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Zootaxa 2604: 1–19 (7 Sep. 2010)
Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum
MAŁGOSIA NOWAK-KEMP (UK) & UWE FRITZ (Germany)

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News 03/09/10 During the week of  30 August 2010 to 3 September 2010, 16 articles, 20 monographs and 2 correspondence oCrustacea, PiscesReptilia, Araneae, Acari, Myriapoda, Mammalia, Coelenterata  and insects (Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Trichoptera, Hymenoptera) with a total of 3743 pages were published by 86 authors representing 27 countries from N. & S. America, Europe, Africa, Australasia and Asia.
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2009 impact factor is 0.891 (20% increase over that of 2008)!
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Views  A forum for taxonomists 
» Phylogenies without Synapomorphies—A Crisis in Fish Systematics
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Retroactive changes in the Code: problems ...to the spellings of nomina
» Syngraph for graphic display and interactive use of synonym lists
» ZooBank: Developing a nomenclatural tool for unifying 250 years of... 
» Contributing to the progress of descriptive taxonomy
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Invertebrate systematics or spineless taxonomy?
» Accelerating taxonomic discovery via automated character extraction
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Helping solve the "other" taxonomic impedimentComments
» The "Mihi itch"—a brief history | A daily journal of taxonomy
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» 2561 hits in week 1 for Marine fish diversity: history of knowledge .... 
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Hot sections: PiscesReptilia, Amphibia, Coleoptera, DipteraHymenoptera, LepidopteraCrustacea, HemipteraAcari, Mollusca 
Topic  Zootaxa special issues  
» Research on the Terrestrial Arthropods of Sardinia
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Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef
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Deep-sea Taxonomy—a Contribution to our Knowledge of Biodiversity
» Bringing Light into Deep-sea Biodiversity
» Linnaeus Tercentenary: Progress in Invertebrate Taxonomy
» Updating the Linnaean Heritage: Names as Tools for Thinking about Animals and Plants
Books  Monographs & revisions 
» Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil Part 1 p1-300  & part 2 p301-628
» Revision of the femoralis group of Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae)
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On diagnostic characters of Stygonitocrella (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)
» Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae
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Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae  (Insecta: Diptera) of China
» A revision of the Australian handfishes | George Perry’s molluscan taxa
» Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs
» Revision of the Mexican and Central American species of Mortoniella
» An annotated check list of the world’s whiteflies
» Revision of the characters of Centrolenidae (Amphibia: Anura...)
» Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world
» Annotated checklist of the rotifers (Phylum Rotifera)
» Genera of the Asian Catfish Families Sisoridae and Erethistidae
» Revision of the Oriental species of the Bengalia peuhi speciesgroup
Free !  Open-access papers       
» A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life | The Tree of Life Web Project
» Cybertaxonomy exemplar: Five new species of the damselfish...Chromis
» Revision of Neodialineura: an empirical example of cybertaxonomy
» Learning from Linnaeus: towards ... foundation for ... morphology
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Review of eriococcid genera (Sternorrhyncha) of South Americae
» Phylogeny and higher classification of the scale insects
» A revision of Eugorgia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae)
» On the molecular phylogeny of sponges (Porifera)
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Taxonomic revision of the stone geckos of southern Australia
» A review of taxonomic concepts in the Nannoniscidae
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At the lower size limit in snakes | Three new pygmy seahorse species
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Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera
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Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera | Phylum Echinodermata
» Culicidae (Diptera): a review of taxonomy, classification and phylogeny
» The insect order Thysanoptera: classification versus systematics
» Three new pygmy seahorse species from Indonesia 
» Revision of Holarctic Teleiodini (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)
» Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Laos | Order Trichoptera
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A synopsis of the orchid weevil genus Orchidophilus Buchanan
» A revision of male ants of the Malagasy region
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Showcase our monographs

Zootaxa 2581: 1–246 (31 Aug. 2010
A taxonomic revision of Australian Conopidae (Insecta: Diptera)
MARGARET A SCHNEIDER (Australia)

Spotlight our taxonomists

Dr Carl Ferraris, of Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., studies catfishes and nomenclatural issues of fishes. His Checklist of Catfishes is the most-cited Zootaxa paper.
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Accelerate taxonomic discovery

Zootaxa published 14% of all new taxa indexed in Zoological Record in 2007!
3 new species of Crustacea and more are published in papers today.

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Zootaxa published many high impact monographs, including many highly cited papers/books in taxonomy. It is among the most highly cited journals by Wikipedia. Zootaxa's impact factor continues to increase and was a featured journal of Essential Science Indicators in 2008.

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