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.

Zootaxa是一個(gè)同行評(píng)審的國(guó)際期刊，快速發(fā)表高質(zhì)量的論文，在任何方面的系統(tǒng)動(dòng)物學(xué)，與偏好大型分類(lèi)學(xué)著作，如專(zhuān)著和修訂。Zootaxa考慮所有動(dòng)物分類(lèi)群的論文，包括活的和化石的，并特別鼓勵(lì)對(duì)新分類(lèi)群的描述。所有類(lèi)型的分類(lèi)論文都被考慮，包括系統(tǒng)學(xué)和系統(tǒng)學(xué)的理論和方法，分類(lèi)專(zhuān)著，修訂和評(píng)論，目錄/檢查表，傳記和書(shū)目，鑒定指南，字符分析，系統(tǒng)發(fā)育關(guān)系和動(dòng)物地理分布模式，分類(lèi)描述，命名法。我們強(qiáng)烈鼓勵(lì)擁有研究資助和其他基金的作者選擇開(kāi)放獲取出版。對(duì)于那些沒(méi)有助學(xué)金/基金的人，所有已接受的稿件將會(huì)出版，但只有訂戶(hù)才可取閱。