In a massive 813-page fully open-access special volume of Zootaxa published today, a team of 127 coleopterists from 48 institutions described 153 new species of beetles from China, with 105 of them collected from the Nanling Priority Area for Biodiversity Conservation (https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1).
Read more about Discoveries Unleashed: 153 New Beetle Species from ChinaZootaxa has published many open access papers over the last 24 years. Our open access collection now has over 4730 documents.
Read more about Zootaxa has 4730 documents for open accessThe 2023 special volume on “Ontogeny and morphological diversity in immature mites” is now in full preparation.
Read more about Mite Ontogeny Special volume 2023The 2020 journal impact factor for Zootaxa is 1.091 according to the June 2021 edition of the Journal Citation Reports. This is an increase of 15% over that of last year.
Read more about The 2020 journal impact factor for Zootaxa is 1.091Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is immortalized in the name of a new species of a beautiful wētā discovered in New Zealand.
Read more about Newly discovered wētā species named after Prime Minister Jacinda ArdernThe 2019 journal impact factor for Zootaxa is 0.949 and the total citations in 2019 is 20,301. Journal Profile page will appear in the JCR when the data are updated in late September 2020.
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Read more about 2019 journal impact factor is 0.949A new species of fish, Pseudoliparis swirei, published in Zootaxa (4358: 161-177) by Gerringer, M.E et al. was voted among TOP 10 new species described in 2017.
http://www.esf.edu/top10/2018/06.htm
Read more about New snailfish from Zootaxa among top 10 new species (2018)A new species of wolf spider, Lycosa aragogi, is named after Aragog—the famous fictional spider from “Harry Potter” book series by J.K. Rowling. The new species is similar to the animatronic puppet version of the character used in the film “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, which is actually based on a wolf spider. The naming of the new species is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter book series."
http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4286.4.13
A new species of thrimp named after Pink Floyd was described in Zootaxa today:
http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4254.1.7
The story about this very loud species was reported in many international media, e.g. BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39570005
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