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Announcements
Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 14 new species) 2025-12-30
In today's special issue of Zootaxa, a collection of 23 open-access papers on tropical fish biodiversity was published. This book includes some of the papers from the International Symposium of Tropical Fish Biodiversity and Conservation held at the National Taiwan Ocean University in Keelung, Taiwan (16–17 May 2025). The book includes one new genus and 14 new species. It was edited by Drs CHIH-WEI CHANG, I-SHIUNG CHEN, MING-FON YEH, KANG-NING SHEN and SHEN-CHIH WANG.
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New wishbone spider species described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-10-06
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862-page monograph revised Australian Thynnidae and Tiphiida with 18 new genera and 116 new species 2025-08-19
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New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
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Description of a New Species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Eastern Nepal
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Four species of the sakaiella group of Promalactis Meyrick, 1908 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from China
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The Palaearctic types of Chrysididae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) deposited in the Linsenmaier collection. Part 6. Parnopini: genus Parnopes Latreille; Chrysidini: genus Euchroeus Latreille and Stilbum Spinola
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Lissonota ardentis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Banchinae: Atrophini), a new species of Darwin wasp from the Mediterranean basin
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The genus Chalcoderus Erichson, 1847: synonymy of Parascatonomus (Morettoeus) Ochi & Kon, 2023, and transfer of group 15 (d’Orbigny 1913, 1915) Afrotropical Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)
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New taxa, natural history and morphology of Paragara Goding and comparisons with Eunusa Fonseca (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Membracini)
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First record of Culex (Melanoconion) adamesi (Diptera: Culicidae) from Guyana
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Rediscovery and revalidation of Calamaria annamensis Bourret, 1937 (Squamata: Calamariidae), a rare reed snake restricted to the Truong Son Range of central Vietnam
Published : 2026-01-26
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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
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A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification
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Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Published : 2004-10-12 -
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)
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Family-group names of Recent fishes
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Uncovering what lies within: The first scientific account of cave-dwelling ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Philippines with the description of a new genus, new subgenus, and four new species from Mindanao
Published : 2024-03-25 -
World Catalogue of the family Lonchaeidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, Acalyptratae)
Published : 2023-06-26