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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 species of Xenogryllus Bolívar (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Eneopterinae), extending the distribution of the genus to Madagascar
Published : 2025-07-24 -
A new species of Neoxeniades Hayward, 1938 subgenus Neoxeniades Hayward, 1938 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the semi-arid region of the Brazilian Northeast: threatened biodiversity in a recently declassified protected area
Published : 2025-07-24 -
Description of four new cicada species in the genus Yoyetta Moulds (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae), from Eastern Australia
Published : 2025-07-24 -
A new species of Oruza Walker, 1861 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Boletobiinae) from Korea with barcode-based pairing
Published : 2025-07-24 -
First record of the insect order Mecoptera (Hexapoda) from Uruguay
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Erratum: JULIO C.C. FERNANDEZ, GERMÁN ZAPATA-HERNÁNDEZ, JAVIER SELLANES & EDUARDO HAJDU (2025) Description of two new species of sponges (Demospongiae, Porifera) from the Nazca Desventuradas Marine Park and overview on diversity and biogeography of poriferans in oceanic islands of the SE Pacific. Zootaxa, 5659 (3): 301–334.
Published : 2025-07-24 -
On some species of the genera Campylaspenis and Campylaspis (Crustacea, Cumacea, Nannastacidae) from the Sea of Japan (Northwest Pacific), with description of a new species of Campylaspenis
Published : 2025-07-24 -
Review of Thelastoma Leidy, 1849 (Nematoda: Oxyuridomorpha: Thelastomatidae) and description of T. variabile sp. nov. from the North American indigenous millipede Narceus americanus (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae)
Published : 2025-07-24
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Crustacean classification: on-going controversies and unresolved problems*
Published : 2007-12-21 -
A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World
Published : 2015-02-12 -
A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification
Published : 2018-05-28 -
Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Published : 2004-10-12 -
World Catalogue of the family Lonchaeidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, Acalyptratae)
Published : 2023-06-26 -
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