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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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Four new species of the spider genus Oecobius Lucas, 1846 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from northwestern Mexico
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Three new species of the ghost moth Magnificus Yan from China and India (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae)
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Atlantapseudes tridens sp. nov. (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) from the Okinawa Trough, Japan, with a note on the taxonomic status of Atlantapseudes curvatus
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Two new species of Protosticta Selys, 1885 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae) from the Western Ghats, India
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Taxonomy of the genus Chalybion Dahlbom, 1843 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) from Vietnam, with description of a new species
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A new genus and five new species of arboreal tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Brazil
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Notes on the type series of the Javan Spitting Cobra, Naja sputatrix Boie, 1827, and designation of a lectotype for Naja tripudians sondaica Schlegel, 1844
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Erratum: ANDREAS BICK & RALF BASTROP (2025) Revision of the genus Manayunkia leidy, 1859, and establishment of two subfamilies within Fabriciidae (Annelida, Sabellida). Zootaxa, 5661 (1): 1–58.
Published : 2025-08-15
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Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems*
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A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World
Published : 2015-02-12 -
A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification
Published : 2018-05-28 -
Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Published : 2004-10-12 -
World Catalogue of the family Lonchaeidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, Acalyptratae)
Published : 2023-06-26 -
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