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Editor, Dr S.T. Ahyong  (s.ahyong@niwa.co.nz Anomura & Stomatopoda
Marine Biodiversity and Biosecurity, NIWA, Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
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@cg.yuAmphipoda
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 K. Larsen (tanaids@hotmail.com) Tanaidacea & Cumacea
Department of Invertebrates, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Denmark
Editor, Dr. R. F. Maddocks (RMaddocks@uh.edu) Ostracoda
Dept. of Geosciences Room 312 Science & Research Bldg. 1, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5007 USA 

Editor, Prof. Jörundur Svavarsson (jorundur@hi.is) Isopoda 
Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Editor, Dr Danny Tang (copepods@gmail.com) Copepoda
School of Animal Biology (M092), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
Editor, 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

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2008

 Article 
Zootaxa 1764: 19-24 (7 May 2008) 2 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 2 Apr. 2008
Notes on morphology and ecological difference between species of pontoniine shrimp genus Crinotonia Marin (Caridea: Palaemonidae) associated with shallow-water feather stars Phanogenia spp. (Crinoidea: Comasteridae)
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1761: 1-16 (2 May 2008) 8 plates; 46 references                              Accepted: 8 Apr. 2008
A new species of Halophytophilus Brian, 1919 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from cold-water corals in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic)
HENDRIK GHEERARDYN (Belgium), SYBILLE SEIFRIED (Germany) & ANN VANREUSEL (Belgium)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1761: 17-29 (2 May 2008) 5 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 28 Feb. 2008
A re-description of Accalathura crenulata (Richardson, 1901) from type material and the description of two new Accalathura species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoida)
RACHAEL A. KING (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1760: 59-68 (30 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 1 Feb. 2008
A new genus and species of cyproideid amphipod associated with unstalked crinoids on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & B.A.R. AZMAN (Malaysia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1760: 24-36 (30 Apr. 2008) 7 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 7 Feb. 2008
New species and new reports of Hyalella (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Dogielinotidae) from Argentina
ANA LUCIA FREITAS DOS SANTOS, PAULA BEATRIZ ARAUJO & GEORGINA BOND-BUCKUP (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1758: 45-60 (28 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 18 Mar. 2008
A review of Pseudoleptomesochrella Lang, 1965 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Ameiridae), including a redescription of P. halophila (Noodt, 1952) from the Black Sea and a key to species
SERDAR SAK (Turkey), SUPHAN KARAYTUG (Turkey) & RONY HUYS (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1753: 49-68 (21 Apr. 2008) 10 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 20 Mar. 2008
Two new species of Turleania McLaughlin, 1997 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, and a redescription of T. balli (McLaughlin & Haig, 1996)
MASAYUKI OSAWA & YOSHIHISA FUJITA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1752: 1-40 (18 Apr. 2008) 0 plates; 116 references                              Accepted: 18 Feb. 2008
A catalogue of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) with taxonomic, distribution and ecological data
GLORIA M. ALONSO DE PINA (Argentina), MARTIN RAUSCHERT (Germany) & CLAUDE DE BROYER (Belgium)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1750: 68 (16 Apr. 2008)  
Erratum (
PEREZ-SCHULTHEISS & CRESPO (2008). A new species of Parhyalella Kunkel, 1910 (Amphipoda, Talitroidea, Dogielinotidae) from the coast of Chile. Zootaxa, 1724, 61-68.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1750: 43-52 (16 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 11 Mar. 2008
Leptathanas powelli gen. nov., sp. nov, a new infaunal alpheid shrimp associated with upogebiid mudshrimps in Nigeria (Crustacea, Decapoda)
S. De Grave (UK) & A. Anker (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1744: 19-30 (9 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 18 Feb. 2008
Phylogenetic analysis of the Paulsoni species group (Decapoda: Alpheidae) from the American Pacific, with implications for the phylogenetic classification of the genus Synalpheus
MARGARITA HERMOSO-SALAZAR (Mexico), MARY WICKSTEN (USA) & JUAN J. MORRONE (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1743: 17-33 (7 Apr. 2008) 12 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 5 Mar. 2008
New cumacean species (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Salomon Islands
JORDI CORBERA (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1739: 21-40 (2 Apr. 2008) 9 plates; 33 references                              Accepted: 1 Feb. 2008
Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic false spider crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from Indonesia, with notes on Cancrocaeca Ng, 1991
TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore), PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & DANIELE GUINOT (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1734: 43-58 (28 Mar. 2008) 11 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
New species of Tridentella Richardson, 1905 (Isopoda: Cymothoida:
Tridentellidae), tropical marine isopod crustaceans from the Banda Sea, Indonesia
NIEL L BRUCE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1731: 63-68 (25 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
A new species of Pseudolambrus (Crustacea: Brachyura: Parthenopidae: Parthenopinae) from Panglao, Bohol, the Philippines
S. H. TAN (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1726: 49-59 (12 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 4 Feb. 2008
Descriptions of four new species of Caridina (Decapoda: Atyidae) from China
LIQING WANG, XIANGQIU LIANG & FAN LI (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1726: 1-17 (12 Mar. 2008) 9 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 17 Jan. 2008
Morphology of the larval stages of the spider crab Herbstia condyliata (Fabricius, 1787) (Brachyura: Majoidea: Pisidae) obtained in laboratory conditions
GUILLERMO GUERAO, PERE ABELLO & CORAL HISPANO (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1724: 61-68 (10 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 28 Jan. 2008
A new species of Parhyalella Kunkel, 1910 (Amphipoda, Talitroidea, Dogielinotidae) from the coast of Chile
JORGE PEREZ-SCHULTHEISS & JULIO E. CRESPO (Chile)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1721: 24-34 (7 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
A new species of Moina Baird, 1950 (Crustacea: Anomopoda) from Socotra Island, Yemen
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1719: 61-68 (5 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 31 Jan. 2008
A new species of Symmius Richardson (Crustacea: Isopoda: Chaetiliidae) from Japan
MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1718: 45-68 (3 Mar. 2008) 12 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 28 Jan. 2007
Amaryllididae and Lysianassidae (Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) from off the central coast of Brazil (11oS-22oS), with descriptions of three new species
ANDRE R. SENNA & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1717: 1-23 (3 Mar. 2008) 17 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Descriptions of two new crayfishes of the genus Fallicambarus from southeast Texas with notes on the distribution of F. (F.) macneesei
DANIEL P. JOHNSON (USA)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1708: 1-72 (22 Feb. 2008) 29 plates; 130 references                              Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Deepwater crabs from seamounts and chemosynthetic habitats off eastern New Zealand (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1707: 1-22 (20 Feb. 2008) 7 plates; 94 references                              Accepted: 29 Nov. 2007
Revision of the Alpheus formosus Gibbes, 1850 complex, with redescription of A. formosus and description of a new species from the tropical western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1707: 23-36 (20 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 17 Jan. 2008
A new species related to Alona costata Sars, 1862 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from South Africa
ARTEM YU SINEV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1706: 51-68 (20 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 16 Jan. 2008
Description of a new species of Onychostenhelia Ito (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Miraciidae) from the Bohai Sea, China
RONY HUYS (UK) & FANG-HONG MU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1703: 1-24 (13 Feb. 2008) 14 plates; 40 references                              Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
Identity of the coral-associated pontoniine shrimp species, Coralliocaris nudirostris (Heller, 1861) and C. venusta Kemp, 1922 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with descriptions of two new species
MASAKO MITSUHASHI & MASATSUNE TAKEDA (Japan)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1695: 53-60 (1 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Diaphanosoma senegal Gauthier, 1951 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Sididae) in South-East Asia
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia) & LA-ORSRI SANOAMUANG (Thailand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1694: 38-50 (31 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 45 references                              Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
Phylogenetic relationships among the genera of the Penaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) revealed by mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequences
Tin-Yam Chan (R. China), Jingou Tong (P.R. China), Yan Kit Tam (P.R. China) & Ka Hou Chu (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1694: 51-68 (31 Jan. 2008) 7 plates; 52 references                              Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
Revision of the Alpheus websteri Kingsley, 1880 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. arenensis (Chace, 1937)
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1693: 1-26 (31 Jan. 2008) 10 plates; 66 references                              Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
A reexamination of adults and larval stages of Diogenes nitidimanus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae)
OLGA M. KORN (Russia) , ELENA S. KORNIENKO (Russia) & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1690: 1-62 (25 Jan. 2008) 24 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
New species of Mesamphisopus, an endemic South African freshwater isopod
genus (Isopoda: Phreatoicidea: Mesamphisopidae)
GAVIN GOUWS (S. Africa)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1687: 60-66 (23 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 4 references                               Accepted: 12 Dec. 2007
Mladenoniscus belavodae n. g., n. sp., a troglobitic oniscid (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia
IVO M. KARAMAN & MLADEN HORVATOVIC (Serbia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1684: 1-34 (18 Jan. 2008) 19 plates; 75 references                              Accepted: 29 Nov. 2007
Identities of three taxa of the hippolytid shrimp genus Heptacarpus (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Caridea), with description of a new species from East Asian waters
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & BORIS G. IVANOV (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1684: 35-57 (18 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 52 references                              Accepted: 29 Nov. 2007
Euphilomedes chupacabra (Ostracoda: Myodocopida: Philomedidae),
a new demersal marine species from coastal Puerto Rico with male-biased vespertine swimming activity
KIMBERLY E. LUM, ANNA E. SYME, ANASTASIA K. SCHWAB & TODD H. OAKLEY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1682: 27-32 (16 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                                    Accepted: 7 Jan. 2008
Periclimenes aqabai sp. nov, a further species of the aesopius species group
(Caridea: Pontoniinae) from the Red Sea
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1682: 45-61 (16 Jan. 2008) 8 plates; 31 references                               Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Overview of Sididae (Crustacea: Cladocera: Ctenopoda) of Northeast and East
Thailand, with description of a new species of the genus Diaphanosoma
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY  (Russia) & LA-ORSRI SANOAMUANG (Thailand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1682: 62-68 (16 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                               Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
A new species and two new record species of genus Allokepon Markham, 1982
(Isopoda: Epicaridea: Bopyridae) from China
JIANGYAN DUAN, JIANMEI AN & HAIYAN YU (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1680: 1-24 (14 Jan. 2008) 7 plates; 41 references                                  Accepted: 12 Dec. 2007
A review of taxonomic concepts in the Nannoniscidae (Isopoda, Asellota), with a key to the genera and a description of Nannoniscus oblongus Sars
GEORGE D.F. WILSON (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1678: 1-24 (11 Jan. 2008) 12 plates; 41 references                              Accepted: 14 Dec. 2007
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. IV. Shallow-water species from Akajima with notes on the recolonization potential of tanaids
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1678: 25-49 (11 Jan. 2008) 20 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Bathycopea (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidea: Ancinidae) from Japan, with descriptions of two new species and redescription of B. parallela Birstein
MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1675: 31-48 (9 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 47 references                              Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
New genus and new species of Cirripedia (Chthamalidae, Tetraclitidae, Archaeobalanidae and Balanidae) from the Middle Miocene of the faluns of Touraine (France)
RENE-PIERRE CARRIOL (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1675: 49-58 (9 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Description of the first marine interstitial ingolfiellid from Philippines, Ingolfiella alba sp. nov., with some remarks on the systematic of the genus (Amphipoda: Ingolfiellidae)
VALENTINA IANNILLI, RAFFAELLA BERERA & VEZIO COTTARELLI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1674: 59-64 (7 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 22 Nov. 2007
First records of the giant barnacles, Austromegabalanus nigrescens (Lamarck, 1818) and A. psittacus (Molina, 1782) (Cirripedia: Balanidae) from New Zealand, with a key to New Zealand Balanidae
ANDREW HOSIE & SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1673: 68 (4 Jan. 2008)  
Erratum ( Garfias-Espejo, T., Elias-Gutierrez, M. & Silva-Briano, M. (2007) On Macrothrix agsensis Dumont, Silva-Briano & Babu, 2002 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Macrothricidae), with description of the male and ephippial females, and comments on the distribution of the genus in Mexico. Zootaxa, 1632, 49-60.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1671: 59-68 (1 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 59 references                              Accepted: 22 Nov. 2007
A new record of the Late Cretaceous cirripede Eoverruca hewitti
(Verrucomorpha, Proverrucidae) from southern Poland
JOHN W.M. JAGT  (The Netherlands), IWONA JASKULA (née JABLEKA)  (Poland), ANNA WITEK  (Poland) & ELENA A. JAGT-YAZYKOVA (Poland)
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2007

 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 313-325 (21 Dec. 2007) 68 references                                           Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1666: 23-41 (19 Dec. 2007)  11 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Three new species of Kudinopasternakia Gutu, 1991 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Sphyrapodidae) from Brazilian waters
KATIA CHRISTOL DOS SANTOS (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1665: 53-60 (19 Dec. 2007)  4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 6 Nov. 2007
Liagore pulchella, a new species of xanthid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Vanuatu
PETER K. L. NG & TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1665: 31-41 (19 Dec. 2007)  4 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Stephonyx arabiensis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Uristidae), a new deep-water scavenger species from the Indian Ocean, with a key to the genus Stephonyx
MARK DIFFENTHAL & TAMMY HORTON (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1662: 15-24 (17 Dec. 2007)  5 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 4 Nov. 2007
A new genus and new species of leucosiid crab from New Caledonia, with a note on the validity of Tanaoa serenei (Richer de Forges, 1983) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1662: 25-33 (17 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 4 Nov. 2007
Historical record and supplementary description of Cymbasoma bullatum (A. Scott) (Copepoda: Monstrilloida) from the "Albatross" cruise in the Philippines
EDUARDO SUAREZ-MORALES (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1658: 21-38 (11 Dec. 2007)  10 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 2 Nov. 2007
Two new species of the genus Pseudomesus Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota) from the Southern hemisphere: Pseudomesus pitombo sp. nov. and Pseudomesus satanus sp. nov.
Stefanie Kaiser & SASKIA BRIX (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1656: 1-49 (7 Dec. 2007)  10 plates; 84 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
Three new cryptic species of the freshwater zooplankton genus Holopedium (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Ctenopoda), revealed by genetic methods
CHAD L. ROWE, SARAH J. ADAMOWICZ & PAUL D. N. HEBERT (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1653: 21-39 (3 Dec. 2007)  8 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
New species and records of alpheid shrimps, genera Salmoneus Holthuis and Parabetaeus Coutiere, from the tropical western Atlantic (Decapoda, Caridea)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1653: 41-55 (3 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 5 Nov. 2007
A new species of freshwater isopod (Sphaeromatidea: Sphaeromatidae) from an inland karstic stream on Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific
DAMIA JAUME (Spain) & ERIK QUEINNEC (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1646: 41-49 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cheiriphotis (Crustacea : Amphipoda: Corophiidae: Protomedeiinae) from the coast of Southeastern Brazil, with a key to species in the genus
MARIA TERESA VALERIO-BERARDO, ANA MARIA THIAGO DE SOUZA & CARINA WAITEMAN RODRIGUES (Brasil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1646: 67-68 (26 Nov. 2007)  0 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 6 Nov. 2007
Neophryxus, a new name for Prophryxus Bruce, 1973 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1644: 41-49 (23 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
Crosniera wennerae, a new species of thalassinidean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thomassiniidae) from the South Atlantic Bight
RICHARD W. HEARD & RACHAEL A. KING (USA)

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Zootaxa 1644: 51-57 (23 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 23 Oct. 2007
On a new genus and new species of deep-water spider crab from the Philippines (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majidae)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Republic of Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1644: 59-68 (23 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Re-examination of Borradaile's Urocaris longicaudata specimens from the 1905 J.S. Gardiner Collection (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1639: 68 (16 Nov. 2007)  
Erratum ( Song, S.J., Rho, H.S. & Kim, W. (2007) A new species of Huntemannia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Huntemanniidae) from the Yellow Sea, Korea. Zootaxa, 1616, 37-48.)
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Zootaxa 1639: 23-39 (16 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 6 Oct. 2007
Taraxapseudes n. gen., Taraxapseudes diversus (Lang, 1968) n. comb. and two new species of Atlantapseudes B|cescu, 1978 (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) from Brazil and Madagascar, with a key for the genus
Katia Christol dos Santos (Brazil) & Tom Hansknecht (USA)

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Zootaxa 1638: 21-37 (14 Nov. 2007)  10 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 14 Oct. 2007
The megalopa stage of Portunus spinimanus Latreille, 1819 and Portunus gibbesii (Stimpson, 1859) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae) from the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States
MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO (Brazil), NADIA MEYERS (USA), VIVIAN FRANSOZO (Brazil) & SUSAN THORTON-DE VICTOR (USA)
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Zootaxa 1635: 1-21 (12 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 14 Sep. 2007
The coral-associated shrimp genus Pontonides (Caridea, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae) in Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam, with description of two new species
IVAN MARIN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1632: 21-36 (7 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
Diversity within the Ponto-Caspian Paramysis baeri Czerniavsky sensu lato revisited: P. bakuensis G.O. Sars restored (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae)
MIKHAIL E. DANELIYA, ASTA AUDZIJONYTE & RISTO VAINOLA (Finland)

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Zootaxa 1632: 37-48 (7 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
Redescription of Orthoprotella mayeri K.H. Barnard, 1916 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from Cape Province, South Africa and description of O. berentsae sp. nov. from New South Wales, Australia
ICHIRO TAKEUCHI (Japan) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1632: 49-60 (7 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2007
On Macrothrix agsensis Dumont, Silva-Briano & Babu, 2002 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Macrothricidae), with description of the male and ephippial females, and comments on the distribution of the genus in Mexico
TANIA GARFIAS-ESPEJO, MANUEL ELIAS-GUTIERREZ & MARCELO SILVA-BRIANO (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 1632: 61-67 (7 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 23 Oct. 2007
The resurrection of the pontoniine genus Urocaris Stimpson, 1860, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1628: 43-58 (2 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
New Mysida (Crustacea) in the genera Amblyops and Pseudomma from the Iceland Basin
KENNETH MELAND & TORLEIV BRATTEGARD (Norway)

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Zootaxa 1627: 41-51 (31 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 4 Oct. 2007
A new hermit crab species of the Pagurixus anceps group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from southern Japan, and supplemental notes on P. patiae Komai, 2006
MASAYUKI OSAWA & TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1626: 1-23 (31 Oct. 2007)  12 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 13 Sep. 2007
Three transisthmian snapping shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae: Alpheus) associated with innkeeper worms (Echiura: Thalassematidae) in Panama
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT & NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1626: 25-37 (31 Oct. 2007)  6 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2007
Description of three new species of Ampelisca (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampeliscidae) from Southwestern Atlantic, with a key of the genus for Brazilian species
MARIA TERESA VALERIO-BERARDO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1621: 33-44 (23 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 5 Sep. 2007
The mesopelagic copepod Gaussia princeps (Scott) (Calanoida: Metridinidae) from the Western Caribbean with notes on integumental pore patterns
EDUARDO SUAREZ-MORALES (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1621: 17-31 (23 Oct. 2007)  9 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
On the taxonomy of the genus Hymenicoides Kemp, 1917 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae), with resurrection of Limnopilos Chuang & Ng, 1991, and descriptions of two new species
TOHRU NARUSE & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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 Erratum
Zo
otaxa
1621: 68 (23 Oct. 2007)

Erratum ( Messouli, M., Holsinger, J.R. & Reddy, Y.R. (2007) Kotumsaridae, a new family of subterranean amphipod crustaceans from India, with description of Kotumsaria bastarensis, new genus, new species. Zootaxa, 1589, 33–46.)
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Zootaxa 1616: 37-48 (17 Oct. 2007)  6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 5 Sep. 2007
A new species of Huntemannia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Huntemanniidae) from the Yellow Sea, Korea
SUNG JOON SONG, HYUN SOO RHO & WON KIM (Korea)

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Zootaxa 1610: 1-25 (8 Oct. 2007)  12 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
Apseudomorpha (Malacostraca: Tanaidacea) of the ANDEEP III Antarctic Expedition
PIOTR JOZWIAK & MAGDALENA BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1610: 61-68 (8 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 28 Aug. 2007
A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, from Guam (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majidae)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia)
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Zootaxa 1607: 47-55 (3 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
The southernmost South American record of the genus Halicyclops Norman, 1903 (Cyclopoida: Cyclopidae) with the description of a new species
SILVINA MENU-MARQUE (Argentina) & DORA SORARRAIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1607: 57-62 (3 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 28 Aug. 2007
Parapinnixa bolagnosi
, a new species of pinnotherid crab from Cubagua Island and Los Frailes Archipelago, Venezuela (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
IVAN HERNANDEZ-AVILA (Venezuela) & ERNESTO CAMPOS (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1607: 63-67 (3 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 24 Aug. 2007
A new species of Geosesarma from Palawan, Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)
MARIVENE R. MANUEL-SANTOS (Philippines) & DARREN C.J. YEO (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1605: 1-32 (1 Oct. 2007)  12 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Postembryonal development in Caprellidae: SEM description and comparison of ready-to-hatch juveniles and adults of two Mediterranean skeleton shrimps (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Carola Lang, Traudl Krapp & Roland R. Melzer (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1602: 1-89 (28 Sep. 2007)  39 plates; 98 references                           Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
A review of the sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, with description of Zuzalpheus, new genus, and six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
RUBEN RIOS & J. EMMETT DUFFY (USA)

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 Monograph 
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan III. The deep trenches; the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Eds.)

Zootaxa 1599: 1-4 (28 Sep. 2007)
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Zootaxa 1599: 5-12 (28 Sep. 2007)
Foreword
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1599: 13-40 (28 Sep. 2007)  15 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Suborders Apseudomorpha Sieg, 1980 and Neotanaidomorpha Sieg, 1980
ROGER N. BAMBER
(UK)
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Zootaxa 1599: 41-60 (28 Sep. 2007)  13 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family Agathotanaidae Lang, 1971a
KIM LARSEN (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1599: 61-85 (28 Sep. 2007)  11 plates; 48 references                            Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Families Anarthruridae Lang, 1971, Colletteidae Larsen & Wilson, 2002, and Leptognathiidae Sieg, 1976
GRAHAM J. BIRD (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1599: 87-99 (28 Sep. 2007)  6 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family Pseudotanaidae Sieg, 1976
JERRY A. MCLELLAND (USA)

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Zootaxa 1599: 101-120 (28 Sep. 2007)  10 plates; 32 references                        Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family Nototanaidae Sieg, 1976 and Typhlotanaidae Sieg, 1984
MAGDALENA BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1599: 121-149 (28 Sep. 2007)  19 plates; 46 references                        Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Family incertae cedis 
GRAHAM J BIRD (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1598: 1-141 (28 Sep. 2007)  81 plates; 106 references                           Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
A revision of the family Typhlotanaidae Sieg 1984 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) with the remarks on the Nototanaidae Sieg, 1976
MAGDALENA BLA
ZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)

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Zootaxa 1593: 1-54 (24 Sep. 2007)  25 plates; 59 references                            Accepted: 13 Aug. 2007
Decapod Crustacea collected by the NORFANZ Expedition: Galatheidae and Polychelidae
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 1593: 55-67 (24 Sep. 2007)  7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 3 Jul. 2007
Two new species of Quadrimaera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Atol das Rocas, Brazil
ANDRE R. SENNA & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO (Brazil)

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 Erratum
Zo
otaxa
1593: 68 (24 Sep. 2007)

Erratum ( Reddy, Y.R. & Defaye, D. (2007) Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) of India: description of Parastenocaris mahanadi n. sp., and redescription of P. curvispinus Enckell, 1970 from hyporheic habitats. Zootaxa, 1580, 1-26)
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Zootaxa 1589: 33-46 (19 Sep. 2007)  7 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 9 Sep. 2007
Kotumsaridae, a new family of subterranean amphipod crustaceans from India, with description of Kotumsaria bastarensis, new genus, new species
MOHAMMED MESSOULI (Morocco), JOHN R. HOLSINGER (USA) & Y. RANGA REDDY (India)

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