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

8 new species named Thursday: seven new fungal genera rewrite a marine family, and a striped river fish from Zhangjiajie

Thursday June 25, 2026 brought 8 confirmed new species plus 3 further likely additions across MycoKeys, ZooKeys, Zoosystematics and Evolution, Zootaxa, WoRMS, Candollea, and Nordic Journal of Botany. The day's centerpiece is a 202-page Halosphaeriaceae monograph in MycoKeys 135 erecting 7 new genera and 14 new combinations in a major marine-fungal reclassification, alongside the single new species Ocostaspora japonica from Tokyo Bay driftwood. Other new taxa include Acrossocheilus zhangjiajiensis (a barred stream fish from Zhangjiajie), three Trilacuna goblin spiders from Sichuan and Hubei, two Baja California polychaetes, a New Zealand soft coral, two Annonaceae trees from Papua New Guinea, and a Pampa rock-dwelling Sinningia.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide

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 Caribbean

Wednesday June 24, 2026 delivered 54 new species and three new genera across Zootaxa, Phytotaxa, MycoKeys, ZooKeys, EJT, and WoRMS — headlined by Cryptanthus pataxoanus (CR), a marbled Atlantic Forest bromeliad described in partnership with Brazil's Pataxó indigenous community. Other standouts include five Oxypilinae mantises from India's Western Ghats, three Caribbean anchialine cave mysids plus the new genus Chelitrapezura, a new mycorrhizal genus (Durabilispora) from Poland's Tatra Mountains, and five new ladybirds in the Chinese Oenopia revision.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide

29 new species named Tuesday: a stag beetle from the Himalayas, cave creatures across three continents, and five endangered wildflowers from one Kerala hillside

Tuesday June 23 brought 29 new species across Zootaxa, ZooKeys, PhytoKeys, and MycoKeys — led by Dorcus liangi, a large stag beetle from Tibet's eastern Himalayas. Other standouts: a spider-web-textured soft coral from New Zealand's Fiordland fjords; five new Data Deficient Impatiens balsam wildflowers from a single Kerala hillside (Western Ghats); three cave millipedes from Laos including one with an anchor-shaped copulatory appendage; three new lynx spiders from the Yarlung Zangbu Grand Canyon; an eyeless cave ground beetle from a Guizhou karst cave; the first Nylanderia ant from the Galápagos; and three new brittlegill mushrooms from subtropical China.

This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide
This Week's Newly Described Species Worldwide

Monday's haul: four sky-island chameleons from Mozambique, a ladybird in a termite nest, and 14 other species named June 22, 2026

Monday June 22 delivered 14 newly published species across three journal sources — headlined by four Critically Endangered Nadzikambia sylvan chameleons discovered on isolated mountaintops in northern Mozambique, each named for a separate "sky island" and each losing its forest fast. Also notable: Scymnus tshunsii, the first ladybird beetle confirmed to live inside termite nests, plus 12 invertebrates, moths, wasps, and fungi from Zootaxa 5837(1) and MycoKeys 134.

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