ICZN amends the Code to allow e-publication
The amendments to ICZN to allow e-only publicaiiton in zoological nomenclature was published:
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Eye-less spider described by Zootaxa editor received media-coverage
Matter of fact, eyeless spider does live in a cave .... Interview with Peter Jaeger ....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48610283/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Monograph with a new species named after Prince Charles received over 50K hits within a month
On 4 July 2012, a monograph of 78 pages was published:
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3364.html
in which a new species of tree frog from a rainforest in Ecuador, Hyloscirtus princecharlesi, was described. There were lot of media coverage, e.g.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Prince+Charles+frog/6972620/story.html
Monograph with a new species named after Prince Charles received over 50K hits within a month
On 4 July 2012, a monograph of 78 pages was published:
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3364.html
in which a new species of tree frog from a rainforest in Ecuado, Hyloscirtus princecharlesi, was described. There were lot of media coverage, e.g.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Prince+Charles+frog/6972620/story.html
Frog Prince gets real: a new frog species named after HRH Prince Charles
A new species of from
Zootaxa 2011 impact factor 0.927
2011 impact factor for Zootaxa is 0.927 mapress.com/zootaxa/suppor…
24 new species of caddisflies from Fiji
In today's Zootaxa, KJELL ARNE JOHANSON (Sweden) & JÁNOS OLÁH (Hungary)
described 24 new species of Fijian Chimarra (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) in a 58-page open access paper:
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03354p058.pdf
More new species of Hemiptera and Hymenoptera are also described in today's issues
Toad rediscovered 135 years after its 'extinction'
A recent paper in Zootaxa reported on a Sri Lankan Kandyan dwarf toad (Adenomus kandianus) thought to be extinct:
Zootaxa is ranked among top 5 in Zoology based on Eigenfactor
Eigenfactor ranks journals based on their overall importance, not just average citations in the current year to papers of preceeding two years (i.e. impact factor).
Zootaxa is ranked among top 5 in Zoology.
http://www.eigenfactor.org/rankings.php?bsearch=ZM&searchby=category&orderby=Eigenfactor