Wollastenothoe minuta Gouillieux & Navarro-Mayoral,  in Navarro-Mayoral, Gouillieux, Fernandez-Gonzalez, Tuya, Lecoquierre, ... et Otero-Ferrer, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-024-02491-y  twitter.com/philebo73 Abstract Black corals are important components of mesophotic and deep-water marine habitats. Their presence at great depths (e.g., 50 to 200 m) makes accessibility difficult, limiting our understanding of the associated biodiversity. Amphipods dominate vagile epifauna in marine habitats around the world, fulfilling important ecosys ..read more

 Primulina hoangmongii K.S. Nguyen, Aver. & C.W. Lin,  in Nguyen, Averyanov et Lin, 2024. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.645.2.7   facebook.com/Darthvaderiana   Abstract Primulina hoangmongii, a new species from Yen Bai Province of northern Vietnam, is described and illustrated. It is similar to P. albicalyx in its robust rhizome, rosette leaves, and yellow flowers. However, P. hoangmongii is clearly distinguished by its linear to narrowly-lanceolate bracts, 8–12 × 2–3 mm (vs. narrowly ovate to ovate, 18–25 × 9–14 mm), green calyx (vs. wh ..read more

Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) in Near & Thacker, 2024 DOI: 10.3374/014.065.0101   twitter.com/TJNear  Abstract Classification of the tremendous diversity of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) began with the designation of taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological similarity. Starting in the late 1960s morphological phylogenetics became the basis for the classification of Actinopterygii but failed to resolve many relationships, particularly among lineages within the hyperdiverse ..read more

Cnemaspis persephone & C. sanctus   Khandekar, Thackeray & Agarwal, 2024 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.3.3   facebook.com/AkshayKhandekarAK   Abstract We describe two new medium-bodied, nocturnal species of South Asian Cnemaspis from the southern Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India in an integrative taxonomic framework. The two new species are phylogenetically and morphologically allied to the wynadensis clade and can be distinguished from other species of the wynadensis clade and each other by a combination of nonoverlapping morphological ..read more

   Figuladra robertirwini sp. nov., F. vidulus sp. nov., etc. L. Stanisic, J. Stanisic &  Köhler, 2024 DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2024.2321650    twitter.com/SocStudMollDiv ABSTRACT The current study revises the systematic taxonomy of Figuladra, a genus of camaenid land snails endemic to eastern Queensland, based on the investigation of many recently collected ethanol-preserved samples as well as historic museum material, including types. We employed comparative analyses to investigate the variation in morphological featu ..read more

Elatostema xingyiense L.D. Duan & D.H.Yin,  in Yin, Huang, Lu et Duan, 2021. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.180.65813 Abstract The new series Elatostema section Weddellia series Xingyiensia L.D. Duan & D.H. Yin (Urticaceae) is described. In addition, its new species Elatostema xingyiense L.D. Duan & D.H. Yin, endemic to Guizhou Province, is also described and illustrated with photographs. The new series is morphologically similar to series Melanocarpa W.T. Wang and series Sublinearia W.T. Wang. The new species is most similar to E. melanocarpum, E. s ..read more

Muscari inundatum  Yıldırım & Eker,   in Eker et Yıldırım, 2021.  DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.484.2.3   Researchgate.net/publication/349366298 Abstract A new species, Muscari inundatum (Asparagaceae) from Turkey, is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to M. neglectum and M. adilii, but differs mainly by its shouldered fertile flowers with erect to slightly recurved lobes at maturity. In this study, a comprehensive description, diagnostic characters, original photographs, detailed ..read more

Leopoldia oztasii Eker, Eroğlu & Pınar,   in Eroğlu, Pinar et Eker, 2024. Konya Morbaşı  ||  DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.633.1.3   facebook.com: Ismail Eker   Abstract Leopoldia oztasii sp. nov. (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae) is described as a new species in this study. It spreads on the stony slopes of Konya province in the south of Türkiye. Leopoldia oztasii is similar to L. tenuiflora, but it is easily distinguished from it, by having larger bulbs, falcate leaves, shorter scape, conical inflorescence, longer pedicels, and lar ..read more

  Ghatiana dvirupa   Pati,  Bajantri & Hegde, 2024  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.1.6 Abstract A new species of gecarcinucid freshwater crab, Ghatiana dvirupa sp. nov., is described herein from the Kali Tiger Reserve of the Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka state, India. The Kali Tiger Reserve is a protected area, which is situated in the Central Western Ghats. The new species superficially most resembles Ghatiana sanguinolenta Pati, Thackeray & Pawar, 2023, from Karnataka but can easily be distinguished mainly by its ultim ..read more

  Gladiolus oreophilus  Eker & Sağıroğlu, in Sağıroğlu et Eker, 2024.  Amanos Kılıçotu  ||   facebook.com/IsmailEker946 Gladiolus oreophilus Eker & Sağıroğlu sp. nova (Iridaceae) is described as a new species from the Hatay Province, Turkey. It resembles G. kotschyanus, G. alanyensis and G. adanus, but it clearly differs from these three species by capsule size, flower colour, number and width of leaves, seed shape and ornamentation, and shapes of periclinal cell walls and testa epidermal cells. Herein, w ..read more