Special volume

Special volumes with collected papers such as a Festschrift or on a special topic within the scope of the journal are occasionally published (those outside the scope of Zootaxa—e.g. with papers on ecology or other non-taxonomic papers—may be published in its sister series Zoosymposia). Zootaxa subject editors and/or other guest editors should send the proposal to the chief editor for approval and instructions. All papers must follow Zootaxa's style, standard and peer review procedures. If any papers by the guest editors are to be included in the special issue, then these papers must be handled by editors/colleagues other than the special issue editor(s) involved. Special issues must be 60 or more pages. Funding is required to offset the production cost in full or in part (e.g. via payment of article processing fee for open access for part or all of the papers, or purchase of hard copies). Special issues are published as standalone books and assigned ISBNs.

SPECIAL VOLUMES CURRENTLY IN PREPARATION

A Festschrift celebrating Prof. Sergey Storozhenko on the occasion of his 70th birthday

MAXIM YU. PROSHCHALYKIN, ANDREY A. LEGALOV & VALERY M. LOKTIONOV (EDS)

Deadline to submit manuscripts to this special volume: 2025-07-15.

A SELECTION OF PUBLISHED VOLUMES

Global diversity of earthworms—papers in honor of Victor V. Pop (1936–2022), Alexander Feijoó (1936–2023), Pietro Omodeo (1919–2024)

CSABA CSUZDI, MARIE BARTZ, DANIEL F. MARCHÁN (EDS)

415 pages; published: 2025-02-19

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5589.1

A Festschrift celebrating Dr. Luis F. de Armas on the occasion of his 80th birthday

ABEL PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, LUIS E. ACOSTA, DANIEL N. PROUD & IVAN L.F. MAGALHÃES (EDS)

395 pages; published: 2025-01-03

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1

Insect Evolution at the Dawn of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

DIYING HUANG, DANY AZAR & CHENYANG CAI (EDS)

121 pages; published: 2024-12-31; open access

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5562.1

Luis S. Subias (1948–2024): papers in remembrance and celebration of his contributions to acarology

TOBIAS PFINGSTL, ELIZABETH HUGO-COETZEE & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (EDS)

305 pages; published: 2024-12-23

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5556.1

Special Volume of Tropical Fish Biodiversity

CHIH-WEI CHANG, I-SHIUNG CHEN, MING-FON YEH, KANG-NING SHEN & SHEN-CHIH WANG (EDS)

380 pages; published: 2024-12-10; open access

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5550.1

Beetle diversity of Nanling Priority Area for Biodiversity Conservation: papers celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Coleopterology Committee, Entomological Society of China

SI-QIN GE, ZHENG-ZHONG HUANG, HONG-BIN LIANG, ZHAO PAN, DONG REN & ZI-WEI YIN (EDS)

813 pages; published: 2024-10-23; open access

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1