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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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The Amphipoda of the remote oceanic archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz (Brazil). II. Five new species of shallow-water aorid and photid amphipods (Senticaudata: Corophiida)
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Erratum: DESMOND KAI TECK TAN, NOBUO TSURUSAKI, JONATHAN J. FONG & CHAO ZHANG (2025) Reinstatement of the genus Pseudoleiobunum Müller, 1914 with the inclusion of a new species from Hong Kong and reallocation of the Leiobunum maximum species complex (Arachnida: Opiliones: Eupnoi: Sclerosomatidae). Zootaxa, 5646 (3): 301–343.
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The nomenclature of the Australasian dung beetle genera Mentophilus Castelnau, 1840 and Tesserodon Hope, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
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Redescription of two species of freshwater crabs from Tanzania, East Africa: Arcopotamonautes unisulcatus (Rathbun, 1933) and A. xiphoidus (Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006) (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae)
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First record of the genus Piratula Roewer, 1960 from India, with the description of a new species (Araneae: Lycosidae: Zoicinae)
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Revisiting subspecies identification of Common Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus): A critical look at Zhang et al. (2008)
Published : 2025-07-07 -
Three new species of the genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Hunan Province, China
Published : 2025-07-07 -
Out of the blue: a new blue Lymanopoda butterfly from the páramo of northern Colombia raises questions about disjunct distributions (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
Published : 2025-07-07
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A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification
Published : 2018-05-28 -
A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World
Published : 2015-02-12 -
Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems*
Published : 2007-12-21 -
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
