ZOOTAXA

Zootaxa是一个同行评审的国际期刊，快速发表高质量的论文，在任何方面的系统动物学，与偏好大型分类学著作，如专著和修订。Zootaxa考虑所有动物分类群的论文，包括活的和化石的，并特别鼓励对新分类群的描述。所有类型的分类论文都被考虑，包括系统学和系统学的理论和方法，分类专著，修订和评论，目录/检查表，传记和书目，鉴定指南，字符分析，系统发育关系和动物地理分布模式，分类描述，命名法。我们强烈鼓励拥有研究资助和其他基金的作者选择开放获取出版。对于那些没有助学金/基金的人，所有已接受的稿件将会出版，但只有订户才可取阅。

Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed international journal for rapid publication of high quality papers on any aspect of systematic zoology, with a preference for large taxonomic works such as monographs and revisions. Zootaxa considers papers on all animal taxa, both living and fossil, and especially encourages descriptions of new taxa. All types of taxonomic papers are considered, including theories and methods of systematics and phylogeny, taxonomic monographs, revisions and reviews, catalogues/checklists, biographies and bibliographies, identification guides, analysis of characters, phylogenetic relationships and zoogeographical patterns of distribution, descriptions of taxa, and nomenclature. Open access publishing option is strongly encouraged for authors with research grants and other funds. For those without grants/funds, all accepted manuscripts will be published but access is secured for subscribers only.