Newly Discovered/Described Species 2021

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
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Did not know how, sorry!

 

New species of Pygmy pipehorse from New Zealand :

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

 

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

 

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=

 

- 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

 

- 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

 

-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

 

- 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

 

- 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

 

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

 

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

 

New Kukri snake discovered through Instagram post :

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

 

Another article about the new species :

Straight outta Borneo: New gecko species just dropped

 

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

 

Another article about the new species :

New frog species discovered where childcare falls to father

 

- 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

 

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

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