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Announcements
New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
Two new species of eelpout genus Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 were described in a Zootaxa paper by Ralf Thiel et al. (2025) from specimens caught at a depth between 3517 and 3580 m at the western slope of the upper margin of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, relatively close to the Bussol Strait and Simushir Island in the center of the Kuril Islands chain. This discovery was featured in a story by Miami Herald.
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Taxonomic review of Skrjabinotaenia Akhumyan, Meggittina Lynsdale and Gerbillitaenia gen. nov. (Cestoda: Catenotaeniidae), parasites of rodents
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A new species of the subgenus Bryodemella (s. str.) Yin, 1982 from Gansu, China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Oedipodidae)
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Synonymic notes on two Mongolian Cryptotendipes species (Diptera, Chironomidae)
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New Record of Anapistula (Gertsch 1941) (Araneae: Symphytognathidae) in Europe with the description of a new species
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Two new species of Diastatotropis Lacordaire from protected areas in Madagascar (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)
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A review of the genera Atracodes Melichar and Pseudoflatoides Metcalf (Hemiptera: Flatidae: Flatoidinae) from the Caribbean region
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Investigation on the origin of the “nose” in the genus Megalothorax Willem, 1900 (Neelidae, Collembola) by the means of integrative taxonomy
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Description of three new cicada species in the genus Yoyetta Moulds (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae), from eastern Australia
Published : 2025-02-21
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Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
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)
Published : 2024-03-13 -
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
Published : 2024-09-26 -
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
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)
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A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
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
Published : 2024-11-11 -
Lost for more than 85 years—rediscovery of Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845), the world’s most elusive snakehead species (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae)
Published : 2025-01-31
