Newly Discovered/Described Species 2021

[Zorro]

An interesting set of pics on the KASA Facebook sire today of a "possible" new Lemur species. The animal in the pics appears to be almost all white with a black face. It appears to be very much like other Ruffed Lemurs in shape. other than the coloration!
@Kifaru Bwana
@Zoofan15

 

[WalkingAgnatha]

An interesting set of pics on the KASA Facebook sire today of a "possible" new Lemur species. The animal in the pics appears to be almost all white with a black face. It appears to be very much like other Ruffed Lemurs in shape. other than the coloration!
@Kifaru Bwana
@Zoofan15

Link?

 

[Zorro]

Link?

Did not know how, sorry!

 

[Chlidonias]

An interesting set of pics on the KASA Facebook sire today of a "possible" new Lemur species. The animal in the pics appears to be almost all white with a black face. It appears to be very much like other Ruffed Lemurs in shape. other than the coloration!

Link?

They are photos from 2019, of white Red Ruffed Lemurs (i.e. lemurs within a troop of Red Ruffed Lemurs where the red is largely replaced with white). Photos can be seen on this link from the time of their "discovery": LCF field survey finds rare and unusual lemurs - The Lemur Conservation Foundation

 

[vogelcommando]

New species of Pygmy pipehorse from New Zealand :

New Zealand's First Ever Pygmy Pipehorse Given Māori Name In Historic First

 

[vogelcommando]

2 new Limbless skinks discribed from Australia :

Two New Species of Limbless Skinks Discovered in Australia | Sci-News.com

and the abstract of the discription :

Diversity and Systematics of Limbless Skinks (Anomalopus) from Eastern Australia and the Skeletal Changes that Accompany the Substrate Swimming Body Form

 

[vogelcommando]

3 new species of Freshwater gobies from Japan and Palawan :

Scientists discovered three new species of freshwater goby fish

and the abstract of the discription :

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772000.2021.1971792?src=

 

[vogelcommando]

- Abstract of the discription of a new snake-species from Cuba :

A new semifossorial snake of the genus Arrhyton (Squamata: Dipsadidae) from eastern Cuba, with taxonomic comments on other species | Zootaxa

 

[vogelcommando]

- Abstract of the discription of a new hip-pocket frog from Australia :

A new hip-pocket frog from mid-eastern Australia (Anura: Myobatrachidae: Assa ) | Zootaxa

- Abstract of the discription of 2 new frog-species from Sumatra :

Two new species of Megophrys Kuhl and Van Hasselt (Amphibia: Megophryidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia | Zootaxa

 

[joe99]

-A new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu, or Ramari's beaked whale, with the holotype from New Zealand and 5 other specimens from South Africa.
Speciation in the deep: genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

 

[vogelcommando]

- Discription of a new genus and a new species of freshwater mussel from the Mekong River Basin :

View of Molecular phylogeny reveals a new genus of freshwater mussels from the Mekong River Basin (Bivalvia: Unionidae)

- Discription of a new Gecko-species from India :

A new species of Bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827) from the Garo Hills, Meghalaya State, north-east India, and discussion of morphological variation for C. urbanus | British Herpetological Society

 

[vogelcommando]

- Abstract of the discription of a new frog-species from Thailand :

Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of Leptobrachella (Anura: Megophryidae) from the mountains of northern Thailand | Zootaxa

 

[vogelcommando]

New Tanager from Peru and Bolivia :

Inti Tanager: Colorful New Species of Bird Discovered in South America | Sci-News.com

and abstract of its discription :

new genus and species of tanager (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) from the lower Yungas of western Bolivia and southern Peru

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

I like one of it’s previous nicknames, the Kill Bill Tanager!

 

[vogelcommando]

New Kukri snake discovered through Instagram post :

kukri: Instagram post leads to discovery of snake species | Bengaluru News - Times of India

 

[vogelcommando]

New species of bent-toed gecko in the genus Cyrtodactylus native to the province of Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Another New Bent-toed Gecko, genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1837 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Borneo | Zootaxa

Another article about the new species :

Straight outta Borneo: New gecko species just dropped

 

[Birdkeeper]

Two new species of Licorice Gurami (Parosphromenus) from Indonesia.
Diagnoses of two new species of Parosphromenus (Teleostei: Osphronemidae) from Bangka Island and Kalimantan, Indonesia | Zootaxa

 

[vogelcommando]

- Abstract of the discription of a new hip-pocket frog from Australia :

A new hip-pocket frog from mid-eastern Australia (Anura: Myobatrachidae: Assa ) | Zootaxa

Another article about the new species :

New frog species discovered where childcare falls to father

 

[vogelcommando]

- Discription of 2 new snail-eating snakes from Mexico :

https://www.herp.mx/pubs/2021-Grunw...MpeKhiBylWPxhIBHg3MtkJoBLIp2JQhzPJS61lYPpTVdU

- Discription of a new crocodile newt from China :

A new species of the genus Tylototriton (Caudata, Salamandridae) from Guangdong, southern China, with discussion on the subgenera and species groups within the genus

 

[vogelcommando]

- Abstract of the discription of 8 new spider-species from South-East Asia :

https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4504.4.5