This website is intended as a cybercommunity for authors, reviewers and editors (and other taxonomists) where they can share information and files, exchange ideas, collaborate with each other on taxonomic research. It is hoped that this cybercommunity can be a basis for a formal international society. It is intended as a tool and to provide service and support to the journal Zootaxa and the international society that is be to named and developed.

A cybercommunity for Zoological Taxonomists

Welcome to this forum for Zootaxa.

ICZN amends the Code to allow e-publication

Edited by Zhang.ZQ on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 22:15

The amendments to ICZN to allow e-only publicaiiton in zoological nomenclature was published:

Eye-less spider described by Zootaxa editor received media-coverage

Edited by Zhang.ZQ on Fri, 08/24/2012 - 04:51

Matter of fact, eyeless spider does live in a cave ....  Interview with Peter Jaeger ....


 


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48610283/ns/technology_and_science-science/


 

Monograph with a new species named after Prince Charles received over 50K hits within a month

Edited by Zhang.ZQ on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 01:31

On 4 July 2012, a monograph of 78 pages was published:


http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3364.html


in which a new species of tree frog from a rainforest in Ecuador, Hyloscirtus princecharlesi, was described.  There were lot of media coverage, e.g.


http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Prince+Charles+frog/6972620/story.html

Monograph with a new species named after Prince Charles received over 50K hits within a month

Submitted by Zhang.ZQ on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 01:29

On 4 July 2012, a monograph of 78 pages was published:


http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3364.html


in which a new species of tree frog from a rainforest in Ecuado, Hyloscirtus princecharlesi, was described.  There were lot of media coverage, e.g.


http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Prince+Charles+frog/6972620/story.html

Zootaxa 2011 impact factor 0.927

Submitted by Zhang.ZQ on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 11:11

2011 impact factor for Zootaxa is 0.927 mapress.com/zootaxa/suppor…

24 new species of caddisflies from Fiji

Submitted by Zhang.ZQ on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 01:25

In today's Zootaxa, KJELL ARNE JOHANSON (Sweden) & JÁNOS OLÁH (Hungary)
described 24 new species of Fijian Chimarra (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae)  in a 58-page open access paper:


http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03354p058.pdf

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