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 Worldwide06/25/2026, 01:29:07 AM

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.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/24/2026, 01:23:42 AM

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.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/23/2026, 01:24:58 AM

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.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/22/2026, 01:17:18 AM

Falcidens porrectus: a new glistenworm from the Brazilian deep

Sunday June 21 brought a single new registration — Falcidens porrectus Miranda & Passos, 2026, the 39th species in a genus of worm-shaped molluscs that are not worms at all. Recovered at 1,324 metres off the coast of Espírito Santo, Brazil, it is distinguished from its closest relative by large arrow-shaped sclerites and the absence of a midventral suture line.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/21/2026, 01:14:23 AM

Acutigebia succinacia: a new mud shrimp from Japan

Saturday June 20 logged one new species: Acutigebia succinacia, a seventh mud shrimp in its genus, described from four Pacific Japan sites and confirmed by morphology and 16S rRNA genetics.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/20/2026, 01:21:34 AM

71 new species named Friday: 57 Miocene microgastropods resurface after 15 million years, plus cave spiders, cliff primroses, and nudibranchs from New Caledonia

71 species named Friday: 57 Miocene gastropods, 4 Turkish cave spiders, 5 nudibranchs

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/19/2026, 01:20:49 AM

22 new species named Thursday: five critically endangered cave ferns, a giant Bahamian isopod, and a jawless fish dead for 419 million years

Thursday June 18 yielded 22 confirmed new species across Magnolia Press (Phytotaxa 763(1) + Zootaxa 5834(1)), Pensoft's PhytoKeys and MycoKeys, WoRMS, and a Novataxa fossil entry. Highlights: Bathynomus apothecarius, a new giant deep-sea isopod from the Bahamas at 749 m; Asioaspis brachyotus, a new genus and family of jawless fish from the Early Devonian of Yunnan; six Polystichum cave ferns from a single Guangxi karst hill (five CR, one DD); Globularia elmasii, a single-locality globe-flower from southwestern Türkiye (CR); Oziroë imbricata, a desert bulb only findable during a desierto florido bloom event (VU); and Polystemma cualense, a CR Mexican climber whose type-locality population lost three individuals to land-clearing before publication. Conservation count: 7 CR, 1 VU, 2 DD, 10 Not Evaluated of 22 total.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/18/2026, 01:51:15 AM

45 new species named Wednesday: an Axinaea sweep across the Andes, a Japan-first deep-sea worm, and an endangered cave flower with a beard

45 new species: 11 Andean Axinaea, 8 China fungi, 13 insects, 9 marine registrations, 1 EN cave flower.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/17/2026, 01:50:34 AM

33 new species named Tuesday — a Da Vinci amphipod, an Attenborough diatom, and three new gastropod genera in a single paper

Tuesday June 16 yielded 33 newly described species, including a 40-year time-series amphipod from the Northeast Atlantic's most-watched abyssal plain, an Antarctic diatom named after Sir David Attenborough, three new gastropod genera from a single Solariellidae monograph, and the first Cordulegastridae dragonfly described from Vietnam.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/16/2026, 01:22:36 AM

32 new species named Monday — two new Cameroonian bats, a Vulnerable Ecuadorian frog, and a spider that crossed 5,500 km of open ocean

After a confirmed-silent weekend, Monday June 15 brought 32 formally described species across Pensoft's open-access journals, a full Zootaxa issue, and WoRMS — including Pristimantis etsa (VU D2, Cordillera del Cóndor), two new butterfly bats from Lobéké NP (G. baka and G. lobeke), a marine mite bridging Mauritius and Thailand 5,500 km apart, three Cudonia saddle fungi from the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, an Endangered Kenyan passionflower relative, and three darkling beetles with metallic elytra from Yunnan highlands.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/13/2026, 01:19:46 AM

8 more species named June 12 — a Critically Endangered gesneriad found via TikTok, and an Antarctic copepod seen just 11 times

Late-day June 12 wave: 8 species including a CR Gesneriaceae found via Douyin video and an Antarctic copepod known from only 11 specimens.

Today's Newly Described Species Worldwide06/12/2026, 07:45:52 PM

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 mountains

Friday June 12 produced 26 new species and 2 new genera across Zootaxa 5831(1), Phytotaxa 762(1), MycoKeys 134, and EJT 1068. Highlights: Matildacris gageae gen. et sp. nov. (Cuba) with a structurally novel cricket forewing; two hyperparasitic fungi (Sorobiellomyces gen. nov.) that parasitize zombie-ant fungi in China; Petalidium bembeense (Endangered) from Namibia's ultramafic Zebra Mountains; and two goblin spiders new to Japan.