New Species
Episodes
Episode 16: New Species—of elfin saddle fungus from Mexico!
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Roberto Garibay-Orijel is a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He talks to me about his paper published in Phytotaxa on Ap...
Episode 15: New Species—of harlequin toad from Panama and the troubles to get one specimen!
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Abel Batista is a researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Chiriqui in Panama. He talks to me about his paper published in Zoological Research in...
Episode 14: New Species—of flying tarantulas with eleven eyes that can live for 20 years behind secret doors!
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rebecca Godwin is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Piedmont University in Demorest, Georgia, USA. She talks to us about her paper published in...
Episode 13: New Species—of high mountain jaguar moths and caterpillars that glow (fluoresce, actually)!
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
National Geographic Explorer Joe Martinez is a Ph.D. student in the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in the Florida Museum of Natural H...
Episode 12: New Species—of peacock spider named after a famous fish!
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Schubert is the Legacy Registration Officer for Entomology and Arachnology at Museums Victoria in Australia. He talks to us about his paper pub...
Episode 11: New Species—of African bats and how they help control pests, and how bats help make tequila!
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Bruce Patterson is the MacArthur Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He talks to us about his paper published in...
Episode 10: New Species—of muscid flies from North America, and the thrill of naming new species!
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jade Savage is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bishop’s University in Quebec, Canada. She talks to us about h...
Episode 9: New Species—17 of them—of ant-like spiders from the Afrotropical region.
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 9: New Species—17 of them—of ant-like spiders from the Afrotropical region. Ruan Booysen is a Ph.D. student at Free State University in So...
Episode 8: New Species—of daddy longlegs named after a Warhammer 40k character, a Twitter challenge for listeners, and new genera and families!
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Shahan Derkarabetian is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Ha...
Episode 7: New Species—of slime-producing hagfishes, including the “ghost” hagfish, from the Galapagos Islands!
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Doug Fudge, an Associate Professor in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University where he heads the Comparative Biomateria...
Episode 6: New Species—of cockroach from Tasmania (and they’re huge!)!
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shasta Henry, a Ph.D. candidate in entomology in the Discipline of Geography and Spatial Science at the University of Tasmania, is my guest! We discus...
Episode 5: New Species-- actually, 403 (yes, 403!!) new species of braconid parasitoid wasps from Costa Rica!
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Michael Sharkey, is a Professor Emeritus. He talks to us about his paper published February 2nd in ZooKeys wherein he ...
Episode 4: New Species-- of Happy Face spiders in Hawaii!
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Rosemary Gillespie, is a professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, professor in the Division of Ins...
Episode 3: New Species-- a 60 million year old fossil "alligator" from Texas, USA!
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Adam Cossette, is a vertebrate paleontologist and an Assistant Professor of Anatomy working in the College of Osteopat...
Episode 2: New Species-- daddy long legs from New Caledonia!
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Gonzalo Giribet, is an invertebrate biologist working at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, where he is Cur...
Episode 1: New Species-- or new genus? Tiny frogs from Southeast Asia!
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Mark Scherz, is one of the authors of a recent paper about a new genus (!!) of tiny frogs, Nanohyla, from Southeast As...