2004-08-20
- A great number of wolf- and coyote-subspecies added and partial revision of the genus Canis [Mammalia: Eutheria: Carnivora: Canidae: Caninae].
- A new species of borophagine dogs [Mammalia: Eutheria: Carnivora: ?Canidae: Borophaginae:] added.
- A new genus and species of proviverrine hyaenodonts [Mammalia: Eutheria: Creodonta: Hyaenodontidae: Proviverrinae] added.
- A new baleen whale [Mammalia: Eutheria: Ungulata: Cetacea: Mysticeti] added.
- A new species of primitive hippos [Mammalia: Eutheria: Ungulata: Artiodactyla: Suina: Hippopotamidae:] added.
- A new species of tetraconodontine pigs [Mammalia: Eutheria: Ungulata: Artiodactyla: Suina: Suidae: Tetraconodontinae:] added.
- A new species of arsinoitheres [Mammalia: Eutheria: Ungulata: Embrithopoda] added.
- A number of anchitheriine-species [Mammalia: Eutheria: Ungulata: Perissodactyla: Equidae: Anchitheriinae] added.
- A new genus and species of palaeotheres [Mammalia: Eutheria: Ungulata: Perissodactyla: Equoidea: Palaeotheriidae:] added.
- A new species of pyrotheres [Mammalia: Eutheria: Ungulata: Meridiungulata: Pyrotheria:] added.
- Revision of the nothrothere sloths [Mammalia: Eutheria: Edentata: Xenarthra: Phyllophaga: Megatheroidea: ?Nothrotheriidae] and a new species added.
- Two new Recent genera of opossums added [Mammalia: Metatheria: Notometatheria: Didelphoidea: Didelphidae] and an alternative phylogeny of opossums added.
- A revision of †Sandcoleiformes and Coliiformes [Dinosauria: Theropoda: Aves: Neornithes:].
- A new hadrosaurine added [Archosauria: Dinosauria: Ornithischia: Ornithopoda: Hadrosauridae: Hadrosaurinae].
- A new species of mekosuchines [Archosauria: Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha: Crocodyliformes: Eusuchia: Crocodylia: Crocodyloidea: Mekosuchinae:] added.
- A new gavialoid genus and species [Archosauria: Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha: Crocodyliformes: Eusuchia: Crocodylia: Gavialoidea] added and separation of gavialoids to their own subpage.
- A new basal crocodyliform added [Archosauria: Pseudosuchia: Crocodylomorpha: Crocodyliformes:].
- New archosauriform genus and species added [Sauria: Archosauromorpha: Archosauriformes].
- Revision of the genus Atheris [Sauria: Lepidosauromorpha: Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae: Viperinae:]
- A missing mosasaurid genus [Sauria: Lepidosauromorpha: Squamata: Mosasauroidea: Mosasauridae] added.
- Revision of Namid day geckos [Sauria: Lepidosauromorpha: Squamata: Gekkota: Gekkonidae: Gekkoninae: Ptyodactylini: Rhoptropus].
- A missing cimoliasaurid plesiosaur genus added [Tetrapoda: Reptilia: Sauria: Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria: Cryptocleidoidea: Cimoliasauridae].
- Some diadectid species [Tetrapoda: Reptiliomorpha: Diadectomorpha:] added.
- Revision of certain dendrobatids [Tetrapoda: Lissamphibia: Salientia: Ranoidea: Dendrobatidae:]
- A new species of lungless salamanders [Tetrapoda: Lissamphibia: Caudata: Plethodontoidea: Plethodontidae] added.
- Several missing species added to †Branchiosauridae [Tetrapoda: Temnospondyli: Euskelia:]
- Several new species of the snailfish-genus Psednos [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Percomorpha: Scorpaeniformes: Cottoidei: Liparidae:] added.
- A new fossil species of Lates [Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Percoidei: Percoidea: ?Latidae] added, with several missing fossil species of Lates
- Revision of the genus Percina [Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Percoidei: Percoidea: Percidae: Percinae: Etheostomatini:] and some missing species added.
- New species of a gobiid-genus Sicyopterus added [Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobioidei: Gobiidae: Sicydiinae:].
- A new gobiine species [Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobioidei: Gobiidae: Gobiinae:] added.
- A new species of a odontobutid gobies [Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobioidei: Odontobutiidae] added.
- Two new species of swordtails [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae: Poeciliini: Xiphophorus] added.
- A revision and new species of four-eye fishes [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae:] added.
- Twelve (12) new species of the deep sea dragon fishes [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Stomiidae:] added.
- New species of suckermouth armored catfishes [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Loricaroidea: Loricariidae: Ancistrinae:] added.
- A new species of parasitic catfish [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Loricaroidea: Trichomycteridae:] added.
- Revision of the cyprinid genus Cyprinella [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae]
- Revision of the Clupeiformes [Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Clupeomorpha:] and some new species pellonulines [Clupeiformes: Clupeidae: Pellonulinae:] added.
- A new macrosemiid genus and species [Vertebrata: Gnathostomata: Teleostomi: Actinopterygii: Halecostomi: Macrosemiiformes] added.
- Number of ischnacanthid acanthodians [Vertebrata: Gnathostomata: Teleostomi: Acanthodii: Ischnacanthiformes:] added.
- A new basal elasmobranchian [Vertebrata: Gnathostomata: Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii:] added.
- Number of Holonema -species [Vertebrata: Gnathostomata: Placodermi: Arthrodira:] added.
- Continued to add fossil arthropods;
- Agnostina genera [Arthropoda: Lamellipedia: Crustaceomorpha: “Agnostida”: Agnostina],
- Eodiscina genera [Arthropoda: Lamellipedia: Trilobita: “Agnostida”: Eodiscina] and
- Olenellina genera [Arthropoda: Lamellipedia: Trilobita: Redlichiida: Olenellina] added.
- Partial revision of Protostoma and priapulids [Protostoma: Priapulida]
- Revision of timetables to meet IUGS/ICS recommendations.