Reptilia; Amphibia; Annelida; Araneae

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Zootaxa 2226: 1-18 (10 Sep. 2009) 7 plates; 75 references                          Accepted: 18 Aug. 2009
A quarter millenium of uses and misuses of the turtle name Testudo scabra: Identification of the type specimens of T. scabra Linnaeus 1758 (= Rhinoclemmys punctularia) and T. scripta Thunberg in Schoepff 1792 (= Trachemys scripta scripta)
ANDERS G.J. RHODIN & JOHN L. CARR (USA)
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Zootaxa 2226: 19-27 (10 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 48 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
A second species of Brasilotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Brazilian Amazonia
ADRIANO O. MACIEL, TAMI MOTT & MARINUS S. HOOGMOED (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2226: 28-42 (10 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 26 Jun. 2009
A new genus of Sabellidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Antarctica, with discussion of relationships among plesiomorphic genera within Sabellinae
MARGHERITA LICCIANO, ADRIANA GIANGRANDE & MARIA CRISTINA GAMBI (Italy)
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Zootaxa 2226: 43-57 (10 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 36 references                          Accepted: 17 Aug. 2009
A new species of dwarf chameleon (Sauria; Chamaeleonidae, Bradypodion Fitzinger) from KwaZulu Natal South Africa with notes on recent climatic shifts and their influence on speciation in the genus
COLIN R. TILBURY & KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY (South Africa)
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Zootaxa 2226: 58-65 (10 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
Phyllomedusa itacolomi Caramaschi, Cruz & Feio, 2006, a junior synonym of Phyllomedusa ayeaye (B. Lutz, 1966) (Hylidae, Phyllomedusinae)
DÉLIO BAÊTA, ULISSES CARAMASCHI, CARLOS ALBERTO G. CRUZ & JOSÉ P. POMBAL Jr. (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2226: 66-68 (10 Sep. 2009) 2 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 31 Jul. 2009
On Central Asian Castianeira arnoldii Charitonov, 1946 (Araneae, Corinnidae), earlier known from juvenile specimens
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia)
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