Zootaxa

Vol. 5581 No. 1

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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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Checklist of sponges (Porifera) from the White Sea, Arctic
- ALEXANDER ERESKOVSKY
- GRIGORI MOROZOV
Published : 2025-02-05
Solothrips brevisetis gen. et sp. nov. with a single pair of ocellar setae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae)
- SHENLEI LI
- FEI YE
- XIAOJUN LIN
- FENGXIAN CHENG
- ZHAOHONG WANG
- JINFANG TAN
Published : 2025-02-05
Digging out another cryptic species: A new sand frog (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) from Mozambique
- ALAN CHANNING
- DARREN W. PIETERSEN
- ABEDA DAWOOD
Published : 2025-02-05
New taxonomic notes on the genus Spilogona Schnabl, 1911 (Diptera: Muscidae) in Arctic Russia, with the description of three new species
- VERA S. SOROKINA
Published : 2025-02-05
Multi-local analysis supports the transfer of Omolicna fulva to the genus Agoo and establishment of a new species in the genus from Costa Rica
- EDWIN A. BARRANTES BARRANTES
- MARCO A. ZUMBADO ECHAVARRIA
- CHARLES R. BARTLETT
- ERICKA E. HELMICK
- BRIAN W. BAHDER
Published : 2025-02-05
New insights into the phylogeny of Laelapinae mites (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) associated with sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae) from Argentina, with a morphological characterization of two species of Mysolaelaps Fonseca, 1936
- EKATERINA SAVCHENKO
- MARIO ESPINOZA-CARNIGLIA
- MARCELA LARESCHI
Published : 2025-02-05
Cephisus siccifolia (Walker) (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae): description of the immature and adult stages, including genital morphology, with notes on species delimitation challenges in the genus
- ALEXANDRE CRUZ DOMAHOVSKI
- LUÍSA ALASMAR
- KIM RIBEIRO BARÃO
- ANDRESSA PALADINI
Published : 2025-02-05
The hadal benthopelagic Calanoida from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench, North Pacific with the description of a new diaixid genus (Copepoda: Calanoida)
- ELENA L. MARKHASEVA
- JASMIN RENZ
Published : 2025-02-05

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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
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
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
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
Two new species of Boaedon from Ethiopia and Somalia, with a review of the species of East Africa
- JAKOB HALLERMANN
- OLIVER HAWLITSCHEK
Published : 2025-01-13

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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

Checklist of sponges (Porifera) from the White Sea, Arctic

Solothrips brevisetis gen. et sp. nov. with a single pair of ocellar setae (Thysanoptera, Thripidae)

**Digging out another cryptic species: A new sand frog (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) from Mozambique**

**New taxonomic notes on the genus Spilogona Schnabl, 1911 (Diptera: Muscidae) in Arctic Russia, with the description of three new species**

**Multi-local analysis supports the transfer of Omolicna fulva to the genus Agoo and establishment of a new species in the genus from Costa Rica**

New insights into the phylogeny of Laelapinae mites (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) associated with sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae) from Argentina, with a morphological characterization of two species of Mysolaelaps Fonseca, 1936

Cephisus siccifolia (Walker) (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae): description of the immature and adult stages, including genital morphology, with notes on species delimitation challenges in the genus

The hadal benthopelagic Calanoida from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench, North Pacific with the description of a new diaixid genus (Copepoda: Calanoida)

most viewed

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

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)

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

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**

**Two new species of Boaedon from Ethiopia and Somalia, with a review of the species of East Africa**

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