Jan. 2012) 14 plate; 6 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Two new softnose skates of the genus Brochiraja (Rajoidei: Arhynchobatidae) from the deepwater slopes and banks of the Norfolk Ridge (South-West Pacific)
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & BERNARD SÉRET (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3152: 61–67 (6 Jan. 2012) 3 plate; 15 references                         Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Sparisoma choati, a new species of Parrotfish (Labridae: Scarinae) from the tropical eastern Atlantic
LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA), ALBERTO BRITO (Spain) & D. ROSS ROBERTSON (Panamá)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3152: 36–60 (6 Jan. 2012) 9 plate; 34 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2011
A review of the blennioid fish family Tripterygiidae (Perciformes) in the Red Sea, with description of Enneapterygius qirmiz, and reinstatement of Enneapterygius altipinnis Clark, 1980
WOUTER HOLLEMAN (South Africa) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)

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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 26–38 (23 Dec. 2011
Pisces. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
WILLIAM N. ESCHMEYER & JON D. FONG
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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 49–59 (22 Dec. 2011) 7 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 17 Oct. 2011
Description of two new species of Pseudochrominae from northern Palawan and Mindoro, Philippine Islands (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia) & JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3135: 63–68 (19 Dec. 2011) 2 plates; 34 references                     Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
Samariscus neocaledonia, a new righteye flounder (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes: Samaridae) from New Caledonia
TOSHIO KAWAI (Japan), KUNIO AMAOKA (Japan) & BERNARD SÉRET (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3134: 53–62 (16 Dec. 2011) 12 plates; 21 references                   Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
Eviota rubriceps, a new goby from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, with comments on E. mikiae and E. raja (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD & SUSAN L. JEWETT (USA)

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Zootaxa 3134: 43–52 (16 Dec. 2011) 3 plates; 10 references                     Accepted: 08 Nov. 2011
Gymnothorax melanosomatus, a new moray eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from southeastern Taiwan
KAR-HOE LOH, KWANG-TSAO SHAO & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)
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Zootaxa 3133: 1–36 (16 Dec. 2011) 36 plates; 26 references                    Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Identification of early life-history stages of Caribbean Apogon (Perciformes: Apogonidae) through DNA Barcoding
CAROLE C. BALDWIN (USA), BALAM J. BRITO (Mexico), DAVID G. SMITH (USA), LEE A. WEIGT (USA) & ELVA ESCOBAR-BRIONES (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 3131: 63–68 (15 Dec. 2011) 4 plates; 17 references                    Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
Taxonomic status of Parapercis elongata (Teleostei: Pinguipedidae), with comments on its authorship
TOMOYUKI YAMANAKA, HISASHI IMAMURA & TETSUO YOSHINO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3131: 1–34 (15 Dec. 2011) 26 plates; 39 references                     Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VII. The Pardosa tesquorum group
TORBJÖRN KRONESTEDT (Sweden) & YURI M. MARUSIK(Russia)

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Zootaxa 3120: 55–62 (06 Dec. 2011) 05 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 12 Oct. 2011
Leporinus britskii: a new anostomid species from the Tapajós and Jari drainages, Brazil (Characiformes: Anostomidae)
FRANCIMÁRIO DA S. FEITOSA, GERALDO M. DOS SANTOS & JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI (Brazil)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3120: 67–68 (06 Dec. 2011) 00 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 07 Nov. 2011
The grammatical gender of fish generic nomina based on the stem—butis (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei)
MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3115: 68 (01Dec. 2011
LUKE TORNABENE & FRANK PEZOLD (2011) Phylogenetic analysis of Western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 3042: 27–36 (2011)
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Correspodence
Zootaxa 3115: 65–67 (01 Dec. 2011) 0 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 14 Oct. 2011
Review of records of sawfishes (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae) from Fiji, with deletion of Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 and Pristis sp. from the fauna
CLINTON DUFFY (New Zealand), JOHNSON SEETO (Fiji) & TOM TRNSKI (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 3114: 22–30 (30 Nov. 2011) 04 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Two new sympatric Knipowitschia species (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from an eastern Mediterranean coastal lake—examples of different dispersal patterns?
HARALD AHNELT (Austria)

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Zootaxa 3111: 64–66 (28 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
Primary type status of Perca cirrosa Thunberg, 1793 (Scorpaenidae)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA, YUKO TAKIGAWA, GOTA OGIHARA & TETSUO YOSHINO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3107: 47–58 (23 Nov. 2011) 06 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
A new species of Upeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from southern Japan
MASAHIRO YAMASHITA (Japan), DANIEL GOLANI (Israel) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 3106: 1–23 (22 Nov. 2011) 14 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
Pseudochromine and pseudoplesiopine dottyback fishes from the Socotra Archipelago, Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species of Pseudochromis Rüppell (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia) & UWE ZAJONZ (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3098: 64–68 (15 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Redescription of Sphenanthias whiteheadi Talwar (Perciformes: Cepolidae) with DNA barcodes from the southern coasts of India
K.K. BINEESH, K. A. SAJEELA, K.V. AKHILESH, N. G. K. PILLAI & E.M. ABDUSSAMAD (India)

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Zootaxa 3098: 21–25 (15 Nov. 2011) 1 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Saurida golanii, a new deep water lizardfish (Pisces: Synodontidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea
BARRY C RUSSELL (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3096: 53–58 (11 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 16 Sep. 2011
Aphanius farsicus, a replacement name for A. persicus (Jenkins, 1910) (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae)
AZAD TEIMORI (Germany), HAMID REZA ESMAEILI (Iran) & BETTINA REICHENBACHER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3096: 1–17 (11 Nov. 2011) 15 plates; 60 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
A review of the Caribbean hamlets (Serranidae, Hypoplectrus) with description of two new species
PHILLIP S. LOBEL (USA)

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Zootaxa 3095: 63–68 (10 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
A new cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides (Perciformes, Apogonidae) from Raja Ampat Islands, with a key to species
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3091: 42–50 (04 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
Validity of Lampetra pacifica (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae), a brook lamprey described from the lower Columbia River Basin
STEWART B. REID (USA), DAVID A. BOGUSKI (Canada), DAMON H. GOODMAN (USA)
& MARGARET F. DOCKER (Canada)
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Zootaxa 3086: 1–14 (02 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 67 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
Albula gilberti, a new species of bonefish (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from the eastern Pacific, and a description of adults of the parapatric A. esuncula
EDWARD PFEILER (Mexico), ALBERT M. VAN DER HEIDEN (Mexico), RYAN S. RUBOYIANES (USA)
& TOM WATTS (USA)
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Zootaxa 3085: 55–62 (31 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
A new species of glass-perch from Belitung Island, Indonesia (Teleostei: Ambassidae: Gymnochanda)
HEOK HUI TAN & KELVIN K. P. LIM (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3085: 34–40 (31 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 2 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
Opistognathus albicaudatus, a new species of jawfish (Teleostei: Opistognathidae) from the Andaman Islands
WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA)

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Zootaxa 3066: 61–68 (24 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 7 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
Akysis bilustris, a new species of catfish from southern Laos (Siluriformes: Akysidae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 3066: 52–60 (24 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 09 Sep. 2011
Onigocia sibogae, a replacement name for a distinct species of flathead fish, Platycephalus grandisquamis Weber, 1913 (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan)

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otaxa
3063: 1–21 (20 Oct. 2011) 7 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
Three new species of African suckermouth catfishes, genus Chiloglanis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae), from the lower Malagarasi and Luiche rivers of western Tanzania
JOHN P. FRIEL & THOMAS R. VIGLIOTTA (USA)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3061: 67–68 (18 Oct. 2011) 0 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 19 Sep. 2011
Coris sandageri, an unjustified emendation of Coris sandeyeri (Hector 1884) (Pisces, Labridae) BARRY C RUSSELL (Australia)
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Zootaxa 3061: 53–66 (18 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 08 Aug. 2011
Description and biological observations on a new species of deepwater symphurine tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae: Symphurus) collected at Volcano–19, Tonga Arc, West Pacific Ocean 
THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA), JENNIFER TYLER (Canada) & VERENA TUNNICLIFFE (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3057: 49–60 (12 Oct. 2011) 11 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 13 Sep. 2011
Four new records of shore fishes for the Red Sea, with notes on Parupeneus heptacanthus and Diodon liturosus 
SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia), JOHN E. RANDALL (USA) & DANIEL GOLANI (Israel)

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Zootaxa 3054: 60–68 (10 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 14 Sep. 2011
Redescription of the Red Sea gobiid fish Ctenogobiops maculosus (Fourmanoir) and validation of C. crocineus Smith 
MARCELO KOVA
ČIĆ (Croatia), SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Zootaxa 3052: 62–68 (07 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 5 references                         Accepted: 15 Sep. 2011
Tonlesapia amnica, a new species of dragonet (Teleostei: Callionymidae) from the Mekong delta HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & WALTER J. RAINBOTH (USA)
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Zootaxa 3046: 39–58 (30 Sep. 2011) 23 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
Three new species of the fangblenny genus Meiacanthus from Indonesia, with color photographs and comments on other species (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Nemophini) 
WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3042: 27–36 (27 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 30 Aug. 2011
Phylogenetic analysis of Western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) 
LUKE TORNABENE & FRANK PEZOLD (USA)

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Zootaxa 3037: 45–50 (21 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 26 Aug. 2011
Pseudeutropius indigens, a new species of schilbeid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from peninsular Thailand 
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON (Lao)

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Zootaxa 3036: 39–57 (21 Sep. 2011) 12 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 15 Aug. 2011
Review of the genus Microphilypnus Myers, 1927 (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Eleotridae) from the lower Amazon basin, with description of one new species 
RODRIGO A. CAIRES & JOSÉ LIMA DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3027: 01–08 (15 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
Redescription of the perciform fish Symphysanodon disii (Symphysanodontidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, with comments on S. pitondelafournaisei and sexual dimorphism in the genus WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR. (USA), AVI BARANES (Israel) & MENACHEM GOREN (Israel)
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Zootaxa 3025: 38–50 (14 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
A review of the Acanthopagrus bifasciatus species complex (Pisces: Sparidae) from the Indian Ocean, with redescriptions of A. bifasciatus (Forsskål 1775) and A. catenula (Lacepède 1801) YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan) & PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA (South Africa)
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Zootaxa 3018: 59–65 (08 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 08 Aug. 2011
Synaptolaemus latofasciatus, a new combination for Leporinus latofasciatus Steindachner, 1910 and its junior synonym Synaptolaemus cingulatus Myers and Fernández-Yépez, 1950 (Characiformes: Anostomidae) 
HERALDO A. BRITSKI, JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI & JULIO C. GARAVELLO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3018: 13–20 (08 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 27 Jul. 2011
Polysteganus mascarenensis, a new sparid fish species from Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan) & PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA (South Africa)
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Zootaxa 3015: 21–28 (06 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug 2011
Odontanthias randalli n. sp., a new anthiine fish (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Indonesia
WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 3015: 1–12 (06 Sep. 2011) 12 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
Distribution of Tetraodontiformes (Family: Tetraodontidae) along the Parangipettai Coast, Southeast coast of India 
ANGUCHAMY VEERURAJ, MUTHUVEL ARUMUGAM, THANGAPPAN AJITHKUMAR & THANGAVEL BALASUBRAMANIAN (India)

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Zootaxa 3002: 45–51 (24 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 8 Aug. 2011
Boraras naevus, a new species of miniature and sexually dichromatic freshwater fish from peninsular Thailand (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae) 
KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA) AND MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa 3002: 17–30 (24 Aug. 2011) 7 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 13 Jul. 2011
Gollum suluensis sp. nov. (Carcharhiniformes: Pseudotriakidae), a new gollum-shark from the southern Philippines 
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & JOE P. GAUDIANO (Philippines)
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Zootaxa 2998: 48–65 (18 Aug. 2011) 9 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 15 Jul. 2011
Description of Barbus teugelsi sp. nov. (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Little Scarcies basin in Guinea, Africa 
MAMADOU BAMBA (Côte d’Ivoire), EMMANUEL J. VREVEN (Belgium) & JOS SNOEKS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 2998: 39–47 (18 Aug. 2011) 5 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
A new species of Secutor (Teleostei: Leiognathidae) from the Western Indian Ocean 
ZACHARY H. BALDWIN & JOHN S. SPARKS (USA)

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Zootaxa 2997: 54–66 (17 Aug. 2011) 20 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 23 Jul. 2011
Two new Indo-Pacific species in the Eviota nigriventris complex (Teleostei: Gobiidae) 
DAVID W. GREENFIELD & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Zootaxa 2994: 1–20 (12 Aug. 2011) 12 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 4 Jul. 2011
A threatened new species of Oligosarcus and its phylogenetic relationships, with comments on Astyanacinus (Teleostei: Characidae) 
JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE, GASTÓN AGUILERA & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 2993: 23–33 (11 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 17 references                     Accepted: 1 Jun. 2011
Salmo tigridis, a new species of trout from the Tigris River, Turkey (Teleostei: Salmonidae) DAVUT TURAN (Turkey), MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland) & YUSUF BEKTAŞ (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 2992: 52–60 (11 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 8 references                     Accepted: 2 Jun. 2011
Spinipterus, a new genus of small, spiny catfish (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) from the Peruvian Amazon 
ALBERTO AKAMA (Brazil) & CARL J. FERRARIS, JR (USA)

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Zootaxa 2988: 1–27 (08 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 43 references                     Accepted: 4 Jul. 2011
Two new species of Foa (Apogonidae) from the Pacific Plate, with redescriptions of Foa brachygramma and Foa fo 
THOMAS H. FRASER & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Zootaxa 2985: 26–40 (04 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 21 references                     Accepted: 30 Jun. 2011
List of coastal fishes of Islas Marías archipelago, Mexico, with comments on taxonomic composition, biogeography, and abundance 
BRAD E. ERISMAN (USA), GRANTLY R. GALLAND (USA), ISMAEL MASCAREÑAS (Mexico), JERRY MOXLEY (USA), H. J. WALKER(USA), OCTAVIO ABURTO-OROPEZA (USA), PHILIP A. HASTINGS (USA) & EXEQUIEL EZCURRA (USA)

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Zootaxa 2982: 1–26 (02 Aug. 2011) 11 plates; 44 references                         Accepted: 30 Jun. 2011
Two new species of Australoheros (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with notes on diversity of the genus and biogeography of the Río de la Plata basin 

OLD
ŘICH ŘÍČAN (Czech Republic), LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK (Czech Republic), ADRIANA ALMIRÓN (Argen-tina) & JORGE CASCIOTTA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 2966: 37–50 (14 Jul. 2011) 2 plates; 61 references                         Accepted: 18 May 2011
A molecular phylogeny of the Grunts (Perciformes: Haemulidae) inferred using mitochondrial and nuclear genes
MILLICENT D. SANCIANGCO, LUIZ A. ROCHA & KENT E. CARPENTER (USA)
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Zootaxa 2966: 31–36 (14 Jul. 2011) 2 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 2 Jun. 2011
A new species of the perciform fish genus Symphysanodon (Symphysanodontidae) from the Arabian Sea off the southwestern coast of India
WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR. (USA) & K. K. BINEESH (India)
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Zootaxa 2966: 1–12 (14 Jul. 2011) 7 plates; 38 references                         Accepted: 26 May 2011
Description of Fenerbahce devosi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of dwarf killifish from the eastern Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo
RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany), TONNIE WOELTJES (Belgium) & JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 2957: 1–74 (08 Jul. 2011) 8 plates; 261 references               Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Annotated checklist and type catalog of fish genera and species described from Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO & KWANG-TSAO SHAO

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otaxa
2941: 38–46 (06 Jul. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                       Accepted: 19 May 2011
A new distinctively banded species of Pseudolithoxus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Orinoco River
NATHAN K. LUJAN (USA) & JOSE L. O. BIRINDELLI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2936: 51–58 (01 Jul. 2011) 5 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 26 May 2011
Monopterus ichthyophoides, a new species of scaled swamp eel (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae) from Mizoram, India
RALF BRITZ (UK), HMAR TLAWMTE LALREMSANGA (India), LALROTLUANGA (India) & LALRAMLIANA
(India)
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Zootaxa 2934: 29–38 (30 Jun. 2011) 6 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 23 May 2011
A new characid fish, Moenkhausia aurantia (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae), from the upper rio Tocantins basin in Central Brazil
VINICIUS A. BERTACO, FERNANDO C. JEREP & FERNANDO R. CARVALH (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2934: 20–28 (30 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 34 references                         Accepted: 1 Jun. 2011
A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon
SÉBASTIEN LAVOUÉ (France)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2933: 65–68 (29 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 9 May 2011
Validating the occurrence of Caribbean reef sharks, Carcharhinus perezi (Poey), (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, with a key for sharks of the family Carcharhinidae inhabiting the region
WILLIAM B. DRIGGERS III, ERIC R. HOFFMAYER, EMMA L. HICKERSON, TIMOTHY L. MARTIN &
CHRISTOPHER T. GLEDHILL (USA)
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Zootaxa 2925: 63–68 (21 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 11 May 2011
A new species of frogfish of the genus Histiophryne (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennariidae) from Queensland, Australia
RACHEL J. ARNOLD & THEODORE W. PIETSCH (USA)
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Zootaxa 2924: 57–62 (20 Jun. 2011) 13 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 23 May 2011
Pseudochromis erdmanni, a new species of dottyback with medially placed palatine teeth from Indonesia (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2922: 60–68 (17 Jun. 2011) 1 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 9 May 2011
Checklist of conspicuous reef fishes of the Bahía de los Ángeles region, Baja California Norte, Mexico, with comments on abundance and ecological biogeography
ISMAEL MASCAREÑAS-OSORIO (Mexico), BRAD ERISMAN (USA), JERRY MOXLEY (USA),
EDUARDO BALART (Mexico) & OCTAVIO ABURTO-OROPEZA (USA)
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Zootaxa 2912: 59–67 (9 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
A new Trichomycterus lacking pelvic fins and pelvic girdle with a very restricted range in Southern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
JULIANO FERRER & LUIZ R. MALABARBA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2911: 50–56 (9 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 2 May 2011
A new species of Tetragonopterus Cuvier, 1816 (Characiformes, Characidae, Tetragonopterinae) from the upper rio Araguaia, Central Brazil
GABRIEL S. C. SILVA & RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2905: 63–68 (3 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 25 references                      Accepted: 11 May 2011
Acanthurus tractus Poey, 1860, a valid western Atlantic species of surgeonfish (Teleostei, Acanthuridae), distinct from Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 1855
MOISÉS A. BERNAL & LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2903: 57–63 (2 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 2 Mar. 2011
A new species of bonefish, Albula koreana (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from Korea and Taiwan
HYUCK JOON KWUN & JIN KOO KIM (Korea)

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Zootaxa 2901: 59–68 (1 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 4 May 2011
A new species, Microphysogobio wulonghensis (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), from Shandong Province, China
YING-CHUN XING, YA-HUI ZHAO, WEN-QIAO TANG & CHUN-GUANG ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 2901: 52–58 (1 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                        Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Batasio convexirostrum, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from Koladyne basin, India
A. DARSHAN, N. ANGANTHOIBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2901: 1–18 (1 Jun. 2011) 21 plates; 47 references                      Accepted: 23 Mar. 2011
Comparative development of five sympatric coastal Fundulid species from the northern Gulf of Mexico
ERIK T. LANG, MARK S. PETERSON & WILLIAM T. SLACK (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2886: 63–68 (23 May 2011) 6 plates; 5 references                       Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Redescription of the Indian toadfish Perulibatrachus aquilonarius Greenfield (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)
K.K. BINEESH (India) & DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2886: 1–18 (23 May 2011) 2 plates; 38 references                       Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Taxonomy of the fishes of the family Leiognathidae (Pisces, Teleostei) from the West coast of India
K. J. ABRAHAM, K. K. JOSHI & V. S. R. MURTY (India)

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Zootaxa 2881: 39–50 (17 May 2011) 6 plates; 27 references                       Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
Cophecheilus bamen, a new genus and species of labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China
YU ZHU, E ZHANG, MING ZHANG & YAO-QUAN HAN (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2880: 31–40 (17 May 2011) 3 plates; 39 references                     Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Western boundary of the subfamily Danioninae in Asia (Teleostei, Cyprinidae): derived from the systematic position of Barilius mesopotamicus based on molecular and morphological data
TE-YU LIAO (Sweden), ERHAN ÜNLÜ (Turkey) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)

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Article
Zootaxa 2877: 1–40 (13 May 2011) 8 plates; 65 references                       Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
Gill arch and hyoid arch diversity and cypriniform phylogeny: Distributed integration of morphology and web-based tools
PAULA M. MABEE (USA), ERICKA A. GREY (USA), GLORIA ARRATIA (USA), NINA BOGUTSKAYA
(Russia), ALICJA BORON (Poland), †MILES M. COBURN (USA), KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA), SHUNPING HE (P.R. China), ALEXANDER NASEKA (Russia), NELSON RIOS (USA), ANDREW SIMONS (USA), JOLANTA SZLACHCIAK (Russia) & XUZHEN WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 2876: 49–56 (12 May 2011) 3 plates; 12 references                     Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Leptoderma macrophthalmum n.sp., a new species of smooth-head (Otocephala: Alepocephalidae) from the Mid Atlantic Ridge
INGVAR BYRKJEDAL (Norway), JAN YDE POULSEN (Norway) & JOHN GALBRAITH (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2871: 1–18 (9 May 2011) 7 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Two new species of the Glyptosternine catfish genus Euchiloglanis (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from southwest China with redescriptions of E. davidi and E. kishinouyei
WEI ZHOU (P.R. China), XU LI (P.R. China) & ALFRED W. THOMSON (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2867: 59–66 (5 May 2011) 9 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Revision of the bathyal fish genus Pseudonus (Teleostei, Bythitidae); P. squamiceps a senior synonym of P. platycephalus, new to Australian waters
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark)

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Zootaxa 2867: 32–42 (5 May 2011) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 4 Apr. 2011
Parapercis lutevittata, a new cryptic species of Parapercis (Teleostei: Pinguipedidae), from the western Pacific based on morphological evidence and DNA barcoding
YUN-CHIH LIAO, TUN-YUAN CHENG & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. china)

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Article
Zootaxa 2833: 1–14 (27 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 9 Mar. 2011
Paraneetroplus synspilus is a Junior Synonym of Paraneetroplus melanurus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
CALEB D. MCMAHAN, CHRISTOPHER M. MURRAY, AARON D. GEHEBER, CHRISTOPHER D.
BOECKMAN & KYLE R. PILLER (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2827: 1–30 (21 Apr. 2011) 20 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
Potamotrygon tigrina, a new species of freshwater stingray from the upper Amazon basin, closely related to Potamotrygon schroederi Fernandez-Yépez, 1958 (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)
MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO (Brazil), MARK H. SABAJ PEREZ (USA)
& NATHAN R. LOVEJOY (Canada)
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Zootaxa 2823: 61–68 (18 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 17 references                       Accepted: 16 Mar. 2011
Clarias gracilentus, a new walking catfish (Teleostei: Clariidae) from Vietnam and Cambodia
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore), DANG KHANH HONG (Vietnam) & NGUYEN VAN TU (Vietnam)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2819: 68 (14 Apr. 2011
Erratum:
SHIDLOVSKIY, K.M., WATTERS, B.R. & WILDEKAMP, R.H. (2010) Notes on the annual killifish species Nothobranchius rachovii (Cyprinodontiformes; Nothobranchiidae) with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 2724, 37–57.
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2816: 1–64 (12 Apr. 2011) 51 plates; 37 references                       Accepted: 19 Nov. 2010
A review of the freshwater fishes of the Kimberley region of Western Australia

DAVID L. MORGAN, GERALD R. ALLEN, BRADLEY J. PUSEY & DAMIEN W. BURROWS
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 2814: 59–66 (11 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 2 Mar. 2011
A new species of prickleback Ernogrammus zhirmunskii (Acanthopterygii: Perciformes: Stichaeidae) from the Sea of Japan, Russia
ALEXANDER I. MARKEVICH & VLADIMIR E. KHARIN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 2812: 63–68 (8 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Two new goby species of the genus Eviota from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA) & TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2799: 41–48 (24 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 8 references                      Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
A new species of Nemuroglanis (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the rio Guariba, rio Madeira basin, Brazil
FRANK RAYNNER V. RIBEIRO, WELLINGTON S. PEDROZA & LÚCIA H. RAPP PY-DANIEL (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2793: 56–62 (17 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 3 Feb. 2011
Silurichthys ligneolus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern Borneo, Indonesia
HEOK HEE NG & HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2781: 40–48 (2 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 5 Jan. 2011
Rediscovery and description of the quagga shark, Halaelurus quagga (Alcock, 1899) (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) from the southwest coast of India
K.V. AKHILESH (India), K.K. BINEESH (India), C.P.R. SHANIS (India), B.A. HUMAN (Australia) & U.
GANGA (India)
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Zootaxa 2776: 13–48 (24 Feb. 2011) 27 plates; 36 references                      Accepted: 18 Feb. 2011
Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a remarkable new genus and
two new species of Neotropical freshwater stingrays from the Amazon basin (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)
MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO (Brazil) & NATHAN R. LOVEJOY (Canada)

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Zootaxa 2776: 1–12 (24 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
A second New Zealand species of the stargazer genus Kathetostoma (Trachinoidei: Uranoscopidae)
MARTIN F. GOMON (Australia) & CLIVE D. ROBERTS (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 2768: 55–68 (18 Feb. 2011) 9 plates; 31 references                       Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
A new species of Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Etroplinae) from northeastern Madagascar, with a phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the P. damii clade
JOHN S. SPARKS & ROBERT C. SCHELLY (USA)

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Zootaxa 2765: 1–20 (15 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 30 Nov. 2010
Two new sympatric Sarotherodon species (Pisces: Cichlidae) endemic to Lake Ejagham, Cameroon, west-central Africa, with comments on the Sarotherodon galilaeus species complex
DIRK NEUMANN (Germany), MELANIE L. J. STIASSNY (USA) & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2759: 49–59 (7 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
Squatina caillieti sp. nov., a new species of angel shark (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes: Squatinidae) from the Philippine Islands
JONATHAN H. WALSH (USA), DAVID A. EBERT (USA) & LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 2758: 57–68 (7 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2010
A new species of snake eel, Pisodonophis sangjuensis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Korea
HWAN-SUNG JI & JIN-KOO KIM (Korea)

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Zootaxa 2754: 60–66 (1 Feb. 2011) 4 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 29 Dec. 2011
Oreoglanis majusculus, a new glyptosternine catfish from Arunachal Pradesh, India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
I. LINTHOINGAMBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2752: 62–68 (31 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
Description of a new species of sand-dwelling catfish of the genus Stenolicmus (Siluriformes; Trichomycteridae)
WOLMAR BENJAMIN WOSIACKI, DANIEL PIRES COUTINHO & LUCIANO FOGAÇA DE ASSIS MONTAG
(Brazil)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2751: 63–64 (28 Jan. 2011) 1 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
Designation of the lectotype of Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895 (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae) and discussion of its nomenclatural status
PAULO H.F. LUCINDA (Brazil), CARLOS A. FIGUEIREDO (Brazil) & KARSTEN E. HARTEL (USA)

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Zootaxa 2749: 40–46 (26 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
Astyanax pirapuan: a new characid species from the upper Rio Paraguay system, Mato Grosso, Central Brazil (Characiformes, Characidae)
VICTOR A. TAGLIACOLLO, RICARDO BRITZKE, GABRIEL S. C. SILVA & RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2749: 25–39 (26 Jan. 2011) 11 plates; 37 references                        Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
New species of Sangiorgioichthys Tintori and Lombardo, 2007 (Neopterygii, Semionotiformes) from the Anisian of Luoping (Yunnan Province, South China)
ADRIANA LÓPEZ-ARBARELLO (Germany), ZUO-YU SUN (P.R. China), EMILIA SFERCO (Germany),
ANDREA TINTORI (Italy), GUANG-HUI XU (Italy), YUAN-LIN SUN (P.R. China), FEI-XIANG WU (P.R. China) & DA-YONG JIANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 2749: 1–24 (26 Jan. 2011) 15 plates; 86 references                         Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
New semionotiform (Neopterygii) from the Tlayúa Quarry
(Early Cretaceous, Albian), Mexico
ADRIANA LÓPEZ-ARBARELLO (Germany) & JESÚS ALVARADO-ORTEGA (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 2742: 34–48 (17 Jan. 2011) 2 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 3 Nov. 2010
Fishes of the family Sternoptychidae (Stomiiformes) collected on the Brazilian
continental slope between 11° and 23°S
ADRIANO T. LIMA, PAULO A. S. COSTA, ADRIANA C. BRAGA, GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN & MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2741: 66–68 (17 Jan. 2011) 0 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
On the formation of family-group names and gender of genera
based on the stem—butis (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei)
ANTHONY C. GILL & DOUGLAS F. HOESE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2738: 26–40 (12 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
A review of the genus Platyrhina (Chondrichthys: Platyrhinidae) from the northwestern Pacific, with descriptions of two new species
YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan), KEI MIYAMOTO (Japan), KAZUHIRO NAKAYA (Japan) & JIE ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 2738: 1–25 (12 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
Descriptions of five new species in the genus Metriaclima (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
from Lake Malaŵi, Africa
PATRICK J. CICCOTTO, ADRIANUS KONINGS & JAY R. STAUFFER, JR. (USA)

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Zootaxa 2734: 40–52 (7 Jan. 2011) 1 plates; 33 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2010
Fish fauna of Baía da Babitonga (southern Brazil), with remarks on species
abundance, ontogenic stage and conservation status
CIRO COLODETTI VILAR, HENRY LOUIS SPACH & LILYANE DE OLIVEIRA SANTOS (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2724: 58–68 (16 Dec. 2010) 6 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 6 Nov. 2010
Aphyosemion teugelsi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species from a remote locality in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo
JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium) & RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2724: 37–57 (16 Dec. 2010) 11 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 9 Nov. 2010
Notes on the annual killifish species Nothobranchius rachovii (Cyprinodontiformes; Nothobranchiidae) with the description of two new species
KONSTANTIN M. SHIDLOVSKIY (Russia), BRIAN R. WATTERS (Canada) & RUDOLF H. WILDEKAMP (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 2715: 59–67 (7 Dec. 2010) 5 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 17 Nov. 2010
A new species of Ctenobrycon Eigenmann, 1908 (Characiformes: Characidae) from the río Orinoco basin, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil), GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil) & ERNESTO RON (Venezuela)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2710: 1–78 (3 Dec. 2010) 28 plates; 44 references                        Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
A revision of the genus Pseudoscopelus Lütken (Chiasmodontidae: Acanthomorphata) with descriptions
of three new species
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)

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Zootaxa 2694: 59–68 (2 Dec. 2010) 3 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 4 Nov. 2010
Two new records of uncommon deep-sea perciform fishes from the
Southwestern Atlantic
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, GUY MARCOVALDI, CLÁUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO, M. ISABEL G.
PAIVA & LUIZ A. G. DUARTE (Brazil)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2690: 68–68 (29 Nov. 2010
Erratum:
BAÑON, R., VILLEGAS-RÍOS, D., SERRANO, A., MUCIENTES, G. & ARRONTE, J.C. (2010) Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 2667, 1–27.
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Zootaxa 2690: 59–67 (29 Nov. 2010) 3 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 6 Nov. 2010
Parapercis randalli, a new sandperch (Pisces: Pinguipedidae) from Southern Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)

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Zootaxa 2690: 43–52 (29 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 12 Nov. 2010
A new species of Danakilia (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Lake Abaeded in the Danakil Depression of Eritrea (East Africa)
MELANIE L. J. STIASSNY (USA), GIUSEPPE DE MARCHI (Italy) & ANTON LAMBOJ (Austria)

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Zootaxa 2684: 45–56 (23 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
Morphological variation in Acrossocheilus hemispinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Barbinae), with comments on its taxonomic status
LE-YANG YUAN & E ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 2684: 36–44 (23 Nov. 2010) 3 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
Type locality and identity of Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii (Regan, 1908), a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus cinctus (Lin, 1931) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
LE-YANG YUAN & E ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 2677: 60–68 (16 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 5 references                                Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
A new species of miniature catfish from the Malay Peninsula (Teleostei: Bagridae: Nanobagrus)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2677: 27–37 (16 Nov. 2010) 1 plates; 35 references                                Accepted: 6 Oct. 2010
The cardinalfish Fowleria isostigma in the Red Sea and the validity of
F. punctulata (Perciformes: Apogonidae)
OFER GON (South Africa) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)

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Zootaxa 2672: 61–68 (10 Nov. 2010) 8 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 15 Oct. 2010
Eviota karaspila, a new gobiid fish from Fiji (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

DAVID W. GREENFIELD & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)

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Zootaxa 2672: 50–60 (10 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 14 Oct. 2010
Amblyceps cerinum, a new catfish (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & JEREMY J. WRIGHT (USA)

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Zootaxa 2671: 53–60 (9 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 22 references                               Accepted: 8 Oct. 2010
A new species of deep-sea anglerfish, genus Himantolophus (Lophiiformes: Himantolophidae) from the Western South Pacific, with comments on the validity of H. pseudalbinares
ANDREW L. STEWART (New Zealand) & THEODORE W. PIETSCH (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2667: 1–27 (4 Nov. 2010) 17 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 24 Sep. 2010
Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist

RAFAEL BAÑON, DAVID VILLEGAS-RÍOS, ALBERTO SERRANO, GONZALO MUCIENTES &
JUAN CARLOS ARRONTE (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 2655: 57–62 (25 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 28 Sep. 2010
Eviota nigrispina, a New Goby from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA) & TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2655: 25–51 (25 Oct. 2010) 10 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 23 Sep. 2010
Taxonomy of Auchenoglanis Günther 1865 (Siluriformes: Auchenoglanididae)

MICHAEL E. RETZER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2647: 61–68 (15 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 21 Sep. 2010
Redescription of Silurus burmanensis Thant 1967: a Silurus not a Pterocryptis
(Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae)
RALF BRITZ (UK) & TIN WIN (Myanmar)

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Article
Zootaxa 2646: 63–68 (14 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 52 references                           Accepted: 24 Sep. 2010
The nominal species of rays (Chondrichthyes) described by Stephan (1779)

MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2632: 67–68 (1 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 13 Sep. 2010
Genetypes: a concept to help integrate molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY (USA)

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Zootaxa 2632: 53–66 (1 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 20 references                                Accepted: 1 Sep. 2010
A new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes, Pseudopimelodidae)
from lower Rio Tocantins basin, Pará, Brazil, with description of superficial neuromasts and pores of lateral line system
WILLIAM BENEDITO GOTTO RUIZ & OSCAR AKIO SHIBATTA (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2628: 56–62 (28 Sep. 2010) 2 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 31 Aug. 2010
Glyptothorax chimtuipuiensis, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Koladyne basin, India
N. ANGANTHOIBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2628: 27–42 (28 Sep. 2010) 9 plates; 62 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
First report of Aulopus (Teleostei: Aulopidae) from Southwestern Atlantic,
with a review of records and a key to Western Atlantic Aulopoidei species
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, GUY MARCOVALDI, CLÁUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO, M. ISABEL G.
PAIVA & LUIZ A. G. DUARTE (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2616: 3 1–47 (17 Sep. 2010) 10 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 3 Sep. 2010
Three new species of Psilorhynchus from the Ayeyarwaddy River drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae)
KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA) & RALF BRITZ (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2613: 61–68 (15 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
A new seahorse (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus) from south-western Australia
RALPH FOSTER & MARTIN F. GOMON (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2612: 22–40 (15 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 111 references                          Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Resurrection and redescription of Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1854) from the
North Pacific, with comments on the Squalus acanthias subgroup (Squaliformes: Squalidae)
DAVID A. EBERT (USA), WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia), KENNETH J. GOLDMAN (USA),
LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa), TOBY S. DALY–ENGEL (USA) & ROBERT D. WARD (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2600: 1–52 (1 Sep. 2010) 15 plates; 62 references                                 Accepted: 9 Jul. 2010
African weakly electric fishes of the genus Petrocephalus (Osteoglossomorpha:
Mormyridae) of Odzala National Park, Republic of the Congo (Lékoli River, Congo River basin) with description of five new species
SÉBASTIEN LAVOUÉ (UK), JOHN P. SULLIVAN (USA) & MATTHEW E. ARNEGARD (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2589: 1–92 (31 Aug. 2010) 0 plates; 460 references                          Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
Checklist of the Adriatic Sea Fishes

LOVRENC LIPEJ (Slovenia) & JAKOV DUL
ČIĆ (Croatia)
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Zootaxa 2579: 59–68 (30 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Morphology of the Gas Bladder in Sea Catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae)

ALEXANDRE P. MARCENIUK & JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2577: 57–68 (26 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
A new species of Moenkhausia from the rio Amazonas and rio Orinoco basins (Characiformes: Characidae)
MANOELA M. F. MARINHO & FRANCISCO LANGEANI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2576: 56–58 (25 Aug. 2010) 0 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Kali colubrina Melo, 2008: a senior synonym of Kali caribbaea Prokofiev, 2008 (Acanthomorphata: Chiasmodontidae)
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)

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Zootaxa 2571: 62–68 (19 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 23 Jul. 2010
A new earthworm eel of the genus Chaudhuria from the Ayeyarwaddy River Drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Chaudhuriidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2567: 50–56 (16 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
Malacoctenus brunoi sp. n. (Blennioidei: Labrisomidae), a new scaled-blenny from Trindade Island, off Brazil
RICARDO Z. P. GUIMARÃES, GUSTAVO W. NUNAN & JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2561: 59–68 (9 Aug. 2010) 9 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Jul. 2010
Revision of the bathyal fish genus Benthocometes (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) with a new species from off NW Australia
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark)

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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 61–68 (4 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 19 Jul. 2010
Pseudolaguvia spicula, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Bangladesh and northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LALRAMLIANA (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 1–16 (4 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 49 references                               Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
A systematic review of the genus Chasmodes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Blenniidae)
ROBERT JAVONILLO & ANTONY S. HAROLD (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 39–48 (3 Aug. 2010) 10 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
Nemacheilus marang, a new loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Sangkulirang karst, eastern Borneo
RENNY KURNIA HADIATY (Indonesia) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 19–28 (3 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 23 Jun. 2010
Status and phylogeny of Milyeringidae (Teleostei: Gobiiformes), with the description of a new blind cave-fish from Australia, Milyeringa brooksi, n. sp.
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 1–18 (3 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
A new species of Lepidocephalichthys (Teleostei: Cobitidae) with distinctive sexual dimorphism and comments on relationships in southern lineages of Cobitidae
JUSTIN C. HAVIRD (USA), LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA), WEERAPONGSE TANGJITJAROEN
(Thailand), CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON (Thailand), CHAIWUT GRUDPAN (Thailand) & SURIYA UDDUANG (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2548: 1–21 (26 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
Description of a new species of Tilapia Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Ghana
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Gremany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2537 33–46 (15 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
Crenicichla hu, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the
Paraná basin in Misiones, Argentina 
LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK (Czech Republic), OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN (Czech Republic), JORGE CASCIOTTA (Argentina) & ADRIANA ALMIRÓN (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2536 53–68 (14 Jul. 2010) 9 plates; 46 references                             Accepted: 21 Jun. 2010
Squalius janae, a new species of fish from the Adriatic Sea basin in Slovenia
(Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)
NINA G. BOGUTSKAYA (Russia) & PRIMOŽ ZUPAN
ČIČ (Slovenia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2534 48–56 (13 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 6 Jun. 2010
Peckoltia compta, a new species of catfish from the Brazilian Amazon, rio Tapajós basin (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
RENILDO RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA, JANSEN ZUANON, LUCIA RAPP PY-DANIEL
& MARCELO SALLES ROCHA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2534 37–47 (13 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
Petroleuciscus esfahani, a new species of fish from central Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)
BRIAN W. COAD (Canada) & NINA G. BOGUTSKAYA (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2532 55–63 (12 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 21 Jun. 2010
Chimaera notafricana sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaera from southern Africa JENNY M. KEMPER (USA), DAVID A. EBERT (South Africa), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & DOMINIQUE A. DIDIER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2528 53–60 (6 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 19 references                               Accepted: 31 May 2010
Glyptothorax malabarensis, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India
K. C. GOPI (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2525 51–62 (2 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 33 references                                 Accepted: 3 Jun. 2010
Molecular analysis of Acanthemblemaria macrospilus (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae)
with description of a new species from the Gulf of California, Mexico
HSIU-CHIN LIN & GRANTLY R. GALLAND (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2525: 19–50 (2 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 86 references                              Accepted: 12 Jun. 2010
Marine fish diversity: history of knowledge and discovery (Pisces) 
WILLIAM N. ESCHMEYER (USA), RONALD FRICKE (Germany), JON D. FONG (USA) & DENNIS A. POLACK (South Africa)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2519 59–68 (28 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
An old taxonomic dilemma: the identity of the western south Atlantic lebranche mullet (Teleostei: Perciformes: Mugilidae)
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil) , CLÁUDIO DE OLIVEIRA (Brazil) & MAURO NIRCHIO (Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2519: 48–58 (28 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 40 references                           Accepted: 22 May 2010
Macrodon atricauda (Günther, 1880) (Perciformes: Sciaenidae), a valid species from the southwestern Atlantic, with comments on its conservation
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, SIMONI SANTOS & IRACILDA SAMPAIO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2519: 31–47 (28 Jun. 2010) 8 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 5 Jun. 2010
Betadevario ramachandrani, a new danionine genus and species from the Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Danioninae) 
P. K. PRAMOD (India), FANG FANG (Sweden), K. REMA DEVI (India), TE-YU LIAO (Sweden), T.J. INDRA (India), K.S. JAMEELA BEEVI (India) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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Zootaxa 2518 60–68 (25 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 28 May 2010
Pseudolaguvia virgulata, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Mizoram, northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LALRAMLIANA (India)
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Zootaxa 2514 55–60 (22 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2010
Macrognathus aureus, a new spiny eel of the M. aculeatus species group from the Upper Ayeyarwaddy River Drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2509: 62–66 (17 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 4 May 2010
Records of regalecid fishes in Argentine waters
ANA E. RUIZ & ATILA E. GOSZTONYI (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 2505: 1–39 (14 Jun. 2010) 35 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 8 May 2010
Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species
JOHN E. McCOSKER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2493: 59–65 (3 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2010
Sparisoma rocha, a new species of parrotfish (Actinopterygii: Labridae) from Trindade Island, South-western Atlantic
HUDSON TERCIO PINHEIRO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & IVAN SAZIMA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2478: 1–40 (20 May 2010) 22 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 8 Apr. 2010
The copepod genus Hatschekia Poche, 1902 (Siphonostomatoida: Hatschekiidae) from triggerfishes (Pisces: Tetraodontiformes: Balistidae) from off the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with descriptions of eleven new species
DAISUKE UYENO & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2477: 37–48 (19 May 2010) 5 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 1 Apr. 2010
Eudontomyzon graecus, a new nonparasitic lamprey species from Greece (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae)
CLAUDE B. RENAUD (Canada) & PANOS S. ECONOMIDIS (Greece)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2475: 64–68 (17 May 2010) 2 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
Entomacrodus solus, a new species of blenny (Perciformes, Blenniidae) from the Red Sea
JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS (USA) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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Zootaxa 2475: 48–54 (17 May 2010) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 11 Apr. 2010
Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae)
A. DARSHAN, N. ANGANTHOIBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2463: 1–135 (14 May 2010) 0 plates; 388 references                         Accepted: 12 Apr. 2010
The Fishes of the Red Sea—Reappraisal and Updated Checklist 
DANIEL GOLANI (Israel) &
SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2452: 51–58 (12 May 2010) 4 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 7 Apr. 2010
A new species of Simpsonichthys (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio São Francisco basin, northeastern Brazil
DALTON TAVARES BRESSANE NIELSEN, OSCAR AKIO SHIBATTA, ROGÉRIO DOS REIS
SUZART & AMER FAOUR MARTÍN (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2450: 26–40 (10 May 2010) 2 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
Phylogenies without Synapomorphies—A Crisis in Fish Systematics:
Time to Show Some Character
RANDALL D. MOOI (Canada) & ANTHONY C. GILL (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2445: 53–61 (5 May 2010) 13 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 22 Mar. 2010
A new species of Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the western South Pacific, with comment on C. latipunctatus
HSUAN-CHING HO & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2442: 51–59 (3 May 2010) 2 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 20 Mar. 2010
Character evidence for the monophyly of the Microdesminae, with comments on relationships to Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Gobiidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (USA) & RANDALL D. MOOI (Canada)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2440: 1–17 (29 Apr. 2010) 10 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Morphological and systematic reassessment of †Knightia brasiliensis Woodward, 1939 (Teleostei: Clupeiformes) from the Pliocene of Parnaíba Basin,
northeastern Brazil
FRANCISCO J. DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2434: 60–68 (23 Apr. 2010) 7 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Redescription of Astyanax stenohalinus Messner, 1962 (Characiformes: Characidae), a poorly known species from Argentina and Uruguay
ADRIANA E. ALMIRÓN (Argentina), JORGE R. CASCIOTTA (Argentina), MARÍA DE LAS M.
AZPELICUETA (Argentina) & MARCELO LOUREIRO (Uruguay)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2433: 25–46 (22 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 57 references                            Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
On new collections of deep-sea Gadiformes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the
Brazilian continental slope, between 11° and 23° S
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA), ADRIANA C. BRAGA (Brazil), GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN (Brazil) &
PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2429: 29–42 (19 Apr. 2010) 8 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Two new species of cichlid fish genus Geophagus Heckel from the Rio Tocantins drainage (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
PAULO H. F. LUCINDA, CARLOS A. S. LUCENA & NEWTON C. ASSIS (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 15–24 (15 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Geometric morphometrics uncovers a new species of ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Equulites), with comments on the taxonomic status of Equula berbis Valenciennes
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY, JEANETTE CHU, LUTHFUN NAHAR & JOHN S. SPARKS (USA)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2426: 68–68 (14 Apr. 2010)  
Erratum: A new species of scaly
blenny of the genus Labrisomus (Actinopterygii: Labrisomidae) from the tropical West Atlantic. Zootaxa, 2015, 62–68.
SAZIMA, I., CARVALHO-FILHO, A., GASPARINI, J.L. & SAZIMA, C. 

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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 63–68 (9 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 25 Feb. 2010
New records of marine fishes illustrate the biogeographic importance of
Christmas Island, Indian Ocean
JEAN-PAUL A. HOBBS, ANTHONY M. AYLING, J. HOWARD CHOAT, JUSTIN J. GILLIGAN,
CHRISTIAN A. MCDONALD, JOSEPH NEILSON & STEPHEN J. NEWMAN (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2422: 53–62 (9 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 33 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Reef fishes of the Mazunte-Bahías de Huatulco reef track, Oaxaca, Mexican
Pacific
RAMÓN ANDRÉS LÓPEZ PÉREZ, IMELDA LÓPEZ PÉREZ-MALDONADO, ARIADNA
MONTSERRAT LÓPEZ ORTIZ, LINDA MARGARITA BARRANCO SERVIN, JAVIER BARRIENTOS VILLALOBOS & GERADO ESTEBAN LEYTE MORALES (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 2422: 22–30 (9 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Description of Halichoeres rubrovirens, a new species of wrasse (Labridae: Perciformes) from the Trindade and Martin Vaz Island group, southeastern Brazil, with a preliminary mtDNA molecular phylogeny of New World Halichoeres
LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA), HUDSON T. PINHEIRO (Brazil) & JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2419: 63–68 (6 Apr. 2010) 2 plates; 2 references                        Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Synodus cresseyi Prokofiev, 2008, an unnecessary replacement for S. macrocephalus Cressey, 1981, and a description of a new species from the Western Indian Ocean (Teleostei: Synodontidae)

HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China), ARTÉM M. PROKOFIEV (Russia) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 63–68 (22 Mar. 2010) 1 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Polydactylus luparensis, a new species of threadfin (Perciformes: Polynemidae) from the Batang Lupar River, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
PEK KHIOK ANNIE LIM (Malaysia), HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan) & ALBERT CHUAN
GAMBANG (Malaysia)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2378: 1–84 (26 Feb. 2010) 16 plates; 394 references                        Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
A checklist of the fish fauna of Greenland waters

PETER R. MØLLER (Denmark), JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), STEEN W. KNUDSEN (Denmark),
JAN Y. POULSEN (Denmark), KAJ SÜNKSEN (Greenland) & OLE A. JØRGENSEN (Denmark)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2370: 36–52 (25 Feb. 2010) 9 plates; 48 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Fishes as living tracers of connectivity in the tropical western North Atlantic: I. Distribution of the neon gobies, genus Elacatinus (Pisces: Gobiidae)

PATRICK L. COLIN (Palau)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2352: 59–68 (5 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
Taxonomic Review of the perciform fish genus Acanthistius from the east coast of southern Africa, with description of a new species and designation of a neotype for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861
PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA (South Africa)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2349: 55–64 (2 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) from
the San Juan River drainage, Pacific versant of Colombia
CARLOS A. GARCÍA–ALZATE (Colombia), CÉSAR ROMÁN–VALENCIA (Colombia) & DONALD
C. TAPHORN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2348: 40–56 (1 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 57 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2009
Cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides Smith, 1949 (Apogonidae) with a description of a new species from the West-Pacific region
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2346: 53–61 (28 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
The larval, juvenile, and adult stages of the Caribbean goby, Coryphopterus kuna (Teleostei: Gobiidae): a reef fish with a pelagic larval duration longer than the post-settlement lifespan
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA), LOURDES VASQUEZ-YEOMANS (Mexico), MARTHA VALDEZMORENO
(Mexico), LESLIE WILK (Canada), DAVID L. JONES (USA), MONICA R. LARA (USA), CHRIS CALDOW (USA) & MAHMOOD SHIVJI (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2346: 29–41 (28 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new species of ladyfish, of the genus Elops (Elopiformes: Elopidae), from the western Atlantic Ocean
RICHARD S. MCBRIDE, CLAUDIA R. ROCHA, RAMON RUIZ-CARUS & BRIAN W. BOWEN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2345: 19–32 (27 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
Ancistrus falconensis n. sp. and A. gymnorhynchus Kner (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from central Venezuelan Caribbean coastal streams
DONALD C. TAPHORN (USA), JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA) & DOUGLAS RODRÍGUEZOLARTE
(Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2343: 57–65 (25 Jan. 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 3 Dec. 2009
A new species of Pimelodus LaCépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from
rio Itacaiunas, rio Tocantins basin, Brazil
MARCELO SALLES ROCHA & FRANK RAYNNER V. RIBEIRO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2341: 33–51 (22 Jan. 2010) 8 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 1 Dec. 2009
A new species of Ptychochromis from northeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with an updated phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the genus
JOHN S. SPARKS & MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2340: 50–64 (21 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
Cottus immaculatus, a new species of sculpin (Cottidae) from the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri, USA
ANDREW P. KINZIGER & ROBERT M. WOOD (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2332: 49–60 (11 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 3 Nov. 2009
Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique
MARTIN REICHARD (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2332: 40–48 (11 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
A new species of suckermouth armored catfish, Pseudancistrus kwinti (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Coppename River drainage, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname
PHILIP W. WILLINK (USA), JAN H. MOL (Suriname) & BARRY CHERNOFF (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 62-68 (24 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2009
Redescription of Lophiodes infrabrunneus Smith and Radcliffe, 1912, a senior
synonym of L. abdituspinus Ni, Wu and Li, 1990 (Lophiiformes: Lophiidae)
HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China), BERNARD SÉRET (France) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 39-50 (24 Dec. 2009) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 17 Oct. 2009
Description of a new Coelorinchus (Macrouridae, Gadiformes, Teleostei) from
Taiwan, with notable new records of grenadiers from the South China Sea
TOMIO IWAMOTO (USA), HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2312: 49-59 (16 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 5 Nov. 2009
Descriptions of two new genera and species of ptereleotrine fishes from Australia and Japan (Teleostei: Gobioidei) with discussion of possible
relationships
DOUGLASS F. HOESE (Australia) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2307: 1-38 (9 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 76 references                          Accepted: 9 Nov. 2009
Annotated checklist of the freshwater fishes of continental and insular
Honduras
WILFREDO A. MATAMOROS, JACOB F. SCHAEFER & BRIAN R. KREISER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2301: 1-28 (1 Dec. 2009) 16 plates; 48 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Redescription of the genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft,
1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae)
ANDREA D. MARSHALL (Australia), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & MICHAEL B.
BENNETT (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 64-68 (26 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Occurrence of the Mardi Gras wrasse, Halichoeres burekae (Teleostei:
Labridae) in the Alacranes Reef, off northern Yucatan Peninsula
ALFONSO AGUILAR-PERERA & ARMIN TUZ-SULUB (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 45-54 (26 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
New records of fishes for Trindade-Martin Vaz oceanic insular complex, Brazil

HUDSON T. PINHEIRO, VICTOR CAMILATO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI &
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOYEUX (Brazil)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2296: 68 (24 Nov. 2009
Erratum—SCHORIES, S., MEYER, M.K. & SCHARTL, M. (2009) Description of Poecilia
(Acanthophacelus) obscura n. sp., (Teleostei: Poeciliidae), a new guppy species from western Trinidad, with remarks on P. wingei and the status of the “Endler’s guppy”. Zootaxa, 2266, 35–50.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2294: 1-22 (20 Nov. 2009) 10 plates; 63 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Description of a new genus and two new species of killifish
(Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from West Africa, with a discussion of the taxonomic status of Aphyosemion maeseni Poll, 1941
RAINER SONNENBERG & ECKHARD BUSCH (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2290: 27-35 (16 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Phenacoscorpius longirostris, a new species of deep water scorpionfish
(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the northern Tasman Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2290: 1-26 (16 Nov. 2009) 22 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 19 Sep. 2009
First report of rare pomfrets (Teleostei: Bramidae) from Brazilian waters,
with a key to Western Atlantic species
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, GUY MARCOVALDI, CLÁUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO, M. ISABEL G.
PAIVA & LUIZ A. G. DUARTE (Brazil)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2289: 68 (13 Nov. 2009
Erratum—Ng, H. H. & Hadiaty, R. K. (2009) Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra. Zootaxa, 2232, 50–60.

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 61-67 (13 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Comments on the snake-eel genus Xyrias (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with
the description of a new species
JOHN E. McCOSKER (USA), WEI-LI CHEN (Taiwan) & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2283: 16-28 (6 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 7 Oct. 2009
Tachysurus spilotus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2277: 61-68 (30 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Description of a new scorpionfish (Scorpaenoidei, Sebastolobinae) from the
tropical eastern Pacific
PHILIPPE BÉAREZ (France) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2277: 53-60 (30 Oct. 2009) 5 plates; 4 references                          Accepted: 8 Oct. 2009
Danionella priapus, a new species of miniature cyprinid fish from West Bengal,
India (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2275: 41-59 (29 Oct. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 25 Sep. 2009
Three new species of Ancistrus Kner, 1854 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the
Rio Iguaçu basin, Paraná State, Brazil
ALESSANDRO GASPARETTO BIFI, CARLA SIMONE PAVANELLI & CLÁUDIO HENRIQUE
ZAWADZKI (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 64-68 (22 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 30 Sep. 2009
Briggsia hastingsi, a new genus and species of clingfish from Oman
MATTHEW T. CRAIG & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 57-63 (22 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
Platycephalus orbitalis, a new species of flathead (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)
collected from western Australia
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan) & LESLIE W. KNAPP (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2270: 63-68 (22 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
First record of the fish genus Symphysanodon (Teleostei: Perciformes:
Symphysanodontidae) from the western South Atlantic Ocean
PAULA N. CAMPOS (Brazil) ANA CRISTINA T. BONECKER (Brazil), MÁRCIA S. DE CASTRO
(Brazil) & WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR. (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2270: 53-62 (22 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 29 Sep. 2009
Squalius kottelati, a new cyprinid species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Orontes
River, Turkey
DAVUT TURAN, B. TOGAY YILMAZ & CÜNEYT KAYA (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2267: 43-54 (19 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 4 Sep. 2009
Acanthopagrus randalli (Perciformes: Sparidae), a new black seabream from
the Persian Gulf
YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan) & KENT E. CARPENTER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2266: 35-50 (16 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 3 Sep. 2009
Description of Poecilia (Acanthophacelus) obscura n. sp., (Teleostei: Poeciliidae),
a new guppy species from western Trinidad, with remarks on P. wingei and the status of the “Endler’s guppy”
SUSANNE SCHORIES, MANFRED K. MEYER & MANFRED SCHARTL (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2262: 53-68 (12 Oct. 2009) 7 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2009
Two new species of Jupiaba (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio Tapajós and rio Madeira drainages, Brazil, with an identification key to species of the
genus
ANDRÉ L. NETTO-FERREIRA, ANGELA M. ZANATA, JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI
& LEANDRO M. SOUSA (Brazil)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2252: 1-77 (8 Oct. 2009) 27 plates; 55 references                         Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
A revision of the Australian handfishes
(Lophiiformes: Brachionichthyidae), with descriptions of three new genera and nine new species
PETER R. LAST & DANIEL C. GLEDHILL (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2234: 1-20 (17 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
The deep-sea Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes
(Teleostei: Elopomorpha) collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11o and 23o S
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA), GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN (Brazil), ADRIANA C. BRAGA (Brazil) &
PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2232: 50-60 (15 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2009
Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra
 
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & RENNY K. HADIATY (Indonesia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 57-68 (11 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
Ocellus-bearing Neobythites species (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) from the West
Atlantic with description of a new species
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), FRANZ UIBLEIN (Norway) & MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 29-42 (11 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 18 Aug. 2009
A shallow water population of Pronotogrammus martinicensis (Guichenot, 1868)
(Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from South-western Atlantic, Brazil 
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO (Brazil), CARLOS E. L.FERREIRA (Brazil) & MATTHEW CRAIG (Puerto Rico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 1-28 (11 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 7 Aug. 2009
A Taxonomic Review of the Australian Butterfly Ray Gymnura australis
(Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886) and Other Members of the family Gymnuridae (Order Rajiformes) from the Indo-West Pacific
IAN P. JACOBSEN & MIKE B. BENNETT (Australia)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2220: 68 (4 Sep. 2009
Erratum—Aguilera, G., Mirande, J.M. & Azpelicueta, M.M. (2009) A new species of Cnesterodon
(Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina. Zootaxa, 2195, 34–42.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2218: 59-68 (2 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 11 Aug. 2009
A new species of chimaera, Hydrolagus melanophasma sp. nov.
(Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), from the eastern North Pacific
KELSEY C. JAMES, DAVID A. EBERT, DOUGLAS J. LONG & DOMINIQUE A. DIDIER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2215: 24-36 (31 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 4 Aug. 2009
Identification of the larval and juvenile stages of the Cubera Snapper, Lutjanus
cyanopterus, using DNA barcoding
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA), ROBERT HANNER (Canada), MAHMOOD SHIVJI (USA), JOHN
HYDE (USA) & CHRIS CALDOW (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2203: 49-58 (19 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 1 Aug. 2009
A new species of tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae)
from Taiwanese waters
MAO-YING LEE (Taiwan) , THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA) & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2198: 16-26 (14 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 1 Jul. 2009
Lethenteron ninae, a new nonparasitic lamprey species from the north-eastern
Black Sea basin (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae)
ALEXANDER M. NASEKA (Russia), SAKO B. TUNIYEV (Russia) & CLAUDE B. RENAUD (Canada)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2196: 65-68 (13 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
First records of the rare eelpout Lycenchelys xanthoptera Anderson, 1991
(Teleostei, Zoarcidae) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
CARL D. STRUTHERS (New Zealand) & PETER R. MØLLER (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2195: 34-42 (12 Aug. 2009) 4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
A new species of Cnesterodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small
tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina
GASTÓN AGUILERA, JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA
(Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2191: 41-57 (7 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
Morphological comparisons of the Indo-West Pacific scorpionfish,
Parascorpaena aurita, with a closely related species, P. picta, with first records of P. aurita from East Asia (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan), YOU SAKURAI (Japan), HIROSHI SENOU (Japan) & HSUANCHING
HO (R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2173: 41-48 (31 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
A new dwarf cichlid genus and species (Teleostei, Cichlidae)
from Guinea, West Africa
ANTON LAMBOJ (Austria)

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Zootaxa 2173: 31-40 (31 Jul. 2009) 9 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
Elacatinus lobeli, a new cleaning goby from Belize and Honduras
JOHN E. RANDALL (USA) & PATRICK L. COLIN (Palau)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2173: 1-18 (31 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
Chlamydoselachus africana, a new species of frilled shark from southern Africa
(Chondrichthyes, Hexanchiformes, Chlamydoselachidae)
DAVID A. EBERT (USA) & LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2171: 48-64 (30 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 30 Jun. 2009
A new species of hill stream loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Central
Kalimantan, with redescriptions of Homaloptera tateregani Popta and Homaloptera stephensoni Hora
TAN HEOK HUI (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2171: 65-68 (30 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
Pangio lidi, a new species of loach from eastern Borneo, Indonesia
(Teleostei: Cobitidae)
RENNY KURNIA HADIATY (Indonesia) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2167: 47-58 (24 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 2 Jul. 2009
A new genus and species of inseminating characid fish from the rio Xingu basin
(Characiformes: Characidae)
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES, KATIANE M. FERREIRA & ANDRÉ LUIZ NETTO-FERREIRA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2165: 59-68 (22 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
Redescription of Betta anabatoides Bleeker, and a new species of Betta from
West Kalimantan, Borneo (Teleostei: Osphronemidae)
HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 21-32 (21 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 47 references                            Accepted: 16 Jun. 2009
A new marine clupeoid fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Sergipe-Alagoas
Basin, northeastern Brazil
FRANCISCO J. DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 33-40 (21 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Devario xyrops, a new species of danionine fish from south-western Myanmar
(Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
FANG FANG & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 41-48 (21 Jul. 2009) 4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Danio aesculapii, a new species of danio from south-western Myanmar
(Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
SVEN O. KULLANDER & FANG FANG (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2153: 24-34 (9 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2009
Notoraja sapphira sp. nov. (Rajoidei: Arhynchobatidae), a new deepwater skate from the slopes of the Norfolk Ridge (South-West Pacific)
BERNARD SÉRET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2143: 59-67 (29 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 27 May 2009
Redescription of Parotocinclus bahiensis (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1918) (Pisces, Ostariophysi, Loricariidae)
HERALDO A. BRITSKI & JULIO CESAR GARAVELLO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2136: 49-58 (19 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
Devario anomalus, a new species of freshwater fish from Bangladesh (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae)
KEVIN W. CONWAY, RICHARD L. MAYDEN & KEVIN L. TANG (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2133: 1-19 (16 Jun. 2009) 16 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
A literature review of the sponge-dwelling gobiid fishes of the genus Elacatinus from the western Atlantic, with description of two new Caribbean species
JOHN E. RANDALL & PHIILLIP S. LOBEL (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2120: 3-14 (28 May 2009) 0 plates; 57 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Recognizing diversity in blennioid fish nomenclature (Teleostei: Blennioidei)
PHILIP A. HASTINGS & VICTOR G. SPRINGER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2113: 55-62 (20 May 2009) 3 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
New species of Achirus (Pleuronectiformes: Achiridae) from Northeastern
Brazil
ROBSON T. C. RAMOS, TELTON P. A. RAMOS, & PAULO R. D. LOPES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2113: 1-40 (20 May 2009) 21 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
Four new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio
Uruguay, southeastern South America, with a review of the genus in the rio Uruguay basin 
TIAGO P. CARVALHO (USA) & ROBERTO E. REIS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2110: 41-57 (18 May 2009) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Hemitriakis indroyonoi sp. nov., a new species of houndshark from Indonesia
(Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae)
WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & DHARMADI
(Indonesia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2095: 1-7 (8 May 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
Etheostoma erythrozonum, a new species of darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the
Meramec River drainage, Missouri
JOHN F. SWITZER & ROBERT M. WOOD (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2093: 60-68 (6 May 2009) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 10 Apr. 2009
Brachyhypopomus gauderio, new species, a new example of underestimated
species diversity of electric fishes in the southern South America (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae)
JULIA GIORA & LUIZ R. MALABARBA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2092: 37-46 (6 May 2009) 6 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 2 Apr. 2009
Halichoeres sazimai, a new species of wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae)
from the Western South Atlantic
OSMAR J. LUIZ JR (Btazil), CARLOS E. L. FERREIRA (Brazil) & LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2085: 61-68 (29 Apr. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 30 Mar. 2009
Glyptothorax ketambe, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
from northern Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & RENNY K. HADIATY (Indonesia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2081: 67-68 (24 Apr. 2009) 2 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 3 Mar. 2009
Unusual coloration pattern in juveniles of Stegastes fuscus
(Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae)
MARIA ELISABETH DE ARAÚJO, HENRIQUE A. MARANHÃO, DRÁUSIO P. VÉRAS &
FÁBIO HAZIN (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2076: 37-59 (17 Apr. 2009) 7 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 24 Mar. 2009
Descriptions of three new species of Melanochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
and a redescription of M. vermivorus
GERTRUD KONINGS-DUDIN, ADRIANUS F. KONINGS & JAY R. STAUFFER, JR (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2072: 56-68 (14 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2009
Pseudobagrus fui Miao, a valid bagrid species from the Yangtze River drainage,
South China (Teleostei: Bagridae)
JIAN-LI CHENG (China) , J. ANDRÉS LÓPEZ (USA) & E ZHANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2045: 43-59 (18 Mar. 2009) 13 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
Genetic characterization of the Aphyosemion calliurum species group and
description of a new species from this assemblage: A. campomaanense (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Nothobranchiidae) from Southern Cameroon
JEAN-FRANÇOIS AGNÈSE (France), RANDALL BRUMMETT (Cameroon), PIERRE CAMINADE
(France), JOSETTE CATALAN (France) & ETIENNE KORNOBIS (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2028: 1-19 (6 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 22 Feb. 2009
Description of two new species of Nannocharax Günther, 1867 (Teleostei:
Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Cross River, Cameroon
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2028: 51-58 (6 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 22 Jan. 2009
On two Jenynsia taxa (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from Argentina,
originally placed in the poeciliid genus Xiphophorus
STEFAN KOERBER (Germany) & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2028: 1-19 (6 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 22 Feb. 2009
Description of two new species of Nannocharax Günther, 1867 (Teleostei:
Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Cross River, Cameroon
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2027: 55-62 (4 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 23 Jan. 2009
Description of Ophthalmolycus andersoni sp. nov. (Pisces, Zoarcidae)
from the Antarctic Ocean
JESÚS MATALLANAS (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2022: 58-68 (27 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Barbulifer enigmaticus, a new seven-spined goby (Pisces: Teleostei: Gobiidae)
from the southwestern Atlantic
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOYEUX (Brasil), JAMES L. VAN TASSELL (USA) & RAPHAEL MARIANO
MACIEIRA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2018: 45-57 (23 Feb. 2009) 10 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Atlantic occurrence of the genus Bellottia (Teleostei, Bythitidae)
with two new species from the Western North Atlantic
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), STEVE W. ROSS (USA) & DANIEL M. COHEN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2015: 62-68 (18 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 19 Jan. 2009
A new species of scaly blenny of the genus Labrisomus (Actinopterygii:
Labrisomidae) from the tropical West Atlantic
IVAN SAZIMA, ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & CRISTINA SAZIMA
(Brazil) 
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2008: 1-22 (11 Feb. 2009) 9 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Genetic identification and color descriptions of early life-history stages of
Belizean Phaeoptyx and Astrapogon (Teleostei: Apogonidae) with Comments on identification of adult Phaeoptyx
CAROLE C. BALDWIN, JULIE H. MOUNTS, DAVID G. SMITH & LEE A. WEIGT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2008: 23-28 (11 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 23 Dec. 2008
A new species of the flathead genus Onigocia (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)
collected from the Coral and Tasman Seas
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan) & LESLIE W. KNAPP (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2006: 23-40 (9 Feb. 2009) 11 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 25 Nov. 2008
The identity of Schizothorax griseus Pellegrin, 1931, with descriptions of three
new species of schizothoracine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from China
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2006: 41-50 (9 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 6 Jan. 2009
Crenicichla mandelburgeri, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
from the Paraná river drainage in Paraguay
SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2006: 51-61 (9 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
Review of blenniid fishes from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil, with
description of a new species of Scartella (Teleostei: Blenniidae)
CARLOS A. RANGEL & LIANA F. MENDES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1981: 1-14 (16 Jan. 2009) 10 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 19 Nov. 2008
Description of three new species of Glossogobius from Australia and New Guinea
DOUGLASS F. HOESE & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1981: 15-28 (16 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 19 Nov. 2008
Barbus niluferensis, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Nilüfer River, Turkey, with re-description of B. oligolepis
DAVUT TURAN (Switzerland), MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore) & F. GÜLER EKMEKÇİ (Turkey)

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Zootaxa 1980: 61-68 (16 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 27 Nov. 2008
Bangana brevirostris, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Lancang-Jiang (Upper Mekong River) drainage in Yunnan,
Southwest China
KAI LIU & WEI ZHOU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1977: 39-48 (14 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 10 Nov. 2008
Parakysis hystriculus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae)
from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1973: 41-50 (9 Jan. 2009) 8 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Akysis fontaneus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae)
from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1967: 63-72 (19 Dec. 2008) 5 plates; 39 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos, a new species of loach from southern Borneo
(Teleostei: Cobitidae)
MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland) & HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1963: 1-24 (15 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 3 Nov. 2008
Three new darter species of the Etheostoma percnurum species complex
(Percidae, subgenus Catonotus) from the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages
REBECCA E. BLANTON & ROBERT E. JENKINS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1963: 25-42 (15 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
A new species of Percina (Perciformes: Percidae) from the Apalachicola River drainage, southeastern United States
MARY C. FREEMAN, BYRON J. FREEMAN, NOEL M. BURKHEAD & CARRIE A. STRAIGHT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1963: 43-53 (15 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Nandus mercatus (Teleostei: Perciformes: Nandidae),
a new leaf fish from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1963: 54-68 (15 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
Three new pygmy seahorse species from Indonesia
(Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus)
SARA A. LOURIE (Canada) & RUDIE H. KUITER (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1948: 36-56 (3 Dec. 2008) 17 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
Phylogenetic assessment of ultrastructural and histological characters of teeth in the Anostomoidea, Hemiodontidae and Parodontidae
(Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes)
ALEXANDRE SCHARCANSKY (Israel) & CARLOS ALBERTO S. LUCENA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1943: 26-36 (26 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
Bathycongrus trimaculatus, a new congrid eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) from the southwestern Pacific, with a redescription of Bathycongrus bleekeri Fowler
EMMA S. KARMOVSKAYA (Russia) & DAVID G. SMITH (USA)

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Zootaxa 1940: 1-15 (24 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 40 references                        Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Austrolebias reicherti Loureiro & García, a valid species of annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from Uruguay

MARCELO LOUREIRO & GRACIELA GARCÍA (Uruguay)
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Zootaxa 1932: 27-32 (14 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
A new cleaner species of Elacatinus (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic
IVAN SAZIMA, ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO & CRISTINA SAZIMA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1932: 33-46 (14 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Triplophysa waisihani, a new species of nemacheiline loach from Northwest China (Pisces: Balitoridae)
LIANG CAO & E ZHANG (China)

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Zootaxa 1931: 37-48 (12 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 53 references                           Accepted: 10 Oct. 2008
The Sri Lankan spiny eel, Macrognathus pentophthalmos (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae), and its enigmatic decline
ROHAN PETHIYAGODA, ANJANA SILVA, KALANA MADUWAGE & LALITH KARIYAWASAM (Sri Lanka)

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Zootaxa 1925: 31-38 (10 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Apareiodon agmatos, a new species from the upper Mazaruni river, Guyana (Teleostei: Characiformes: Parodontidae)
DONALD C. TAPHORN B.(Venezuela), HERNÁN LÓPEZ-FERNÁNDEZ (Canada) & CALVIN R. BERNARD (Guyana)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1921: 35-46 (3 Nov. 2008) 3 plates; 45 references                           Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of longnose skate (Rajiformes: Rajidae: Dipturus) from Argentinean waters based on DNA barcoding
JUAN MARTIN DÍAZ DE ASTARLOA (Argentina), EZEQUIEL MABRAGAÑA (Argentina), ROBERT HANNER (Canada) & DANIEL E. FIGUEROA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1918: 45-58 (29 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Pseudancistrus corantijniensis, a new species from the Guyana Shield (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with a molecular and morphological description of the Pseudancistrus barbatus group
Sophie de Chambrier & Juan I. Montoya-Burgos (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa 1918: 59-68 (29 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
A new Pamphorichthys (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliini) from central Brazil
CARLOS AUGUSTO FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1911: 1-30 (22 Oct 2008) 17 plates; 81 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Description of early ontogeny and osteological development of streaked mojarra Eugerres lineatus (Teleostei: Percoidei: Gerreidae)
JOSé LUIS ORTíz-GALINDO, JOSé LUIS CASTRO-AGUIRRE, EDUARDO F. BALART & NICOLás áVAREZ-PLIEGO (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1908: 1-27 (17 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 38 references                                 Accepted: 9 Sept. 2008
Morphological re-examination and taxonomy of the genus Macropodus (Perciformes, Osphronemidae)
TOM WINSTANLEY & KENDALL D. CLEMENTS (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1908: 28-40 (17 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
Two new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from upper rio Paraguaçu and rio Itapicuru basins, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
ANGELA M. ZANATA & PRISCILA CAMELIER (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1897: 67-68 (10 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Clarification of the nomenclatural status of Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae)
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (China)
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Zootaxa 1877: 59-68 (10 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Ompok supernus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1873: 11-25 (10 Sept. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Two new species of Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from central Vietnam
HEOK HEE NG (USA) & JÖRG FREYHOF (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1872: 1-28 (8 Sept. 2008) 16 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
A revision of the western North Pacific swellsharks, genus Cephaloscyllium Gill 1862 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae),
including descriptions of two new species
JAYNA A. SCHAAF-DA SILVA & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1872: 59-68 (8 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
A re-description of the eastern Pacific swellshark, Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Garman 1880) (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), with comments on the status of C. uter (Jordan & Gilbert 1896)
JAYNA A. SCHAAF-DA SILVA & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1861: 57-67 (1 Sep. 2008) 2 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
The Alabama Bass, Micropterus henshalli (Teleostei: Centrarchidae),
from the Mobile River basin
WINSTON H. BAKER, CAROL E. JOHNSTON & GEORGE W. FOLKERTS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1857: 21-32 (27 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2008
Geographic variation in Neolamprologus niger (Poll, 1956)
(Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika (Africa)
SARAH RISCH & JOS SNOEKS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1856: 33-40 (25 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
A new species of Crenicichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the Ventuari River, Upper Orinoco River Basin, Amazonas State, Venezuela

CARMEN G. MONTANA (USA), HERNAN LOPEZ-FERNANDEZ (CANADA) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (VENEZUELA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1852: 65-68 (18 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
A new genus and species of eelpout (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from Brazil
MICHAEL MAIA MINCARONE (Brazil) & M. ERIC ANDERSON (South Africa)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1850: 65-68 (15 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
The goldrim surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans; Acanthuridae) from Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago: first record for the central Indian Ocean
MATTHEW T. CRAIG (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1839: 43-59 (1 Aug. 2008) 1 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
A new Western Pacific Tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae): The first Pleuronectiform discovered at active Hydrothermal Vents
THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA) & JUN HASHIMOTO (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1839: 60-68 (1 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
Glyptothorax coracinus, a new species of hillstream catfish from Cambodia (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & WALTER J. RAINBOTH (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1824: 35-44 (16 Jul. 2008) 6 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Luciobarbus kottelati, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Buyuk Menderes River, Turkey, with rediagnose of L. lydianus

DAVUT TURAN, F. GULER EKMEKCI, ALI ILHAN & SEMIH ENGIN (Turkey)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1824: 45-54 (16 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
A new livebearing fish, Heterandria tuxtlaensis, from Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)
JOHN D. MCEACHRAN & THOMAS J. DEWITT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1824: 55-64 (16 Jul. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Puntius kamalika, a new species of barb from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Anjana Silva, Kalana Maduwage & Rohan Pethiyagoda (Sri Lanka)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1822: 1-76 (14 Jul. 2008) 27 plates; 38 references                              Accepted: 4 Jun. 2008
The genus Peckoltia with the description of two new species and a reanalysis of the phylogeny of the genera of the Hypostominae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1820: 27-40 (9 Jul. 2008) 5 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 9 Jun. 2008
Review of the waspfish genus Liocranium (Scorpaeniformes: Tetrarogidae), with restoration of L. pleurostigma (Weber)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan), PETER R. LAST (Australia) & JEFFREY W. JOHNSON (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1815: 35-42 (4 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2008
Leporinus amazonicus, a new anostomid species from the Amazon lowlands, Brazil (Osteichthyes: Characiformes)
GERALDO MENDES DOS SANTOS & JANSEN ZUANON (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 42-50 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2008
Hyphessobrycon oritoensis (Characiformes: Characidae), a new species from the Putumayo River drainage, Colombian Amazon
CARLOS A. GARCIA-ALZATE (Colombia), CESAR ROMAN-VALENCIA (Colombia) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 51-59 (30 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2008
On the status of the species of Acanthistius (Gill, 1862) (Percoidei) in the South-West Atlantic Ocean
ALEJO J. IRIGOYEN (Argentina), LEOPOLDO CAVALERI GERHARDINGER (Brazil) & ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 19-28 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Galeus priapus sp. nov., a new species of sawtail catsharks (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from New Caledonia
BERNARD SERET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1812: 1-45 (30 Jun. 2008) 23 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 21 Mar. 2008
A review of the Australian skate genus Pavoraja Whitley (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae)
PETER R. LAST, STEPHEN MALLICK AND GORDON K.YEARSLEY (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1810: 51-59 (25 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 14 May 2008
Range, sexual dimorphism and bilateral asymmetry of rostral tooth counts in the smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata Latham (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae) of the southeastern United States
TONYA R. WILEY, COLIN A. SIMPFENDORFER, VICENTE V. FARIA & MATTHEW T. MCDAVITT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1809: 36-48 (25 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 12 May 2008
Revision of the Labeonine Genus Sinocrossocheilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China
LE-YANG YUAN, E ZHANG & YAN-FEI HUANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1807: 1-25 (23 Jun. 2008) 10 plates; 57 references                           Accepted: 24 Apr. 2008
The reef fish assemblage of the Laje de Santos Marine State Park, Southwestern Atlantic: annotated checklist with comments on abundance, distribution, trophic structure, symbiotic associations, and conservation
OSMAR J. LUIZ JR., ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, CARLOS E. L. FERREIRA, SERGIO R. FLOETER, JOAO LUIZ GASPARINI & IVAN SAZIMA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1780: 1-54 (30 May 2008) 27 plates; 77 references                           Accepted: 11 Apr. 2008
Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of a new catfish species from northeastern Argentina with comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the genus Rhamdella Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1888 (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae)
FLAVIO A. BOCKMANN (Brazil) & AMALIA M. MIQUELARENA (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1770: 41-64 (16 May 2008) 3 plates; 66 references                           Accepted: 15 Apr. 2008
Deep-sea ophidiiform fishes collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11o and 23o S
MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil), JORGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark) & PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1760: 37-49 (30 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 20 Mar. 2008
Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Lutjaninae (Pisces): the Indo-Pacific genus Pinjalo
JEFFREY M LEIS (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1757: 31-48 (28 Apr. 2008) 7 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 19 Mar. 2008
Neoplecostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio Parana basin, Brazil, with description of three new species
CLAUDIO HENRIQUE ZAWADZKI, CARLA SIMONE PAVANELLI & FRANCISCO LANGEANI (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1747: 1-33 (11 Apr. 2008) 11 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 21 Feb. 2008
The genus Kali Lloyd (Chiasmodontidae: Teleostei) with description of new two species, and the revalidation of K. kerberti Weber
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1747: 61-68 (11 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 19 Mar. 2008
A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from rio Portuguesa, rio Orinoco basin, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE & GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1743: 62-68 (7 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 22 Feb. 2008
Garra findolabium, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Red River drainage in Yunnan, China
FENG-LIAN LI, WEI ZHOU & QIANG FU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1739: 41-52 (2 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 29 references                              Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
Triplophysa lixianensis, a new nemacheiline loach species (Pisces: Balitoridae) from the upper Yangtze River drainage in Sichuan Province, South China
CHUNLIN HE, ZHAOBIN SONG & E ZHANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1734: 1-26 (28 Mar. 2008) 10 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
Three new angel sharks (Chondrichthyes: Squatinidae) from the Indo-Australian region
PETER R. LAST & WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1734: 27-42 (28 Mar. 2008) 7 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Description of a new annual rivulid killifish genus from Venezuela
TOMAS HRBEK (Puerto Rico) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1734: 65-68 (28 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
New record of the smalleye stingray, Dasyatis microps (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae), from the western Indian Ocean
SIMON J. PIERCE (Mozambique), WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia) & ANDREA D. MARSHALL (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1731: 24-32 (25 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 5 Feb. 2008
A new species of leaf fish, Nandus andrewi (Teleostei: Perciformes: Nandidae) from northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG & ZEEHAN JAAFAR (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1731: 33-41 (25 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 19 Feb. 2008
A new species of Pseudancistrus from the Rio Caroni Venezuela
(Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1729: 23-36 (20 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2008
A review of the Nemacheilinae genus Oreonectes Gunther with descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Balitoridae)
LI-NA DU, XIAO-YONG CHEN & JUN-XING YANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1726: 33-48 (12 Mar. 2008) 6 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
Biogeography of Glandulocaudinae (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) revisited: phylogenetic patterns, historical geology and genetic connectivity
NAERCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil), ALEXANDRE C. RIBEIRO (Brazil), STANLEY WEITZMAN (USA) & RODRIGO A. TORRES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1724: 1-51 (10 Mar. 2008) 24 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2008
The Australoheros (Teleostei: Cichlidae) species of the Uruguay and Parana River drainages
OLDRICH RICAN
(Czech Republic) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1724: 52-60 (10 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
A new Hemigrammus Gill from upper rio Parana system, Southeastern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
Manoela M. F. Marinho, Fernando R. Carvalho, Francisco Langeani & Flavio L. Tatsumi (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1717: 24-30 (3 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
Morphological measurements of manta rays (Manta birostris) with a description of a foetus from the east coast of Southern Africa
ANDREA D. MARSHALL, SIMON J. PIERCE & MICHAEL B. BENNETT (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1715: 43-56 (29 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
A new species of Stiphodon from southern Sumatra (Pisces: Gobioidei: Sicydiinae)
RONALD E. WATSON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1715: 1-26 (29 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 75 references                              Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
The coastal fishes of Madeira Island-new records and an annotated check-list
PETER WIRTZ (Portugal), RONALD FRICKE (Germany) & MANUEL JOSE BISCOITO (Portugal)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1707: 37-48 (20 Feb. 2008) 6 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Morphological development of Hypophthalmus fimbriatus and H. marginatus post-yolk-sac larvae (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)

EDINBERGH CALDAS DE OLIVEIRA, ANDREA BIALETZKI & LUCIANA FUGIMOTO ASSAKAWA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1691: 1-52 (29 Jan. 2008) 18 plates; 54 references                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Cardinalfishes of the genus Nectamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from the Indo-Pacific region with descriptions of four new species
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1687: 67-68 (23 Jan. 2008) 0 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 20 Dec. 2007
On the validity of Fenerbahce Ozdikmen et al., 2006 as replacement for Adamas Huber, 1979 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae)
RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany) & JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 1-28 (21 Jan. 2008) 12 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 28 Nov. 2007
The “Celestial Pearl danio” is a miniature Danio (s.s) (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae):
evidence from morphology and molecules
KEVIN W. CONWAY, WEI-JEN CHEN & RICHARD L. MAYDEN
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 29-36 (21 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
A new species of Gorogobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Sao Tomé Islands
MARCELO KOVACIC (Croatia) & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 37-47 (21 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Pseudomystus heokhuii, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sumatra (Teleostei: Bagridae)
KELVIN K. P. LIM & HEOK HEE NG 
(Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1685: 47-54 (21 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Fishes of La Venta River in Chiapas, Mexico
ALFONSO ;NGEL GONZ;LEZ-DQAZ  (Mexico), REBECCA MARQA QUIYONES  (USA), JOSI VEL;ZQUEZ-MARTQNEZ  (Mexico) & ROCQO RODILES-HERN;NDEZ (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1682: 33-44 (16 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
Description of a new genus and two new species of labeonine fishes
from South China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
E ZHANG, XIN QIANG & JIA-HU LAN (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1680: 62-68 (14 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 6 Dec. 2007
Crystallaria cincotta, a new species of darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the Elk
River of the Ohio River drainage, West Virginia
STUART A. WELSH & ROBERT M. WOOD
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1678: 63-68 (11 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
Gymnothorax baranesi, a new moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from the Red Sea

DAVID G. SMITH  (USA), ERAN BROKOVICH  (Israel) & SHAI EINBINDER (Israel)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1674: 39-49 (7 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 37 references                              Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
Hyphessobrycon rutiliflavidus n. sp., a new characid fish from the upper rio Paraguai, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
FERNANDO ROGIRIO CARVALHO, FRANCISCO LANGEANI, CARLOS SUETOSHI MIYAZAWA & WALDO PINHEIRO TROY (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1673: 49-67 (4 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 30 Oct. 2007
Two new wobbegong sharks, Orectolobus floridus sp. nov. and O. parvimaculatus sp. nov. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae), from southwestern Australia
PETER R. LAST & JUSTIN A. CHIDLOW (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1671: 3-31 (1 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                               Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
Five new species of the damselfish genus Chromis (Perciformes: Labroidei: Pomacentridae) from deep coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific
RICHARD L. PYLE, JOHN L. EARLE & BRIAN D. GREENE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1671: 33-58 (1 Jan. 2008) 13 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 24 Oct. 2007
Three new legskates of the genus Sinobatis (Rajoidei: Anacanthobatidae) from the Indo–West Pacific
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & BERNARD SéRET (France)
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2007

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1669: 1-134 (21 Dec. 2007)  81 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
Taxonomic revision of the seasonal South American killifish genus Simpsonichthys (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae)
WILSON J. E. M. COSTA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1666: 53-68 (19 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 9 Nov. 2007
A new handfish, Brachionichthys australis sp. nov. (Lophiiformes: Brachionichthyidae), with a redescription of the critically endangered spotted handfish, B. hirsutus (Lacepede)
PETER R. LAST, DANIEL C. GLEDHILL & BRONWYN H. HOLMES (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1663: 47-57 (17 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
A new species of Psilorhynchus (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Ataran River Basin, Myanmar, with comments on the generic name Psilorhynchoides
KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1657: 68 (7 Dec. 2007)  
Erratum ( Verburg, P. & Bills, R. (2007) Two new cichild species Neolamprologus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanga-nyika, East Africa. Zootaxa, 1612, 25-54.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1657: 23-39 (7 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2007
Four new species of deep-water catsharks of the genus Parmaturus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from New Caledonia, Indonesia and Australia
BERNARD SERET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1646: 31-39 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
A new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from the endorheic RRo SalR basin, Tucuman, northwestern Argentina
JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE, GAST[N AGUILERA & MARQA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1639: 1-21 (16 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Halaelurus maculosus n. sp. and H. sellus n. sp., two new species of catshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1638: 39-49 (14 Nov. 2007)  9 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
The first case of aggressive mimicry among lamprologines in a new species of Lepidiolamprologus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
ROBERT SCHELLY (USA), TETSUMI TAKAHASHI (Japan), ROGER BILLS (South Africa) & MICHIO HORI (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1635: 55-61 (12 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 4 references                                Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cynopotamus Valenciennes, 1849 (Characiformes, Characidae) with a key to the species of the genus
NAERCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1628: 59-68 (2 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
Scarus maculipinna, a new species of parrotfish (Perciformes, Scaridae) from the eastern Indian Ocean
MARK W. WESTNEAT (USA), UKKRIT SATAPOOMIN (Thailand) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1626: 51-58 (31 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new phreatic catfish of the genus Phreatobius Goeldi 1905 from groundwaters of the Itenez River, Bolivia (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae)
LUIS FERNANDEZ (USA), LISANDRO J. SAUCEDO (Bolivia), FERNANDO M. CARVAJAL-VALLEJOS (Bolivia) & SCOTT A. SCHAEFER (USA)

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Zootaxa 1618: 1-50 (19 Oct. 2007)  26 plates; 71 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
Phylogeny of species formerly assigned to the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
JUAN J. SCHMITTER-SOTO (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1618: 51-60 (19 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Taxonomic status of the Guadalupe Darter, Percina apristis (Teleostei: Percidae)
ROBERT H. ROBINS & LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA)

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Zootaxa 1616: 23-35 (17 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new species of Chondrostoma Agassiz, 1832 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) with sexual dimorphism from the lower Rio Tejo Basin, Portugal
HUGO F. GANTE (Portugal), CARLOS D. SANTOS (USA) & MARIA JUDITE ALVES (Portugal)

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Zootaxa 1614: 17-29 (15 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 24 Aug. 2007
Micralestes (Characiformes, Alestidae) of the lower Congo River, with a description of a new species endemic to the lower Congo River rapids in the Democratic Republic of Congo
MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA) & VICTOR MAMONEKENE (Republic of Congo)

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Zootaxa 1614: 53-60 (15 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new species of Jupiaba Zanata, 1997 (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Characidae) from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil
THIAGO N. A. PEREIRA & PAULO H. F. LUCINDA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1612: 25-44 (10 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Two new cichild species Neolamprologus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
PIET VERBURG (USA) & ROGER BILLS (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 1612: 55-62 (10 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 22 Aug. 2007
Description of a new cyprinid species, Labeo meroensis n. sp. (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the River Nile
TIMO MORITZ (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1610: 53-59 (8 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
A new species of Hemigrammus Gill, 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae) from Rio Caura, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE & GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1608: 11-19 (5 Oct. 2007)  1 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 6 Sep. 2007
Fishes (Elasmobranchii and Actinopterygii) of Picaozinho reef, Northeastern Brazil, with notes on their conservation status
ALLAN T. DE SOUZA, MARTINA DI IULIO ILARRI, PAULO ROBERTO DE MEDEIROS, RENATO GROTTA GREMPEL , RICARDO S. ROSA & CLAUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1608: 41-49 (5 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Botia udomritthiruji, a new species of botiid loach from southern Myanmar (Teleostei: Botiidae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1608: 51-58 (5 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 6 references                                  Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
Akysis pulvinatus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from southern Thailand
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1605: 33-46 (1 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Two new species of Pseudoscopelus (Teleostei: Chiasmodontidae), with a new diagnosis for the genus
MARCELO R. S. MELO, H. J. WALKER, JR & CYNTHIA KLEPADLO (USA)

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Zootaxa 1605: 47-58 (1 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 38 references                               Accepted: 3 Aug. 2007
A brief review of Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) species from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, with description of a new species
JINLU LI, NAIFA LIU & JUNXING YANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1603: 1-78 (28 Sep. 2007)  30 plates; 83 references                           Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with the description of two new genera and six new species
JUAN J. SCHMITTER-SOTO
(Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1591: 1-38 (21 Sep. 2007)  32 plates; 98 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Description of three new species of the genus Chromaphyosemion Radda, 1971 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal plains of Cameroon with a preliminary review of the Chromaphyosemion splendopleure complex
RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1591: 67-68 (21 Sep. 2007)  1 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 25 Aug. 2007
The Persian/Arabian Gulf's sole great white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) record from Kuwait: misidentification of a sandtiger shark Carcharias taurus (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae)
ALEC B. M. MOORE (UK), LEONARD J. V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & IAN K. FERGUSSON (UK)
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Zootaxa 1587: 43-52 (17 Sep. 2007)  7 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
A new species of the freshwater fish genus Astyanax (Ostariophysi: Characidae) from the rio Iguacu basin, southeastern Brazil
VINICIUS ABILHOA & LUIZ FERNANDO DUBOC (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1587: 61-68 (17 Sep. 2007)  6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 15 Aug. 2007
A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal area of northeastern Mozambique
STEFANO VALDESALICI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1580: 63-68 (10 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 22 Aug. 2007
A new species of Cottunculus (Teleostei: Psychrolutidae) from the Mid Atlantic Ridge
INGVAR BYRKJEDAL (Norway) & ALEXEI M. ORLOV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1579: 1-39 (10 Sep. 2007)  0 plates; 170 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
Checklist of Copepoda associated with fishes from Brazil
JOSE L. LUQUE & LUIZ E. R. TAVARES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1578: 41-68 (7 Sep. 2007) 12 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
New species of the amphiliid catfish genera Amphilius, Doumea and Phractura and the taxonomy of Paramphilius from West Central Africa (Siluriformes, Amphiliidae)
PAUL H. SKELTON (S. Africa)

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Zootaxa 1560: 43-53 (27 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Oligosarcus perdido (Characiformes, Characidae), a new species of freshwater fish from Serra da Bodoquena, upper Rio Paraguai basin, Brazil
ALEXANDRE C. RIBEIRO, MARCEL R. CAVALLARO & OTAVIO FROEHLICH (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1560: 19-30 (27 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
Cirrhigaleus australis n. sp., a new Mandarin dogfish (Squaliformes: Squalidae) from the south-west Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1557: 59-66 (22 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                                Accepted: 2 Jul. 2007
Caenotropus schizodon, a new chilodontid fish from the Rio Tapajos drainage, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Chilodontidae)
ALEXANDRE SCHARCANSKY & CARLOS ALBERTO SANTOS DE LUCENA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1553: 59-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Hypostomus rhantos (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species from southern Venezuela
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER, LEIGH A. TANSEY & NATHAN K. LUJAN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1551: 31-47 (15 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 2 May 2007
A review of the systematics of western North Pacific angel sharks, genus Squatina, with redescriptions of Squatina formosa, S. japonica, and S. nebulosa (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes, Squatinidae)
JONATHAN H. WALSH & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1549: 1-28 (15 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 52 references                            Accepted: 25 May 2007
Three new percid fishes (Percidae: Percina) from the Mobile Basin drainage of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee
James D. Williams, David A. Neely, Stephen J. Walsh & Noel M. Burkhead (USA)

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Zootaxa 1545: 1-16 (9 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 43 references                               Accepted: 18 May 2007
Morphological variation and sexual dimorphism in the California skate, Raja inornata Jordan and Gilbert, 1881 from the Gulf of California, Mexico
JOSE LEONARDO CASTILLO GENIZ, OSCAR SOSA NISHIZAKI & JUAN CARLOS PEREZ JIMENEZ (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1545: 49-57 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Andean Cordillera of Peru with comments on relationships within the genus
LUIS FERNANDEZ (USA) & ROBERTO QUISPE CHUQUIHUAMANI (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1541: 49-55 (2 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 17 references                                Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Trichomycterus santanderensis: A new species of troglomorphic catfish (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from Colombia
CESAR A. CASTELLANOS-MORALES (Puerto Rico)

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Zootaxa 1532: 41-49 (26 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
Fundulopanchax kamdemi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) a new species from Korup National Park, western Cameroon
CHRISTIAN AKUM (Cameroon), RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany), JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium) & RUDOLF H. WILDEKAMP (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1531: 39-48 (23 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 37 references                            Accepted: 13 Jun. 2007
Metazoan parasites of fishes from Coyuca Lagoon, Guerrero, Mexico
JUAN VIOLANTE-GONZALEZ & M. LEOPOLDINA AGUIRRE-MACEDO (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1529: 33-48 (19 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2007
Description of Cathorops manglarensis, a new species from the Colombian Pacific, with redescription of Cathorops multiradiatus (Siluriformes; Ariidae)
ALEXANDRE P. MARCENIUK (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1526: 51-61 (12 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 13 Jun. 2007
Coryphopterus kuna, a new goby (Perciformes: Gobiidae: Gobiinae) from the western Caribbean, with the identification of the late larval stage and an estimate of the pelagic larval duration
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA)

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Zootaxa 1526: 63-68 (12 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 19 references                               Accepted: 4 Jun. 2007
A new species of Metahomaloptera (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from China
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1525: 61-68 (12 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2007
On a new species of the genus Moenkhausia Eigenmann (Ostariophysi: Characidae)
PAULO H. F. LUCINDA, LUIZ R. MALABARBA & RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1523: 1-48 (9 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 71 references                            Accepted: 13 Apr. 2007
Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean)-an update
PETER WIRTZ (Portugal), CARLOS EDUARDO L. FERREIRA (Brazil), SERGIO R. FLOETER (Brazil), RONALD FRICKE (Germany), JOAO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil), TOMIO IWAMOTO (USA), LUIZ ROCHA (USA), CLAUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO (Brazil) & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1523: 59-64 (9 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 21 references                                 Accepted: 2 May 2007
Relationships of the New World cichlid genus Hypsophrys Agassiz 1859 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with diagnoses for the genus and its species
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY & JOHN S. SPARKS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1520: 1-18 (5 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 16 references                                   Accepted: 6 Apr. 2007
A new species of Bedotia (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Bedotiidae) from the Rianila drainage of Eastern Madagascar, with redescriptions of Bedotia madagascariensis and Bedotia geayi
PAUL V. LOISELLE & DAMARIS RODRIGUEZ (USA)

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Zootaxa 1520: 19-36 (5 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 2 May 2007
Description of a new species of catshark, Atelomycterus marnkalha n. sp. (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from north-east Australia
IAN P. JACOBSEN & MIKE B. BENNETT (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1512: 1-38 (21 Jun. 2007) 28 plates; 46 references                            Accepted: 23 Mar. 2007
Taxonomy of the catfish genus Pseudoplatystoma Bleeker (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) with recognition of eight species
URIEL ANGEL BUITRAGO-SUAREZ and BROOKS M. BURR (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1509: 68 (18 Jun. 2007) 0 plates; 7 references                                  Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
Synbranchus doeringii Weyenbergh, 1877, a justified emendation of S. doringii (Pisces: Synbranchidae)
STEFAN KOERBER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1494: 45-65 (31 May 2007) 14 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
The Maugean Skate, Zearaja maugeana sp. nov. (Rajiformes: Rajidae) - a micro-endemic, Gondwanan relict from Tasmanian estuaries
PETER R. LAST & DANIEL C. GLEDHILL (Australia)

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