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Editor, Dr M.R. de Carvalho (mrcarvalho@ib.usp.br) Chondrichthyes; South American freshwater
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, no. 101, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brasil  
Editor, Dr J. Friel (jpf19@cornell.edu) African freshwater fishes
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Editor, Dr Rohan Pethiyagoda (rohanpet@gmail.com) Asian Freshwater Fishes
Ichthyology Section, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Editor, Dr Richard Mayden (zootaxa.mayden@gmail.com) Cypriniformes; Chinese and North American freshwater fishes
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 63103-2010, USA
 Editor, Dr Larry M. Page (lpage1@ufl.edu) Cypriniformes; North American freshwater fishes
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Editor, Dr John S. Sparks (jsparks@amnh.org) Marine and Estuarine Fishes
Department of Ichthyology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
Editor, Dr Anthony C. Gill  (anthony.c.gill@sydney.edu.au) Marine and Estuarine Fishes
Macleay Museum and School of Biological Sciences, A12 - Macleay Building, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.

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2012

Article 
Zootaxa 3182: 57–64 (03 Feb. 2012) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 09 Dec. 2011
Description of the clasper of the Southern Thorny Skate Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi, 1935) (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae)
GABRIELA DELPIANI, DANIEL E. FIGUEROA & EZEQUIEL MABRAGAÑA (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3170: 1–17 (24 Jan. 2012) 19 plates; 16 references                      Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
Gobiid fishes of the genus Bryaninops from the Red Sea, with description of two new species and two new records
TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI (Japan), SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3167: 1–16 (20 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 83 references                      Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii)
ALEC B.M. MOORE, ROBERT D. WARD & RICHARD PEIRCE (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 3166: 59–68 (19 Jan. 2012) 6 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 1 Nov. 2011
A new Alestopetersius (Characiformes: Alestidae) from the Kwilu River (Kasai basin) of central Africa; with a phylogeny for the genus and synonymy of Duboisialestes
JOSÉ JUSTIN MBIMBI MAYI MUNENE (Democratic Republic of Congo) & MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3165: 64–68 (19 Jan. 2012) 5 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Colletteichthys occidentalis, a new Toadfish Species from the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Arabian Sea (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3165: 25–38 (19 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 21 Nov. 2011
Two new species of striped Pseudochromis from the Philippine Islands and Indonesia, with a redescription of P. colei (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia), GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia) & MARK ERDMANN (Indonesia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3165: 1–24 (19 Jan. 2012) 17 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
A new species of grenadier, genus Macrourus (Teleostei, Gadiformes, Macrouridae) from the southern hemisphere and a revision of the genus
PETER MCMILLAN (New Zealand), TOMIO IWAMOTO (USA), ANDREW STEWART (New Zealand) & PETER J SMITH (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3161: 60–66 (16 Jan. 2012) 3 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Giganthias serratospinosus, a new serranid (Perciformes: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from the island of Lombok in Indonesia
WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia) & DHARMADI (Indonesia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3161: 53–60 (16 Jan. 2012) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Two new dottyback species of the genus Pseudochromis from southern Indonesia (Teleostei: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia), GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia) & MARK ERDMANN (Indonesia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3155: 47–64 (10 Jan. 2012) 14 plate; 6 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2011
Two new softnose skates of the genus Brochiraja (Rajoidei: Arhynchobatidae) from the deepwater slopes and banks of the Norfolk Ridge (South-West Pacific)
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & BERNARD SÉRET (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3152: 61–67 (6 Jan. 2012) 3 plate; 15 references                         Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Sparisoma choati, a new species of Parrotfish (Labridae: Scarinae) from the tropical eastern Atlantic
LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA), ALBERTO BRITO (Spain) & D. ROSS ROBERTSON (Panamá)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3152: 36–60 (6 Jan. 2012) 9 plate; 34 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2011
A review of the blennioid fish family Tripterygiidae (Perciformes) in the Red Sea, with description of Enneapterygius qirmiz, and reinstatement of Enneapterygius altipinnis Clark, 1980
WOUTER HOLLEMAN (South Africa) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 26–38 (23 Dec. 2011) 
Pisces. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
WILLIAM N. ESCHMEYER & JON D. FONG
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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 49–59 (22 Dec. 2011) 7 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 17 Oct. 2011
Description of two new species of Pseudochrominae from northern Palawan and Mindoro, Philippine Islands (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia) & JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3135: 63–68 (19 Dec. 2011) 2 plates; 34 references                     Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
 Samariscus neocaledonia, a new righteye flounder (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes: Samaridae) from New Caledonia
TOSHIO KAWAI (Japan), KUNIO AMAOKA (Japan) & BERNARD SÉRET (France)
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Article
Zootaxa 3134: 53–62 (16 Dec. 2011) 12 plates; 21 references                   Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
 Eviota rubriceps, a new goby from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, with comments on E. mikiae and E. raja (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD & SUSAN L. JEWETT (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3134: 43–52 (16 Dec. 2011) 3 plates; 10 references                     Accepted: 08 Nov. 2011
 Gymnothorax melanosomatus, a new moray eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from southeastern Taiwan
KAR-HOE LOH, KWANG-TSAO SHAO & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3133: 1–36 (16 Dec. 2011) 36 plates; 26 references                    Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
 Identification of early life-history stages of Caribbean Apogon (Perciformes: Apogonidae) through DNA Barcoding
CAROLE C. BALDWIN (USA), BALAM J. BRITO (Mexico), DAVID G. SMITH (USA), LEE A. WEIGT (USA) & ELVA ESCOBAR-BRIONES (Mexico)
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Article
Zootaxa 3131: 63–68 (15 Dec. 2011) 4 plates; 17 references                    Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
 Taxonomic status of Parapercis elongata (Teleostei: Pinguipedidae), with comments on its authorship
TOMOYUKI YAMANAKA, HISASHI IMAMURA & TETSUO YOSHINO (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3131: 1–34 (15 Dec. 2011) 26 plates; 39 references                     Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
 Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VII. The Pardosa tesquorum group
TORBJÖRN KRONESTEDT (Sweden) & YURI M. MARUSIK(Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3120: 55–62 (06 Dec. 2011) 05 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 12 Oct. 2011
 Leporinus britskii: a new anostomid species from the Tapajós and Jari drainages, Brazil (Characiformes: Anostomidae)
FRANCIMÁRIO DA S. FEITOSA, GERALDO M. DOS SANTOS & JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI (Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3120: 67–68 (06 Dec. 2011) 00 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 07 Nov. 2011
 The grammatical gender of fish generic nomina based on the stem—butis (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei)
MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3115: 68 (01Dec. 2011) 
LUKE TORNABENE & FRANK PEZOLD (2011) Phylogenetic analysis of Western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 3042: 27–36 (2011)
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Correspodence
Zootaxa 3115: 65–67 (01 Dec. 2011) 0 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 14 Oct. 2011
Review of records of sawfishes (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae) from Fiji, with deletion of Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 and Pristis sp. from the fauna
CLINTON DUFFY (New Zealand), JOHNSON SEETO (Fiji) & TOM TRNSKI (New Zealand)
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Article
Zootaxa 3114: 22–30 (30 Nov. 2011) 04 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Two new sympatric Knipowitschia species (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from an eastern Mediterranean coastal lake—examples of different dispersal patterns?
HARALD AHNELT (Austria)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3111: 64–66 (28 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
Primary type status of Perca cirrosa Thunberg, 1793 (Scorpaenidae)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA, YUKO TAKIGAWA, GOTA OGIHARA & TETSUO YOSHINO (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3107: 47–58 (23 Nov. 2011) 06 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
A new species of Upeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from southern Japan
MASAHIRO YAMASHITA (Japan), DANIEL GOLANI (Israel) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3106: 1–23 (22 Nov. 2011) 14 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 13 Oct. 2011
Pseudochromine and pseudoplesiopine dottyback fishes from the Socotra Archipelago, Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species of Pseudochromis Rüppell (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (Australia) & UWE ZAJONZ (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 3098: 64–68 (15 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Redescription of Sphenanthias whiteheadi Talwar (Perciformes: Cepolidae) with DNA barcodes from the southern coasts of India
K.K. BINEESH, K. A. SAJEELA, K.V. AKHILESH, N. G. K. PILLAI & E.M. ABDUSSAMAD (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 3098: 21–25 (15 Nov. 2011) 1 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Saurida golanii, a new deep water lizardfish (Pisces: Synodontidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea
BARRY C RUSSELL (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3096: 53–58 (11 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 16 Sep. 2011
Aphanius farsicus, a replacement name for A. persicus (Jenkins, 1910) (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae)
AZAD TEIMORI (Germany), HAMID REZA ESMAEILI (Iran) & BETTINA REICHENBACHER (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 3096: 1–17 (11 Nov. 2011) 15 plates; 60 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
 A review of the Caribbean hamlets (Serranidae, Hypoplectrus) with description of two new species
PHILLIP S. LOBEL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3095: 63–68 (10 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
 A new cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides (Perciformes, Apogonidae) from Raja Ampat Islands, with a key to species
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3091: 42–50 (04 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
Validity of Lampetra pacifica (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae), a brook lamprey described from the lower Columbia River Basin
STEWART B. REID (USA), DAVID A. BOGUSKI (Canada), DAMON H. GOODMAN (USA) & MARGARET F. DOCKER (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 1–14 (02 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 67 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
 Albula gilberti, a new species of bonefish (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from the eastern Pacific, and a description of adults of the parapatric A. esuncula
EDWARD PFEILER (Mexico), ALBERT M. VAN DER HEIDEN (Mexico), RYAN S. RUBOYIANES (USA) & TOM WATTS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3085: 55–62 (31 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
 A new species of glass-perch from Belitung Island, Indonesia (Teleostei: Ambassidae: Gymnochanda)
HEOK HUI TAN & KELVIN K. P. LIM (Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 3085: 34–40 (31 Oct. 2011) 6 plates; 2 references                         Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
 Opistognathus albicaudatus, a new species of jawfish (Teleostei: Opistognathidae) from the Andaman Islands
WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3066: 61–68 (24 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 7 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
 Akysis bilustris, a new species of catfish from southern Laos (Siluriformes: Akysidae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 3066: 52–60 (24 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 09 Sep. 2011
 Onigocia sibogae, a replacement name for a distinct species of flathead fish, Platycephalus grandisquamis Weber, 1913 (Teleostei: Platycephalidae)
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3063: 1–21 (20 Oct. 2011) 7 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
 Three new species of African suckermouth catfishes, genus Chiloglanis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae), from the lower Malagarasi and Luiche rivers of western Tanzania
JOHN P. FRIEL & THOMAS R. VIGLIOTTA (USA)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3061: 67–68 (18 Oct. 2011) 0 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 19 Sep. 2011
 Coris sandageri, an unjustified emendation of Coris sandeyeri (Hector 1884) (Pisces, Labridae) BARRY C RUSSELL (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3061: 53–66 (18 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 08 Aug. 2011
 Description and biological observations on a new species of deepwater symphurine tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae: Symphurus) collected at Volcano–19, Tonga Arc, West Pacific Ocean 
THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA), JENNIFER TYLER (Canada) & VERENA TUNNICLIFFE (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 3057: 49–60 (12 Oct. 2011) 11 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 13 Sep. 2011
 Four new records of shore fishes for the Red Sea, with notes on Parupeneus heptacanthus and Diodon liturosus 
SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia), JOHN E. RANDALL (USA) & DANIEL GOLANI (Israel)
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Article
Zootaxa 3054: 60–68 (10 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 14 Sep. 2011
 Redescription of the Red Sea gobiid fish Ctenogobiops maculosus (Fourmanoir) and validation of C. crocineus Smith 
MARCELO KOVAČIĆ (Croatia), SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3052: 62–68 (07 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 5 references                         Accepted: 15 Sep. 2011
 Tonlesapia amnica, a new species of dragonet (Teleostei: Callionymidae) from the Mekong delta HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & WALTER J. RAINBOTH (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3046: 39–58 (30 Sep. 2011) 23 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
 Three new species of the fangblenny genus Meiacanthus from Indonesia, with color photographs and comments on other species (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Nemophini) 
WILLIAM F. SMITH-VANIZ (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3042: 27–36 (27 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 30 Aug. 2011
 Phylogenetic analysis of Western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) 
LUKE TORNABENE & FRANK PEZOLD (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3037: 45–50 (21 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 26 Aug. 2011
 Pseudeutropius indigens, a new species of schilbeid catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from peninsular Thailand 
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON (Lao)
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Article
Zootaxa 3036: 39–57 (21 Sep. 2011) 12 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 15 Aug. 2011
 Review of the genus Microphilypnus Myers, 1927 (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Eleotridae) from the lower Amazon basin, with description of one new species 
RODRIGO A. CAIRES & JOSÉ LIMA DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3027: 01–08 (15 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
 Redescription of the perciform fish Symphysanodon disii (Symphysanodontidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, with comments on S. pitondelafournaisei and sexual dimorphism in the genus WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR. (USA), AVI BARANES (Israel) & MENACHEM GOREN (Israel)
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Article
Zootaxa 3025: 38–50 (14 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
 A review of the Acanthopagrus bifasciatus species complex (Pisces: Sparidae) from the Indian Ocean, with redescriptions of A. bifasciatus (Forsskål 1775) and A. catenula (Lacepède 1801) YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan) & PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 3018: 59–65 (08 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 08 Aug. 2011
 Synaptolaemus latofasciatus, a new combination for Leporinus latofasciatus Steindachner, 1910 and its junior synonym Synaptolaemus cingulatus Myers and Fernández-Yépez, 1950 (Characiformes: Anostomidae) 
HERALDO A. BRITSKI, JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI & JULIO C. GARAVELLO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3018: 13–20 (08 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 27 Jul. 2011
 Polysteganus mascarenensis, a new sparid fish species from Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan) & PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 3015: 21–28 (06 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug 2011
Odontanthias randalli n. sp., a new anthiine fish (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Indonesia WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3015: 1–12 (06 Sep. 2011) 12 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
 Distribution of Tetraodontiformes (Family: Tetraodontidae) along the Parangipettai Coast, Southeast coast of India 
ANGUCHAMY VEERURAJ, MUTHUVEL ARUMUGAM, THANGAPPAN AJITHKUMAR & THANGAVEL BALASUBRAMANIAN (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 3002: 45–51 (24 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 8 Aug. 2011
Boraras naevus, a new species of miniature and sexually dichromatic freshwater fish from peninsular Thailand (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae) 
 KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA) AND MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3002: 17–30 (24 Aug. 2011) 7 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 13 Jul. 2011
 Gollum suluensis sp. nov. (Carcharhiniformes: Pseudotriakidae), a new gollum-shark from the southern Philippines 
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & JOE P. GAUDIANO (Philippines)
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Article
Zootaxa 2998: 48–65 (18 Aug. 2011) 9 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 15 Jul. 2011
 Description of Barbus teugelsi sp. nov. (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Little Scarcies basin in Guinea, Africa 
MAMADOU BAMBA (Côte d’Ivoire), EMMANUEL J. VREVEN (Belgium) & JOS SNOEKS (Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 2998: 39–47 (18 Aug. 2011) 5 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
 A new species of Secutor (Teleostei: Leiognathidae) from the Western Indian Ocean 
ZACHARY H. BALDWIN & JOHN S. SPARKS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2997: 54–66 (17 Aug. 2011) 20 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 23 Jul. 2011
 Two new Indo-Pacific species in the Eviota nigriventris complex (Teleostei: Gobiidae) 
DAVID W. GREENFIELD & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2994: 1–20 (12 Aug. 2011) 12 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 4 Jul. 2011
 A threatened new species of Oligosarcus and its phylogenetic relationships, with comments on Astyanacinus (Teleostei: Characidae) 
JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE, GASTÓN AGUILERA & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 2993: 23–33 (11 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 17 references                     Accepted: 1 Jun. 2011
Salmo tigridis, a new species of trout from the Tigris River, Turkey (Teleostei: Salmonidae) DAVUT TURAN (Turkey), MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland) & YUSUF BEKTAŞ (Turkey)
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Article
Zootaxa 2992: 52–60 (11 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 8 references                     Accepted: 2 Jun. 2011
Spinipterus, a new genus of small, spiny catfish (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) from the Peruvian Amazon 
ALBERTO AKAMA (Brazil) & CARL J. FERRARIS, JR (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2988: 1–27 (08 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 43 references                     Accepted: 4 Jul. 2011
Two new species of Foa (Apogonidae) from the Pacific Plate, with redescriptions of Foa brachygramma and Foa fo 
THOMAS H. FRASER & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2985: 26–40 (04 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 21 references                     Accepted: 30 Jun. 2011
List of coastal fishes of Islas Marías archipelago, Mexico, with comments on taxonomic composition, biogeography, and abundance 
BRAD E. ERISMAN (USA), GRANTLY R. GALLAND (USA), ISMAEL MASCAREÑAS (Mexico), JERRY MOXLEY (USA), H. J. WALKER(USA), OCTAVIO ABURTO-OROPEZA (USA), PHILIP A. HASTINGS (USA) & EXEQUIEL EZCURRA (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2982: 1–26 (02 Aug. 2011) 11 plates; 44 references                         Accepted: 30 Jun. 2011
Two new species of Australoheros (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with notes on diversity of the genus and biogeography of the Río de la Plata basin 
OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN (Czech Republic), LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK (Czech Republic), ADRIANA ALMIRÓN (Argen-tina) & JORGE CASCIOTTA (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 2966: 37–50 (14 Jul. 2011) 2 plates; 61 references                         Accepted: 18 May 2011
A molecular phylogeny of the Grunts (Perciformes: Haemulidae) inferred using mitochondrial and nuclear genes
MILLICENT D. SANCIANGCO, LUIZ A. ROCHA & KENT E. CARPENTER (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2966: 31–36 (14 Jul. 2011) 2 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 2 Jun. 2011
A new species of the perciform fish genus Symphysanodon (Symphysanodontidae) from the Arabian Sea off the southwestern coast of India
WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR. (USA) & K. K. BINEESH (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2966: 1–12 (14 Jul. 2011) 7 plates; 38 references                         Accepted: 26 May 2011
Description of Fenerbahce devosi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of dwarf killifish from the eastern Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo
RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany), TONNIE WOELTJES (Belgium) & JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2957: 1–74 (08 Jul. 2011) 8 plates; 261 references               Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
 Annotated checklist and type catalog of fish genera and species described from Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO & KWANG-TSAO SHAO
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Article
Zootaxa 2941: 38–46 (06 Jul. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                       Accepted: 19 May 2011
A new distinctively banded species of Pseudolithoxus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Orinoco River
NATHAN K. LUJAN (USA) & JOSE L. O. BIRINDELLI (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2936: 51–58 (01 Jul. 2011) 5 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 26 May 2011
Monopterus ichthyophoides, a new species of scaled swamp eel (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae) from Mizoram, India
RALF BRITZ (UK), HMAR TLAWMTE LALREMSANGA (India), LALROTLUANGA (India) & LALRAMLIANA (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2934: 29–38 (30 Jun. 2011) 6 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 23 May 2011
A new characid fish, Moenkhausia aurantia (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae), from the upper rio Tocantins basin in Central Brazil
VINICIUS A. BERTACO, FERNANDO C. JEREP & FERNANDO R. CARVALH (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2934: 20–28 (30 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 34 references                         Accepted: 1 Jun. 2011
A new species of Petrocephalus Marcusen 1854 (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) from the Sanaga River basin, Cameroon
SÉBASTIEN LAVOUÉ (France)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2933: 65–68 (29 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 9 May 2011
Validating the occurrence of Caribbean reef sharks, Carcharhinus perezi (Poey), (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, with a key for sharks of the family Carcharhinidae inhabiting the region
WILLIAM B. DRIGGERS III, ERIC R. HOFFMAYER, EMMA L. HICKERSON, TIMOTHY L. MARTIN & CHRISTOPHER T. GLEDHILL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2925: 63–68 (21 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 11 May 2011
A new species of frogfish of the genus Histiophryne (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennariidae) from Queensland, Australia
RACHEL J. ARNOLD & THEODORE W. PIETSCH (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2924: 57–62 (20 Jun. 2011) 13 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 23 May 2011
Pseudochromis erdmanni, a new species of dottyback with medially placed palatine teeth from Indonesia (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2922: 60–68 (17 Jun. 2011) 1 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 9 May 2011
Checklist of conspicuous reef fishes of the Bahía de los Ángeles region, Baja California Norte, Mexico, with comments on abundance and ecological biogeography
ISMAEL MASCAREÑAS-OSORIO (Mexico), BRAD ERISMAN (USA), JERRY MOXLEY (USA), EDUARDO BALART (Mexico) & OCTAVIO ABURTO-OROPEZA (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2912: 59–67 (9 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
 A new Trichomycterus lacking pelvic fins and pelvic girdle with a very restricted range in Southern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae)
JULIANO FERRER & LUIZ R. MALABARBA (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2911: 50–56 (9 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 2 May 2011
 A new species of Tetragonopterus Cuvier, 1816 (Characiformes, Characidae, Tetragonopterinae) from the upper rio Araguaia, Central Brazil
GABRIEL S. C. SILVA & RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2905: 63–68 (3 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 25 references                      Accepted: 11 May 2011
 Acanthurus tractus Poey, 1860, a valid western Atlantic species of surgeonfish (Teleostei, Acanthuridae), distinct from Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 1855
MOISÉS A. BERNAL & LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2903: 57–63 (2 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 2 Mar. 2011
 A new species of bonefish, Albula koreana (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from Korea and Taiwan
HYUCK JOON KWUN & JIN KOO KIM (Korea)
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Article
Zootaxa 2901: 59–68 (1 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 4 May 2011
 A new species, Microphysogobio wulonghensis (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), from Shandong Province, China
YING-CHUN XING, YA-HUI ZHAO, WEN-QIAO TANG & CHUN-GUANG ZHANG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2901: 52–58 (1 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                        Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
 Batasio convexirostrum, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Bagridae) from Koladyne basin, India
A. DARSHAN, N. ANGANTHOIBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2901: 1–18 (1 Jun. 2011) 21 plates; 47 references                      Accepted: 23 Mar. 2011
 Comparative development of five sympatric coastal Fundulid species from the northern Gulf of Mexico
ERIK T. LANG, MARK S. PETERSON & WILLIAM T. SLACK (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2886: 63–68 (23 May 2011) 6 plates; 5 references                       Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
 Redescription of the Indian toadfish Perulibatrachus aquilonarius Greenfield (Teleostei: Batrachoididae)
K.K. BINEESH (India) & DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2886: 1–18 (23 May 2011) 2 plates; 38 references                       Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
 Taxonomy of the fishes of the family Leiognathidae (Pisces, Teleostei) from the West coast of India
K. J. ABRAHAM, K. K. JOSHI & V. S. R. MURTY (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2881: 39–50 (17 May 2011) 6 plates; 27 references                       Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
 Cophecheilus bamen, a new genus and species of labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China
YU ZHU, E ZHANG, MING ZHANG & YAO-QUAN HAN (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2880: 31–40 (17 May 2011) 3 plates; 39 references                     Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
Western boundary of the subfamily Danioninae in Asia (Teleostei, Cyprinidae): derived from the systematic position of Barilius mesopotamicus based on molecular and morphological data
TE-YU LIAO (Sweden), ERHAN ÜNLÜ (Turkey) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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Article
Zootaxa 2877: 1–40 (13 May 2011) 8 plates; 65 references                       Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
Gill arch and hyoid arch diversity and cypriniform phylogeny: Distributed integration of morphology and web-based tools
PAULA M. MABEE (USA), ERICKA A. GREY (USA), GLORIA ARRATIA (USA), NINA BOGUTSKAYA (Russia), ALICJA BORON (Poland), †MILES M. COBURN (USA), KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA), SHUNPING HE (P.R. China), ALEXANDER NASEKA (Russia), NELSON RIOS (USA), ANDREW SIMONS (USA), JOLANTA SZLACHCIAK (Russia) & XUZHEN WANG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2876: 49–56 (12 May 2011) 3 plates; 12 references                     Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
 Leptoderma macrophthalmum n.sp., a new species of smooth-head (Otocephala: Alepocephalidae) from the Mid Atlantic Ridge
INGVAR BYRKJEDAL (Norway), JAN YDE POULSEN (Norway) & JOHN GALBRAITH (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2871: 1–18 (9 May 2011) 7 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Two new species of the Glyptosternine catfish genus Euchiloglanis (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from southwest China with redescriptions of E. davidi and E. kishinouyei
WEI ZHOU (P.R. China), XU LI (P.R. China) & ALFRED W. THOMSON (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2867: 59–66 (5 May 2011) 9 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Revision of the bathyal fish genus Pseudonus (Teleostei, Bythitidae); P. squamiceps a senior synonym of P. platycephalus, new to Australian waters
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark)
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Article
Zootaxa 2867: 32–42 (5 May 2011) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 4 Apr. 2011
Parapercis lutevittata, a new cryptic species of Parapercis (Teleostei: Pinguipedidae), from the western Pacific based on morphological evidence and DNA barcoding
YUN-CHIH LIAO, TUN-YUAN CHENG & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. china)
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Article
Zootaxa 2833: 1–14 (27 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 9 Mar. 2011
Paraneetroplus synspilus is a Junior Synonym of Paraneetroplus melanurus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)
CALEB D. MCMAHAN, CHRISTOPHER M. MURRAY, AARON D. GEHEBER, CHRISTOPHER D. BOECKMAN & KYLE R. PILLER (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2827: 1–30 (21 Apr. 2011) 20 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
 Potamotrygon tigrina, a new species of freshwater stingray from the upper Amazon basin, closely related to Potamotrygon schroederi Fernandez-Yépez, 1958 (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)
MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO (Brazil), MARK H. SABAJ PEREZ (USA) & NATHAN R. LOVEJOY (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 2823: 61–68 (18 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 17 references                       Accepted: 16 Mar. 2011
 Clarias gracilentus, a new walking catfish (Teleostei: Clariidae) from Vietnam and Cambodia
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore), DANG KHANH HONG (Vietnam) & NGUYEN VAN TU (Vietnam)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2819: 68 (14 Apr. 2011) 
Erratum: SHIDLOVSKIY, K.M., WATTERS, B.R. & WILDEKAMP, R.H. (2010) Notes on the annual killifish species Nothobranchius rachovii (Cyprinodontiformes; Nothobranchiidae) with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 2724, 37–57.
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2816: 1–64 (12 Apr. 2011) 51 plates; 37 references                       Accepted: 19 Nov. 2010
A review of the freshwater fishes of the Kimberley region of Western Australia
DAVID L. MORGAN, GERALD R. ALLEN, BRADLEY J. PUSEY & DAMIEN W. BURROWS (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2814: 59–66 (11 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 2 Mar. 2011
 A new species of prickleback Ernogrammus zhirmunskii (Acanthopterygii: Perciformes: Stichaeidae) from the Sea of Japan, Russia
ALEXANDER I. MARKEVICH & VLADIMIR E. KHARIN (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2812: 63–68 (8 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
 Two new goby species of the genus Eviota from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA) & TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 2799: 41–48 (24 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 8 references                      Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
 A new species of Nemuroglanis (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the rio Guariba, rio Madeira basin, Brazil
FRANK RAYNNER V. RIBEIRO, WELLINGTON S. PEDROZA & LÚCIA H. RAPP PY-DANIEL (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2793: 56–62 (17 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 3 Feb. 2011
 Silurichthys ligneolus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from southern Borneo, Indonesia
HEOK HEE NG & HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 2781: 40–48 (2 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 5 Jan. 2011
 Rediscovery and description of the quagga shark, Halaelurus quagga (Alcock, 1899) (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) from the southwest coast of India
K.V. AKHILESH (India), K.K. BINEESH (India), C.P.R. SHANIS (India), B.A. HUMAN (Australia) & U. GANGA (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2776: 13–48 (24 Feb. 2011) 27 plates; 36 references                      Accepted: 18 Feb. 2011
Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a remarkable new genus and two new species of Neotropical freshwater stingrays from the Amazon basin (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)
MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO (Brazil) & NATHAN R. LOVEJOY (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 2776: 1–12 (24 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
 A second New Zealand species of the stargazer genus Kathetostoma (Trachinoidei: Uranoscopidae)
MARTIN F. GOMON (Australia) & CLIVE D. ROBERTS (New Zealand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2768: 55–68 (18 Feb. 2011) 9 plates; 31 references                       Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
 A new species of Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Etroplinae) from northeastern Madagascar, with a phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the P. damii clade
JOHN S. SPARKS & ROBERT C. SCHELLY (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2765: 1–20 (15 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 30 Nov. 2010
 Two new sympatric Sarotherodon species (Pisces: Cichlidae) endemic to Lake Ejagham, Cameroon, west-central Africa, with comments on the Sarotherodon galilaeus species complex
DIRK NEUMANN (Germany), MELANIE L. J. STIASSNY (USA) & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2759: 49–59 (7 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
 Squatina caillieti sp. nov., a new species of angel shark (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes: Squatinidae) from the Philippine Islands
JONATHAN H. WALSH (USA), DAVID A. EBERT (USA) & LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 2758: 57–68 (7 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 29 Dec. 2010
 A new species of snake eel, Pisodonophis sangjuensis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Korea
HWAN-SUNG JI & JIN-KOO KIM (Korea)
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Article
Zootaxa 2754: 60–66 (1 Feb. 2011) 4 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 29 Dec. 2011
 Oreoglanis majusculus, a new glyptosternine catfish from Arunachal Pradesh, India (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
I. LINTHOINGAMBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2752: 62–68 (31 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
 Description of a new species of sand-dwelling catfish of the genus Stenolicmus (Siluriformes; Trichomycteridae)
WOLMAR BENJAMIN WOSIACKI, DANIEL PIRES COUTINHO & LUCIANO FOGAÇA DE ASSIS MONTAG (Brazil)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2751: 63–64 (28 Jan. 2011) 1 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
 Designation of the lectotype of Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895 (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae) and discussion of its nomenclatural status
PAULO H.F. LUCINDA (Brazil), CARLOS A. FIGUEIREDO (Brazil) & KARSTEN E. HARTEL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2749: 40–46 (26 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
 Astyanax pirapuan: a new characid species from the upper Rio Paraguay system, Mato Grosso, Central Brazil (Characiformes, Characidae)
VICTOR A. TAGLIACOLLO, RICARDO BRITZKE, GABRIEL S. C. SILVA & RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2749: 25–39 (26 Jan. 2011) 11 plates; 37 references                        Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
 New species of Sangiorgioichthys Tintori and Lombardo, 2007 (Neopterygii, Semionotiformes) from the Anisian of Luoping (Yunnan Province, South China)
ADRIANA LÓPEZ-ARBARELLO (Germany), ZUO-YU SUN (P.R. China), EMILIA SFERCO (Germany), ANDREA TINTORI (Italy), GUANG-HUI XU (Italy), YUAN-LIN SUN (P.R. China), FEI-XIANG WU (P.R. China) & DA-YONG JIANG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2749: 1–24 (26 Jan. 2011) 15 plates; 86 references                         Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
New semionotiform (Neopterygii) from the Tlayúa Quarry (Early Cretaceous, Albian), Mexico
ADRIANA LÓPEZ-ARBARELLO (Germany) & JESÚS ALVARADO-ORTEGA (Mexico)
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Article
Zootaxa 2742: 34–48 (17 Jan. 2011) 2 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 3 Nov. 2010
Fishes of the family Sternoptychidae (Stomiiformes) collected on the Brazilian continental slope between 11° and 23°S
ADRIANO T. LIMA, PAULO A. S. COSTA, ADRIANA C. BRAGA, GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN & MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2741: 66–68 (17 Jan. 2011) 0 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
On the formation of family-group names and gender of genera based on the stem—butis (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei)
ANTHONY C. GILL & DOUGLAS F. HOESE (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2738: 26–40 (12 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 21 Dec. 2010
 A review of the genus Platyrhina (Chondrichthys: Platyrhinidae) from the northwestern Pacific, with descriptions of two new species
YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan), KEI MIYAMOTO (Japan), KAZUHIRO NAKAYA (Japan) & JIE ZHANG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2738: 1–25 (12 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
Descriptions of five new species in the genus Metriaclima (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Malaŵi, Africa
PATRICK J. CICCOTTO, ADRIANUS KONINGS & JAY R. STAUFFER, JR. (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2734: 40–52 (7 Jan. 2011) 1 plates; 33 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2010
Fish fauna of Baía da Babitonga (southern Brazil), with remarks on species abundance, ontogenic stage and conservation status
CIRO COLODETTI VILAR, HENRY LOUIS SPACH & LILYANE DE OLIVEIRA SANTOS (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2724: 58–68 (16 Dec. 2010) 6 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 6 Nov. 2010
 Aphyosemion teugelsi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species from a remote locality in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo
JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium) & RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2724: 37–57 (16 Dec. 2010) 11 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 9 Nov. 2010
 Notes on the annual killifish species Nothobranchius rachovii (Cyprinodontiformes; Nothobranchiidae) with the description of two new species
KONSTANTIN M. SHIDLOVSKIY (Russia), BRIAN R. WATTERS (Canada) & RUDOLF H. WILDEKAMP (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 2715: 59–67 (7 Dec. 2010) 5 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 17 Nov. 2010
 A new species of Ctenobrycon Eigenmann, 1908 (Characiformes: Characidae) from the río Orinoco basin, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE (Brazil), GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil) & ERNESTO RON (Venezuela)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2710: 1–78 (3 Dec. 2010) 28 plates; 44 references                        Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
A revision of the genus Pseudoscopelus Lütken (Chiasmodontidae: Acanthomorphata) with descriptions of three new species
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2694: 59–68 (2 Dec. 2010) 3 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 4 Nov. 2010
Two new records of uncommon deep-sea perciform fishes from the Southwestern Atlantic
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, GUY MARCOVALDI, CLÁUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO, M. ISABEL G. PAIVA & LUIZ A. G. DUARTE (Brazil)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2690: 68–68 (29 Nov. 2010) 
Erratum: BAÑON, R., VILLEGAS-RÍOS, D., SERRANO, A., MUCIENTES, G. & ARRONTE, J.C. (2010) Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 2667, 1–27.
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Zootaxa 2690: 59–67 (29 Nov. 2010) 3 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 6 Nov. 2010
 Parapercis randalli, a new sandperch (Pisces: Pinguipedidae) from Southern Taiwan
HSUAN-CHING HO & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2690: 43–52 (29 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 12 Nov. 2010
 A new species of Danakilia (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Lake Abaeded in the Danakil Depression of Eritrea (East Africa)
MELANIE L. J. STIASSNY (USA), GIUSEPPE DE MARCHI (Italy) & ANTON LAMBOJ (Austria)
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Zootaxa 2684: 45–56 (23 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
 Morphological variation in Acrossocheilus hemispinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Barbinae), with comments on its taxonomic status
LE-YANG YUAN & E ZHANG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2684: 36–44 (23 Nov. 2010) 3 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
 Type locality and identity of Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii (Regan, 1908), a senior synonym of Acrossocheilus cinctus (Lin, 1931) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
LE-YANG YUAN & E ZHANG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 60–68 (16 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 5 references                                Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
 A new species of miniature catfish from the Malay Peninsula (Teleostei: Bagridae: Nanobagrus)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 27–37 (16 Nov. 2010) 1 plates; 35 references                                Accepted: 6 Oct. 2010
The cardinalfish Fowleria isostigma in the Red Sea and the validity of F. punctulata (Perciformes: Apogonidae)
OFER GON (South Africa) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2672: 61–68 (10 Nov. 2010) 8 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 15 Oct. 2010
Eviota karaspila, a new gobiid fish from Fiji (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2672: 50–60 (10 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 14 Oct. 2010
 Amblyceps cerinum, a new catfish (Teleostei: Amblycipitidae) from northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & JEREMY J. WRIGHT (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2671: 53–60 (9 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 22 references                               Accepted: 8 Oct. 2010
 A new species of deep-sea anglerfish, genus Himantolophus (Lophiiformes: Himantolophidae) from the Western South Pacific, with comments on the validity of H. pseudalbinares
ANDREW L. STEWART (New Zealand) & THEODORE W. PIETSCH (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2667: 1–27 (4 Nov. 2010) 17 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 24 Sep. 2010
Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist
RAFAEL BAÑON, DAVID VILLEGAS-RÍOS, ALBERTO SERRANO, GONZALO MUCIENTES & JUAN CARLOS ARRONTE (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 2655: 57–62 (25 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 28 Sep. 2010
Eviota nigrispina, a New Goby from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Teleostei: Gobiidae)
DAVID W. GREENFIELD (USA) & TOSHIYUKI SUZUKI (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 2655: 25–51 (25 Oct. 2010) 10 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 23 Sep. 2010
Taxonomy of Auchenoglanis Günther 1865 (Siluriformes: Auchenoglanididae)
MICHAEL E. RETZER (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2647: 61–68 (15 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 21 Sep. 2010
Redescription of Silurus burmanensis Thant 1967: a Silurus not a Pterocryptis (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Siluridae)
RALF BRITZ (UK) & TIN WIN (Myanmar)
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Article
Zootaxa 2646: 63–68 (14 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 52 references                           Accepted: 24 Sep. 2010
The nominal species of rays (Chondrichthyes) described by Stephan (1779)
MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2632: 67–68 (1 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 13 Sep. 2010
 Genetypes: a concept to help integrate molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2632: 53–66 (1 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 20 references                                Accepted: 1 Sep. 2010
A new species of Microglanis (Siluriformes, Pseudopimelodidae) from lower Rio Tocantins basin, Pará, Brazil, with description of superficial neuromasts and pores of lateral line system
WILLIAM BENEDITO GOTTO RUIZ & OSCAR AKIO SHIBATTA (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2628: 56–62 (28 Sep. 2010) 2 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 31 Aug. 2010
 Glyptothorax chimtuipuiensis, a new species of catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Koladyne basin, India
N. ANGANTHOIBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2628: 27–42 (28 Sep. 2010) 9 plates; 62 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
First report of Aulopus (Teleostei: Aulopidae) from Southwestern Atlantic, with a review of records and a key to Western Atlantic Aulopoidei species
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, GUY MARCOVALDI, CLÁUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO, M. ISABEL G. PAIVA & LUIZ A. G. DUARTE (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2616: 3 1–47 (17 Sep. 2010) 10 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 3 Sep. 2010
 Three new species of Psilorhynchus from the Ayeyarwaddy River drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae)
KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA) & RALF BRITZ (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 2613: 61–68 (15 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
 A new seahorse (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus) from south-western Australia
RALPH FOSTER & MARTIN F. GOMON (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2612: 22–40 (15 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 111 references                          Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Resurrection and redescription of Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1854) from the North Pacific, with comments on the Squalus acanthias subgroup (Squaliformes: Squalidae)
DAVID A. EBERT (USA), WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia), KENNETH J. GOLDMAN (USA), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa), TOBY S. DALY–ENGEL (USA) & ROBERT D. WARD (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2600: 1–52 (1 Sep. 2010) 15 plates; 62 references                                 Accepted: 9 Jul. 2010
African weakly electric fishes of the genus Petrocephalus (Osteoglossomorpha: Mormyridae) of Odzala National Park, Republic of the Congo (Lékoli River, Congo River basin) with description of five new species
SÉBASTIEN LAVOUÉ (UK), JOHN P. SULLIVAN (USA) & MATTHEW E. ARNEGARD (USA)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2589: 1–92 (31 Aug. 2010) 0 plates; 460 references                          Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
Checklist of the Adriatic Sea Fishes
LOVRENC LIPEJ (Slovenia) & JAKOV DULČIĆ (Croatia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2579: 59–68 (30 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Morphology of the Gas Bladder in Sea Catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae)
ALEXANDRE P. MARCENIUK & JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2577: 57–68 (26 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
 A new species of Moenkhausia from the rio Amazonas and rio Orinoco basins (Characiformes: Characidae)
MANOELA M. F. MARINHO & FRANCISCO LANGEANI (Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2576: 56–58 (25 Aug. 2010) 0 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
 Kali colubrina Melo, 2008: a senior synonym of Kali caribbaea Prokofiev, 2008 (Acanthomorphata: Chiasmodontidae)
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2571: 62–68 (19 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 23 Jul. 2010
 A new earthworm eel of the genus Chaudhuria from the Ayeyarwaddy River Drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Chaudhuriidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 2567: 50–56 (16 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
 Malacoctenus brunoi sp. n. (Blennioidei: Labrisomidae), a new scaled-blenny from Trindade Island, off Brazil
RICARDO Z. P. GUIMARÃES, GUSTAVO W. NUNAN & JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2561: 59–68 (9 Aug. 2010) 9 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Jul. 2010
 Revision of the bathyal fish genus Benthocometes (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) with a new species from off NW Australia
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark)
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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 61–68 (4 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 19 Jul. 2010
 Pseudolaguvia spicula, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Bangladesh and northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LALRAMLIANA (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 1–16 (4 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 49 references                               Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
 A systematic review of the genus Chasmodes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Blenniidae)
ROBERT JAVONILLO & ANTONY S. HAROLD (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 39–48 (3 Aug. 2010) 10 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
 Nemacheilus marang, a new loach (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) from Sangkulirang karst, eastern Borneo
RENNY KURNIA HADIATY (Indonesia) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)
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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 19–28 (3 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 23 Jun. 2010
 Status and phylogeny of Milyeringidae (Teleostei: Gobiiformes), with the description of a new blind cave-fish from Australia, Milyeringa brooksi, n. sp.
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2557: 1–18 (3 Aug. 2010) 7 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
 A new species of Lepidocephalichthys (Teleostei: Cobitidae) with distinctive sexual dimorphism and comments on relationships in southern lineages of Cobitidae
JUSTIN C. HAVIRD (USA), LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA), WEERAPONGSE TANGJITJAROEN (Thailand), CHAVALIT VIDTHAYANON (Thailand), CHAIWUT GRUDPAN (Thailand) & SURIYA UDDUANG (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2548: 1–21 (26 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
Description of a new species of Tilapia Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Ghana
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Gremany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2537 33–46 (15 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 38 references                             Accepted: 19 Jun. 2010
Crenicichla hu, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Paraná basin in Misiones, Argentina 
LUBOMÍR PIÁLEK (Czech Republic), OLDŘICH ŘÍČAN (Czech Republic), JORGE CASCIOTTA (Argentina) & ADRIANA ALMIRÓN (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2536 53–68 (14 Jul. 2010) 9 plates; 46 references                             Accepted: 21 Jun. 2010
Squalius janae, a new species of fish from the Adriatic Sea basin in Slovenia (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)
NINA G. BOGUTSKAYA (Russia) & PRIMOŽ ZUPANČIČ (Slovenia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2534 48–56 (13 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 6 Jun. 2010
 Peckoltia compta, a new species of catfish from the Brazilian Amazon, rio Tapajós basin (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
RENILDO RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA, JANSEN ZUANON, LUCIA RAPP PY-DANIEL & MARCELO SALLES ROCHA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2534 37–47 (13 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
 Petroleuciscus esfahani, a new species of fish from central Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)
BRIAN W. COAD (Canada) & NINA G. BOGUTSKAYA (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2532 55–63 (12 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 21 Jun. 2010
 Chimaera notafricana sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaera from southern Africa JENNY M. KEMPER (USA), DAVID A. EBERT (South Africa), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & DOMINIQUE A. DIDIER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2528 53–60 (6 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 19 references                               Accepted: 31 May 2010
 Glyptothorax malabarensis, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India
K. C. GOPI (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2525 51–62 (2 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 33 references                                 Accepted: 3 Jun. 2010
Molecular analysis of Acanthemblemaria macrospilus (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae) with description of a new species from the Gulf of California, Mexico
HSIU-CHIN LIN & GRANTLY R. GALLAND (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2525: 19–50 (2 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 86 references                              Accepted: 12 Jun. 2010
Marine fish diversity: history of knowledge and discovery (Pisces) 
WILLIAM N. ESCHMEYER (USA), RONALD FRICKE (Germany), JON D. FONG (USA) & DENNIS A. POLACK (South Africa)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2519 59–68 (28 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
 An old taxonomic dilemma: the identity of the western south Atlantic lebranche mullet (Teleostei: Perciformes: Mugilidae)
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil) , CLÁUDIO DE OLIVEIRA (Brazil) & MAURO NIRCHIO (Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2519: 48–58 (28 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 40 references                           Accepted: 22 May 2010
Macrodon atricauda (Günther, 1880) (Perciformes: Sciaenidae), a valid species from the southwestern Atlantic, with comments on its conservation
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, SIMONI SANTOS & IRACILDA SAMPAIO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2519: 31–47 (28 Jun. 2010) 8 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 5 Jun. 2010
Betadevario ramachandrani, a new danionine genus and species from the Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Danioninae) 
P. K. PRAMOD (India), FANG FANG (Sweden), K. REMA DEVI (India), TE-YU LIAO (Sweden), T.J. INDRA (India), K.S. JAMEELA BEEVI (India) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2518 60–68 (25 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 28 May 2010
 Pseudolaguvia virgulata, a new sisorid catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Mizoram, northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & LALRAMLIANA (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2514 55–60 (22 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2010
 Macrognathus aureus, a new spiny eel of the M. aculeatus species group from the Upper Ayeyarwaddy River Drainage, Myanmar (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2509: 62–66 (17 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 4 May 2010
 Records of regalecid fishes in Argentine waters
ANA E. RUIZ & ATILA E. GOSZTONYI (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2505: 1–39 (14 Jun. 2010) 35 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 8 May 2010
 Deepwater Indo-Pacific species of the snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae), with the description of nine new species
JOHN E. McCOSKER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2493: 59–65 (3 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2010
 Sparisoma rocha, a new species of parrotfish (Actinopterygii: Labridae) from Trindade Island, South-western Atlantic
HUDSON TERCIO PINHEIRO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & IVAN SAZIMA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2478: 1–40 (20 May 2010) 22 plates; 37 references                             Accepted: 8 Apr. 2010
The copepod genus Hatschekia Poche, 1902 (Siphonostomatoida: Hatschekiidae) from triggerfishes (Pisces: Tetraodontiformes: Balistidae) from off the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with descriptions of eleven new species
DAISUKE UYENO & KAZUYA NAGASAWA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2477: 37–48 (19 May 2010) 5 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 1 Apr. 2010
Eudontomyzon graecus, a new nonparasitic lamprey species from Greece (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae)
CLAUDE B. RENAUD (Canada) & PANOS S. ECONOMIDIS (Greece)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2475: 64–68 (17 May 2010) 2 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
Entomacrodus solus, a new species of blenny (Perciformes, Blenniidae) from the Red Sea
JEFFREY T. WILLIAMS (USA) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2475: 48–54 (17 May 2010) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 11 Apr. 2010
Redescription of the striped catfish Mystus carcio (Hamilton) (Siluriformes: Bagridae)
A. DARSHAN, N. ANGANTHOIBI & W. VISHWANATH (India)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2463: 1–135 (14 May 2010) 0 plates; 388 references                         Accepted: 12 Apr. 2010
 The Fishes of the Red Sea—Reappraisal and Updated Checklist 
DANIEL GOLANI (Israel) & SERGEY V. BOGORODSKY (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2452: 51–58 (12 May 2010) 4 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 7 Apr. 2010
A new species of Simpsonichthys (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio São Francisco basin, northeastern Brazil
DALTON TAVARES BRESSANE NIELSEN, OSCAR AKIO SHIBATTA, ROGÉRIO DOS REIS SUZART & AMER FAOUR MARTÍN (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2450: 26–40 (10 May 2010) 2 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
Phylogenies without Synapomorphies—A Crisis in Fish Systematics: Time to Show Some Character
RANDALL D. MOOI (Canada) & ANTHONY C. GILL (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2445: 53–61 (5 May 2010) 13 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 22 Mar. 2010
A new species of Chaunax (Lophiiformes: Chaunacidae) from the western South Pacific, with comment on C. latipunctatus
HSUAN-CHING HO & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2442: 51–59 (3 May 2010) 2 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 20 Mar. 2010
Character evidence for the monophyly of the Microdesminae, with comments on relationships to Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Gobiidae)
ANTHONY C. GILL (USA) & RANDALL D. MOOI (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2440: 1–17 (29 Apr. 2010) 10 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Morphological and systematic reassessment of †Knightia brasiliensis Woodward, 1939 (Teleostei: Clupeiformes) from the Pliocene of Parnaíba Basin, northeastern Brazil
FRANCISCO J. DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2434: 60–68 (23 Apr. 2010) 7 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Redescription of Astyanax stenohalinus Messner, 1962 (Characiformes: Characidae), a poorly known species from Argentina and Uruguay
ADRIANA E. ALMIRÓN (Argentina), JORGE R. CASCIOTTA (Argentina), MARÍA DE LAS M. AZPELICUETA (Argentina) & MARCELO LOUREIRO (Uruguay)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2433: 25–46 (22 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 57 references                            Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
On new collections of deep-sea Gadiformes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Brazilian continental slope, between 11° and 23° S
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA), ADRIANA C. BRAGA (Brazil), GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN (Brazil) & PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2429: 29–42 (19 Apr. 2010) 8 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Two new species of cichlid fish genus Geophagus Heckel from the Rio Tocantins drainage (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
PAULO H. F. LUCINDA, CARLOS A. S. LUCENA & NEWTON C. ASSIS (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 15–24 (15 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Geometric morphometrics uncovers a new species of ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Equulites), with comments on the taxonomic status of Equula berbis Valenciennes
PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY, JEANETTE CHU, LUTHFUN NAHAR & JOHN S. SPARKS (USA)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2426: 68–68 (14 Apr. 2010)  
Erratum: A new species of scaly blenny of the genus Labrisomus (Actinopterygii: Labrisomidae) from the tropical West Atlantic. Zootaxa, 2015, 62–68.
SAZIMA, I., CARVALHO-FILHO, A., GASPARINI, J.L. & SAZIMA, C. 
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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 63–68 (9 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 25 Feb. 2010
New records of marine fishes illustrate the biogeographic importance of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean
JEAN-PAUL A. HOBBS, ANTHONY M. AYLING, J. HOWARD CHOAT, JUSTIN J. GILLIGAN, CHRISTIAN A. MCDONALD, JOSEPH NEILSON & STEPHEN J. NEWMAN (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 53–62 (9 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 33 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Reef fishes of the Mazunte-Bahías de Huatulco reef track, Oaxaca, Mexican Pacific
RAMÓN ANDRÉS LÓPEZ PÉREZ, IMELDA LÓPEZ PÉREZ-MALDONADO, ARIADNA MONTSERRAT LÓPEZ ORTIZ, LINDA MARGARITA BARRANCO SERVIN, JAVIER BARRIENTOS VILLALOBOS & GERADO ESTEBAN LEYTE MORALES (Mexico)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2422: 22–30 (9 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
Description of Halichoeres rubrovirens, a new species of wrasse (Labridae: Perciformes) from the Trindade and Martin Vaz Island group, southeastern Brazil, with a preliminary mtDNA molecular phylogeny of New World Halichoeres
LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA), HUDSON T. PINHEIRO (Brazil) & JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2419: 63–68 (6 Apr. 2010) 2 plates; 2 references                        Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
Synodus cresseyi Prokofiev, 2008, an unnecessary replacement for S. macrocephalus Cressey, 1981, and a description of a new species from the Western Indian Ocean (Teleostei: Synodontidae)
HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China), ARTÉM M. PROKOFIEV (Russia) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 63–68 (22 Mar. 2010) 1 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Polydactylus luparensis, a new species of threadfin (Perciformes: Polynemidae) from the Batang Lupar River, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
PEK KHIOK ANNIE LIM (Malaysia), HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan) & ALBERT CHUAN GAMBANG (Malaysia)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2378: 1–84 (26 Feb. 2010) 16 plates; 394 references                        Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
A checklist of the fish fauna of Greenland waters
PETER R. MØLLER (Denmark), JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), STEEN W. KNUDSEN (Denmark), JAN Y. POULSEN (Denmark), KAJ SÜNKSEN (Greenland) & OLE A. JØRGENSEN (Denmark)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2370: 36–52 (25 Feb. 2010) 9 plates; 48 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
Fishes as living tracers of connectivity in the tropical western North Atlantic: I. Distribution of the neon gobies, genus Elacatinus (Pisces: Gobiidae)
PATRICK L. COLIN (Palau)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2352: 59–68 (5 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
Taxonomic Review of the perciform fish genus Acanthistius from the east coast of southern Africa, with description of a new species and designation of a neotype for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861
PHILLIP C. HEEMSTRA (South Africa)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2349: 55–64 (2 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) from the San Juan River drainage, Pacific versant of Colombia
CARLOS A. GARCÍA–ALZATE (Colombia), CÉSAR ROMÁN–VALENCIA (Colombia) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2348: 40–56 (1 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 57 references                             Accepted: 9 Dec. 2009
Cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides Smith, 1949 (Apogonidae) with a description of a new species from the West-Pacific region
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA) & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2346: 53–61 (28 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
The larval, juvenile, and adult stages of the Caribbean goby, Coryphopterus kuna (Teleostei: Gobiidae): a reef fish with a pelagic larval duration longer than the post-settlement lifespan
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA), LOURDES VASQUEZ-YEOMANS (Mexico), MARTHA VALDEZMORENO (Mexico), LESLIE WILK (Canada), DAVID L. JONES (USA), MONICA R. LARA (USA), CHRIS CALDOW (USA) & MAHMOOD SHIVJI (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2346: 29–41 (28 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A new species of ladyfish, of the genus Elops (Elopiformes: Elopidae), from the western Atlantic Ocean
RICHARD S. MCBRIDE, CLAUDIA R. ROCHA, RAMON RUIZ-CARUS & BRIAN W. BOWEN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2345: 19–32 (27 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
Ancistrus falconensis n. sp. and A. gymnorhynchus Kner (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from central Venezuelan Caribbean coastal streams
DONALD C. TAPHORN (USA), JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA) & DOUGLAS RODRÍGUEZOLARTE (Venezuela)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2343: 57–65 (25 Jan. 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 3 Dec. 2009
A new species of Pimelodus LaCépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from rio Itacaiunas, rio Tocantins basin, Brazil
MARCELO SALLES ROCHA & FRANK RAYNNER V. RIBEIRO (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2341: 33–51 (22 Jan. 2010) 8 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 1 Dec. 2009
A new species of Ptychochromis from northeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with an updated phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the genus
JOHN S. SPARKS & MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2340: 50–64 (21 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 30 Nov. 2009
Cottus immaculatus, a new species of sculpin (Cottidae) from the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri, USA
ANDREW P. KINZIGER & ROBERT M. WOOD (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2332: 49–60 (11 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 3 Nov. 2009
Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique
MARTIN REICHARD (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2332: 40–48 (11 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
A new species of suckermouth armored catfish, Pseudancistrus kwinti (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Coppename River drainage, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname
PHILIP W. WILLINK (USA), JAN H. MOL (Suriname) & BARRY CHERNOFF (USA)
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2009

 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 62-68 (24 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2009
Redescription of Lophiodes infrabrunneus Smith and Radcliffe, 1912, a senior synonym of L. abdituspinus Ni, Wu and Li, 1990 (Lophiiformes: Lophiidae)
HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China), BERNARD SÉRET (France) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2326: 39-50 (24 Dec. 2009) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 17 Oct. 2009
Description of a new Coelorinchus (Macrouridae, Gadiformes, Teleostei) from Taiwan, with notable new records of grenadiers from the South China Sea
TOMIO IWAMOTO (USA), HSUAN-CHING HO (R. China) & KWANG-TSAO SHAO (R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2312: 49-59 (16 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 5 Nov. 2009
Descriptions of two new genera and species of ptereleotrine fishes from Australia and Japan (Teleostei: Gobioidei) with discussion of possible relationships
DOUGLASS F. HOESE (Australia) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2307: 1-38 (9 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 76 references                          Accepted: 9 Nov. 2009
Annotated checklist of the freshwater fishes of continental and insular Honduras
WILFREDO A. MATAMOROS, JACOB F. SCHAEFER & BRIAN R. KREISER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2301: 1-28 (1 Dec. 2009) 16 plates; 48 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Redescription of the genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae)
ANDREA D. MARSHALL (Australia), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & MICHAEL B. BENNETT (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 64-68 (26 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Occurrence of the Mardi Gras wrasse, Halichoeres burekae (Teleostei: Labridae) in the Alacranes Reef, off northern Yucatan Peninsula
ALFONSO AGUILAR-PERERA & ARMIN TUZ-SULUB (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 45-54 (26 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
New records of fishes for Trindade-Martin Vaz oceanic insular complex, Brazil
HUDSON T. PINHEIRO, VICTOR CAMILATO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOYEUX (Brazil)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2296: 68 (24 Nov. 2009) 
Erratum—SCHORIES, S., MEYER, M.K. & SCHARTL, M. (2009) Description of Poecilia (Acanthophacelus) obscura n. sp., (Teleostei: Poeciliidae), a new guppy species from western Trinidad, with remarks on P. wingei and the status of the “Endler’s guppy”. Zootaxa, 2266, 35–50.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2294: 1-22 (20 Nov. 2009) 10 plates; 63 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Description of a new genus and two new species of killifish (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from West Africa, with a discussion of the taxonomic status of Aphyosemion maeseni Poll, 1941
RAINER SONNENBERG & ECKHARD BUSCH (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2290: 27-35 (16 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Phenacoscorpius longirostris, a new species of deep water scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the northern Tasman Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2290: 1-26 (16 Nov. 2009) 22 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 19 Sep. 2009
First report of rare pomfrets (Teleostei: Bramidae) from Brazilian waters, with a key to Western Atlantic species
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, GUY MARCOVALDI, CLÁUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO, M. ISABEL G. PAIVA & LUIZ A. G. DUARTE (Brazil)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2289: 68 (13 Nov. 2009) 
Erratum—Ng, H. H. & Hadiaty, R. K. (2009) Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra. Zootaxa, 2232, 50–60.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 61-67 (13 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Comments on the snake-eel genus Xyrias (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) with the description of a new species
JOHN E. McCOSKER (USA), WEI-LI CHEN (Taiwan) & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2283: 16-28 (6 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 7 Oct. 2009
 Tachysurus spilotus, a new species of catfish from central Vietnam (Teleostei: Bagridae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2277: 61-68 (30 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 15 Oct. 2009
Description of a new scorpionfish (Scorpaenoidei, Sebastolobinae) from the tropical eastern Pacific
PHILIPPE BÉAREZ (France) & HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2277: 53-60 (30 Oct. 2009) 5 plates; 4 references                          Accepted: 8 Oct. 2009
Danionella priapus, a new species of miniature cyprinid fish from West Bengal, India (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
RALF BRITZ (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2275: 41-59 (29 Oct. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 25 Sep. 2009
Three new species of Ancistrus Kner, 1854 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rio Iguaçu basin, Paraná State, Brazil
ALESSANDRO GASPARETTO BIFI, CARLA SIMONE PAVANELLI & CLÁUDIO HENRIQUE ZAWADZKI (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 64-68 (22 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 30 Sep. 2009
 Briggsia hastingsi, a new genus and species of clingfish from Oman
MATTHEW T. CRAIG & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2271: 57-63 (22 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
Platycephalus orbitalis, a new species of flathead (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) collected from western Australia
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan) & LESLIE W. KNAPP (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2270: 63-68 (22 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
First record of the fish genus Symphysanodon (Teleostei: Perciformes: Symphysanodontidae) from the western South Atlantic Ocean
PAULA N. CAMPOS (Brazil) ANA CRISTINA T. BONECKER (Brazil), MÁRCIA S. DE CASTRO (Brazil) & WILLIAM D. ANDERSON, JR. (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2270: 53-62 (22 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 29 Sep. 2009
Squalius kottelati, a new cyprinid species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Orontes River, Turkey
DAVUT TURAN, B. TOGAY YILMAZ & CÜNEYT KAYA (Turkey)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2267: 43-54 (19 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 4 Sep. 2009
Acanthopagrus randalli (Perciformes: Sparidae), a new black seabream from the Persian Gulf
YUKIO IWATSUKI (Japan) & KENT E. CARPENTER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2266: 35-50 (16 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 3 Sep. 2009
Description of Poecilia (Acanthophacelus) obscura n. sp., (Teleostei: Poeciliidae), a new guppy species from western Trinidad, with remarks on P. wingei and the status of the “Endler’s guppy”
SUSANNE SCHORIES, MANFRED K. MEYER & MANFRED SCHARTL (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2262: 53-68 (12 Oct. 2009) 7 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 19 Aug. 2009
Two new species of Jupiaba (Characiformes: Characidae) from the rio Tapajós and rio Madeira drainages, Brazil, with an identification key to species of the genus
ANDRÉ L. NETTO-FERREIRA, ANGELA M. ZANATA, JOSÉ L. O. BIRINDELLI & LEANDRO M. SOUSA (Brazil)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2252: 1-77 (8 Oct. 2009) 27 plates; 55 references                         Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
A revision of the Australian handfishes (Lophiiformes: Brachionichthyidae), with descriptions of three new genera and nine new species
PETER R. LAST & DANIEL C. GLEDHILL (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2234: 1-20 (17 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
The deep-sea Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11o and 23o S
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA), GUSTAVO W. A. NUNAN (Brazil), ADRIANA C. BRAGA (Brazil) & PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2232: 50-60 (15 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2009
Ompok brevirictus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Sumatra  
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & RENNY K. HADIATY (Indonesia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 57-68 (11 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
Ocellus-bearing Neobythites species (Teleostei: Ophidiidae) from the West Atlantic with description of a new species
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), FRANZ UIBLEIN (Norway) & MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2228: 29-42 (11 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 45 references                          Accepted: 18 Aug. 2009
A shallow water population of Pronotogrammus martinicensis (Guichenot, 1868) (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from South-western Atlantic, Brazil 
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO (Brazil), CARLOS E. L.FERREIRA (Brazil) & MATTHEW CRAIG (Puerto Rico)
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Zootaxa 2228: 1-28 (11 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 50 references                          Accepted: 7 Aug. 2009
A Taxonomic Review of the Australian Butterfly Ray Gymnura australis (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886) and Other Members of the family Gymnuridae (Order Rajiformes) from the Indo-West Pacific
IAN P. JACOBSEN & MIKE B. BENNETT (Australia)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2220: 68 (4 Sep. 2009) 
Erratum—Aguilera, G., Mirande, J.M. & Azpelicueta, M.M. (2009) A new species of Cnesterodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina. Zootaxa, 2195, 34–42.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2218: 59-68 (2 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 11 Aug. 2009
A new species of chimaera, Hydrolagus melanophasma sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), from the eastern North Pacific
KELSEY C. JAMES, DAVID A. EBERT, DOUGLAS J. LONG & DOMINIQUE A. DIDIER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2215: 24-36 (31 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 4 Aug. 2009
Identification of the larval and juvenile stages of the Cubera Snapper, Lutjanus cyanopterus, using DNA barcoding
BENJAMIN C. VICTOR (USA), ROBERT HANNER (Canada), MAHMOOD SHIVJI (USA), JOHN HYDE (USA) & CHRIS CALDOW (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2203: 49-58 (19 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 1 Aug. 2009
A new species of tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae) from Taiwanese waters
MAO-YING LEE (Taiwan) , THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA) & HONG-MING CHEN (Taiwan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2198: 16-26 (14 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 1 Jul. 2009
Lethenteron ninae, a new nonparasitic lamprey species from the north-eastern Black Sea basin (Petromyzontiformes: Petromyzontidae)
ALEXANDER M. NASEKA (Russia), SAKO B. TUNIYEV (Russia) & CLAUDE B. RENAUD (Canada)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2196: 65-68 (13 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
First records of the rare eelpout Lycenchelys xanthoptera Anderson, 1991 (Teleostei, Zoarcidae) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
CARL D. STRUTHERS (New Zealand) & PETER R. MØLLER (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2195: 34-42 (12 Aug. 2009) 4 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 16 Jul. 2009
A new species of Cnesterodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from a small tributary of arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, río Paraná basin, Misiones, Argentina
GASTÓN AGUILERA, JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2191: 41-57 (7 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
Morphological comparisons of the Indo-West Pacific scorpionfish, Parascorpaena aurita, with a closely related species, P. picta, with first records of P. aurita from East Asia (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan), YOU SAKURAI (Japan), HIROSHI SENOU (Japan) & HSUANCHING HO (R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2173: 41-48 (31 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
A new dwarf cichlid genus and species (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Guinea, West Africa
ANTON LAMBOJ (Austria)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2173: 31-40 (31 Jul. 2009) 9 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
 Elacatinus lobeli, a new cleaning goby from Belize and Honduras
JOHN E. RANDALL (USA) & PATRICK L. COLIN (Palau)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2173: 1-18 (31 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
Chlamydoselachus africana, a new species of frilled shark from southern Africa (Chondrichthyes, Hexanchiformes, Chlamydoselachidae)
DAVID A. EBERT (USA) & LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2171: 48-64 (30 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 30 Jun. 2009
A new species of hill stream loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Central Kalimantan, with redescriptions of Homaloptera tateregani Popta and Homaloptera stephensoni Hora
TAN HEOK HUI (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 2171: 65-68 (30 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
Pangio lidi, a new species of loach from eastern Borneo, Indonesia (Teleostei: Cobitidae)
RENNY KURNIA HADIATY (Indonesia) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2167: 47-58 (24 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 2 Jul. 2009
A new genus and species of inseminating characid fish from the rio Xingu basin (Characiformes: Characidae)
NAÉRCIO A. MENEZES, KATIANE M. FERREIRA & ANDRÉ LUIZ NETTO-FERREIRA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2165: 59-68 (22 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
Redescription of Betta anabatoides Bleeker, and a new species of Betta from West Kalimantan, Borneo (Teleostei: Osphronemidae)
HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 21-32 (21 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 47 references                            Accepted: 16 Jun. 2009
A new marine clupeoid fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, northeastern Brazil
FRANCISCO J. DE FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 33-40 (21 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Devario xyrops, a new species of danionine fish from south-western Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
FANG FANG & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 41-48 (21 Jul. 2009) 4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Danio aesculapii, a new species of danio from south-western Myanmar (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
SVEN O. KULLANDER & FANG FANG (Sweden)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2153: 24-34 (9 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2009
 Notoraja sapphira sp. nov. (Rajoidei: Arhynchobatidae), a new deepwater skate from the slopes of the Norfolk Ridge (South-West Pacific)
BERNARD SÉRET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2143: 59-67 (29 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 27 May 2009
 Redescription of Parotocinclus bahiensis (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1918) (Pisces, Ostariophysi, Loricariidae)
HERALDO A. BRITSKI & JULIO CESAR GARAVELLO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2136: 49-58 (19 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
 Devario anomalus, a new species of freshwater fish from Bangladesh (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae)
KEVIN W. CONWAY, RICHARD L. MAYDEN & KEVIN L. TANG (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2133: 1-19 (16 Jun. 2009) 16 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
 A literature review of the sponge-dwelling gobiid fishes of the genus Elacatinus from the western Atlantic, with description of two new Caribbean species
JOHN E. RANDALL & PHIILLIP S. LOBEL (USA)
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Zootaxa 2120: 3-14 (28 May 2009) 0 plates; 57 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
 Recognizing diversity in blennioid fish nomenclature (Teleostei: Blennioidei)
PHILIP A. HASTINGS & VICTOR G. SPRINGER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2113: 55-62 (20 May 2009) 3 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
New species of Achirus (Pleuronectiformes: Achiridae) from Northeastern Brazil
ROBSON T. C. RAMOS, TELTON P. A. RAMOS, & PAULO R. D. LOPES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2113: 1-40 (20 May 2009) 21 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
Four new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper rio Uruguay, southeastern South America, with a review of the genus in the rio Uruguay basin 
TIAGO P. CARVALHO (USA) & ROBERTO E. REIS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2110: 41-57 (18 May 2009) 5 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Hemitriakis indroyonoi sp. nov., a new species of houndshark from Indonesia (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae)
WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia), LEONARD J.V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & DHARMADI (Indonesia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2095: 1-7 (8 May 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
Etheostoma erythrozonum, a new species of darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the Meramec River drainage, Missouri
JOHN F. SWITZER & ROBERT M. WOOD (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2093: 60-68 (6 May 2009) 5 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 10 Apr. 2009
Brachyhypopomus gauderio, new species, a new example of underestimated species diversity of electric fishes in the southern South America (Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae)
JULIA GIORA & LUIZ R. MALABARBA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2092: 37-46 (6 May 2009) 6 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 2 Apr. 2009
Halichoeres sazimai, a new species of wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from the Western South Atlantic
OSMAR J. LUIZ JR (Btazil), CARLOS E. L. FERREIRA (Brazil) & LUIZ A. ROCHA (USA)
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Zootaxa 2085: 61-68 (29 Apr. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 30 Mar. 2009
Glyptothorax ketambe, a new catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from northern Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & RENNY K. HADIATY (Indonesia)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2081: 67-68 (24 Apr. 2009) 2 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 3 Mar. 2009
Unusual coloration pattern in juveniles of Stegastes fuscus (Actinopterygii: Pomacentridae)
MARIA ELISABETH DE ARAÚJO, HENRIQUE A. MARANHÃO, DRÁUSIO P. VÉRAS & FÁBIO HAZIN (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2076: 37-59 (17 Apr. 2009) 7 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 24 Mar. 2009
Descriptions of three new species of Melanochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) and a redescription of M. vermivorus
GERTRUD KONINGS-DUDIN, ADRIANUS F. KONINGS & JAY R. STAUFFER, JR (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2072: 56-68 (14 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2009
Pseudobagrus fui Miao, a valid bagrid species from the Yangtze River drainage, South China (Teleostei: Bagridae)
JIAN-LI CHENG (China) , J. ANDRÉS LÓPEZ (USA) & E ZHANG (China)
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Zootaxa 2045: 43-59 (18 Mar. 2009) 13 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
Genetic characterization of the Aphyosemion calliurum species group and description of a new species from this assemblage: A. campomaanense (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Nothobranchiidae) from Southern Cameroon
JEAN-FRANÇOIS AGNÈSE (France), RANDALL BRUMMETT (Cameroon), PIERRE CAMINADE (France), JOSETTE CATALAN (France) & ETIENNE KORNOBIS (France)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2028: 1-19 (6 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 22 Feb. 2009
Description of two new species of Nannocharax Günther, 1867 (Teleostei: Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Cross River, Cameroon
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2028: 51-58 (6 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 22 Jan. 2009
On two Jenynsia taxa (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from Argentina, originally placed in the poeciliid genus Xiphophorus
STEFAN KOERBER (Germany) & MARÍA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 2028: 1-19 (6 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 22 Feb. 2009
Description of two new species of Nannocharax Günther, 1867 (Teleostei: Characiformes: Distichodontidae) from the Cross River, Cameroon
ANDREAS R. DUNZ & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2027: 55-62 (4 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 23 Jan. 2009
Description of Ophthalmolycus andersoni sp. nov. (Pisces, Zoarcidae) from the Antarctic Ocean
JESÚS MATALLANAS (Spain)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2022: 58-68 (27 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Barbulifer enigmaticus, a new seven-spined goby (Pisces: Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southwestern Atlantic
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOYEUX (Brasil), JAMES L. VAN TASSELL (USA) & RAPHAEL MARIANO MACIEIRA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2018: 45-57 (23 Feb. 2009) 10 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Atlantic occurrence of the genus Bellottia (Teleostei, Bythitidae) with two new species from the Western North Atlantic
JØRGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark), STEVE W. ROSS (USA) & DANIEL M. COHEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 2015: 62-68 (18 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 19 Jan. 2009
A new species of scaly blenny of the genus Labrisomus (Actinopterygii: Labrisomidae) from the tropical West Atlantic
IVAN SAZIMA, ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI & CRISTINA SAZIMA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 2008: 1-22 (11 Feb. 2009) 9 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Genetic identification and color descriptions of early life-history stages of Belizean Phaeoptyx and Astrapogon (Teleostei: Apogonidae) with Comments on identification of adult Phaeoptyx
CAROLE C. BALDWIN, JULIE H. MOUNTS, DAVID G. SMITH & LEE A. WEIGT (USA)
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Zootaxa 2008: 23-28 (11 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 23 Dec. 2008
A new species of the flathead genus Onigocia (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) collected from the Coral and Tasman Seas
HISASHI IMAMURA (Japan) & LESLIE W. KNAPP (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2006: 23-40 (9 Feb. 2009) 11 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 25 Nov. 2008
The identity of Schizothorax griseus Pellegrin, 1931, with descriptions of three new species of schizothoracine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from China
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (China)
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Zootaxa 2006: 41-50 (9 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 6 Jan. 2009
Crenicichla mandelburgeri, a new species of cichlid fish (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Paraná river drainage in Paraguay
SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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Zootaxa 2006: 51-61 (9 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
Review of blenniid fishes from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil, with description of a new species of Scartella (Teleostei: Blenniidae)
CARLOS A. RANGEL & LIANA F. MENDES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1981: 1-14 (16 Jan. 2009) 10 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 19 Nov. 2008
 Description of three new species of Glossogobius from Australia and New Guinea
DOUGLASS F. HOESE & GERALD R. ALLEN (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1981: 15-28 (16 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 19 Nov. 2008
 Barbus niluferensis, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Nilüfer River, Turkey, with re-description of B. oligolepis
DAVUT TURAN (Switzerland), MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore) & F. GÜLER EKMEKÇİ (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1980: 61-68 (16 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 27 Nov. 2008
Bangana brevirostris, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Lancang-Jiang (Upper Mekong River) drainage in Yunnan, Southwest China
KAI LIU & WEI ZHOU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1977: 39-48 (14 Jan. 2009) 6 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 10 Nov. 2008
Parakysis hystriculus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1973: 41-50 (9 Jan. 2009) 8 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Akysis fontaneus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1967: 63-72 (19 Dec. 2008) 5 plates; 39 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos, a new species of loach from southern Borneo (Teleostei: Cobitidae)
MAURICE KOTTELAT (Switzerland) & HEOK HUI TAN (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1963: 1-24 (15 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 30 references                        Accepted: 3 Nov. 2008
Three new darter species of the Etheostoma percnurum species complex (Percidae, subgenus Catonotus) from the Tennessee and Cumberland river drainages
REBECCA E. BLANTON & ROBERT E. JENKINS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1963: 25-42 (15 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
 A new species of Percina (Perciformes: Percidae) from the Apalachicola River drainage, southeastern United States
MARY C. FREEMAN, BYRON J. FREEMAN, NOEL M. BURKHEAD & CARRIE A. STRAIGHT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1963: 43-53 (15 Dec. 2008) 6 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Nandus mercatus (Teleostei: Perciformes: Nandidae), a new leaf fish from Sumatra
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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Zootaxa 1963: 54-68 (15 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
Three new pygmy seahorse species from Indonesia (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus)
SARA A. LOURIE (Canada) & RUDIE H. KUITER (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1948: 36-56 (3 Dec. 2008) 17 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
Phylogenetic assessment of ultrastructural and histological characters of teeth in the Anostomoidea, Hemiodontidae and Parodontidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes)
ALEXANDRE SCHARCANSKY (Israel) & CARLOS ALBERTO S. LUCENA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1943: 26-36 (26 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
 Bathycongrus trimaculatus, a new congrid eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) from the southwestern Pacific, with a redescription of Bathycongrus bleekeri Fowler
EMMA S. KARMOVSKAYA (Russia) & DAVID G. SMITH (USA)
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Zootaxa 1940: 1-15 (24 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 40 references                        Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Austrolebias reicherti Loureiro & García, a valid species of annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from Uruguay
MARCELO LOUREIRO & GRACIELA GARCÍA (Uruguay)
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Zootaxa 1932: 27-32 (14 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
A new cleaner species of Elacatinus (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic
IVAN SAZIMA, ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO & CRISTINA SAZIMA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1932: 33-46 (14 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
 Triplophysa waisihani, a new species of nemacheiline loach from Northwest China (Pisces: Balitoridae)
LIANG CAO & E ZHANG (China)
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Zootaxa 1931: 37-48 (12 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 53 references                           Accepted: 10 Oct. 2008
 The Sri Lankan spiny eel, Macrognathus pentophthalmos (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae), and its enigmatic decline
ROHAN PETHIYAGODA, ANJANA SILVA, KALANA MADUWAGE & LALITH KARIYAWASAM (Sri Lanka)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1925: 31-38 (10 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Apareiodon agmatos, a new species from the upper Mazaruni river, Guyana (Teleostei: Characiformes: Parodontidae)
DONALD C. TAPHORN B.(Venezuela), HERNÁN LÓPEZ-FERNÁNDEZ (Canada) & CALVIN R. BERNARD (Guyana)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1921: 35-46 (3 Nov. 2008) 3 plates; 45 references                           Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
 Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of longnose skate (Rajiformes: Rajidae: Dipturus) from Argentinean waters based on DNA barcoding
JUAN MARTIN DÍAZ DE ASTARLOA (Argentina), EZEQUIEL MABRAGAÑA (Argentina), ROBERT HANNER (Canada) & DANIEL E. FIGUEROA (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1918: 45-58 (29 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
 Pseudancistrus corantijniensis, a new species from the Guyana Shield (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) with a molecular and morphological description of the Pseudancistrus barbatus group
Sophie de Chambrier & Juan I. Montoya-Burgos (Switzerland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1918: 59-68 (29 Oct. 2008) 7 plates; 17 references                             Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
 A new Pamphorichthys (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliini) from central Brazil
CARLOS AUGUSTO FIGUEIREDO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1911: 1-30 (22 Oct 2008) 17 plates; 81 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
Description of early ontogeny and osteological development of streaked mojarra Eugerres lineatus (Teleostei: Percoidei: Gerreidae)
 JOSé LUIS ORTíz-GALINDO, JOSé LUIS CASTRO-AGUIRRE, EDUARDO F. BALART & NICOLás áVAREZ-PLIEGO (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1908: 1-27 (17 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 38 references                                 Accepted: 9 Sept. 2008
Morphological re-examination and taxonomy of the genus Macropodus (Perciformes, Osphronemidae)
TOM WINSTANLEY & KENDALL D. CLEMENTS (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1908: 28-40 (17 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 8 Sept. 2008
Two new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from upper rio Paraguaçu and rio Itapicuru basins, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
ANGELA M. ZANATA & PRISCILA CAMELIER (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1897: 67-68 (10 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
 Clarification of the nomenclatural status of Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae)
JIAN YANG, XIAOYONG CHEN & JUNXING YANG (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1877: 59-68 (10 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
 Ompok supernus, a new catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) from Borneo
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1873: 11-25 (10 Sept. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
 Two new species of Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from central Vietnam
HEOK HEE NG (USA) & JÖRG FREYHOF (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1872: 1-28 (8 Sept. 2008) 16 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
A revision of the western North Pacific swellsharks, genus Cephaloscyllium Gill 1862 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), including descriptions of two new species
JAYNA A. SCHAAF-DA SILVA & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1872: 59-68 (8 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
A re-description of the eastern Pacific swellshark, Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Garman 1880) (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), with comments on the status of C. uter (Jordan & Gilbert 1896)
 JAYNA A. SCHAAF-DA SILVA & DAVID A. EBERT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1861: 57-67 (1 Sep. 2008) 2 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
The Alabama Bass, Micropterus henshalli (Teleostei: Centrarchidae), from the Mobile River basin
WINSTON H. BAKER, CAROL E. JOHNSTON & GEORGE W. FOLKERTS (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1857: 21-32 (27 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2008
Geographic variation in Neolamprologus niger (Poll, 1956) (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika (Africa)
SARAH RISCH & JOS SNOEKS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1856: 33-40 (25 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
A new species of Crenicichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the Ventuari River, Upper Orinoco River Basin, Amazonas State, Venezuela
CARMEN G. MONTANA (USA), HERNAN LOPEZ-FERNANDEZ (CANADA) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (VENEZUELA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1852: 65-68 (18 Aug. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
A new genus and species of eelpout (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from Brazil
MICHAEL MAIA MINCARONE (Brazil) & M. ERIC ANDERSON (South Africa)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1850: 65-68 (15 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 30 Jul. 2008
The goldrim surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans; Acanthuridae) from Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago: first record for the central Indian Ocean
MATTHEW T. CRAIG (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1839: 43-59 (1 Aug. 2008) 1 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
A new Western Pacific Tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae): The first Pleuronectiform discovered at active Hydrothermal Vents
THOMAS A. MUNROE (USA) & JUN HASHIMOTO (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1839: 60-68 (1 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
Glyptothorax coracinus, a new species of hillstream catfish from Cambodia (Teleostei: Sisoridae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore) & WALTER J. RAINBOTH (USA)
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Zootaxa 1824: 35-44 (16 Jul. 2008) 6 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Luciobarbus kottelati, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Buyuk Menderes River, Turkey, with rediagnose of L. lydianus
DAVUT TURAN, F. GULER EKMEKCI, ALI ILHAN & SEMIH ENGIN (Turkey)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1824: 45-54 (16 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
A new livebearing fish, Heterandria tuxtlaensis, from Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)
JOHN D. MCEACHRAN & THOMAS J. DEWITT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1824: 55-64 (16 Jul. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Puntius kamalika, a new species of barb from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Anjana Silva, Kalana Maduwage & Rohan Pethiyagoda (Sri Lanka)
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Zootaxa 1822: 1-76 (14 Jul. 2008) 27 plates; 38 references                              Accepted: 4 Jun. 2008
The genus Peckoltia with the description of two new species and a reanalysis of the phylogeny of the genera of the Hypostominae (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1820: 27-40 (9 Jul. 2008) 5 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 9 Jun. 2008
Review of the waspfish genus Liocranium (Scorpaeniformes: Tetrarogidae), with restoration of L. pleurostigma (Weber)
HIROYUKI MOTOMURA (Japan), PETER R. LAST (Australia) & JEFFREY W. JOHNSON (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1815: 35-42 (4 Jul. 2008) 4 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2008
Leporinus amazonicus, a new anostomid species from the Amazon lowlands, Brazil (Osteichthyes: Characiformes)
GERALDO MENDES DOS SANTOS & JANSEN ZUANON (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 42-50 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2008
Hyphessobrycon oritoensis (Characiformes: Characidae), a new species from the Putumayo River drainage, Colombian Amazon
CARLOS A. GARCIA-ALZATE (Colombia), CESAR ROMAN-VALENCIA (Colombia) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 51-59 (30 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2008
On the status of the species of Acanthistius (Gill, 1862) (Percoidei) in the South-West Atlantic Ocean
ALEJO J. IRIGOYEN (Argentina), LEOPOLDO CAVALERI GERHARDINGER (Brazil) & ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1813: 19-28 (30 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Galeus priapus sp. nov., a new species of sawtail catsharks (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from New Caledonia
BERNARD SERET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1812: 1-45 (30 Jun. 2008) 23 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 21 Mar. 2008
A review of the Australian skate genus Pavoraja Whitley (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae)
PETER R. LAST, STEPHEN MALLICK AND GORDON K.YEARSLEY (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1810: 51-59 (25 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 14 May 2008
Range, sexual dimorphism and bilateral asymmetry of rostral tooth counts in the smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata Latham (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae) of the southeastern United States
TONYA R. WILEY, COLIN A. SIMPFENDORFER, VICENTE V. FARIA & MATTHEW T. MCDAVITT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1809: 36-48 (25 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 12 May 2008
Revision of the Labeonine Genus Sinocrossocheilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from South China
LE-YANG YUAN, E ZHANG & YAN-FEI HUANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1807: 1-25 (23 Jun. 2008) 10 plates; 57 references                           Accepted: 24 Apr. 2008
The reef fish assemblage of the Laje de Santos Marine State Park, Southwestern Atlantic: annotated checklist with comments on abundance, distribution, trophic structure, symbiotic associations, and conservation
OSMAR J. LUIZ JR., ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO, CARLOS E. L. FERREIRA, SERGIO R. FLOETER, JOAO LUIZ GASPARINI & IVAN SAZIMA (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1780: 1-54 (30 May 2008) 27 plates; 77 references                           Accepted: 11 Apr. 2008
Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of a new catfish species from northeastern Argentina with comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the genus Rhamdella Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1888 (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae)
FLAVIO A. BOCKMANN (Brazil) & AMALIA M. MIQUELARENA (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1770: 41-64 (16 May 2008) 3 plates; 66 references                           Accepted: 15 Apr. 2008
Deep-sea ophidiiform fishes collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11o and 23o S
MICHAEL M. MINCARONE (Brazil), JORGEN G. NIELSEN (Denmark) & PAULO A. S. COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1760: 37-49 (30 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 20 Mar. 2008
Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Lutjaninae (Pisces): the Indo-Pacific genus Pinjalo
JEFFREY M LEIS (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1757: 31-48 (28 Apr. 2008) 7 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 19 Mar. 2008
Neoplecostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio Parana basin, Brazil, with description of three new species
CLAUDIO HENRIQUE ZAWADZKI, CARLA SIMONE PAVANELLI & FRANCISCO LANGEANI (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1747: 1-33 (11 Apr. 2008) 11 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 21 Feb. 2008
The genus Kali Lloyd (Chiasmodontidae: Teleostei) with description of new two species, and the revalidation of K. kerberti Weber
MARCELO R. S. MELO (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1747: 61-68 (11 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 19 Mar. 2008
A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from rio Portuguesa, rio Orinoco basin, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE & GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1743: 62-68 (7 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 22 Feb. 2008
Garra findolabium, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from the Red River drainage in Yunnan, China
FENG-LIAN LI, WEI ZHOU & QIANG FU (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1739: 41-52 (2 Apr. 2008) 5 plates; 29 references                              Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
Triplophysa lixianensis, a new nemacheiline loach species (Pisces: Balitoridae) from the upper Yangtze River drainage in Sichuan Province, South China
CHUNLIN HE, ZHAOBIN SONG & E ZHANG (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1734: 1-26 (28 Mar. 2008) 10 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
Three new angel sharks (Chondrichthyes: Squatinidae) from the Indo-Australian region
PETER R. LAST & WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1734: 27-42 (28 Mar. 2008) 7 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Description of a new annual rivulid killifish genus from Venezuela
TOMAS HRBEK (Puerto Rico) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1734: 65-68 (28 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
New record of the smalleye stingray, Dasyatis microps (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae), from the western Indian Ocean
SIMON J. PIERCE (Mozambique), WILLIAM T. WHITE (Australia) & ANDREA D. MARSHALL (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1731: 24-32 (25 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 5 Feb. 2008
A new species of leaf fish, Nandus andrewi (Teleostei: Perciformes: Nandidae) from northeastern India
HEOK HEE NG & ZEEHAN JAAFAR (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1731: 33-41 (25 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 19 Feb. 2008
A new species of Pseudancistrus from the Rio Caroni Venezuela (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER (USA) & DONALD C. TAPHORN (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1729: 23-36 (20 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2008
A review of the Nemacheilinae genus Oreonectes Gunther with descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Balitoridae)
LI-NA DU, XIAO-YONG CHEN & JUN-XING YANG (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1726: 33-48 (12 Mar. 2008) 6 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
Biogeography of Glandulocaudinae (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) revisited: phylogenetic patterns, historical geology and genetic connectivity
NAERCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil), ALEXANDRE C. RIBEIRO (Brazil), STANLEY WEITZMAN (USA) & RODRIGO A. TORRES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1724: 1-51 (10 Mar. 2008) 24 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2008
The Australoheros (Teleostei: Cichlidae) species of the Uruguay and Parana River drainages
OLDRICH RICAN (Czech Republic) & SVEN O. KULLANDER (Sweden)
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Zootaxa 1724: 52-60 (10 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
A new Hemigrammus Gill from upper rio Parana system, Southeastern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
Manoela M. F. Marinho, Fernando R. Carvalho, Francisco Langeani & Flavio L. Tatsumi (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1717: 24-30 (3 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
Morphological measurements of manta rays (Manta birostris) with a description of a foetus from the east coast of Southern Africa
ANDREA D. MARSHALL, SIMON J. PIERCE & MICHAEL B. BENNETT (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1715: 43-56 (29 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
A new species of Stiphodon from southern Sumatra (Pisces: Gobioidei: Sicydiinae)
RONALD E. WATSON (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1715: 1-26 (29 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 75 references                              Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
The coastal fishes of Madeira Island-new records and an annotated check-list
PETER WIRTZ (Portugal), RONALD FRICKE (Germany) & MANUEL JOSE BISCOITO (Portugal)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1707: 37-48 (20 Feb. 2008) 6 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Morphological development of Hypophthalmus fimbriatus and H. marginatus post-yolk-sac larvae (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae)
EDINBERGH CALDAS DE OLIVEIRA, ANDREA BIALETZKI & LUCIANA FUGIMOTO ASSAKAWA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1691: 1-52 (29 Jan. 2008) 18 plates; 54 references                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Cardinalfishes of the genus Nectamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from the Indo-Pacific region with descriptions of four new species
THOMAS H. FRASER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1687: 67-68 (23 Jan. 2008) 0 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 20 Dec. 2007
On the validity of Fenerbahce Ozdikmen et al., 2006 as replacement for Adamas Huber, 1979 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae)
 RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany) & JOUKE R. VAN DER ZEE (Belgium)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 1-28 (21 Jan. 2008) 12 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 28 Nov. 2007
The “Celestial Pearl danio” is a miniature Danio (s.s) (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae): evidence from morphology and molecules
KEVIN W. CONWAY, WEI-JEN CHEN & RICHARD L. MAYDEN (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1686: 29-36 (21 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
 A new species of Gorogobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from Sao Tomé Islands
MARCELO KOVACIC (Croatia) & ULRICH K. SCHLIEWEN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1686: 37-47 (21 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
 Pseudomystus heokhuii, a new species of bagrid catfish from Sumatra (Teleostei: Bagridae)
KELVIN K. P. LIM & HEOK HEE NG  (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1685: 47-54 (21 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
 Fishes of La Venta River in Chiapas, Mexico
ALFONSO ;NGEL GONZ;LEZ-DQAZ  (Mexico), REBECCA MARQA QUIYONES  (USA), JOSI VEL;ZQUEZ-MARTQNEZ  (Mexico) & ROCQO RODILES-HERN;NDEZ (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1682: 33-44 (16 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
Description of a new genus and two new species of labeonine fishes from South China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
E ZHANG, XIN QIANG & JIA-HU LAN (China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1680: 62-68 (14 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 6 Dec. 2007
Crystallaria cincotta, a new species of darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the Elk River of the Ohio River drainage, West Virginia
STUART A. WELSH & ROBERT M. WOOD (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1678: 63-68 (11 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
Gymnothorax baranesi, a new moray eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from the Red Sea
DAVID G. SMITH  (USA), ERAN BROKOVICH  (Israel) & SHAI EINBINDER (Israel)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1674: 39-49 (7 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 37 references                              Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
Hyphessobrycon rutiliflavidus n. sp., a new characid fish from the upper rio Paraguai, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)
FERNANDO ROGIRIO CARVALHO, FRANCISCO LANGEANI, CARLOS SUETOSHI MIYAZAWA & WALDO PINHEIRO TROY (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1673: 49-67 (4 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 30 Oct. 2007
Two new wobbegong sharks, Orectolobus floridus sp. nov. and O. parvimaculatus sp. nov. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae), from southwestern Australia
PETER R. LAST & JUSTIN A. CHIDLOW (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1671: 3-31 (1 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 31 references                               Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
Five new species of the damselfish genus Chromis (Perciformes: Labroidei: Pomacentridae) from deep coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific
RICHARD L. PYLE, JOHN L. EARLE & BRIAN D. GREENE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1671: 33-58 (1 Jan. 2008) 13 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 24 Oct. 2007
Three new legskates of the genus Sinobatis (Rajoidei: Anacanthobatidae) from the Indo–West Pacific
PETER R. LAST (Australia) & BERNARD SéRET (France)
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2007

 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1669: 1-134 (21 Dec. 2007)  81 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
Taxonomic revision of the seasonal South American killifish genus Simpsonichthys (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae)
WILSON J. E. M. COSTA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1666: 53-68 (19 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 9 Nov. 2007
A new handfish, Brachionichthys australis sp. nov. (Lophiiformes: Brachionichthyidae), with a redescription of the critically endangered spotted handfish, B. hirsutus (Lacepede)
PETER R. LAST, DANIEL C. GLEDHILL & BRONWYN H. HOLMES (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1663: 47-57 (17 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
A new species of Psilorhynchus (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Ataran River Basin, Myanmar, with comments on the generic name Psilorhynchoides
KEVIN W. CONWAY (USA) & MAURICE KOTTELAT (Singapore)
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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 1657: 68 (7 Dec. 2007)  
Erratum ( Verburg, P. & Bills, R. (2007) Two new cichild species Neolamprologus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanga-nyika, East Africa. Zootaxa, 1612, 25-54.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1657: 23-39 (7 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 14 Nov. 2007
Four new species of deep-water catsharks of the genus Parmaturus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from New Caledonia, Indonesia and Australia
BERNARD SERET (France) & PETER R. LAST (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1646: 31-39 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
A new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from the endorheic RRo SalR basin, Tucuman, northwestern Argentina
JUAN MARCOS MIRANDE, GAST[N AGUILERA & MARQA DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1639: 1-21 (16 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2007
Halaelurus maculosus n. sp. and H. sellus n. sp., two new species of catshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Indo-West Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1638: 39-49 (14 Nov. 2007)  9 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
The first case of aggressive mimicry among lamprologines in a new species of Lepidiolamprologus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
ROBERT SCHELLY (USA), TETSUMI TAKAHASHI (Japan), ROGER BILLS (South Africa) & MICHIO HORI (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1635: 55-61 (12 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 4 references                                Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cynopotamus Valenciennes, 1849 (Characiformes, Characidae) with a key to the species of the genus
NAERCIO A. MENEZES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1628: 59-68 (2 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
Scarus maculipinna, a new species of parrotfish (Perciformes, Scaridae) from the eastern Indian Ocean
MARK W. WESTNEAT (USA), UKKRIT SATAPOOMIN (Thailand) & JOHN E. RANDALL (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1626: 51-58 (31 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new phreatic catfish of the genus Phreatobius Goeldi 1905 from groundwaters of the Itenez River, Bolivia (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae)
LUIS FERNANDEZ (USA), LISANDRO J. SAUCEDO (Bolivia), FERNANDO M. CARVAJAL-VALLEJOS (Bolivia) & SCOTT A. SCHAEFER (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1618: 1-50 (19 Oct. 2007)  26 plates; 71 references                            Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
Phylogeny of species formerly assigned to the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
JUAN J. SCHMITTER-SOTO (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1618: 51-60 (19 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Taxonomic status of the Guadalupe Darter, Percina apristis (Teleostei: Percidae)
ROBERT H. ROBINS & LAWRENCE M. PAGE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1616: 23-35 (17 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new species of Chondrostoma Agassiz, 1832 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) with sexual dimorphism from the lower Rio Tejo Basin, Portugal
HUGO F. GANTE (Portugal), CARLOS D. SANTOS (USA) & MARIA JUDITE ALVES (Portugal)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1614: 17-29 (15 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 24 Aug. 2007
Micralestes (Characiformes, Alestidae) of the lower Congo River, with a description of a new species endemic to the lower Congo River rapids in the Democratic Republic of Congo
MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY (USA) & VICTOR MAMONEKENE (Republic of Congo)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1614: 53-60 (15 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
A new species of Jupiaba Zanata, 1997 (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Characidae) from the rio Tocantins drainage, Brazil
THIAGO N. A. PEREIRA & PAULO H. F. LUCINDA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1612: 25-44 (10 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Two new cichild species Neolamprologus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
PIET VERBURG (USA) & ROGER BILLS (South Africa)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1612: 55-62 (10 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 22 Aug. 2007
Description of a new cyprinid species, Labeo meroensis n. sp. (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the River Nile
TIMO MORITZ (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1610: 53-59 (8 Oct. 2007)  4 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
A new species of Hemigrammus Gill, 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae) from Rio Caura, Venezuela
RICARDO C. BENINE & GUILHERME A. M. LOPES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1608: 11-19 (5 Oct. 2007)  1 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 6 Sep. 2007
Fishes (Elasmobranchii and Actinopterygii) of Picaozinho reef, Northeastern Brazil, with notes on their conservation status
ALLAN T. DE SOUZA, MARTINA DI IULIO ILARRI, PAULO ROBERTO DE MEDEIROS, RENATO GROTTA GREMPEL , RICARDO S. ROSA & CLAUDIO L. S. SAMPAIO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1608: 41-49 (5 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 29 Aug. 2007
Botia udomritthiruji, a new species of botiid loach from southern Myanmar (Teleostei: Botiidae)
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1608: 51-58 (5 Oct. 2007)  5 plates; 6 references                                  Accepted: 3 Sep. 2007
Akysis pulvinatus, a new species of catfish (Siluriformes: Akysidae) from southern Thailand
HEOK HEE NG (Singapore)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1605: 33-46 (1 Oct. 2007)  10 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Two new species of Pseudoscopelus (Teleostei: Chiasmodontidae), with a new diagnosis for the genus
MARCELO R. S. MELO, H. J. WALKER, JR & CYNTHIA KLEPADLO (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1605: 47-58 (1 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 38 references                               Accepted: 3 Aug. 2007
A brief review of Triplophysa (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae) species from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, with description of a new species
JINLU LI, NAIFA LIU & JUNXING YANG (P.R. China)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1603: 1-78 (28 Sep. 2007)  30 plates; 83 references                           Accepted: 22 Jun. 2007
A systematic revision of the genus Archocentrus (Perciformes: Cichlidae), with the description of two new genera and six new species
JUAN J. SCHMITTER-SOTO (Mexico)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1591: 1-38 (21 Sep. 2007)  32 plates; 98 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Description of three new species of the genus Chromaphyosemion Radda, 1971 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal plains of Cameroon with a preliminary review of the Chromaphyosemion splendopleure complex
RAINER SONNENBERG (Germany)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1591: 67-68 (21 Sep. 2007)  1 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 25 Aug. 2007
The Persian/Arabian Gulf's sole great white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) record from Kuwait: misidentification of a sandtiger shark Carcharias taurus (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae)
ALEC B. M. MOORE (UK), LEONARD J. V. COMPAGNO (South Africa) & IAN K. FERGUSSON (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1587: 43-52 (17 Sep. 2007)  7 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
A new species of the freshwater fish genus Astyanax (Ostariophysi: Characidae) from the rio Iguacu basin, southeastern Brazil
VINICIUS ABILHOA & LUIZ FERNANDO DUBOC (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1587: 61-68 (17 Sep. 2007)  6 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 15 Aug. 2007
A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal area of northeastern Mozambique
STEFANO VALDESALICI (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1580: 63-68 (10 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 22 Aug. 2007
A new species of Cottunculus (Teleostei: Psychrolutidae) from the Mid Atlantic Ridge
INGVAR BYRKJEDAL (Norway) & ALEXEI M. ORLOV (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1579: 1-39 (10 Sep. 2007)  0 plates; 170 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
Checklist of Copepoda associated with fishes from Brazil
JOSE L. LUQUE & LUIZ E. R. TAVARES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1578: 41-68 (7 Sep. 2007) 12 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
New species of the amphiliid catfish genera Amphilius, Doumea and Phractura and the taxonomy of Paramphilius from West Central Africa (Siluriformes, Amphiliidae)
PAUL H. SKELTON (S. Africa)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1560: 43-53 (27 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 9 Aug. 2007
Oligosarcus perdido (Characiformes, Characidae), a new species of freshwater fish from Serra da Bodoquena, upper Rio Paraguai basin, Brazil
ALEXANDRE C. RIBEIRO, MARCEL R. CAVALLARO & OTAVIO FROEHLICH (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1560: 19-30 (27 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 20 Jul. 2007
Cirrhigaleus australis n. sp., a new Mandarin dogfish (Squaliformes: Squalidae) from the south-west Pacific
WILLIAM T. WHITE, PETER R. LAST & JOHN D. STEVENS (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1557: 59-66 (22 Aug. 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                                Accepted: 2 Jul. 2007
Caenotropus schizodon, a new chilodontid fish from the Rio Tapajos drainage, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Chilodontidae)
ALEXANDRE SCHARCANSKY & CARLOS ALBERTO SANTOS DE LUCENA (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1553: 59-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Hypostomus rhantos (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new species from southern Venezuela
JONATHAN W. ARMBRUSTER, LEIGH A. TANSEY & NATHAN K. LUJAN (USA)
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