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The malacological contributions of Alcide d’Orbigny

Description of seven new species of Leuconidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) and two new records from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean (18°–27°S)

Nodynus sabatinellii sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Apateticinae) from Vietnam

**Egg chorion sculpturing of eight East Palearctic Alloperla Banks, 1906 species (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae)**

**A new species of Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) closely resembling O. japonicum Sharp, 1874, discovered in sympatry in Kyushu, Japan**

**Taxonomic notes on the Dorcus rubrofemoratus species group with the description of a new species (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae)**

Uroconger gracilis sp. nov., a slender conger eel (Anguilliformes: Congridae) from the South China Sea

**Descriptions of three new species of Micardia Butler, 1878 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae) from South China**

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Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems*

A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World

A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification

Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

**A new species of Microeledone from Galápagos Islands and an amended diagnosis of the Megaleledonidae (Octopoda: Incirrata)**

**A new species of Tinamus (Aves: Tinamiformes) from the western Amazon, Brazil**

**Two new species of the genus Bogidiella (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Bogidiellidae) from Japan**

Family-group names of Recent fishes

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