Announcements

New wishbone spider species described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald

2025-10-06

A new species of wishbone spider, Damarchus inazuma, has been described in Thailand by Kunsete et al. (2025), accompanied by the first documentation of a gynandromorphic individual within this family. The specific epithet "inazuma" was chosen due to the species' resemblance to the character Inazuma from the manga series "One Piece". This discovery was featured in a story by the Miami Herald.
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862-page monograph revised Australian Thynnidae and Tiphiida with 18 new genera and 116 new species

2025-08-19

Dr Graham Brown revised the Australian Thynnidae and Tiphiidae in a 862-page monograph. Most species are placed in Thynnidae (75 valid genera including 18 new and 817 valid described species of which 116 are new) while the Tiphiidae is limited to a single species (Tiphia intrudens).

See this monograph here https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5681.1.1
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New species of deep-sea fishes described in Zootaxa featured in a story by Miami Herald

2025-02-13

Two new species of eelpout genus Lycenchelys Gill, 1884 were described in a Zootaxa paper by Ralf Thiel et al. (2025) from specimens caught at a depth between 3517 and 3580 m at the western slope of the upper margin of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, relatively close to the Bussol Strait and Simushir Island in the center of the Kuril Islands chain. This discovery was featured in a story by Miami Herald.
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Special volume celebrating 80th birthday of Dr. Luis F. de Armas

2025-01-04

Published today is a special volume celebrating Dr. Luis F. de Armas on the occasion of his 80th birthday, which is edited by ABEL PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, LUIS E. ACOSTA, DANIEL N. PROUD & IVAN L.F. MAGALHÃES.

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1
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Special volume on fossil insects (open access)

2024-12-31

Just published today on New Year's Eve—a special volume on "Insect Evolution at the Dawn of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution".

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Special volume on tropical fish diversity published (with 29 new species)

2024-12-10

In today's special issue of Zootaxa, a collection of 34 papers on tropical fish biodiversity was published. The book includes one new genus and 29 new species. All papers are for open access. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5550.1
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Over 5000 documents for open access!

2024-11-14

Zootaxa has published over 5000 open-access articles and other documents! Publish open access with Zootaxa at lower costs than most other journals! Do you know that you can order open access retrospectively? Order open access here!
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Discoveries Unleashed: 153 New Beetle Species from China

2024-10-23

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).
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Zootaxa has 4730 documents for open access

2024-02-01

Zootaxa has published many open access papers over the last 24 years. Our open access collection now has over 4730 documents.
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Mite Ontogeny Special volume 2023

2023-02-17

The 2023 special volume on “Ontogeny and morphological diversity in immature mites” is now in full preparation.
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The 2020 journal impact factor for Zootaxa is 1.091

2021-06-30

The 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.
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Newly discovered wētā species named after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

2021-03-12

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is immortalized in the name of a new species of a beautiful wētā discovered in New Zealand.
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2019 journal impact factor is 0.955

2020-10-21

According to the Oct 2020 update of Journal Citation Reports (2019 edition), the impact factor of Zootaxa is 0,955; rank: 105 of 169 journals in Zoology category in JCR (Q3). Read more about 2019 journal impact factor is 0.955
2019 journal impact factor is 0.949

2020-07-29

The 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.
We are grateful to all the professional societies and individuals for their support to Zootaxa.
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New snailfish from Zootaxa among top 10 new species (2018)

2018-05-30

A 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
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National Geographic story on Madagascan crickets described in Zootaxa

2017-11-10

A new species of Madagascan crickets described by Mustafa Ünal and George Beccaloni in Zootaxa was featured in a National Geographic story. Well done Mustafa and George! Read more about National Geographic story on Madagascan crickets described in Zootaxa
A new species of wolf spider Lycosa aragogi named after Aragog—the famous fictional spider from “Harry Potter”

2017-07-04

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
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New shrimp species named after Pink Floyd

2017-04-12

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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