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#NewSpeciesAlert! We discovered & described a new species of gall wasp, Belonocnema mesoamericana, on the central American live oak, Quercus oleoides. Great collaboration between Alejandro Zaldivar & lab at #UNAM, @ymilesz.bsky.social at #EdinburghUni, and my lab at #RiceUniversity. #biodiversity
March 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑍𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑎𝑜𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 (Perciformes: #Zenarchoperidae), a new estuary garfish from southwestern #Taiwan. #Ichthyology #Biodiversity
🔓 mapress.com/zt/article/v...
December 13, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - A #NewGenus ( #𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑠 ) and four #NewSpecies of #seagrass-specialist #clingfishes (#Gobiesocidae) from southern #Australia.
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Conway, K.W., Moore, G.I. & Summers, A.P.: A new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia, Zootaxa, 5552 (1): 1-66, December 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5552.1.1
December 16, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐵𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜, a #NewSpecies of sponge-dwelling #goby from #Indonesia, #Philippines, and #Australia. #Reef #ReefTank
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November 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐿𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, a new species of miniature #reef #goby is described from the #Philippines. #Gobies #Gobiidae #ReefTank
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Chen et al., A new marine goby of genus, 𝐿𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 Tanaka, 1915 was collected from the Philippines. Zootaxa 5550 (1): 183–188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5550.1.18
December 10, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑠. A new species of #𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠 (Siluriformes: #Loricariidae), with a redescription of 𝐴. 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 & further evidence of hidden diversity in the laguna dos Patos system.
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November 16, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑥 𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑘𝑜 & 𝐶. 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, two beautiful #NewSpecies of #FreshwaterCrayfish are described from Western and Eastern Indonesian #NewGuinea. #CrusteaceansInTheNews #Crayfish
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Lukhaup, C.; Eprilurahman, R.; von Rintelen, T. Two New Species of Crayfish of the Genus 𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑥 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from Western and Eastern Indonesian New Guinea. Arthropoda 2024, 2, 264-293. https://doi.org/10.3390/arthropoda2040019
December 21, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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ZUÑIGA et al Cryptic diversity of Leurus wasps ( #Hymenoptera : #Ichneumonidae: #Metopiinae), parasitoids of caterpillars in #AreadeConservaciónGuanacaste, #CostaRica in #Zootaxa

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Cryptic diversity of Leurus wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae), parasitoids of caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica | Zootaxa
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November 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new genus and highly unusual #NewSpecies of #freshwater #SleeperGoby is described from eastern #Taiwan. #Gobies #Eleotridae
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I-Shiung Chen, 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new genus and species of inland water sleeper (Teleostei: Eleotridae) from eastern Taiwan, Zootaxa, Vol. 5550 No. 1, 235-239: 10 Dec. 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5550.1.23
December 10, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑈𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑔𝑖𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, a #NewSpecies of estuarine #MorayEel is described from #Japan, #Taiwan, the #Philippines, southern #Indonesia, and #Fiji. #Anguilliformes #Muraenidae #Eels
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1296...
Huang W-C, Hibino Y, Balisco RA, Liao T-Y (2024) Description of a new uniformly brown estuarine moray eel (Anguilliformes, Muraenidae) from the Central Indo-Pacific Ocean. In: Ho H-C, Russell B, Hibino Y, Lee M-Y (Eds) Biodiversity and taxonomy of fishes in Taiwan and adjacent waters. ZooKeys 1220: 15-34. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1220.129685
December 11, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐾𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠, a #NewSpecies of #nemacheilid loach from #Borneo (Teleostei: #Nemacheilidae). #Loaches #Loach #Taxonomy
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Maurice Kottelat, Tan Heok Hui & Veryl Hasan, 𝐾𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠, a new species of nemacheilid loach from Borneo (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 72: 479–487, 2nd December 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2024-0035
December 2, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑖 and 𝑁. 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠, two #NewSpecies of #loricariid #catfish are described from the headwaters of #rioSapucaí, upper #rioParaná basin, #SerraDaMantiqueira, southeastern #Brazil.
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Uzeda, P. L. C., Paiola, I., Cesar, P. S., Okubo, V. K. N., Marques-Frisoni, W. J., Andrade, B. N., & Langeani, F.. (2024). Two new species of 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑢𝑠 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from high altitudes of the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 22(4), e240021. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2024-0021
December 6, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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⚠️ Thrilled to share our new paper on: First occurrence of Distobatus Werner, 1989 (Elasmobranchii: Hybodontiformes) in the middle Cretaceous of Brazil
👉 P Brito, I Veiga, @didierdutheil.bsky.social , L Bergqvist
📰 Cretaceous Research
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Tooth of Distobatus potiguarense nov. sp. from the Albian-Cenomanian Açu Formation of the Potiguar Basin in northeastern Brazil.
March 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑠 and 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑦𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑖, two new species of 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 are described from Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, Indonesia, both part of the 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎 complex. #WildBetta #Betta
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1428...
Ding J, Lei W, Haryono H, Shi W, Zhang W (2025) Phylogenetic analysis of 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎 complex (Teleostei, Osphronemidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra Island with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys 1238: 161-181. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1238.142857
May 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑑ℎ𝑎ℎ (Teleostei, #Pomacentridae), a #NewSpecies of #damselfish from #mesophotic #coral #ecosystems of the #Maldives. #IndianOcean #Reef
🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1267...
Rocha LA, Pinheiro HT, Najeeb A, Rocha CR, Shepherd B (2024) 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑑ℎ𝑎ℎ (Teleostei, Pomacentridae), a new species of damselfish from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Maldives. ZooKeys 1219: 165-174. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1219.126777
December 1, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑘𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖 and 𝑃. 𝑤𝑒𝑦𝑙𝑖, four #NewSpecies of #mormyrids are described from DR #Congo and #Mozambique. #JFB #Mormyridae
🔒 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dierickx, K., Wamuini Lunkayilakio, S., Bills, R., & Vreven, E. (2024). Morphometric synthesis of 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑢𝑠 (Teleostei, Mormyridae) with the description of four new species. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15983
November 25, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑑, 𝐼. 𝑘𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑎𝑖 and 𝐼. 𝑟𝑎𝑑ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑖. Three #NewSpecies of hill #stream #loach, #𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑠 (#Nemacheilidae) from peninsular #India. #WesternGhats #EasternGhats
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November 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 and 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, two #NewSpecies of miniature #coral #gobies are described from #PapuaNewGuinea. #CoralReef #Goby #Gobiidae #Biodiversity
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Courtney A. Hildebrandt, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich, Ole B. Brodnicke, O. Selma Klanten, Peter R. Møller & Marian Y. L. Wong, Two new species of 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with notes on South Pacific and Indian Ocean populations of 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑥. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 72: 488–510, 17th December 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2024-0036
December 17, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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A tiny frog species - Ingerana occidensi, discovered in Eastern India

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New 'western trickle frog' discovered from the Garo and Khasi hills in Meghalaya | Research Matters
A researcher has discovered a new species of frog in the canopy-covered streams of northeastern India. Researcher R. S. Naveen from Australia's Griffith University officially identified the western tr...
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June 13, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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✨ Hidden Treasures in Peru! ✨

Scientists in Alto Mayo uncovered 27 species new to science 🌍 & 49 threatened with extinction according to the IUCN Red List. www.conservation.org/stories/new-... #marinelife #newspeciesalert #newspecies #newfishspecies
Uncovering Alto Mayo's hidden biodiversity
Results from a Rapid Biological Assessment of Alto Mayo, Peru
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December 25, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑃ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑛𝑢𝑘𝑎𝑘, 𝑃. 𝑡𝑢𝑘𝑎𝑛𝑜 and 𝑃. 𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑦𝑢𝑝𝑒, four new species of #characins (#tetras) are described from the #Amazon and #Orinoco River basins of #Columbia.
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Alejandro Romero-Figueroa and Tiago P. Carvalho "Four New Species of Phenacogaster (Characiformes: Characidae) and a Review of Its Diversity in Colombia," Ichthyology & Herpetology 112(4), 619-644, (11 December 2024). https://doi.org/10.1643/i2023094
December 11, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠. A new restricted-range #𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠 (Cyprinodontiformes: #Rivulidae) from the upper #rioGuaporé, Chapada dos Parecis, Brazil. #Killifish #Killifishes
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November 16, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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📍Baminornis zhenghensis, le premiers dinosaure non-avian connu avec un pygostile du Jurassic supérieur de Chine
by Runsheng Chen et al. in @nature.com
#NewSpeciesAlert #Aves #BirdEvolution

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The lost long tail of early bird evolution
Fossil find reveals the earliest known short-tailed bird.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Indopotamon alipurduarense - The new grey and orange beauty hidden in Alipurduar’s mud

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New species of freshwater crab found buried deep under West Bengal’s rice paddy fields | Research Matters
A new species of freshwater crab discovered beneath the agricultural fields of West Bengal, named Indopotamon alipurduarense
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May 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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New moss species Indopottia himalayensis discovered in Uttarakhand

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New moss species discovered in Uttarakhand mountains bridges ancient biological gap | Research Matters
Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India have discovered a new species of moss from the misty, high-altitude forests of the Western Himalayas.
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June 1, 2026 at 5:12 AM