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

Editor, Prof. Jörundur Svavarsson (jorundur@hi.is) Isopoda 
Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Editor, Dr K. Meland (
Kenneth.Meland@bio.uib.no) Mysidacea & other Crustacea not listed above
University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, NORWAY
Editor, Dr Miguel Alonso (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  
Editor, Dr Jim Lowry (Jim.Lowry@austmus.gov.au) Amphipoda
Crustacea Section, Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney 2010, Australia

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2010

Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 48–54 (22 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Metadynomene tuamotu, a new species of dynomenid crab from French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & COLIN L MCLAY (New Zealand)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Zootaxa 2372: 1-2 (26 Feb. 2010
Title & copyright page

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Zootaxa 2372: 1-2 (26 Feb. 2010)  
Table of contents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2140: 38-44 (24 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 18 May 2009
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
ZDEN
ĚK 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 BŁA
ŻEWICZPASZKOWYCZ (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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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Monograph 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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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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 Article 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1639: 68 (16 Nov. 2007)  
Erratum ( Song, S.J., Rho, H.S. & Kim, W. (2007) A new species of Huntemannia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Huntemanniidae) from the Yellow Sea, Korea. Zootaxa, 1616, 37-48.)
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Zootaxa 1639: 23-39 (16 Nov. 2007)  7 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 6 Oct. 2007
Taraxapseudes n. gen., Taraxapseudes diversus (Lang, 1968) n. comb. and two new species of Atlantapseudes B|cescu, 1978 (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) from Brazil and Madagascar, with a key for the genus
Katia Christol dos Santos (Brazil) & Tom Hansknecht (USA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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