Yogyakarta, June 21 -- A research team from the Faculty of Biology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), has discovered seven new species of freshwater lobster in Indonesia's West Papua region.

Their findings, the result of a biodiversity exploration carried out in collaboration with independent researchers from Germany and a Berlin-based research institute, were published on June 6, 2025, in the international Q2 journal Arthropoda Selecta .

"Papua is a biodiversity hotspot that still holds many mysteries. This discovery is only a small part of the extraordinary potential yet to be explored," Dr. Rury Eprilurahman, a lecturer at the UGM's Faculty of Biology and one of the research authors, said.

The newly identified species are: Cherax verit...