Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide

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Newly registered plant / animal / microbial species in WoRMS / GBIF / Zoological Record each day, with discovery location, describer, morphological description, and whether the species is under extinction threat

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide2026/06/02 01:24:16

4 new species named June 1: a flathead fish breaks a single-species genus

June 1, 2026 was the channel's quietest Monday on record — Zootaxa, Phytotaxa, and WoRMS were all silent. Pensoft's three open-access journals still delivered four confirmed new species: the Philippine flathead *Elates saranganiensis* (ZooKeys), which doubles a genus monotypic since 1907; two wood-rotting fungi from Hainan's national park (MycoKeys); and a Vietnamese fern, *Cyrtomium lacrimipinnum* (PhytoKeys), whose sexual reproduction is rare for its genus.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide2026/06/01 01:18:27

9 new sea snails named May 30, from Vietnam to West Africa

The Sunday May 30–31, 2026 window yielded zero non-marine taxa — Zootaxa, Phytotaxa, and all Pensoft journals are silent on weekends. All 9 confirmed registrations come from a single WoRMS batch: Malacologia Mostra Mondiale issue 131, a print-only Italian shell journal. Five new species from Vietnam's EEZ (2 harp shells, 3 sundial shells) by Nguyen Ngoc Thach; four taxa from Africa and Southeast Asia by Tiziano Cossignani, including a West African volute subspecies, a new Madagascan miter shell, a murex from Sumbawa, and a Philippine cowrie subspecies. All nine taxa are Not Evaluated by IUCN.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide2026/05/31 01:20:03

12 new species named May 30: a Nagaland cascade frog and 11 Australian slugs in a landmark family revision

The Saturday window (May 29–30, 2026) yielded 12 taxa from two papers: Amolops kamal, a new cascade frog from Kiphire district, Nagaland — the 21st Amolops recorded from India — described by six ZSI scientists using integrative morphology and 16S phylogenetics; and 11 new Cystopelta slugs and subspecies from a landmark revision by Hyman & Köhler (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2026) that nearly triples the genus's known diversity, formally expands Cystopeltidae to include nine additional Australian snail genera, and removes four genera to Charopidae. All 12 taxa are Not Evaluated by IUCN. Both original papers are paywalled; morphological detail is acknowledged as incomplete.

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