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Editor, Dr S.T. Ahyong  (shane.ahyong@austmus.gov.au Anomura & Stomatopoda
Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Editor, Dr P. Castro (pcastro@csupomona.edu) Brachyura 
Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA 91768, USA
Editor, Dr J. Goy (jwgoy@harding.edu) Caridea
Department of Biology, Harding University, 900 E. Center Ave., Box 12251, Searcy, Arkansas 72149-0001 USA
Editor, Dr D. S. Jones (jonesd@museum.wa.gov.au) Thecostraca (Cirripedia and others)
Western Australian Museum, Francis Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000 (Australia) 

Editor, Dr G.S. Karaman (karaman@t-com.meAmphipoda
P.O.Box 40,  81000 Podgorica, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Editor, Dr Karanovic, Tom (tomislav.karanovic@utas.edu.au) Copepoda
University of Tasmania, School of Zoology, Private Bag 5, Hobart Tasmania 7001, Australia 
Editor,  Dr. R. Matzke-Karasz, (r.matzke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) Ostracoda
Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences Section Palaeontology and GeoBioCenter LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-University Richard-Wagner-Str. 33 D 80333 Muenchen Germany 

Editor, Prof. Jörundur Svavarsson (jorundur@hi.is) Isopoda 
Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Editor, Dr K. Meland (
Kenneth.Meland@bio.uib.no) Mysidacea & other Crustacea not listed above
University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, NORWAY
Editor, Dr Miguel Alonso (malonso@ub.edu) Branchiopoda
URS Urgell, 143, 08036 Barcelona (Spain)

Editor, Dr Susan Dippenaar (SUSAND@ul.ac.za) Copepoda
Department of Biodiversity, SMLS, University of Limpopo, P/Bag X1106 Sovenga 0727 South Africa
Editor, Dr Sarah Gerken (sarah.gerken@uaa.alaska.edu) Tanaidacea & Cumacea
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska , Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr . Anchorage, AK 99508 USA  (on leave until August 2011)
Editor, Dr Roger N. Bamber  (roger.bamber@artoo.co.uk)  Tanaidacea & Cumacea
Dept. of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Editor, Dr Jim Lowry (Jim.Lowry@austmus.gov.au) Amphipoda
Crustacea Section, Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney 2010, Australia

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2012

Article 
Zootaxa 3182: 43–50 (03 Feb. 2012) 5 plates; 3 references                           Accepted: 05 Dec. 2011
A new species of pontoniine shrimp genus Philarius Holthuis, 1952 (Crustacea: Decapoda:
 
Palaemonidae) from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3179: 1–38 (1 Feb. 2012) 25 plate; 40 references                           Accepted: 06 Dec. 2011
A new species of Attheyella (Canthosella) from Colombia and redescription of Attheyella (Delachauxiella) freyi (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Canthocamptidae)
SANTIAGO GAVIRIA (France) & DANIELLE DEFAYE (Austria)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3178: 68 (31 Jan. 2012)
Erratum: DWORSCHAK, P. C. (2011) On the identities of Callianassa bouvieri Nobili, 1904, C. maldivensis Borradaile, 1904, and C. gravieri Nobili, 1905 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae): a morphometric approach. Zootaxa 3049: 39–56
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Article 
Zootaxa 3170: 18–30 (24 Jan. 2012) 9 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 29 Nov. 2011
Notes on the morphology and ecology of the adult females of Nesippus species
(Siphonostomatoida: Pandaridae) with a key for identification
SUSAN M. DIPPENAAR & BEA P. JORDAAN (South Africa)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3167: 17–31 (20 Jan. 2012) 11 plates; 35 references                      Accepted: 22 Nov. 2011
Morphological and morphometric comparisons of the first zoea of four species of purse crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from the Brazilian South Atlantic
GUSTAVO L. HIROSE, RAFAEL A. GREGATI, ADILSON FRANSOZO
& MARIA L. NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3162: 3 1–38 (17 Jan. 2012) 2 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
A new atyid genus and species from Madagascar (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
JASMINE RICHARD, SAMMY DE GRAVE & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3162: 1–30 (17 Jan. 2012) 17 plates; 96 references                           Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
Report on some caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Mayotte, southwest Indian Ocean
XINZHENG LI (China), RÉGIS CLEVA (France) & JOSEPH POUPIN (France)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3161: 67–68 (16 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 74 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Remarks on the taxonomic status of Jaera danubica Brtek, 2003 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Janiridae)
PÉTER BORZA (Hungary)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3161: 20–36 (16 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2011
Two new species of Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in south India with a key to Leptestheriella and Eocyzicus
GULLIPALLI SIMHACHALAM (India) & BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3161: 1–19 (16 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 74 references                           Accepted: 16 Nov. 2011
Nonmarine ostracods (Crustacea) from South Korea, including a description a new species of Tanycypris Triebel (Cyprididae, Cypricercinae)
CHEON YOUNG CHANG (South Korea), JIMIN LEE (South Korea) & ROBIN J. SMITH (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3158: 20–36 (12 Jan. 2012) 8 plate; 41 references                           Accepted: 10 Nov. 2011
The Indonesian species of Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1823, with the description
of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU & DHARMA ARIF NUGROHO (Idonesia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3154: 61–68 (9 Jan. 2012) 4 plate; 4 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2011
Triacanthoneus akumalensis, a new species of alpheid shrimp (Crustacea: Caridea: Alpheidae) from an anchialine cave in Quintana Roo, Mexico
FERNANDO ALVAREZ (Mexico), THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA), BRETT GONZALEZ (USA) & JOSÉ LUIS
VILLALOBOS (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3154: 40–46 (9 Jan. 2012) 4 plate; 6 references                           Accepted: 1 Nov. 2011
Redescription of Desertoniscus taschkentensis (Verhoeff, 1930) and description
of Desertoniscus schmalfussi n. sp. (Isopoda: Oniscidea)
GHASEM M. KASHANI (Iran) & ANDREAS ALLSPACH (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3150: 36–58 (4 Jan. 2012) 12 plate; 30 references                       Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Three new species of copepods (Copepoda: Calanoida and Cyclopoida) from anchialine habitats in Indonesia
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL (UK) & DAMIŔ JAUME (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3150: 1–35 (4 Jan. 2012) 1 plate; 204 references                           Accepted: 1 Nov. 2011
Recent and fossil Isopoda Bopyridae parasitic on squat lobsters and porcelain crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea), with notes on nomenclature and biogeography
CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO, JASON D. WILLIAMS & JOHN C. MARKHAM (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3149: 39–56 (4 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 52 references                         Accepted: 3 Nov. 2011
On the identities of Callianassa bouvieri Nobili, 1904, C. maldivensis Borradaile, 1904, and C. gravieri Nobili, 1905 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae): a morphometric approach
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3149: 1–38 (4 Jan. 2012) 24 plates; 74 references                         Accepted: 9 Nov. 2011
Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil with taxonomic key
RONY R. R. VIEIRA, RODRIGO S. FERREIRA & FERNANDO D’INCAO (Brazil)
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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 165–191 (23 Dec. 2011
Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

SHANE T. AHYONG, JAMES K. LOWRY, MIGUEL ALONSO, ROGER N. BAMBER, GEOFFREY A. BOXSHALL, PETER CASTRO, SARAH GERKEN, GORDAN S. KARAMAN, JOSEPH W. GOY, DIANA S. JONES, KENNETH MELAND, D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS & JÖRUNDUR SVAVARSSON
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3142: 1–172 (23 Dec. 2011) 111 plates; 125 references               Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
Systematic revision of the family Kalliapseudidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea)
DAVID T. DRUMM & RICHARD W. HEARD

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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 60–68 (22 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 7 references                         Accepted:  3 Oct. 2011
A new species of the genus Parastylodactylus Figueira, 1971 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Stylodactylidae) from off Kollam, southwest coast of India
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & C. P. RAJOOL SHANIS (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 15–37 (22 Dec. 2011) 12 plates; 49 references                    Accepted: 20 Oct. 2011
Groundwater, spring and interstitial Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, including descriptions of three new species and one new genus
ROBIN J. SMITH (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 1–14 (22 Dec. 2011) 1 plate; 27 references                         Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
Taxonomic review of freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Iran
MEHRDAD ZAMANPOORE (Austria), MICHAL GRABOWSKI (Poland), MANFRED POECKL (Austria) & FRIEDRICH SCHIEMER (Austria)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3134: 68 (16 Dec. 2011)
Erratum: YOUNG-HYO KIM, ED A. HENDRYCKS & KYUNG-SOOK LEE (2011) The genus Guernea Chevreux, 1887 from Korean waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Dexaminidae) Zootaxa, 3104, 1–25.
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Article
Zootaxa 3129: 29–38 (14 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 19 references                     Accepted: 07 Nov. 2011
Description of Sarsilatona cf. fernandoi (Rane, 1983) (Crustacea: Cladocera: Sididae) found in the south of Vietnam
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3125: 39–50 (09 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 35 references                        Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
A new genus of Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) for a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific and Pagurus longimanus Wass, 1963 from the tropical western Atlantic
RAFAEL LEMAITRE & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3123: 49–59 (08 Dec. 2011) 7 plates; 1 references                           Accepted: 01 Nov. 2011
Two new species of alcyonacean-associated shrimp genus Alcyonohippolyte Marin, Okuno & Chan, 2010 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae) from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3117: 1–68 (02 Dec. 2011) 47 plates; 42 references                         Accepted: 14 Oct. 2011
New and known species of the family Leuconidae(Cumacea, Peracarida) from Antarctic deep-sea basins
UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL
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Article
Zootaxa 3115: 21–28 (01 Dec. 2011) 6 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 19 Aug. 2011
Speleonectes williamsi, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Bahamas
TAMARA R. HARTKE (Germany), STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany) & JILL YAGER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3111: 49–63 (28 Nov. 2011) 8 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 14 Oct. 2011
Akanthoparapseudes alfaroae, a new genus and species of apseudomorphan tanaidacean (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from Puerto Rican coastal waters
RICHARD W. HEARD & ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3109: 60–68 (24 Nov. 2011) 03 plates; 21 references                        Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
New species of Acasta and Balanus (Balanoidea: Acastinae, Balaninae) from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of the Aquitaine Basin, France
RENÉ-PIERRE CARRIOL, BRUNO CAHUZAC & JEAN-FRANÇOIS LESPORT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3109: 49–59 (24 Nov. 2011) 08 plates; 23 references                        Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
A new genus and species of anchialine Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Samar, Philippines
DANIEL EDISON M. HUSANA (Japan), SWEE HEE TAN (Singapore) & TOMOKI KASE (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3106: 60–66 (22 Nov. 2011) 0 plates; 50 references                         Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha)
ARNOLD ROSS† & MICHAEL G. FRICK (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3104: 26–41 (21 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 59 references                        Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
Hermit crabs from Brazil: Family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea), except Pagurus
PAULO RICARDO NUCCI & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3104: 1–25 (21 Nov. 2011) 16 plates; 20 references                       Accepted: 02 Sep. 2011
The genus Guernea Chevreux, 1887 from Korean waters (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Dexaminidae)
YOUNG-HYO KIM (Canada), ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada) & KYUNG-SOOK LEE (Korea)

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Article
Zootaxa 3103: 1–32 (18 Nov. 2011) 16 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
Oxynaspididae (Crustacea, Cirripedia): phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, with descriptions of three new genera and six new species
ROBERT J. VAN SYOC & ALLEN M. DEKELBOUM (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3103: 33–56 (18 Nov. 2011) 11 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 17 Oct. 2011
Parasitic copepods of the family Taeniacanthidae (Crustacea) from triggerfishes (Teleostei, Balistidae) and filefishes (Teleostei, Monacanthidae) collected in the Indo-West Pacific region, with descriptions of two new species of Taeniacanthus Sumpf, 1871
DANNY TANG (Australia), DAISUKE UYENO (Japan) & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3099: 43–56 (16 Nov. 2011) 0 plates; 75 references                         Accepted: 07 Oct. 2011
The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtiss in 1938 and 1944
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), LUCIUS G. ELDREDGE (USA) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3098: 47–54 (15 Nov. 2011) 1 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
Stella Vladimirovna Vassilenko (1936−2011): in memoriam
VICTOR V. PETRYASHOV (Russia), MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA (Finland)
 
& ALEXEY V. CHERNYSHEV (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3096: 41–52 (11 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
Revisiting Pagurus pilosipes (Stimpson, 1858) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae)
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), CHIEN-HUI YANG (Taiwan), JUNJI OKUNO (Japan)
& TIN-YAM CHAN (Taiwan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3091: 60–68 (04 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
A new species of the genus Iiella Băcescu, 1968 (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from Malaysia, with notes on I. elegans (Tattersall, 1960)
KOUKI FUKUOKA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 3091: 51–59 (04 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
A new species of Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Cape d’Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong
CHRISTINE N.W. LEE (China) & ROGER N. BAMBER (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 3089: 51–59 (03 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
New species of Plesionika Bate, 1888 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) from Southwestern Atlantic
IRENE A. CARDOSO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 39–53 (02 Nov. 2011) 7 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 19 Sep. 2011
The tanaidacean assemblage from the Central Pacific Manganese Nodule Province. II. The genera Stenotanais and Typhlotanais (Crustacea)
KIM LARSEN (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 57–68 (01 Nov. 2011) 5 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
A new species of Chaceon Manning & Holthuis, 1989, from the southwestern Atlantic, with a key to the western Atlantic species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Geryonidae)
MARCOS TAVARES & ALLYSSON P. PINHEIRO (Brazil)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3078: 1–113 (28 Oct. 2011) 27 plates; 289 references                   Accepted: 26 Aug. 2011
A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
KRISTINE N. WHITE

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3063: 64–68 (20 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
A new species of Keysercypria Karanovic (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Argentina
ANALÍA R. DÍAZ & ESTELA C. LOPRETTO (Argentina)

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Article
Zootaxa 3063: 53–63 (20 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 30 Sep. 2011
A new freshwater species of Neorhynchoplax Sakai, 1938 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hymenosomatidae) from Patna, Bihar, India
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), HASKO F. NESEMANN (India) & GOPAL SHARMA (India)

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Zootaxa 3061: 1–35 (18 Oct. 2011) 18 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Mud-Volcano and Seep Sites on the Norwegian Margin 
MAGDALENA BŁA
ŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & ROGER N. BAMBER (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 3059: 59–68 (14 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 7 references                         Accepted: 08 Sep. 2011
Description of a third species in the alpheid shrimp genus Richalpheus Anker & Jeng, 2006 (Crustacea, Decapoda) 
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3059: 47–58 (14 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 19 Sep. 2011
Bicornucandona gen. nov., sp. nov. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Finegan Springs (Texas, U.S.A.) OKAN KÜLKÖYLÜOĞLU (Turkey), RANDY GIBSON (USA), PETER H. DIAZ (USA) & JEAN-PAUL COLIN (Portugal)
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Zootaxa 3057: 61–68 (12 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 13 Sep. 2011
A new genus for Libinia rostrata Bell, 1835, with comments on the validity of Libinia bellicosa Oliveira, 1944 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea, Epialtidae) 
MARCOS TAVARES & WILLIAM SANTANA (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3052: 51–61 (07 Oct. 2011) 3 plates; 75 references                         Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
The Polydectinae Dana, 1851, of the Philippines, with description of a new genus for Lybia hatagumoana Sakai, 1961 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) 
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 3048: 1–43 (04 Oct. 2011) 18 plates; 83 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Grapsoid crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Thoracotremata) of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman REZA NADERLOO (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3043: 25–32 (28 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 01 Aug. 2011
A new species of Lynceus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Laevicaudata) from Patagonia, with comments on laevicaudatan systematics 
PABLO PESSACQ (Argentina), LUIS B. EPELE (Argentina) & D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3042: 1–14 (27 Sep. 2011) 9 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 02 Sep. 2011
Calappa exanthematosa Alcock & Anderson, 1894, as a valid species of box crab from the Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Calappidae) 
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), JOELLE C. Y. LAI (Singapore), NEGAR GHOTBEDDIN (Iran) & MOHSEN SAFAIE (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3041: 39–50 (24 Sep. 2011) 6 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Two new species of Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 with a deep dorsal depression on the carapace (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) 
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3041: 1–38 (24 Sep. 2011) 27 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 12 Aug. 2011
Six new species and three new records of infaunal alpheid shrimps from the genera Leptalpheus Williams, 1965 and Fenneralpheus Felder & Manning, 1986 (Crustacea, Decapoda) 
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3036: 26–38 (21 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 40 references                         Accepted: 24 Aug. 2011
Two new species of the deep-sea squat lobster genus Munida Leach, 1820 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munididae) from Taiwan: morphological and molecular evidence 
PATRICIA CABEZAS (Spain), CHIA-WEI LIN (Taiwan) & TIN-YAM CHAN (Taiwan)

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Zootaxa 3027: 52–62 (15 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 19 Aug. 2011
A new sponge-inhabiting leptostracan species of the genus Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, Gulf of Mexico 
MANUEL ORTIZ, IGNACIO WINFIELD & SERGIO CHÁZARO-OLVERA (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 3026: 1–64 (14 Sep. 2011) 26 plates; 113 references               Accepted: 23 Jun. 2011
Molecular and morphological evidence for short range endemism in the Kinnecaris solitaria complex (Copepoda: Parastenocarididae), with descriptions of seven new species 
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC & STEVEN J.B. COOPER
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Article
Zootaxa 3025: 59–65 (14 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 17 Aug. 2011
Nyctobadistes gen. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Munnopsidae), a new genus from Tasmanian waters, Australia, with the description of a new species 
KELLY L. MERRIN (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 3025: 1–37 (14 Sep. 2011) 19 plates; 68 references                         Accepted: 28 Jul. 2011
Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Laos 
YUKIO HANAMURA (Japan), HIDEYUKI IMAI (Japan), OULAYTHAM LASASIMMA (Lao), PANY SOULIYAMATH (Lao) & SAYAKA ITO (Japan)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3018: 66–68 (08 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 5 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
A new species of Ancylomenes Okuno & Bruce, 2009 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Kimberley region, Western Australia
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3015: 29–51 (06 Sep. 2011) 10 plates; 62 references                         Accepted: 08 Aug. 2011
Revision of the genus Glyptoxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, and establishment of Glyptoxanthinae nov. subfam. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) 
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA (Singapore) & DANIČLE GUINOT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3011: 45–58 (01 Sep. 2011) 11 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 9 Jun. 2011
A revision of the freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) of the Lake Kivu drainage basin in Central and East Africa 
KIRSTIN S. MEYER & NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3001: 65–67 (23 Aug. 2011) 1 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 11 Jul. 2011
A note on an Ancylomenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Siboga expedition 
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2998: 66–68 (18 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 27 Jul. 2011
Discovery of the shrimp Pycnocaris chagoae Bruce, 1972 (Decapoda: Caridea: Gnathophyllidae) in the Lakshadweep Archipelago, India 
SANJEEVI PRAKASH, IDREES BABU, MOHAN GOPI, THIPPARAMALAI THANGAPPANPILLAI AJITH KUMAR & THANGAVEL BALASUBRAMANIAN (India)

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Zootaxa 2994: 45–59 (12 Aug. 2011) 10 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 14 Jul. 2011
The Cumacean Dimorphostylis elegans Gamô, 1960 (Crustacea), D. bathyelegans n. sp. and D. brevicarpus n. sp. from Japan 
TADASHI AKIYAMA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2990: 45–58 (09 Aug. 2011) 8 plates; 21 references                     Accepted: 18 Jul. 2011
Morphology of the complete larval development of the symbiotic crab Sestrostoma balssi (Shen, 1932) (Varunidae: Gaeticinae) 
ELENA S. KORNIENKO & OLGA M. KORN (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2988: 53–65 (08 Aug. 2011) 7 plates; 27 references                     Accepted: 7 Jul. 2011
Early zoeal development of the shrimp Hippolyte leptocerus (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae) GUILLERMO GUERAO (Spain), ESTEBAN HERNÁNDEZ (Spain) & ÁNGEL URZÚA (Germany)
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Zootaxa 2983: 57–68 (03 Aug. 2011) 7 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 01 Jul. 2011
Periclimenaeus echinimanus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), a new species from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea 
ZDEN
ĚK ĎURIŠ (Czech Republic), IVONA HORKÁ (Czech Republic) & FUAD AL–HORANI (Jordan)
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Zootaxa 2982: 33–39 (02 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from Maluku, Indonesia 
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia)
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Zootaxa 2982: 27–32 (02 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from the Philippines 
PAUL F. CLARK (England) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 2978: 1–33 (28 Jul. 2011) 22 plates; 39 references                         Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
Cumacea from the continental shelf of Angola and Namibia with descriptions of new species
RALF BOCHERT & MICHAEL L. ZETTLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa 2972: 59–68 (21 Jul. 2011) 6 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 8 Jun. 2011
Procambarus (Ortmannicus) luxus (Decapoda: Cambaridae), a new crayfish from southern Texas
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)

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Zootaxa 2972: 1–21 (21 Jul. 2011) 14 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
Four new species of the subterranean amphipod genus Stygobromus (Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from shallow groundwater habitats on the Coastal Plain and eastern margin of the Piedmont in Maryland and Virginia, USA
JOHN R. HOLSINGER, LYNNETTE MEADOR ANSELL & JUSTIN SHAFER (USA)

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Zootaxa 2971: 17–32 (20 Jul. 2011) 10 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 15 Jun. 2011
The first blind Paranthura species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Paranthuridae) from the 'El Cachucho' Marine Protected Area (Le Danois Bank, southern Bay of Biscay)
INMACULADA FRUTOS (Spain), JEAN CLAUDE SORBE (France) & JUAN JUNOY (Spain)
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Zootaxa 2968: 57–68 (18 Jul. 2011) 7 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 20 Jun. 2011
Lacertopontonia chadi gen. et sp. nov., a new oyster-associated Pontonia-like pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Zootaxa 2968: 1–25 (18 Jul. 2011) 12 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 2 Jun. 2011
The genus Limnoria (Limnoriidae, Isopoda, Crustacea) in Europe, including a key to species
JOSÉ CASTELLÓ (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 2966: 51–57 (14 Jul. 2011) 2 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 9 Jun. 2011
New species and new records of cumaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Cumacea) from the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean
IORGU PETRESCU (Romania) & TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2962: 21–35 (11 Jul. 2011) 9 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 22 Apr. 2011
Two new species of sand-bubbler crabs, Scopimera, from North China and the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dotillidae)
KINGSLEY J.H. WONG, HSI-TE SHIH & BENNY K.K. CHAN (R. China)
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Zootaxa 2956: 1–76 (08 Jul. 2011) 52 plates; 81 references               Accepted: 19 May 2011
The tryphosine genera Photosella gen. nov. and Tryphosella
Bonnier, 1893 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae) in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2955: 1–79 (08 Jul. 2011) 48 plates; 57 references               Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
New species of Hoho, Mallacoota and Parelasmopus
(Maeridae: Amphipoda) from Australian waters
L.E. HUGHES

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2947: 1–154 (08 Jul. 2011) 1 plates; 561 references               Accepted: 22 Mar. 2011
Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands
PETER CASTRO

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Article
Zootaxa 2939: 59–68 (05 Jul. 2011) 6 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 8 Jun. 2011
Fallicambarus (F.) wallsi (Decapoda: Cambaridae), a new burrowing crayfish from eastern Texas
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)
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Zootaxa 2934: 61–67 (30 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 13 Jun. 2011
A new genus for Psopheticus megalops Takeda, 1989 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacidae)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2934: 53–60 (30 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 9 Jun. 2011
Redescription of the rheophilous cladocera Camptocercus vietnamensis Than, 1980 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 2930: 33–46 (27 Jun. 2011) 9 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 30 May 2011
Two new species of cirolanid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from Qeshm and Kish Islands in the Persian Gulf
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)
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Zootaxa 2929: 37–50 (24 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 11 Jun. 2011
A new species of Sandro Karaman & Barnard (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Austroniphargus family group) from South-East Madagascar
MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA (Finland)
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Zootaxa 2929: 22–36 (24 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
The genus Mallacoota (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Maeridae) in New Zealand
NIAMH M. KILGALLEN (New Zealand) & SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2925: 49–56 (21 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 17 May 2011
Description of a new deep-water species of Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 from the Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER (Brazil) & MARTHA NIZINSKI (USA)
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Zootaxa 2925: 1–18 (21 Jun. 2011) 9 plates; 62 references                         Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
Asterocherids (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) associated with marine invertebrates in the Strait of Gibraltar
MERCEDES CONRADI & MŞ EUGENIA BANDERA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 2924: 63–67 (20 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 11 May 2011
Redescription of Porcellio brevicaudatus Brandt, 1833 (Isopoda: Oniscidea); with some notes on other synonyms of Hemilepistus reaumurii (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
GHASEM M. KASHANI (Iran), JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany) & HELMUT SCHMALFUSS
(Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2924: 33–56 (20 Jun. 2011) 19 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 31 May 2011
Four new species of the interstitial family Cobanocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from central Japan
RYOUICHI HIGASHI & AKIRA TSUKAGOSHI (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2919: 1–36 (14 Jun. 2011) 20 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 9 May 2011
Apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from mud-volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz (North-east Atlantic)
MAGDALENA BŁA
ŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland), ROGER N. BAMBER (UK) & MARINA R.CUNHA (Portugal)
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Zootaxa 2918: 29–38 (14 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
Catoptrus iejima, a new species of cavernicolous swimming crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from a submarine cave at Ie Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
YOSHIHISA FUJITA & TOHRU NARUSE (Japan)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2912: 68–68 (9 Jun. 2011) 0 plates; 7 references                         Accepted: 19 May 2011
Dana, replacement name for the New Zealand talitrid amphipod genus Tara Duncan, 1994 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae), preoccupied by Tara Peckham & Peckham, 1886 (Araneae, Salticidae, Amycinae, Astiini)
J.K. LOWRY (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2912: 37–48 (9 Jun. 2011) 39 plates; 68 references                         Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
The highly divergent New World Artemia species (Branchiopoda, Anostraca), A. franciscana and A. persimilis, show subtle differences in morphological traits involved in mating
GRAZIELLA MURA (Italy) & GONZALO GAJARDO (Chile)
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Zootaxa 2911: 57–68 (9 Jun. 2011) 7 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 14 May 2011
Johngarthia cocoensis, a new species of Gecarcinidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Cocos Island, Costa Rica
ROBERT PERGER (Costa Rica), RITA VARGAS (Costa Rica) & ADAM WALL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2911: 1–42 (9 Jun. 2011) 21 plates; 66 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
Brachyuran crabs of the family Macrophthalmidae Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) of the Persian Gulf
REZA NADERLOO (Iran), MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany) & MICHAEL APEL (Germany)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2904: 66–68 (2 Jun. 2011) 0 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 17 May 2011
On the nomenclature of the palaemonid names Palaemon spinipes Desmarest, 1817, Palaemon spinipes Schenkel, 1902, and Macrobrachium wallacei Wowor & Ng, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2903: 64–68 (2 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
Further records of the anchialine shrimp, Periclimenes pholeter Holthuis, 1973 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae)
S. DE GRAVE (UK) & T. S. SAKIHARA (USA)

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Zootaxa 2894: 39–57 (27 May 2011) 13 plates; 18 references                      Accepted: 7 Apr. 2011
Two new Gammarus species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Zagros Mountains, Iran
MARYAM HEKMATARA, ALIREZA SARI & MOHAMMAD-HADI HEIDARY BALADEHI (Iran)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2891: 1–62 (25 May 2011) 34 plates; 45 references                       Accepted: 4 Apr. 2011
Paratanaoidean tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from littoral and shallow sublittoral habitats in New Zealand, with
descriptions of three new genera and seven new species
GRAHAM J. BIRD
(New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 2890: 40–52 (25 May 2011) 1 plates; 101 references                      Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
The position of the Hymenosomatidae MacLeay, 1838, within the Brachyura (Crustacea, Decapoda)
DANIČLE GUINOT (France)

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Zootaxa 2890: 29–39 (25 May 2011) 8 plates; 9 references                        Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Fennera holthuisi sp. nov., a new coral-associated pontoniine shrimp (Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) from Moorea, French Polynesia
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 2889: 49–68 (24 May 2011) 14 plates; 17 references                    Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Two new Byrathis species (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the deep South Atlantic and Southern Ocean and first description of an adult male
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA (Russia) & JASMIN RENZ (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2889: 35–48 (24 May 2011) 10 plates; 23 references                      Accepted: 3 May 2011
Labuanium vitatum (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), a new Indo-West Pacific species of arboreal crab
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PETER J. F. DAVIE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2886: 19–30 (23 May 2011) 7 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Apseudes talpa revisited (Crustacea; Tanaidacea).
The impact on apseudidaen systematics

KIM LARSEN, IACOPO BERTOCCI & ELSA FROUFE (Portugal)

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Zootaxa 2881: 31–38 (17 May 2011) 3 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Kabutos, a new genus for the western Pacific leucosiid crab, Merocryptus durandi Serčne, 1955 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
HIRONORI KOMATSU (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2877: 4 1–54 (13 May 2011) 6 plates; 25 references                      Accepted: 13 Apr. 2011
Larval development of the freshwater shrimp Atyaephyra desmarestii (Millet, 1831) sensu lato (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) and morphological maturation from juveniles to adults
CHRYSSA ANASTASIADOU, ALEXANDROS NTAKIS & IOANNIS D. LEONARDOS (Greece)

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Zootaxa 2876: 57–68 (12 May 2011) 7 plates; 33 references                     Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Cymothoa hermani sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea), a parasitic isopod, collected off the Zanzibar coast, Tanzania from the mouth of a parrotfish (Scaridae)
KERRY A. HADFIELD (South Africa), NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia) & NICO J. SMIT (South Africa)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2875: 1–64 (11 May 2011) 30 plates; 51 references                       Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Separation of Anthalona gen.n. from Alona Baird, 1843 (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda): morphology and evolution of scraping stenothermic alonines
KAY VAN DAMME (Belgium), ARTEM YU SINEV (Russia) & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2874: 65–68 (11 May 2011) 0 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Neither molecular nor morphological data have all the answers; with an example from Macrobrachium (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Australia
TIMOTHY J. PAGE & JANE M. HUGHES (Australia)

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Zootaxa 2874: 1–37 (11 May 2011) 12 plates; 89 references                      Accepted: 23 Feb. 2011
Recent Cyprididae and Ilyocyprididae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lake Biwa, Japan, including a summary of the lake’s ostracod fauna
ROBIN J. SMITH (Japan), HORST JANZ (Germany) & ICHIRO OKUBO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2869: 54–62 (6 May 2011) 4 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
Centromedon zoe (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the North Atlantic, with a key to the genus Centromedon
TAMMY HORTON & MICHAEL THURSTON (UK)

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Zootaxa 2869: 37–53 (6 May 2011) 9 plates; 32 references                        Accepted: 29 Mar. 2011
Andhracoides shabuddin gen. nov., sp. nov., a new phreatoicidean isopod (Crustacea, Hypsimetopidae) from hypogean aquatic habitats in Andhra Pradesh, India
GEORGE D. F. WILSON (Australia) & YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (India)

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Zootaxa 2867: 43–58 (5 May 2011) 8 plates; 27 references                        Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Morphology of larval and first juvenile stages of the kangaroo shrimp Dugastella valentina (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea), a freshwater atyid with abbreviated development and parental care
ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ & JOSÉ A. CUESTA (Spain)

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Zootaxa 2864: 34–42 (3 May 2011) 2 plates; 60 references                        Accepted: 22 Feb. 2011
Nikoides schmitti Manning & Chace, 1971 (Caridea: Processidae) in the South Atlantic Ocean, with an updated list and key for processid shrimps of Brazil
ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA ALMEIDA & LUIS ERNESTO ARRUDA BEZERRA (Brazil)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2857: 1–87 (29 Apr. 2011) 10 plates; 98 references                        Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
Revision of Metaconchoecia (Ostracoda: Halocyprididae) and the designation of two new tribes Conchoeciini
and Metaconchoeciini
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR(Russia) & MARTIN V. ANGEL
(UK)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2855: 1–79 (29 Apr. 2011) 0 plates; 59 references                       Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
A subjective checklist of the Recent, free-living, non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) 

KOEN MARTENS (
Belgium) & SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2839: 67–84 (29 Apr. 2011) 11 plates; 19 references                  Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
Three new species of the alpheid shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the tropical western Pacific
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2838: 79–84 (29 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 22 references                      Accepted: 3 Feb. 2011
First genetic data for species of the genus Haploniscus Richardson, 1908 (Isopoda: Asellota: Haploniscidae) from neighbouring deep-sea basins in the South Atlantic
SASKIA BRIX, TORBEN RIEHL & FLORIAN LEESE (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 2834: 1–16 (27 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 25 Mar. 2011
Sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps (Alpheidae: Synalpheus) of Barbados, West Indies, with a description of a new eusocial species
KRISTIN M. HULTGREN, KENNETH S MACDONALD III & J. EMMETT DUFFY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2833: 15–28 (27 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 27 references                       Accepted: 16 Mar. 2011
New Mysida (Crustacea) in the genus Pseudomma from the Bellingshausen Sea (Southern Ocean)
CARLOS SAN VICENTE (Sapin)

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Article
Zootaxa 2826: 45–56 (20 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 39 references                       Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Hormonal induction of males as a method for studying tropical cladocerans:
description of males of four chydorid species (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & LA-ORSRI SANOAMUANG (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2825: 55–68 (20 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 51 references                         Accepted: 18 Jan. 2011
Africorchestia a new genus of sand-hoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from western Africa and south-western Europe
JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia) & CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 2823: 32–46 (18 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 45 references                       Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Two new species of Heteromysis (Olivemysis) (Mysida, Mysidae, Heteromysinae)
from the tropical northwest Atlantic with diagnostics on the subgenus Olivemysis Băcescu, 1968
W. WAYNE PRICE & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2820: 1–61 (14 Apr. 2011) 30 plates; 108 references                       Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
On the recent Cyclocypridinae (Podocopida, Candonidae) with description of two new genera and one new species
IVANA KARANOVIC (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2813: 55–64 (8 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
Dikerogammarus istanbulensis sp. n., a new amphipod species (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from Turkey with a key for the genus
MURAT ÖZBEK & NURCAN ÖZKAN (Turkey)

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Article
Zootaxa 2813: 1–54 (8 Apr. 2011) 37 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Remarkable Australasian marine diversity: 18 new species in Pentaceration Just, 2009 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Paramunnidae)
JEAN JUST (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2812: 2 1–27 (8 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
Babamunida debrae, a new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Anomura:
Galatheoidea: Munididae) from the Hawaiian Islands
KEIJI BABA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2809: 58–66 (5 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 9 Mar. 2011
Leelumnus radium, a new genus and species of pilumnid crab from marine encrusting communities in Singapore (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae)
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2809: 33–46 (5 Apr. 2011) 8 plates; 35 references                             Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
New species of small, bathypelagic calanoid copepods from the Arctic Ocean: Brodskius arcticus sp. nov. (Tharybidae) and three new species of Pertsovius gen. nov. (Discoidae)
VLADIMIR N. ANDRONOV & KSENIA N. KOSOBOKOVA (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2809: 1–19 (5 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 18 references                               Accepted: 8 Mar. 2011
Proposal of Fiersiphontina gen. nov., redescription of Fiersiphontina sensillata comb. nov., and new data on the distribution of Spiniferaphonte (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontidae)
MARIA CRISTINA BRUNO & VEZIO COTTARELLI (Italy)

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Article
Zootaxa 2800: 1–17 (25 Mar. 2011) 9 plates; 33 references                       Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
Revision of the genus Alonopsis Sars, 1862 and its position within Aloninae (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV & MARGARITA M. ATROSCHENKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2799: 63–68 (24 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 10 references                     Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
A new species of Hemus (Majoidea: Majidae: Mithracinae) from the Pacific coast of Panamá, with a key to the genus
AMANDA M. WINDSOR & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2793: 35–46 (17 Mar. 2011) 5 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
On Potamocypris compressa (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from temporary rock pools in Utah, USA, with notes on the taxonomic harmonisation of North American and European ostracod faunas
DAVID J. HORNE (UK), MERLIJN JOCQUE (Belgium), LUC BRENDONCK (Belgium) & KOEN MARTENS
(Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 2793: 23–34 (17 Mar. 2011) 6 plates; 37 references                      Accepted: 26 Jan. 2011
The genus Lanocira Hansen, 1890 (Corallanidae: Isopoda: Crustacea) in tropical Australian waters
NIEL L. BRUCE & CONNI SIDABALOK (Australia)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2791: 68 (15 Mar. 2011
Erratum: Marin, I., Okuno, J. & Chan, T.-Y. (2011) On the “Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925”
species complex (Decapoda, Caridea, Hippolytidae), with the designation of a new genus and description of two new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Zootaxa, 2768, 32–54.
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Article
Zootaxa 2791: 63–67 (15 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 4 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
A new species of amphipod, Megamphopus katagani sp. nov.
(Crustacea: Peracarida: Photidae) from the Sea of Marmara (Turkey), with a key to the species of Megamphopus in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and associated Seas
KEREM BAKIR (Turkey), MURAT SEZGIN (Turkey) & ALAN A. MYERS (Ireland)

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Article
Zootaxa 2791: 54–62 (15 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 3 Feb. 2011
Validation of the family Bathyporeiidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda)
CEDRIC D'UDEKEM D'ACOZ (Belgium)

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Article
Zootaxa 2789: 49–68 (11 Mar. 2011) 16 plates; 54 references                     Accepted: 10 Dec. 2011
Two Northeast Pacific deep-water barnacle populations (Cirripedia:
Calanticidae and Pachylasmatidae) from seamounts of the Juan de Fuca Ridge; "insular" endemics stemming from Tethys, or by subsequent dispersal from the Western Pacific center of distribution? 
WILLIAM A. NEWMAN & WILLIAM J. JONES (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2788: 45–56 (11 Mar. 2011) 0 plates; 68 references                        Accepted: 28 Jan. 2011
The forgotten Narrative of H.M.S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature
CARLO FROGLIA (Italy) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2788: 1–37 (11 Mar. 2011) 21 plates; 40 references                       Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
Review of eastern Asian species of the mysid genus Rhopalophthalmus Illig, 1906 (Crustacea, Mysida) with descriptions of three new species
YUKIO HANAMURA (Japan), MASAAKI MURANO (Japan) & ALIAS MAN (Malaysia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2787: 1–18 (10 Mar. 2011) 10 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 8 Jan. 2011
Cryptic diversity of the semi-terrestrial amphipod Platorchestia japonica (Tattersall, 1922) (Amphipoda: Talitrida: Talitridae) in Japan and Taiwan, with description of a new species
YU-TING CHENG (R. China), KENJI NAKAZONO (Japan), Y. KIRK LIN (R. China) & BENNY K.K. CHAN
(R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2785: 32–52 (8 Mar. 2011) 12 plates; 36 references                        Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
New records of the family Agathotanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) in the Antarctic, with remarks on Arthrura monacantha (Vanhöffen, 1914)
PIOTR JÓ
ŹWIAK & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2783: 1–20 (4 Mar. 2011) 13 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 21 Jan. 2011
Description of two new species of munnopsid isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Asellota) from manganese nodules area of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, Pacific Ocean
MARINA V. MALYUTINA (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2781: 1–28 (2 Mar. 2011) 20 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 8 Jan. 2011
A partial revision of the Philarius gerlachei (Nobili, 1905) species complex (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae), with description of four new species
IVAN MARIN (Russia) & ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2769: 54–64 (21 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
A synopsis of the subterranean asellids of Maryland, U.S.A., with description of Caecidotea alleghenyensis, new species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
JULIAN J. LEWIS, THOMAS E. BOWMAN & DANIEL J. FELLER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2769: 1–53 (21 Feb. 2011) 27 plates; 62 references                        Accepted: 25 Nov. 2010
New tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from submarine
mud-volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz (North-east Atlantic)
MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland), ROGER N BAMBER (UK) & MARINA R CUNHA (Portugal)
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Zootaxa 2768: 32–54 (18 Feb. 2011) 16 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
On the “Hippolyte commensalis Kemp, 1925” species complex (Decapoda,
Caridea, Hippolytidae), with the designation of a new genus and description of two new species from the Indo-West Pacific
IVAN MARIN (Russia), JUNJI OKUNO (Japan) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2767: 41–56 (17 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 22 references                     Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
A new species within the Eurytemora affinis complex (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Atlantic Coast of USA, with observations on eight morphologically different European populations
VICTOR R. ALEKSEEV (Russia) & ANISSA SOUISSI (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2765: 38–46 (15 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
New species of Benthana Budde-Lund, 1908 (Crustacea: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) from Paraná, Brazil
IVANKLIN S. CAMPOS-FILHO & PAULA BEATRIZ ARAUJO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2761: 64–68 (9 Feb. 2011) 0 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2010
On the identity of Collingwood’s Pill-Making Crab, Sphaerapoeia collingwoodii
Collingwood, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Dotillidae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Japan) & PETER K.L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2758: 26–42 (7 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
Diversity and distribution of assemblages of estuarine decapod larvae
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) in tropical southeastern Brazil
R. A. MAGRIS & L.F. LOUREIRO FERNANDES (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2754: 51–59 (1 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Two new deep-sea squat lobsters of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae) from Taiwan
CHIA-WEI LIN & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2749: 62–68 (26 Jan. 2011) 1 plates; 39 references                         Accepted: 23 Dec. 2010
A new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Anostraca) with comments on the large branchiopod crustaceans of Kansas
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA), DON DASIS (USA) & DANIEL G. MURROW (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2747: 53–68 (24 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 68 references                       Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
The new deep-sea families Cebocaridae fam. nov., Cyclocaridae fam. nov. and
Thoriellidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2746: 1–19 (21 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 22 Dec. 2010
Redescription of Callianassa jousseaumei Nobili, 1904, a junior subjective synonym of Callianassa indica de Man, 1905 with description of a new species of Neocallichirus (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae)
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria)

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Article
Zootaxa 2737: 34–48 (12 Jan. 2011) 9 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Pele ramseyi, a new genus and new species of anchialine swimming crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from the Hawaiian Islands
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2734: 63–68 (7 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
The alpheid shrimp genus Leslibetaeus Anker, Poddoubtchenko & Wehrtmann,
2006 in the Western Atlantic, with description of a new species from Tobago (Crustacea, Decapoda)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2734: 1–22 (7 Jan. 2011) 13 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
Four new infaunal decapod crustaceans (Caridea: Alpheidae and Gebiidea:
Axianassidae) from Lizard Island, Australia, one of them also occurring in Moorea, French Polynesia
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2732: 33–48 (5 Jan. 2011) 11 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
Three new species of Indochinamon Yeo & Ng, 2007 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamidae) from Vietnam, with a redescription of Ranguna (Ranguna) kimboiensis Dang, 1975
TOHRU NARUSE (Japan), NGUYEN XUAN QUYNH (Vietnam) & DARREN C. J. YEO (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2732: 20–32 (5 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 77 references                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2010
Odiomarinae nov. subfam., a new subfamily for two primitive genera of
Hymenosomatidae MacLeay, 1838, with preliminary remarks on the family (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)
DANIČLE GUINOT (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2730: 1–22 (24 Dec. 2010) 6 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 15 Nov. 2010
Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) of the North-east Atlantic:
the Agathotanaidae of the AFEN, BIOFAR and BIOICE projects, with a description of a new species of Paragathotanais Lang
GRAHAM J BIRD (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 2718: 39–50 (9 Dec. 2010) 7 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 29 Oct. 2010
Gnathia grutterae sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) parasitising representatives of the Balistidae, Labridae and Tetraodontidae from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
MARYKE L. FERREIRA (South Africa), NICO J SMIT (South Africa) & ANGELA J DAVIES (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2718: 1–22 (9 Dec. 2010) 8 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 13 Nov. 2010
A new Central European species of the Daphnia curvirostris complex,
Daphnia hrbaceki sp. nov. (Cladocera, Anomopoda, Daphniidae)
PETR JAN JURA
ČKA, VLADIMÍR KOŘÍNEK & ADAM PETRUSEK (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2715: 1–35 (7 Dec. 2010) 12 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 18 Oct. 2010
Six new species of the brine shrimp Parartemia Sayce 1903 (Crustacea: Anostraca: Artemiina) in Western Australia
BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2713: 55–64 (6 Dec. 2010) 3 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
Two new clam shrimp species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata)
from Kerala, India
K. K SUBHASH BABU & S. BIJOY NANDAN (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2713: 25–51 (6 Dec. 2010) 18 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 15 Nov. 2010
Six new species of the genus Chevalia Walker, 1904 (Amphipoda, Corophiidea, Chevaliidae) from Brazilian waters, with a key to world species of the genus
JESSER F. SOUZA-FILHO, ANA MARIA T. SOUZA & MARIA TERESA VALÉRIO-BERARDO
(Brazil)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2712: 1–60 (3 Dec. 2010) 18 plates; 46 references                        Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
Taxonomic revision of the genus Paramunida Baba, 1988 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae): a
morphological and molecular approach
PATRICIA CABEZAS, ENRIQUE MACPHERSON & ANNIE MACHORDOM (Spain)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2691: 53–56 (30 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 13 Nov. 2010
Discovery of the rare burrowing shrimp Calliapagurops charcoti de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in shallow water: first record of the infraorder for Madeira Island
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria) & PETER WIRTZ (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 2691: 4 1–52 (30 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
Phylogeny of Calyptraeotheres Campos, 1990 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) with the description of C. pepeluisi new species from the tropical Mexican Pacific
ERNESTO CAMPOS (Mexico) & IVÁN HERNÁNDEZ-ÁVILA (Venezuela)

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Article
Zootaxa 2691: 1–40 (30 Nov. 2010) 1 plates; 105 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
An annotated list of fish parasites (Copepoda, Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda
and Nematoda) collected from Emperors and Emperor Bream (Lethrinidae) in New Caledonia further highlights parasite biodiversity estimates on coral reef fish
JEAN-LOU JUSTINE (France), IAN BEVERIDGE (Australia), GEOFFREY A. BOXSHALL (UK), ROD
A. BRAY (UK), FRANTIŠEK MORAVEC (Czech Republic) & IAN D. WHITTINGTON (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2690: 32–42 (29 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 5 Nov. 2010
A new hermit crab species of the genus Catapaguroides A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and additional record of C. foresti McLaughlin
TOMOYUKI KOMAI, YUSUKE YAMADA & NAOKI SHIRAKAWA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 56–64 (25 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 4 Nov. 2010
A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
KAREEN E. SCHNABEL (New Zealand) & SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 45–55 (25 Nov. 2010) 8 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 5 Nov. 2010
A new species of Mesokalliapseudes Lang, 1956 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) from Puerto Rico, with remarks on the genus
DAVID T. DRUMM (USA) & ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ (Puerto Rico)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 29–44 (25 Nov. 2010) 10 plates; 22 references                        Accepted: 28 Oct. 2010
Three new species of the family Pennellidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida)
from gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Perciformes) in coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean
DAISUKE UYENO & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2687: 1–28 (25 Nov. 2010) 44 plates; 61 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
Reports of Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from Chinese waters, with descriptions of two new species
CHAO DONG & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2684: 1–13 (23 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 20 Oct. 2010
Two new species of Guitonia Garth & Iliffe, 1992 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the central and western Pacific Ocean
ROBERT MURRAY LASLEY JR, JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2680: 45–54 (18 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 14 Oct. 2010
Description of a new species of Athanas Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from Madagascar and Japan
ARTHUR ANKER (USA) & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2680: 33–44 (18 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 61 references                           Accepted: 26 Oct. 2010
Zullobalanus santamariaensis sp. nov., a new late Miocene barnacle species of the family Archaeobalanidae (Cirripedia: Thoracica), from the Azores
KAI WINKELMANN (UK), JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia), ANA CRISTINA COSTA (Portugal),
MARIA ANA MANSO DIONÍSIO (Portugal), ANDRÉ MEDEIROS (Portugal) , MÁRIO CACHĂO (Portugal) & SÉRGIO P. ÁVILA(Portugal)
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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 49–59 (16 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 19 Oct. 2010
A new genus and new species of hermit crab (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae) from the eastern tropical Pacific
MANUEL AYóN-PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 38–48 (16 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 42 references                              Accepted: 12 Oct. 2010
A new genus of the family Portunidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) and the identity of Portunus (Cycloachelous) yoronensis Sakai, 1974
T. S. NGUYEN & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 1–14 (16 Nov. 2010) 9 plates; 22 references                                Accepted: 20 Oct. 2010
A new species and first record of Gabunillo Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983
(Isopoda, Oniscidea, Armadillidae) from the Neotropics
LEILA A. SOUZA, ANDRé R. SENNA & ADRIANO B. KURY (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2676: 57–68 (15 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 82 references                             Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)

SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia), KEIJI BABA (Japan), ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & GARY
C.B. POORE (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2673: 39–55 (10 Nov. 2010) 8 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 22 Oct. 2010
Two new species of Leydigia Kurz, 1875 (Chydoridae, Cladocera) from Spain
 
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & MIGUEL ALONSO (Spain)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2666: 68–68 (3 Nov. 2010
Erratum: Zamanpoore, M., Grabowski, M., Poeckl, M. & Schiemer, F. (2010) Two new Gammarus
species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from warm springs in the south-east pre-alpine area of the Zagros, Iran: habitats with physiological challenges. Zootaxa, 2546, 31–51.
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Article
Zootaxa 2657: 55–65 (26 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
Glyptogidiella omanica gen. et sp. nov., an inland groundwater bogidiellid from Oman with enlarged coxal plate V (Crustacea, Amphipoda)
RONALD VONK (The Netherlands) & DAMIŔ JAUME (Spain)

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Article
Zootaxa 2657: 18–32 (26 Oct. 2010) 7 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 29 Sep. 2010
Acanthochondria cyclopsetta Pearse, 1952 and A. alleni n. sp. (Copepoda; Cyclopoida; Chondracanthidae) from flatfish hosts of the U.S.A., with comments on the taxonomic position of A. zebriae Ho, Kim & Kumar, 2000 and A. bicornis Shiino, 1955 and the validity of Pterochondria Ho, 1973
DANNY TANG (Australia), JULIANNE E. KALMAN (USA) & JU-SHEY HO (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2655: 52–56 (25 Oct. 2010) 2 plates; 10 references                                Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
The discovery of Microniphargus leruthi Schellenberg, 1934 (Crustacea:
Amphipoda: Niphargidae) in Britain and its distribution in the British Isles
LEE R.F.D. KNIGHT & TERENCE GLEDHILL (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2652: 47–63 (21 Oct. 2010) 10 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 20 Sep. 2010
A new genus and three new species of alpheid shrimps
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the tropical American coasts
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2652: 33–46 (21 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 22 Sep. 2010
Mysids (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the southern Indian Ocean with
descriptions of two new species
ABRAHAM BIJU, PURUSHOTHAMAN JASMINE & SARAMMA U. PANAMPUNNAYIL (India)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2642: 68 (12 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 9 references                                   Accepted: 15 Sep. 2010
Kempella nom. nov., a replacement name for Kempina Manning, 1978
(Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae), preoccupied by Kempina Roewer, 1911, a junior synonym of Zaleptus Thorell, 1877 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae)
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Singapore) & SHANE T. AHYONG (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2642: 53–58 (12 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 13 Sep. 2010
Designation of Synalpheus pectiniger Coutiere, 1907 as a nomen protectum and its senior synonym Alpheus praecox Herrick, 1888 as a nomen oblitum (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)
SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK) & ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2642: 1–18 (12 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 35 references                             Accepted: 11 Sep. 2010
New records and new species of the munidopsine squat lobsters
(Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae: Munidopsinae) from Australia
JOANNE TAYLOR, SHANE T. AHYONG & NIKOS ANDREAKIS (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2640: 20–34 (8 Oct. 2010) 8 plates; 21 references                                Accepted: 9 Sep. 2010
Politolana sanchezi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae), a new benthic bioturbating scavenger from bathyal soft-bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay (northeastern Atlantic Ocean)
INMACULADA FRUTOS (Spain) & JEAN CLAUDE SORBE (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2640: 1–19 (8 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 69 references                                  Accepted: 8 Sep. 2010
Diversity and distribution of fiddler crabs (Brachyura: Ocypodidae: Uca) from China, with new records from Hainan Island in the South China Sea
HSI-TE SHIH (R. China), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), SHOU-HUA FANG (P.R. China), BENNY K. K.
CHAN (R. China) & KINGSLEY J. H. WONG (R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2636: 37–48 (5 Oct. 2010) 7 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 19 Aug. 2010
Pinnotherotonia rumphiusi gen. et sp. nov., a new furry bivalve-associated pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Palau
IVAN MARIN (Russia) & GUSTAV PAULAY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2634: 63–68 (4 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 17 references                                  Accepted: 2 Sep. 2010
Lepidepecreellidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters
H.E. STODDART & J.K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2634: 1–24 (4 Oct. 2010) 16 plates; 32 references                                Accepted: 7 Sep. 2010
Two new species of Paramphiascella Lang (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) from a brackish water pond in Thailand
SUPAWADEE CHULLASORN (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2631: 19–35 (30 Sep. 2010) 10 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 25 Aug. 2010
A redescription of a common euryhaline cumacean from southern Brazil:
Diastylis sympterygiae Băcescu & Queiroz, 1985 (Crustacea: Cumacea)
PEDRO A. CRISTALES (Brazil), DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA (Argentina) & NATALIA A. ALBERICO (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 2631: 1–18 (30 Sep. 2010) 11 plates; 42 references                             Accepted: 3 Sep. 2010
A new species and a new record of Sphaeroma Bosc, 1802 (Sphaeromatidae: Isopoda: Crustacea) from intertidal marine habitats of the Persian Gulf
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2628: 66–68 (28 Sep. 2010) 0 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 8 Sep. 2010
Kraussia Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), the senior homonym
of Kraussia Davidson, 1852 (Brachiopoda: Terebratulida: Terebratellidina): confirmation and authorship of the replacement name Kraussina Suess, 1859
MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (England)

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Article
Zootaxa 2626: 1–45 (27 Sep. 2010) 35 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 3 Jul. 2010
Four new crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of the genus Orconectes from Texas
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2625: 1–39 (24 Sep. 2010) 21 plates; 66 references                          Accepted: 27 Aug. 2010
The genera Carpias Richardson, Ianiropsis Sars and Janaira Moreira & Pires
(Isopoda: Asellota: Janiridae) from Australia, with description of three new species
BRENDA LÍA DOTI (Argentina) & GEORGE D. F. WILSON (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2624: 49–66 (24 Sep. 2010) 4 plates; 63 references                          Accepted: 16 Aug. 2010
Revision of the larval morphology (Zoea I) of the family Hippolytidae
(Decapoda, Caridea), with a description of the first stage of the shrimp Hippolyte obliquimanus Dana, 1852 
MARIANA TEROSSI (Brazil), JOSE A. CUESTA (Spain), INGO S. WEHRTMANN (Costa Rica) & FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2623: 52–68 (23 Sep. 2010) 9 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 31 Aug. 2010
A new species of Pseudodiaptomus (Copepoda: Calanoida) from Japan, with
notes on the closely related P. inopinus Burckhardt, 1913 from Kyushu Island
SAKIKO ORUI SAKAGUCHI & HIROSHI UEDA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2623: 1–51 (23 Sep. 2010) 24 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 25 Aug. 2010
Littoral Maeridae and Melitidae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea)
from the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico
MARÍA DEL SOCORRO GARCÍA-MADRIGAL (Mexico)

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Article
Zootaxa 2613: 51–60 (15 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2010
Redescription of the alpheid shrimp Betaeus levifrons Vinogradov, 1950 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from Peter the Great Bay, Russian coast of the Sea of Japan
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2612: 57–68 (15 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 35 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
Shallow-water squat lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from
Mayotte (Comoros Island), La Réunion and Madagascar, with the description of a new genus and two new species
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & RÉGIS CLEVA (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 2606: 1–24 (9 Sep. 2010) 15 plates; 65 references                              Accepted: 28 Jul. 2010
The marine and estuarine shrimps of the Palaemoninae
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil
RODRIGO SIMŐES FERREIRA, RONY ROBERTO RAMOS VIEIRA & FERNANDO D’INCAO
(Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2604: 52–60 (7 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 12 Aug. 2010
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Allacanthos Smalley, 1964 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pseudothelphusidae) from southern Costa Rica, Central America
CÉLIO MAGALHĂES (Brazil), LUIS RÓLIER LARA (Costa Rica) & INGO S. WEHRTMANN (Costa
Rica)
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Article
Zootaxa 2604: 20–36 (7 Sep. 2010) 11 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 31 Jul. 2010
More pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the
CReefs 2009 Heron Island expedition
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2579: 45–58 (30 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 13 Jul. 2010
Larval development of the shrimp Hippolyte sapphica d’Udekem d’Acoz, 1993
forma A and B (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) reared in the laboratory, confirmation of the conspecific status of the two forms
ALEXANDROS NTAKIS, CHRYSSA ANASTASIADOU, ROMAN LIASKO & IOANNIS D.
LEONARDOS (Greece)
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Article
Zootaxa 2578: 25–46 (27 Aug. 2010) 10 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 20 Jul. 2010
Saltipedis (Spinosaltipedis) puertoricensis, a new subgenus and species of apseudomorphan (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Parapseudidae) from coastal waters off Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, with keys and taxonomic observations
ANDRÉS G. MORALES-NÚŃEZ (Puerto Rico), RICHARD W. HEARD (USA) & MÓNICA ALFARO
(Puerto Rico) 
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Article
Zootaxa 2570: 6 1–68 (18 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 2 Aug. 2010
Solenotheres prolixus, a new genus and new species of pinnotherid crab
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) associated with the razor clam, Solen corneus Lamarck, 1818 (Solenidae) in Vietnam
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam)

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Article
Zootaxa 2570: 5 1–60 (18 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 30 Jul. 2010
The species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873, from Lesser Sunda and
Maluku Islands, Indonesia, with description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2568: 1–38 (16 Aug. 2010) 19 plates; 46 references                             Accepted: 7 Jul. 2010
Systematics and phylogeny of Cristacoxidae
(Copepoda, Harpacticoida): a review
RONY HUYS (UK) & TERUE CRISTINA KIHARA (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2564: 62–68 (11 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 15 Jul. 2010
A new species of Parasesarma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the mangroves of Western Australia
P.J.F. DAVIE & L. PABRIKS (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2564: 1–30 (11 Aug. 2010) 27 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 22 Jul. 2010
Kergueleniidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 17–32 (4 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 20 Jun. 2010
The new and the old: littoral tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean
ROGER N BAMBER (UK) & TAPAS CHATTERJEE (Induia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 49–59 (3 Aug. 2010) 8 plates; 5 references                                  Accepted: 4 Jul. 2010
The mud-shrimp genus Axianassa Schmitt, 1924 (Crustacea, Decapoda,
Axianassidae) in the Indo-West Pacific, with description of a new species from French Polynesia
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 29–38 (3 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 29 references                             Accepted: 25 Jun. 2010
Pollicipes caboverdensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Scalpelliformes), an intertidal barnacle from the Cape Verde Islands
JOANA N. FERNANDES (Portugal), TERESA CRUZ (Portugal) & ROBERT VAN SYOC (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2555: 62–68 (2 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 7 references                                  Accepted: 4 Jul. 2010
A new genus and new species of deep-water trapeziid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Trapezioidea) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan 
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), TAKUO HIGASHIJI (Japan) & PETER CASTRO (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2555: 49–61 (2 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 78 references                              Accepted: 12 Jul. 2010
New records and taxonomic data for 14 species of sand crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Albuneidae) from localities worldwide
CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2555: 30–48 (2 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 49 references                                Accepted: 6 Jul. 2010
Tanaidacea from Brazil. II. A revision of the subfamily Hemikalliapseudinae (Kalliapseudidae; Tanaidacea; Crustacea) using phylogenetic methods
CATARINA DE L. ARAÚJO-SILVA (Brazil) & KIM LARSEN (Portugal)

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Article
Zootaxa 2552: 37–54 (29 Jul. 2010) 16 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 1 Jul. 2010
Metabetaeus Borradaile, 1899 revisited, with description of a new marine species from French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2551: 37–64 (28 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 84 references                              Accepted: 2 Jun. 2010
The taxonomic research of Jules Richard on Cladocera
(Crustacea: Branchiopoda) and his collection at the National Museum of Natural History, U.S.A.
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & FRANK D. FERRARI (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2550: 58–68 (27 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 6 Jul. 2010
Eurycercus (Bullatifrons) norandinus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Eurycercidae), a new species of Cladocera in the Neotropical Region
NELSON ARANGUREN (Colombia), DANIEL MONROY (Colombia) & SANTIAGO GAVIRIA
(Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 2550: 21–38 (27 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 21 references                               Accepted: 7 Jul. 2010
A new species of the Lower Ordovician pliomerid trilobite Pseudocybele and its biostratigraphic significance
NEO E. B. MCADAMS & JONATHAN M. ADRAIN (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2549: 54–68 (26 Jul. 2010) 9 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 4 May 2010
Terrestrial isopods of the subgenus Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) Budde-Lund, 1879 (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Iran 
GHASEM M. KASHANI, ALIREZA SARI & SHIDOKHT HOSSEINIE (OSTAVANI) (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2549: 31–53 (26 Jul. 2010) 21 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
The family Aristiidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
in Australian waters
H.E. STODDART & J.K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2546: 3 1–51 (23 Jul. 2010) 10 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 5 May 2010
Two new Gammarus species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from warm springs in the south-east pre-alpine area of the Zagros, Iran: habitats with physiological challenges
MEHRDAD ZAMANPOORE (Austria), MICHAL GRABOWSKI (Poland), MANFRED POECKL
(Austria) & FRIEDRICH SCHIEMER (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 2541: 50–68 (19 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 40 references                             Accepted: 16 Jul. 2010
Pontoniine Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the CReefs 2009 Heron Island Expedition, with a review of the Heron Island pontoniine fauna
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2536 1–35 (14 Jul. 2010) 22 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Description of four new species from the Haploniscus unicornis Menzies, 1956 complex (Isopoda: Asellota: Haploniscidae)
WIEBKE BRÖKELAND (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2532 64–68 (12 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 11 May 2010
The family Izinkalidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2532 1–54 (12 Jul. 2010) 32 plates; 66 references                             Accepted: 12 Jun. 2010
A taxonomic revision of the genus Habrobathynella Schminke, 1973, with the description of four new species from southeastern India (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Bathynellacea)
YENUMULA RANGA REDDY & VENKATESWARA RAO TOTAKURA (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2528 29–52 (6 Jul. 2010) 12 plates; 30 references                                 Accepted: 8 Jun. 2010
Fairy shrimps from Asiatic Turkey: Redescription of Chirocephalus tauricus Pesta, 1921 and descriptions of Chirocephalus algidus sp. nov. and Chirocephalus brteki sp. nov. (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca)
VEZIO COTTARELLI (Italy), CEM AYGEN (Turkey) & GRAZIELLA MURA (Italy)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2521 1–25 (29 Jun. 2010) 16 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2010
Redescription of Haploniscus rostratus (Menzies, 1962) (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda) with observations on the postmarsupial development, size ranges and distribution
WIEBKE BRÖKELAND (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2518 1–31 (25 Jun. 2010) 18 plates; 37 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2010
A new subgenus of eusirid amphipod (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from subterranean waters and springs of the Eastern Sikhote-Alin Mountain Ridge, with comments on the morphology of sternal humps, genital papillae and pleopods
DMITRY A. SIDOROV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2510: 55–67 (18 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 18 May 2010
On the taxonomic status of Monstrilla leucopis Sars (Crustacea: Copepoda: Monstrilloida) from Norway, with comments on the male of M. longiremis Giesbrecht
EDUARDO SUAREZ-MORALES (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2510: 45–54 (18 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 3 May 2010
Periclimenes nevillei sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Vanuatu
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2510: 1–44 (18 Jun. 2010) 30 plates; 55 references                           Accepted: 31 May 2010
Recent developments on the morphology of the brachyuran foregut ossicles and gastric teeth
ANDREAS BRÖSING (Germany)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2509: 67–68 (17 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 10 May 2010
Areopaguristes, a generic replacement name for Stratiotes Thomson, 1899
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea: Diogenidae)
DWI LISTO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2509: 30–38 (17 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 27 May 2010
Two new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from the Philippines and Fiji
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2508: 30–44 (16 Jun. 2010) 12 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 28 May 2010
A new record of Sphaeroma annandalei Stebbing, 1911 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from the Persian Gulf, and description of a new related species (Sphaeroma silvai nov. sp.) from the South Atlantic Ocean
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY (Germany) & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2505: 65–68 (14 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 3 May 2010
Distribution and morphological variation of Synalpheus superus Abele and Kim, 1989 and notes on the distribution of S. fritzmuelleri Coutičre, 1909 (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae)
MARGARITA HERMOSO-SALAZAR & VIVIANNE SOLÍS-WEISS (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2504: 31–46 (14 Jun. 2010) 7 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 12 Apr. 2010
Two new species of the laomediid genus Naushonia Kingsley, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gebiidea) from the Indo-West Pacific
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & ARTHUR ANKER (USA)
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Erratum
Zootaxa 2501: 68 (10 Jun. 2010
Erratum—
KIM, YOUNG-HYO., HENDRYCKS, ED A. & LEE, KYUNG-SOOK (2010) A new species and new record of the Amphilochidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Korea. Zootaxa, 2477, 21–36.
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Article 
Zootaxa 2501: 61–67 (10 Jun. 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 10 May 2010
A new dwarf sentinel crab from Mayotte Island, western Indian Ocean
(Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae)
JOSEPH POUPIN & JEAN-MARIE BOUCHARD (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2500: 39–57 (9 Jun. 2010) 14 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 22 Apr. 2010
Two new interstitial species of the genus Parapolycope (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from central Japan
HAYATO TANAKA & AKIRA TSUKAGOSHI (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2500: 1–38 (9 Jun. 2010) 19 plates; 172 references                            Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
Taxonomic revision of the wide-front fiddler crabs of the Uca lactea group
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in the Indo-West Pacific
REZA NADERLOO (Germany), MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany) & †HUI-LIAN CHEN (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2493: 1–15 (3 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 43 references                                 Accepted: 4 May 2010
Redescription of Prosaetes rhinodontis (Wright, 1876) (Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), an enigmatic parasite of the whale shark, Rhincodon typus Smith (Elasmobranchii: Orectolobiformes: Rhincodontidae)
DANNY TANG, MAKIO YANAGISAWA & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2492: 49–62 (2 Jun. 2010) 7 plates; 30 references                             Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
On two snapping shrimps, Alpheus baccheti n. sp. and A. coetivensis Coutičre from the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia (Crustacea, Decapoda)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2491: 61–68 (2 Jun. 2010) 5 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 24 Apr. 2010
Godzilliognomus schrami, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from
Eleuthera, Bahamas
THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA), TINA OTTEN (Germany), & STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2489: 34–46 (31 May 2010) 0 plates; 67 references                           Accepted: 22 Apr. 2010
On the generic nomenclature of nine brachyuran names, with four replacement names and two nomina protecta (Crustacea: Decapoda)
PETER K. L. NG & MARTYN E. Y. LOW (Singapore)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2488: 1–21 (31 May 2010) 6 plates; 34 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Development of sexual characters in the cave shrimp genus Troglocaris
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae) and their applicability in taxonomy
JURE JUGOVIC, SIMONA PREVOR
ČNIK & BORIS SKET (Slovenia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2483: 23–34 (25 May 2010) 6 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 4 May 2010
Redescriptions of two morphologically confusing sea lice Caligus aesopus Wilson, 1921 and C. spinosus Yamaguti, 1939 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasitic on amberjacks (Seriola spp.) from Korea
MI-KYUNG CHOE & IL-HOI KIM (Korea)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2482: 64–68 (24 May 2010) 2 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Neostrengeria Pretzmann, 1965, from Colombia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae)
MARTHA R. CAMPOS (Colombia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2482: 22–48 (24 May 2010) 17 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 20 Apr. 2010
Deep-sea Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand and the Ross Sea with key to the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic species
ANNE-NINA LÖRZ (New Zealand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2479: 22–38 (20 May 2010) 13 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 17 Apr. 2010
The family Opisidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in Australasian waters 
H.E. STODDART & J.K. LOWRY (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2478: 59–68 (20 May 2010) 2 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
Two new species of Indopinnixa Manning & Morton, 1987 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from Lombok, Indonesia 
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2478: 4 1–58 (20 May 2010) 9 plates; 37 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2010
Two new species of the subterranean amphipod genus Stygobromus
(Amphipoda: Crangonyctidae) from Siberia, with new data on Stygobromus pusillus (Martynov) and remarks on morphology and biogeographic relationships
DMITRY A. SIDOROV (Russia), JOHN R. HOLSINGER (USA) & VADIM V. TAKHTEEV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2477: 2 1–36 (19 May 2010) 7 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 31 Mar. 2010
A new species and new record of the Amphilochidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
from Korea
YOUNG-HYO KIM (Korea), ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada) & KYUNG-SOOK LEE (Korea)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2465: 1–94 (14 May 2010) 69 plates; 50 references                             Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 3. Natural
History Museum, Oslo (NHM) 
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG (Norway)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2452: 67–68 (12 May 2010) 0 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 17 Apr. 2010
A revision on the generic status of three species of the genus Chacella Bruce, 1986 described by Li & Poupin (2009) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2450: 68 (10 May 2010) 0 plates; 2 references                                 Accepted: 30 Mar. 2010
Boreathelphusa, a replacement name for Boreas Cumberlidge and Sternberg, 2002 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamonautidae), preoccupied by Boreas Morris, 1980 (Bryozoa: Hippothoidae)
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2450: 53–60 (10 May 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 1 Mar. 2010
A new species of Medicorophium Bousfield, M. longisetosum n. sp. from the western Mediterranean, coast of Spain
ALAN A. MYERS (Ireland), JOSE ANTONIO DE-LA-OSSA-CARRETERO (Spain), JEAN-CLAUDE
DAUVIN (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2450: 41–52 (10 May 2010) 5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2010
A new species of the rare caridean genus Bresilia Calman (Crustacea: Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, representing a family new to the North Pacific marine fauna
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & YUSUKE YAMADA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2440: 33–48 (29 Apr. 2010) 8 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
Two new Diastylis (Cumacea: Diastylidae) from Antarctic waters: Diastylis andeepae and D. catalinae
NATALIA ALBERICO (Argentina) & UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2439: 35–52 (28 Apr. 2010) 12 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Two new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Amphipoda, fam. Niphargidae) from the Frasassi cave system in Central Italy
GORDAN S. KARAMAN (Montenegro), BETTY BOROWSKY (USA) & SHARMISHTHA
DATTAGUPTA (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2437: 51–68 (26 Apr. 2010) 12 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 3 Mar. 2010
Redescription of the monotypic genus Cinusa Schioedte and Meinert, 1884 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a buccal-cavity isopod from South Africa
KERRY A. HADFIELD (South Africa), NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia) & NICO J. SMIT (South Africa)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2434: 33–46 (23 Apr. 2010) 9 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 22 Mar. 2010
First record and description of male of Metavargula adinothrix Kornicker, 1975 (Ostracoda: Myodocopina) from the Southern Ocean
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR (Russia), DIETMAR KEYSER (Germany) & ALEXANDER G.
BASHMANOV (Russia)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2430: 1–66 (19 Apr. 2010) 25 plates; 153 references                          Accepted: 15 Apr. 2010
The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of six high altitude
water bodies in the North Chilean Andes, with discussion of Andean endemism
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia), ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & VIVIANA LORENA BERRIOS (Chile)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2429: 61–68 (19 Apr. 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 16 Mar. 2010
A new species of mud shrimp of the genus Espeleonaushonia Juarrero & Martínez-Iglesias, 1997 (Decapoda: Gebiidea: Laomediidae) from Palau
FERNANDO ALVAREZ (Mexico) , JOSE LUIS VILLALOBOS (Mexico) & THOMAS M. ILIFFE
(USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 47–54 (15 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 8 Mar. 2010
A new cave species of Cryphiops (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Southern Mexico
FABIOLA BALDARI (Italy), LUIS M. MEJÍA-ORTÍZ (Mexico) & MARILÚ LÓPEZ-MEJÍA (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 1–14 (15 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 17 Mar. 2010
Early larval morphology of the armed nylon shrimp Heterocarpus ensifer ensifer A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (Decapoda, Caridea, Pandalidae) from laboratory culture
JOSÉ MARÍA LANDEIRA, FERNANDO LOZANO-SOLDEVILLA, EDUARDO ALMANSA & JUAN IGNACIO
GONZÁLEZ-GORDILLO (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2426: 43–53 (14 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
A new Antarctic species of Aristias Boeck (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Aristiidae), with remarks on the genus in Antarctica
NIAMH M. KILGALLEN (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 31–42 (9 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 26 references                               Accepted: 1 Mar. 2010
Nucleus patterns of zoea I larvae (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the context of
taxonomy
ROLAND MEYER, JANA MARTIN & ROLAND R. MELZER (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2414: 59–66 (30 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 15 Feb. 2010
DNA barcoding of hermit crabs of genus Clibanarius Dana, 1852 (Anomura: Diogenidae) in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
MAMIKO HIROSE, MASAYUKI OSAWA & EUICHI HIROSE (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2414: 52–58 (30 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 16 Feb. 2010
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Odontothelphusa Rodríguez, 1982, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) from Chiapas, Mexico
JOSÉ LUIS VILLALOBOS, ANELLI J. GARCÍA & ERNESTO VELÁZQUEZ (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2413: 61–68 (29 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 9 Feb. 2010
A new species of Eulimnadia (Crustacea; Branchiopoda; Diplostraca; Spinicaudata) from North America
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS, STEPHEN C. WEEKS & WALTER R. HOEH (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2408: 47–58 (24 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 23 Jan. 2010
On Amphibolocypris arida sp.nov. (Crustacea, Ostracoda), from rock pools in Botswana (southern Africa)
MERLIJN JOCQUE (Bulgaria), LUC BRENDONCK (Bulgaria), BRUCE J RIDDOCH (UK) & KOEN
MARTENS (Belgium)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 48–54 (22 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Metadynomene tuamotu, a new species of dynomenid crab from French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & COLIN L MCLAY (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 1–47 (22 Mar. 2010) 30 plates; 61 references                         Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
North West Pacific deep-sea barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) collected by the
TAIWAN expeditions, with descriptions of two new species
BENNY K.K. CHAN (Taiwan), ROMANUS EDY PRABOWO (Indonesia) & KWEN-SHEN LEE
(Taiwan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2404: 55–68 (22 Mar. 2010) 9 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Two new species of the genus Kamaka (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Kamakidae) from Songkhla Lagoon, southern Thailand
HIROYUKI ARIYAMA (Japan), SAOWAPA ANGSUPANICH (Thailand) & EKNARIN RODCHAROEN
(Thailand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2403: 42–58 (19 Mar. 2010) 13 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Final-stage phyllosoma of Palinustus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Achelata: Palinuridae)—The first complete description
FERRAN PALERO (Austria), GUILLERMO GUERAO (Spain), PAUL F. CLARK (UK) & PERE
ABELLÓ (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2403: 23–41 (19 Mar. 2010) 10 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
New findings of rare or little-known alpheid shrimp genera (Crustacea,
Decapoda) in Moorea, French Polynesia
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2399: 51–60 (15 Mar. 2010) 7 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Gammarus kesanensis sp. nov., a new blind amphipod species from Turkey (Amphipoda, Gammaridae), with a key to eyeless Gammarus species of Europe

MURAT ÖZBEK & BELG
İN ÇAMUR-ELİPEK (Turkey)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2397: 61–68 (12 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
Ancinus jarocho (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea: Ancinidae), a new species from the
central Gulf of Mexico, Mexico
ARTURO ROCHA–RAMÍREZ, RAFAEL CHÁVEZ–LÓPEZ & EDGAR PELÁEZ–RODRÍGUEZ
(Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2395: 57–67 (10 Mar. 2010) 17 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Description of a new blind species of Heterokamaka (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Kamakidae) from Dianshan Lake, China
ZHONGE HOU, YITAO PAN & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2392: 33–61 (8 Mar. 2010) 19 plates; 47 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2010
On the Planopilumnidae Serčne, 1984 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudozioidea), with diagnoses of two new pilumnoid genera for species previously assigned to
Planopilumnus Balss, 1933
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2390: 1–25 (5 Mar. 2010) 9 plates; 56 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Three new species of chydorid cladocerans of subfamily Aloninae
(Branchipoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Brazil
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia) & LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO (Brazil)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2379: 1–77 (26 Feb. 2010) 46 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 17 Jan. 2010
On the subfamily Cypricercinae McKenzie, 1971 (Crustacea, Ostracoda)
from Thailand, with the description of six new species
SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON (Belgium) & KOEN MARTENS (Thailand)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2375: 1–130 (26 Feb. 2010) 50 plates; 239 references                        Accepted: 23 Jan. 2010
Revision of the family Euryplacidae Stimpson, 1871 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea)
PETER CASTRO (USA) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 2372: 1-2 (26 Feb. 2010
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Editorial
Zootaxa 2372: 5-6 (26 Feb. 2010) 0 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 20 Oct. 2009
Contributions to shrimp taxonomy — Editorial

SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK) & CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 7-14 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 3 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Pseudopontonides plumosus sp. nov., a new cnidarian-associated pontoniine
shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Curaçao
NICOLETTE SNIJDERS & CHARLES H.J.M. FRANSEN
(The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 15-32 (26 Feb. 2010) 10 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
A new genus and two new species of alvinocaridid shrimps (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Caridea) from a hydrothermal vent field off northeastern Taiwan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & TIN-YAM CHAN
(R. China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2372: 33-36 (26 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Allopontonia alastairi sp. nov., a second species of the genus Allopontonia Bruce,
1972 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), from the Australian Northwest Shelf
A.J. BRUCE
(Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 37-52 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
On two new genera of Asian prawns previously assigned to Macrobrachium
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae)
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG
(Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 53-60 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
On a new species of the shrimp genus Athanas Leach, 1814
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from Iran
ARTHUR ANKER (USA), REZA NADERLOO (Germany) & IVAN MARIN
(Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 61-68 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
A second species of the genus Manipontonia Bruce, Okuno & Li, 2005
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
IVAN MARIN
(Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 69-74 (26 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
A new vent shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alvinocarididae)
from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
ANASTASIA A. LUNINA1 & ALEXANDER L. VERESHCHAKA (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 75-79 (26 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Atydina, a new genus for Caridina atyoides Nobili, 1900, from Indonesia
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)
YIXIONG CAI (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 80-84 (26 Feb. 2010) 2 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Caridina jeani, a replacement name for Caridina typus var. brevirostris J. Roux,
1911 from Eastern Indonesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)
YIXIONG CAI (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 85-105 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 84 references                           Accepted: 17 Sep. 2009
Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ‘Periclimenes aesopius species
group’ (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species
J. OKUNO (Japan) & A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 106-125 (26 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
Periclimenes laevimanus sp. nov. from Vietnam, with a review of the Periclimenes
granulimanus species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae)
ZDEN
ĚK ĎURIŠ (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 126-137 (26 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
Two crested and colourful new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Caridea:
Hippolytidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia
ANNA W. McCALLUM & GARY C. B. POORE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 138-150 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
On two small collections of freshwater shrimps (Decapoda: Atyidae: Caridina)
from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of two new species
ANDREAS KARGE (Germany), KRISTINA VON RINTELEN (Germany) & WERNER KLOTZ (Austria)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 151-156 (26 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 16 Sep. 2009
Palaemonella dijonesae sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from
Western Australia
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 157-168 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
The sand shrimp genus Philocheras (Caridea: Crangonidae) from the continental
margin of Western Australia including the description of a new species and a key to Australian species
JOANNE TAYLOR (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 169-176 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 22 Sep. 2009
Ancylomenes kuboi and A. okunoi spp. nov. (Decapoda: Pontoniinae), from the Australian Northwest Shelf, Vietnam and the Philippines
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 177-205 (26 Feb. 2010) 14 plates; 32 references                       Accepted: 27 Sep. 2009
The shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae)
in the tropical western Atlantic, with description of five new species
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 206-220 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 42 references                       Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Two new species of the “Heterocarpus gibbosus Bate, 1888” species group
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Pandalidae) from the western Pacific and north-western Australia
CHIEN-HUI YANG, TIN-YAM CHAN & KA HOU CHU (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 221-262 (26 Feb. 2010) 23 plates; 44 references                       Accepted: 14 Nov. 2009
Sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps of Curaçao, with descriptions of three new
species
KRISTIN M. HULTGREN, KENNETH S. MACDONALD III & J. EMMETT DUFFY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 263-277 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
A review of the genus Engystenopus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea)
Juxtastenopus, gen. nov. , a new combination for E. spinulatus Holthuis, 1946, and transfer of E. palmipes Alcock & Anderson, 1894 to the family Spongicolidae Schram, 1986
JOSEPH W. GOY (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 278-297 (26 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 47 references                       Accepted: 24 Sep. 2009
On the taxonomy of Palaemon javanicus Heller, 1862, and Palaemon sundaicus Heller, 1862, with description of a new species of Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Southeast Asia
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 298-304 (26 Feb. 2010) 3 plates; 38 references                       Accepted: 14 Oct. 2009
Lysmata rauli, a new species of peppermint shrimp, (Decapoda: Hippolytidae)
from the southwestern Atlantic
HELIO LAUBENHEIMER (Brazil) & ANDREW L. RHYNE (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 305-337 (26 Feb. 2010) 15 plates; 63 references                       Accepted: 20 Oct. 2009
Caridina H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyoidea:
Atyidae) – freshwater shrimps from eastern and southern Africa
JASMINE RICHARD & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2372: 338-340 (26 Feb. 2010) 0 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 21 Sep. 2009
A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov.
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 341-357 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
New species and new records of Caridea (Hippolytidae: Pasiphaeidae) from New
Zealand
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 358-366 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
A new species of Glyphocrangon (Decapoda: Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae) from
off the coast of western Mexico
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2372: 367-368 (26 Feb. 2010) 0 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 30 Sep. 2009
Additions to the genus Phycomenes Bruce, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Pontoniinae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 369-378 (26 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
A new genus of palaemonid shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) to
accommodate Leander belindae Kemp, 1925, with a redescription of the species
CHRISTOPHER W. ASHELBY & SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 379-388 (26 Feb. 2010) 6 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 21 Oct. 2009
Periclimenaeus devaneyi sp. nov., from Oahu, Hawai'i (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Pontoniinae)
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 389-404 (26 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 21 Sep. 2009
Description of a new genus and two new species of alpheid shrimps from Guam
(Crustacea, Decapoda)
ARTHUR ANKER (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2372: 405-414 (26 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Eupontonia oahu sp. nov., a second species of the genus Eupontonia Bruce, 1971,
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Oahu, Hawai’ian Islands
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2370: 1–35 (25 Feb. 2010) 18 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2010
Sophrosynidae, a new family in the Lysianassoidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) with a revision of the genus Sophrosyne

J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2362: 55–62 (18 Feb. 2010) 3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Neolithodes flindersi, a new species of king crab from southeastern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2356: 57–68 (10 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
Haploops longiseta, a new species from the Atlantic Ocean (Crustacea, Gammaridea, Ampeliscidae) [Contribution to the knowledge of the Haploops genus. 6.]
R.A. KAIM-MALKA (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2356: 36–56 (10 Feb. 2010) 9 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
A new family for Sotoplax robertsi Guinot, 1984, with a diagnosis and key to the Goneplacoidea Macleay, 1838 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER CASTRO (USA), DANIČLE GUINOT (France) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2354: 35–44 (9 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 23 Jan. 2010
A new species and subspecies of Ochlesidae Stebbing, 1910 (Amphipoda:
Gammaridea) from the Okhotsk Sea
VJACHESLAV S. LABAY (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2352: 1–28 (5 Feb. 2010) 13 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
Five new species of Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from deep-water
off Taiwan, with description of a new genus
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), FENG-JIAU LIN (R. China) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2349: 65–68 (2 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 31 Dec. 2009
On the occurrence of the genus Paranebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida:
Leptostraca) in northern Patagonia, Argentina
DANIEL ROCCATAGLIATA, IGNACIO L. CHIESA, M. PAULA RAFFO & ELENA GÓMEZ SIMES (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2349: 39–54 (2 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 65 references                              Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
A review of the subfamily Eliminiinae (Cirripedia: Thoracica:
Austrobalanidae), including a new genus, Protelminius nov., from the Oligocene of New Zealand
JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia) & WILLIAM A. NEWMAN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2349: 2 1–38 (2 Feb. 2010) 12 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 7 Dec. 2009
The genus Microrchestia (Amphipoda: Talitridae) in eastern Australia
J.K. LOWRY & R. PEART (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2348: 23–39 (1 Feb. 2010) 10 plates; 42 references                          Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
Melitoid amhipods of the genera Ceradocus Costa, 1853 and Victoriopisa Karaman and Barnard, 1979 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Maeridae) from the South China Sea, Malaysia
J.H.C. LIM, B.A.R. AZMAN & B.H.R. OTHMAN (Malaysia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2345: 43–59 (27 Jan. 2010) 7 plates; 72 references                          Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
Taxonomy of the sand bubbler crabs Scopimera globosa De Haan, 1835, and S. tuberculata Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dotillidae) in East Asia, with description of a new species from the Ryukyus, Japan
KINGSLEY J. H. WONG, BENNY K. K. CHAN & HSI-TE SHIH (R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2345: 1–18 (27 Jan. 2010) 8 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
A taxonomic revision of Pseudosida szalayi Daday, 1898 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Sididae) over its Asian range, with focus on the northernmost populations first recorded from the Amur River basin (Far East of Russia)
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2343: 31–44 (25 Jan. 2010) 12 plates; 65 references                          Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
First records of six galatheid species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from
Chinese waters
CHAO DONG & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2343: 18–30 (25 Jan. 2010) 1 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
Description of a new species of Aeglidae, and new records of related species
from river basins in Argentina (Crustacea, Anomura)
GEORGINA BOND-BUCKUP (Brazil), CARLOS G. JARA (Chile), LUDWIG BUCKUP (Brazil),
ALESSANDRA A.P. BUENO (Brazil), MARCOS PÉREZ-LOSADA (USA) & KEITH A. CRANDALL (USA)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2340: 65–68 (21 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
A new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Bisetocreagris from China (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Neobisiidae)
JIA YING, ZHAO YONG-WEI & ZHU MING-SHENG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2337: 63–68 (18 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
Mud shrimp associated with burrows from the Oligocene Ashiya Group, northern Kyushu, Japan, with description of a new species of Upogebia
(Decapoda: Gebiidea)
YUSUKE ANDO & HIROAKI KARASAWA (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2337: 47–62 (18 Jan. 2010) 6 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
Uca jocelynae sp. nov., a new species of fiddler crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Western Pacific
HSI-TE SHIH (R. China), TOHRU NARUSE (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2337: 3 1–46 (18 Jan. 2010) 7 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
Type and non-type specimens of Aegla (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) housed in the Museo de La Plata, Argentina
INÉS I. CÉSAR & CRISTINA DAMBORENEA (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2336: 36–50 (15 Jan. 2010) 6 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new bomolochid copepod parasitic on bullseye puffer Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns) from Mexico, with reassignment of some species of Acantholochus Cressey and Hamaticolax Ho & Lin
F. N. MORALES-SERNA & S. GÓMEZ (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2332: 61–68 (11 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2009
Lithodes formosae, a new species of king crab from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae)
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2330: 1–63 (7 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 278 references                           Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
A checklist of names in Alona Baird 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae) and
their current status: an analysis of the taxonomy of a lump genus
KAY VAN DAMME (Belgium), ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2329: 37–55 (6 Jan. 2010) 14 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
The deep-sea scavenging genus Hirondellea (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Hirondelleidae fam. nov.) in Australian waters
J.K. LOWRY & H.E. STODDART (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2327: 1–22 (4 Jan. 2010) 14 plates; 51 references                           Accepted: 21 Nov. 2009
Revision of the Parasesarma plicatum (Latreille, 1803) species-group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 1-23 (24 Dec. 2009) 11 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
New species of Alona from South-East Russia and Mongolia related to Alona
salina Alonso, 1996 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia), MIGUEL ALONSO (Spain) & NATALIA G. SHEVELEVA (Russia)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2324: 1-85 (22 Dec. 2009) 18 plates; 68 references                         Accepted: 23 Oct. 2009
On the diagnostic characters of the genus Stygonitocrella (Copepoda, Harpacticoida), with descriptions
of seven new species from Australian subterranean waters 
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC & PETER HANCOCK (Australia)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2323: 1-71 (22 Dec. 2009) 37 plates; 34 references                         Accepted: 16 Sep. 2009
A review of the Dardanus sinistripes (Stimpson, 1859) (Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae) species complex
with the description of five new species from the Mexican Pacific 
MANUEL AYÓN PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
(Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 38-55 (22 Dec. 2009) 12 plates; 20 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
New species of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Sardinia

STEFANO TAITI & ROBERTO ARGANO (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2312: 1-26 (16 Dec. 2009) 10 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 13 Nov. 2009
The Camptandriidae of Iraq, with description of a new genus and notes on
Leptochryseus Al-Khayat & Jones, 1996 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & MURTADA D. NASER (Iraq)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2309: 43-68 (11 Dec. 2009) 18 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 11 Nov. 2009
A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type
material. 2. The United States National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2305: 33-50 (7 Dec. 2009) 11 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 7 Nov. 2009
Two new species of Sphaeromopsis (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from
the Persian Gulf
VALIALLAH KHALAJI-PIRBALOUTY & JOHANN-WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)

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Zootaxa 2305: 24-32 (7 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2009
The marsh crab, Sartoriana rokitanskyi (Pretzmann, 1971)
(Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinucidae) from southern Iran
EHSAN KAMRANI (Iran), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore), MEHRNOUSH MIRZADEH (Iran) & SAHAR
NAKHODAI (Iran)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2304: 21-40 (4 Dec. 2009) 11 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 2 Nov. 2009
A new family and genus of calanoid copepods (Crustacea) from the abyss of the
Atlantic Ocean
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA (Russia) & KNUD SCHULZ (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2304: 1-20 (4 Dec. 2009) 9 plates; 79 references                          Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
Mysidae (Mysida) of New Zealand; a checklist, identification key to species and
an overview of material in New Zealand collections
M. JOCQUE (Belgium) & W. BLOM (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2302: 61-68 (2 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
Re-evaluation of species allied to Mithrax hispidus (Decapoda: Brachyura:
Majoidea: Mithracidae) based on three mitochondrial genes
AMANDA M. WINDSOR & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2302: 31-47 (2 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Four new species of the family Lithodidae (Decapoda: Anomura) from the
collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
SALLY HALL & SVEN THATJE (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2301: 55-68 (1 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Two new species of the genus Elasmopus Costa, 1853 (Amphipoda:
Gammaridea: Maeridae) from off the Northeast Brazilian Coast
JESSER F. SOUZA-FILHO & ANDRÉ R. SENNA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 1-30 (26 Nov. 2009) 19 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
New species of lysianassoid Amphipoda (Crustacea) associated with seamounts,
marine canyons and cold seeps of New Zealand
NIAMH M. KILGALLEN (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2297: 44-54 (25 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 3 Nov. 2009
A new xanthid crab of the genus Medaeops Guinot, 1967, from Peninsular
Malaysia, with a note on Leptodius granulosus Haswell, 1882 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae)
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA (Singapore), V.C. CHONG (Malaysia) & PETER K. L. NG
(Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2296: 39-46 (24 Nov. 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 10 Sep. 2009
Redescription of Periclimenes brockii (De Man, 1888) (Decapoda: Caridea:
Pontoniinae) and other De Man’s type specimens deposited in the collection of the Senckenberg Natural History Museum (SMF), Frankfurt-at-Maine, Germany
IVAN MARIN (Russia) & MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2294: 62-68 (20 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Podochela meloi Sankarankutty, Ferreira & Cunha, 2001, a junior synonym of
the spider crab Inachoides forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Inachoididae)
WILLIAM SANTANA & MARCOS TAVARES (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2294: 39-46 (20 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 16 Oct. 2009
Michaelcallianassa sinica sp. nov. (Crusacea, Decapoda, Thalassinidea,
Callianassidae) from the South China Sea
WENLIANG LIU & RUIYU LIU (J. Y. LIU) (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2293: 35-52 (19 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Two new genera and species of chiltoniid amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda:
Talitroidea) from freshwater mound springs in South Australia
RACHAEL A. KING (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2291: 51-64 (17 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 22 Oct. 2009
A new species of Cypriconcha Sars (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from high mountain
wetlands of Argentina
ANALÍA R. DÍAZ & ESTELA C. LOPRETTO (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2291: 24-34 (17 Nov. 2009) 9 plates; 4 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
Lithoselatium tantichodoki, a new species of intertidal crab (Crustacea:
Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from southern Thailand
RUEANGRIT PROMDAM (Thailand) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 55-60 (13 Nov. 2009) 1 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
A new species of Nannosquilla (Stomatopoda: Nannosquillidae) from the
Western Atlantic Ocean
DÉBORA LUCATELLI DE ALBUQUERQUE & PETRÔNIO ALVES COELHO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 2289: 33-47 (13 Nov. 2009) 7 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2009
Aphanodactylidae, a new family of thoracotreme crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura)
symbiotic with polychaete worms
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 1-17 (13 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 10 Sep. 2009
A review of the pontoniine shrimp genus Rapipontonia Marin, 2007
(Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species from the Indo-West Pacific
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2283: 40-50 (6 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 18 Sep. 2009
Two new species of the genus Tanzanapseudes B
ăcescu, 1975 (Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha: Tanzanapseudidae) from mid-west Australia
ANNA ST
ĘPIEŃ & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2277: 33-52 (30 Oct. 2009) 13 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 2 Oct. 2009
Description of three new species of the deep-sea munnopsid genus Belonectes
(Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean
MARINA V. MALYUTINA (Russia) & ANGELIKA BRANDT (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2276: 49-68 (29 Oct. 2009) 11 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
Systematics of the Baikalian Babr (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Pallaseidae)

MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA (Finland), RAVIL M. KAMALTYNOV (Russia), TYTTI KONTULA (Finland)
& RISTO VÄINÖLÄ (Finland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2276: 40-48 (29 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 3 Oct. 2009
The status of Kunziana Pretzmann, 1971 (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Pseudothelphusidae), with a redescription of the holotype of K. irengis Pretzmann, 1971
CÉLIO MAGALHĂES (Brazil), MICHAEL TÜRKAY (Germany), & D. BRUCE MEANS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 1-26 (22 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 19 Sep. 2009
A review of the Caligus productus species group, with the description of a new
species, new synonymies and supplementary descriptions
GEOFF A BOXSHALL (UK) & HODA H. EL-RASHIDY (Egypt)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2267: 1-25 (19 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 57 references                          Accepted: 2 Oct. 2009
Overview of Candoninae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) of South America and the
West Indies, with the description of two new species and one new genus
IVANA KARANOVIC (Australia) & THIBAULT DATRY (France)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2260: 1-930 (8 Oct. 2009) 459 plates; 1375 references                       Accepted: 15 Jun. 2009
Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef 

J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & A.A. MYERS (Ireland)
Foreword + 52 papers   open access 

 Article 
Zootaxa 2248: 47-68 (6 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 24 Aug. 2009
The brine shrimps (Artemia and Parartemia) of South Australia,
including descriptions of four new species of Parartemia (Crustacea: Anostraca: Artemiina)
BRIAN V TIMMS & PETER HUDSON (Australia)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2243: 68 (30 Sep. 2009
Erratum—
NG, N. K. & MCLAUGHLI, P. A. (2009) A new hermit crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Paguridae) from the eastern North Pacific. Zootaxa, 2227, 63–68.
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Zootaxa 2243: 53-56 (30 Sep. 2009) 1 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 27 Aug. 2009
On the presence of Anchistioides willeyi (Borradaile, 1899) (Decapoda: Caridea:
Anchistioididae) in the Red Sea
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 2243: 40-52 (30 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 25 Aug. 2009
A new Paraleptamphopidae (Crustacea Amphipoda) in the burrow of
Virilastacus rucapihuelensis (Parastacidae) and surrounding peat bogs. Rudolphia macrodactylus n. gen., n. sp. from southern South America
LUIS E. GROSSO & MARCELA PERALTA (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2240: 60-68 (25 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 24 Aug. 2009
A new species of Lysmata (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hippolytidae) from Venezuela,
southeastern Caribbean Sea
J. ANTONIO BAEZA (Republic of Panama), JUAN A. BOLAŃOS (Venezuela), JESÚS E. HERNANDEZ (Venezuela) & RÉGULO
LÓPEZ (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 2240: 31-40 (25 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 8 Sep. 2009
Hansenomysis sorbei n. sp., a new suprabenthic mysid (Crustacea: Mysida:
Petalophthalmidae) from the Bellingshausen Sea (Southern Ocean)
CARLOS SAN VICENTE (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2238: 56-68 (23 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
A revision of the genus Paranarthrurella Lang, 1971a (Crustacea: Tanaidacea)

PIOTR JÓ
ŹWIAK, ANNA STĘPIEŃ & MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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Zootaxa 2238: 43-55 (23 Sep. 2009) 7 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2009
Gnathia nubila n. sp. and a new record of Gnathia grandilaris (Crustacea,
Isopoda, Gnathiidae) that parasitizes elasmobranchs from Okinawan coastal waters, Japan
YUZO OTA & EUICHI HIROSE (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2236: 50-64 (21 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 10 Aug. 2009
A New Species of the Freshwater Cladoceran Genus Scapholeberis Schoedler, 1858 (Cladocera: Anomopoda) from the Semidesert Northern Mexico,
Highlighted by DNA Barcoding
PATRICIA QUIROZ-VÁZQUEZ & MANUEL ELÍAS-GUTIÉRREZ (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2233: 1-38 (16 Sep. 2009) 20 plates; 62 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2009
Contributions to the taxonomy of the Normanellidae (Copepoda,
Harpacticoida): description of a new genus from the Brazilian continental shelf and re-assignment of Pseudocletodes vararensis Scott & Scott, 1893 (ex Nannopodidae)
TERUE CRISTINA KIHARA (Brazil) & RONY HUYS (UK)

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Zootaxa 2227: 63-68 (10 Sep. 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 11 Aug. 2009
A new hermit crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Paguridae) from the
eastern North Pacific
NGAN KEE NG (Singapore) & PATSY A. MCLAUGHLI (USA)

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Zootaxa 2215: 55-68 (31 Aug. 2009) 8 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 14 Aug. 2009
Description of two new species of the Corophiidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea) and
register of Laticorophium baconi (Shoemaker, 1934) from Brazilian waters
MARIA TERESA VALÉRIO-BERARDO & ANA MARIA THIAGO DE SOUZA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2213: 57-63 (28 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 11 Aug. 2009
Hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) inhabiting the intertidal and
shallow subtidal region of Red Sea coast of Egypt
KHALEID F. ABD EL-WAKEIL, ELHAM S. AHMED, AHMAD H. OBUID-ALLAH & NASSER A. ELSHIMY
(Egypt)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2211: 57-68 (27 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 29 Jul. 2009
A new hermit crab species of the genus Catapagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan
TOMOYUKI KOMAI & MASAYUKI OSAWA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2206: 45-61 (24 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 21 Jul. 2009
Description of the first five larval stages of Plesionika narval (Fabricius, 1787)
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) obtained under laboratory conditions
JOSÉ MARÍA LANDEIRA, FERNANDO LOZANO-SOLDEVILLA & JUAN IGNACIO GONZÁLEZGORDILLO
(Spain)
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Zootaxa 2206: 1-22 (24 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 17 Jul. 2009
Two new species of Eucyclops Claus (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from the
Chihuahuan Desert with a redescription of E. pseudoensifer Dussart
EDUARDO SUÁREZ-MORALES (Mexico) & ELIZABETH J. WALSH (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2205: 53-61 (21 Aug. 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 3 Aug. 2009
Lysianopsis adelae, new species of amphipod (Gammaridea: Lysianassidae)
from the Veracruz Coral Reef System, SW Gulf of Mexico
IGNACIO WINFIELD (Mexico) & MANUEL ORTIZ (Cuba)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2199: 1-57 (17 Aug. 2009) 34 plates; 60 references                           Accepted: 15 Jun. 2009
The sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae,
Synalpheus) of Discovery Bay, Jamaica, with descriptions of four new species
KENNETH S MACDONALD III (Mexico), KRISTIN HULTGREN (Republic of Panamá) & J. EMMETT
DUFFY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2196: 59-64 (13 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 30 Jun. 2009
A new species of Strouhaloniscellus Tabacaru, 1993 (Crustacea: Isopoda:
Oniscidea) from a cave in Mt Biokovo, Croatia
JANA BEDEK (Croatia) & STEFANO TAITI (Italy)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2183: 1-99 (6 Aug. 2009) 0 plates; 845 references                         Accepted: 20 Jun. 2009
Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in
harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda)
RONY HUYS (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2176: 57-64 (5 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 25 Jun. 2009
First record of the genus Typhlocirolana Racovitza, 1905 (Isopoda: Cirolanidae)
from Tunisia and description of a new species from the National park of Ichkeul
A. GHLALA (Tunisia), D. DELLA VALLE (Italy) & G. MESSANA (Italy)

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Zootaxa 2176: 1-21 (5 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Discrimination between two sibling species of Acroperus (Baird, 1843) from the
Palearctic (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)
ARTEM Y. SINEV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 2167: 59-68 (24 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Synopsis of Amphipoda from two recent Ross Sea voyages with description of a
new species of Epimeria (Epimeriidae, Amphipoda, Crustacea)
ANNE-NINA LÖRZ (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 2159: 44-68 (16 Jul. 2009) 18 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 2 Jun. 2009
Four species of the genus Seba from Japan, with descriptions of two new species
(Crustacea: Amphipoda: Sebidae)
HIROYUKI ARIYAMA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2158: 57-64 (15 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2009
Thaumatoniscellus speluncae n. sp. (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae),
a new troglobitic oniscid species from Croatia
IVO M. KARAMAN (Serbia and Montenegro), JANA BEDEK (Croatia) & MLADEN HORVATOVI
Ć (Serbia and Montenegro)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2154: 30-46 (10 Jul. 2009) 9 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2009
Two new species of Richardina A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Stenopodidae), representing the first occurrences of the genus from the Pacific
TOMOMI SAITO & HIRONORI KOMATSU (Japan)

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Zootaxa 2154: 1-29 (10 Jul. 2009) 18 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2009
Revision of Selatium Serčne & Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae),
with description of a new genus and two new species
CHRISTOPH D. SCHUBART (Germany), HUNG-CHANG LIU (R. China) & PETER K. L. NG
(Singapore)
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Zootaxa 2153: 1-23 (9 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 91 references                            Accepted: 6 May 2009
Description of cryptic taxa within the Alpheus bouvieri A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 and A. hebes Kim and Abele, 1988 species complexes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT & NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2149: 50-61 (6 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 27 May 2009
Two new Cumella (Crustacea: Cumacea: Nannastacidae) from the North Pacific, with a key to the North Pacific Cumella
SARAH GERKEN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2141: 1-19 (25 Jun. 2009) 9 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 5 May 2009
Tanaidacea from Brazil. I. The family Tanaellidae Larsen & Wilson, 2002
KIM LARSEN, CATARINA DE L. ARAÚJO-SILVA & PETRÔNIO ALVES COELHO (Brasil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2140: 38-44 (24 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2009