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    Newly discovered / described species 2020

    I would like to point out that all specimens of Iguana melanoderma that are currently in the pet trade have an illegal origin; there are no CITES export permits from the Saba authorities registered in the CITES database, and the Saba CITES Authority as confirmed this. This should be remembered when anyone would consider adding this species to their zoo.

    In order to reduce the occurrence of future illegal trade ahead of species descriptions, Bruce Weissgold and myself have written a manuscript with recommendations. This is freely available at the bioXriv ahead of publication in a scientific journal, see here Illegal trade of morphological distinct population prior to taxonomic assessment and elevation, with recommendations for future prevention
     
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    Carribean iguanas seperated into new species

    https://phys.org/news/2020-05-iguana-species-plain-sight.html

    This actually seems to be a different one,then the one I mentioned if I read the article correctly. This new one is called Southern Antilles Iguana and I am not sure if it's described yet, the one I mentioned is the Saba Black Iguana which is also mentioned in the article. Also the blue crayfish from Ohio is not a newly described species it was described in 1905. It might be a new species for Ohio though.
     
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    New species of spider discovered in southwestern China. It mimics a dead leaf hanging from a tree to trick prey into getting too close.

    New species of mimicking spider camouflaged like a dried-up leaf discovered in China rainforest

    In Sir Lanka, herpetologists found that a species of bronze snake are actually 2 different species, with the second one being completely new to science.

    http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/...ACqLbcByXzlk3urb1Vg-7jWoIbV9utpoMsh_1Fc4je5Go

    1 new genus and species of freshwater crab from the EKH (East Khasi Hills) in India.

    Scientists find new genus of fresh water crab in EKH cave
     
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    - Discription of 2 new huntsman spider-species from Taiwan :

    Two new and one newly recorded species of Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884 (Araneae, Sparassidae) from China

    - Discription of 2 new perchlet-species from the Central Pacific :

    Two new species of Plectranthias (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems in the tropical Central Pacific

    - Discription of a new tree-frog-species from Brazil :

    A new species of Dendropsophus (Anura, Hylidae) from southwestern Amazonia with a green bilobate vocal sac
     
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    The paper can be read here in Nature: Faecal DNA to the rescue: Shotgun sequencing of non-invasive samples reveals two subspecies of Southeast Asian primates to be Critically Endangered species | Scientific Reports

    Or here as a rough pdf if the above link becomes restricted: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/867986v1.full.pdf

    My percentage of Asian primates seen in the wild keeps getting lower because they keep raising the number of species! However, in this case, while the split is into three species I have already seen two of them (the Sumatran species is the one I haven't seen).
     
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    - Discription of 4 new Horned toads from China :

    Four new species of Asian horned toads (Anura, Megophryidae, Megophrys) from southern China

    - Discription of a new species of frog from China :

    A new species of the Rana japonica group (Anura, Ranidae, Rana) from China, with a taxonomic proposal for the R. johnsi group

    - Discription of a new species of leaf litter toad from China :

    A new species of the Asian leaf litter toad genus Leptobrachella (Amphibia, Anura, Megophryidae) from southwest China

    - And a discription of another Horned toad-species from China :

    A new species of the horned toad Megophrys Kuhl & Van Hasselt, 1822 (Anura, Megophryidae) from southwest China
     
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