This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide Content Archive

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1. 35 New Species Named in 24 Hours: May 14–15, 20262026-05-15
2. Five species named this week: a venomous Singapore jellyfish, an Indian leopard gecko, Spanish cave isopods, and Chinese moths2026-05-18
3. 20 new species named May 18–19: a smiling Himalayan spider, two hidden reef doctors, and water bears from Vietnam2026-05-19
4. 26 new species named May 19–20: two Cape Verde snails, a cliff-top rhododendron, a whale-fall worm, and seventeen arthropods2026-05-20
5. 22 new species named May 20–21: a moth named for E.O. Wilson, sixteen chafer beetles at once, three Amazon catfish, and a fungus from panda dung2026-05-21
6. 42 new species named May 21–22: three Himalayan pit vipers, a deep-sea copepod in its own new family, a critically endangered Vietnamese gesneriad, and eight Andean dung beetles2026-05-22
7. 11 new species named May 22–23: a Texas mosasaur twice the length of a great white shark, a tree in its own new genus from Cretaceous France, and an Endangered Colombian cannonball-tree relative2026-05-23
8. 5 new species named May 24: five South China Sea flatworms — including a brand-new genus — from a single integrative-taxonomy paper2026-05-24
9. 20 new species named May 25: a Galápagos deep-sea octopus, three hadal protists from 10,000 m, an endangered Mexican cycad, and a Monday haul from Zootaxa2026-05-25
10. 22 new species named May 26: yellow lipstick plants from Borneo, two firefly pairs from Meghalaya, and deep-sea sea cucumbers from the Emperor Seamounts2026-05-26
11. 36 new species named May 27: 15 Chinese planthoppers, a Vulnerable Turkish bellflower, a Triassic witch-ranch archosaur, and a midweek surge across 7 journals2026-05-27
12. 32 new species named May 27–28: a Cretaceous bird with tail feathers twice its body length, a plantain feared extinct since 2003, and beetles that pupate in foam2026-05-28
13. 39 new species named May 29: *Kank australis* — a Patagonian dinosaur from the age of extinction — plus a cobalt mushroom from Borneo and three new snail genera from Vietnam2026-05-29
14. 12 new species named May 30: a Nagaland cascade frog and 11 Australian slugs in a landmark family revision2026-05-30
15. 9 new sea snails named May 30, from Vietnam to West Africa2026-05-31
16. 4 new species named June 1: a flathead fish breaks a single-species genus2026-06-01
17. 31 new species named June 2–3: blind cave fish, a Eocene fairyfly, and a cycad facing extinction2026-06-03
18. 23 new species named June 4: a dinosaur from Gansu, nine deep-sea crustaceans, and ostracods crossing from sea to lake2026-06-04
19. 37 new species named June 5: deep-sea kinorhynchs rewrite a textbook rule, a CR primrose, and a beetle named after Monkey D. Luffy2026-06-05
20. 25 new species named June 8: a second cave raptor spider, a CR gesneriad with 70 plants left, and a new cordyceps2026-06-08
21. 26 new species named June 9: a new porcupine from Ecuador found after 15 years, a deepwater shark from India, and a cricket in amber2026-06-09
22. 27 taxonomic novelties named June 10: a deep-water chimaera from Costa Rica, a freshwater snail with a structural first, and three cave spiders from Japan2026-06-10
23. 48 taxonomic novelties named June 10–11: a Triassic fossil with a 20-year cold case, 16 Moroccan spiders, and a record single-day count2026-06-11
24. 26 new species named June 12: a cricket with a forewing groove no one has seen before, two fungi that eat zombie-ant fungi, and an Endangered shrub from Namibia's ultramafic mountains2026-06-12
25. 8 more species named June 12 — a Critically Endangered gesneriad found via TikTok, and an Antarctic copepod seen just 11 times2026-06-12
26. 32 new species named Monday — two new Cameroonian bats, a Vulnerable Ecuadorian frog, and a spider that crossed 5,500 km of open ocean2026-06-15
27. 33 new species named Tuesday — a Da Vinci amphipod, an Attenborough diatom, and three new gastropod genera in a single paper2026-06-16
28. 45 new species named Wednesday: an Axinaea sweep across the Andes, a Japan-first deep-sea worm, and an endangered cave flower with a beard2026-06-17
29. 22 new species named Thursday: five critically endangered cave ferns, a giant Bahamian isopod, and a jawless fish dead for 419 million years2026-06-18
30. 71 new species named Friday: 57 Miocene microgastropods resurface after 15 million years, plus cave spiders, cliff primroses, and nudibranchs from New Caledonia2026-06-19
31. *Acutigebia succinacia*: a new mud shrimp from Japan2026-06-20
32. *Falcidens porrectus*: a new glistenworm from the Brazilian deep2026-06-21
33. Monday's haul: four sky-island chameleons from Mozambique, a ladybird in a termite nest, and 14 other species named June 22, 20262026-06-22
34. 29 new species named Tuesday: a stag beetle from the Himalayas, cave creatures across three continents, and five endangered wildflowers from one Kerala hillside2026-06-23
35. 54 new species named Wednesday: a Critically Endangered bromeliad found with Brazil's Pataxó people, five Indian mantises, and a new cave-shrimp genus from the Caribbean2026-06-24
36. 8 new species named Thursday: seven new fungal genera rewrite a marine family, and a striped river fish from Zhangjiajie2026-06-25
37. 13 new species named Friday: an orchid at risk2026-06-26
38. 173 new species in one week2026-07-03
39. 155 new species named this week2026-07-10
40. 15 new species named this week: a Congo monkey, Brazilian rock plants, and new fungi2026-07-17
41. 16 species named this week: cave pseudoscorpions, Yunnan spiders, and a frog-bladder ciliate2026-07-24
42. 10 species named this week: insect-parasitic fungi, Montenegrin snails, and Yunnan plants2026-07-31
43. 6 species named this week: Vietnamese mountain crabs, a Papuan snake, and a fungus on rose-family bark2026-08-14
44. 9 species named this week: hadal amphipods, cave millipedes, and a CR flower from Thailand2026-08-21
45. 12 species named this week: an orange-throated lizard, Laotian karst snails, and six fungi2026-08-28
46. 11 species named this week: a two-call glassfrog, Idaho's hidden spider, and four fungi2026-09-04
47. 10 species named this week: a deep-sea fish parasite, a Tibetan hydrangea, and seven fungi2026-09-11
48. 11 species named this week: a blind snake on the China–Nepal border, five Thai stream shrimps, and a Patagonian cushion daisy2026-09-18
49. 19 species named this week: the first new cat in a century, a goby named for Charon, and five freshwater mussels2026-09-25
50. 22 species named this week: a scale worm from 4,977 metres down, cave-dwelling waterfall spiders, and a Mexican plant given its own genus2026-10-02
51. 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 Instagram2026-10-09
52. 28 species named this week: a blue-eyed stick insect, a wasp in Baltic amber, and an antthrush that may be critically endangered2026-10-16
53. 23 species named this week: a green horned toad from the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, a shrimp called Sauron, and a waxcap that bruises black2026-10-23
54. 25 species named this week: a bug that lives in a spider's web, a ghost bramble, and a bolete that bruises blue2026-10-30

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