Taxa described in 2017

genus of mammals

The Gelatoporiaceae are a small family of crust fungi in the order Polyporales. The family was circumscribed in 2017 by mycologists Otto Miettinen, Alfredo Justo and David Hibbett to contain the type genus Gelatoporia and three other related genera, Cinereomyces, Obba, and Sebipora.

Japonicalia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It includes three species native to Japan and south-central China. Japonicalia delphiniifolia – Japan and south-central China (Guizhou and eastern Yunnan) Japonicalia kiusiana – Japan (Kyushu) Japonicalia tebakoensis – central and southern Japan

Syssomonas is a monotypic genus of unicellular flagellated protists containing the species Syssomonas multiformis. It is a member of Pluriformea inside the lineage of Holozoa, a clade containing animals and their closest protistan relatives. It lives in freshwater habitats. It has a complex life cycle that includes unicellular amoeboid and flagellated phases, as well as multicellular aggregates, depending on the growth medium and nutritional state.

Maschalostachys is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It includes two species endemic to eastern Brazil. Maschalostachys markgrafii Maschalostachys mellosilvae

Parvularia atlantis is a filopodiated amoeba which was isolated from a lake in Atlanta and deposited in the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) under the name Nuclearia sp. ATCC 50694 on 1997 by TK Sawyer. It was classified under the genus Nuclearia and morphologically resembles to Nuclearia species, although it is smaller (the diameter of the cell body measures approximately 4 μm compared to Nuclearia species, which range between 9-60 μm). Later it was determined that it phylogenetically belongs to a new nucleariid lineage, the genus Parvularia, distantly related to Nuclearia an

Acromegalomma is a genus of marine polychaete tube worms in the family Sabellidae, the feather-duster worms.