Zoosystema is a fast-track and peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the inventory, analysis and interpretation of animal biodiversity. It publishes, in French or English, original results of zoological research, particularly in systematics and related fields: comparative, functional and evolutionary morphology, phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomy and nomenclature, etc. All articles published in Zoosystema are compliant with the different nomenclatural codes (ICZN, ICN). A non-exclusive copyright assignment will be signed by the authors before publication.
All Zoosystema articles are made freely and immediately available in PDF to readers on the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle website, with no charges to authors for publication (Diamond Open Access). The enhanced journal is distributed by BioOne®, in full-text searchable XML as part of the aggregation BioOne Complete. Archiving and preservation are provided via Portico and LOCKSS.
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Zoosystema continues as from 1997 the Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4ème série, section A, Zoologie. From 2018, Zoosystema is published online only with a continuous flow of publication (fast-track).
Gymnodoris nigricolor Baba, 1960 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) is a species complex
Jade DE SOUZA-CANAL et al.
315-326, Published on 12 June 2025, art. 47 (17)
The charismatic Gecarcinus ruricola (Linnaeus, 1758), type species of Gecarcinus Leach, 1814, with a neotype designation and genetic data, and new generic assignment, Hartnollius n. gen., for the three remaining species of the genus
Danièle GUINOT et al.
261-314, Published on 03 June 2025, art. 47 (16) 
A new genus and tribal placement for Ceneus speculiferus Fairmaire, 1879, comments on Grundmannius, Mirachlaenius and Stenoodes, and a key to the Oriental and Australasian genera of Chlaeniina
Borislav GUÉORGUIEV & Kipling WILL
231-259, Published on 23 May 2025, art. 47 (15) 
Editor in chief: Laure Desutter-Grandcolas
Desk editor: Anne Mabille
Nesrine Akkari (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienne, Autriche)
Maria Marta Cigliano (Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentine)
Serge Gofas (Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Espagne)
Sylvain Hugel (CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, France)
Marco Isaia (Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italie)
Rafael Marquez (CSIC, Madrid, Espagne)
Jose Christopher E. Mendoza (Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapour)
Annemarie Ohler (MNHN, Paris, France)
Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France)
Wanda M. Weiner (Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracovie, Pologne)
Nomenclaturel acts published in Zoosystema are registered on Zoobank.org.
