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Issue: Vol. 4979 No. 1: 28 May 2021
Type: Editorial
Published: 2021-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.5
Page range: 23–24
Abstract views: 317
PDF downloaded: 201

20 years of Zootaxa: Tardigrada (Ecdysozoa: Panarthropoda)

British Antarctic Survey, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK;
2Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;
Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland;
Tardigrada Heterotardigrada Eutardigrada Arthrotardigrada Echiniscoidea Apochela Parachela taxonomy systematics biodiversity loss

Abstract

Over the last two decades, Zootaxa has hosted nearly 200 papers concerning tardigrade taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, and evolution. A total of 160 researchers from all continents (except the Antarctic) published descriptions of almost 200 new taxa, mostly species, but also genera and higher taxonomic ranks, such as families and superfamilies. This editorial is dedicated to the late Professor Clark W. Beasley who was the first tardigrade Associate Editor for Zootaxa.

 

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