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PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary Collection: New Species

Published July 21, 2017 Curated Collections

For 10 years PLOS ONE has been a venue for announcing exciting discoveries of new species. At a time when habitats are disappearing and ecosystems are rapidly changing, it is important to catalogue and describe new species for future conservation. The New Species collection assembled by Associate Editor Anna Simonin highlights some of the articles describing new species PLOS ONE has published since its inception.

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Research Articles

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10.1371/journal.pone.0017024

PLOS ONE Hidden Diversity Behind the Zombie-Ant Fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis: Four New Species Described from Carpenter Ants in Minas Gerais, Brazil
March 2, 2011 Harry C. Evans, Simon L. Elliot, David P. Hughes
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10.1371/journal.pone.0083623

PLOS ONE A New Species of River Dolphin from Brazil or: How Little Do We Know Our Biodiversity
January 22, 2014 Tomas Hrbek, Vera Maria Ferreira da Silva, Nicole Dutra, Waleska Gravena, Anthony R. Martin, Izeni Pires Farias
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10.1371/journal.pone.0179594

PLOS ONE Living in the waterfalls: A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from Tabay stream, Misiones, Argentina
June 22, 2017 Guillermo Enrique Terán, Juliano Ferrer, Mauricio Benitez, Felipe Alonso, Gastón Aguilera, Juan Marcos Mirande
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10.1371/journal.pone.0083476

PLOS ONE Edwardsiella andrillae, a New Species of Sea Anemone from Antarctic Ice
December 11, 2013 Marymegan Daly, Frank Rack, Robert Zook
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10.1371/journal.pone.0127621

PLOS ONE Adaptations to Hydrothermal Vent Life in Kiwa tyleri, a New Species of Yeti Crab from the East Scotia Ridge, Antarctica
June 24, 2015 Sven Thatje, Leigh Marsh, Christopher Nicolai Roterman, Mark N. Mavrogordato, Katrin Linse
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10.1371/journal.pone.0026243

PLOS ONE Dancing for Food in the Deep Sea: Bacterial Farming by a New Species of Yeti Crab
November 30, 2011 Andrew R. Thurber, William J. Jones, Kareen Schnabel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0044271

PLOS ONE Lesula: A New Species of Cercopithecus Monkey Endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Implications for Conservation of Congo’s Central Basin
September 12, 2012 John A. Hart, Kate M. Detwiler, Christopher C. Gilbert, Andrew S. Burrell, James L. Fuller, Maurice Emetshu, Terese B. Hart, Ashley Vosper, Eric J. Sargis, Anthony J. Tosi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031314

PLOS ONE Rivaling the World’s Smallest Reptiles: Discovery of Miniaturized and Microendemic New Species of Leaf Chameleons (Brookesia) from Northern Madagascar
February 14, 2012 Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Ted M. Townsend, Miguel Vences
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10.1371/journal.pone.0156997

PLOS ONE Entomophytophagy (‘Sequential Predatory, then Phytophagous Behaviour’) in an Indian Braconid ‘Parasitoid’ Wasp (Hymenoptera): Specialized Larval Morphology, Biology and Description of a New Species
June 29, 2016 A. P. Ranjith, Donald L. J. Quicke, U. K. A. Saleem, Buntika A. Butcher, Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón, M. Nasser
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10.1371/journal.pone.0149727

PLOS ONE Microhyla laterite sp. nov., A New Species of Microhyla Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from a Laterite Rock Formation in South West India
March 9, 2016 K. S. Seshadri, Ramit Singal, H. Priti, G. Ravikanth, M. K. Vidisha, S. Saurabh, M. Pratik, Kotambylu Vasudeva Gururaja
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journal.pone.0091103.g001

PLOS ONE A New Species of Mesonivirus from the Northern Territory, Australia
March 26, 2014 David Warrilow, Daniel Watterson, Roy A. Hall, Steven S. Davis, Richard Weir, Nina Kurucz, Peter Whelan, Richard Allcock, Sonja Hall-Mendelin, Caitlin A. O’Brien, Jody Hobson-Peters

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