Cyrtodactylus thalang  Grismer, Pawangkhanant, Bragin, Trofimets, Nazarov, Suwannapoom & Poyarkov, 2024 Thalang Bent-toed Gecko | ตุ๊กกายถลาง  ||  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.2.2   Researchgate.net/publication/379778084   facebook.com/NickPoyarkov Abstract Model based integrative analyses supports the recognition of a new species of the Cyrtodactylus brevipalmatus group from Phuket Island, Thailand. Cyrtodactylus thalang sp. nov. is most closely related to the sister species C. brevipalmatus from the Thai-Malay Peninsula and C ..read more

Protemnodon viator  Kerr, Camens, van Zoelen, Worthy & Prideaux, 2024 DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.11.1.1   news.flinders.edu.au Abstract Species of the kangaroo genus Protemnodon were common members of late Cenozoic communities across Australia and New Guinea until their extinction in the late Pleistocene. However, since the genus was first raised 150 years ago, it has proven difficult to diagnose, as have the species allocated to it. This is due primarily to the incompleteness of the type material and a heavy reliance on cheek tooth size and slight variations ..read more

Nepenthes kampalili Lagunday & V.B. Amoroso,  in Lagunday, Yurong et Amoroso, 2024.   DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.644.2.8  facebook.com: Lagunday Noel   Abstract A new species, restricted in the limestone karst bonsai forest of the eastern Mindanao biodiversity corridor, Nepenthes kampalili grouped under section Villosa is herein described with a taxonomic key leading to the species. It differs from N. peltata in having apically attached tendril to leaf (vs. peltate tendril-leaf attachment), densely pubescent ground ..read more

Cyphocharax orion Melo & Faria, 2024   DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0122   www.ni.bio.br/1982-0224-2023-0122 Abstract​  A new species of Cyphocharax is described from the rio Juma, which flows across the meridional Amazon basin and is a tributary of the rio Aripuanã in the rio Madeira fluvial system. Features distinguishing the new species from congeners include a longitudinally elongated caudal peduncle blotchextending from the vertical line through the adipose-fin terminus to the base of median caudal-fin rays, the number of scale series along th ..read more

 Pimelodella guato Pierre & Slobodian, 2024   ni.bio.br/1982-0224-2023-0110 Abstract​  A new species of Pimelodella is described from the rio Paraguai basin in Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso States, Brazil. The new species distinguishes from all other members of the genus based on a unique combination of characteristics, which include: dorsal profile straight from snout to dorsal-fin, maxillary barbel reaching at least the anal-fin terminus when parallel to main body axis, robust dorsal-fin spine bearing small spinules along three-fourths of i ..read more

in Perillo​ & Sander, 2024. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17060   www.uni-bonn.de Abstract Very large unidentified elongate and rounded fossil bone segments of uncertain origin recovered from different Rhaetian (Late Triassic) fossil localities across Europe have been puzzling the paleontological community since the second half of the 19th century. Different hypotheses have been proposed regarding the nature of these fossils: (1) giant amphibian bones, (2) dinosaurian or other archosaurian long bone shafts, and (3) giant ichthyosaurian jaw bone segments. We call the l ..read more

Thliphthisa sapphus  Gutermann, in Gutermann, Jang, Kästner, Prehsler, Reich, Berger, Flatscher, Gilli, Hofbauer, Lachmayer, Sander, Sonnleitner et Mucina, 2024. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.241.119144 photographs by M. Sonnleitner, drawings by A. Kästner. Abstract The new species, Thliphthisa sapphus sp. nov. (Rubiaceae, Rubieae), a narrow endemic of the white cliffs of Lefkátas on the southwest coast of Lefkada (Greece) is described and illustrated and an IUCN assessment is presented. Vegetation relevés were performed at the single known locality, limestone cliff ..read more

Brachytarsophrys wenshanensis   He, Ai, Huang, Li, Liu, Lan, Chen & Yuan, 2024     Wenshan Short-legged Toad | 文山短腿蟾  ||  DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2023.0042   Abstract A new species of the genus Brachytarsophrys, named Brachytarsophrys wenshanensis sp. nov., has been identified in southeastern Yunnan, China. This new species can be readily distinguished from other known congeners by both morphological criterion and molecular analysis of three mitochondrial gene segments: 16S, COI, and Cytb. This classifica ..read more

Scranciidae, stat. nov.  Adult Scranciidae in situ.  (a) Gargetta sp. (photo courtesy V. A. Ismavel). (b) Thacona ingens (photo courtesy M. Sone).  (d) Lasioceros aroa (photo courtesy D. Fischer). (e) Phycidopsis albovittata (photo courtesy C. Stinchcomb). in St Laurent, Goldstein, Miller & Robbins, 2024. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12614  twitter.com/Ryan_StLaurent Abstract We analyse anchored hybrid enrichment data from densely sampled tribes and subfamilies of Notodontidae (Prominent Moths). Notodontidae are ..read more

  Cynanchum pingtaoi S.Jin Zeng, G.D.Tang & Miao Liao,  in Liao, S.-J. Zeng, L.-Y. Zeng, Yin, Yan, Zhang et Tang, 2024. 秉滔大花藤  ||  DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.241.111499 Abstract Cynanchum pingtaoi S.Jin Zeng, G.D.Tang & Miao Liao, sp. nov. (Apocynaceae) from Yunnan Province, China, is described and illustrated based on morphological and molecular evidence. Its deeply cordate to reniform leaves and campanulate, large flowers show that it is a member of former Raphistemma Wall., which has been included in Cynanchum L.. It is different from al ..read more