-
Open Access
- View Open Access Papers
Zootaxa is a hybrid journal and has published many open access papers:
We encourage the open access of papers as they are more widely read and cited. Our open access option has one of the lowest article processing fees.
Announcements
New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald 2025-02-13
Two new species of eelpout genus Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 were described in a Zootaxa paper by Ralf Thiel et al. (2025) from specimens caught at a depth between 3517 and 3580 m at the western slope of the upper margin of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, relatively close to the Bussol Strait and Simushir Island in the center of the Kuril Islands chain. This discovery was featured in a story by Miami Herald.
-
A new species of the genus, Turanogryllus Tarbinsky, 1940 from India with re-description of T. pakistanus with data on acoustic signals (Grylloidea: Gryllidae: Gryllinae)
Published : 2025-03-06 -
A new species of the genus Lepechinella Stebbing, 1908 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lepechinellidae) from Japan
Published : 2025-03-06 -
On two new paraonids (Annelida, Paraonidae) from Bahía de los Angeles, Gulf of California, Mexico
Published : 2025-03-06 -
New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XII
Published : 2025-03-06 -
Subgenera of the genus Pentamerismus McGregor (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) with the re-description of Pentamerismus retusus Meyer and a key to species of the world
Published : 2025-03-06 -
New species and records of Omaliinae MacLeay, 1925 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the eastern Palaearctic region
Published : 2025-03-06 -
The description of a critically endangered new species of seasonal killifish, Nothobranchius sylvaticus (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a relict species from an East African forest refugium in south-eastern Kenya
Published : 2025-03-06 -
Taxonomic status and sexual dimorphism of the brown forest skink, Scincella cherriei stuarti (Smith 1941) (Squamata: Scincidae)
Published : 2025-03-06
latest
-
Sphyrna alleni sp. nov., a new hammerhead shark (Carcharhiniformes, Sphyrnidae) from the Caribbean and the Southwest Atlantic.
Published : 2024-09-23 -
New species, new synonymy, taxonomic notes and new records of bark and ambrosia beetles from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae and Scolytinae)
Published : 2024-03-13 -
Genetic and morphological variation analyses of Dryophytes japonicus (Anura, Hylidae) with description of a new species from northeastern Japan
Published : 2025-02-20 -
Taxonomy of Iranian Asaccus (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) with description of a new species from southern Iran
Published : 2024-09-26 -
Lost for more than 85 years—rediscovery of Channa amphibeus (McClelland, 1845), the world’s most elusive snakehead species (Teleostei, Labyrinthici, Channidae)
Published : 2025-01-31 -
Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula
Published : 2024-08-30 -
A new species of giant gecko of the genus Rhacodactylus from New Caledonia (Squamata, Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)
Published : 2024-11-18 -
The nomenclatural status of “Anoplophallus maculatus” Cope, 1895, its consequences on the systematics of Lycodon subcinctus auctorum, and the description of a new species (Squamata: Colubridae)
Published : 2024-10-10
