• <i>Cryptotis nigrescens</i> (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) 

  Woodman, Neal; Timm, Robert M. (2023)

  The blackish small-eared shrew, Cryptotis nigrescens (Allen, 1895), is a blarinine soricid that occurs in high-elevation premontane wet forest and cloud forest in the Central American countries of Costa Rica and Panama. ...
• Two New Species of Small-Eared Shrews of the Genus <i>Cryptotis</i> Pomel, 1848, from the Colombian Andes (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) 

  Woodman, Neal (2023)

  Shrews (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) reach the southern limit of their New World distribution in the Andes and eastern coastal highlands of northern South America. South of Honduras, the family is represented only ...
• Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography 

  Mahlfeld, Karin; Parenti, Lynne R. (2023)

  Abstract Advances in technology have increased our knowledge of the processes that effect genomic changes and of the roles of RNA networks in biocommunication, functionality, and evolution of genomes. Natural genetic ...
• Description of a New Species of <i>Phenacostethus </i>(Atheriniformes: Phallostethidae) endemic to Kalimantan Selatan, Indonesian Borneo, reveals deep mtCOI divergence among miniature species 

  Parenti, Lynne R.; Lumbantobing, Daniel N.; Haryono (2023)

  Phenacostethus sikat, new species, is described from coastal drainages of Kalimantan Selatan, the southeastern province of Indonesian Borneo, that flow into the Java Sea and the Straits of Makassar. This discovery and ...
• Authorship of the Name Anolidae 

  de Queiroz, Kevin (2023)

  I recently called attention to an often-overlooked publication by Cocteau (1836) that used the family name Anolidae, establishing that name as a senior synonym of the name Dactyloidae (attributed to Fitzinger 1843) and ...
• A Brief Guide to Establishing Phylogenetically Defined Names under the International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature 

  Cantino, Philip D.; de Queiroz, Kevin; Cellinese, Nico (2023)

  To facilitate preparation of nomenclatural treatments that follow the PhyloCode, we provide here an outline of the requirements in the form of a checklist. Rules are categorized as pertaining to publication requirements, ...
• Proposed New Article on the Date and Authorship of Names Originally Published with Incomplete Protologues 

  de Queiroz, Kevin; Cantino, Philip D.; Cellinese, Nico (2023)

  When authors have proposed phylogenetically defined names that satisfy the requirements for publication but not those for establishment, the protologues must either be corrected with published errata or republished in a ...
• Introducing the Bulletin of Phylogenetic Nomenclature 

  de Queiroz, Kevin (2022)

  With this inaugural issue, the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature (ISPN) is launching its new journal, the Bulletin of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (BPN). The inauguration of the Bulletin of Phylogenetic ...
• Publications in Avian Paleontology by Alexander Wetmore 

  Olson, Storrs L. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976)
• Index to Fossil Avian Taxa Described by Alexander Wetmore 

  Olson, Storrs L. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976)
• Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in shrews 

  Woodman, Neal (2023)

  The Soricidae (Mammalia: Eulypotyphla) comprises more than 450 species inhabiting a variety of habitats on five continents. As a family, shrews employ a variety of locomotor modes that incorporate ambulatory, fossorial, ...
• Cusk-eel confusion: revisions of larval Luciobrotula and Pycnocraspedum and re-descriptions of two bythitid larvae (Ophidiiformes) 

  Girard, Matthew G.; Mundy, Bruce C.; Nonaka, Ai; Johnson, G. D. (2023)
• Spiny tails and clades: A fully sampled phylogeny of hoplocercine lizards (Iguanidae/ Hoplocercinae) and its taxonomic and nomenclatural implications 

  Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Werneck, Fernanda P.; Fernandes, Igor Yuri; de Queiroz, Kevin (2023)

  Hoplocercine lizards (Enyalioides, Morunasaurus, and Hoplocercus) form a clade of ca. 20 currently recognized species. The phylogenetic relationships among hoplocercine lizards, whose members exhibit striking differences ...
• Using standardized fish-specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) to quantify cryptobenthic fish communities 

  Brandl, Simon J.; Weigt, Lee A.; Pitassy, Diane E.; Coker, Darren J.; Patrick, Christopher J.; Luchese, Matheus H.; Berumen, Michael L.; Buskey, Edward J.; Casey, Jordan M.; Di Domenico, Maikon; Soeth, Marcelo; Topor, Zachary M.; Duffy, J. Emmett; Baldwin, Carole C.; Hagedorn, Mary; Parenti, Lynne R. (2023)

  Biodiversity inventories and monitoring techniques for marine fishes often overlook small (&lt;5 cm), bottom-associated (&#39;cryptobenthic&#39;) fishes, and few standardized, comparative assessments of cryptobenthic fish ...
• Changes in the functional diversity of modern bird species over the last million years 

  Germain, Ryan R.; Feng, Shaohong; Buffan, Lucas; Carmona, Carlos P.; Chen, Guangii; Graves, Gary R.; Tobias, Joseph A.; Rahbek, Carsten; Lei, Fumin; Fjeldså, Jon; Hosner, Peter A.; Gilbert, M. T.; Zhang, Guojie; Nogués-Bravo, David (2023)

  Despite evidence of declining biosphere integrity, we currently lack understanding of how the functional diversity associated with changes in abundance among ecological communities has varied over time and before widespread ...
• Order Beloniformes 

  Collette, Bruce B.; Parenti, Lynne R. (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, 2022)
• Family Adrianichthyidae (Ricefishes) 

  Parenti, Lynne R. (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, 2022)
• A Checklist of the Iguanas of the World (Iguanidae; Iguaninae), 2022 Supplement to: 2016 Herpetological Conservation and Biology 11 (Monograph 6): 4–46 and 2019 Supplement. IUCN Iguana Specialist Group 

  Buckley, Larry J.; de Queiroz, Kevin; Grant, Tandora D.; Hollingsworth, Bradford D.; Malone, Catherine L.; Reynolds, R. Graham; Pasachnik, Stesha A.; Zarza, Eugenia (2022)

  In an attempt to keep the community up to date on literature concerning iguana taxonomy, we are providing this short review of papers published since our 2016 Checklist (ITWG 2016) and 2019 Supplement (ITWG 2019) that have ...
• Identifications, distributions, and life history of four species of Seriola (Carangiformes: Carangidae) in the western North Atlantic based on contemporary and historical data 

  Galbraith, John K.; Bemis, Katherine E.; Bemis, William E.; Cook, Heath S.; Wuenschel, Mark J. (NOAA, 2022)

  Accurate identification of species is essential to understand their biology and management. Some species of fishes, such as amberjacks (genus Seriola) are difficult to identify in the field, including the four species that ...
• The Correct Name for the Taxon Ranked as a Family Containing the Genus Anolis under Rank-based Nomenclature and the Author of the Name Anolis loysiana 

  de Queiroz, Kevin (2022)

  The name Dactyloidae is based on Fitzinger's (1843) family Dactyloae, presumed to be the oldest name in the family group based on the name of a genus (used as valid by the author of the family name but not necessarily by ...

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