Articles

1. Evolution of egg deposition strategies, exaptations of exuvia, and thanatochresis in tardigrades

   • Roberto Guidetti

   REVIEW Open access 27 April 2024

   

2. Novel distribution records of marine Tardigrada from abyssal sediments of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

   • Roman Trokhymchuk
   • Alexander Kieneke

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 April 2024

   

3. Ancient diversity within Diporodrilus (Crassiclitellata, Annelida) clarify the historical biogeography of Corso-Sardinian earthworms

   • Daniel F. Marchán
   • Alejandro Martínez Navarro
   • Marta Novo

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 15 March 2024

   

4. Slow and steady saves the race: molecular and morphological analysis of three new cryptic species of Iberus land snails from the Iberian Peninsula

   • José Liétor
   • Antonio R. Tudela
   • Gregorio Moreno-Rueda

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 12 March 2024

   

5. Genetic and morphological differentiation among populations of the narrowly endemic and karst forest-adapted Pilea pteridophylla (Urticaceae)

   • Karina Lagos-Báez
   • Yuyini Licona-Vera
   • Andrés Ernesto Ortiz-Rodriguez

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 28 February 2024

   

6. Publisher Correction to: Novel integrative data for Indomalayan echiniscids (Heterotardigrada): new species and old problems

   • Piotr Gąsiorek
   • Łukasz Michalczyk

   Publisher Correction Open access 09 February 2024

7. Integrated evidence sheds light on the taxonomy of the widespread Tantilla melanocephala species complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) and indicates the existence of a new species from southern South America

   • Weverton dos Santos Azevedo
   • Francisco Luís Franco
   • Felipe Gobbi Grazziotin

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2024 Pages: 119 - 147

   

8. Bumps on the back: An unusual morphology in phylogenetically distinct Peridinium aff. cinctum (= Peridinium tuberosum; Peridiniales, Dinophyceae)

   • Selin Gürkan
   • Benedikt Stemplinger
   • Marc Gottschling

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 20 January 2024 Pages: 1 - 15

   

9. Correction to: Alcyonidium kuklinskii sp. nov., a new species of Antarctic ctenostome bryozoan with a key to all Antarctic species of the genus

   • Thomas Schwaha
   • Valentina Cometti
   • Stefano Schiaparelli

   Correction Open access 18 January 2024 Pages: 95 - 97

   

10. Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle and its phylogenetic position within Dorvilleidae (Annelida)

    • Ekin Tilic
    • Greg W. Rouse

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 16 January 2024 Pages: 67 - 83

    

11. Novel integrative data for Indomalayan echiniscids (Heterotardigrada): new species and old problems

    • Piotr Gąsiorek
    • Łukasz Michalczyk

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 16 January 2024

    

12. Evidence of cryptic speciation in the invasive hydroid Cordylophora caspia (Pallas, 1771) (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) supported by new records

    • Rayan Silva de Paula
    • Amanda Ferreira e Cunha
    • Lucília Souza Miranda

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 08 January 2024 Pages: 35 - 50

    

13. Intermediary floral traits between natural hybrid and its parents in the Xiquexique (Cactaceae)

    • Sinzinando Albuquerque-Lima
    • Paulo Milet-Pinheiro
    • Isabel C. Machado

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 January 2024 Pages: 17 - 34

    

14. Phylogenetic position of the Amazonian nurse frog Allobates gasconi (Morales 2002) revealed by topotypical data

    • Anthony S. Ferreira
    • Miquéias Ferrão
    • Albertina P. Lima

    Original Article 22 December 2023 Pages: 99 - 118

    

15. Alcyonidium kuklinskii sp. nov., a new species of Antarctic ctenostome bryozoan with a key to all Antarctic species of the genus

    • Thomas Schwaha
    • Valentina Cometti
    • Stefano Schiaparelli

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 08 December 2023 Pages: 85 - 94

    

16. Molecular phylogeny and comparative morphology reveal the species validity and systematic position of Lepidodesma (Bivalvia: Unionidae)

    • Ruiwen Wu
    • Lili Liu
    • Zhengfei Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 December 2023 Pages: 51 - 66

    

17. A new Loriciferan, Scaberiloricus samba gen. et sp. nov., links the Higgins larva and the aberrant Shira larva

    • Martin V. Sørensen
    • Maria Herranz
    • André R. S. Garraffoni

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 09 November 2023 Pages: 787 - 809

    

18. Taxonomy and phylogeny of Dalytyphloplanida Willems et al., 2006 (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela), with the description of a new family, a new genus, and sixteen new species from Cuba and Panama

    • Yander L. Diez
    • Marlies Monnens
    • Tom Artois

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 23 October 2023 Pages: 631 - 681

    

19. Is the copulation of silver-washed fritillary inverted? Function of the female genital projection (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Argynnini)

    • Tatsuki Matoba
    • Yoshitaka Kamimura
    • Kazunori Yoshizawa

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 October 2023 Pages: 871 - 879

    

20. Turtle and tortoise mitogenomes under contrasting positive selection pressure

    • Subhashree Sahoo
    • Ajit Kumar
    • Sandeep Kumar Gupta

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 October 2023 Pages: 953 - 965

    

21. The colonisation of the Tyrrhenian Islands by Hydraena water beetles, with Hydraena reflexa Rey, 1884 reinstated as a valid species endemic to Corsica and Sardinia (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)

    • David T. Bilton
    • Ignacio Ribera
    • Adrián Villastrigo

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 October 2023 Pages: 881 - 900

    

22. The Caribbean intertidal mite Alismobates inexpectatus (Acari, Oribatida), an unexpected case of cryptic diversity?

    • Tobias Pfingstl
    • Iris Bardel-Kahr
    • Sylvia Schäffer

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 29 September 2023 Pages: 811 - 832

    

23. The roles of niche divergence, dispersal, and geology on the diversification of Neotropical true frogs from the Rana palmipes species group (Amphibia, Anura, Ranidae) during the Great American Biotic Interchange

    • Felipe Eduardo Alves Coelho
    • Felipe Camurugi
    • Adrian Antonio Garda

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 September 2023 Pages: 967 - 981

    

24. The debris-cloaking larva of Catapotia laevissima and the origin of defensive strategies in Anamorphidae and other Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera)

    • Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela
    • Richard A. B. Leschen
    • Wioletta Tomaszewska

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 19 September 2023 Pages: 901 - 915

    

25. Assessing troglomorphic and phylogenetically informative traits in troglobionts: a new cave-dwelling centipede illuminates the evolution of a soil-dwelling lineage (Chilopoda: Geophilidae)

    • Lucio Bonato
    • Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 04 August 2023 Pages: 833 - 856

    

26. DNA barcode reveals high cryptic diversity in the commercially important Penaeini shrimps (Decapoda, Penaeidae)

    • Maria Carolina Lima Farias
    • Petrônio Coelho Filho
    • Uedson Pereira Jacobina

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 July 2023 Pages: 857 - 869

    

27. Evidence of venom factor-like in crocodilians

    • Trinidad de los Ángeles Cordero Gil
    • Patricia Susana Amavet
    • Pablo Ariel Siroski

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 July 2023 Pages: 941 - 952

    

28. Independent acquisition of sulfide tolerance in a population of tubificine worms: a habitat extension for the Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri complex

    • David A. Johnson
    • Patrice Showers Corneli
    • Antonio Bradley

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 June 2023 Pages: 683 - 695

    

29. Evolutionary body shape diversification of the endemic Cyprinoidei fishes from the Balkan’s Dinaric karst

    • Milica Lukač
    • Jasmina Ludoški
    • Vesna Milankov

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 June 2023 Pages: 983 - 1004

    

30. Exploring the diversity of the Malagasy Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna via integrative taxonomy

    • Sándor Csősz
    • Ana C. Loss
    • Brian L. Fisher

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 28 June 2023 Pages: 917 - 927

    

31. A Spanish dancer? No! A troupe of dancers: a review of the family Hexabranchidae Bergh, 1891 (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia)

    • Yara Tibiriçá
    • Marta Pola
    • Juan Lucas Cervera

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 20 June 2023 Pages: 697 - 742

    

32. Non-ultrametric phylogenetic trees shed new light on Neanderthal introgression

    • Arturo Tozzi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 June 2023 Pages: 1013 - 1021

    

33. Phylogenomics and deep convergence in cockroach hind-wing morphology

    • Dominic A. Evangelista
    • Dvorah Nelson
    • Frédéric Legendre

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 24 May 2023 Pages: 929 - 940

    

34. Boring bryozoans: an investigation into the endolithic bryozoan family Penetrantiidae

    • Sebastian H. Decker
    • Masato Hirose
    • Thomas Schwaha

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 24 May 2023 Pages: 743 - 785

    

35. Application of genomic markers generated for ray-finned fishes in chondrichthyan Phylogenomics

    • Shengyong Xu
    • Ruirui Zhao
    • Zhiqiang Han

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 May 2023 Pages: 1005 - 1012

    

36. Nereididae (Annelida) phylogeny based on molecular data

    • Paulo R. Alves
    • Kenneth M. Halanych
    • Cinthya S. G. Santos

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 April 2023 Pages: 529 - 541

    

37. The biology of an isolated Mashona mole-rat population from southern Malawi, with implications for the diversity and biogeography of the genus Fukomys

    • R. Šumbera
    • M. Uhrová
    • O. Mikula

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 28 March 2023 Pages: 603 - 620

    

38. Taxonomy of the rear-edge populations: the case of genus Anterastes (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)

    • Onur Uluar
    • Özgül Yahyaoğlu
    • Battal Çıplak

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 March 2023 Pages: 555 - 575

    

39. Comparative molecular and morphological species delineation of Halammohydra Remane, 1927 (Hydrozoa)—with the description of four new species

    • Lenke Tödter
    • Katrine Worsaae
    • Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 01 March 2023 Pages: 455 - 476

    

40. First record of North Italian roach, Leucos aula (Bonaparte, 1841) on the Pag Island, Croatia—relict of the last glacial maximum?

    • Matej Vucić
    • Feitoumatt Lematt Hama
    • Nina Bogutskaya

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 February 2023 Pages: 543 - 553

    

41. Development and structure of the anterior nervous system and sense organs in the holopelagic annelid Tomopteris spp. (Phyllodocida, Errantia)

    • Günter Purschke
    • Conrad Helm

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 07 February 2023 Pages: 505 - 527

    

42. Intraspecific variations in species of Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the Tropical Southwest Atlantic, Northeast Brazil

    • Jailma Ferreira da Silva
    • Jéssica Prata
    • Martin Lindsey Christoffersen

    Original Article 13 January 2023 Pages: 577 - 602

    

43. Revealing the diversity of the green Eulalia (Annelida, Phyllodocidae) species complex along the European coast, with description of three new species

    • Marcos A. L. Teixeira
    • Pedro E. Vieira
    • Arne Nygren

    Original Article 13 January 2023 Pages: 477 - 503

    

44. A holistic approach to inventory the diversity of mobilid ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Peritrichia)

    • Tengyue Zhang
    • Ivan Rurik
    • Peter Vďačný

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 January 2023 Pages: 425 - 454

    

45. Species delimitation in Ceratozamia (Zamiaceae) from Southwestern Mexico, in light of reproductive and climatic diversification

    • Lilí Martínez-Domínguez
    • Fernando Nicolalde-Morejón
    • Dennis Wm. Stevenson

    Original Article 31 December 2022 Pages: 275 - 293

    

46. Shedding light on the origin of Acanthocystidae: Ricksol blepharistes gen. n., sp. n. (Ricksolidae fam. n., Panacanthocystida, Centroplasthelida), with notes on the evolution of the genera Acanthocystis, Ozanamia gen. n. (Ozanamiidae fam. n.), and “Heterophrys-like organisms”

    • Yegor Shɨshkin-Skarð
    • Daria Drachko
    • Vasily V. Zlatogursky

    Original Article 26 December 2022 Pages: 263 - 274

    

47. The Macrobiotus persimilis-polonicus complex (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae), another example of problematic species identification, with the description of four new species

    • Roberto Bertolani
    • Michele Cesari
    • Giovanni Pilato

    Original Article 24 December 2022 Pages: 329 - 368

    

48. Guess who? Taxonomic problems in the genus Eiseniella revisited by integrated approach

    • Irene de Sosa
    • Daniel F. Marchán
    • Darío J. Díaz Cosín

    Original Article Open access 06 December 2022 Pages: 295 - 308

    

49. The phylogeography of some soil-feeding termites shaped by the Andes

    • Damien Gergonne
    • Romain Fougeyrollas
    • Virginie Roy

    Original Article 29 November 2022 Pages: 381 - 394

    

50. Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of the poorly known genus Spalerosophis (Serpentes: Colubridae)

    • Reza Yadollahvandmiandoab
    • Ricardo Koroiva
    • Daniel Oliveira Mesquita

    Original Article 21 November 2022 Pages: 415 - 423