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Mazus zhewanensis (Mazaceae): A new species from Eastern China

Ke-Lang Lou, Wen-Yuan Xie, Pan Xu, Hong-Wei Zhang, Feng Chen, Jun-Ping Li, Jin-Bao Pu, Zheng-Hai Chen, Wei-Qing Liang

published 07 Oct 2026

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Integrative taxonomy reveals two new species of Itajahya Möller (Phallaceae, Phallales) in Brazil

Mateus Santana Ribeiro, Tiara Sousa Cabral, Gislaine Cristina de Souza Melanda, Alessandra Selbach Schnadelbach, Bianca Denise Barbosa da Silva

published 05 Aug 2026

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Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey from the Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo

John A. Hart, Junior D. Amboko, Julia L. Arenson, Emma R. Horton, Kathryn F. Coates, Jean-Pierre I. Kapale, Mardoché B. Koko, Terese B. Hart, Christopher C. Gilbert, Eric J. Sargis, Kate M. Detwiler

published 15 Jul 2026

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A new species of Dendropsophus (Anura, Hylidae) of the D. ruschii group from the Atlantic Forest in Serra da Mantiqueira, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Diego J. Santana, Donald B. Shepard, Priscila S. Carvalho, Márcia M. P. Müller, Clodoaldo L. Assis, Renato N. Feio

published 23 Jun 2026

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Hyperelongate ornamental tail feathers in a new early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

Alexander D. Clark, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Yan Wang, Stephen Pruett-Jones, Xiangyu Zhang, Xing Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Zhonghe Zhou

published 27 May 2026

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A secret from a hidden world: A new glassfrog of the genus Nymphargus (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador

Mylena V. Masache-Sarango, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Santiago R. Ron

published 08 Apr 2026

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Sticking our nose into the Sonorini tribe: A new genus and species of snake (Squamata: Colubridae: Sonorini) from the Balsas Basin of Mexico

Antonio Y. Cisneros-Bernal, Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Carlos Hernández-Jiménez, Eric N. Smith, Oscar Flores-Villela, Cristian Hernández-Morales, Oscar Olivares Loyola, Gustavo Campillo-García

published 10 Dec 2025

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A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Serra do Quiriri, northeastern Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil, with a review of the diagnosis among species of the B. pernix group and proposed conservation measures

Marcos R. Bornschein, Marcio R. Pie, Júnior Nadaline, André E. Confetti, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Renata de Britto Mari, Gabriel Silveira Alves, Giovanna Sandretti-Silva, Felipe Farias de Andrade Lima, Luiz F. Ribeiro

published 10 Dec 2025

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Gagea kotuchovii (Liliaceae) a new species from the Karatau Mountains (western Tian Shan, Kazakhstan) evidenced by morphological and molecular analyses

Serik Kubentayev, Igor Levichev, Shukherdorj Baasanmunkh, Ewelina Klichowska, Daniyar Alibekov, Hyeok Jae Choi, Marcin Nobis

published 05 Dec 2025

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Megabarcoding dark taxa – Assessing the utility of mass DNA barcoding for phorid fly species discovery

Jiri Vihavainen, Niina Kiljunen, Pekka Pohjola, Jaclyn McKeown, Eveliina Oinonen, Marko Mutanen, Jaakko Pohjoismäki

published 02 Dec 2025

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Molecular phylogeny of the diatom genus Planothidium with the description of Paraplanothidium gen. nov. and Pseudoplanothidium gen. nov.

Natalia Tseplik, Yevhen Maltsev, Anton Glushchenko, Sergei Genkal, Maxim Kulikovskiy

published 06 Nov 2025

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Three new species of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) from Tanzania and Angola and their conservation status

Iris Montero-Muñoz, José María Cardiel, Lucía Villaescusa-González, Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez

published 29 Oct 2025

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Taxonomic study of the genus Diolcogaster Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Borneo with the description of four new species

Geng Lu, Shiqi Chen, Yaoyue Lei, Mengqi Wen, Zhen Liu, Mostafa Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Andrew Polaszek

published 15 Oct 2025

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