January 2008

11/01/08 During the week of  7 January to 11 January 2008, 19 articles and 1 correspondence on Pisces, Amphibia, Mollusca, Crustacea, and insects (Diptera, Hemiptera) with a total of 202 pages were published by 21 authors representing 10 countries from N. & S. America, Europe and Australaisa.
09/01/08 The cybertaxonomy exemplar paper by Pyle et al. (2008: 3-31) received 6742 hits during the first week of its publication.
04/01/08 During the week of  1 January to 4 January 2008, 8 articles on Pisces, Annelida, Crustacea, and insects (Diptera, Hemiptera) with a total of 202 pages were published by 21 authors representing 10 countries from N. & S. America, Europe and Australaisa.
04/01/08 Dr  John  Morse (jmorse@clemson.edu) of Clemson University (USA) has joined Zootaxa as editor for Trichoptera.
02/01/08 The cybertaxonomy exemplar paper by Pyle et al. (2008: 3-31) received 1747 hits on its first day of publication.
01/01/08 January 1, 2008 marks the 250th anniversary of the official publication date of Systema Naturae (Linnaeus 1758) and the beginning of zoological taxonomy. An editorial introduces an exemplar paper by Pyle et al. (2008: 3-31) who described five new species of damselfish (Chromis) from deep coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific. This is the first taxonomic paper integrating many of the most recent cybertaxonomic tools with species descriptions and demonstrating the utility of international standards for biodiversity informatics.

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