New Species

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  • Just a fraction of the species on our planet are known to science, but more are described and published every day. This podcast talks to the authors of these new species to get the behind-the-scenes stories of how new species are found and named, as well as why these discoveries should matter to everyone, not just scientists. Join us on our journey to better understand the wonderful biodiversity of our planet! Be sure to follow New Species on Twitter (@PodcastSpecies), and support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod
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Episodes
  • Two New Cave-Dwelling Snails with Rodrigo Salvador

    Two New Cave-Dwelling Snails with Rodrigo Salvador
    Nov 26 2024

    Rodrigo’s paper “Idiopyrgus Pilsbry, 1911 (Gastropoda, Tomichiidae): a relict genus radiating into subterranean environments” is in November 8th issue of Zoosystematics and Evolution

    It can be found here: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.100.136428


    A transcript of this episode can be found here: Rodrigo Salvador - Transcript

    Follow Rodrigo on X/Bluesky: @Kraken_Scholar and @krakenscholar.bsky.social

    Follow the Journal of Geek Studies on X/Bluesky:@JGeekStudies and @jgeekstudies.bsky.social

    New Species: Idiopyrgus eowynae, Idiopyrgus meriadoci

    Episode image credit: Rodrigo Salvador

    @krakenscholar.bsky.social

    Journal of Geek Studies:https://jgeekstudies.org/

    Pensoft article, “The Snellowship of the Ring”: https://blog.pensoft.net/2024/11/11/the-shellowship-of-the-ring-two-new-snail-species-named-after-tolkien-characters/

    Be sure to follow New Species on Twitter (@PodcastSpecies) and Instagram (@NewSpeciesPodcast) and like the podcast page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NewSpeciesPodcast)

    Music in this podcast is "No More (Instrumental)," by HaTom (https://fanlink.to/HaTom)

    If you have questions or feedback about this podcast, please e-mail us at NewSpeciesPodcast@gmail.com

    If you would like to support this podcast, please consider doing so at https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod
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    27 mins
  • A New Schizomid with Sean Birk Bek Craig

    A New Schizomid with Sean Birk Bek Craig
    Nov 12 2024
    What happens when a hymenopterist finds a mysterious arachnid in a Danish hothouse? Sean Birk Bek Craig was exploring the floor of a hothouse, also known as a greenhouse, when he came upon an interesting creature. “I could see that it was an arachnid when I looked up close,” he said, “but immediately just looking at it with my eyes… I was really perplexed about what the devil that was!” Short-tailed whip-scorpions, or members of the order Schizomida, are tiny arachnids who aren’t typically in Denmark, but with a lot of research, Sean concluded it had probably been accidentally imported on one of the tropical plants, possibly from Thailand. With a few ups and downs, Sean described it as his very first new species, and gave it a specific epithet of “serendipitus” after the unexpected way it came into his life. Sean’s paper “First records of the order Schizomida from tropical hothouses in Denmark: Stenochrus portoricensis and a new species of Bamazomus (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae)” is in issue 67 of Arachnology Letters. It can be found here: https://arages.de/en/1030963?tx_psbpublicationmanagement_publicationmanagement_showdoi%5Baction%5D=showDoi&tx_psbpublicationmanagement_publicationmanagement_showdoi%5Barticle%5D=1011&tx_psbpublicationmanagement_publicationmanagement_showdoi%5Bcontroller%5D=Article&cHash=e268cf69e617c9feaa929fb54fe289ad A transcript of this episode can be found here: Sean Birk Bek Craig - Transcript New Species: Bamazomus serendipitus Episode image credit: Sean Birk Bek Craig Find Sean on X/Twitter: @BekBirk Read the paper describing Materia boggildi: https://bioone.org/journals/arachnology/volume-19/issue-6/arac.2023.19.6.888/A-new-Masteria-Araneae--Dipluridae-from-tropical-hothouses-in/10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.888.short Read the paper that nearly made Sean’s new species a synonym: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/121754/ Read the paper describing a new Schizomid genus from Germany: https://arages.de/10.5431/aramit4906 Read Abrams’ paper “Too Hot to Handle”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790319301824 Enjoy the World Schizomida Catalog: https://wac.nmbe.ch/order/schizomida/5 Read Matty’s thesis on biologists: https://research.ku.dk/search/result/?pure=en/publications/for-the-love-of-the-living(049e101d-c89d-472f-ba7a-f7a62e8337a4).html Be sure to follow New Species on Twitter (@PodcastSpecies) and Instagram (@NewSpeciesPodcast) and like the podcast page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NewSpeciesPodcast) Music in this podcast is "No More (Instrumental)," by HaTom (https://fanlink.to/HaTom) If you have questions or feedback about this podcast, please e-mail us at NewSpeciesPodcast@gmail.com If you would like to support this podcast, please consider doing so at https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod
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    45 mins
  • Two New Pseudoscorpions with Danniella Sherwood

    Two New Pseudoscorpions with Danniella Sherwood
    Aug 28 2024

    In this episode, Danniella Sherwood brings us two new pseudoscorpions from Ascension Island, one of the most remote islands in the world. Ascension’s ecological history is full of many twists and turns, and it is home to amazing biodiversity that is in desperate need of conservation. Danni and her team worked together to address this need, producing a paper titled ‘David and Goliath’ with one very small and one very large new species. They also provide new faunistic records, or records that show that Ascension and the nearby Boatswain Bird Island are home to stunning endemic pseudoscorpion diversity.

    One of my favorite things about Danni’s story is the emphasis she places on teamwork. “It takes a village to produce good research,” She says. “it takes a village to work towards visions of conserving invertebrates in their habitats. You need to have people from all fields, all specialties, all viewpoints in order to make something that’s really impactful, really lasting and enduring to the fields of conservation and ecology and taxonomy.” Listen to this episode for a meaningful story of teamwork and community, and to learn the importance of taxonomy’s role in conserving island flora and fauna.

    Danniella Sherwood’s paper “David and Goliath: on the pseudoscorpions of Ascension Island, including the world’s largest, Garypus titanius Beier, 1961, and a new, minute, Neocheiridium Beier, 1932 (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)” is in issue 42 of Natura Somogyienis.

    It can be found here: https://doi.org/10.24394/NatSom.2024.42.131

    A transcript of this episode can be found here: Danni Sherwood 2 - Transcript

    Listen to Danni’s other New Species episode about St. Helenian wolf spiders: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0o8dL8yEpRiFtMO1gVNjkc?si=c068e5d3b6fb40f7

    New Species: Garypus ellickae and Neocheiridium ashmoleorum

    Episode image credit: Adam Sharp

    Follow the Ascension Island Government Conservation Directorate here:

    https://www.facebook.com/AscensionIslandConservation

    https://twitter.com/aigconservation


    Follow Danni’s research on all manner of arachnids here:

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danniella-Sherwood


    Follow the Species Recovery Trust:

    https://www.facebook.com/TheSpeciesRecoveryTrust/

    https://www.twitter.com/speciesrecovery


    Be sure to follow New Species on Twitter (@PodcastSpecies) and Instagram (@NewSpeciesPodcast) and like the podcast page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NewSpeciesPodcast)

    Music in this podcast is "No More (Instrumental)," by HaTom (https://fanlink.to/HaTom)

    If you have questions or feedback about this podcast, please e-mail us at NewSpeciesPodcast@gmail.com

    If you would like to support this podcast, please consider doing so at https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod
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    48 mins

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