New Species: July 2020

by Piter Kehoma Boll

Here is a list of species described this month. It certainly does not include all described species. You can see the list of Journals used in the survey of new species here.

Bacteria

Gordonia mangrovi is a new actinobacterium from mangrove soil in China. Credits to Xie et al. (2020).*
Craterlacuibacter sinensis is a new proteobacterium from a crater lake in China. Credits to Liu et al. (2020).*

SARs

Cryptists

Chondria tumulosa is a new red alga from Hawaii. Credits to Sherwood et al. (2020).*

Plants

Bredia hispida is a new melastome from China. Credits to Dai et al. (2020).*
Beautiful conidia of Spegazzinia musae, a new didymospheriacean fungus from Thailand. Credits to Samarakoon et al. (2020).*

Amoebozoans

Fungi

Sidera parallela is a new crust fungus from China. Photo by Bao-Kai Cui.*

Poriferans

Advhena magnifica is a new hexactinellid from the North Pacific. Credits to Castello-Branco et al. (2020).*

Cnidarians

Enteromyxum caesio is a new myxosporean parasitizing the fish Caesio cuning. Credits to Freeman et al. (2020).*

Rotiferans

Flatworms

Nemerteans

Eggs (A), juvenile (B) and adult (C) of Auriculella gagneorum, a new land snail from Hawaii. Credits to Yeung et al. (2020).*

Mollusks

Loimia borealis is a new terebellid from Chinese waters. Credits to Wang et al. (2020).*

Annelids

Bryozoans

Nematomorphs

Nematodes

Tardigrades

Chelicerates

Myriapods

Crustaceans

Heterochelamon huidongense is a new freshwater crab from southern China. Credits to Wang et al. (2020).*

Hexapods

Atrococcus rushuiensis is a new scale insect from China. Credits to Zhang et al. (2020).*
Teleopsis neglecta is a new stalk-eyed fly from Sri Lanka. Photo by Amila P Sumanapala.**

Echinoderms

Tunicates

Chondrichthyans

Lucifuga gibarensis is a new cave fish from Cuba. Credits to Hernández et al. (2020).*

Actinopterygians

Amphibians

Mammals

Lycodon cathaya is a new snake from China. Credits to Wang et al. (2020).*

Reptiles

– – –

*Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

**Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Leave a comment

Filed under Systematics, taxonomy

Leave a comment