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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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Persis (Anapersis) Fennah, 1952 (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae) from Brazil and identification key to the New World species
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A new species of Sibon (Serpentes, Dipsadini) from French Guiana and amended diagnosis of Sibon nebulatus
Published : 2025-06-06 -
Khoisan, a new genus of Cyclominae from South Africa, with nine new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Published : 2025-06-06 -
An updated ichthyofaunal checklist for the Nigerian Lagos Lagoon with notes on nomenclatural changes and the conservation status of species
Published : 2025-06-06 -
Ecology, morphology and distribution of Anisota finlaysoni Riotte (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae)
Published : 2025-06-06 -
Another brushstroke on the cynipoid painting: a new species of Andricus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from Türkiye
Published : 2025-06-06 -
An unexpected discovery: the first species of Paraneseuthia Franz from the Mascarene Islands (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Published : 2025-06-06 -
On the rare species of Dicordylus Lacordaire and Homalocerus Schoenherr (Coleoptera, Belidae) with notes on male terminalia of D. vanini Mermudes
Published : 2025-06-06
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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 -
Genetic and morphological variation analyses of Dryophytes japonicus (Anura, Hylidae) with description of a new species from northeastern Japan
Published : 2025-02-20 -
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 -
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 -
World Catalogue of the family Lonchaeidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, Acalyptratae)
Published : 2023-06-26 -
A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
Published : 2024-11-18
