Wednesday, February 25, 2026

[Crustacea • 2026] Galathea balasubramaniani • A New Species of the Squat Lobster Genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Decapoda: Galatheidae) from Lakshadweep, India

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   Galathea balasubramaniani   Sureandiran, Divya, Naeem, Sundaramanickam & Kumar, 2026     DOI:  doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5757.4.6     ...
Monday, February 23, 2026

[Herpetology • 2026] Zig zag • Zigzags in the White Sand Belt: A New, highly divergent lineage of Sand-swimmer Skink (Squamata: Scincidae) from Madagascar

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Zig zag     Miralles, Schmidt, Belluardo, Rahagalala, Monvoisin, Ratsoavina, Köhler, Glaw & Vences, 2026    DOI:  doi.org/10.11646/megat...

[Crustacea • 2026] Palaemon bijagosensis • A New Species of Palaemon (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the tropical eastern Atlantic

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  Palaemon bijagosensis Fransen & Wirtz, 2026 DOI:  doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10509   Abstract Fieldwork in the Bijagos Islands, Guine...

[Crustacea • 2021] Macromedaeus adelus • A New Species of intertidal xanthid crab of the Genus Macromedaeus Ward, 1942 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from Singapore

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Macromedaeus adelus Mendoza, 2021 RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY.  69      x.com/ Mendoza_JCE Abstract  Four species of marine crab (Brachyura)...

[Arachnida • 2026] Titanidiops kolhapurensis • A New Species of the Trapdoor Spider Genus Titanidiops Simon (Araneae: Idiopidae) from western Maharashtra, India

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  Titanidiops kolhapurensis Gangalmale, Thackeray, Khandekar & Gaikwad, 2026 DOI:  doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2603654 ABSTRACT A new ...

[Crustacea • 2022] Raymunida shraddhanandi, Munidopsis bengala & M. kadal • Squat Lobsters of the Genera Raymunida and Munidopsis (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) from the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone, with Descriptions of Three New Species

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   Raymunida shraddhanandi   Munidopsis bengala   and  M. kadal   Tiwari, Padate, Cubelio & Osawa, 2022     DOI:  doi.org/10.1080/002229...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

[Botany • 2025] Psephellus avajiqensis (Asteraceae: Cardueae) • A New Species from West Azerbaijan Province, NW Iran

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  Psephellus avajiqensis   Negaresh,  in  Rezaei, Saeidi  et  Negaresh, 2025.  DOI:  doi.org/10.5735/085.062.0149   anbf .bsky.social  Abstr...

[Botany • 2025] Oreocharis konkakinhensis (Gesneriaceae) • A New Species from the Central Highlands, Vietnam

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  Oreocharis konkakinhensis     T.V.Do & T.T.D.Pham,  in  Pham, Hoang, Lu, Ho, Wen, Ito et Do, 2026.   DOI:  doi.org/10.1002/njb.05071 ...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

[Herpetology • 2026] Hemidactylus aravalliensis • A New Species of Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) of the H. persicus complex from Aravalli hills, India

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  Hemidactylus aravalliensis   Patel, TEJAS THACKERAY, RAJU VYAS & Mirza, 2026   DOI:   doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5759.5.2 Abstract We de...

[Herpetology • 2025] Pareas melanops • A New Species of Pareas (Squamata: Pareidae) from southwestern Yunnan, China

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  Pareas melanops   Liu, Li, Yang & Rao, 2025 Black-eyed Slug-eating Snake  |  DOI:  doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v42.e24068   Researchgat...
Friday, February 20, 2026

[Paleontology • 2026] Spinosaurus mirabilis • Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation

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Spinosaurus mirabilis Sereno, Vidal, Myhrvold, Johnson-Ransom, Ciudad Real, Baumgart, Sánchez Fontela, Green, Saitta, Adamou, Bop, Keillor, ...

[Arachnida • 2026] Pikelinia floydmuraria • Another Web in the Wall: A New Pikelinia Mello-Leitão, 1946 (Araneae: Filistatidae) from Colombia

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  Pikelinia floydmuraria    Villarreal, Delgado-Santa, González-Gómez, Rodríguez-Castro, Román, Agudelo & García, 2026 DOI:  doi.org/10....