Biological Taxonomy

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1. From ciliary patterns to molecular characterization: new insights into the evolutionary phylogeny of tintinnid ciliates (Ciliophora: Tintinnida), with new data on one novel and three poorly known species

   • Yang Bai
   • Rui Wang
   • Xiaozhong Hu

   in Marine Life Science & Technology

   Article 10 September 2026

   

2. Navigating through the high species diversity of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) requires more than identification keys

   • Noé Barbier Chabot
   • Vincent Carlier
   • Adrien Perrard

   in Apidologie

   Article Open access 10 September 2026

   

3. Cryptic speciation and latitudinal genetic differentiation in sipunculan-commensal bivalves with exceptionally large larval shells: the Planktomya amamiensis species complex (Galeommatidae)

   • Ryutaro Goto
   • Chiharu Shinomiya
   • Makoto Tanaka

   in Organisms Diversity & Evolution

   Article Open access 09 September 2026

   

4. Flora of disjunct savanna formations in the Brazilian semiarid unveils biogeographical complexities in the Cerrado–Caatinga relationship

   • Luís Henrique Ximenes Portela
   • Sabrina Barros da Silva
   • Elnatan Bezerra de Souza

   in Brazilian Journal of Botany

   Article Open access 09 September 2026

   

5. Beyond first impressions: a new oxytrichid genus (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) with stylonychine morphology and non-stylonychine ontogeny reveals a complex evolutionary identity

   • Atef Omar
   • Jae-Ho Jung

   in Marine Life Science & Technology

   Article 09 September 2026

   

6. Genetic Identification of Drosophilidae from the Valdai Hills

   • K. A. Kosherova
   • E. G. Pasyukova
   • D. V. Mukha

   in Russian Journal of Genetics

   Article 09 September 2026

7. DNA Barcoding-Based Evaluation of Genetic Diversity in Acanthodactylus (Daudin, 1802) (Lacertidae: Squamata) Species of Türkiye

   • A. Tembelo
   • Y. Kumlutaş
   • K. Candan

   in Biology Bulletin

   Article 09 September 2026

   

8. Exotic Bicornucythere bisanensis—long-distance transportation of a marine ostracod from East Asia to Portugal

   • M. C. Cabral
   • D. J. Horne
   • F. Fatela

   in Marine Biodiversity

   Article Open access 08 September 2026

   

9. How Much Diversity Is Lost in Classification? Morphospaces as a Metric of Taxonomic Impact

   • Alberto González-Casarrubios

   in Biological Theory

   Article 08 September 2026

   

10. Exploring the mitogenomics of Triozidae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea): comparative analysis and phylogenomics

    • Jiangtao Feng
    • Yanting Yang
    • Weidong Huang

    in BMC Genomics

    Article Open access 08 September 2026

11. Population and Component Community Descriptors of Monopisthocotyla Parasitizing Triportheus spp. (Actinopterygii: Triportheidae) in the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin, Brazil

    • Dennisiane de Jesus Saraiva
    • Andréa Pereira da Costa
    • Simone Chinicz Cohen

    in Acta Parasitologica

    Article Open access 07 September 2026

    

12. Molecular Detection of Filarioid Nematodes in Bats from the Western Brazilian Amazon

    • Jhonatan Henrique Lima da Rocha
    • Pedro Zanata Lima dos Santos
    • Tamyres Izarelly Barbosa da Silva

    in Acta Parasitologica

    Article Open access 07 September 2026

    

13. Contributions to the knowledge of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of southern Portugal: faunistic and taxonomic notes

    • Javier Arcos

    in The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology

    Article Open access 05 September 2026

    

14. Mitogenomic and phylogenomic analyses identify a cohesive Western Atlantic lineage within the Narcine complex (Torpediniformes: Narcinidae)

    • Paola Palacios-Barreto
    • Beatriz Rochitti Boza
    • Píndaro Díaz-Jaimes

    in Molecular Biology Reports

    Article Open access 05 September 2026

    

15. The fossil history of the smaller arachnid orders

    • Jason A. Dunlop
    • Danilo Harms

    in PalZ

    Article Open access 04 September 2026

    

16. A potential presence of cryptic species in the Asian common dark firefly Lucidina biplagiata

    • Yuichi Oba
    • Noriomi Fujimori
    • Hidehiko Hirata

    in Zoological Letters

    Article Open access 04 September 2026

    

17. Revisiting Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) nicollei (Ixodida: Argasidae): new records and first molecular data from Mexico

    • Jose A. Hernández-Martínez
    • Iarubittzel Mendieta-Morales
    • J. Antonio Ibarra

    in Experimental and Applied Acarology

    Article 03 September 2026

    

18. Defining biological species with alternational DNA sequence assertions: a practicum

    • Thomas McCabe

    in Biology & Philosophy

    Article 03 September 2026

19. Rolf Kühn, Henrik Æ. Pedersen and Philip Cribb: Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean (second edition)

    • Marco Ferrante

    in Community Ecology

    Article 01 September 2026

20. Contribution to the knowledge of the distribution of bats (Chiroptera) in Algeria

    • Louiza Derouiche
    • Chaouki Djeghim
    • Carlos Rodríguez Fernandes

    in European Journal of Wildlife Research

    Article 29 August 2026

    

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