Describing unexplored biodiversity: Zootaxa in the International Year of Biodiversity

摘要

In the Intemational Year of Biodiversity (2010), Zootaxa published 1,582 papers (including 92 monographs) in 405 issues, with a total of 32,330 pages. These papers included descriptions of 3,951 new taxa, of which 3,664 are of the species-group, 268 of the genus-group and 19 of the family-group. It is estimated that the total new animal species described in 2010 is most likely to be between 15,000 and 20,000, and Zootaxa has thus contributed 18 to 24% of the total.