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    - Discription of a new genus and new species of beetle from Tanzania :

    Lophorrhinides muellerae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae): a new genus and species from southern Tanzania

    - Abstract of the discription of a new catfish-species from Colombia :

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    - Abstract of the discription of a new Frogfish-species from Australia :

    https://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/CI-18-112

    - Abstract of the discription of a new catfish-species from Brazil :

    https://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/CI-18-113

    - Abstract of the discription of a new species of catfish from Brazil :

    https://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/CI-18-133
     
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    It's a bit more interesting than that bald statement.

    The Pig-footed Bandicoot was first described in 1838 and is known from only around thirty non-palaentological specimens. Recent studies of these museum specimens show that they actually comprise two distinct species. The "original" species (C. ecaudatus) has now also been split into two subspecies, ecaudatus and occidentalis. Unfortunately the paper is not open-access - with so few recent specimens I'm sure they probably list them in the paper


    There are three photos of Pig-footed Bandicoots in the Zoochat galleries.


    This one at the Melbourne Museum is C. ecuadatus ecaudatus:

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    This one, also at the Melbourne Museum, is currently undetermined:

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    (All the Chaeropus specimens at the Melbourne Museum are catalogued online - all the confirmed specimens of the new species, C. yirratji, are either skulls or in spirits).


    And the third specimen is this one at the Grand Galerie de l'Evolution in France, but I don't know which species it is:

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    Well that's just great. A new species which I have almost certainly seen but I can't count it!

    From the article, basically the Cream-vented Bulbul on Borneo has either red or cream eyes which was previously thought to be just individual variation, but they occur at the same sites together and recent genetic work shows them to be two distinct species. Obviously I never recorded in my birding notes the eye colour of the individual birds I saw, so too bad for me!
     
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    No photos made of these birds so you can check if you saw the already know one, the new one or both ?
     
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    Probably not. I don't take a lot of photos of wild birds. I find that if I immediately try to get photos when I see something, then when it has gone I realise that I never actually "saw" it because I was too busy trying to photograph it. That's not to say that I never take photos of course, it's just that I'm more interested in watching the animal. And then later I'm left to wonder what colour eyes it had.
     
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    Even so, I've seen some remarkeble pictures made by you ! ( but it still isl realy a pity you didn't took some bulbul-pictures on Borneo :( ! ).
     
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