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New Discoveries

Published:

11 March 2021

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The Leopard Mantis Shrimp, Ankersquilla pardus, a new genus and species of eurysquillid stomatopod from Indo-West Pacific coral reefs

Ahyong, S.T., Porter, M.L. & Caldwell, R.L.

Records of the Australian Museum 72(1):1-8

https://journals.australian.museum/ahyong-2020-rec-aust-mus-721-18/

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Published:

31 December 2020

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Deep-sea clawed lobster Nephropsis stewarti Wood-Mason, 1872 species complex in the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae), with description of a new species.

Su-Ching Chang, Tin-Yam Chan, Appukuttannair Biju Kumar

ZooKeys 1008: 37-60 [Date published 31/12/2020]

https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/59966/

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Published:

25 September 2020

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The Eophreatoicus Nicholls, 1926 species flock from Kakadu and Arnhem Land, with a description of a new genus of Amphisopidae (Crustacea : Isopoda : Phreatoicidea).

George D.F. Wilson, Christopher L. Humphrey

Zootaxa 4854(1): 1-303

https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4854.1.1

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Published:

1 September 2020

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Three new species of abdominal shrimp parasites (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae:Hemiarthrinae) from the Indo-West Pacific.

Jianmei An, Ruru Chen, Gustav Paulay

Zootaxa 4845(2): 264-274 [Date published 2/9/2020]

https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4845.2.7

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Published:

29 August 2020

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Resolution of the identity of Pinnotheres latipes Hombron & Jacquinot, 1846 and description of a new species of Viridotheres Manning, 1996 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae): two symbionts of bivalve molluscs

Shane T Ahyong

Journal of Crustacean Biology 40(6): 879–886

https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa059

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Published:

20 August 2020

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Carpentaria gen. nov., a new talitrid genus from tropical Australia (Amphipoda,Senticaudata, Talitroidea, Protorchestiidae).

J.K. Lowry, R.T. Springthorpe, A.A. Myers

Zootaxa 4834(3): 425-433 [Date published 20/08/2020]

https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4834.3.5

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Published:

24 June 2020

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new species

A new genus and two new species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from mesophotic and deep-sea waters of Australia

José M. Guerra-García & Shane T. Ahyong

Rec. Aust. Mus. 72(2): 45–62

https://journals.australian.museum/guerra-garcia-2020-rec-aust-mus-722-4562/

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Published:

4 June 2020

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new species

A synopsis of Typhlocarcinops Rathbun, 1909 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae), with descriptions of nine new species from the Indo-West Pacific.

Peter K. L. Ng, Dwi Listyo Rahayu

Zootaxa 4788(1): 1-100

https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4788.1.1

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Published:

14 April 2020

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Discovery of Viridotheres Manning, 1996 in the southwestern Pacific and first record of Discorsotheres camposi Ahyong, 2018 from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)

Shane T. Ahyong

Zootaxa 4763(3): 419–428

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4763.3

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Published:

24 March 2020

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A new species of Paraproto (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from southern New South Wales, Australia

 

José M. Guerra-García, Stephen J. Keable, Shane T. Ahyong

Zootaxa 4755(2): 251–270

https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4755.2.4

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Published:

16 March 2020

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A Redescription of Paralimnadia urukhai Webb and Bell 1979 with the Description of a New Species P. minyspinosa (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Limnadiidae).

Brian V Timms, Martin Schwentner

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 142: 1-14

https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/LIN/article/view/14313

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Published:

3 March 2020

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The marine ostracod genus Tasmanocypris McKenzie, 1979 from the Neogene of southeastern Australia: Systematic and palaeoceanographical relationships, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography

Mark T. Warne

Marine Micropaleontology 157, 101855

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037783981930091X

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Published:

17 February 2020

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Parasitic copepods of the family Lernanthropidae Kabata, 1979 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) from Australian fishes, with descriptions of seven new species

 

Geoff A. Boxshall, James P. Bernot, Diane P. Barton, Ben K. Diggles, Russell Q-Y. Yong, Toby Atkinson-Coyle, Kate S. Hutson

Zootaxa 4736(1): 1–103

https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4736.1.1

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