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New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald2025-02-13
Two new species of eelpout genus Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 were described in aZootaxa 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 ina story by Miami Herald.
Presence of the genusTepperia Lea (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Oriental Region, with new combination for a Philippine species and description of a new insular species associated with the looking-glass mangrove,Heritiera littoralis Dryand. ex Aiton (Malvaceae)
- NAOMICHI TSUJI
- HIRAKU YOSHITAKE
The family Bateidae Stebbing, 1906 (Crustacea, Peracarida) in tropical America with the description of a new species
- MANUEL ORTIZ
- NORBERTO CAPETILLO
- ALEXANDER LOPEZTEGUI
A taxonomic revision of the genusRaorchestes in Myanmar and Thailand with the description of two new species from Myanmar (Amphibia, Anura, Rhacophoridae)
- GUNTHER KÖHLER
- OLE DOST
- NI LAR THAN
- ANNEMARIE OHLER
- PANUPONG THAMMACHOTI CHARUNROCHANA
- YODCHAIY CHUAYNKERN
- CHANTIP CHUAYNKERN
- KATHARINA GEISS
A new species of an unusual polychaete genusCtenophoricola (Phyllodocida, Phyllodocidae, Alciopini) from the Indian Ocean
- VITALY SYOMIN
- GLAFIRA KOLBASOVA
- MAYA SEMENOVA
- TATIANA NERETINA
A new species ofAnacaena Thomson, 1859 from the Cederberg Range, South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
- DAVID T. BILTON
- MUSA C. MLAMBO
- MICHAEL BALKE
New records and checklist of sponges from El Salvador (Eastern Tropical Pacific)
- ALEJANDRA TREJO
- JOSÉ LUIS CARBALLO
- JOHANNA SEGOVIA
The restoration of the taxonomic status ofRhopalopsole trichotoma Yang & Du, 2021
- XIAO YANG
- YU-ZHOU DU
Tripylina safricana sp. nov. of the family Trischistomatidae (Nematoda: Enoplida), isolated from Weeping wattle (Peltophorum africanum) in South Africa
- EBRAHIM SHOKOOHI
- PETER MASOKO
- CANDICE VAN RENSBURG
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Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
- CINDYGONZALEZ
- BAUTISSEPOSTAIRE
- WILLIAMDRIGGERS
- SUSANACABALLERO
- DEMIANCHAPMAN
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)
- THOMAS H.ATKINSON
Genetic and morphological variation analyses ofDryophytes japonicus (Anura, Hylidae) with description of a new species from northeastern Japan
- TOMOHIKOSHIMADA
- MASAFUMIMATSUI
- KEITOTANAKA
Taxonomy of IranianAsaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
- ROMAN A.NAZAROV
- HOSSEINNABIZADEH
- MEHDIRAJABIZADEH
- DANIEL A.MELNIKOV
- VALENTINA R.VOLKOVA
- NIKOLAY A.POYARKOV
- ESKANDARRASTEGAR-POUYANI
Lost for more than 85 years—rediscovery ofChanna amphibeus (McClelland, 1845), the world’s most elusive snakehead species (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae)
- JAYASIMHANPRAVEENRAJ
- TEJASTHACKERAY
- NALLATHAMBIMOULITHARAN
- BALAJIVIJAYAKRISHNAN
- GOURAB KUMARNANDA
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
- ANDREW D.CORSO
- THOMASDESVIGNES
- JAN R.MCDOWELL
- CHI-HING CHRISTINACHENG
- ELLEN E.BIESACK
- DEBORAH K.STEINBERG
- ERIC J.HILTON
A new species of giant gecko of the genusRhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
- GUNTHERKÖHLER
- JOACHIMSAMEIT
- ROBERTSEIPP
- KATHARINAGEISS
The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics ofLycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)
- TAN VANNGUYEN
- JUSTIN L.LEE
- OLIVIER S. G.PAUWELS
- STEVIE R.KENNEDY-GOLD
- NIKOLAY A.POYARKOV
- PATRICKDAVID
- GERNOTVOGEL
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