Zootaxa

Vol. 5566 No. 3

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Special volume celebrating 80th birthday of Dr. Luis F. de Armas 2025-01-04

Published today is a special volume celebrating Dr. Luis F. de Armas on the occasion of his 80th birthday, which is edited by ABEL PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, LUIS E. ACOSTA, DANIEL N. PROUD & IVAN L.F. MAGALHÃES.

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1

Special volume on fossil insects (open access) 2024-12-31
Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 29 new species) 2024-12-10
Over 5000 documents for open access! 2024-11-14

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A new species of Namib Day Gecko (Gekkonidae: Rhoptropus Peters, 1869) from the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola
- DIOGO PARRINHA
- MARIANA P. MARQUES
- ARTHUR TIUTENKO
- MATTHEW P. HEINICKE
- AARON M. BAUER
- LUIS M.P. CERÍACO
Published : 2025-01-15
A report of the Scydmaeninae species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) taken from Wumenshan National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China
- ZI-WEI YIN
- DE-YAO ZHOU
Published : 2025-01-15
Erratum: TIANLANG LYU & MICHAEL D. WEBB (2023) A new facultatively cavernicolous planthopper species from Hainan Island, China (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae). Zootaxa, 5231 (3): 273–288.
- TIANLANG LYU
- MICHAEL D. WEBB
Published : 2025-01-15
A revision of five genera of Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from China, with description of five new species
- JIACHEN ZHU
- CORNELIS VAN ACHTERBERG
- XUEXIN CHEN
Published : 2025-01-15
One new species and one new record of family Photidae Boeck, 1871 (Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from Gujarat, India
- DIMPLE THACKER
- ALAN A. MYERS
- JIGNESHKUMAR N. TRIVEDI
Published : 2025-01-15
Mitophylogenetic patterns in Tettigoniidae: Insights from the complete mitogenome of Saga natoliae (Orthoptera)
- MÜŞERREF Y. KARAKAŞ
- ONUR ULUAR
- MUSTAFA YARTAŞ
- BATTAL ÇIPLAK
Published : 2025-01-15
Margaropus Karsch, 1879 is not closely related to Boophilus Curtice, 1891 (Acari: Ixodidae)
- STEPHEN C. BARKER
- SAMUEL KELAVA
- ANNA MURRELL
- MINGEUN CHO
- ERNEST J. M. TEO
- RYO NAKAO
- DMITRY A. APANASKEVICH
Published : 2025-01-15
Taxonomy of the Paramekongiella (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) with description of a new species
- HONG-LEI YU
- ZHI-PANG HUANG
- XUN WANG
- FANG-TING LI
- BEN-YONG MAO
Published : 2025-01-15

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Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
- CINDY GONZALEZ
- BAUTISSE POSTAIRE
- WILLIAM DRIGGERS
- SUSANA CABALLERO
- DEMIAN CHAPMAN
Published : 2024-09-23
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
- ROMAN A. NAZAROV
- HOSSEIN NABIZADEH
- MEHDI RAJABIZADEH
- DANIEL A. MELNIKOV
- VALENTINA R. VOLKOVA
- NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV
- ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI
Published : 2024-09-26
New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
- THOMAS H. ATKINSON
Published : 2024-03-13
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
- ANDREW D. CORSO
- THOMAS DESVIGNES
- JAN R. MCDOWELL
- CHI-HING CHRISTINA CHENG
- ELLEN E. BIESACK
- DEBORAH K. STEINBERG
- ERIC J. HILTON
Published : 2024-08-30
The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)
- TAN VAN NGUYEN
- JUSTIN L. LEE
- OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS
- STEVIE R. KENNEDY-GOLD
- NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV
- PATRICK DAVID
- GERNOT VOGEL
Published : 2024-10-10
A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
- GUNTHER KÖHLER
- JOACHIM SAMEIT
- ROBERT SEIPP
- KATHARINA GEISS
Published : 2024-11-18
Two new species of the sponge associated axiid shrimp genus Eiconaxius Bate, 1888 (Decapoda: Axiidea) from seamounts in the Nishi-Shichito Ridge, Japan
- TOMOYUKI KOMAI
- SHINJI TSUCHIDA
- YOSHIHIRO FUJIWARA
Published : 2024-11-11
On the Neotropical spider genus Ciniflella Mello-Leitão, 1921 (Araneae: Zoropsidae, Tengellinae)
- ANTONIO DOMINGOS BRESCOVIT
- CRISTIAN J. GRISMADO
- LINA M. ALMEIDA-SILVA
- MARTIN J. RAMIREZ
Published : 2025-01-03

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Announcements

Special volume celebrating 80th birthday of Dr. Luis F. de Armas 2025-01-04

Special volume on fossil insects (open access) 2024-12-31

Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 29 new species) 2024-12-10

Over 5000 documents for open access! 2024-11-14

latest

**A new species of Namib Day Gecko (Gekkonidae: Rhoptropus Peters, 1869) from the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola**

A report of the Scydmaeninae species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) taken from Wumenshan National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China

Erratum: TIANLANG LYU & MICHAEL D. WEBB (2023) A new facultatively cavernicolous planthopper species from Hainan Island, China (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae). Zootaxa, 5231 (3): 273–288.

A revision of five genera of Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from China, with description of five new species

One new species and one new record of family Photidae Boeck, 1871 (Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from Gujarat, India

**Mitophylogenetic patterns in Tettigoniidae: Insights from the complete mitogenome of Saga natoliae (Orthoptera)**

Margaropus Karsch, 1879 is not closely related to Boophilus Curtice, 1891 (Acari: Ixodidae)

**Taxonomy of the Paramekongiella (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae) with description of a new species**

most viewed

Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.

**Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran**

New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)

Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula

The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)

**A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)**

**Two new species of the sponge associated axiid shrimp genus Eiconaxius Bate, 1888 (Decapoda: Axiidea) from seamounts in the Nishi-Shichito Ridge, Japan**

**On the Neotropical spider genus Ciniflella Mello-Leitão, 1921 (Araneae: Zoropsidae, Tengellinae)**

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