2026 March - 20 articles
Recent genomic phylogenies have generated new robust classifications of actinopterygian fishes, making possible greater nomenclatural stability, but genus-level classifications of groups like the diverse catfish subfamily Trichomycterinae are still u...
The genus Auricularia holds significant ecological importance due to its role in wood decaying and notable economic value as both an edible and medicinal resource. This study investigates the diversity of Auricularia species in Colombian Andes using...
Astigmata is a diverse lineage of mites with significant ecological, medical, and economic importance, yet higher-level relationships within the group remain contentious due to incongruent morphological and molecular data. Here, we integrate multigen...
Shovel head worms (Annelida: Magelonidae) have long presented challenges to polychaete systematists due to their unique morphology and relative uniformity. This has been compounded by a lack of taxonomic work across key biogeographic regions. However...
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The family Grapsidae is composed of 39 species belonging to seven genera. Currently, larval data are known for 24 out of the 39 species, but the megalopa stage remains unknown for the genera Goniopsis, Grapsus, Leptograpsus, and Planes, although mega...
Plant species established on the basis of early garden cultivation may have lacked the original information about their native geographical origin. Crambe suecica was originally described from its 18th-century cultivation in the Chelsea Physic Garden...
In an age of gene editing and artificial intelligence, taxonomy—the science of naming, describing, and classifying living organisms—can seem old-fashioned, even quaint [...]
Ten new species of Lonchaeidae in the genera Lonchaea Fallen and Silba Macquart are described, nine from the Australasia–Oceania realm—Papua New Guinea (7 species), Solomon Islands (1 species), and Sulawesi (1 species)—and one from...
Two new endemic species from the Atlantic Forest, Philodendron baumgratzii and Philodendron waenglerae, are described herein. Both species belong to the subgenus Philodendron, assigned to sections Schizophyllum and Macrobelium, respectively. Detailed...
Fungal diversity has been well explored worldwide, but such knowledge in special environments remains limited. Here, we focus on the soil from Ngari Prefecture with high altitude in the northwestern part of Xizang, China. Among the 514 fungal strains...
The genus Lygodactylus includes a highly diverse and morphologically cryptic radiation of African dwarf geckos. Within the poorly known L. angularis group, the taxonomic distinction between L. heeneni and L. paurospilus has long been uncertain and co...
Although an isosporan coccidian has been reported from the broad-headed skink, Plestiodon laticeps (Schneider), no acroeimerians are known from this reptile. A single fecal sample was collected by hand in June 2025 from a female P. laticeps from Neva...
Rivomarginella morrisoni (Gastropoda: Marginellidae) is a narrowly distributed freshwater snail inhabiting drainage basins of central and southern Thailand. To clarify patterns of genetic differentiation across its range, 45 individuals from 11 sites...
Argyreia elegans Traiperm, Tetsana & Chitchak, sp. nov., from northern Thailand is described and illustrated. The new species resembles A. kerrii Craib but differs in terms of having lanceolate to oblong leaves, up to two inflorescences (each bea...
We describe a new species of Desmoscolex collected from subtidal muddy sediments off Jindo Island, on the southern margin of Korea’s west coast. Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) curuvus sp. nov. is distinguished by 17 main rings, a 9/8 somatic setal a...
A new species of the genus Ptyctolaemus Peters, 1864 is described from Yunnan Tongbiguan Provincial Nature Reserve, China. The new species phylogenetically formed a clade sister to P. namdaphaensis, but it can be easily distinguished from P. namdapha...
The debate of the validity of Maylandia vs. Metriaclima as a genus for a group of rock-dwelling cichlids (Pseudotropheus zebra complex) in Lake Malawi, Africa, has been argued for more than 25 years. Probably the most important requirement in describ...
The mitochondrial genome of Decametra tigrina (A.H. Clark, 1907) was fully sequenced and characterized. This circular, double-stranded genome spans 15,794 bp and encompasses 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes. Th...
DNA barcode sequences remain unavailable for many species of Mexican Coleoptera. This study presents the first COI barcode records for four saproxylophagous beetle species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae, Cerambycidae) from the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Me...
