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.
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Zootaxa's content updates can now be followed on twitter
Yes, Zootaxa's content updates can now be followed on twitter. You can also subscribe to its RSS.
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ICZN is proposing amendment to the Code to allow electronic publication
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Zootaxa named a Rising Star the third time in 2008 by ScienceWatch
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Zootaxa named a rising star again in July 2008 by ScienceWatch
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Zoosystem: taxonomic richess
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum †Trilobozoa
Radiata
Spongiaria
Phylum Porifera (5,000 to 10,000 spp)
Placozoa
Phylum Placozoa (2 species of placozoans)
Coelenterata
Phylum Myxozoa (2,200 species of ciliated protozoans)
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Zootaxa named a rising star among ISI journals
According to the May 2008 report in Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, Zootaxa is a rising star among ISI journals in the field of Plant and Animal Sciences that have achieved the highest percentage increase in total citations from October 2007 to December 2007.
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Zootaxa entered the top 50% in ISI field Plant & Animal Science with the highest total citations
According to Science Watch, as of January 1, 2008, Essential Science Indicators data were updated to cover a 10-year plus 10-month period, from January 1997 to October 31, 2007. With this update, it showed that Zootaxa entered the top 50% in ISI field Plant & Animal Science with the highest total citations.
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Zootaxa Contacts
Coordinator
Zhi-Qiang Zhang
New Zealand Arthropod Collection
Landcare Research
Private Bag 91-270
Auckland
New Zealand
Managing Editor
Robert C. Dalgleish
Research Associate
Department of Entomology
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego, CA 92112
USA
Webmaster
Malte C. Ebach
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