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Editor, Dr. D. L. Geiger (geiger@vetigastropoda.com)
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
Editor, Dr. Rüdiger Bieler (bieler@fieldmuseum.org)  
Field Museum of Natural History, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA.

Editor, Dr. Marta deMaintenon (demainte@hawaii.edu)
Marine Science Department, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 200 West Kawili Street,
Hilo, HI 96720-4091, USA
Editor, Dr. Bernhard Ruthensteiner (BRuthensteiner@zsm.mwn.de)
Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D-81247 MUnchen, Germany.
Editor, Dr. Michael Schroedl (schroedl@zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de; Schroedl@zsm.mwn.de)
Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Muenchhausenstrasse 21, 81247 Munchen, Germany.

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2008

 Article 
Zootaxa 1770: 1-40 (16 May 2008) 11 plates; 69 references                              Accepted: 10 Mar. 2008
The Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Giglio Island (Tuscany, Italy): Shell characters, live animals, and a molecular analysis of egg masses
THOMAS HUELSKEN, CARINA MAREK, STEFAN SCHREIBER, IRIS SCHMIDT & MICHAEL HOLLMANN (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1768: 1-40 (14 May 2008) 2 plates; 67 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2008
An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species
ABRAHAM S.H. BREURE (The Netherlands) & FRANCISCO J. BORRERO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1764: 1-18 (7 May 2008) 7 plates; 24 references                              Accepted: 14 Apr. 2008
A remarkable new genus of carnivorous, sessile bivalves (Mollusca: Anomalodesmata: Poromyidae) with descriptions of two new species
JOSI H. LEAL (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1752: 41-56 (18 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 41 references                              Accepted: 25 Mar. 2008
Thyasiroidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic)
CLARA F. RODRIGUES (Portugal), P. GRAHAM OLIVER (UK) & MARINA R. CUNHA (Portugal)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1678: 51-62 (11 Jan. 2008) 7 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 8 Nov. 2007
A new species of Scissurella from the Azores with discussions on Sinezona semicostata Burnay & Rolan, 1990 and Sinezona cingulata (O.G. Costa, 1861) (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Scissurellidae)
JAYA M. NOLT (USA)
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2007

 Article 
Zootaxa 1662: 45-51 (17 Dec. 2007)  0 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 9 Nov. 2007
Physa natricina Taylor 1988, junior synonym of Physa acuta Draparnaud, 1805 (Pulmonata: Physidae)
D. CHRISTOPHER ROGERS & AMY R. WETHINGTON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1657: 57-67 (7 Dec. 2007)  6 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Two new species of Okenia (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from eastern Australia and Tanzania
WILLIAM B. RUDMAN (Australia)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1648: 1-120 (28 Nov. 2007)  16 plates; 276 references                           Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865): malacological author and publisher
RICHARD E. PETIT
(USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1626: 68 (31 Oct. 2007)  0 plates; 3 references                            Accepted: 19 Oct. 2007
Nomenclatural notes on Gastrocopta fulongensis Chen, Zhang & Zhang 2002 (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Pupillidae)
ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1614: 61-68 (15 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 24 Sep. 2007
Two new species of Aclis (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Aclididae) from the continental slope of northeast Brazil
JOSE CARLOS N. DE BARROS, SILVIO FELIPE B. DE LIMA & JONATA DE A. FRANCISCO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1608: 59-68 (5 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 5 Sep. 2007
A new Satsuma species (Pulmonata: Camaenidae) endemic to Taiwan
SHU-PING WU, YAO-SUNG LIN & CHUNG-CHI HWANG (R. China)

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 Erratum
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1605: 68 (1 Oct. 2007)

Erratum ( Kabat, A.R. & Petit, R.E. (2007) Glenn Robert Webb (1918–1999), his molluscan taxa, and his journal Gastropodia (1952–1994). Zootaxa, 1589, 1–21.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1595: 43-52 (26 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 63 references                            Accepted: 22 Aug. 2007
A new genus and species of Enidae (Gastopoda: Pulmonata) from the Quaternary of the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)
CRISTIAN R. ALTABA (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1589: 1-21 (19 Sep. 2007)  1 plates; 50 references                            Accepted: 18 Aug. 2007
Glenn Robert Webb (1918-1999), his molluscan taxa, and his journal Gastropodia (1952-1994)
ALAN R. KABAT & RICHARD E. PETIT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1577: 3-16 (7 Sep. 2007) 4 plates; 54 references                            Accepted: 11 Jul. 2007
On a new Ercolania Trinchese, 1872 (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa, Limapontiidae) living within Boergesenia Feldmann, 1950 (Cladophorales), with notes on anatomy, histology and biology
YVONNE GRZYMBOWSKI, KRISTINA STEMMER & HEIKE WAGELE (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1563: 1-16 (29 Aug. 2007) 7 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 7 Aug. 2007
Identifying species of Bythinella (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea): A plea for an integrative approach
MARTIN HAASE (Germany), THOMAS WILKE (GERMANY) & PAUL MILDNER (AUSTRIA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1549: 43-53 (15 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
On a new genus and species of euryplacid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea) from the Philippines
PETER K. L. NG (Singapore) & PETER CASTRO (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1526: 37-49 (12 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2007
Two new species of Adontorhina Berry, 1947 (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) from the Porcupine Bank, off the west coast of Ireland
PETER J. BARRY & GRACE P. MCCORMACK (Ireland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1508: 1-48 (18 Jun. 2007) 2 plates; 367 references                            Accepted: 12 Apr. 2007
Catalogue and bibliography of Recent and fossil Botula (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)
KARL KLEEMANN (Austria)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1498: 1-25 (4 Jun. 2007) 16 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2007
Taxonomic review of the Spixia pyriformis species complex (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Odontostominae)
EUGENIA SALAS ORONO (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1482: 1-23 (24 May 2007) 41 plates; 81 references                            Accepted: 18 Apr. 2007
Anatomy and function of the penial twin papillae system of the Helicinae (Gastropoda: Helicoidea: Helicidae) and description of two new, small Hemicycla species from the laurel forest of the Canary Islands
MARIA R. ALONSO & MIGUEL IBANEZ (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1476: 1-50 (17 May 2007) 17 plates; 62 references                            Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)
ROSEMARY E. GOLDING, WINSTON F. PONDER & MARIA BYRNE (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1466: 55-67 (7 May 2007) 7 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 22 Mar. 2007
A new species of Gerstfeldtiancylus Starobogatov, 1989 (Pulmonata: Basommatophora: Acroloxidae) from Lake Baikal
ALENA SHIROKAYA (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1466: 35-46 (7 May 2007) 5 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Three new species of Myxosporea (Bivalvulida: Ceratomyxidae: Alatasporidae) from the gall bladders of anglerfishes Lophius spp. (Teleostei: Lophiidae) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
ISABEL AFONSO-DIAS (Portugal), CHAGANTI KALAVATI (India), KEN MACKENZIE (UK) & KEVIN S. MACKENZIE (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1441: 63-68 (5 Apr. 2007) 2 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 1 Mar. 2007
Two new species of Cerithiella (Apogastropoda: Cerithiopsidae) for the continental slope of Pernambuco (northeast Brazil)
S.F.B. DE LIMA & J.C.N. DE BARROS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1440: 39-49 (5 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
A new intertidal octopus species, Octopus incella (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae),
from Okinawa, southern Japan
NATSUMI KANEKO & TSUNEMI KUBODERA (Australia)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1420: 1-161 (8 Mar. 2007) 73 plates; 350 references                            Accepted: 3 Nov. 2006
The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae)
in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean
D.G. REID (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1397: 63-68 (25 Jan. 2007)  1 plate; 18 references                             Accepted: 15 Dec. 2006
An account of the Genus Turris species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Turridae) from the East and South China Seas
B.Q. LI & X.Z. LI (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1387: 59-68 (8 Jan. 2007)  3 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2006
Three new species of Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) from northeast Brazil with first record of Gergovia for the Atlantic ocean
J.C.N. DE BARROS & S.F.B. DE LIMA (Brazil)
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2006

Zootaxa 1341: 1-27 (23 Oct. 2006)  6 plates; 54 references                       Accepted: 20 Sept. 2006
Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the southern Chilean Comau Fjord, with reinstatement of Tonicia calbucensis Plate, 1897
E. SCHWABE (Germany), G. FORSTERRA (Chile), V. HAUSSERMANN (Germany), R.R. MELZER (Germany) & MICHAEL SCHRODL (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1338: 33-47  (19 Oct. 2006)   8 plates; 28 references                       Accepted: 5 Sept. 2006
Anatomical characteristics of two enigmatic and two poorly known Pisidium species (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) from Southern South America
C. ITUARTE (Argentina) & A.V. KORNIUSHIN (Ukraine)

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Zootaxa 1329: 59-68 (5 Oct. 2006)  6 plates; 18 references                       Accepted:  29 Aug. 2006
A new species of Simrothula (Gastropoda, Soleolifera, Veronicellidae) from Northern Brazil
S.R. GOMES, J.B. PICANÇO, I.L.V. MENDES & J.W. THOMÉ (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1320: 29-41 (25 Sept. 2006) 6 plates; 37  references                          Accepted:  5 Sept. 2006
The subgenus Monilearia (Lyrula) Wollaston, 1878 (Gastropoda: Helicoidea: Cochlicellidae) from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), with the description of Monilearia (Lyrula) tubaeformis sp. nov.
M. IBÁÑEZ (Spain), K. GROH (Germany), M.R. ALONSO (Spain), C. CASTILLO (Spain) & Y. YANES (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1318: 1-40 (21 Sept. 2006) 15 plates; 33  references                          Accepted:  30 Aug. 2006
Revision of genera Gaza and Callogaza (Vetigastropoda, Trochidae), with description of a new Brazilian species
L.R.L. SIMONE & C.M. CUNHA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1316: 57-68 (18 Sept. 2006) 5 plates; 18  references                          Accepted:  25 Aug. 2006
Revision of the Chinese species of Ponsadenia (Gastropoda: Helicoidea, Bradybaenidae)
M. WU & J.-Y. GUO (P.R.China)

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Zootaxa 1316: 45-56 (18 Sept. 2006) 5 plates; 18  references                          Accepted:  25 Aug. 2006
A new Canariella species (Gastropoda: Helicoidea: Hygromiidae) of the new subgenus Majorata, both endemic to the Jandía Peninsula (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)
M.R. ALONSO (Spain), C.E. PONTE-LIRA (Spain), C. CASTILLO (Spain), Y.YANES, K. GROH (Germany) & M. IBÁÑEZ (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1311: 1-24 (11 Sept. 2006) 3 plates; 20  references                             Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
A new bathyal Fusinus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae) from New Caledonia
M.A. SNYDER (USA) & R. HADORN (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa 1310: 37-51 (7 Sept. 2006) 4 plates; 5  references                             Accepted:  3 Aug. 2006
A new genus and species of sepiolid squid from the waters around Tonga in the central South Pacific (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)
C. C. LU (R. China) & R. BOUCHER-RODONI (France)

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Zootaxa 1308: 31-47 (4 Sep. 2006)  5 plates; 19  references                             Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
Phyllodesmium rudmani (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Aeolidoidea), a new solar powered species from the Indo-West Pacific with data on its symbiosis with zooxanthellae

I. BURGHARDT (Germany) & T.M. GOSLINER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1307: 41-53 (4 Sep. 2006)  4 plates; 53  references                             Accepted:  3 Aug. 2006
Napaeus lajaensis sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) from a Quaternary Aeolian Deposit of Northeast Tenerife, Canary Islands

C. CASTILLO, Y. YANES, M.R. ALONSO & M. IBÁÑEZ (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1297: 37-45 (17 Aug. 2006) 2 plates; 12 references                              Accepted:  28 Jul. 2006
A new species of Bathylepeta Moskalev, 1977
(Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Weddell Sea, Antarctica
E. SCHWABE (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1267: 1-47 (20 Jul. 2006) 5 plates; 75 references                              Accepted: 25 May 2006
Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the Brazilian continental shelf and upper slope (13º to 21ºS) with descriptions of two new species of the genus Cadulus Philippi, 1844
C.H.S. CAETANO (Brazil), V. SCARABINO (France) & R.S. ABSALÃO (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1258: 33-45 (14 Jul. 2006)  6 plates; 33 references                               Accepted: 13 Jun. 2006
Two Canariella species (Gastropoda: Helicodea: Hygromiidae) endemic to the Northwest Tenerife (Canary Islands)
M. IBÁÑEZ, F. SIVERIO, M.R. ALONSO & C.E. PONTE-LIRA  (Spain) 
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Zootaxa 1257: 1-25 (10 Jul. 2006)  6 plates; 36 references                                Accepted: 10 May 2006
Neverita delessertiana (Récluz in Chenu, 1843): a naticid species (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda) distinct from Neverita duplicata (Say, 1822) based on molecular data, morphological characters, and geographical distribution
T. HÜLSKEN, M. CLEMMENSEN & M. HOLLMANN (Germany) 
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Zootaxa 1232: 59-68 (15 Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 17 May 2006
A new genus of Barleeidae Gray, 1857 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) and the first occurrence of the genus Pseudodiala Ponder, 1967 off the Brazilian coast
F.N.D. SANTOS & R.S. ABSALÃO (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1222: 53-68 (1 Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 20 Apr. 2006
New data on recently described Chilean trophonines
(Gastropoda: Muricidae), description of a new species and notes of their occurrence at a cold seep site
R. HOUART (Belgium) & J. SELLANES ( Chile) 
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Zootaxa 1221: 1-23 (1 Jun. 2006) 11 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 21 Apr. 2006
On a new species of Isomeria Beck and redescription of species of Labyrinthus Beck from South America (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Camaenidae)
M.G. CUEZZO ( Argentina) 
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Zootaxa 1184: 43-55 (24 Apr. 2006) 5 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 4 Mar. 2006
Rhopalomenia glandulosa spec. nov., and the restoration of Entonomenia Leloup (Mollusca: Solenogastres)
A. EISENHUT & L.V. SALVINI-PLAWEN (Austria)
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Zootaxa 1135: 1-27 (27 Feb. 2006) 14 plates; 44 references                             Accepted: 22 Dec. 2005
A new deep-sea pectinid bivalve from thermal vents of Manus back-arc Basin (south-western Pacific), Sinepecten segonzaci n. gen., n. sp. (Pectinoidea: Pectinidae), and its relationships with the genera Bathypecten and Catillopecten
E. SCHEIN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1128: 1-33 (16 Feb. 2006) 20 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 21 Dec. 2005
Eight new species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from around the world, with discussion of two new senior synonyms
D.L. GEIGER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1118: 43-56 (30 Jan. 2006) 5 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 22 Nov. 2005
A new species of freshwater mussel (Bivalvia: Unionidae), Pleurobema athearni, from the Coosa River Drainage of Alabama, USA
M. M. GANGLOFF, J. D. WILLIAMS & J. W. FEMINELLA (USA)
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Zootaxa 1112: 1-64 (20 Jan. 2006) 22 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 8 Oct. 2005
Morphological and phylogenetic study of the Western Atlantic Crepidula plana complex (Caenogastropoda, Calyptraeidae), with description of three new species from Brazil
L.R.L. SIMONE  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1105: 37-48 (10 Jan. 2006) 2 plate; 42 references                                Accepted: 21 Nov. 2005
Nomenclature and type material of the marine gastropod Euplica scripta (Lamarck, 1822) (Sorbeoconcha: Buccinoidea: Columbellidae)
R.C. WILLAN (Australia)
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2005

Zootaxa 1102: 1-161 (19 Dec. 2005) 889 references                                         Accepted: 15 Sept. 2005
Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)—2nd edition
R.E. PETIT & M.G. HARASEWYCH (USA)
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Zootaxa 1101: 1-119 (19 Dec. 2005) 1 plate; 732 references                          Accepted: 15 Sept. 2005
Catalogue of Recent and fossil taxa of the family Architectonicidae Gray, 1850 (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
R. BIELER & R. E. PETIT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1092: 1-20 (8 Dec. 2005) 10 plates; 31 references                                 Accepted: 8 Oct. 2005
New species of Thyasiridae from a methane seepage area off Concepcion, Chile
P.G. OLIVER (UK)  & J. SELLANES (Chile)
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Zootaxa 1074: 1-66 (1 Nov. 2005) 21 plates; 49 references                              Accepted: 15 Aug. 2005
A radiation of hydrobiid snails in the caves and streams at Precipitous Bluff, southwest Tasmania, Australia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae s.l.)
W. F. PONDER, S. A. CLARK, S. EBERHARD & J. B. STUDDERT (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1054: 31-42 (27 Sept. 2005) 4 plates; 22 references                               Accepted: 27 Jul. 2005
A new species of "Lithasia"(Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the Harpeth River, Tennessee, U.S.A.
R. L. MINTON, S. P. SAVARESE, JR., & D. C. CAMPBELL (USA)
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Zootaxa 1012: 13-22 (28 Jun. 2005) 2 plates; 14 references                               Accepted: 5 Jun. 2005
New species of Macoma (Bivalvia: Tellinoidea: Tellinidae) from southeastern Brazil, and with description of its gross anatomy
E.P. ARRUDA & O. DOMANESCHI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 911: 1-22 (21 Mar. 2005) 6 plates; 30 references                                    Accepted: 3 Mar. 2005
A new cuttlefish, Sepia filibrachia n. sp., from the South China Sea with a redescription of Sepia mestus Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda: Sepiidae) from eastern Australia
A.L. REID (Australia) & C.-C. LU (R. China
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Zootaxa 891: 1-32 (10 Mar. 2005) 11 plates; 70 references                                 Accepted: 26 Feb. 2005
Phylogenetic relationships of the subfamily Pyrgulinae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) with emphasis on the genus Dianella Gude, 1913
M. SZAROWSKA (Poland) , A. FALNIOWSKI (Poland), F. RIEDEL (USA) & T. WILKE (USA) 
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Zootaxa 881: 1-7 (4 Mar. 2005) 3 plates; 22 references                                   Accepted: 14 Feb. 2005
A gigantic deep-sea Nucinellidae from the tropical West Pacific (Bivalvia: Protobranchia)
R. LA PERNA (Italy) 
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Zootaxa 871: 1-10 (25 Feb. 2005) 2 plates; 20 references                                    Accepted: 12 Feb. 2005
A new species of the genus Polyschides Pilsbry & Sharp, 1898 (Mollusca, Scaphopoda, Gadilidae) from Brazilian waters
C.H.S. CAETANO & R.S. ABSALÃO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 821: 1-6 (17 Jan. 2005) 2 plates, 12 references                                  Accepted: 30 Dec. 2004
Notes on Fossil Chitons. 1. A new species of Lepidopleurus (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Pleistocene of Salice (Sicily, Italy)
B. DELL’ANGELO & A. BONFITTO (Italy)
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Zootaxa 807: 1-11 (12 Jan. 2005) 5 plates, 18 references                                 Accepted: 21 Dec. 2004
A redescription of the carinate pillsnail, Euchemotrema hubrichti (Pilsbry, 1940) (Pulmonata: Polygyridae), with notes on habitat and genetics
F.E. ANDERSON & D.A. SMITH  (USA)
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2004

Zootaxa 735: 1-9 (22 November 2004) 2 plates; 31 references                      Accepted: 10 Nov. 2004
Taxonomic revision of Elimia christyi and E. interrupta (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)
R.L. MINTON, A.E. BOGAN, J.A. BROOKS & D.M.
HAYES (USA)
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Zootaxa 723: 1-6 (15 November 2004) 1 plate; 5 references                            Accepted: 4 Nov. 2004
First record of the genus Pisinna Monterosato, 1878 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Anabathridae) from the southwest Atlantic, with description of a new species
F.N. SANTOS  & R.S. ABSALÃO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 714: 1-72 (4 November 2004) 33 plates; 80 references                          Accepted: 6 Oct. 2004
New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species
D.L. GEIGER (USA) & P. JANSEN
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 706: 1-12 (29 October 2004) 5 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 7 Oct. 2004
Shell morphometrics of three species of gadilid Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: comparing the discriminating power of primary and secondary descriptors
R.S. ABSALÃO & T.S. DE PAULA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 695: 1-70 (25 October 2004) 30 plates; 108 references                      Accepted: 12 Oct. 2004
Further species of the opisthobranch genus Okenia (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from the Indo-West Pacific
W.B. RUDMAN  (Australia)

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Zootaxa 682: 1-1295 (12 October 2004) 4 plates; 3187 references                 Accepted: 20 Jul. 2004
Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
J.K. TUCKER (USA)
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Zootaxa 616: 1-23 (25 August 2004) 5 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 13 Aug. 2004
Revision of the systematic status of Helminthoglypta walkeriana morroensis (Hemphill, 1911) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)
B. ROTH & J. TUPEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 596: 1-18 (6 Aug. 2004) 4 plates; 10 references                                 Accepted: 17 July 2004
A new solar powered species of the genus Phyllodesmium Ehrenberg, 1831 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Aeolidoidea) from Indonesia with analysis of its photosynthetic activity and notes on biology 
I. BURGHARDT  & H. WÄGELE 
(Germany)

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Zootaxa 514: 1-12 (17 May 2004) 4 plates; 19 references                               Accepted: 28 April 2004
A new species of Trapania (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from Western Australia with comparisons to other Indo-West Pacific Trapania
S.J. FAHEY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 503: 1-13 (4 May 2004) 2 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 16 April 2004
An unusual dendrodorid: redescription of the tropical nudibranch Dendrodoris atromaculata (Alder & Hancock, 1864) (Anthobranchia: Doridoidea: Dendrodorididae)
G.D. BRODIE
(Australia)
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Zootaxa 415: 1-35 (28 January 2004) 18 plates; 52 references                   Accepted: 20 January 2004
Revision of the Australian species of Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)
D.L. GEIGER (USA) & P. JANSEN (Australia)

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Zootaxa 402: 1-7 (12 January 2004) 3 plates; 17 references                Accepted: 22 December 2003
Two new records of Epitoniidae from Easter Island, Chile
L. BROWN & B. RAINES (USA)

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2003 (8 papers, 272 pages)

Zootaxa 377: 1-72 (8 December 2003) 1 plate; 331 references                Accepted: 26 November 2003
George Perry’s molluscan taxa and notes on the editions of his Conchology of 1811
R.E. PETIT (USA)

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Zootaxa 355: 1-16 (17 November 2003) 4 plates; 29 references             Accepted: 9 November 2003
Kootenaia burkei, a new genus and species of slug from northern Idaho, United States (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Arionidae)
W.P. LEONARD, L. CHICHESTER, J. BAUGH  & T. WILKE  (USA) 
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Zootaxa 279: 1-6 (29 August 2003) 1 plate, 6 references                    Accepted: 16 August 2003
A new genus and species of Typhinae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Muricidae) from off northeastern Brazil
R. S. ABSALÃO  & F.N. DOS SANTOS  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 235: 1-11  (9 July 2003) 3 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 27 June 2003
Five new species of Turbonilla Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Pyramidellidae) found off the northeast coast of Brazil (02º-13º S)
R.S. ABSALÃO, F.N.D. SANTOS & D.D.O. TENÓRIO  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 230: 1-126  (4 July 2003) 39 plates; 117 references                                 Accepted: 6 June 2003
Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea)
W.F. PONDER  (Australia)
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Zootaxa 215: 1-6 (18 June 2003) 1 plate; 12 references                                Accepted: 11 June 2003
Polygyrid land snails, Vespericola (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), 4. A new and possibly extinct species from central California, U.S.A.
BARRY ROTH (USA)
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Zootaxa 156: 1-12 (12 March 2003) 3 plates; 11 references                   Accepted: 27 February 2003
A new species of Gastropteridae (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Cephalaspidea) from tropical Northeast Australia
A. KLUSSMANN-KOLB  & A. KLUSSMANN (Germany)

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Zootaxa 154: 1-23 (5 March 2003)  9 plates; 28 references                   Accepted: 25 February 2003
Redescription, shell variability and geographic distribution of Plagiodontes dentatus (Wood, 1828) (Gastropoda: Orthalicidae: Odontostominae) from Uruguay and Argentina
J. PIZÁ & N. J. CAZZANIGA (Argentina)

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2002 (5 papers, 170 pages)

Zootaxa 112: 1-124 (3 December 2002)  50 plates; 90 references          Accepted: 14 November 2002
Revision of the Australian Cuninae sensu lato (Bivalvia: Carditoidea: Condylocardiidae)
PETER MIDDELFART (Australia)

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Zootaxa 85: 1-16 (21 October 2002)  5 plates; 23 references                   Accepted: 14 October 2002
A new species of Cribrarula (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from New South Wales, Australia
F. MORETZSOHN (USA)
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Zootaxa 78: 1-16 (11 October 2002)  8 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 1 October 2002
On the taxonomy of Turbonilla puncta (C. B. Adams, 1850) (Gastropoda, Pyramidellidae), with the description of a new species from Brazil and remarks on other western atlantic species
A. D. PIMENTA & R. S. ABSALÃO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 56: 1-7 (25 July 2002) 2 plates; 10 references                                    Accepted: 10 July 2002
Three new species of Barleeidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Rissooidea) from Brazil
R.S. ABSALÃO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 49: 1-7 (5 July 2002) 3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 27 June 2002
A new bathyal Fasciolaria (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda) from the southwestern Caribbean
P.J.S. DE SOUZA (Brazil)
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