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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@t-com.me) Amphipoda
 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. F. Maddocks (RMaddocks@uh.edu) Ostracoda
 Dept. of Geosciences Room 312 Science & Research Bldg. 1, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5007 USA 
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 (Miguel_Alonso@URSCorp.com) 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) Crustacea: Tanaidacea & Cumacea
 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska , Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr . Anchorage, AK 99508 USA

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2009

 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
 Macrobrachium pentazona, a new freshwater palaemonid prawn (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemoindae) from Guangdong Province, China
SHUN-LIAN HE, JIE GAO & ZHAO-LIANG GUO (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2140: 45-55 (24 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 29 May 2009
 Morphology of the first zoeal stage of the partner shrimp Periclimenes amethysteus Risso, 1827 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) studied with the Scanning EM
HANNES GEISELBRECHT & ROLAND R. MELZER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2136: 21-39 (19 Jun. 2009) 10 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
 Two new sympatric species of freshwater Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Southern Zagros Region, Iran
MEHRDAD ZAMANPOORE (Austria), MANFRED POECKL (Austria), MICHAL GRABOWSKI (POLAND) & FRIEDRICH SCHIEMER (Austria)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2134: 36-48 (17 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 14 May 2009
 Pentaceration, an unusual new genus of Paramunnidae from Australia (Isopoda, Asellota)
JEAN JUST (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2133: 20-32 (16 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2009
 Taxonomic re-examination of the hermit crab species Pagurus forceps and Pagurus comptus (Decapoda: Paguridae) by molecular analysis
FERNANDO LUIS MANTELATTO (Brazil), LUIS MIGUEL PARDO (Chile), LEONARDO GOMES PILEGGI (Brazil) & DARRYL L. FELDER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2130: 60-68 (11 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 19 May 2009
 Cubadeutella cavernicola, a new genus and species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Cuba
MANUEL ORTIZ (Cuba), JOSÉ M. GUERRA-GARCÍA (Spain) & ROGELIO LALANA (Cuba)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2130: 31-40 (11 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2009
 Periclimenaeus pectinidactylus n. sp. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Belizean Barrier Reef, Caribbean Sea
ZDENĚK ĎURIŠ, IVONA HORKÁ & FLOYD SANDFORD (Czech)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2130: 21-30 (11 Jun. 2009) 4 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 7 Apr. 2009
 Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, III. A new species of the genus Babamunida (Crustacea: Galatheidae) from Hawaii based on morphological and molecular evidence
KAREEN E. SCHNABEL (New Zealand), JOEL W. MARTIN (USA) & ROBERT B. MOFFITT (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2128: 61-68 (9 Jun. 2009) 4 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 12 May 2009
 Redescription and mitochondrial identification of Chiromantes boulengeri (Calman, 1920) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) based on fresh material from the Persian Gulf, Iran
REZA NADERLOO & CHRISTOPH D. SCHUBART (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2122: 1-50 (1 Jun. 2009) 22 plates; 64 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
 Revision of the crab genus Garthambrus Ng, 1996, with the description of two new genera and discussion of the status of Tutankhamen Rathbun, 1925 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Parthenopidae)
COLIN L. MCLAY (New Zealand) & S. H. TAN (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2120: 39-52 (28 May 2009) 2 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
The genus Leptodora Lilljeborg (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) is not monotypic: description of a new species from the Amur River basin (Far East of Russia)
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2120: 53-68 (28 May 2009) 8 plates; 47 references                          Accepted: 7 May 2009
Report on some Plesionika Bate, 1888 and first record of Stylopandalus Coutiére, 1905 (Caridea, Pandalidae) from Brazilian waters
IRENE CARDOSO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2119: 39-50 (27 May 2009) 2 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 4 Apr. 2009
Checklist of reef decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the southern Gulf of California, México
LUIS HERNÁNDEZ, EDUARDO F. BALART & HÉCTOR REYES-BONILLA (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2119: 51-65 (27 May 2009) 3 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 14 May 2009
A new species of Chaetiliidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera) from the Río de la Plata estuary, Argentina-Uruguay, and reconsideration of Macrochiridothea and Chiriscus
GARY C. B. POORE (Australia), F. RAMÍREZ (Argentina) & A. SCHIARITI (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2116: 46-52 (25 May 2009) 2 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 1 Apr. 2009
Two new species of Trevathana (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Balanomorpha, Pyrgomatidae) from the Western Indian Ocean and French Polynesia 
YAIR ACHITUV & YAAKOV LANGZAM (Israel)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2115: 21-33 (22 May 2009) 3 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 30 Apr. 2009
Revalidation of Chlamydopleon aculeatum Ortmann, 1893, and its consequences for the taxonomy of Gastrosaccinae (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) endemic to coastal waters of America
KARL J. WITTMANN (Austria)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2114: 1-49 (22 May 2009) 28 plates; 82 references                          Accepted: 21 Apr. 2009
A survey of Mysida from the Lizard Island area, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Subfamily Siriellinae (Crustacea, Mysida, Mysidae)
M. SUZETTE TALBOT (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2114: 50-60 (22 May 2009) 5 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 21 Mar. 2009
Description of Gnathia maculosa and a new record of Gnathia trimaculata (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), ectoparasites of elasmobranchs from Okinawan coastal waters
YUZO OTA & EUICHI HIROSE (Japan)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2111: 1-66 (18 May 2009) 29 plates; 225 references                         Accepted: 18 Mar. 2009
New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae)
COLIN L. McLAY (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2110: 1-21 (18 May 2009) 11 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 4 May 2009
Redescription of four species of Hatschekia (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Hatschekiidae) parasitic on tetraodontiform fishes from Japan
DAISUKE UYENO & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2109: 1-44 (18 May 2009) 17 plates; 64 references                          Accepted: 24 Apr. 2009
Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from soft-sediment habitats off Israel, Eastern Mediterranean
ROGER N BAMBER (UK), GRAHAM BIRD (New Zealand), MAGDALENA BŁAŻEWICZPASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & BELLA GALIL (Israel)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2107: 41-52 (15 May 2009) 3 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 4 Apr. 2009
Molecular phylogeny and divergence time estimates of Penaeid Shrimp Lineages (Decapoda: Penaeidae)
CAROLINA M VOLOCH, PABLO R FREIRE & CLAUDIA A M RUSSO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2106: 41-50 (13 May 2009) 4 plates; 57 references                         Accepted: 23 Mar. 2009
Comparative morphology of the seminal receptacles of Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) (Brachyura, Ocypodoidea)
LAURA S. LÓPEZ-GRECO (Argentina), VÍVIAN FRANSOZO (Brazil), MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROSFRANSOZO (Brazil) & DANIELA CARVALHO DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2106: 51-60 (13 May 2009) 3 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 25 Mar. 2009
Geothelphusa makatao sp. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae), a new freshwater crab from an uplifted Pleistocene reef in Taiwan
HSI-TE SHIH & JHY-YUN SHY (Taiwan)
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Zootaxa 2096: 1-5 (11 May. 2009) 
Title & copyright page, table of contents
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 Editorial 
Zootaxa 2096: 6-8 (11 May 2009) 0 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Editorial: Deep-sea taxonomy — a contribution to our knowledge of biodiversity
WIEBKE BRÖKELAND & KAI HORST GEORGE (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 214-256 (11 May 2009) 30 plates; 41 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Description of four new species of Mesocletodes Sars, 1909 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Argestidae) and redescription of Mesocletodes robustus Por, 1965 from the South Atlantic, including remarks on the Mesocletodes abyssicola-group
LENA MENZEL & KAI HORST GEORGE (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 257-286 (11 May 2009) 18 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Description of two new species of Dorsiceratus Drzycimski, 1967 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ancorabolidae) from Sedlo and Seine Seamounts (Northeastern Atlantic) and remarks on the phylogenetic status of the genus
KAI HORST GEORGE & CHRISTOPH PLUM (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 287-298 (11 May 2009) 6 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
A new genus of Pseudomesochrinae Willen, 1996 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) from the Guinea Basin
ELKE WILLEN & JANINE DITTMAR (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 299-312 (11 May 2009) 8 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Nyxis rostrocularis, a new genus and species of Paranannopinae Por, 1986 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Southern Atlantic deep sea
ELKE WILLEN (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 313-326 (11 May 2009) 9 plates; 21 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Kliopsyllus schminkei sp. n. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Paramesochridae) — a new copepod from the southeast Atlantic deep sea (Angola Basin)
GRITTA VEIT-KÖHLER & JAN DREWES (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 327-337 (11 May 2009) 5 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
First record of the genus Kliopsyllus Kunz, 1962 (Copepoda Harpacticoida, Paramesochridae) from Northeastern Brazil with description of the deep-sea species Kliopsyllus minor sp. nov.
DANIELLE MENOR VASCONCELOS (Brazil), GRITTA VEIT-KÖHLER (Germany), JAN DREWES (Germany), PAULO JORGE PARREIRA DOS SANTOS (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 338-355 (11 May 2009) 12 plates; 11 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Discovery of Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Tegastidae) in a deep-sea cold seep, with the description of a new species from the Gulf of Mexico
CHRISTOPH PLUM & PEDRO MARTINEZ ARBIZU (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 356-370 (11 May 2009) 6 plates; 40 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Macrostylis cerritus sp. nov., a new species of Macrostylidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean
AIDAN VEY (The Netherlands) & SASKIA BRIX (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 371-380 (11 May 2009) 3 plates; 27 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Nymphodora gen. nov., a new genus of Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916 (Isopoda, Asellota, Janiroidea) from the high Arctic
STEFANIE KAISER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 381-394 (11 May 2009) 5 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Thylakogaster namibiensis sp. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Janiroidea), a new species of Haplomunnidae from the southeast Atlantic deep sea
NILS BRENKE & ANIKA BUSCHMANN (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 395-412 (11 May 2009) 10 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Holodentata gen. nov. (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae) with a description of two new species: H. caeca and H. triangulata from the Southern Ocean
BRENDA LÍA DOTI (Argentina), MADHUMITA CHOUDHURY (Germany) & ANGELIKA BRANDT (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 413-432 (11 May 2009) 6 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Cumacea (Crustacea, Peracarida) in the deep Mediterranean, with the description of one new species
UTE MÜHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2096: 433-441 (11 May 2009) 3 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Hirondellea sindhusagar (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea), a new deep-water scavenger species from the Indian Ocean, with a key to the genus Hirondellea
TAMMY HORTON & MICHAEL THURSTON (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2095: 47-56 (8 May 2009) 0 plates; 63 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Public online databases as a tool of collaborative taxonomy: a case study on subteranean amphipods
CENE FIŠER, BORIS SKET, MARTIN TURJAK & PETER TRONTELJ (Slovenia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2093: 1-36 (6 May 2009) 23 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 1 Apr. 2009
A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 1. Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (ZMUC)
ANNE HELENE S. TANDBERG & WIM VADER (Norway)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2092: 47-57 (6 May 2009) 2 plates; 36 references                          Accepted: 2 Apr. 2009
Bomolochus bramus n. sp. (Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida, Bomolochidae) from the pomfrets (Bramidae) off Taiwan, with a list of nominal species and key to valid species of Bomolochus von Nordmann, 1832
JU-SHEY HO (USA) & CHING-LONG LIN (Taiwan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2088: 24-30 (1 May 2009) 4 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
A new mud shrimp species of Calastacus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) from the South China Sea
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan), FENG-JIAU LIN (Taiwan) & TIN-YAM CHAN (Taiwan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2088: 31-40 (1 May 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
Aegla manuinflata, a new species of freshwater anomuran (Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) from Brazil, determined by morphological and molecular characters
SANDRO SANTOS (Brasil), GEORGINA BOND-BUCKUP(Brasil), MARCOS PÉREZ-LOSADA (Portugal), MARLISE LADVOCAT BARTHOLOMEI-SANTOS(Brasil) & LUDWIG BUCKUP (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2085: 27-44 (29 Apr. 2009) 8 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 23 Mar. 2009
A new species of Palaemon (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from West Africa, with a re-description of Palaemon maculatus (Thallwitz, 1892)
CHRISTOPHER W. ASHELBY & SAMMY DE GRAVE (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2085: 45-60 (29 Apr. 2009) 6 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 26 Mar. 2009
Calappoidea and Leucosioidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Luzon, Philippines, with descriptions of two new species of Mursia
BELLA S. GALIL (Israel) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2082: 1-84 (24 Apr. 2009) 32 plates; 180 references                         Accepted: 21 Feb. 2009
A revision of Leydigia Kurz, 1875 (Anomopoda, Cladocera, Branchiopoda), and subgeneric differentiation within the genus
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2077: 31-55 (20 Apr. 2009) 14 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 17 Mar. 2009
Two new Parastenocarididae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from India: Parastenocaris muvattupuzha n. sp. from a river and P. kotumsarensis n. sp. from a cave
YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (India) & DANIELLE DEFAYE (France)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2076: 60-62 (17 Apr. 2009) 0 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
Comments on the generic position of Typton australis Bruce, 1973, and some related taxa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
A. J. BRUCE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2073: 45-56 (16 Apr. 2009) 7 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 17 Mar. 2009
A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus topkarai sp. nov., from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae), with a key for Turkish freshwater Gammarus species
MURAT ÖZBEK & SULEYMAN BALIK (Turkey)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2071: 50-60 (14 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 7 Mar. 2009
Two new species of Holthuisana Bott, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from West Papua, Indonesia
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2071: 21-34 (14 Apr. 2009) 1 plates; 62 references                          Accepted: 13 Mar. 2009
Holotypes of ostracods of Order Podocopida from the collection of the Museum of A.V.Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS (Vladivostok)
EVGENY I. SCHORNIKOV & OLGA A. TSAREVA (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2067: 29-50 (8 Apr. 2009) 1 plates; 156 references                           Accepted: 2 Mar. 2009
 An updated and annotated checklist of recent nonmarine ostracods from China
NA YU, QUANHONG ZHAO, ERCHAO LI, SHIMEI CHEN & LIQIAO CHEN (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2061: 61-68 (3 Apr. 2009) 4 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 25 Feb. 2009
Macrobrachium santanderensis, new species of freshwater prawn (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the northeastern Andes mountains of Colombia
ALFREDO GARCIA-PEREZ (USA) & JORGE VILLAMIZAR (Colombia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2061: 1-22 (3 Apr. 2009) 14 plates; 59 references                           Accepted: 4 Mar. 2009
Toward a unified taxonomy of Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda): a review of morphological variability
CENE FIŠER, PETER TRONTELJ, ROMAN LUŠTRIK & BORIS SKET (Slovenia)
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Zootaxa 2059: 51-68 (1 Apr. 2009) 4 plates; 91 references                           Accepted: 4 Mar. 2009
Second representative of the order Misophrioida (Crustacea, Copepoda) from Australia challenges the hypothesis of the Tethyan origin of some anchialine faunas
TOMISLAV KARANOVIC & STEFAN M. EBERHARD (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2057: 53-62 (30 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 11 Feb. 2009
Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, II. First record of the unusual hermit crab genera Porcellanopagurus Filhol, 1885, and Solitariopagurus Türkay, 1986 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae)
JOEL W. MARTIN, ROBERT B. MOFFITT, & PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA)
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Zootaxa 2053: 59-68 (25 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
A new genus and new species of symbiotic crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheroidea) from Okinawa, Japan
TOHRU NARUSE (Japan), YOSHIHISA FUJITA (Japan) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 2051: 26-40 (25 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 13 Feb. 2009
Notes on chydorid endemism in continental Africa: Matralona gen. n., a monotypic Alonine from the Fouta Djalon Plateau (Guinea, West Africa) (Crustacea: Cladocera: Anomopoda)
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2050: 65-68 (23 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 25 Feb. 2009
Neocrangon orientalis, a new caridean shrimp species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Crangonidae) from the East China Sea
QINGXI HAN & XINZHENG LI (China)
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Zootaxa 2045: 15-32 (18 Mar. 2009) 9 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
Partial revision of freshwater shrimps from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with descriptions of two new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Atyidae)
YIXIONG CAI (Singapore), DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & SATISH CHOY (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2035: 41-68 (13 Mar. 2009) 17 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 5 Feb. 2009
The tantulocarid genus Arcticotantalus removed from Basipodellidae into Deoterthridae (Crustacea: Maxillopoda) after the description of a new species from Greenland, with first live photographs and an overview of the class
STEEN WILHELM KNUDSEN, MAJA KIRKEGAARD & JØRGEN OLESEN (Denmark)
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Zootaxa 2029: 1-70 (6 Mar. 2009) 31 plates; 113 references                           Accepted: 10 Dec. 2008
Freshwater cyclopoids and harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) from the Gnangara Mound region of Western Australia
DANNY TANG & BRENTON KNOTT (Germany)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2028: 67-68 (6 Mar. 2009) 0 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 15 Feb. 2009
Cuapetes Clark, 1919, a senior synonym of Kemponia Bruce, 2004 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
JUNJI OKUNO (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2025: 1-20 (2 Mar. 2009) 11 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
New genera, new species and new records of Indo-West Pacific spider crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Epialtidae: Majoidea)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 2025: 21-31 (2 Mar. 2009) 9 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Two new species of sesarmid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) associated with limestone formations in West Papua, Indonesia
DAISY WOWOR (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 2025: 32-42 (2 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 41 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
Genetic evidence for cryptic speciation in the freshwater shrimp genus Atyaephyra de Brito Capello (Crustacea, Decapoda, Atyidae)
JOSÉ E. GARCÍA MUÑOZ, ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ, J. ENRIQUE GARCÍA RASO & JOSÉ A. CUESTA (Spain)
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Zootaxa 2024: 56-68 (2 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 22 Jan. 2009
New species of squat lobsters of the genera Agononida and Paramunida (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the western Pacific
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & KEIJI BABA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2022: 1-14 (27 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 53 references                           Accepted: 23 Dec. 2008
Phylogenetic relationships within the Pylochelidae (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea): A cladistic analysis based on morphological characters 
RAFAEL LEMAITRE, PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN & ULF SORHANNUS (USA)
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Zootaxa 2022: 15-28 (27 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
A new species of Cantellius and a redescription of C. sextus (Hiro, 1938) (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha Pyrgomatidae) from the elephant skin coral, Pachyseris speciosa (Dana, 1846) (Scleractinia, Agariciidae) from Taiwan
YAIR ACHITUV (Israel), LING MING TSANG (Hong Kong) & BENNY KWOK KAN CHAN (Taiwan)
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Zootaxa 2022: 29-44 (27 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 9 Jan. 2009
A new species and two new genera of pinnotherid crabs from the northeastern Pacific Ocean, with a reappraisal of the subfamily Pinnotherinae de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
ERNESTO CAMPOS (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 2021: 57-65 (27 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2009
Ashinkailepas kermadecensis, a new species of deep-sea scalpelliform barnacle (Thoracica: Eolepadidae) from the Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific
JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2019: 57-68 (23 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
 Morphology and distribution of the acorn barnacle Tetraclita reni nom. nov. (Crustacea: Cirripedia) in Madagascar and adjacent waters
BENNY KWOK KAN CHAN, CHIH-HSIUNG HSU & PEI-CHEN TSAI (Taiwan)
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Zootaxa 2018: 25-44 (23 Feb. 2009) 11 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, I. A review of the genus Sakaila Manning and Holthuis, 1981 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Aethridae), with the description of a new species from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
JOEL W. MARTIN, SCOTT GODWIN, & ROBERT MOFFITT (USA)
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Zootaxa 2016: 51-66 (20 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Speleonectes kakuki, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from anchialine and sub-seafloor caves on Andros and Cat Island, Bahamas 
JANA DAENEKAS (Germany), THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA), JILL YAGER (USA)& STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 2015: 1-41 (18 Feb. 2009) 22 plates; 60 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
On Recent species of Tonnacypris Diebel & Pietrzeniuk, 1975 (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with new species descriptions from Mongolia
THIJS VAN DER MEEREN (Belgium), YONDON KHAND (Mongolia) & KOEN MARTENS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 2015: 42-54 (18 Feb. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2008
A new species of the genus Gammarus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridae) from the low salinity habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico
BRENT P. THOMA & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)
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Zootaxa 2007: 1-42 (11 Feb. 2009) 21 plates; 103 references                           Accepted: 11 Dec. 2008
Redescription of the type species of Strandesia Stuhlmann, 1888 and Cypricercus Sars, 1895 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cypricercinae), with a description of a new species of Cypricercus from South Africa
SUKONTHIP SAVATENALINTON & KOEN MARTENS (Belgium)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2000: 1-117 (4 Feb. 2009) 45 plates; 82 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Lanceoloidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea)
WOLFGANG ZEIDLER (Australia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1995: 1-75 (4 Feb. 2009) 39 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
African Caridina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae): redescriptions of C. africana Kingsley, 1882, C. togoensis Hilgendorf, 1893, C. natalensis Bouvier, 1925 and C. roubaudi Bouvier, 1925 with descriptions of 14 new species
JASMINE RICHARD & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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Zootaxa 1992: 20-36 (2 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 4 Dec. 2008
 New species of Neotanais Beddard, 1886 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from the deep sea of the tropical and southern East Atlantic Ocean
SIMON WEIGMANN & JÜRGEN GUERRERO-KOMMRITZ (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1990: 41-54 (30 Jan. 2009) 7 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
 Cladocerans of the Alona affinis (Leydig, 1860) group from South Africa
ARTEM YU SINEV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1990: 55-64 (30 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
 First record of the thermosbaenacean genus Halosbaena from Asia: H. daitoensis sp. nov. (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea: Halosbaenidae) from an anchialine cave of Minamidaito-jima Is., in Okinawa, southern Japan
MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA & YOSHIHISA FUJITA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1987: 61-68 (23 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
 Establishment of a new genus for Asthenognathus gallardoi Serène & Soh, 1976 within Gaeticinae Davie & N.K. Ng, 2007 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae)
TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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Zootaxa 1986: 51-66 (23 Jan. 2009) 7 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 25 Nov. 2008
 Morphology of first seven larval stages of the striped soldier shrimp, Plesionika edwardsii (Brandt, 1851) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pandalidae) from laboratory reared material
JOSÉ MARÍA LANDEIRA, FERNANDO LOZANO-SOLDEVILLA &JUAN IGNACIO GONZÁLEZ-GORDILLO (Spain)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1982: 66-68 (19 Jan. 2009) 1 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
 First records of Thryaplax Castro, 2007 and Calocarcinus Calman, 1909 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1981: 29-42 (16 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2008
 A revision of the freshwater crabs of Mt Kenya and the Aberdare Mountains, Kenya, East Africa (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae)
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1980: 29-40 (16 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2008
Two new species of Parasesarma De Man, 1895, from Southeast Asia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1980: 41-52 (16 Jan. 2009) 4 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 28 Nov. 2008
 Redescription of Asterocheres suberitis Giesbrecht, 1897 and A. tenerus (Hansen, 1923) (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida), including notes on A. abyssi (Hansen, 1923) and A. intermedius (Hansen, 1923)
EUGENIA BANDERA & MERCEDES CONRADI (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1980: 1-15 (16 Jan. 2009) 7 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
Triaina, a new genus in the Janirellidae Menzies, 1956 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota), with two new species from south-eastern Australia, and a new diagnosis for the family
JEAN JUST (Denmark)
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Zootaxa 1977: 49-54 (14 Jan. 2009) 2 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2008
 Range extension for three species of South American freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Trichodactylidae)
PABLO A. COLLINS, FEDERICO GIRI & VERÓNICA WILLINER (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1977: 21-38 (14 Jan. 2009) 9 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 18 Nov. 2008
Andeepia ingridae a new genus and species of Pardaliscidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from the Antarctic deep-sea and short redescription of Nicippe unidentata K.H. Barnard, 1932
TAPATI BISWAS (Germany), CHARLES OLIVER COLEMAN (Germany) & ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1971: 59-68 (7 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 30 Oct. 2008
 A new species of copepod (Siphonostomatoida: Caligidae) parasitic on the striped trumpeter, Latris lineata (Forster), from Tasmania
MELANIE ANDREWS, NATHAN BOTT, STEPHEN BATTAGLENE & BARBARA NOWAK (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1971: 1-49 (7 Jan. 2009) 36 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Crinoid-associated shrimps of the genus Laomenes A.H. Clark, 1919 (Caridea: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae): new species and probable diversity
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1967: 1-35 (19 Dec. 2008) 25 plates; 43 references                        Accepted: 29 Oct. 2008
New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1962: 49-64 (12 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 62 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Revision of Ilyocryptus Sars, 1862 (Cladocera: Ilyocryptidae) of Brazil with description of two new subspecies
ALEXEY A. KOTOV (Russia) & LOURDES M. A. ELMOOR-LOUREIRO (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1961: 11-25 (10 Dec. 2008) 7 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
One new and four newly recorded species of the genus Macrobrachium (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemoindae) from Guangdong Province, southern China
ZHAO-LIANG GUO & SHUN-LIAN HE (China)
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Zootaxa 1961: 26-36 (10 Dec. 2008) 2 plates; 32 references                        Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Haploops antarctica n. sp. (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Ampeliscidae): the first species of the genus Haploops from the Southern Antarctic Ocean
DENISE BELLAN-SANTINI & JEAN-CLAUDE DAUVIN (France)
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Zootaxa 1960: 1-44 (10 Dec. 2008) 8 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
Further division of Alona Baird, 1843: separation and position of Coronatella Dybowski & Grochowski and Ovalona gen.n. (Crustacea: Cladocera)
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1956: 1-58 (5 Dec. 2008) 1 plate; 249 references                        Accepted: 20 Oct. 2008
Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil
PETRÔNIO ALVES COELHO, ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA DE ALMEIDA & LUIS ERNESTO ARRUDA BEZERRA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1943: 1-25 (26 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 46 references                          Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
 The 'true' genus Alona Baird, 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Anomopoda): position of the A. quadrangularis-group and description of a new species from the Democratic Republic of Congo
KAY VAN DAMME & HENRI J. DUMONT (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1943: 53-68 (26 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 56 references                          Accepted: 21 Jul. 2008
 Revision of the Alpheus cylindricus Kingsley, 1878 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with revalidation of A. vanderbilti Boone, 1930
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, JAVIER A. JARA & NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1939: 61-64 (21 Nov. 2008) 0 plates; 17 references                      Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
On the diagnostic characters of the genus Gibbesia (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae)
 RODRIGO TADEU BENTO, PAOLA LUPIANHES DALL´OCCO & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1932: 1-17 (14 Nov. 2008) 12 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
 Taxonomic position of Pontonides sympathes De Ridder & Holthuis and species of the genus Veleronia Holthuis (Decapoda, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae) with the description of a new genus
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1932: 47-60 (14 Nov. 2008) 10 plates; 15 references                       Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
 Three new species of Artotrogidae (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida) from the southeastern coast of Pernambuco State, Brazil
ELIZABETH NEVES & RODRIGO JOHNSSON (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1925: 14-22 (7 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
 A new species of Periclimenes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Guarapari, Espirito Santo, Brazil
S. DE GRAVE (UK)
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Zootaxa 1924: 43-52 (5 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
 Some lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from Taiwan and adjacent waters, with the description of one new species from Guam
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain) & TIN-YAM CHAN (Rep. China)
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Zootaxa 1919: 1-24 (31 Oct. 2008) 13 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
 Five new species of chirostylid crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from Taiwan
KEIJI BABA (Japan) & CHIA-WEI LIN (Taiwan)
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Zootaxa 1919: 25-44 (31 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 54 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
 Taxonomic consideration of eight Chinese bisexual Artemia populations, based on the morphology of frontal knob and gonopod and the result of cross-breeding tests
BO ZHENG & SHI-CHUN SUN (China)
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Zootaxa 1919: 45-57 (31 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 84 references                           Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
An updated checklist of inland Cladocera (Crustacea: Orders Ctenopoda and Anomopoda) from Venezuela
 EVELYN ZOPPI DE ROA & CARLOS LÓPEZ (Venezuela)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1919: 58-60 (31 Oct. 2008) 1 plate; 8 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
 First record of an early pea crab stage on Tonicia chilensis (Frembly, 1827) (Mollusca, Polyplacophora)
ROLAND R. MELZER & ENRICO SCHWABE (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1919: 61-68 (31 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 22 Sept. 2008
 Alain raymondi, a new species of deepwater pinnotherid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Philippines, commensal with holothurians
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & PETER K.L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1915: 1-28 (27 Oct. 2008) 15 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 12 May. 2008
A preliminary revision of the Synalpheus paraneptunus Coutière, 1909 species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae)
ARTHUR ANKER & EVA TÓTH (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1914: 62-64 (24 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 14 references                       Accepted: 3 Sept. 2008
 Laurentaeglyphea Forest, 2006 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Glypheidae): a cautionary tale of nomina nuda and the unpredictability of publication schedules
CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO (USA)
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Zootaxa 1911: 52-68  (22 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 51 references                            Accepted: 25 Sept. 2008
Larvae of two species of Trizocheles (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Pylochelidae: Trizochelinae), description of the adult of one, and preliminary implications of development on pylochelid phylogeny
PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN & RAFAEL LEMAITRE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1908: 51-56 (17 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
New Zealand exports: Pseudosphaeroma Chilton, 1909 (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae), a Southern Hemisphere genus introduced to the Pacific coast of North America
Niel L. Bruce (Australia) & Regina Wetzer (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1907: 1-27 (17 Oct. 2008) 10 plates; 81 references                           Accepted: 11 Sept. 2008
Ibericancridae, a new dakoticancroid family (Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Spain 
PEDRO ARTAL (Spain), DANIÈLE GUINOT (France), BARRY VAN BAKEL (The Netherlands) & JUAN CASTILLO (Spain)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1905: 1-220 (15 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 679 references                           Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura—families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)
KEIJI BABA (Japan), ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain), GARY C. B. POORE (Australia), SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand), ADRIANA BERMUDEZ (Colombia), PATRICIA CABEZAS (Spain), CHIA-WEI LIN (R. China), MARTHA NIZINSKI (USA), CELSO RODRIGUES (Brazil) & KAREEN E. SCHNABEL (New Zealand)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1904: 1-166 (15 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 406 references                           Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
Metazoan parasites of Mexican amphibians and reptiles
 RICARDO PAREDES-LEóN, LUIS GARCíA-PRIETO, CARMEN GUZMáN-CORNEJO, VIRGINIA LEóN-RèGAGNON & TILA M. PéREZ (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1897: 20-26 (10 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
 A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from Indonesia
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1897: 43-52 (10 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
 Two new species and a new subspecies of Tetraclitella (Cirripedia: Thoracica) from the Cainozoic of Australia and New Zealand and a consideration of the significance of tubiferous walls
JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1897: 53-63 (10 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 10 Sept. 2008
 A new species of Alainodaeus Davie, 1993 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from Balicasag Island, Philippines, with a key to the genus
JOSE CHRISTOPHER E. MENDOZA & PETER K.L. NG (Singapore)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1897: 64-66 (10 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
 A revision of the generic position of Typton australis Bruce, 1973 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae), with a new diagnosis for the pontoniine shrimp genus Onycocaridella Bruce, 1981
IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1894: 23-41 (8 Oct. 2008) 10 plates;  2 7 references                            Accepted: 26 Aug. 2008
Gnathia pilosus sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from the East Coast of South Africa
KERRY A. HADFIELD, NICO J. SMIT & ANNEMARIÉ AVENANT-OLDEWAGE (S. Africa)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1884: 60-68 (24 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
 A new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from the Argentinian Tierra del Fuego
ROSA GRACIELA COHEN (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1882: 46-56 (22 Sept. 2008) 8 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2008
 A new species of the pandalid shrimp genus Pandalus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Sea of Okhotsk off eastern Sakhalin, Russian Far East
TOMOYUKI KOMAI (Japan) & MARIA ELETSKAYA (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1881: 43-68 (22 Sept. 2008) 1 plate; 64 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2008
Checklist of the Decapods (Crustacea) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil
MARIA DE LOURDES ALVES, MARILENA RAMOS-PORTO & GIRLENE FáBIA SEGUNDO VIANA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1877: 1-36 (10 Sept. 2008) 17 plates; 44 references                           Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
Untying the Gordian Knot: on Tanais novaezealandiae Thomson (Crustacea, Tanaidacea, Tanaidae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of two new Zeuxoides species
GRAHAM J BIRD (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1877: 37-48 (10 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
A new species of Geothelphusa Stimpson, 1857, from Taiwan (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence, with notes on species from western Taiwan
 HSI-TE SHIH (Taiwan), TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore) & DARREN C. J. YEO (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1872: 45-58 (8 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 17 Jul. 2008
 A new shrimp species of the genus Leptomenaeus Bruce, 2007 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Vietnam
ZDENĚK ĎURIŠ & IVONA HORKÁ (Czech Republic)                   
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 223-262 (3 Sep. 2008) 25 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Argestes angolaensis sp. nov. (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Argestidae) from the Angola Basin (Southeast Atlantic), and the phylogenetic characterization of the taxon Argestes Sars, including the redescription of A. mollis Sars, 1910, and A. reductus (Itô, 1983)
KAI HORST GEORGE (Germnay)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 263-276 (3 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
 A new species of Ischnomesidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Southern Ocean, Stylomesus weddellensis sp. nov.
ANGELIKA BRANDT & HANS GEORG ANDRES (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 277-289 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Caudacalanus (Copepoda, Calanoida): a new benthopelagic genus from the abyss of the tropical South Atlantic and Southern Ocean
ELENA L. MARKHASEVA (Germany) & KNUD SCHULZ (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 290-302 (3 Sep. 2008) 8 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new genus and species of Brychiopontiidae Humes, 1974 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) associated with an abyssal holothurian in the Northeast Pacific nodule province
RADITH MAHATMA (Germany), PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU (Germany) & VIATCHESLAV N. IVANENKO (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 303-322 (3 Sep. 2008) 13 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new and exceptional species of Bradya Boeck, 1873 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin and the variability of deep-sea Harpacticoida
SYBILLE SEIFRIED & PEDRO MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 323-336 (3 Sep. 2008) 6 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
A new species of deep-sea Tegastidae (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from 9°50´N on the East Pacific Rise, with remarks on its ecology
SABINE GOLLNER (Austria), VIATCHESLAV N. IVANENKO (Russia) & PEDRO MARTINEZ ARBIZU (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 337-348 (3 Sep. 2008) 12 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First record of the genus Pseudomesochra T. Scott (Harpacticoida: Pseudotachidiidae) in the South Atlantic with description of a deep-sea species: Pseudomesochra longiseta sp. nov.
DANIELLE MENOR VASCONCELOS (Brazil), KAI HORST GEORGE (Germany) & PAULO JORGE PARREIRA DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 349-372 (3 Sep. 2008) 10 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First Record of a living Platycopida (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Antarctic waters and a Discussion on Cytherella serratula (Brady, 1880)
SIMONE N. BRANDÃO (Germnay)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 373-452 (3 Sep. 2008) 47 plates; 63 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
New species of Bairdioidea (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from the Southern Ocean and discussions on Bairdoppilata simplex (Brady, 1880), ?Bairdoppilata labiata (Müller, 1908) and Bythopussella aculeata (Müller, 1908)
SIMONE N. BRANDÃO (Germnay)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 453-466 (3 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Two new deep-water species of Caecoserolis Wägele, 1994 (Isopoda, Sphaeromatidea, Serolidae) from off North Island, New Zealand
NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 467-481 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
First record and new species of the genus Hebefustis Siebenaller & Hessler, 1977 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the deep Weddell Sea Basin
STEFANIE KAISER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 482-492 (3 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Prochelator tupuhi sp. nov., the first record of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Crustacea: Isopoda) from New Zealand waters
SASKIA BRIX (Germnay) & NIEL L. BRUCE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 493-539 (3 Sep. 2008) 26 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Results of the DIVA-1 Expedition of RV “Meteor” (Cruise M48:1): Three new species of Munnopsidae Sars, 1864 from abyssal depths of the Angola Basin (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
ANDRE MURSCH, NILS BRENKE & JOHANN WOLFGANG WÄGELE (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 540-554 (3 Sep. 2008) 9 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Eurycope crassiramis sp. nov., a new species of Munnopsidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota) from the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean
OLGA A. GOLOVAN (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1866: 555-574 (3 Sep. 2008) 11 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 28 Apr. 2008
Microcope gen. nov.—a new deep-sea genus of Munnopsidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota), with description of two new species from the Southern Hemisphere
MARINA V. MALYUTINA (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1861: 17-28 (1 Sep. 2008) 5 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
New records of deep-sea spider crabs of the genus Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886, from the Pacific Ocean, with description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae)
BERTRAND RICHER DE FORGES (New Caledonia) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1860: 35-50 (1 Sep. 2008) 7 plates; 32 references                             Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Periclimenes sulcatus sp. nov., a new pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Vietnam
ZDENĚK ĎURIŠ (Czech Republic), IVONA HORKÁ (Czech Republic) & IVAN MARIN (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1857: 44-54 (27 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Palinustus mossambicus Barnard, 1926 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Achelata: Palinuridae); morphology of the puerulus stage
FERRAN PALERO (Spain), GUILLERMO GUERAO (Spain) & PAUL F. CLARK (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1857: 55-65 (27 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 31 Jul. 2008
Description of two new species of Ischyroceridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the coast of Southeastern Brazil
MARIA TERESA VALÉRIO-BERARDO, ANA MARIA THIAGO DE SOUZA & CARINA WAITEMAN RODRIGUES (Brasil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1853: 68 (20 Aug. 2008) 0 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
A note on the nomenclature of Stylodactylus gracilis Cleva, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Stylodactylidae)
REGIS CLEVA (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1852: 59-64 (18 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Mecynocera clausi I.C. Thompson, 1888 (Copepoda: Calanoida) is a paracalanid
JANET M. BRADFORD-GRIEVE (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1850: 1-26 (15 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 85 references                              Accepted: 2 Jul. 2008
A re-evaluation of the Dynomenidae Ortmann, 1892 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata), with the recognition of four subfamilies
DANIELE GUINOT (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1849: 28-34 (13 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 24 Jul. 2008
Description of a new subspecies of the crayfish Parastacus brasiliensis (Von Martens, 1869) from Sao Francisco de Paula, RS, Brazil (Decapoda, Parastacidae)
NELSON FERREIRA FONTOURA & MARIA-ROTRAUT CONTER (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1847: 49-61 (11 Aug. 2008) 8 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 18 Jul. 2008
Epimeriidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from New Zealand with a description of a new species
ANNE-NINA LORZ (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1844: 63-68 (6 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 3 Jul. 2008
A new species of Palaemonella Dana, 1852, (Crustacea: Decapoda; Pontoniinae) from the Red Sea
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1844: 47-54 (6 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 18 Jun. 2008
Macrobrachium agwi - a new species of freshwater prawn (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from East Bengal, India
WERNER KLOTZ (Austria)
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Zootaxa 1844: 37-46 (6 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 10 Jul. 2008
Verruca punica, a new species of verrucomorph barnacle (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Lower Danian (Palaeocene) of Tunisia
John S. Buckeridge (Australia), JOHN W. M. JAGT (the Netherlands) & ROBERT P. SPEIJER (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1844: 1-24 (6 Aug. 2008) 12 plates; 24 references                              Accepted: 10 Jul. 2008
Six new species of deep water Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Brazilian Coast
MARIA TERESA VALERIO-BERARDO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1843: 57-66 (6 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
Alicellidae and Valettiopsidae, two new callynophorate families (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
J.K. LOWRY (Australia) & C. DE BROYER (Belgium)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1841: 61-64 (4 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Jun. 2008
Acartia (Odontacartia) ohtsukai Ueda and Bucklin, 2006 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Acartiidae): First Record of its Occurrence in Korean Waters and Habitat Segregation from its Sibling Species A. pacifica Steuer, 1915
SEONG YONG MOON (Korea), SUSUMU OHTSUKA (Japan), HIROSHI UEDA (Japan) & HO YOUNG SOH (Korea)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1841: 31-42 (4 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 83 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
Specimens of Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by N.Pq. "Soloncy Moura" off the Southern Coast of Brazil under the Revizee Program
GUSTAVO A. SCHMIDT DE MELO-FILHO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1840: 54-66 (1 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 24 Jun. 2008
The genus Pseudopaguristes McLaughlin (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the southwestern Pacific, with the descriptions of two new species
DWI LISTYO RAHAYU (Indonesia)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1840: 67-68 (1 Aug. 2008) 0 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 15 Jul. 2008
Thurstonella, replacement name for the Antarctic amphipod genus Clarencia K.H. Barnard, 1931 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Thurstonellidae), preoccupied by Clarencia Sloane, 1917 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae)
JIM LOWRY (Australia) & WOLFGANG ZEIDLER (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1839: 1-42 (1 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 86 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
DNA barcodes for Cladocera and Copepoda from Mexico and Guatemala, highlights and new discoveries
MANUEL ELIAS-GUTIERREZ (Mexico), FERNANDO MARTINEZ JERONIMO (Mexico), NATALIA V. IVANOVA (Canada), MARTHA VALDEZ-MORENO (Mexico) & PAUL D. N. HEBERT (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1836: 1-92 (30 Jul. 2008) 45 plates; 33 references                              Accepted: 26 May 2008
 Shallow water Tanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) of Australia
GRAHAM J. EDGAR (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1831: 1-530 (30 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 4557 references                              Accepted: 12 Feb. 2008
 Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography
DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1829: 52-60 (25 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
A new species of the genus Atopobathynella Schminke, 1973 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Bathynellacea) from the hyporheic zone of the River Godavari, South India
Y. RANGA REDDY (India), J. DREWES (Germany) & H. K. SCHMINKE (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1829: 61-68 (25 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
Phalloleucon abyssalis, a new cumacean genus and species (Crustacea: Peracarida: Leuconidae) from the Peru Basin
UTE MUHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1828: 29-42 (23 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 45 references                              Accepted: 19 Jun. 2008
On the first terrestrial ostracod of the Superfamily Cytheroidea (Crustacea, Ostracoda): description of Intrepidocythere ibipora n. gen. n. sp. from forest leaf litter in Sao Paulo State, Brazil
RICARDO L. PINTO (Brazil), CARLOS E. F. ROCHA (Brazil) & KOEN MARTENS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1828: 1-17 (23 Jul. 2008) 10 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
The Cumacea of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, with the description of four new species and one genus
UTE MUHLENHARDT-SIEGEL (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1823: 51-64 (16 Jul. 2008) 8 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 29 May 2008
New species and a new genus of Cirolanidae (Isopoda: Cymothoida: Crustacea) from groundwater in calcretes in the Pilbarra, northern Western Australia
Niel L. Bruce (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1820: 60-66 (9 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 15 May 2008
A new genus and two new species of Saurodocus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia
MICHELLE N. YERMAN (Australia) & TRAUDL KRAPP-SCHICKEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1815: 1-24 (4 Jul. 2008) 14 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Palaemonoid shrimps from the Australian north west shelf
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1814: 49-57 (2 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 4 Jun. 2008
Macrobrachium sbordonii (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), a new stygobitic species of freshwater prawn from Chiapas Mexico
LUIS M. MEJIA-ORTIZ (Mexico), FABIOLA BALDARI (Italy) & MARILU LOPEZ-MEJIA (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 29-41 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 9 Jun. 2008
Stylodactylidae and Bathypalaemonellidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the PANGLAO 2004 and 2005 expeditions to the Philippines, with description of a new species of Stylodactylus A. Milne-Edwards, 1881
REGIS CLEVA (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1812: 49-68 (30 Jun. 2008) 15 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 8 May 2008
Five new species of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from China
TOHRU NARUSE (Singapore), DARREN C. J. YEO (Singapore) & XIANMIN ZHOU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1810: 40-50 (25 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 45 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2008
Discovery of the genus Rybocyclops Dussart, 1982 (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in subterranean groundwaters of southeastern India, with the description of a new species and its biogeographic significance
YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (India) & DANIELLE DEFAYE (France)
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Zootaxa 1807: 47-62 (23 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 11 Mar. 2008
Records of the crangonid shrimp genus Pontocaris Bate, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Chinese waters, with notes on biology of P. pennata Bate, 1888
QINGXI HAN & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1807: 63-68 (23 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2008
A new species of the sentinel crab Macrophthalmus (Mareotis) Barnes, 1967 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) from Western Australia
R.S.K. BARNES (UK) & PETER J.F. DAVIE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1795: 57-66 (13 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 19 May 2008
A new family of the order Ctenopoda (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the depths of the Black Sea
NIKOLAI M. KOROVCHINSKY (Russia) & NELLI G. SERGEEVA (Ukraine)
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Zootaxa 1795: 1-28 (13 Jun. 2008) 12 plates; 44 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2008
Four new species and a new record of Cryptoniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda: Hemioniscidae and Crinoniscidae) parasitising stalked barnacles from New Zealand
ANDREW M. HOSIE (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1788: 47-56 (9 Jun. 2008) 0 plates; 62 references                              Accepted: 13 May 2008
Check-List of the South-African Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda)
N.N. SMIRNOV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1788: 1-20 (9 Jun. 2008) 10 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
Juvenile development of Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae), from megalopae obtained in the neuston
EDUARDO ANTONIO BOLLA JUNIOR, MARIA LUCIA NEGREIROS-FRANSOZO & ADILSON FRANSOZO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1778: 1-25 (28 May 2008) 5 plates; 46 references                              Accepted: 10 Mar. 2008
Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas
BAOQUAN LI & XINZHENG LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1777: 53-68 (28 May 2008) 8 plates; 26 references                              Accepted: 2 Apr. 2008
Rhadinoplax, a new genus of Progeryonidae Stevcic, 2005, for Carcinoplax microphthalmus Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981, and a redescription of Paragalene longicrura (Nardo, 1868) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea)
PETER CASTRO (USA) & PETER K. L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1775: 61-68 (23 May 2008) 2 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2008
A new species of Oratosquillina Manning, 1995 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae) from the Indo-West Pacific region with a key to the genus
SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & TIN-YAM CHAN (R. China)
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Zootaxa 1775: 25-38 (23 May 2008) 6 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 26 Mar. 2008
Separation of Pleuroxus pamirensis (Werestschagin, 1923) from P. annandalei (Daday, 1908) (Cladocera: Chydoridae)
ALEXEY A. KOTOV & NATALIA G. SHEVELEVA (Russia)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Zootaxa 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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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 BLAZEWICZ-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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Zootaxa 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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Zootaxa 1585: 1-44 (14 Sep. 2007)  25 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 8 Aug. 2007
Taxonomy of Aristeidae (Dendrobranchiata:Penaeoidea) from the central coast of Brazil, collected by the Revizee program, between 19oand 22oS
CAROLINA R. TAVARES & CRISTIANA S. SEREJO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1585: 45-57 (14 Sep. 2007)  0 plates; 152 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Checklist of fresh and brackish water free-living copepods (Crustacea: Calanoida and Cyclopoida) from Croatia
IVANCICA TERNJEJ & IGOR STANKOVIC (Croatia)
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Zootaxa 1582: 59-68 (12 Sep. 2007)  4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 2 Aug. 2007
A new species of Dactylopusioides (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Thalestridae) infesting brown algae, and its life history
TAKAKI SHIMONO, NOZOMU IWASAKI & HIROSHI KAWAI (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1580: 1-26 (10 Sep. 2007)  10 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2007
Parastenocarididae (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) of India: description of Parastenocaris mahanadi n. sp., and redescription of P. curvispinus Enckell, 1970 from hyporheic habitats
Yenumula RANGA REDDY (India) & Danielle DEFAYE (France)
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Zootaxa 1577: 17-31 (7 Sep. 2007) 4 plates; 92 references                            Accepted: 12 Jul. 2007
A new species of Goneplax Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) from the south Atlantic and the western limits of the Indo-West Pacific region, long confused with G. rhomboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
DANIELE GUINOT (France) & PETER CASTRO (USA)
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Zootaxa 1577: 33-39 (7 Sep. 2007) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2007
Distribution of Heterocarpus laevigatus Bate, 1888 and Plesionika escatilis (Stimpson, 1860) along the Atlantic coast of South America (Crustacea: Caridea: Pandalidae)
GIRLENE FABIA SEGUNDO VIANA, MARILENA RAMOS-PORTO, MARIA FERNANDA ABRANTES TORRES & MARIA DO CARMO FERRAO SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1577: 41-60 (7 Sep. 2007) 8 plates; 53 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
Revision of the Alpheus nuttingi (Schmitt) species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae), with description of a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific
ARTHUR ANKER, CARLA HURT, NANCY KNOWLTON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1574: 1-30 (3 Sep. 2007) 19 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
Systematics and biogeography of Tropical Eastern Pacific Chthamalus with descriptions of two new species (Cirripedia, Thoracica)
FABIO BETTINI PITOMBO (Brazil) & RON BURTON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1574: 49-68 (3 Sep. 2007) 1 plates; 134 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
Parasitic copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Algerian marine fishes
ZOUHIR RAMDANE & JEAN-PAUL TRILLES (France)
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Zootaxa 1568: 1-872 (31 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 1409 references                            Accepted: 9 Feb. 2007
An annotated checklist and keys to the species of Copepoda Harpacticoida (Crustacea)
J.B.J. WELLS (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1566: 1-95 (31 Aug. 2007) 73 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2007
A review of the Australian species of Ampithoe Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of seventeen new species
RACHAEL A. PEART (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1565: 1-151 (31 Aug. 2007) 81 plates; 103 references                            Accepted: 10 May 2007
Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Anchialine Caves and Ocean Blue Holes
LOUIS S. KORNICKER, THOMAS M. ILIFFE & ELIZABETH HARRISON-NELSON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1563: 17-30 (29 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
Description of two species in the alpheid shrimp genus Athanas Leach, 1814, with remarks on A. amazone Holthuis, 1951 (Decapoda, Caridea)
ARTHUR ANKER (USA) & SHANE T. AHYONG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1563: 37-54 (29 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 11 Aug. 2007
Two new sphyrapodid species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha) from southwestern Japan
KEIICHI KAKUI, HIROSHI KAJIHARA & SHUNSUKE F. MAWATARI (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1560: 31-41 (27 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
A new and distinctive species of the hermit crab genus Catapaguropsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the South China Sea
PATSY A. MCLAUGHLIN & RAFAEL LEMAITRE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1559: 59-68 (24 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 24 May 2007
Julmarichardia gutui, a new species of Apseudomorph Tanaidacean (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from the Australian northwest continental shelf
REBECCA KIRK RITGER & RICHARD W. HEARD (USA)
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Zootaxa 1558: 39-68 (24 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 60 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2007
Establishment of the Vultocinidae, a new family for an unusual new genus and new species of Indo-West Pacific crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea), with comments on the taxonomy of the Goneplacidae
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & MARIVENE R. MANUEL-SANTOS (Philippines)
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Zootaxa 1557: 33-45 (22 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
Benthic decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Cubagua Island, Venezuela
IVAN HERNANDEZ-AVILA, ALFREDO GOMEZ, CARLOS LIRA & LEE GALINDO (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa 1555: 53-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 9 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
Rediscovery of Bathypsammis Huys & Gee, 1993 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) with description of a new species from the Antarctic deep sea
ELKE WILLEN & MAXIMILIAN SCHULZ (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1553: 1-45 (20 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 146 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2007
 Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil
Alexandre Oliveira de Almeida, Maria Cecilia Guerrazzi & Petronio Alves Coelho (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1551: 49-59 (15 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 7 Jun. 2007
A new genus and species of branchipodid fairy shrimp (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from Australia
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA), BRIAN V TIMMS (Australia), MERLIJN JOCQUE(Belgium) & LUC BRENDONCK (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1549: 43-53 (15 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
On a new genus and species of euryplacid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea) from the Philippines
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PETER CASTRO (USA)
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Zootaxa 1548: 1-49 (13 Aug. 2007) 15 plates; 107 references                            Accepted: 22 May 2007
Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands
MASAYUKI OSAWA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1545: 33-47 (9 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 78 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2007
A review of the brachylepadomorph cirripede genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East*
JOHN W.M. JAGT (Netherlands), TATIANA D. ZONOVA (Russia) & ELENA A. JAGT-YAZYKOVA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1543: 61-68 (6 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 7 Jun. 2007
Speleonectes emersoni, a new species of Remipedia (Crustacea) from the Dominican Republic
DORTE LORENTZEN (Germany), STEFAN KOENEMANN (Germany) & THOMAS M. ILIFFE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1541: 17-29 (2 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
A new Tropocyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) from Lake Matano, Indonesia
DANIELLE DEFAYE (France)
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Zootaxa 1540: 1-53 (2 Aug. 2007) 40 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
A review of Australian Cymadusa (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of eight new species
RACHAEL A. PEART (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1531: 1-24 (23 Jul. 2007) 13 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
Benthic Ostracoda (Myodocopina, Philomedidae) of the East Sea (Sea of Japan), with description of a new species from the Korean Peninsula
VLADIMIR G. CHAVTUR (Russia), EUGENY I. SHORNIKOV (Russia), EUI-HYEONG LEE (Korea) & MIN HUH (Korea)
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Zootaxa 1524: 1-22 (9 Jul. 2007) 9 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 22 May 2007
New crabs from hydrothermal vents of the Kermadec Ridge submarine volcanoes, New Zealand: Gandalfus gen. nov. (Bythograeidae) and Xenograpsus (Varunidae) (Decapoda: Brachyura)
COLIN MCLAY (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1524: 61-68 (9 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 10 May 2007
Hydrothelphusa vencesi, a new species of freshwater crab (Brachyura: Potamoidea: Potamonautidae) from southeastern Madagascar
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA), SASKIA A. E. MARIJNISSEN (Netherlands), & JONELLE THOMPSON (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1520: 37-49 (5 Jul. 2007) 10 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 16 May 2007
Colurostylis castlepointensis, a new shallow-water diastylid (Crustacea: Cumacea) from New Zealand
SARAH GERKEN (USA) & ANNE-NINA LORZ (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1520: 51-56 (5 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 23 May 2007
First record of the genus Goreopagurus McLaughlin, 1988 (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea) from Brazil, with description of a new species
PAULO R. NUCCI & GUSTAVO A.S. DE MELO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1519: 1-16 (2 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 93 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2007
An updated checklist of decapod crustaceans (infraorders Astacidea, Thalassinidea, Polychelida, Palinura, and Anomura) from the northern and northeastern Brazilian coast
PETRONIO ALVES COELHO, ALEXANDRE OLIVEIRA DE ALMEIDA, LUIS ERNESTO ARRUDA BEZERRA & JESSER FIDELIS DE SOUZA-FILHO (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1518: 1-29 (2 Jul. 2007) 22 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2007
A new Argyrodiaptomus (Copepoda: Calanoida: Diaptomidae) from the southwestern Brazilian Amazon
DANIEL PREVIATTELLI & EDINALDO NELSON DOS SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1515: 1-29 (25 Jun. 2007) 11 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 13 Apr. 2007
Revision of Austrosignum Hodgson and Munnogonium George & Stromberg (Paramunnidae) with descriptions of eight new genera and two new species, (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota)
JEAN JUST & GEORGE D. F. WILSON (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1512: 39-49 (21 Jun. 2007) 5 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
A new species of Paradella Harrison & Holdich, 1982 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae) from Baja California, Mexico, with a key to East Pacific species
Regina Wetzer (USA) & Niel L. Bruce (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1509: 17-30 (18 Jun. 2007) 6 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2007
Description of the first juvenile of Aegla franca Schmitt, 1942 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Aeglidae)
DEBORA A. FRANCISCO, SERGIO L. S. BUENO & TERUE C. KIHARA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1508: 49-59 (18 Jun. 2007) 7 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
The first phyllosoma stage of Palinurus mauritanicus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae)
FERRAN PALERO & PERE ABELLO(Spain)
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Zootaxa 1505: 19-35 (14 Jun. 2007) 9 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 2 Mar. 2007
New records of two rare genera, Monstrotanais Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981 and Robustochelia Kudinova-Pasternak, 1983 (Tanaidacea: Crustacea)
PIOTR JOZWIAK & MAGDALENA BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1505: 37-50 (14 Jun. 2007) 7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Two new species of deep-water xanthid crabs of the genera Euryxanthops Garth & Kim, 1983, and Medaeops Guinot, 1967 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from New Zealand
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & COLIN L. MCLAY (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1505: 51-62 (14 Jun. 2007) 6 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 1 May 2007
A new species of deep-sea crab of the genus Chaceon Manning & Holthuis, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Geryonidae) from Western Australia
DAVIE, P.J.F. (Australia), NG, P.K.L. (Singapore) & DAWSON, E.W. (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1505: 63-68 (14 Jun. 2007) 0 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
Catalogue of the dry specimens in the carcinological collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
RODRIGO TADEU BENTO, PAOLA LUPIANHES DALL'OCCO & GUSTAVO AUGUSTO SCHMIDT DE MELO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1501: 45-56 (7 Jun. 2007) 5 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 23 Apr. 2007
A new species of Valettiopsis Holmes, 1908 (Crustacea: Gammaridea: Lysianassoidea) from abyssal waters off California
ED A. HENDRYCKS (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1498: 27-33 (4 Jun. 2007) 2 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 13 Apr. 2007
A new genus of the family Plagusiidae Dana, 1851, close to Plagusia Latreille, 1804 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)
DANIOLE GUINOT (France)
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Zootaxa 1494: 1-44 (31 May 2007) 26 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 13 Mar. 2007
New species and host associations of commensal leucothoid amphipods from coral reefs in Florida and Belize (Crustacea:Amphipoda)
JAMES DARWIN THOMAS & KRISTINE N. KLEBBA (USA)
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Zootaxa 1470: 59-68 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 17 Jan. 2007
A new species of Paguristes Dana, 1851 (Anomura, Paguroidea, Diogenidae) from the Mexican Pacific
MANUEL AYON PARENTE & MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1466: 1-10 (7 May 2007) 4 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 2 Apr. 2007
A redescription of two atyid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridina) from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
W. KLOTZ (Austria), A. KARGE (Germany) & K. VON RINTELEN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1466: 11-18 (7 May 2007) 3 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 17 Jan. 2007
Description of Metaprotella haswelliana (Mayer, 1882) (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) from Western Australia with designation of a neotype
ICHIRO TAKEUCHI (Japan) & JAMES K. LOWRY (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1464: 1-43 (3 May 2007) 21 plates; 50 references                             Accepted: 5 Mar. 2007
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. II. Tanaidomorpha from the East China Sea, the West Pacific Ocean and the Nansei Islands
KIM LARSEN & MICHITAKA SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1460: 1-24 (27 Apr. 2007) 18 plates; 54 references                             Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
The Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of the Red Sea with description of a new species of Petrolisthes
BERND WERDING & ALEXANDRA HILLER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1460: 35-46 (27 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 2 Apr. 2007
A new subfamily, Vulcanocalliacinae n.subfam., for Vulcanocalliax arutyunovi n.gen., n.sp. from a mud volcano in the Gulf of Cádiz (Crustacea, Decapoda, Callianassidae)
PETER C. DWORSCHAK (Austria) & MARINA R. CUNHA (Portugal)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1459: 37-68 (27 Apr. 2007) 14 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
A revision of the Brementia-group of genera (Copepoda: Notodelphyidae), with descriptions of a new genus and four new species
GEOFF A. BOXSHALL (UK) & ANDREY MARCHENKOV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1456: 1-44 (25 Apr. 2007) 25 plates; 58 references                             Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) of Colombia
DIEGO M. VALENCIA & MARTHA R. CAMPOS (Colombia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1454: 59-68 (23 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 28 Dec. 2006
A new species of Talitridae (Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from Tioman Island, Malaysia
B.H.R. OTHMAN & B.A.R. AZMAN (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa 1450: 1-20 (19 Apr. 2007) 8 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 10 Mar. 2007
Four new species of coral crabs belonging to the genus Tetralia Dana, 1851 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Tetraliidae)
SANDRA E. TRAUTWEIN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1450: 21-29 (19 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
A new species of Polyonyx Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from the Philippines and Loyalty Islands
MASAYUKI OSAWA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1450: 31-43 (19 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
A new species of Chirostylus Ortmann, 1892 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, with a supplemental description of Chirostylus ortmanni Miyake & Baba, 1968
MASAYUKI OSAWA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1450: 57-62 (19 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 21 Feb. 2007
Morphological variation of Stratiodrilus circensis (Polychaeta, Histriobdellidae) from a new host, Aegla leptodactyla (Crustacea, Anomura, Aeglidae) with identification of its type host species
LUIZ C. C. DAUDT & JOSE F. R. AMATO (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1447: 57-62 (12 Apr. 2007) 2 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Microthelphusa (Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from a remote isolated cloud forest on a tabletop mountain in western Guyana, South America
NEIL CUMBERLIDGE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1445: 1-26 (9 Apr. 2007) 12 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 28 Feb. 2007
Amphipoda (Crustacea; Peracarida) from the Hydrothermal vent system of the Juan De Fuca Ridge, Escabana trough and Gorda ridge, Northeast Pacific. Part I. Lysianassidae and Sebidae
KIM LARSEN (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1445: 27-34 (9 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 29 Dec. 2006
A new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Anostraca) from Brasil
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS (USA) & ALOISIO FERREIRA (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1441: 1-19 (5 Apr. 2007) 12 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 23 Feb. 2007
Two new species of Tanaidacea of the genus Kalliapseudes Stebbing, 1910 (Crustacea: Apseudomorpha: Kalliapseudidae) from Australia
D.T. DRUMM (USA)
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Zootaxa 1437: 1-28 (2 Apr. 2007) 18 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Three new species of Remaneicaris Jakobi, 1972 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Parastenocarididae) from the Ribeirao do Ouro River, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with some remarks on the groundpattern of the Parastenocarididae
P.H.C. CORGOSINHO (Brazil), P.M. ARBIZU (Germany) & E.N. D. SANTOS-SILVA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1435: 25-36 (29 Mar. 2007) 6 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 18 Jan. 2007
A new species of vent associated Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from the Western Pacific, with notes on its genetic identification
SHERINE SONIA CUBELIO (Japan), SHINJI TSUCHIDA (Japan), MICHEL E. HENDRICKX (Mexico), RYUSUKE KADO (Japan) & SEIICHI WATANABE (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1432: 1-21 (26 Mar. 2007) 14 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 10 Jan. 2007
A new species of Parabradya Lang, 1944 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from the abyssal plain of the Angola Basin
SYBILLE SEIFRIED, CHRISTOPH PLUM & MAXIMILIAN SCHULZ (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1432: 67-68 (26 Mar. 2007) 4 references                                              Accepted: 14 Mar. 2007
A revision of the generic status of Periclimenes jackhintoni Bruce, 2006, with a new key to the genus Laomenes Clark (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1429: 1-38 (22 Mar. 2007) 18 plates; 199 references                             Accepted: 9 Jan. 2007
A revision of the shovel-nosed lobsters of the genus Thenus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae), with descriptions of three new species
T.E. BURTON & P.J.F. DAVIE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1429: 55-68 (22 Mar. 2007) 6 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 23 Jan. 2007
The first zoea of Inachus aguiarii, Inachus communissimus and Ergasticus clouei (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea) with implications for the systematics of the family Inachidae
GUILLERMO GUERAO & PERE ABELLO (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1424: 1-62 (12 Mar. 2007) 44 plates; 92 references                                Accepted: 4 Dec. 2006
A revision of the tropical/temperate amphipod genus Dulichiella Stout, 1912, and the description of a new Atlantic genus Verdeia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae)
J.K. LOWRY & R.T. SPRINGTHORPE (Australia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1417: 1-135 (8 Mar. 2007) 55 plates; 103 references                             Accepted: 2 Nov. 2006
Species of the genus Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1784 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans and reestablishment of the genus Galacantha A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae)
ENRIQUE MACPHERSON (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1410: 55-68 (22 Feb. 2007)    9 plates; 39 references                              Accepted: 16 Jan. 2007
Studies on the genus Onisimus Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Uristidae) II. The barentsi and edwardsii groups
 J. BERGE, W. VADER, & J.R. JOHNSEN (Norway)
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Zootaxa 1409: 61-67 (19 Feb. 2007)  5 plates; 13 references                                 Accepted: 2 Jan. 2007
A new species of Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae) from Micronesia
B.R. DE FORGES (Nouvelle-Caledonie) & P.K.L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1406: 47-59  (12 Feb. 2007)  4 plates; 61 references                             Accepted: 9 Jan. 2007
Hermit crabs from Brazil. Family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea): Genus Pagurus
P.R. NUCCI & G.A.S.T DE MELO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1406: 41-46 (12 Feb. 2007)  1 plate; 12 references                               Accepted: 15 Dec. 2006
Redescription of Pylocheles (Bathycheles) cubensis Ortiz & Gomez, 1986, the senior synonym of Pylocheles (B.) chacei Forest, 1987 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguroidea, Pylochelidae)
P.A. MCLAUGHLIN, R. LEMAITRE & M. ORTIZ (USA)
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Zootaxa 1406: 33-39 (12 Feb. 2007)  4 plates; 12 references                               Accepted: 21 Dec. 2006
Gammaropsis (Podoceropsis) grasslei (Amphipoda: Photidae) a new species of commensal amphipod of the deep-water lithodid Neolithodes diomedeae from the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California
L.A. SOTO (Mexico) & A. CORONA (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1402: 23-37 (1 Feb. 2007)  8 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 6 Dec. 2006
Epimeria schiaparelli sp. nov., an amphipod crustacean (family Epimeriidae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with molecular characterisation of the species complex
A.-N. LORZ (New Zealand) E.W. MAAS (New Zealand), K. LINSE (UK) & G.D. FENWICK (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1401: 1-32 (1 Feb. 2007)  15 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Parapseudid tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Tanaidacea:Apseudomorpha) from Eastern Australia
M. BLAZEWICZ-PASZKOWYCZ (Poland) & R.N. BAMBER (UK)
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Zootaxa 1397: 29-37 (25 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 8 Dec. 2006
A new species of Pseudocoutierea Holthuis from the Caribbean coast of Panama (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae), with a key to the genus
S. DE GRAVE (UK)
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Zootaxa 1396: 1-84 (22 Jan. 2007)  21 plates; 133 references                       Accepted: 30 Oct. 2006
On a small collection of harpacticoids from Easter Island: the family Laophontidae T. Scott (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida)
S. GÓMEZ & C.B. BOYKO
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Zootaxa 1394: 47-68 (18 Jan. 2007)  11 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 6 Dec. 2006
Two new species of the genus Austroniscus Vanhoeffen, 1914 (Isopoda: Asellota: Nannoniscidae) from the Antarctic shelf
S. KAISER & A. BRANDT (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1393: 61-68 (18 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 3 references                              Accepted: 9 Dec. 2006
Periclimenes sarkanae sp. nov. a new pontoniine shrimp from Moreton Bay, Queensland (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
BRUCE, A.J. (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1389: 45-54 (11 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2006
Ampelisca mississippiana: a new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Mississippi Canyon (Northern Gulf of Mexico)
Y. SOLIMAN & M. WICKSTEN (USA)
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2006

Zootaxa 1370: 23-37 (4 Dec. 2006) 7 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
First Asian report of the genus Chilibathynella Noodt, 1963 (Bathynellacea, Syncarida), with the description and biogeographic significance of a new species from Kotumsar Cave, India
Y. RANGA REDDY (India)
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Zootaxa 1383: 23-43 (18 Dec. 2006) 9 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Three new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae) from the Northeastern Pacific
G.C. JENSEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1378: 1-17 (11 Dec. 2006) 7 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 17 Nov. 2006
Two new species of Pleistacantha Miers, 1879 from the Indo-West Pacific region (Crustacea, Decapoda, Majidae)
S.T. AHYONG (New Zealand) & T. LEE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1374: 1-54 (7 Dec. 2006) 1 plate; 258 references                             Accepted: 13 Oct. 2006
An annotated checklist of the Syncarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the world
A.I. CAMACHO (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1372: 1-16 (4 Dec. 2006) 6 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
A new species of Naushonia Kingsley, 1897 (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Laomediidae) from Vietnam and the Philippines with notes on the genus Espeleonaushonia Juarrero & Martinez-Iglesias, 1997
P.C. DWORSCHAK (Austria), I. MARIN (Russia) & A. ANKER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1370: 59-68 (4 Dec. 2006) 3 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 12 Oct. 2006
The first record of the crustacean isopod genus Pseudarachna Sars, 1897 (Isopoda: Asellota: Munnopsidae) from the Southern Hemisphere, with description of a new species from New Zealand
K.L. MERRIN (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1370: 49-57 (4 Dec. 2006) 4 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 13 Oct. 2006
A new species of Brazilian Dendrocephalus (Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae)
N. RABET (France)
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Zootaxa 1370: 1-22 (4 Dec. 2006) 13 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 5 Oct. 2006
Melitids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of the genera Ceradocus and Mallacoota from Rodrigues Island (Indian Ocean)
C. APPADOO (Mauritius) & A.A. MYERS (Ireland)
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Zootaxa 1368: 57-68 (30 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
A new species of Parastenocaris from Mindoro Island, Philippines: Parastenocaris distincta sp. nov. (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Parastenocarididae)
V. Cottarelli, M.C. Bruno & R. Berera (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1368: 1-18 (30 Nov. 2006) 7 plates; 51 references                             Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Sensiava longiseta (Copepoda, Calanoida): a new genus and species from the abyss of the Weddell Sea
E.L. MARKHASEVA (Russia) & K. SCHULZ (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1365: 1-17 (27 Nov. 2006) 7 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 26 Oct. 2006
Crangonyx islandicus sp. nov., a subterranean freshwater amphipod (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Crangonyctidae) from springs in lava fields in Iceland
J. SVAVARSSON & B.K. KRISTJÁNSSON (Iceland)
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Zootaxa 1364: 1-44 (23 Nov. 2006) 27 plates; 65 references                            Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
Caridea (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected on the Brazilian (13o/22oS) continental shelf and slope
I. CARDOSO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1363: 39-48 (23 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 9 Oct. 2006
Redescription of Parapagurapseudopsis carinatus (Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha) and remarks about the male form
K.C.D. SANTOS & A.M.S. PIRES-VANIN (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1363: 1-21 (23 Nov. 2006) 12 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 4 Oct. 2006
A revision of the North Atlantic amphipod genus Normanion (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea)
N.M. KILGALLEN, A.A. MYERS & D. MCGRATH (Ireland)
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Zootaxa 1358: 67-68 (16 Nov. 2006)  5 references                                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
Retropluma solomonensis nom. nov., a replacement name for Retropluma laurentae McLay, 2006 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Retroplumidae)
C.L. MCLAY (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1358: 39-48 (16 Nov. 2006) 4 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 11 Oct. 2006
A new species of Calappa Weber, 1795 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Calappidae) from East and South Africa
J.C.Y. LAI & P.K.L. NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1352: 1-70 (6 Nov. 2006)  37 plates; 60 references                       Accepted: 7 Sept. 2006
On a small collection of harpacticoids from Easter Island: the family Laophontidae T. Scott (Crustacea: Copepoda: Harpacticoida)
S. GÓMEZ & C.B. BOYKO
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Zootaxa 1351: 23-34 (6 Nov. 2006)  5 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 22 Sept. 2006
A new species of Asterocheres (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Asterocheridae) associated to Placospongia cristata Boury-Esnault (Porifera) in Bahia State, Brazil
R. BISPO, R. JOHNSSON & E. NEVES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1344: 33-41 (26 Oct. 2006)  2 plates; 34 references                       Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
Systematics of the genus Scleroplax Rathbun, 1893 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
E. CAMPOS (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1344: 1-22 (26 Oct. 2006)  13 plates; 8 references                       Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
A revision of Pseudopleonexes Conlan, 1982 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with description of three new species from Australia
R.A. PEART (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1342: 1-66 (26 Oct. 2006)  7 plates; 140 references                       Accepted: 12 Sept. 2006
Biodiversity of benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) in the Southwest Atlantic between 35°S and 56°S
J.L. GAPPA, G.M. ALONSO & N.A. LANDONI (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1341: 29-48 (23 Oct. 2006)  6 plates; 36 references                       Accepted: 12 Sept. 2006
Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. I. Apseudomorpha from the East China Sea, Seto Inland Sea, and Nansei Islands
K. LARSEN & M. SHIMOMURA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1338: 57-68  (19 Oct. 2006)   4 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 22 Sept. 2006
Elthusa arnoglossi sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a branchial parasite of flatfishes (Bothidae) from the Chesterfield Islands, New Caledonia
J.-P. TRILLES (France) & J.-L. JUSTINE (Nouvelle Caledonie)
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Zootaxa 1332: 37-50 (12 Oct. 2006)  8 plates; 20 references                       Accepted:  5 Sept. 2006
Sacculina nectocarcini, a new species of rhizocephalan (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) parasitising the red rock crab Nectocarcinus integrifrons (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae)
R.H. GURNEY (Australia), A.V. RYBAKOV (Russia), J.T. HOEG (Denmark) & A.M. KURIS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1319: 29-41 (25 Sept. 2006) 7 plates; 16  references                          Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
Pyrgopsella (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) is not a sponge-inhabiting barnacle
Y. ACHITUV & N. SIMON-BLECHER (Israel)
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Zootaxa 1313: 57-68 (14 Sept. 2006) 4 plates; 24  references                             Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
Edotia tangaroa sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae) from the western Ross Sea, Antarctica
A. BRANDT (Germany) & N. BRUCE (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1309: 45-54 (7 Sept. 2006) 4 plates; 8  references                             Accepted:  15 Jul. 2006
Periclimenes manihine sp. nov., a new pontoniine shrimp of the P. alcocki species group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
A.J. BRUCE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1306: 57-67 (31 Aug. 2006)  3 plates; 21  references                             Accepted:  3 Aug. 2006
A new species, Apseudes larseni (Crustacea: Tanaidacea),from the marine waters of New Zealand
 J.S. KNIGHT & R.W. HEARD (USA)
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Zootaxa 1305: 51-67 (31 Aug. 2006)  6 plates; 23  references                             Accepted:  7 Jul. 2006
Three new ostracod species from coastal Australian waters (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Myodocopa: Cylindroleberididae).
 A.E. SYME & G.C.B. POORE (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1305: 21-32 (31 Aug. 2006)  2 plates; 28  references                             Accepted:  31 Jul. 2006
Listriella longipalma sp. nov., a new amphipod species (Crustacea: Liljeborgiidae) from the Straits of Melaka, Malaysia
B.H.R. OTHMAN (Malaysia) & H. MORINO (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1303: 45-68 (28 Aug. 2006)  10 plates; 25  references                             Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
Lithodidae from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with descriptions of two new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)
 S.T. AHYONG & E.W. DAWSON (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1300: 51-68 (21 Aug. 2006)  7 plates; 45 references                              Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
Haplomesus longiramus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota), a new ischnomesid species from the Bay of Biscay, North East Atlantic Ocean
F.A. KAVANAGH (Ireland) & J.-C. SORBE (France)
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Zootaxa 1298: 17-27 (17 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 31 Jul. 2006
 Transkalliapseudes spinulata, new genus, new species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) from the northwest Australian shelf
D.T. DRUMM & R.W. HEARD (USA)
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Zootaxa 1297: 57-68 (17 Aug. 2006) 5 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 28 Jul. 2006
 A new genus and species of the hermit crab family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) from Australia
R. LEMAITRE & P.A. MCLAUGHLIN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1296: 45-53 (17 Aug. 2006) 7 plates; 30 references                              Accepted:  1 Aug. 2006
Comparison of the amplexial morphology of two Argentine populations of Artemia (Crustacea, Anostraca, Artemiidae): a reliable taxonomical tool
 X. I. PASTORINO & R.G. COHEN (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1294: 29-59 (14 Aug. 2006) 2 plates; 173 references                           Accepted:  26 Jul. 2006
Checklist of the ostracod (Crustacea) fauna of Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan
E.I. SCHORNIKOV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1286: 1-14 (11 Aug. 2006) 7 plates; 20 references                               Accepted:  14 Feb. 2006
Ampeliscidae from the Brazilian coast. Record of Ampelisca burkey Barnard & Thomas, 1989 and descriptions of two new species of Ampelisca (Crustacea, Amphipoda)
M.T. VALÉRIO-BERARDO & Y. WAKABARA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1285: 1-19 (11 Aug. 2006) 1 plate; 115 references                               Accepted:  11 Jul. 2006
A checklist of the marine Harpacticoida (Copepoda) of the Caribbean Sea
E. SUÁREZ-MORALES (Mexico), M. DE TROCH (Belgium) & F. FIERS (Belgium)
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