Zoologica Scripta

Published on behalf of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Edited by:
Per Sundberg

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 13/125 Zoology
Impact Factor: 2.494

Zoologica Scripta publishes empirical, theoretical, and methodological papers, review articles and debate comments and replies dealing with zoological diversity and systematics in an evolutionary context. Preference will be given to studies in phylogeny, biogeography, molecular biology and palaeontology.

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Special Issue: In Linnaeus' Wake: 300 Years of Marine Discovery - Conference Report (2009)

Linnæus Tercentenary in 2007
Join Zoologica Scripta in celebrating The Tercentenary of Carl Linnæus. The most renowned Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician, Linnæus is widely regarded as the father of modern taxonomy. The ceremonial opening of Linnæus' Tercentenary year will take place on 28 January in Växjö, and many activities have been planned to follow in Uppsala, London, and other locations around Sweden and the world. For more information about the planned celebrations please visit the official Linnæus 2007 website.

Online Manuscript Submission Now Available
You can now submit your manuscript to Zoologica Scripta online, with our new manuscript submission website. The online manuscript submission and review process gives greater simplicity for authors and reviewers. Submit your best manuscript to Zoologica Scripta.

Articles published online ahead of print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

Publish your article in Zoologica Scripta and get read and cited for the next 8 years!
Zoologica Scripta boasts an ISI Cited Half-Life of 8.3. The cited half-life for the journal is the median age of its articles cited in the current JCR year. Half of the citations to the journal are to articles published within the cited half-life. This means that, on average, an article published in Zoologica Scripta continues to be cited 8.3 years from publication.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.

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Recent articles of particular interest
Monophyly of terrestrial adephagan beetles as indicated by three nuclear genes (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Trachypachidae)
Maddison, D. R. et al. (2009)
Molecular phylogenetic interrelationships of the south Asian cyprinid genera Danio, Devario and Microrasbora (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Danioninae) Fang, F. et al. (2009)
Systematic placement of the recently discovered beetle family Meruidae (Coleoptera: Dytiscoidea) based on molecular data
Balke, M et al. (2008)
Examination of evolutionary relationships in the Cape fossorial skink species complex (Acontinae: Acontias meleagris meleagris) reveals the presence of five cryptic lineages
Daniels, S. R. et al. (2009)
Phylogenetic relationships of fantails (Aves: Rhipiduridae)
Nyári, Á. S. (2009)

An ancient African radiation of corcoid birds (Aves: Passeriformes) detected by mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data
Fuchs, J., Fjeldså, J. & E. Pasquet (2006)
Interrelationships of the Gastrotricha and their place among the Metazoa inferred from 18S rRNA genes
Todaro, A. et al. (2006)
A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes
Taylor, J. D. et al (2007)
Phylogeny and classification of diving beetles in the tribe Cybistrini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Dytiscinae)
Miller, K. B., Bergsten, J. & M. F. Whiting (2007)
Local scale DNA barcoding of bivalves (Mollusca): a case study
Mikkelsen, N. T., Schander, C. & E. Willassen (2007)
A mitogenomic study on the phylogenetic position of snakes
Douglas, D. A., Janke, A. & U. Arnason (2006)

Other articles of interest
Data incongruence and the problem of avian louse phylogeny
Vincent S. Smith, Roderic D. M. Page & Kevin P. Johnson
Phylogenetic relationships of spatangoid sea urchins (Echinoidea): taxon sampling density and congruence between morphological and molecular estimates
Bruce Stockley, Andrew B. Smith, Tim Littlewood, Harilaos A. Lessios & Jacqueline A. Mackenzie-Dodds
A phylogeny of the fossil and extant zeiform-like fishes, Upper Cretaceous to Recent, with comments on the putative zeomorph clade (Acanthomorpha)
James C. Tyler & Francesco Santini

Links to other relevant sites
Ecology & Organismal Biology
Acta Zoologica