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是一個同行評審的國際期刊，快速發表高質量的論文，在任何方面的系統動物學，與偏好大型分類學著作，如專著和修訂。Zootaxa考慮所有動物分類群的論文，包括活的和化石的，并特別鼓勵對新分類群的描述。所有類型的分類論文都被考慮，包括系統學和系統學的理論和方法，分類專著，修訂和評論，目錄/檢查表，傳記和書目，鑒定指南，字符分析，系統發育關系和動物地理分布模式，分類描述，命名法。我們強烈鼓勵擁有研究資助和其他基金的作者選擇開放獲取出版。對于那些沒有助學金/基金的人，所有已接受的稿件將會出版，但只有訂戶才可取閱。