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Issue: Vol. 4078 No. 1: 9 Feb. 2016
Type: Editorial
Published: 2016-02-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.3
Page range: 6–7
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 31

FOREWORD: EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

Laboratório de Biologia e Sistemática de Odonata (LABIOSIS), Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista s/nº, São Cristóvão 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416, U.S.A.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, 21941-971 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, PPG Diversidade Animal, Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática – LEAq. Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, 147, Campus Ondina, Ondina 40170-115, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré 481, 04263-000, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, n.101, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil.

Abstract

Since its establishment ZOOTAXA has become not only a rapid journal for zoological systematics but also a respected forum for discussions of all taxonomic matters, and it has gradually attained a distinguished position among other zoological journals by its special issues. These collections of papers treat varied themes such as the Carl Linnaeus legacy (Zhang & Shear 2007, Minelli et al. 2008), cataloguing metazoan life (Zhang 2011, 2013), and promoting and discussing the future of taxonomic sciences, for example modification of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 2008). For these reasons we offer this special issue to celebrate the fruitful career of the eminent Brazilian researcher Dr. Angelo Barbosa Monteiro Machado (“Professor Angelo” to his friends and colleagues).

 

References

  1. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2008) Proposed amendment of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Zootaxa, 1908, 57–67.

    Machado, A.B.M. & Costa, J.M. (1990) Obituary of Newton Dias dos Santos. Odonatologica, 19 (3), 297–308.

    Minelli, A., Bonato, L. & Fusco, G. (EDS.) (2008) Updating the Linnaean Heritage: Names as Tools for Thinking about Animals and Plants. Zootaxa, 1908, 57–67.

    Pinto, A.P. (2016) The dragonfly’s face of the multidimensional Dr. Angelo Barbosa Monteiro Machado: a short bio-bibliography. Zootaxa, 4078 (1), 8–27.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.4

    Theischinger, G. & Richards, S.J. (2014) Drepanosticta machadoi spec. nov. from New Guinea (Odonata: Platystictidae). Zootaxa, 3866 (1), 145–150.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.1.9

    Zhang, Z-Q. (ED.) (2011) Animal Biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa, 3148, 1–237.

    Zhang, Z-Q. (ED.) (2013) An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa, 3703 (1), 1–82.