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This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide

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

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-10-30

25 species named this week: a bug that lives in a spider's web, a ghost bramble, and a bolete that bruises blue

A representative digest of 25 newly described species from papers published 23–29 October 2026: a bug that lives on spider webs in southern China, pincer-tailed cave animals from Ibiza and Laos, two new millipede genera from Kangaroo Island, three Malagasy asparaguses with Red List categories, a bramble named for a ghost, and the week's fungi and bacteria.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-10-23

23 species named this week: a green horned toad from the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, a shrimp called Sauron, and a waxcap that bruises black

A representative digest of 23 newly described species from papers published 16–22 October 2026: a green horned toad from the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, an electric ray new to the northern Indian Ocean, a snapping shrimp named Sauron on a black feather star, three deep-sea bamboo corals in a new genus, two plants proposed as Critically Endangered, and the week's waxcaps, lichen, corals and bacteria.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-10-16

28 species named this week: a blue-eyed stick insect, a wasp in Baltic amber, and an antthrush that may be critically endangered

A representative digest of 28 newly described species from papers published 9–15 October 2026: a stick insect with blue eyes from north Queensland, the oldest member of a parasitoid wasp family preserved in Baltic amber, an antthrush the authors judge may be critically endangered, an Andean bromeliad proposed as Endangered, and the week's plants, fungi, bacteria and diatoms.

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This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-10-09

24 species named this week: a giant isopod from a museum drawer, three cave harvestmen from northern Spain, and a water lily that surfaced on Instagram

A representative digest of 24 newly described species from papers published 2–8 October 2026: a Caribbean giant isopod rediscovered in a museum collection, three cave-dwelling harvestmen from northern Spain, a Colombian giant waterlily confirmed from an Instagram tip, two Thai giant pill-millipedes, a Critically Endangered Ecuadorian poison frog, and the week's plants and fungi.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-10-02

22 species named this week: a scale worm from 4,977 metres down, cave-dwelling waterfall spiders, and a Mexican plant given its own genus

A representative digest of 22 newly described species from papers published in the week to 1 October 2026: an abyssal scale worm from 4,977 metres down, cave-dwelling waterfall spiders from Brazil, two hyporheic amphipods from Crimea, cryptic geckos from Telangana, a deep-sea sculpin, a tardigrade, a new plant genus from Mexico, three assessed plants, five fungi and a green alga.

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This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-09-25

19 species named this week: the first new cat in a century, a goby named for Charon, and five freshwater mussels

A representative digest of nineteen newly described species from papers published in the week to 24 September 2026: the first new cat species in a century, a Red Sea pygmygoby, a Bhutanese torrent catfish, five Gulf coast mussels, a new snail genus from Yunnan, a Brazilian cave planthopper, a new termite genus, a hermit-crab springtail, a plateau wild rye, two threatened Sierra Leone riverweeds, two Hainan fungi and two soil bacteria.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-09-18

11 species named this week: a blind snake on the China–Nepal border, five Thai stream shrimps, and a Patagonian cushion daisy

A representative digest of eleven newly described species from papers published 11–17 September 2026: a blind snake on the China–Nepal border, five Thai stream shrimps, an orb-weaver and a soil ciliate from China, three plants from Vietnam, Patagonia and Brazil, and two lichens and fungi.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-09-11

10 species named this week: a deep-sea fish parasite, a Tibetan hydrangea, and seven fungi

A representative September 4–10 digest of ten newly described species, spanning a deep-sea Chilean copepod, two Asian montane plants, and seven diverse wood-inhabiting and endophytic fungi.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-09-04

11 species named this week: a two-call glassfrog, Idaho's hidden spider, and four fungi

A representative August 28–September 3 digest spanning a two-call Cerrado glassfrog, Idaho's highly restricted funnel-web spider, Chinese insects, four wood-inhabiting fungi, and a maize-rhizosphere bacterium.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-08-28

12 species named this week: an orange-throated lizard, Laotian karst snails, and six fungi

A representative August 21–27 digest of 12 newly described species, from a bright-throated Yunnan lizard and bamboo planthopper to Laotian karst snails and fungi from China.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-08-21

9 species named this week: hadal amphipods, cave millipedes, and a CR flower from Thailand

A representative August 14–20 digest of nine species, from predatory amphipods in the Tonga and Mariana trenches to cave millipedes, a Critically Endangered Thai flower, a transcontinental moss, a tiny leaf-miner fly, and Xizang soldier beetles.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
2026-08-14

6 species named this week: Vietnamese mountain crabs, a Papuan snake, and a fungus on rose-family bark

A representative August 7–13 digest of six formally published species, from two habitat-restricted Vietnamese crabs to a cryptic Papuan snake, a metallic parasitoid wasp, a Yunnan bark fungus, and a Philippine Hoya.

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