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.
Printed issues are still available using the form on the right of this page.
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).
Geometric morphometrics of donacids from Brazil reveals a new species, Donax trapesialis n. sp. from Northeastern coast
Juliano Guerra de CASTRO et al.
399-412, Published on 15 July 2025, art. 47 (19)
Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae with preliminary suprageneric classification of Batrachideinae
Niko KASALO et al.
327-397, Published on 27 June 2025, art. 47 (18) 
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) 
Editor in chief: Laure Desutter-Grandcolas
Desk editor: Anne Mabille
Visual : Vulturine guinea fowl, feathers © MNHN - Laurent Bessol
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.
