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#NewSpecies!
New salamander from #china just snuck in:

Paramesotriton wumengshanensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/098B04FE-821A-5C65-AADE-9332F659F977
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.149144
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #ParamesotritonWumengshanensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #salamander

Description of a species of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata, Salamandridae) from Guizhou, China, based on morphological and genomic evidence

Holotype of Paramesotriton wumengshanensis. Lateral view.

Plazi Species

@plazi_species@mastodon.green · 10 hours ago

#NewSpecies!
New salamander from #china just snuck in:

Paramesotriton wumengshanensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/098B04FE-821A-5C65-AADE-9332F659F977
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.149144
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #ParamesotritonWumengshanensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #salamander

Description of a species of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata, Salamandridae) from Guizhou, China, based on morphological and genomic evidence

Björn Brembs

@brembs@mastodon.social · yesterday

"The question that arises at this stage is whether openness in knowledge constitutes the Achilles heel of the once profitable legacy publishing industry or whether it is the Trojan horse of the latter for increasing its revenues."

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13/4/46

#publishing #openaccess #oa #academicchatter #journals

Petra van Cronenburg boosted

Plazi Species

@plazi_species@mastodon.green · last week

#NewSpecies!
New river snail from #china just crawled in:

Bakyietaia avisvenatoris

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/064787F3-751A-8442-FE10-795E297AF93D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1005.2985
#ejtaxonomy #BakyietaiaAvisvenatoris

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #freshwater #river

A new genus of river snails, Bakyietaia (Mollusca, Viviparidae), from South China and the Indochinese Peninsula

Shell of paratype of Bakyietaia avisvenatoris.

Open Book Collective boosted

COPIM

@copim@hcommons.social · last week

Open access from the bottom up: Three open access days

Reflecting on @openbookcollect & Copim's contributions to #OAT25 at the University of Konstanz

👉 https://buff.ly/r11osDN

#OpenAccess #OA #OABooks

Plazi Species

@plazi_species@mastodon.green · last week

#NewSpecies!
New river snail from #china just crawled in:

Bakyietaia avisvenatoris

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/064787F3-751A-8442-FE10-795E297AF93D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1005.2985
#ejtaxonomy #BakyietaiaAvisvenatoris

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #freshwater #river

A new genus of river snails, Bakyietaia (Mollusca, Viviparidae), from South China and the Indochinese Peninsula