We publish high quality peer-reviewed articles on animal behavior, comparative physiology, evolution, ecology, and systematics and biogeography on animals taxa from all parts of the world.

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Zoological Studies is an OPEN ACCESS international journal and FREE OF PAGE CHARGES from authors.

Edited by: Benny K. K. Chan (Editor in Chief), Sheng-Feng Shen, Chih-Ming Hung, Hui-Yu Wang, Jen-Pan Huang, Tzu-Hao Lin, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Yi-Jyun Luo (Managing editor)



Impact Factor: 1.5
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Ranking: 2023: 58/180 (Zoology)

ISSN (E): 1810-522X
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Zoological Studies Editorial Team
The editors and managing editors are supported by professors/ research fellows at Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

The editors and co-editors in chief are supported by 33 Associate Editors including Drs. Benny Kwok Kan Chan, Chaolun Allen Chen, Chi-Chien Kuo, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Chih-Ming Hung, Chung-Ping Lin, Claudia Castellani, Daniel Stec, David Miller, Felipe Polivanov Ottoni, Gray A. Williams, Hin-Kiu Mok, Hiroomi Miyamot, Hsi-Te Shih, Hui-Yu Wang, I-Min Tso, James D. Reimer, Jen-Pan Huang, Jens Thorvald Høeg, Jian-Nan Liu, John Wang, Ka Hou Chu, Pung-Pung Hwang, Ryuji Machida, Sen-Lin Tang, Sheng-Feng Shen, Shen-Horn Yen, Shou-Hsien Li, Teng-Chiu Lin, Tzu-Hao Lin, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Y. Miles Zhang, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, Yeong-Choy Kam, Yi-Jyun Luo.


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Message from the Editor in Chief
We take up a responsibility for the academic society

    Nowadays, journals often require expensive page charges/open-access fees to publish scientific research articles. Is it possible there are quality assured, peer-reviewed and open-access SCI scientific journals, in which colleagues can publish their research without these hefty fees? We, the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, have taken up this responsibility. We publish a journal entitled Zoological Studies, to provide a free SCI open-access publication platform for colleagues to share their research achievements.
    Publishing articles free of page charges does not mean that articles in Zoological Studies lack quality. All accepted articles have passed a formal review system. Impact factors are often used to judge the quality of a journal. However, article citations can be also affected by the  marketing methods used in journals published by commercial publishers. We expect to maintain a respectable impact factor for Zoological Studies. All articles are 1) formally assigned a DOI number and are open-access on the web, 2) listed and housed in PubMed database and 3) promoted in our twitter and facebook accounts. We are not under the umbrella of any commercial publisher. All the editors and reviewers are volunteers. We hope you can support us by submitting your quality research to Zoological Studies, and subsequently upload your published articles in Research Gate to enhance citations as well.

Prof. Benny K.K. Chan
 
Latest research articles in 2024
Arrangement and Development of Spicules in the Coral-killing Sponge, Terpios hoshinota
Yurika Hirose, Sen-Lin Tang, and Hideyuki Yamashiro (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-26)
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Population Genetics of the Deep-sea Acorn Barnacle Bathylasma hirsutum (Hoek, 1883) and the First Report of its Affiliation with a Hydrothermal Vent Field
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Form Alternation of the Gonopod and Chela from Breeding to Non-breeding Season in Males of the Crayfish Cambaroides dauricus (Decapoda: Cambaroididae)
Alda (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-24)
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Two New Species of Stygobiotic Amphipod Niphargus (Amphipoda: Niphargidae) and their Phylogenetic Relationship with Other Congeners from Iran
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A Review of the Beetle Genus Corticarina of Taiwan, with Description of a New Species (Coleoptera, Latridiidae)
Yu-Hsiang Ho, Hou-Feng Li, and Mei-Ling Chan (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-22)
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Ecology and Current Distribution of Three Habitat-Specialized Land Snail Species of the Genus Vertigo (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata) in Europe
Radovan Coufal, Veronika Horsáková, Tomáš Peterka, Julien Ryelandt, Grita Skujiene, and Michal Horsák (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-19)
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Two New Species of Cave-Dwelling Pseudoscorpions Pseudochthonius Balzan, 1892 (Pseudoscorpiones, Chthoniidae) from Northeastern Brazil: Shedding Light on the Troglobitic Status of Some Brazilian Species
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A New Cryptic Species of Splitfin Fish from Taiwan with Revision of the Genus Synagrops
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Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Freshwater Shrimp Diversity (Decapoda: Atyidae: Neocaridina) from Kyushu and Southern Honshu of Japan, with a Discussion on Introduced Species
Hsi-Te Shih, Yixiong Cai, Nobuaki Niwa, Hidenori Yoshigou, and Yasuhiko Nakahara (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-18)
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Deduced Conservation Strategy of the Macaques in China from their Evolutionary Development
Haitao Wang, Huan Zou, He-Xian Zhang, Hao Pan, Jing Wang, Gaigai Guo, Rong Hou, Kang Huang, Songtao Guo, Gang He, Pei Zhang, He Zhang, Baoguo Li, and Ruliang Pan (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-15)
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Four Decades of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Strandings on Hawai‘i Island (1983–2022): Causes and Trends
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New Insights into the Biodiversity of Benthic Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Seamounts in the Remote Macquarie Ridge, with the Description of Three New Species
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Unveiling the Diversity of the Smislug Gnus Durgella Blanford, 1863 (Eupulmonata: Helicarionidae) from Thailand and Myanmar, with Dscription of Two New Species
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A New Species of Parapleurocrypta Chopra, 1923 (Isopoda, Epicaridea, Bopyridae) Parasitizing Shrimps of the Genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Caridea, Alpheidae) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil
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Age and Growth of the Indian Squid, Uroteuthis duvaucelii: Analysis of Statolith Microstructure and Length Frequency Data
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Habitat Partitioning in Two Intertidal Limpets, Siphonaria guamensis (Heterobranchia) and Patelloida saccharina (Patellogastropoda), from Southern Thailand
Suphatsara Sangphueak, Tin Yan Hui, Sarah L.Y. Lau, Gray A. Williams, and Kringpaka Wangkulangkul (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-11)
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Changes in Soil Bacterial and Nematode Communities during Long-term Continuous Cotton Cropping in an Arid Region
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Ancient Endemic or Recent Invader? Phylogenetic Position and the Probable Origin of the Ccladoceran Diaphanosoma macedonicum (Diplostraca, Sididae) from the Ancient Lakes in the Balkans
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Wing Condition and Distribution of a Mesoamerican Montane Genus of Wood-degrading Beetles, Oileus Kaup (Coleoptera: Passalidae), with the Description of a New Species
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Revising Spider Egg-predating Fly Records (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): New Insights on Prey, Taxonomy, and Distribution of Sarcophaga (Mehria) lorosa Hall in Southern South America
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Effects of Road-traffic Disturbances on the Bird Community of a Subtropical Island
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Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of the Sargassum Nudibranch Scyllaea fulva Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (Nudibranchia: Scyllaeidae): First Record in Hong Kong
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The Fauna of Parasitic Barnacles (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) in Korea
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Vol. 63, 2024