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@plazi-species.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:43 AM

#NewSpecies!
New #stagbeetle from #greece just came in:

Lucanus apollon

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/94E9AECB-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/dez....
#DEZ #LucanusApollon

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles

Living male of Lucanus apollon at the type locality.

@plazi-species.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:27 AM

#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered #fungus from #china for #FungiFriday:

Inocybe tumericolor

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/56C7E777-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/myco...
#mycokeys #InocybeTumericolor

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #mushrooms #mycology

Basidiomata of Inocybe tumericolor, holotype.

@plazi-species.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:19 AM

#NewSpecies!
New #spider from #china just snuck in:

Raveniola zhangzongxuni

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/B2797F30-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#BDJournal #RaveniolaZhangzongxuni

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #fauna #arachnology #arachnids

Raveniola zhangzongxuni, living specimen, male.

@jvertbiol.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 6:55 PM

🐸 One frog ‘species’ becomes six! 💚

A major taxonomic revision of the Scinax nebulosus complex combines DNA, morphology and calls to reveal three new species and revalidate S. cynocephalus.

👉 doi.org/10.25225/jvb...

#JVertBiol #herpetology #taxonomy #amphibians

@journalsysevo.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:15 PM

Using integrative #phylogenomics, polyphasic #taxonomy, and metagenomics, Li et al. widen the characterized diversity of crucial Thermoleophilia bacterial lineages, revealing novel families, genera, and species. doi.org/10.1111/jse....
@wileyecology.bsky.social
#systematics #evolution #FreeAccess

@ecography.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 9:24 AM

Asymmetric species turnover underpins the latitudinal diversity gradient in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot of India vist.ly/5keip #Freshwater #Fish #Diversity #Taxonomy

Diagram showing fish distribution and traits across three biogeographical areas in Western Ghats.

Graph showing beta diversity increasing with distance, correlated and uncorrelated changes, and species richness increasing with decreasing latitude.

@maj.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy Sep 29, 2026, 5:20 PM

Lovely to see Canadian subject heading sovereignty (this is why CSH exists!)

#canada #controlledvocabularies #taxonomy #geography #USpol #libraries #classifcation

Screenshot of social media post with map and text:
Canadian Subject Headings
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) last week announced
the addition of a new Canadian Subject Heading (CSH) for
Lake Ontario to replace the Library of Congress’ updated
subject heading for the lake.
LAC will cease assigning the LCSH term and will instead
assign the CSH “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)” in
bibliographic and authority records moving forward.
Librarianship.ca

@sciencescandal.com Sep 29, 2026, 2:02 PM

🐱 A “house cat” in Bolivia failed the DNA test spectacularly. 😂

The genomic surprise also exposed a much messier wild-cat family tree. Why does that matter for conservation?

sciencescandal.com/scandals/hou...

#StayCurious #Genomics #Taxonomy #WildCats

@publisherkits.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 8:47 PM

WordPress Tag bloat: how many tags should a post really have? #ContentArchives #SEO #Taxonomy #Editorial https://publisherkits.com/tag-bloat-how-many-tags-per-post/?utm_source=publisherkitscom&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sp-2026-09-28&utm_id=sp-2026-09-28&utm_content=sp.bluesky.10082.2026-09-28

@thelabandfield.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 5:36 PM

Our next step in this project is a bibliography of avian type publications. It's incomplete, but 1120+ refs to 210+ collections is a good starting point! Searchable by institution, country, city.

albnd.github.io/bird_types/

#Ornithology #Taxonomy

@laurentia.substack.com Sep 28, 2026, 4:00 PM

Wool Sower Wasp Galls, Tisbury, Massachusetts (May 25, 2026).

#galls #oak #botany #taxonomy

@preslia.cz Sep 28, 2026, 2:33 PM

🔹 In Poland, soil potassium and clay best predict plant richness, exposing a strong Pleistocene legacy
📖 Together, these studies offer new data and perspectives for understanding and conserving central European plant diversity.
Stay tuned!
🔎 #Botany #PlantScience #Taxonomy #Evolution #Ecology

@access-innovations.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 8:04 AM

AI can tag a thousand documents before lunch. But can it tell the difference between what a word usually means and what it means inside your organization? That’s where taxonomies come in. They give AI a shared map of your terms and how they relate. taxodiary.com?p=58841 #taxonomy

@coleopsoc.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 3:31 AM

#LiteratureNotice Löbl. On the Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: #Scaphidiinae) of West Malaysia doi.org/10.35929/RSZ... #Beetle #Beetles #taxonomy

igs 9–14. (9) Scaphoxium angustulum sp. nov., apical part of median lobe and parameres. (10) Scaphoxium calamei sp. nov., basal
bulb with internal sac. (11) Scaphoxium lamellatum sp. nov., basal bulb with internal sac. (12) Ditto, apical process of median
lobe and parameres. (13) Scaphoxium langkawiense sp. nov., apical process of median lobe with internal sac and parameres.
(14) Xotidium digitale sp. nov., apical part of parameres and internal sac

@plazi-species.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 12:42 PM

#NewSpecies!
New #amphipod from the #mariana_trench just surfaced:

Princaxelia kahat

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/F10BB474-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #PrincaxeliaKahat

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #conservation #fauna #crustaceae #amphipoda #deepsea

@plazi-species.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:14 AM

#NewSpecies!
New #pitviper from #vietnam just sidled in:

Ovophis langbianus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/35DD6E29-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/herp...
#Herpetozoa#OvophisLangbianus

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #conservation #fauna #herpetology #herps #reptilia #snakes #viper

Ovophis langbianus in life, head in lateral view.

@plazi-species.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 10:53 AM

#NewSpecies!
Ceratostylis wanrosdyi
A newly discovered #orchid from #malaysia!

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/6F42C118-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
#PhytoKeys #CeratostylisWanrosdyi

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #flora #flowers #plants #orchidaceae

Ceratostylis wanrosdyi in its natural habitat, growing as an epiphyte in the mossy montane forest of Cameron Highlands.

@lizsayavedra.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 10:03 AM

tinyurl.com/bdetffrb Big congrats to @marniebarham.bsky.social #Microbiology #Microbiome #Taxonomy

@lizsayavedra.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 9:57 AM

Big congrats to
@marniebarham.bsky.social
. This is her first manuscript from her PhD thesis. tinyurl.com/bdetffrb #Microbiology #Microbiome #Taxonomy
2/2

@plazi-species.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 9:35 AM

#NewSpecies
New #beetle from #india just snuck in:

Apogonia daksina

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/24724A6D-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/dez....
#DeutscheEntomologischeZeitschrift #ApogoniaDaksina

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #animals #entomology #insects #coleoptera #bugs

Apogonia daksina, holotype, dorsal view.