ZooKeys

Scientists have described a new species of land snail from Vietnam, named Fansipanica milae, in a paper published in the open-access journal ZooKeys. The species description, including its taxonomic treatment, is openly available via Plazi, in line with FAIR data practices. The announcement has drawn attention from the biodiversity and taxonomy community, which regularly highlights newly described species under the NewSpecies tag.

A newly described spider species from Japan, Nesticus yamabushi, has been formally published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, with its taxonomic treatment made available through the Plazi treatment repository. The species name references the yamabushi, the mountain ascetics of Japanese tradition. Scientists and biodiversity watchers have been sharing the find, highlighting it as another addition to Japan's rich and still incompletely catalogued spider fauna.

Scientists have described a new land snail species, Acinolaemus altus, from Myanmar. The finding was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys, with the species treatment made freely available through the Plazi research platform. The discovery highlights Myanmar's understudied mollusc biodiversity and adds to the growing Acinolaemus genus. Researchers and biodiversity observers have been sharing the news, praising the open-access publication and FAIR data practices that make the description freely accessible to the scientific community.