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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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Two new bamboo feeding leafhopper species of the subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from China
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A new leafhopper genus and species on bamboo, described from Europe (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Mukariini), with remarkable seasonal dimorphism
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Two new species of Merogomphus Martin, 1904 (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphidae) from the Western Ghats, India
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Description of a new species of the Meganola tenebrosa (Hampson, 1896) species-group from China (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Nolidae)
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A synopsis of the genus Salvina Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Neocoelidiinae) with two new combinations, key to males, and list of host plants for the subfamily
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Gekko (Gekko) shiva, a new limestone-dwelling gecko from Sa Kaeo Province, eastern Thailand (Squamata, Gekkonidae)
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A new species of the Thelepus cincinnatus complex from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Archipelago (NW Atlantic) and genetic diversity of Amphitrite figulus (Dalyell, 1853) (Annelida, Terebelliformia)
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Redescription of Tachardiella ourinhensis Hempel, 1937 (Hemiptera: Kerriidae) and its transfer to Neotachardiella gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species of Neotachardiella on Myrtaceae from Brazil and Uruguay
Published : 2025-02-14
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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 -
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
Published : 2024-08-30 -
The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)
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A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
Published : 2024-11-18 -
Two new species of the sponge associated axiid shrimp genus Eiconaxius Bate, 1888 (Decapoda: Axiidea) from seamounts in the Nishi-Shichito Ridge, Japan
Published : 2024-11-11 -
Two new species of Boaedon from Ethiopia and Somalia, with a review of the species of East Africa
Published : 2025-01-13
