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
A New Deep-water Species of Saurida (Pisces: Synodontidae) from the South China Sea and Central Philippines
Barry C. Russell, Maria Celia D. Malay, and Roxanne A. Cabebe-Barnuevo (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-40)
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A New Species of Elpidium (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Bromeliad and Non-bromeliad Phytotelmata in the Northeast of Argentina
Analía R. Díaz, Raúl E. Campos, and Koen Martens (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-45)
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A New Species of Natsushima (Annelida: Chrysopetalidae) Living in the Mantle Cavity of a Deep-Sea Solemyid Clam
Fan Hui, Yi-Tao Lin, Maeva Perez, Jian-Wen Qiu, and Yanan Sun (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-41)
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The Cryptic Diversity of the Terrestrial Microarthropods, Ptenothrix Börner (Collembola: Dicyrtomidae) from Taiwan: New Species Plus the Lectotype Designation for Ptenothrix denticulata (Folsom, 1899)
Hsin-Ju Cheng, Bruno Cavalcante Bellini, Frans Janssens, Taizo Nakamori, and Chih-Han Chang (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-42)
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An Odyssey of Integrative Taxonomy Unveils Marine Fish Diversity, New Records and Cryptic Species in Malaysian Waters
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Mother- Hatchling Isotopic Relationship in Green Turtle: Isotopic Niche-based Modelling
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Rhizocephalan Barnacle Briarosaccus hoegi sp. nov. – a Parasite of the Stone Crab Hapalogaster dentata (De Haan, 1849) from Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan)
Olga M. Korn, Darya D. Golubinskaya, Svetlana N. Sharina, Christoph Noever, and Henrik Glenner (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-29)
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Global Geographical Patterns on the Historical Species Description Process of Fig Wasps (Agaonidae)
Xerach Hernández-Aguiar, Antonio Rodríguez, Jose-Luis Nieves-Aldrey, Carlo Polidori, Jose F. Gómez, and Diego Gil-Tapetado (doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-27)
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Arrangement and Development of Spicules in the Coral-killing Sponge, Terpios hoshinota
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A Review of the Beetle Genus Corticarina of Taiwan, with Description of a New Species (Coleoptera, Latridiidae)
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Ecology and Current Distribution of Three Habitat-Specialized Land Snail Species of the Genus Vertigo (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata) in Europe
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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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Deduced Conservation Strategy of the Macaques in China from their Evolutionary Development
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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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Vol. 63, 2024