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Announcements
New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
Two new species of eelpout genus Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 were described in a Zootaxa paper by Ralf Thiel et al. (2025) from specimens caught at a depth between 3517 and 3580 m at the western slope of the upper margin of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, relatively close to the Bussol Strait and Simushir Island in the center of the Kuril Islands chain. This discovery was featured in a story by Miami Herald.
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A new duck (Aves: Anatidae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Cuba
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Enchytraeidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta) from Uzbekistan, with the description of a new species
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New synonym and holomorphology of Kamimuria tienmushanensis Wu, 1938 (Plecoptera: Perlidae)
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New species of Typhoctes (Hymenoptera, Thynnoidea, Chyphotidae) from Colombia and Jamaica
Published : 2025-05-09 -
On the species of Tulpa Stechow, 1921 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) with the description of two new species from sub-Antarctic waters
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Cerambycinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Brazilian state of Amazonas: new species and new geographical records
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John Nietner collection of Sri Lankan Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
Published : 2025-05-09 -
New records of the eumenine wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Azerbaijan, with description of hitherto unknown male of Ancistrocerus terekensis Kostylev, 1940 and female of Eustenancistrocerus iranicus Gusenleitner, 2013
Published : 2025-05-09
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Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
Published : 2024-09-23 -
New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
Published : 2024-03-13 -
Genetic and morphological variation analyses of Dryophytes japonicus (Anura, Hylidae) with description of a new species from northeastern Japan
Published : 2025-02-20 -
Lost for more than 85 years—rediscovery of Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845), the world’s most elusive snakehead species (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae)
Published : 2025-01-31 -
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
Published : 2024-09-26 -
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
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A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
Published : 2024-11-18 -
New species of snakes of the genus Dendrelaphis (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Milne Bay Islands, Papua New Guinea
Published : 2025-04-04
